Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
BRINGING CLOSER RESEARCH TO ALL, CREATING DRIVE FOR STUDYING STEM AREAS AND CHOSING A SCIENCE CARRIER (Research2ALL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Hungary
Call: European Researchers' Night and Researchers at Schools 2024-2025 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-CITIZENS-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 21.0
Total project cost (EUR): 212932.5
EU funding (EUR): 212932.5
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Research2ALL aims to bring closer researchers’ career to the general public (focusing on young people) by allowing a deep understanding of research and innovation by organising interactive programmes and communication activities. Research2ALL aims at creating environmental consciousness in society showing the key role of research and innovation in addressing local and global societal challenges and so their essential part of our everyday life. Through raising awareness of circular economy processes the project will contribute to the objectives of European Green Deal and the call of MSCA and Citizens 2023. Bay Zoltán Nonprofit Ltd. for Applied Research, and Hungarian Association of Environmental Enterprises will use their wide range of experiences in scientific communication to attract the most possible participants – pupils, students, teachers, adults, families, researchers, experts and professionals. During the Research2ALL programmes researchers’, innovators, scientists (e.g. MSCA grant holders) will be involved with a special attention to female participants and researchers. The project will cover 3 big cities in Hungary with 3500-4000 visitors in the Nights, where next to green topics (e.g. EU-corner, Green Deal aims and their achievement; raw materials, circular economy, smart solutions, e-mobility, research careers) all separate venues will develop a lot of programmes introducing their professional specialization themes in research. Researchers at school will include a Scientific Roadshow throughout the country visiting schools of smaller settlements supplemented with a nationwide scientific award competition. Through its awareness raising campaign, Research2ALL delivers the main message of ERN to as many members of society as possible with offering interactive social events (e.g. Science Cafés, round table discussions with professionals) and with use of modern communication tools (streaming, social media, podcasts, etc.) and a strong media campaign.

Keywords: researchers night,reserchers at schools,science communication,researchers career,interactive education,research,and innovation,green deal
Decipher the role of late lytic genes activator, a key determinant of active lysogeny in Listeria monocytogenes (BacPro)

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: Israel
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): 200538.24
EU funding (EUR): 200538.24
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) is an intracellular bacterial pathogen. Lm strain 10403S harbors an active prophage in its genome integrated within the comK gene. It was previously discovered by the Herskovits lab (host lab) that during Lm infection of macrophages, the prophage undergoes excision from comK, yielding an intact and functional comK gene that assists the escape of the bacteria from the macrophages’ phagosomes to the cytosol. Notably, this phage excision does not lead to virion production and bacterial lysis in the mammalian environment, suggesting a cooperative phage behaviour. It was further shown that the phage early genes are transcribed in the intracellular niche, whereas the late lytic genes are not, thereby preventing the progression of the lytic pathway. This type of adaptive phage behaviour was termed “active-lysogeny”, representing cases where prophages cooperate with their hosts. To better understand active-lysogeny in Lm, in this BacPro proposal I aim to decipher the mechanism by which the late lytic genes are repressed in the intracellular niche. It was previously demonstrated that the late genes are positively regulated by LlgA, an ArpU-family transcriptional regulator that is encoded by the phage. Preliminary data in the lab indicate that LlgA is thermo-regulated at the protein level. LlgA regulation at the temperature of the mammalian niche was shown to relay on the bacteria, and to involve a mechanism similar to regulated proteolysis. Based on these findings, in my proposal I aim to identify the bacterial proteases that are involved in its cleavage. Further I aim to determine LlgA active form, as well as its cleavage site/s. These studies will provide a molecular insight into the mechanism by which Lm controls the phage in the mammalian environment, and further increase our understanding of how lysogenic phages interact with bacterial pathogens, an information that might lead to a better design of phages for the use of phage therapy.

