Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
AI-enabled tactical FMP hotspot prediction and resolution (ASTRA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: SESAR (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Malta,Spain,Italy,Switzerland
Call: ATM application-oriented Research for Artificial Intelligence (AI) for aviation (HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-ER-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1139245.0
EU funding (EUR): 1139244.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

Various Air Traffic Flow and Capacity Management (ATFCM) measures are implemented during the pre-tactical and tactical flow management phases to resolve traffic congestion (aka hotspots); however, these are generally based on flight plan data. On the day of operation, an aircraft's actual trajectory may differ significantly from its flight plan and, as a result, hotspots still occur and these have to be resolved by Air Traffic Controllers (ATCOs) without sufficient advance notice. With today's ATFCM tools, tactical Air Traffic Control (ATC) hotspots are only identified up to around 20 minutes in advance. The aim of ASTRA is to bridge the gap between the Flow Management Position (FMP) and the planner Controller Working Position (CWP) by developing a AI-based tool (to TRL2) for FMP personnel which can predict and resolve hotspots earlier than today, before they are within the scope of the sector planner. The objectives of the project are to: (a) develop an FMP function to predict hotspots at least 1 hour in advance, and to propose strategies to resolve them; (b) develop Human Machine Interface (HMI) concepts to allow interaction between operators and the tool; and (c) demonstrate and validate the tool by conducting human-in-the-loop Real-Time Simulations (RTS) in a representative operational environment. The benefits of this tool would include: increased capacity at ATC unit level; better adherence to efficient and green business trajectories; reduced ATCO workload; and more predictable operations. The project will be carried out by a multidisciplinary consortium of 5 partners from 4 countries - Malta, Spain, Italy and Switzerland - including an academic institution, an ANSP, an Air Traffic Management (ATM) technology provider, and two consulting/research entities. The partners are complementary to each other and bring a combination of academic, technical, human factor and operational skills and expertise to the project.

Keywords: congestion prediction and resolution demand capacity balancing traffic flow management explainable artificial intelligence machine learning 4d trajectory prediction real time simulation
Understanding the influence of sediment dynamics on postglacial landscape evolution (POSTCOLD)

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: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-15
End date: 2023-12-14
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 130385.52
EU funding (EUR): 130385.52
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Repeated glacial-interglacial cycles during the Quaternary have significantly impacted the topography of many mountain ranges around the world. Yet, the response of landscape evolution to repeated climate oscillations has not been well quantified. In recently deglaciated landscapes, the transition from glacial to fluvial/hillslope processes have induced progressive topographic adjustments, and the large amounts of sediments inherited from glacial periods and generated through landsliding of oversteepened glaciated topography may act as a fundamental control on the incision of postglacial rivers. These sediments can enhance fluvial incision rate by providing more tools for erosion, or inhibit incision by armoring the river bed. Characterizing when and where sediment enhances or inhibits fluvial incision in postglacial landscapes is critical for understanding the changes in postglacial landscape evolution rates over time and quantifying the response times of mountain ranges to deglaciation. In this project, I propose to develop a landscape evolution model to account for the complex impact of sediment dynamics on fluvial incision in postglacial landscapes. I will utilize this model to investigate the response of fluvial incision to changes in sediment supply and assess the effects of sediment on postglacial landscape evolution. I will apply the model to quantify response times of the deglaciated European Alp, leveraging the rich observational datasets in this region. The proposed work will provide a quantitative understanding of postglacial fluvial incision histories, which is critical for ecosystem management and natural hazard assessment in recently deglaciated mid-latitude mountain ranges and perhaps in high-latitude mountain ranges where continued climate change may eventually lead to deglaciation.

