Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Center for Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing in System Brain Research (CLARA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Czechia,France,Germany
Call: Teaming for Excellence (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-11-01
End date: 2030-10-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 14999782.5
EU funding (EUR): 14999782.5
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

CLARA, the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing in System Brain Research, represents the interdisciplinary center of excellence focused on the next generation of artificial intelligence/machine learning applications and quantum-centric supercomputing tools to push the frontier of neurodegeneration research, particularly Alzheimer´s disease. The project seeks deep field knowledge and processing of large-scale biological and clinical data that will enrich collective understanding of these emerging technologies, solve real-world challenges, thus accelerating innovations and the future of computing for the benefit of society. Finally, building a domain specific hybrid computing and data infrastructure platform based on emerging EuroHPC Joint Undertaking computing resources, CLARA will significantly contribute to development of the European computing and data ecosystem in the field of system brain research. CLARA will be established as the autonomous division of the International Neurodegenerative Disorders Research Center (INDRC) in Prague, Czech Republic. CLARA is built upon a strong consortium of INDRC as the coordinator (with its affiliated partner VSB-Technical University Ostrava), the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics, and Cybernetics of the Czech Technical University in Prague, and the International Clinical Research Center of the St. Anne's University Hospital, all based in the Czech Republic, a low R&I performing country, with two prominent collaborative European research organizations from advanced countries: Paris Brain Institute (France) and Leibniz Supercomputing Centre of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Germany).

Keywords: center of excellence brain research neurodegenerative disorders alzheimer s disease molecular biology artificial intelligence machine learning quantum computing high performance computing
European Researchers' Night in Sweden 2022_2023: ForskarFredag 2022_2023 (FF2022_23)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: European Researchers' Night 2022-2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-CITIZENS-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-04-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 322593.86
EU funding (EUR): 300000.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

ForskarFredag (Researchers’ Friday) is Sweden’s most widely dispersed science festival. ForskarFredag 2022 and 2023 (FF2022_23) will consist of events arranged in 26 cities and an online programme, open to anyone. In total, FF2022_23 will engage around 109,000 attendees and 1360 researchers. The non-profit association VA (Public & Science) has coordinated FF annually since 2006. FF2022_23 builds on previous years, drawing on experience, contacts and an ever-increasing profile. The FF motto is "Researchers are ordinary people with extraordinary jobs”. At FF2022_23, members of the public will meet researchers and participate in activities designed to stimulate dialogue and show that research is exciting and relevant to everyday life: debates, science cafes, competitions, shows, experiments and hands-on activities. Common themes around EU priorities will inspire activities exploring the role of research in tackling societal challenges. A collaboration with 6 other ERN projects will deliver a set of European-wide activities, highlighting the European dimension of research. Young people aged 6–19 are a key target group. A school programme will offer numerous opportunities for encounters with research. The “Borrow a Researcher” concept will enable 9000 pupils across Sweden to meet a researcher in school or virtually. A national mass experiment (citizen science project) inviting pupils to work with researchers, will involve appr. 50,000 people. Local events (physical and digital) expected to reach around 25,000 attendees annually will be organised by 11 Partners and 21 External Partners. Each event builds on local strengths and networks to give the highest possible impact. All event organisers share experiences in a national network. VA is responsible for the coordination, quality assurance, common activities, national identity, awareness campaign and impact assessment of FF22_23.

Keywords: national event,research,science,hands on activities,general public,citizen science,collaboration with other ern projects,borrow a researcher,researchers,schools
AGrOecOlogy for weeDs (GOOD)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food systems from primary production to consumption
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Portugal,Greece,Ireland,Italy,Spain,France,Cyprus,Serbia,Belgium,Netherlands,Latvia
Call: Agroecological approaches for sustainable weed management (HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-02-two-stage, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4988679.25
EU funding (EUR): 4988679.25
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

