Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Bidirectional Brain/Neural-Computer Interaction for Restoration of Mental Health (BNCI2)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Compl exity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999875.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999875.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

More than 1 billion people worldwide suffer from compromised mental health due to a brain disorder, such as depression, addiction, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) or dementia. While already accounting for 19% of all years lived with disability, the relative share of these disorders is further increasing. Currently, due to the complexity of the human mind and brain, effective and side effect-free treatment options are lacking. To establish such options would not only require identifying the underlying neural substrates of clinical symptoms, but also effective means to directly modulate them. While advanced neuroimaging could link specific clinical symptoms to the metabolic activity of cortical and subcortical networks or neural circuits, it is unclear how this metabolic activity translates to the continuously evolving dynamics of widespread brain oscillatory activity. A possible way to identify and target such oscillatory brain states would be the use of millimeter-precise and brain state-dependent neuromodulation, e.g., using electric or magnetic fields. However, this could not be established yet because reliable and accurate assessment of brain oscillations is impeded by stimulation artifacts. Moreover, there are no stimulation tools available that provide sufficient focality and steerability to target dynamic brain states at multiple locations with millisecond-precision. Building on our previous work, we will overcome these limitations and establish a new approach that combines quantum sensors offering unprecedented accuracy with closed-loop temporal interference magnetic stimulation to target cortical and subcortical areas at millimeter- and millisecond precision. The system will be validated in persons diagnosed with depression, OCD, addiction, and dementia. Finally, the paradigm will be implemented in a portable system to foster fast adoption in clinical environments.

Keywords: quantum sensors,closed loop brain stimulation,temporal interference magnetic stimulation,mental health,neural substrates of the human mind
A comprehensive non-invasive AI-based MRI radiomics tool for precise breast cancer diagnosis, tumor characterisation, and predictive treatment response (QP-Breast)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1900000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1900000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer among women worldwide, responsible for 30% of all cancers affecting women, with shocking data in the year 2022 in Europe: 2.3 million women dealing with the diagnosis of breast cancer, with 685,000 deaths globally. Despite considerable advancements, breast cancer is still the first cause of cancer-related mortality in women. The challenge of effectively managing the disease persists, primarily due to the lack of breast cancer characterization and robust predictive tools, which restricts oncologists’ ability to tailor optimal treatment decisions. Quibim has developed QP-Breast, a unique innovative diagnostic tool leveraging advanced MRI imaging and AI to provide non-invasive tumour characterization without biopsy, risk stratification, and predictive response assessment for personalised treatment approaches. The solution incorporates a previously unseen combination of AI technologies that has provided radically superior results in tissue characterization from MRI: W-Net + Radiomics trained on pathology. This is clearly a breakthrough for non-invasive tissue phenotyping in cancer. QP-Breast is a new tool intended to be used after initial screening and at the time of diagnosis, particularly targeting high-risk women or those already diagnosed with breast cancer. QP-Breast stems from Quibim’s long experience developing and validating AI-based MRI radiomics tools for cancer detection, which involves a paradigm shift towards enhancing oncologists’ predictive capabilities. QPBreast is going to revolutionise the personalised breast cancer care market, improving diagnostic accuracy and treatment outcomes while reducing healthcare costs, patient burden, and equalising care standards globally, but especially increasing the survival rates.

