Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Knowledge Technologies for Democracy (KT4D)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on Democracy and Governance
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Italy,Belgium,United Kingdom,Poland,Finland,Spain,France
Call: Artificial intelligence, big data and democracy (HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2684605.0
EU funding (EUR): 2684605.0
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

AI and big data are fundamentally interwoven into our societies, culture and indeed into our expectations and conceptions of democratic governance and exchange. They can also, however, contribute to an environment for citizens that is distinctly anti-democratic. KT4D will harness the benefits of an understanding of these as knowledge technologies to foster more inclusive civic participation in democracy. To achieve this, we will develop and validate tools, guidelines and a Digital Democracy Lab demonstrators platform. These results will be validated across three user needs scenarios: 1) building capacity for citizens and citizen-facing Civil Society Organisations (CSOs); 2) creating regulatory tools and services for Policy and CSOs; and 3) improving awareness of how to design ethically and mindfully for democracy principles in academic and industrial software development. Our work is underpinned by the understanding that to fully address the social and fundamental rights costs of AI and big data, we need more than just technological fixes, we need more than just technological fixes, we need to address the underlying cultural influences and barriers. Most importantly, we understand the threats to democracy of AI and big data not only through the nature of what they do, but via the cultural disruptions they create with power dynamics they shift, their tendency toward opacity, and the speed at which they change. KT4D’s ambitious and disruptive results will drive transformation in how democracy and civic participation are facilitated in the face of rapidly changing knowledge technologies, enabling actors across society to capitalise on the many benefits these technologies can bring in terms of community empowerment, social integration, individual agency, and trust in both institutions and technological instruments, while confidently mitigating potential ethical, legal and cultural risks.

Keywords: knowledge technologies,participatory democracy,participatory ai,critical digital literacy
Optimization and Clinical Validation of High-Tech Sensor System for the Accurate Monitoring and Management of Diabetes. (Vitamed)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Diabetic care and management face a pressing challenge in providing reliable, non-invasive, and real-time health data monitoring. The staggering prevalence of diabetes, with 537 million adults presently affected and projections soaring to 643 million by 2030 and a daunting 783 million by 2045, underscores the criticality of addressing this escalating health crisis. Current diagnostic methodologies often involve invasive procedures or costly scans, resulting in discomfort and financial barriers for patients. Moreover, persistent accuracy issues further compound the problem, hindering effective disease management. In response, VitaScale GmbH has developed Vitamed, an innovative solution that revolutionizes health monitoring. Vitamed, developed by VitaScale GmbH, is a pocket-sized device that offers real-time, non-invasive, and portable health monitoring. Utilizing advanced technology and artificial intelligence, Vitashape analyzes breath and saliva to provide accurate insights into vital indicators. The device incorporates precise sensors for various health modules, including saliva sensors for diabetes and vitamins, H2 and acetone sensors for fat burn and nutrition intolerance, and O2, CO2 & flow sensors for metabolism and stress level assessment. Users can easily interact with Vitamed through its user-friendly interface, accessing AI-driven insights for holistic health monitoring. Overall, Vitamed empowers users to take control of their health and well-being, addressing critical pain points in diabetic care with its holistic and accessible monitoring solution.

Keywords: diabetes diagnosis,breath tests,aerosol
High-temperature oxygen batteries for Industrial Internet of Things (OxyBatt)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Transition
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Spain,Austria,Italy
Call: EIC Transition Open 2023 (HORIZON-EIC-2023-TRANSITION-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499750.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499750.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The project OxyBatt addresses a pressing need for portable energy storage in the intermediate temperature range. Currently, no battery technology is capable to operate between 200 ºC and 400 ºC, due to issues related to performance degradation and safety concerns of commercial systems. This limitation has a substantial impact on the penetration of industrial internet-of-things solutions in energy-intensive industries, where high temperature and risk of explosions are common, and hinders the application of advanced predictive maintenance and safety tools. OxyBatt will cover such a critical gap by offering a new battery product, built upon an innovative technology for a thin-film rechargeable system that utilizes oxygen storage. Unlike conventional commercial batteries, the system is inherently safe and thermally stable, making it well-suited for use in hazardous environments at high temperatures. The core technology behind OxyBatt has no reliance on scarce elements such as Co and Li, which is currently a concern for European Union’s battery ecosystem. Through a user-centered approach, the product will be customized and refined throughout the project in order to be seamlessly integrated and tested in a commercial industrial IoT device. This activity will demonstrate the potential for the OxyBatt device to enter a huge market, namely predictive maintenance in harsh industrial environments, which is inaccessible by current solutions. Complementary co-development and business activities will maximize the potential of the new battery and will establish a clear roadmap for commercialization, including startup creation.