Keywords: phage,listeria monocytogenes,late lytic genes activator,gene regulation,active lysogeny
The acquisition of new meanings through novel word learning (BraveNewWord)

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: Italy
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1387005.0
EU funding (EUR): 1387005.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

We learn new words almost on a daily basis: as adults, a new element is introduced in our vocabulary every other day. With new words, we also learn about new objects and ideas - in most cases new words are not simply additional labels to be applied to familiar objects: they connote meanings that are unknown to the speaker of a language. However, when we experience, as adults, an unfamiliar word, typically its referent is not immediately available in the same context. How then can language, by itself, constitute such a reliable instrument for the acquisition of novel meanings? What do we exploit to induce new meanings on the basis of an unfamiliar sequence of sounds or graphical elements? BraveNewWord addresses these questions in an innovative multidisciplinary perspective, combining cutting-edge proposals from computational linguistics and empirical investigation techniques from experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience. BraveNewWord posits three main sources for lexically-driven meaning acquisition: linguistic context, word structure, form-meaning mapping. The project advances a computational framework that models these mechanisms through data-driven, psychologically plausible distributional systems trained on examples of natural language usage. The quantitative characterizations and algorithmic definitions offered by these models constitute, in turn, the basis for BraveNewWord large-scale empirical investigation, involving both behavioral (reaction times, mouse-tracking trajectories, diachronic language changes) and neuroscience data (event-related potentials, neuroimaging). With its innovative perspective and advanced computational and empirical approach, BraveNewWord will constitute a non-incremental contribution to understanding how human speakers use new lexical information as a mean for enriching their semantic system, and provide a ground-breaking perspective on the cognitive processes relating language and thought.

Keywords: distributional semantic models semantic representations word processing lexical morphology form meaning mapping adult novel word learning cognitive modelling
Towards new treatments of psychiatric disorders - a systems-oriented approach (TrePsy)

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
Countries involved: Poland,France,Germany,Spain
Call: Twinning (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1339205.0
EU funding (EUR): 1339205.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The TrePsy project aims to integrate the Maj Institute of Pharmacology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IP PAS) with leading European brain research centres in development of novel treatments of psychiatric disorders, strengthen research excellence at the IP PAS, and empower it to become leader in other Horizon Europe projects. To this end we will create a unique advanced research curriculum for students and early-career scientists, who will lead future neuropharmacological research, and form a cluster of institutions of excellence in the fields of Neuropsychopharmacology. The project will provide students, and PhD programme participants at the Maj Institute of Pharmacology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IP PAS), as well as partner Institutes, with lectures and training in emerging topics and research methodologies. These activities will be organised through four advanced schools, each including lectures and hands-o training in advanced research methods, and additionally a “University Specialist” course that will be developed by the consortium. The training activities will be complemented with participation in regional science outreach events, with presentations focused on brain research, the importance of Neuropsychopharmacology-driven research. Furthermore, as an exploratory research project, we selected the study of neuronal and molecular mechanisms involved in the actions of cannabidiol. Each of the partners will contribute their unique research competence including transgenic mice and rats, a ‘multiome’ approach to gene regulation analysis with RNA-Seq and ATAC-Seq, advanced methods of imaging and controlling neuronal activity in behaving animals, and multimodal neuroimaging methodology. The planned research activities emphasize mutual benefits for all consortium partners, nevertheless, interactions with the three leading European research centres will have the greatest impact on research excellence at the IP PAS.

Keywords: neuropharmacology,neuropsychopharmacology,neuroscience,systems science,cannabinoids
Business Case Development for High-Temperature Thermal Battery Integration in the Industrial Sector (THERMOCASE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: other EIC
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call: EIC Booster grant for EIC Pathfinder and EIC Transition (HORIZON-EIC-2023-BOOSTER-IBA-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2025-02-28
Duration (months): 9.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71402.94
EU funding (EUR): 49982.06
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The THERMOCASE project is dedicated to crafting a robust business case for the thermal battery technology developed within the EU-funded THERMOBAT project, with a primary focus on applications in high-temperature industrial heat. Its fundamental objective lies in validating the commercial potential of this technology through meticulous engagement with prospective end-users, comprehensive cost assessments, and an in-depth exploration of market dynamics. Employing a customer-centric approach, THERMOCASE ensures that the technology seamlessly aligns with market requirements, preferences, and behaviors. Furthermore, the project aims to assess scalability and replicability, potentially catalyzing a transformation in the industrial energy landscape. The expected impact is substantial, encompassing decarbonization, greater energy efficiency, and the emergence of a sustainable market for high-temperature heat solutions. In essence, THERMOCASE serves as a bridge between groundbreaking innovation and practical market implementation, offering not only cleaner and more cost-effective industrial heating but also significant progress towards advancing Europe's environmental and sustainability objectives.

