Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Intersectional Faces of Labor Organization: Solidarity and Mobilizations in Logistics in Europe (INFALA)

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 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-13
End date: 2027-01-12
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The proposed action Intersectional Faces of Labor Organization: Solidarity and Mobilizations in Logistics in Europe (INFALA) aims to systematically examine the forms of solidarity, agency and labor organization of workers from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, who have become increasingly present in European labor markets and in some countries are particularly visible in logistics. With few efforts engaging with labor on intersectional terms, and especially those from the MENA region who constitute the majority of those migrating to the EU, INFALA investigates two contrasting cases among the largest economies in Europe of Italy and Germany with three objectives in mind: 1) Develop an analytical framework to analyze intersectionality, solidarity and labor’s agency and establish the contextual foundation by mapping trajectories of MENA migration to Italy and Germany, access to labor markets, visa regimes and bilateral agreements 2) Conduct a three-layered interdisciplinary case analysis of the macro-(national) of Italy and Germany, meso-(sectoral) being logistics and micro-(worker) levels 3) Compare these two case studies based on analytical framework to derive larger insights regarding (trans)national solidarity and larger labor movement The MSCA Postdoc Fellowship would be a crucial step for my career development, allowing to build on my knowledge in political economy to dive into the broad logistics sector to investigate the processes of intersectional and transnational solidarity building that innovate on, or depart from, more traditional class-based labor organizing in Europe. It would be hosted by the Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS) in Florence, which hosts the internationally-renowned ‘Centre on Social Movement Studies’ (COSMOS), under the supervision of Professor Guglielmo Meardi, who has a long-standing expertise in comparative research on industrial relations, labor migration and labor movements.

Keywords: intersectionality,industrial relations,political economy,sociology of work,solidarity,agency,labor organization,logistics,migrants,mena
Greener, more sustainable platforms for high-value recombinant protein production (greenerRPP)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Netherlands,Thailand,Malaysia,Viet Nam,Germany,United Kingdom,Finland,Ireland,Austria,Switzerland
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2648634.69
EU funding (EUR): 2473984.8
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

The greenerRPP project aims to markedly enhance the EU’s capacity for the production of secreted high-quality recombinant proteins, especially industrial enzymes and therapeutic proteins (biotherapeutics). The combined markets are in excess of $330 billion p.a., and the products are of massive significance for healthcare and a sustainable bio-based economy. greenerRPP will address urgent problems in these industries, such as difficult-to-express proteins and the rapidly-emerging issue of 'sustainability' in the European biotechnology industry. It will deliver improvements in yield and process design that increase the industry's effectiveness while simultaneously reducing high current levels of waste. It will deliver industrial enzymes that reduce energy and raw material costs in countless industrial and domestic settings. To achieve this, we will develop powerful new microbial and mammalian cell platforms that produce recombinant proteins in unusually high quantities and in unparalleled quality, and bring to market a suite of super-producing platforms. A comprehensive training programme will equip greenerRPP ESRs with the interdisciplinary and intersectoral skills required to be future leaders in these industries, while emphasising sustainability and gender-diversity dimension principles at every level. Finally, the programme addresses the stark global inequality in this biotechnology sector: recombinant protein production is largely carried out in (or outsourced by) high-income countries, placing low/middle income countries at a massive disadvantage. greenerRPP includes a series of South East Asian Institutions as Associated Partners, to develop a global network with a knowledge exchange-secondment programme that boosts these countries' own manufacturing programmes. greenerRPP ESRs will thus enhance a European industrial sector that has never been more important to society, while making it 'greener' and reaching out to lower income countries.

Keywords: biotechnogy,bioprocessing,recombinant proteins,biotherapeutics,industrial enzymes,esr training,microbial expression hosts,systems biology,super secretion
The Process of GaN-on-diamond with Si-based nanolayer SAB technology (GDSNL)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Portugal
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): 172618.56
EU funding (EUR): 172618.56
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

GaN substrate materials have been increasing the demands of applications such as wireless communications, super-high computing, and power-management IC. The growing demands create substantial challenges for both the development of new semiconductor materials and their thermal power management in very large-scale integrated circuits. The highly localized Joule self-heating at the drain edge of the gate degrades the electrical performance and reliability of integrated circuits by introducing the device's channel thermally activated degradation mechanisms. To improve the radiation effect, the localized device's drain and channel regions heat generated in the active region of Si-substrate GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) device must be efficiently restrained. Third-generation semiconductor SiC and diamond, their appearance has improved high power reliability and performance, however, this direct growth requires an AlN or a SiN nucleation layer and suffers from the cost-effective large wafer. Besides, to date, GaN devices are mainly fabricated on sapphire, Si/SiC substrates having thermal conductivities of about 0.5, 1.5, and 4.0 W/cm·K, but the heat generated in GaN-on-diamond structure devices can be easily dissipated due to the excellent thermal conductivity characteristics of a diamond (thermal conductivity: ~22 W/cm·K). In order to conquer the growth of AlN or SiN GaN heterostructures on high poly- or micro-crystalline diamond and realize high-performance heat dissipation, a novel diamond growth on Si process using liquid gallium and titanium at low atmospheric pressure and a SAB Si-based nanolayer integration GaN-on-Si technology have been proposed. In this proposal, commercial GaN-on-Si and fabricated Diamond-on-Si were bonded with an extraordinarily low TBR and surface defects, this work opens up a new way for the fabrication of Diamond-based high-power wafers.