Keywords: batteries,energy storage,electrochemistry,thin films,solid state chemistry
Two-loop scattering amplitudes for top-pair production in association with a jet at hadron colliders (TopJAm)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 210789.12
EU funding (EUR): 210789.12
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN allows us to investigate the fundamental laws of nature at unprecedentedly high energy. Our capability to harness this stunning potential relies on our ability to compute theoretical predictions to be compared against the experimental measurements. Keeping the theoretical uncertainties in line with the experimental ones requires computing theoretical predictions at least at the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the quantum field theory which describes the strong interactions. A fundamental ingredient entering the theoretical predictions are the scattering amplitudes, which encode the probability distribution of the scattering processes observed in the experiments. The project targets the computation of the two-loop amplitudes for the production of a top-quark pair in association with a jet. These amplitudes are the main bottleneck towards obtaining NNLO predictions for this process, which is a high priority of the LHC physics programme. The presence of the top-quark mass in a process involving so many particles represents a substantial step up in complexity with respect to the state of the art. The main difficulty lies in the appearance of classes of special functions whose systematic treatment and efficient evaluation are still open problems. Overcoming this bottleneck will require a close interplay between physics and mathematics. The algebraic complexity of the amplitudes themselves also represents a formidable challenge. I will tackle it by employing cutting-edge techniques based on numerical sampling over finite fields and advanced algorithms of rational reconstruction based on algebraic geometry and physical properties. The success of the project will not only open the door to NNLO predictions for this important process, but will improve significantly our capability of computing high-precision predictions for high-multiplicity processes in general.

Keywords: scattering amplitudes,qcd,perturbative qcd,lhc,collider physics
DeconstructIng Forest Functions Under Scattered Incident radiatiON (DIFFUSION)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: United Kingdom
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): 260347.92
EU funding (EUR): 260347.92
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Unprecedented changes in the properties of sunlight incident on forests worldwide are resulting from regional reverberations from climate change. Climate-intervention strategies also plan to diffuse more radiation to cool the Earth. Because diffuse/direct radiation behave differently within canopies, these changes are expected to have dramatic repercussions for ecosystem carbon balance. Research has so far failed to elucidate the interplay of these mechanisms operating at each level within the canopy, limiting our predictions of forests’ responses to projected patterns of radiation. First, we will evaluate the contribution of canopy vertical structure to forest response under diffuse light. Then, we will quantify the effect of transient clouds movements on forest carbon storage. Measurements throughout the canopy and with diffuse filters will consider the canopy not only in its spatial heterogeneity, but as a temporally dynamic system subject to an ever-changing environment. I project to upscale these elements together using bottom-up modelling, to identify the key processes that underpin forest response to diffuse radiation.

Keywords: diffuse radiation,forests,photosynthesis,transpiration,stomata,aerosols,clouds,climate change,canopy vertical gradients
Fostering F.A.I.R. Data and Standards in Rare Hematological Diseases (HemaFAIR)

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: Cyprus,Spain,Italy,Netherlands
Call: Twinning Bottom-Up (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499976.25
EU funding (EUR): 1499976.25
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

Research on rare diseases (RDs) is scarce and fragmented in the EU, leading to delayed diagnoses, limited availability of medicinal products and challenging access to care. Like in most RDs, data-driven research on rare haematological diseases (RHDs) is affected by the lack of data standardisation and the fragmentation of available data in close repositories. Adhering to the principle of making data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) is pivotal in fostering collaborative research and maximising the potential of available data. FAIR principles are especially relevant in the context of RD research, as their use can help to tackle data fragmentation and accelerate scientific discoveries. HemaFAIR aims to unravel the scientific excellence and innovation potential of a Widening country (Cyprus), through an EU network of excellence on the use of FAIR principles in RHD research. As a reference centre for most RDs in Cyprus, the Cyprus Institute of Neurology & Genetics (CING) can serve as a model for raising the scientific profile and competitiveness of Cyprus in RDs/RHDs and biomedical informatics and strengthening the research management and administrative skills. HemaFAIR brings together key experts in RHD research, biomedical informatics, patient-centred research and ethics and regulatory issues. HemaFAIR will develop and implement a comprehensive training programme and numerous capacity-building and strategic networking activities, including summer schools, workshops, webinars, and transferrable skills lectures. Also, HemaFAIR will raise the profile of early-career researchers via the development of a mentoring programme, short-term staff exchanges and three collaborative research projects. Notably, the research component of HemaFAIR will demonstrate the FAIRification process on two existing platforms for haemoglobinopathies, a group of RHDs that are particularly prevalent in Cyprus, thus maximising the impact of the project on the local society.