Weeds negatively affect the sustainability of EU farming systems with weed management relying to a large extent on herbicides. The reduction of herbicide use and risk has become major policy targets of Farm to Fork strategy, aiming to promote agroecology and the transition to sustainable and resilient farming systems. GOOD is a 4-year project adopting multidisciplinary approach, aspired to create and evaluate Agroecological Weed Management (AWM) systems, and demonstrate that AWM adoption enhances sustainability and resilience of cropping systems. The main ambition is to foster the agroecological transition for weed management across Europe. Living-Labs (LL) will be co-created with stakeholders and established in 6 EU pedoclimatic conditions in both annual and perennial crops to promote AWM practices in conventional, organic and mixed farming systems. The use and combination of cover crops along with several cultural practices, the use of beneficial microorganisms and digital tools will be assessed towards the agroecological manipulation and management of weeds and the increase of crop productivity and farmers’ income. The main outcomes include: (1) the creation of an Agroecological Weed Management Network (AWMN), (2) the development and combination of innovative and socioeconomically validated sustainable agroecological practices that will generate social, economic and environmental benefits through the reduction or elimination of chemical inputs and optimized use of natural resources linked to the post EU 2030 targets, (3) the digitalization of weed management, (4) the enhancement of the agricultural systems resilience without jeopardizing productivity and profitability. Successful outcomes will be promoted through dissemination and demonstration activities, and a web-Platform for the training of farmers on AWM systems, a repository on current weed management methods and herbicide use, and an AWM Toolbox to assist farmers' decision-making for AWM.

Keywords: agroecology herbicides sustainability weed management
Wartime Demographic Engineering: War, Nationalism, and Population Politics in Putin’s Russia (WARDEM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Norway,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226751.04
EU funding (EUR): 226751.04
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

WARDEM explores the interconnected, yet complex and contradictory, relationships between war, nationalism, and population politics in Putin’s Russia. The project provides an innovative analysis of the processes and practices that (re)shape the population in times of war, and through the war. Challenging ‘geriatric peace’ theory, WARDEM examines the ways in which (interstate) war entails new demographic strategies. More precisely, it examines how, in the context of a declining and ageing population, an aggressor state may use war to expand the population by force through territorial annexation and the intake of displaced persons – a strategy that is particularly relevant when these people are seen as ethnic kin. WARDEM undertakes an interdisciplinary, systematic case study of a critical case, analysing Russian population politics in the context of the war on Ukraine, from its outset in 2014 to the end of 2023. Developing a transdisciplinary methodology that synthesises recent insights from nationalism studies, political demography, peace and conflict studies, and illiberalism studies, the project combines a focus on political discourse with an analysis of population policies – that is, citizenship, immigration, demography, and ethnic policies – as reflected in legal acts and policy documents. These policies are part of a wartime ‘demographic engineering’, which allows Russia to integrate new populations forcibly while seeking to divide the Ukrainian nation and weaken the Ukrainian state. Thus, the project develops a model linking the analysis of an authoritarian state’s aggressive foreign policy with the reshaping of its population and changes in its nationalist discourse. WARDEM is a timely project responding to the current challenges facing EU foreign and security policy. A rapidly evolving geopolitical environment, the influx of refugees from Ukraine, and economic impact of war all calls for investigating the dynamics of Russian expansionism and revisionism.

Keywords: warfare,nationalism,national identity,political demography,population politics,illiberalism,area studies,russia,political discourse analysis,critical policy studies
Robotics, AI, and the Future of Work in China: Transforming Skill Demand and Earning Distribution (TECH-LAB)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209483.28
EU funding (EUR): 209483.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SUSPENDED

