Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Reassessing Obstacles and Opportunities for Marginalised, Middle-Aged Tenants in Europe: Addressing the Challenges of Prolonged House Sharing Through Case Studies in Barcelona and Amsterdam (ROOMMATE)

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: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 232916.16
EU funding (EUR): 232916.16
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

ROOMMATE investigates the increasingly prevalent phenomenon of prolonged involuntary house sharing within the private rental market among individuals aged 40+, using Amsterdam and Barcelona as case studies. Economic instability, demographic changes, and a shrinking pool of affordable housing are pushing mature tenants into shared accommodations.This project addresses a critical gap in housing research by shifting the focus from young adults to older individuals, thereby offering new empirical insights into how age intersects with housing insecurity. By employing a comparative urban approach and qualitative research, the project integrates life course perspectives with intersectional analysis to investigate how lived experiences of extended house sharing reshape notions of future and progress, alter reproductive decisions and caregiving practices, and exacerbate intersectional inequalities. These unique empirical insights will be used to explore innovative housing solutions addressing evolving social needs over the life course. The project aims to 1) establish a research framework to analyse long-term housing precarity; 2) empirically explore the lived experiences of older house sharers; and 3) examine international housing innovations to co-develop policies that address evolving life-course needs and enhance housing security for diverse populations. ROOMMATE's findings are expected to contribute significantly to the development of innovative policies and housing solutions, addressing urgent social challenges in Europe, such as prolonged precarity, demographic ageing, and the care and climate crises. By disseminating successful experiences in housing innovations and developing policies that support housing as a social infrastructure for diverse family choices, household configurations, care needs, and environmental challenges, ROOMMATE will significantly impact housing research and policy, promoting transformative improvements in housing equity and sustainability.

Keywords: housing precarity housing innovations life course intersectionality lived financialisation house sharing
Overcoming Monocyte Complexity in Pulmonary Fibrosis Progression from Onset to End-Stage (OMEGA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Prevention,  Diagnosis and T reatment of Human Diseases
Panel description: Medical technologies  and tools for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases, therapeutic approaches and interventions , pharmacology, preventative  medicine, epidemiology and public health , digital medicine
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-02-01
End date: 2030-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499459.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499459.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Progressive pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is a debilitating and incurable disease. Scaring of the lung leads to respiratory failure and 50% of patients die 3-5 years after diagnosis. Our understanding of the pathophysiology of PF is unfortunately limited to established and advanced stages when the extensive lung scaring is irreversible. OMEGA is designed to explore new mechanisms underlying PF progression, from early to advanced disease and propose therapies that timely target the disease, prior to becoming permanent. Two lines of evidence are at the core of OMEGA. First, I was among the first to show that circulating monocytes are strongly linked to PF pathology. Which subtypes are important and what roles they play in PF etiology, however, is still unknown. Second, interstitial lung abnormalities or ILA are the only detectable features characterizing earlier stages of PF and can be identified in people without clinical suspicion of disease. Studying ILA provides the unique opportunity to identify early targets that would prevent progression to PF. OMEGA will first provide a detailed phenotype definition of human monocyte subtypes from early to advanced PF. Second, it will probe mechanistically how and where the monocytes acquire a pathogenic phenotype as they journey from the bone marrow to the blood and differentiate in the fibrotic lung. I will use human and mouse material and state-of-the-art methodology to answer these questions. My current standing ensures direct and ample access to patient samples, clinical data, multi-disciplinary interactions, and a team of consultants/collaborators that will make possible identifying how monocytes and their progenitors are involved in the progression of PF, and what pathways we can target, as early as disease starts, and as early as monocytes egress the bone marrow, to end the progression of this deadly disease.