Keywords: geomorphology,landscape evolution modeling,postglacial,fluvial incision,alps
Political Deification: Theorising from Asia (POLDEI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Norway
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Political deification—i.e. the transformation to and treatment of political leaders as divine beings—occurs in various religious and national contexts in Asia and has been understood as instances of messianism, custodianship, sacred kingship, martyrdom, pacification, and charismatic authority among others. These concepts travel, intersect, and imbue the different political systems in Asian countries. Yet they have been studied only as discrete political phenomena, not as related and overlapping concepts under an overarching theory that explains the deification of political leaders. POLDEI will build a transdisciplinary theory of political deification by using case studies from East, South-East, and South Asian countries to analyse popular cultural concepts that address the deification of political leaders. This transdisciplinary project will use innovative methods from film studies, visual/performance studies, and culture studies, in addition to the study of religion, political science, and anthropology, to interpret the popular understanding of such religiopolitical phenomena. The project POLDEI will develop a theory of political deification to understand how the legitimacy of political rule is grounded in concepts derived from religious worldviews. This theory built from Asia is not just for Asia. The proposed theory will provide us with the analytical tools and conceptual categories we need to decode the contemporary challenge of rising religious nationalisms not just in Asia but at the global level. From the perspective of the history of science, the project will test the results of this radical act of relocating not just the ground of theory but also the geopolitical pattern of applicability.

Keywords: religion and politics,political theology,religious nationalism,theory from the global south,popular culture,asian studies
Memory in Times of Crisis: Argentina, Spain and Greece, 1998 to now (MeTC)

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: Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 206887.68
EU funding (EUR): 206887.68
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

MeTC examines how people in networked societies recall the recent past (ReP) in times of economic recession through the lens of social media (SoM). It explores the connections between crises and memory politics by investigating Facebook, Instagram, and internet forums in Argentina, Spain, and Greece (ASG) – three countries which transitioned to democracy between 1974 and 1982 and experienced optimism and prosperity in the proceeding years before they suffered from economic crises. MeTC is a comparative, interdisciplinary historical and digital-ethnographic project which links two methods of digital ethnography (invisible observation; immersive cohabitation) with oral history and intermedial and multimodal analysis. The project aims to: a) analyse memories of the ReP during crises in SoM in ASG; b) employ its own SoM to trigger discussions on the relationships between the present and the ReP on the basis of stimuli gathered through archival research; c) scrutinise the politics of these SoM-driven mnemonic communities through oral interviews from people engaged in the formation of the politics of digital collective memory in ASG. MeTC provides an adaptable model for how historians and media scholars can turn embarrassment in the face of the SoM-driven explosion of amateur historical storytelling on the web into a source of inspiration and a channel of communication among these two communities of scholars and the public. Drawing on the host’s interdisciplinary capacity and synergies with experts in ASG, MeTC promises to provide a bold academic and social impact in these ways: a) publication in journals, and the delivery of a hybrid workshop and seminars; b) interaction with popular audiences through SoM, a photo exhibition and open public speaking events organised with immigrants from ASG in Sweden. Ultimately, MeTC will enable research on (digital) memory to be a vehicle for interaction between the academy and society through culture and education.

Keywords: economic crises,digital ethnography,culture of connectivity,argentina,spain,greece
Were They Modern Humans? The Problem of the Initial Upper Palaeolithic in West Central Asia (INASIA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: Poland
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2030-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2556730.0
EU funding (EUR): 2556730.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The Initial Upper Palaeolithic (IUP) is a term describing lithic assemblages dated roughly to 50–40 kya in the Near East, Central Europe and North-Eastern Asia, which show traits of the emergence of blade technology, traditionally associated with the expansion of modern human groups. Several sites with IUP traits have also been recently recognised in West Central Asia (Uzbekistan and Tajikistan), but astonishingly they date to a period between 77 and 43 kya (Obi-Rakhmat, Khudji, Katta Sai 2, Khodjakent, Kuksaray 2, Ertash Sai 2). Through this project, we aim to answer the question of whether there were indeed modern human groups who lived in Western Central Asia at this time and left behind lithic assemblages with IUP traits. This would make them the earliest known modern human migration waves into Eurasia. Alternatively, these assemblages were produced by Neanderthals or even Denisovans, who inhabited Central Asia prior to modern human expansion. This would question the widely repeated hypothesis of a relationship between blade technology and modern human groups. To answer the question, we will study new cave sites in the region to collect palaeoecological, zooarchaeological and palaeoanthropological data. Using a multidisciplinary approach, we plan to reveal not only who made these IUP assemblages, but also study their subsistence strategies and settlement continuity between 77 and 43 kya within the changing palaeoenvironmental conditions. By answering this question, we will either confirm an early modern human migration to Eurasia and challenge the current paradigm of Euro-Levantine blade technology emergence, or alternatively challenge the other major paradigm of a direct relationship between blade technology emergence with modern human expansion. In either case, we will clarify to what extent the phenomena we call the Upper Palaeolithic “revolution” was driven solely by modern humans, and whether it was stimulated by interactions with Neanderthals and/or Den