This project examines how technological changes, particularly robotics and AI, reshape labor markets and earning distribution in developing economies, with a focus on China. The study measures skills across three dimensions: education, task content, and occupation. By integrating diverse data sources—job vacancy data, industrial robot installations, AI patent records, customs data, and firm-level employee records—it aims to provide a nuanced understanding of technological impacts. The research will culminate in two papers: one using firm-level data and another utilizing Python-scraped job vacancy data, both offering comprehensive insights into labor market transformations. The first paper employs a Difference-in-Differences (DID) model, treating the “Made in China 2025” policy as a quasi-natural experiment to analyze how industrial policies influence skill structure and earning distribution. This analysis goes beyond the state of the art by developing a task-based skill index tailored to China’s labor market, avoiding biases from foreign data sources like the U.S. O*NET. The second paper focuses on AI’s impact on short-term labor demand, utilizing Bartik IVs to estimate the density of industrial robot installations at the city level. Innovatively, It integrates traditional human capital theory with emerging concepts of cognitive and non-cognitive skills. It will provide policymakers with actionable insights on the future of work, guiding decisions on labor regulations and education reforms. The interdisciplinary approach, merging economics, informatics, and sociology, ensures the findings are both scientifically rigorous and socially relevant. With open science practices, including data sharing and stakeholder engagement, the project promotes transparency and collaboration. It contributes to the broader understanding of how technological changes influence skill demand and earning dynamics, crucial for shaping future labor market policies in China and beyond.

Keywords: robotics,ai,labor markets,skill structure,earning distribution,wage inequality,technological change,china,automation,workforce transformation,policy impact
The Cultural History of the Black African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain (BADEMS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2029-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1774225.0
EU funding (EUR): 1774225.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

What were the cultural creations of black women and men in early modern Spain? How did blaWhat were the cultural creations of black women and men in early modern Spain? How did black women and men shape the cultural productions of the period? More than four hundred texts in early modern Spanish literature include black characters in a variety of literary genres, such as drama and poetry. The vast corpus of literary narratives on blackness has not fully engaged with the fact that Spain had the second-largest black African diaspora in early modern Europe —second only to Portugal— and that black women and men at that period were producers and contributors of cultural creations. With a focus on Spain and in connection with the Iberian World, BADEM will investigate three intertwined areas of Cultural History, Literature, and Linguistics, and provide a new scholarly framework to challenge our understanding of Europe’s past and its people. It will narrate an untold story of both the tangible and intangible cultural heritage that black Africans created, primarily but not exclusively as singers, dancers, actors, storytellers, and painters. It will explore the way black Africans refashioned and contributed to the production of early modern cultural narratives on blackness; and will investigate the African cultural traits and multilingual practices of black women and men, particularly in relation to their cultural mediations. In this way, BADEMS will promote an understanding of the experiences of survival through creativity, the making of blackness, and the processes of identity-building and creolization. The project will accomplish the goals in three domains of research: conducting the first systematic locating of black cultural creators; building a unique open-access Archive of Black Creators; and producing an interdisciplinary narrative about the contributions of black women and men to the literary, and linguistic culture of Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Keywords: black african diaspora,early modern spain,black cultural creators,transculturality,culture contact,linguistic miscegenation,literary narratives on blackness,cultural performances,ethnic confraternities,iberian world
A sonogenetic brain-machine interface for neurosciences and visual restoration (NeuroSonoGene)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Synergy grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: France,Italy
Call: ERC Synergy Grants (ERC-2023-SyG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2030-05-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7817939.0
EU funding (EUR): 7817939.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Brain-machine interfaces are classically based on multi-electrode arrays. Optogenetics has revolutionized this ability to control neuronal activity through ectopic opsin expression but its application to large brains remains limited because of tissue light absorption and scattering. Ultrasound waves have been proposed for remote neuromodulation, but this approach has remained restricted to low-frequency excitation, to prevent brain tissue overheating, at the expense of spatial resolution. The expression of mechanosensitive proteins in neurons has recently made it possible to achieve the ultrasound (US) activation of neurons at high US frequencies, an approach named “sonogenetic”. Using the MscL mechanosensitive ionic channel, we recently provided a first proof of concept in rodents that cortical neurons can be activated in vivo by ultrasounds at a high spatiotemporal resolution and low intensity. Here, we propose to develop an integrated sonogenetic strategy for distant activation/inhibition of neuronal networks by ultrasound waves in large primate brains. The project includes: 1) optimizing and diversifying the sonogenetics actuators for safe neuronal control 2) designing technologies for patterned ultrasound stimulations, 3) demonstrating efficacy and high spatiotemporal resolution of the sonogenetic approach in controlling the primate visual cortex. This project is based on a unique synergistic combination of expertise, with a synthetic biologist in ion channel engineering, a neurobiologist with expertise in vision, and a physicist with expertise in ultrasound technologies. These 3 PIs will be supported by an expert in AAV vector mediated delivery. The project outcomes will be a novel brain-machine interface for investigating neural circuit function even deep within large brains through contactless sonogenetics. This sonogenetic technology will open new avenues for treating neurological dysfunction such as restoring vision in blind patients.