Keywords: breast cancer,mri,radiomics,artificial intelligence,tissue characterisation,predictive model
Global Resettlement Regimes: Ambivalent Lessons learned from the Postwar (1945-1951) (GLORE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: Austria
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2159469.0
EU funding (EUR): 2159469.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project argues that the late 1940s and 1950s saw the construction of global resettlement regimes. Earlier scholarship on displacement and resettlement has generally treated post-war experiences in Europe and in Asia as separate domains. In contrast, this project shows the connections between the European and the Asian spheres, and further links them to Australia and the Americas. This project explores the potential of global history with an innovative interface to legal history, by (a) analysing the role of international organizations and experts linked with the United Nations system (UNRRA and IRO) in formulating policies that had a global impact; (b) analysing the interactions of this global resettlement regime with national policies and regional/local experts; (c) analysing the movements of refugees across national borders and continents, and the role of communities in reshaping refugee lives; (d) focusing on select biographical and intellectual archives and experiences. The project will use Social GIS methods to map these flows of actors and knowledge, especially through an intensive focus on the International Tracing Service (ITS) / Arolsen archives, which have hitherto seldom been analyzed in global perspective. It will link this empirical corpus with data gleaned from other international, national, and local archives, as well as non-archival sources, such as refugee memoirs and biographies, and representations of refugee resettlement in newspapers and literature. The project will follow these connected strands of enquiry by weaving together four interlinked optics: (a) on normativity; (b) on refugee’s lifeworlds and ‘state of exception’; (c) on global history and spatial studies, esp. the paradigm of ‘carceral geography’, in studying refugee camps; and (d) the emergent field of global intellectual history, and memory studies.The project will publish and convey the ‘lessons learned’ about post-war refugee resettlement which can inform discussions today.

Keywords: displaced person refugee refugee resettlement forced migration second world war cold war united nations unrra iro camp holocaust nazi germany europe asia china australia americas global history citizenship migration patterns post 1945 post war
Efficient pRocessing of advanced battery materialS (EROS)

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: Finland,Korea, Republic of
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-05-01
End date: 2029-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 353647.44
EU funding (EUR): 353647.44
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Garnet-like, Li7La3Zr2O12 (LLZO) is a promising solid electrolyte (SE) material for solid-state-batteries (SSBs), whose market growth highlights the urgent need for sustainable waste management solutions. Hybrid recycling, which integrates thermal pre-treatment and recovery of critical elements, is a highly promising approach, especially for complex material streams like LLZO. However, this method remains unexplored for SSBs. EROS aims to address this gap by combining advanced thermodynamic modeling and experiments to develop an efficient hybrid recycling process for LLZO. In this regard, phase diagrams are essential in designing the thermal pre-treatment conditions directly influencing downstream recovery. The first step of the project is to execute thermodynamic modeling using the CALculation of PHAse Diagrams (CALPHAD) approach to develop a database for calculating phase diagrams and thermodynamic properties. This will be done at Seoul National University during the first 24 months of the project. During the return phase in Aalto University, key experiments will be designed to examine chemical reactions and phase formation during pre-treatment, providing critical data to enhance recycling efficiency. This innovative approach aims to reduce energy consumption, material losses and accelerate industry adaptation of hybrid recycling methods for new battery materials. The project will allow the fellow to benefit from the combined mentorship of expert supervisors in CALPHAD (outgoing phase) and thermochemistry (EU phase), skill development, and collaborate with international peers, enabling her to explore new research avenues and secure collaborative projects. She will also share her expertise in metallurgy and CALPHAD modeling to both the outgoing and EU host institutions, contributing to broader research and industrial advancements.

Keywords: metallurgy,phase equilibria,slags,calphad,phase diagrams,recycling
Landscape Vocabulary in the languages of Iran: Conceptualising Ecosystem across the Zagros mountain and Southern desert ecoregions (LandVoICE)

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,Canada,France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2028-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 341683.08
EU funding (EUR): 341683.08
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Advances uncovering the links between language and cognition, along with recent research in ecolinguistics, have revealed that speech communities may conceptualise landscape features and spatial coordinates in different ways based on culture-specific categories, beliefs, and customs. Core lexical items for landscape elements, also embedded in place names, may reflect diverging mental images, worldviews, and knowledge systems. LandVoICE compares and contrasts landscape vocabulary in selected languages of the Iranian branch of the Indo-European family and neighbouring non-Iranian languages spoken in two distinct regions of Iran: the Zagros mountains and the Southern desert/semi-desert. The project combines approaches in Iranian philology and lexicology with analytic methods inspired by ethnophysiography, an interdisciplinary framework for studying culture-bound human cognition of the world we inhabit. LandVoICE supplements data assembled from existing databases and published literature with fresh materials collected through collaborative research with local communities. Among its key objectives is the development of culturally appropriate technological tools (mapping systems, ontology-based GIS) to visualise research findings and account for local landscape-related knowledge, engage communities in ecosystem conservation, and support the preservation of the intangible heritage associated with landscapes. Qualified supervision of Prof. Ela Filippone (Tuscia University, Viterbo, Italy: beneficiary), Prof. Erik Anonby (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada: outgoing host) and Prof. Matteo De Chiara (INALCO, Paris, France: secondment host), in synergy with research partners and training providers at host institutions, will allow the researcher to develop core scientific and technical skills in open science and digital cartography. The MSCA experience will prepare the fellow to compete for a tenure-track position and expand her career prospects within and beyond academia.