Keywords: rare diseases,fair principles,biomedical informatics,rare haematological diseases,haemoglobinopathies
Programmable, Modular and Disaggregated Security Plane for 6G Ecosystems (MARE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Smart Networks and Services
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: SNS (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Greece,Spain,Italy,France,Germany,Ireland,Slovenia,Belgium,Cyprus
Call: Reliable Services and Smart Security–Standardisation and Follow-up/PoCs (HORIZON-JU-SNS-2024, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8644580.01
EU funding (EUR): 7998984.5
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

The evolution torwards 6G communications brings forth new security and privacy challenges, including, but not, limited to protecting sensitive user data, securing ultra-low latency communication, safeguarding against emerging cyber threats, and ensuring the integrity of the network infrastructure. MARE will contribute to create a reliable 6G services provisioning platform through the definition of a novel security plane built on a well-defined set of open and programmable security functions, delivered as enablers to the 6G architecture, offering transparent, multi-domain/stakeholder security and privacy provisioning, aimed at proactively proposing and assessing candidate strategies to automatically handle attacks and threats in 6G networks. More specifically, MARE innovations pivot on two main contributions: 1. A set of enriched security functions built upon basic primitives, referred to as DOTs, that are composed into programmable security services to maximize security guarantees (Security Plane). 2. A smart “pre-assessment” environment, including simulation, emulation (with NDT) and real infrastructure for systems, users, etc., where security related services and functions are analyzed. In addition, to optimise the scope and coverage of its security enablers, MARE will study and implement a systematic Attacks Modeling Reference Framework for the identification and categorization of the evolving 6G ecosystem threat landscape. The project will demonstrate and validate the efficiency of its novel security plane in 11 PoC setups, corresponding to different 6G threats and security challenges. The MARE solution will be built on -and will be totally compliant with- the architectural concepts for 6G, as defined by European and International initiatives, such as the Hexa-X I/II flagship projects.

Keywords: 6g,security,privacy
Hernando Colón’s universal library. European culture and intellectual production at the dawn of the global world (COLIBRI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2030-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1495625.0
EU funding (EUR): 1495625.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

While newly printed books were circulating widely around Europe, when more than half a century had passed since Gutenberg’s invention, Hernando Colón (1488-1539), second son of Christopher Columbus, undertook the extraordinary challenge of keeping physical track of the proliferation of knowledge. He not only purchased everything, incessantly, and everywhere, marking on the books place and date of purchase, the local price, and the conversion to Spanish currency; for accessing, managing and reusing his colossal library, he and his ‘invisible technicians’ also developed a sophisticated cross-indexing and symbols system which is foundational in the history of bibliography and knowledge management. The Colombina library of Seville still preserves over one third of the almost 16,000 titles which Colón left at his death, as well a dozen manuscript indexes and catalogues that, recording all sorts of information, make it possible to reconstruct the lost portions of the collection, including the volumes famously shipwrecked on their way from Venice to Seville in 1521. Financing, gathering, cataloguing and managing a library of such scale required widespread connections, the support of an international network, and a vision deeply intertwined with the politics of knowledge acquisition of the new-born Spanish Empire. COLIBRI aims at opening the doors and explore the legacy of the most important library of the early modern period, completing the reconstruction of its content in order to investigate it; understanding how it worked as the first large-scale information processing system of modern times, and as a place for the production, not only for the storage and preservation, of knowledge; exploring the still new relationship between written and print culture and the early European and intercontinental book market; finally, showing how the movement and the stories of Colon’s books reflect the developments of Western culture of the last five centuries.
Charting the ROles of crowns in Ancient Greece (CoROnA)

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: Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 193643.28
EU funding (EUR): 193643.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

CoROnA (Charting the ROles of crowns in Ancient Greece) conducts a comprehensive study of ancient Greek crowns (stephanoi) from the 8th to the 1st century BCE, chiefly in Athens. By integrating thorough philological, epigraphical, and visual analyses of both textual and material evidence with contemporary theoretical frameworks such as New Materialism and New Institutionalism, CoROnA offers the first methodologically informed exploration of crowns as a pervasive symbol in Greek society, providing new insights into the diverse uses of crowns in both ‘Soft Institutions’—e.g., religious practices, symposia, and athletic competitions—and ‘Hard Institutions,’ i.e., honorific crowns. The project’s objectives are threefold: i) to map the uses of crowns by compiling a database of literary and epigraphical references, as well as a dossier of notable artefacts and images on vases/sculptures, and to record their specific functions and contexts; ii) to analyse the intersections between Soft- and Hard-Institutional uses, particularly how crowns used in Soft Institutions influenced their use as public honours, serving as tokens of the reciprocal relationship between the individual and the community; iii) to address the inherently intersectional meanings of crowns in Classical Greece, as these served to symbolise not only the civic worth of male citizens (an honour conferred not only for specific and outstanding political and financial benefactions but also to reward magistrates for undertaking their ordinary duties, e.g., as councillors) but also the worth of women and enslaved persons. Through this analysis, CoROnA reconsiders the crown’s role in expressing Greek honour and ethos, offering new perspectives on the connections between honour and democratic ideology. It also vindicates crowns as intersectional symbols capable of transcending traditional social and gender hierarchies, thus challenging prevailing hierarchical assumptions about ancient Greek institutions and society.

Keywords: ancient greece crowns honour social history democracy soft institutions