Keywords: pulmonary fibrosis monocytes lung
Holistic integration of eco-Friendly dEsign tools, mateRials, fabrication technologies for the responsible co-creation of future Sustainable integrated electronic systems (FERNS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Ireland,Sweden,United Kingdom,Portugal,Germany,Finland,Italy,Switzerland,Netherlands
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4103258.4
EU funding (EUR): 4103258.4
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

The FERNS Doctoral Network will train a talented cohort of 15 Doctoral Researchers (DRs) to embed circular approaches into electronics design in support of the mutual reinforcement of the EU’s Green and Digital transition ambitions. The generation of e-waste and depletion of critical raw materials associated to the intensive use of electronics call for urgent interventions to embed circularity into future electronic products. In answer to this call, the FERNS project brings together ten partners and 9 associate partners with expertise across the entire electronics value chain to address the key challenges underpinning the field of sustainable electronics. FERNS aims to incorporate eco-design and co-creation in the electronic products development phase; develop novel sustainable materials and integration processes for next generation sustainable electronics, targeting three specific application areas (Fitness, Short Use Health and Farming); create novel models promoting societal and economical acceptance and appropriation of sustainable electronics. The FERNS DRs will meet these ambitious objectives by working creatively and synergistically across the disciplines of material science, engineering, social science and business to acquire a holistic perspective of the field of sustainable electronics. The FERNS Doctoral Network merges research excellence with comprehensive (technical and transversal) training and exposure to industry to address a critical skills gap in sustainable and circular electronics expertise, which must be addressed urgently to drive and accelerate the EU’s transition to Circular Electronics, as demanded by the Green Deal overarching strategy, aiming to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. In parallel it builds momentum in ‘looked for’ skills in emerging “green” technological sectors, where labour and skills shortages are acting as a drag on the EU’s future competitiveness.

Keywords: sustainable electronics,business models,hybrid printing,social appropriation,co creation
Refugee Finance: Histories, Frameworks, Practices (REF-FIN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498756.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498756.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Over the last decade, following a general decline in aid from traditional bilateral and multilateral donors, the international community has dramatically changed the way in which it seeks to fund humanitarian responses to refugee flows, with an increasing reliance on 'refugee finance'. Refugee finance is the term used to refer to new financial instruments aimed at attracting private capital: refugee bonds, technical assistance funds and concessional loans. These instruments are promoted by international organizations, international financial institutions and states as inevitable solutions to the societal challenges raised by large-scale refugee flows. However, we know very little about the socio-economic, legal and financial implications of this paradigmatic shift 'from funding to financing'. Refugee finance has the potential to dramatically affect not only the refugee funding paradigm, but also the economy of the countries hosting refugees, and the way in which international refugee protection itself is conceptualized and implemented. According to its proponents, refugee finance promises to ensure refugees' resilience and self-reliance, whilst at the same time supporting the economic development of the host communities. There is, however, insufficient evidence to support these promises and a limited understanding of how these financial instruments operate. REF-FIN will advance both theoretical and practical knowledge of the political, financial and legal processes enabling refugee finance, and of its longer-term socio-economic implications through a comprehensive study of its frameworks practices and emerging patterns.

Keywords: financing for development,development finance,humanitarian responses for refugees
Clean and efficient cooling in vaccine transportation using Rotating Magnetocaloric Effect (MAGCCINE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Portugal,Spain,France,Slovenia
Call: EIC Pathfinder Challenge: Clean and efficient cooling (HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3635772.5
EU funding (EUR): 3635772.5
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