Keywords: thermal battery,energy storage,process heat,industry decarbonization
Sustainable Public spaces through Inclusive Community Engagement (SPICE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Other missions
Destination: Other missions
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,Italy,Spain,France,Austria,Belgium,Poland,Portugal,Finland
Call: New governance models for the co-design and co-construction of public spaces in neighbourhoods by communities (HORIZON-MISS-2024-NEB-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4375763.75
EU funding (EUR): 3999882.88
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

In order to tackle pressing societal issues, we must reconsider how we design and inhabit our neighbourhoods. The necessity of consistently including end users or local communities is sometimes overlooked in the planning, designing, and construction processes used today. However, combining community knowledge and initiatives can result in more liveable neighbourhoods that empower citizens and represent local needs and surroundings. Furthermore, the way public areas are constructed can have a big influence on how people interact with one another, what kinds of activities happen there, and how much trust the public has in their local government and democracy as a whole. The project seeks to rethink how neighborhoods are designed and experienced by emphasizing the importance of involving local communities in the planning, design, and construction processes. By incorporating community knowledge, more livable spaces can be created that meet local needs and empower residents. Public spaces are vital in fostering social interaction, trust in government, and democratic engagement. Equipping people with the tools to actively participate in co-designing these environments can strengthen social trust, enhance a sense of belonging, and boost community involvement. The "Sustainable Public Spaces through Inclusive Community Engagement (SPICE)" project aims to develop a participatory co-creation model for shaping neighborhoods. It will explore and test innovative methods to engage communities in co-designing and maintaining public spaces across diverse European neighborhoods. By promoting interdisciplinary collaboration, leveraging digital tools, and using sustainable construction practices, the project aims to address societal challenges, promote social inclusion, support democratic participation, and align with the European Green Deal and New European Bauhaus principles.

Keywords: sustainable,co creation,art driven,ai,digital tools,inclusive,accessible,green,participation,collaborative,circular,neighbourhood,regeneration,diversity,empowerment,belonging,trust
Cultivating Industry 5.0 Talents: Academia-industry collaboration and empowerment through accessible DEep technoLogieS (CITADELS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Destination: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Serbia,Greece,Portugal,Hungary,Slovenia,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Czechia,Italy,Austria
Call: ERA Talents (HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-TALENTS-03, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2937337.5
EU funding (EUR): 2937337.5
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

The CITADELS project aims to contribute towards transforming the 7 widening countries represented in the Project into CITADELS of human-centric Industry 5.0 development. The Project brings together a consortium of 10 partners from 9 countries, including 4 large academic institutions that are highly influential within their innovation ecosystems, 3 exemplary DeepTech companies, and 1 science and technology park, where academia meets industry to make innovations happen and grow into the business. Additionally, CITADELS is supported by the 2 EU-leading partners to bring know-how in cross-sectoral collaboration, to ensure stakeholder engagement and pan-European impact (EIT Manufacturing), and to introduce a sustainable, responsible research and innovation approach (K&I). CITADELS combines the excellence of DeepTech talents and social scientists to comply with EC’s “ERA industrial technologies roadmap on human-centric research and innovation for the manufacturing sector” to ensure sustainable DeepTech careers and the progress of DeepTech. The CITADELS project seizes the opportunity presented by recent investments in advanced public R&I infrastructure and the growing demand for DeepTech expertise across Europe to combat the brain drain in widening countries. By aligning academic research excellence with industry needs, CITADELS focuses on talent circulation (20 research talents and 20 R&I support talents will be involved as a whole), creating attractive career pathways in DeepTech and building the capacity of local ecosystems to adopt cutting-edge technologies. This project will support translating research into high-value industrial applications and position widening countries as competitive players in the global DeepTech landscape. Ultimately, CITADELS will boost regional economic resilience and foster social cohesion by modernizing local industries and creating high-value jobs, driving long-term economic growth and resilience in widening countries.