Keywords: human evolution modern humans neanderthals denisovans lithic studies
The Narrative Foundations of Tibetan Buddhist Culture (FOUNT)

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: Austria
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-04-01
End date: 2031-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Between the 11th and 14th centuries, Buddhist communities on the Tibetan Plateau crafted a national charter myth that was to have immense cultural staying power. The narrative literature that successfully promoted this myth would inflect the cultural, religious, and political landscape of Tibet even into the 21st century, and greatly impact Mongolia, the Himalayas, and other Asian Buddhist communities as well. Yet the genesis and even original content of this literature has now turned out, thanks to the PI’s efforts, to be poorly understood, which greatly hinders progress in a number of fields. Using newly identified and until now unstudied manuscripts, we will: 1) establish a sound text-historical basis for using these hugely influential sources; 2) illuminate the rise of major elements of Tibetan Buddhist culture, including a national culture hero and the mythology of the land’s patron deity; 3) produce case studies on a variety of topics central to Tibetan cultural, religious, and political history. Because this Buddhist literature promoted the existence of an intimate relationship between the country’s patron deity (the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara), a divine king (the 7th-century Emperor Songtsen), and the Tibetans themselves, it throws important light on premodern relations between religion, politics, and collective identity. As such, it has world-historical implications. Yet the lack of text-historical groundwork ensures that scholars who wish to consult these materials, which were subject to centuries-long copying, adaptation, and mutual borrowing, immediately find themselves on unfirm ground. We will set the entire field on sounder footing by mapping the history of these early compositions and plotting their evolution. Using this new foundation, we will then study the genesis of Tibet’s far-reaching cultural complex.

Keywords: national mythology,kingship,religion,buddhist historiography
RESPIRE: Planetary Breathing in Asphyxiating Times (RESPIRE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Studies of Cultures and Arts
Panel description: Social anthropology, studies of cultur es, stud ies of arts
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2440313.0
EU funding (EUR): 2440313.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

We live in a time of multispecies suffocation. This is not a metaphor but a material process of contemporary multispecies living and dying on this planet. RESPIRE will address the fact that we do not know what this planetary multispecies suffocation consists of and will investigate how we can comprehend and transform it. It will do so through extensive fieldwork that includes collaboration with natural scientists, organisations, artists, and stakeholders. This approach is needed because the natural sciences study environmental problems but address them separately from social issues and do not offer an overall understanding of multispecies suffocation. The humanities offer important analyses of the effects of environmental and social degradation but no perspective for analysing planetary multispecies suffocation. RESPIRE’s hypothesis is that to describe and understand multispecies suffocation, we need approaches that address social and environmental issues as interrelated, and need to strengthen the scientific role of the humanities and arts, which specialise in challenging established norms and beliefs. We will analyse multispecies suffocation through the ‘planetary lungs’ and their related problems: forests (deforestation), ocean (dead-zones – low oxygen areas), and soil (peatlands). Our inductive inquiry from humanities and art-based research perspectives will deliver fundamental research that will contribute to future research on social and climate change-related issues by producing a socio-environmental interdisciplinary approach and revealing the respiratory and multispecies dimensions of current challenges. RESPIRE will also develop new respiration-focused methodologies, concepts, and innovative pathways for a more breathable future. The project will further develop the emerging field of Critical Respiratory Studies, in which the PI is one of the leading scholars, and bring a humanities and arts perspective to the natural sciences.