Every year 1.5 million lives are lost worldwide due to insufficient access to vaccination while, paradoxically, over 50% of all produced vaccines are wasted, mostly due to ineffective temperature control during storage/transportation. The major challenges of the vaccine cold chain are the evermore strict limitations imposed on their aerial transport due to the safety hazards of refrigerant gases, the high-power demand of active refrigeration devices in last-mile deliveries where the electricity supply is unreliable, and the significant carbon footprint of high global warming potential refrigerants. The Magccine project aims to revolutionize the vaccine cold chain by developing a clean and efficient solid state magnetic refrigerator based on a novel approach: the rotating magnetocaloric effect (RMCE) – a recently (2023) patent pending technology by project partners. By reducing the amount of permanent magnets required, the RMCE is expected to enable drastic cuts in the device’s production cost, volume and weight, while enhancing efficiency without the use of any high GWP or hazardous refrigerant gases, highlighting its role as a key enabling technology for tackling vaccine cold chain challenges. Magccine´s goal is to develop and optimize a fully operational prototype for vaccine refrigeration in the 2-8 ºC temperature range, which is required by most vaccines, addressing the Generation of clean cooling and clean cold chain transportation categories of this Challenge. To this end, this project requires top-level expertise on magnetocaloric materials, magnetic field design, thermodynamic simulations and heat pumps which are perfectly matched by the complementary expertise of the five academic institutions (U.Porto, CNRS, U. Seville, U.Aveiro, U.Ljubljana) and the two industrial partners (MagREEsource, Helium 3). Our endeavors will be guided by an experienced advisory board including global key leaders such as WHO, UNICEF, Cemafroid, APIRAC, IIR, Medgree, and Addvolt.

Keywords: cold supply chain vaccines and immunization thermodynamics magnetic refrigeration rotational magnetocaloric effect demagnetizing effect magnetic materials phase transitions permanent magnets
Contextual Radio Cues for Enhancing Decision Making in Networks of Autonomous Agents (CUE-GO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and Communication Engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1055314.0
EU funding (EUR): 1055314.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The CUE-GO project aims to conceive a novel methodological framework for enhancing the decision-making capabilities of autonomous agents through the exploitation of contextual radio cues of the environment. Radio cues represent a quantum leap from the traditional concept of features, usually retrieved by vision-based systems, as they contain electromagnetic information with semantic meanings (contextual) enabled by radio-frequency sensors, like those at TeraHertz bands. The elaboration of contextual radio cues allows a far-reaching prediction of the outcomes of agents’ behaviors and ultimately yields a more efficient navigation in social environments, more accurate localization of people and objects, and enhanced cooperation toward a common mission goal. In interpreting contextual radio cues, agents exchange their sensed information in a way that considers other agents’ expertise, i.e., their abilities to process environmental stimuli. To achieve this vision, I will: (1) develop a general framework for the decision-making of autonomous agents that emulates the human capability of interpreting cues for anticipating an action’s course; (2) conceive and design methods for extrapolating contextual radio cues based on high-resolution semantic mapping of the environment; (3) conceive and design cue-guided localization and navigation algorithms that will boost ambient awareness; (4) conceive new methods and metrics to assess the agents’ skills in associating contextual radio cues with statistical models that accurately predict future rewards or punishments; (5) develop collaboration schemes accounting for the assessment of agents’ expertise. Thanks to a multidisciplinary approach, combining diverse knowledge from behavioral neuroscience to engineering, this project will lead to a significant advance in human-inspired decision-making for future networks of autonomous agents, toward a society where humans and artificial intelligence co-exist in the same environment.

Keywords: contextual radio cue radio mapping localization and target tracking autonomous navigation decision making
The Rediscovery of Catacombs between the 16th and 20th Century in the Mediterranean Basin (UndergroundMed)

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: Malta,Holy See (Vatican City State)
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-03-20
End date: 2026-09-19
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 221564.4
EU funding (EUR): 221564.4
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