Keywords: gan,diamond,hfcvd,sab,hemts
Interactively connecting our polymer production design (POLY-DESIGN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and Processes Engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-12-01
End date: 2030-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2496000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2496000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

A challenge in the polymer industry is the design of molecular and morphological properties along the whole production chain, minimizing energy consumption and product heterogeneity, and ensuring recyclability. Ideally, we need to track the compositional/topological variations and interactions of individual species during (i) synthesis, hence, the polymer reaction engineering (PRE) stage; and (ii) downstream final material shaping, hence, the polymer processing (PP) stage (e.g. (reactive) extrusion). Today, the connection between the PRE and PP stage is weak and monodirectional, with only average, not distributed, ballpark PRE characteristics inputted in PP optimization. Both stages although share common bottlenecks such as micro-scale viscosity changes, meso-scale mixing limitations, and macro-scale concentration/temperature gradients. POLY-DESIGN aims at next-generation polymer performance intensification and functionality design by a generic PRE-PP multi-scale modelling tool, tracking all changes at all length scales during synthesis and processing. This ambitious approach interactively connecting PRE and PP can tackle complex demanding products, and cost efficiently produced goods that will drive the commodity and high-tech polymer market. A validated PRE multi-scale modelling tool is applied to access all distributed PRE characteristics, uniquely for (i) linear and branched/crosslinked (co)polymers; (i) lab and commercial polymers; and (iii) pure polymers and their blends. The polymer (blend) viscoelasticity is calculated with a multi-scale PP modelling tool at any PP shear rate and temperature for any set of PRE characteristics. In this way, an industrial PP unit can be designed from the chemical to the material level and reversely thanks to a flexible PRE-PP connection. Demonstrator cases are included for more sustainable and higher quality manufacturing of virgin and recycled polymers, benefiting from design in the PRE or PP stage, or both.

Keywords: polymer reaction engineering polymer processing model based design reactive extrusion
Wave-function Networks: Probe and understand quantum many-body systems via network and complexity theory (WaveNets)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1986250.0
EU funding (EUR): 1986250.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

WaveNets aims to establish a novel theoretical paradigm for understanding quantum systems, centred on a network interpretation of many-body wave-functions. Ongoing experimental progress motivates the need for a new theoretical approach: in the field of quantum simulation and quantum computing, probing capabilities have reached unprecedented levels, with the ability to collect thousands of wave function snapshots with impressive accuracy. However, most of our theoretical understanding of such settings still relies on and relates to few-body observables. This has created a clear gap between experimental capabilities and theoretical tools and concepts available to understand physical phenomena. The overall goal of WaveNets is to bridge this gap by introducing a mathematical framework to describe wave-function snapshots based on network theory — wave function networks — that will enable a completely new set of tools to address open problems in the field of quantum matter. WaveNets' main objectives are: - to demonstrate that wave function snapshots of correlated systems are described by scale-free networks, and classify the robustness of quantum simulators according to such; - to formulate methods for quantifying the Kolmogorov complexity of many-body systems, and propose an information-theory-based characterization of topological matter and confinement in gauge theories; - to propose scalable methods for measuring entanglement in quantum simulators and computers, as well as for their validation. Achieving these objectives will (a) provide unique insights into the information structure of quantum matter, (b) enable methods of probing and controlling matter of direct experimental relevance thanks to the intrinsic scalability of network-type descriptions, and (c) establish a new, interdisciplinary bridge between quantum science, and network and data mining theory, that makes possible knowledge transfer between two mature, yet poorly connected disciplines.

Keywords: quantum simulation,entanglement,cold atoms,trapped ions,rydberg atom arrays,data mining
A novel role for skeletal muscle in tumour growth and proliferation (MyoTumour)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Italy
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): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Cachexia is a life-threatening condition characterized by a drastic loss in both muscle and adipose tissue, which is associated with several pathologies, including cancer. In cancer patients, its prevalence is of 50-80%, and is the direct cause of at least 20% of cancer-associated deaths. Cachectic patients show lower response rates to chemotherapy and a reduced tolerance to anticancer treatment, being of major clinical relevance. So, while cachexia is clearly of great significance for disease prognosis and survival in general, it is mainly considered a consequence of the presence of the tumour. Tumour-induced muscle wasting is due to the development of “anabolic resistance,” which is the impaired ability of nutrition and exercise to stimulate muscle protein synthesis. There have been results, however, which suggest that prevention or reverting muscle mass can lead to significant improvements of survival and overall well-being of tumour-bearing animals. While these results are suggestive of an important role for skeletal muscle, whether or not this is due to a direct effect on tumour biology is not well-established. The proposed project is based on preliminary results showing that tumour growth and proliferation are affected by activating the anabolic kinase Akt specifically in skeletal muscle in vivo, suggestive of muscle-tumour crosstalk. Follow up experiments performed using a microfluidics system showed that this effect is likely mediated by factors directly released by skeletal muscles, and not through indirect effects, like altering food intake or modulation of the immune system. In the current project, we propose to confirm and further decipher the muscle-tumour crosstalk in vivo. Subsequently, we propose to identify muscle-secreted factors with a microfluidics approach analyzing their effect on multiple tumour cell lines.