Keywords: iranian languages,areal linguistics,lexicology,landscape lexicon,toponymy,cognitive onomasiology,ethnophysiography,ethnoecology
Efficient decommissioning, repurposing and recycling to increase the circularity of end-of-life wind energy systems. (REWIND)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,France,Denmark,Germany,Italy,Greece,Türkiye
Call: Critical technologies to improve the lifetime, efficient decommissioning and increase the circularity of offshore and onshore wind energy systems (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4010527.5
EU funding (EUR): 3997027.5
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

REWIND aims at developing critical technologies for dismantling end-of-life (EoL) wind turbine blades (WTB) (evaluation, advanced cutting, etc.) and implementing new methodologies for composites repurposing and recycling (catalytic pyrolysis and solvolysis) to increase the circularity of WTB, increasing the industrial applications of the EoL composites, and avoiding the current landfilling or incineration. The main composition of the composite waste is expected to be epoxy resin/carbon fibre (CF), epoxy resin/glass fibre (GF) and polyester resin/GF. The new methodologies will address the following challenges: 1) Study and development of suitable disassembly, quality inspection and characterisation of the composite waste, to be able to understand composite waste properties. As a result, it will be possible to decide if composite parts from EoL products should be repurposed or recycled depending on their value. 2) Show potential high-value applications for composite end-of-life: repurposing will be demonstrated through manufacturing 2 demonstrators (for construction and automotive sector). This will be done by matching specified requirements with dismantled materials using software and hardware tools to facilitate the fragmentation processes. 3) New innovative pyrolysis and solvolysis methods for recycling will be developed and tested to significantly reduce the processing temperature and time for those parts that cannot be used in repurposing. This will allow to save energy, and together with the post-treatments, improving the quality of the materials recovered (e.g., weaved fibres, sized fibres, recycled polyester resin, recycled epoxy resin and epoxy vitrimer resins based on recycled monomers). Secondary raw materials obtained will be used to manufacture 2 demonstrators for wind energy sector: a small wind blade root section and composites patches for blades repairing. REWIND technologies should be scalable to process high volumes of waste in the near future.

Keywords: composites recycling,wind blade circularity,repurposing,recycling,recycled carbon and glass fibre,end of life,solvolysis,pyrolysis,high voltage fragmentation,long fibre delamination
Seen Together, Activating Together: How object co-occurrence statistics shape object representation and visual cognition (STAT)

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: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173847.36
EU funding (EUR): 173847.36
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Visual objects in real life carry both perceptual and semantic information, which cannot readily be inferred from simple visual features and is based on prior knowledge. However, semantics is not a unitary concept; it can be separated into taxonomy (e.g., ducks and frogs are both animals) and co-occurrence (e.g., candles appear together with cakes). Previous studies have extensively characterized the role of taxonomy in visual cognition, while co-occurrence is less well-understood and more disputed. The aim of this proposal is to investigate the impact of object co-occurrence on object representation and visual cognition. The project has four objectives: First, I will use fMRI and EEG to identify where and when object co-occurrence statistics are represented in the brain, how they rival other competing organizations, and which mechanisms enable these representations. Objective 1 will provide a characterization of co-occurrence as a key organizational principle of object representation. Second, I will investigate how co-occurrence modulates neural competition between objects using fMRI. Objective 2 will clarify whether organizing objects based on co-occurrence can overcome information processing bottlenecks in the visual brain. Third, I will examine whether co-occurrence can facilitate conscious perception using the attentional blink paradigm and explore where and when neural representations of co-occurrence predict AB magnitudes. Fourth, I will investigate how and when co-occurrence impacts performance and neural processing in visual search using EEG. Objectives 3 and 4 will aid our understanding of how object co-occurrence contributes to human perception and cognition and thereby helps people to perform everyday tasks successfully. Overall, this research will provide a comprehensive characterization of how object co-occurrence in the world shapes human vision and open new avenues for explaining visual behaviors in natural environments.