This project will trace the history of the rediscovery of ancient catacombs between the 16th and 20th centuries across the Mediterranean from a broad European perspective, through studies conducted on travel influx, exploration, archive and museum collections. Catacombs are a valuable and cultural evidence of the transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages in the Mediterranean basin. However, there are currently no systematic analyses on their rediscovery, since in-depth investigations have only been carried out on a local scale. The study will fill this gap and maintain a strong interest in museum and collection history, which so far has been greatly underrepresented in research. No studies have focused on the role played by catacomb archaeology from a perspective that will assist in building a European common culture. UndergroundMed will trace the history of the rediscovery of catacombs by a vast number of scholars, explorers and others during the aforementioned periods. The research will focus on various countries, using a multi-disciplinary approach combining archaeological surveys, museum studies and archival investigations to highlight the impact of these rediscoveries in European culture and its scientific excellence. The project will open the door to debate in regard to the historical definition of a shared European identity in a borderless Europe. Moreover, it will define the roles that European scholars had on the creation of an international and multicultural research-network while travelling across the shores of the Mediterranean, in search for catacombs. Ultimately, the fellowship will greatly contribute towards the researcher’s academic career, through networks, research experience and dissemination activities within the host institution together with the selected secondment. The relevant transfer of knowledge with the host institution will also greatly contribute towards the researcher’s career progression.

Keywords: catacombs,explorations,museums,christian archaeology,collections
PEPtide-based Therapy for recurrent Ovarian Cancer (PEPTOC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2025-POC, 2025)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2027-07-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Ovarian cancer recurrence after complete clinical response is a major challenge in gynecologic oncology. Recurrence occurs in nearly 25% of early-stage cases and in more than 80% of advanced-stage cases. Current targeted therapies for the treatment of ovarian cancer relapse are still in Phase II clinical trials and, while these therapies represent significant advances in cancer treatment, they target broad inhibitory mechanisms that affect DNA repair and signaling pathways in a variety of cell types, which lead to significant side-effects. To address the critical challenge of recurrent ovarian cancer, PEPTOC’s solution shifts the paradigm from treating recurrence to preventing it. By strategically targeting the cellular pathways involved in chemotherapy resistance, PEPTOC offers a preventive approach to avoid ovarian cancer recurrence. This ERC Proof of Concept project aims to: 1) Perform preclinical validation of PEPTOC in an in vivo model. 2) Secure intellectual property and define the commercialization pathway. 3) Develop and implement a comprehensive business strategy. Taken together, the objectives of PEPTOC will pursue the steps necessary to develop a viable therapeutic option: ensure that the therapy is both safe and effective in vivo, protect intellectual property and define the commercialization pathway (spinout company and strategic partnerships, if needed), and engage with relevant stakeholders through a series of activities, including workshops with oncologists, focus groups with patients, and meetings with pharmaceutical representatives and investors at industry events. To guide these efforts, we will rely on the expertise of Key Opinion Leaders serving on an Advisory Board to ensure that PEPTOC’s development is strategically aligned with market needs. If successful, PEPTOC would represent a breakthrough innovation in oncology, providing a first-of-its-kind solution for the prevention of ovarian cancer recurrence.

Keywords: peptide based drugs ovarian cancer
Versatile Integrated Brillouin-Kerr Frequency Combs for On-Chip Photonic Systems (Veritas)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2023-POC, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

An ultra-stable, low-noise optical frequency comb seamlessly integrated into a compact chip-scale form factor has the potential to revolutionize precision measurements, radiofrequency and optical communications, and quantum technologies. Today’s chip-scale frequency combs can achieve stable, phase-locked and broadband emission, but they suffer from high noise that blocks the pathway towards more stringent applications such as microwave photonics. Brillouin optomechanics, a nonlinear optical effect relying on coherent coupling of photons and acoustic phonons, can enable on-chip lasers with ultra-low noise and high purity. My ERC Proof of Concept project Veritas will build on initial breakthroughs of harnessing Brillouin optomechanics in silicon nitride and aim to deliver the first chip-scale low-noise frequency combs. I will explore system applications of these combs for agile frequency conversion in 6G radio systems and for coherent optical communications. Along with these technological developments, I will perform a thorough market study with appropriate IP measures, maximizing the commercial potential of this technology. We expect that our results in Veritas will point to the feasibility of this technology for software-defined reconfigurable front-ends for very high frequency and size and weight-sensitive RF applications.