Keywords: planetary,multispecies,breathing,suffocation,sustainability,theory,interdisciplinary
Autonomous Exploration and Extraction of Deep Mineral Deposits (PERSEPHONE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Increased Autonomy in Key Strategic Value Chains for Resilient Industry
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Sweden,Greece,Belgium,Denmark,Spain,South Africa,Netherlands,Poland
Call: Innovative technologies for sustainable and decarbonised extraction (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5967589.73
EU funding (EUR): 4993125.47
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

The continuous effort and increased demand of the raw materials are directing the mining companies to excavate minerals at greater depths. This trend is challenging the current mining operations and the existing traditional technologies towards the objective to retain profitability, while achieving the latest Green Deal environmental vision and securing human workers safety. A key enabler, to address these challenges and to foster a sustainable development of the mining industry, is the development and deployment of innovative technologies for resource efficient extraction of the EU’s raw materials, as well as near mine exploration of critical raw materials in currently non-extracted ore bodies in existing or abandoned ones. PERSEPHONE is aiming to address these challenges by developing of the pioneering technologies for pushing the limits of EU mining industry and embodiment of autonomous and integrated near mine exploration capability to access deep deposits of critical raw materials through hard-to-reach deep and abandoned mines. The overall concept and vision of PERSEPHONE will be achieved by reducing the size of mining machines currently adapted to the human scale and embedding autonomy for risk-aware navigation and full digitalization of the extraction process by digital twin creation and key enabling technologies validation at TRL 5. Additionally, PERSEPHONE is introducing completely novel approaches in online near mine exploration core analysis and overall integration of related data analytics to the mine expansion. Thus, PERSEPHONE allows to foster green transition by reducing the cost and waste generated from deep-mining operations and foster the vision of zero human presence in highly hazardous areas. These will allow to achieve PERSEPHONE’s overall goal to digitalize and automate extraction value chain by creation of new concepts of energy-efficient autonomous drilling machines with advanced perception capabilities for navigation, face drilling, and core extraction, which will enable data-driven digital twin creation and geological modelling for further enhanced decision support and optimal extraction planning.

Keywords: exploration drilling,excavation drilling,robotics,geomodels
OpeN source nExus modelling tools for Planning sustainable Energy Transition in Africa (ONEPlanET)

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: Italy,Spain,France,Netherlands,Cabo Verde,Kenya,Sweden,South Africa,Nigeria,Cyprus
Call: AU-EU Water Energy Food Nexus (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-03, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2875262.5
EU funding (EUR): 2875262.25
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

The ONEPlanET project aims to develop a common nexus modelling framework to simulate and evaluate pathways to define a more sustainable future in Africa through the deployment of renewable energy infrastructure. In this way, it will be possible to stimulate a green energy transition in the continent as well as a decarbonization of existing energy plants. The ONEPlanET model will be tailored to the needs of different stakeholders and end-users (public and private actors, policy and decision-makers, experts, and citizens) and will be totally open source to stimulate its future upgrades. The model will include information on Water, Energy, Food (WEF) and interlinkages with other sectors as Economy, Ecosystems, Society, Climate and Land for delivering a multi-sectoral assessment consistent with socio-economic and climate scenarios. The ONEPlanET modelling approach will integrate Earth Observation data (e.g., Copernicus, ESA or GEOSS), statistical data and information from basins to national and regional, via three representative case studies in the Songwe (Malawi/Tanzania), Inkomati-Usuthu (South Africa) and Niger (Nigeria) river basins, which show different types of basins and socio-ecological systems. ONEPlanET will help to better understand the interactions between Nexus sectors to deliver sound technical and policy recommendations towards the implementation of energy infrastructure to build a more climate neutral and resilient society.

Keywords: energy systems,decisional tools,nexus,communities,eu au partnership,water management,policy development