Keywords: neuroscience,neuromodulation,sonogenetics,ultrasound,brain machine interface,functional ultrasound imaging,vision,visual restoration,visual cortex
Ubiquitous in-line mass spectroscopy for industrial process monitoring and optimization with sustainable impacts (UBISpec)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: Green Deal innovations for the Economic Recovery (HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-04-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2171250.0
EU funding (EUR): 1519875.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Spectro Inlets aims to commercialise the first mass-spectrometer (MS) to be used as an integral part of chemical-process based industries. The Spectro Inlets liquid gas analyser (SI-LGA) enables for the first time in-line, real-time measurement and optimisation of process-critical chemical reactions. Target industries include biogas-based energy generation, wastewater treatment, food & beverage production, and pharma, representing an €1.5B opportunity for Spectro Inlets. Deploying SI-LGA to biogas monitoring will reduce greenhouse gas emission by 2,300,000 tCO2 /year in Europe and increase the production yield in 5-15%. The technology enabler is a patented microchip inlet system. The objective of the UbiSpec project is to optimise, demonstrate and certify SI-LGA, from already achieved TRL6 prototypes to TRL9 and full commercialisation in the Biogas sector. In 5 years from project launch, SI-LGA will represent 85% of our company’s €55m revenues and responsible for 60 new employees.
Glycosylation strategy in bio-hybrid Light Emitting diodEs (GLEE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173847.36
EU funding (EUR): 173847.36
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have emerged as the dominant artificial lighting technology due to their stability and efficiency. However, challenges persist with white LEDs, including their reliance on rare-earth materials, and complex/costly recycling processes. To address these issues, research initiatives are focused on developing sustainable color filters using organic phosphors, based on conjugated polymers, organic dyes and fluorescent proteins (FPs), as the next generation of hybrid WLEDs. Among them, biogenic FP-based phosphors (FPs embedded in polymers/nanoparticles) stand up, as their respective bio-hybrid LEDs (BioHLEDs) have recently achieved high efficiencies and stabilities, making them an attractive alternative to conventional WLEDs. A critical challenge in BioHLEDs is enhancing their stability under high-power conditions, which is hindered by excessive heat generation and deactivation of FPs, which is attributed to FP motion induced by high photon flux and efficient heat transfer facilitated by water molecules in the polymer matrix. The Glycosylation strategy in bio-hybrid Light Emitting diodEs (GLEE) project proposes a novel approach to develop water-less FP-polymer phosphors capable of withstanding high photon flux without heat generation and FP deactivation. Inspired by natural osmotic dehydration mechanisms, the project aims to use sugars as desiccation protectants. Under dry conditions, sugars replace interfacial water molecules, reinforcing intra-protein hydrogen bonds, restricting FP motion, and slowing down heat/ deactivation processes. This involves synthesizing/characterizing glyco-artificial FPs (GAFPs) and glyco-polymeric matrices (GPMs) for BioHLEDs. Through chemo-selective glycosylation, GAFPs will be created with various sugar stabilizers to enhance their thermodynamic/irradiation stability. Additionally, GPMs will be developed to shield FPs from water molecules, enhancing H-bonding interactions, and inhibiting FP motion/deactivation.

Keywords: bio hybrid light emitting diodes,color down converting filters,fluorescent proteins,biogenic coating,protein glycosylation