Keywords: cachexia skeletal muscle tumour crosstalk secreted factors microfluidics
Sustainable powder materials for zinc rechargeable batteries (SUPERZINC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: France
Call: EIC Accelerator Challenge: Technologies for Open Strategic Autonomy (HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOR-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3564687.5
EU funding (EUR): 2495281.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

EASYL’s patented technology provides green processes to locally produce critical powder materials used in zinc-based batteries. We use a mechanical process to create Calcium Zincate powder (active material that can store electricity), with only water as solvent, and have the know-how for the green production of Titanium Nitride (essential conductive additive). These innovations are combined to produce 3 ready-to-use composite powders - Zincatin (ZnNi batteries), Zincatair (Zn-Air batteries) & Zincatem (Zn-MnO2 batteries). EASYL’s production processes for these powder materials and composite powders will be licensed to industrial powder producers and battery manufacturers, respectively. Our current technology has been tested with our team specialized in prototype cells & allows for the production of batteries with a capacity of 1000 charge/discharge cycles while retaining 70% of the cell’s capacity. We intend to reach 3600 cycles by the end of this project & of 5000 in later generations

Keywords: zinc batteries,active materials,sustainable energy
High Performance Half Heusler Thermoelectrics for Waste Heat Recovery (HIPERT)

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: Cyprus,Poland,Norway,Greece
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 148488.0
EU funding (EUR): 148488.0
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

This project aims to develop high-performance, low-cost and environmentally-friendly Half Heusler (HH) thermoelectric (TE) materials for waste heat recovery in mid-temperature applications. It is an interdisciplinary research program, combining research actions from five different scientific fields: Computational Materials Physics, Chemistry, Nanotechnology, Materials Science and Manufacturing Engineering. Theoretical approaches and calculations will support the experimental investigations for the discovery and development of new n- and p-type HH materials with the potential for high TE performances. A range of different strategies will be implemented in order to optimize their electrical transport properties and achieve in parallel high reductions in thermal conductivity through effective phonon scattering, targeting to efficiencies with TE figure-of-merit, ΖΤ, close to 2. The final objective of the project is the construction of a prototype TE device using the developed optimized materials and the evaluation of the final efficiency and produced power output of the device. The interdisciplinary nature of the project will give the researcher the chance to gain training and experience from diverse disciplines, learning new methodologies, expanding his scientific horizon, strengthening his professional maturity and becoming more independent for an Academic position. HIPERT will have a high impact on scientific community, while in log-term it is anticipated to be beneficial for the economy and society. The HIPERT research outputs will introduce new scientific concepts and will inspire further research for the development of high-performance thermoelectrics. In parallel, it is expected to open the road for the development of HH TE generators in industrial level, creating attractive opportunities for European SMEs and companies to be involved in large-scale R&D projects, aiming to bring HH thermoelectrics in the market as an efficient sustainable energy technology.

Keywords: thermoelectric materials,half heusler compounds,nanostructuring,thermoelectric device
Direct Air Capture for on-site CO2 utilization in greenhouses (C-DAC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Cyprus,Ukraine
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2023 (HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATOR-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2211812.5
EU funding (EUR): 1548268.75
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

CO2 is recognized as the main pollutant responsible for global warming. On the other hand, 230Mt fossil-based CO2 is consumed globally as feedstock for different industries, including greenhouses, fertilizers, carbonated drinks and food preservation. With volatile and soaring prices of liquified CO2, raising 10x last year (from €200 to €2.000/t), why don't we take it back from the atmosphere and use it as a valuable feedstock? Although high enough to cause climate change, atmospheric CO2 concentration makes up just 0.04% of the air we breathe, low enough to make it tricky to capture cost-efficiently. CARBOMINER has developed C-DAC as a novel Direct Air Capture technology for selective CO2 binding from the open air in a fully electric and cost-effective process. Based on wet absorbent fiber for CO2 capture and patent pending BPM electrodialysis pH-swing for CO2 regeneration, C-DAC has been demonstrated into greenhouses to bring low-cost fossil-free CO2 vs current CO2 supply options.

Keywords: direct air capture