Keywords: semantics,co occurrence,object representation,consciousness,visual search,biased competition,fmri,eeg,mvpa
Water for the People, Décor for the City: Nymphaea and Public Fountains in Iudaea/Syria-Palaestina and Provincia Arabia from the Roman until the Byzantine Periods (ca. 1st BCE-7th CE) (WaterDecor)

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,Switzerland,Israel
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 320924.16
EU funding (EUR): 320924.16
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Hydraulic installations play a fundamental role in human survival, development, and the prosperity of urban settlements, mostly in semi-arid regions. In this regard, WaterDecor plans to investigate nymphaea and public fountains in Iudaea/Syria-Palaestina and Provincia Arabia from the establishment of the Roman province until the Byzantine Period (ca. 1st BCE-7th century CE). It analyses the ways in which these water management installations were built across this vast semi-arid geographical area and evaluates cultural, social, and economic implications. Through a historical perspective and the record of past societies, this project embraces the EU’s challenges in the field of climate action and resource efficiency, bringing awareness to the importance of conscious water use. Furthermore, in line with the strategic framework for the EU’s cultural policy and the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), this research promotes international cultural relations with southern neighbours (Israel, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon). The project’s novelty consists in considering a group of infrastructures from a vast geographic area over time and, most importantly, it undertakes an overall examination that moves away from traditional studies based on individual monuments or typology stricto sensu. It delves into a multitude of aspects that makes it possible to enhance several issues spanning from ancient technologies to climate change issues. The specific objective focuses on nymphaea and public fountains in a context of semi-arid o arid climatic conditions, which makes the construction of large water-consuming structures challenging. The second objective investigates urban and socio-cultural contexts and how these constructions were perceived by the local population. The third objective examines climate change effects on these structures and, in general, on the urban water distribution system.

Keywords: jewish studies
Modification of liposomic nano-carriers: a novel strategy for improved drug-delivery and eradication of bacterial biofilms (BiofilmEradicate)

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: Israel
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS1 (ERC-2022-POC1, 2022)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Bacterial biofilms are widespread, both as infections in humans and on devices that have come in contact with infected tissue, and pose a major health and economic burden. Such biofilms are difficult to treat as they present strong resistance to drug delivery, due to a dense, hydrated polysaccharide/protein matrix in which the bacterial communities encase themselves, and from the bacterial membrane itself. Liposomes stabilized by poly(ethylene glycol), PEG moieties, the current gold-standard and most commonly used means of stabilization, are versatile drug-delivery vehicles, but such PEGylation is associated with significant shortcomings, greatly reducing the efficiency of PEGylated liposomes for biofilm treatment. Here we explore a novel strategy to improve such drug delivery and treatment of biofilms. In particular, is it effective? is it efficient? Can it be readily applied both in vitro (for which we have some promising preliminary indications) - as for infected biomedical devices - and, crucially, in vivo? What is the IPR position for future exploitation of this new drug delivery strategy? These questions illustrate the high-risk/high-gain nature of this proposal, and are systematically addressed in this proposal through several inter-related work packages. Success of our project in demonstrating that our novel drug-encapsulating vehicles can efficiently treat and eradicate bacterial biofilm infections would not only have benefits affecting large populations, but also tap into a large drug-delivery market.