Keywords: deeptech talents,transversal skills,responsible research and innovation rri,industry 5 0,human centered industry,artificial intelligence ai,collaborative robots,extended reality
Isospin breaking effects in hadronic precision observables (IsoPrec)

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 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-12-01
End date: 2027-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 292118.88
EU funding (EUR): 292118.88
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD) allows for first-principle theory predictions of hadronic observables in the non-perturbative regime of the strong interaction. In this approach QCD is solved by means of Monte Carlo simulations in finite volumes on a Euclidean space-time lattice. For high precision observables such as the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon the prediction of hadronic contributions computed by Lattice QCD has reached a level of precision at which isospin breaking effects (IBE), i.e. effects caused by the electric charge of quarks due to quantum electrodynamics (QED) and the mass non-degeneracy of up and down quarks, cannot be neglected and therefore have to be included into the theory computation. Due to an existing tension between the experimental determination and the theory prediction the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon is a candidate for BSM physics. The hadronic vacuum polarisation contribution to this observable dominates the overall uncertainty of the theory prediction. As the uncertainties of the experimental results will significantly decrease in the upcoming years a precise prediction is of high importance. With a few exceptions IBE are commonly only included at the level of valence quark effects in quark-connected contributions. This project aims to compute IBE in the valence quark sector in the hadronic vacuum polarisation contribution and in related observables by means of Lattice QCD+QED, also focussing on operator renormalisation and quark-disconnected contributions, where noise reduction techniques have to be applied. In particular, the renormalisation constant of the local vector current is determined based on the vector Ward identity and valence-quark IBE in quark-connected and quark-disconnected contributions are computed. The fellowship allows the fellow to pursue research goals in this field and to further sharpen his profile. It marks the next crucial step in his academic career aiming for a long-term position.

Keywords: hadronic precision observables,anomalous magnetic moment of the muon,hadronic vacuum polarisation,lattice qcd,isospin breaking effects,operator renormalisation,quark disconnected contributions
Digital Ecocriticism: Moving beyond anthropocentrism in the contemporary French novel (DigEco)

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: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 211754.88
EU funding (EUR): 211754.88
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The DigEco project will construct, enrich, and analyze a corpus of 700 francophone novels (from 2000 to the present day) using tools and methods developed in the Digital Humanities. This innovative approach will provide new insights into the influence of ecological discourse on contemporary fiction. Although recent studies argue that the environmental question is changing the novel beyond the thematic focus on ecology, to date, no formal investigations have been conducted on such large corpora. DigEco will thus propose new critical perspectives on the capacity of literature to bring anthropocentrism into question. In order to achieve this objective, the project will be organized around three research axes: biodiversity, places, and nonhuman agency. These three elements are all bound to a shift in the traditional mimetic paradigm of the contemporary novel, diverting attention from a previously-dominant focus on human actions. For each of these research axes, I will enrich the digitized corpus using named-entity recognition technologies and semantic ontologies in order to encode a lexicon in biodiversity and identify toponymies and names of animals and plants. Then, using various computational approaches, I will leverage semantic, lexicometric, and stylometric approaches to answer research questions elaborated through an ecocritical methodology. Using sentiment analysis, I will also study the emotions that characters express about concepts, places, animals and plants. This project bridges two emerging fields in literary research – Environmental Humanities and Digital Humanities – and will constitute the first major study on the possibilities of dialogue between them. It will provide the largest set of data on biodiversity, toponyms and nonhuman agency in fiction in any language – an unprecedented opportunity to question literature’s relationship to anthropocentrism and to look at the contemporary novel through the prism of new tools and interrogations.

Keywords: environmental humanities ecocriticism digital humanities french contemporary novel nonhuman place biodiversity