Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Strategies of 3-D growth in brown algae (ALTER e-GROW)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cell Biology, Development, Stem Cells and R egeneration
Panel description: For all organisms : Structure and function of the cell, cell -cell communication, embryogenesis, tissue differentiation, organogenesis, growth, development, evolution of development, organoids, stem cells, regeneration, therapeutic approaches
Countries involved: France
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): 3062393.0
EU funding (EUR): 3062393.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

ALTER e-GROW aims to identify the mechanisms underlying the development of tri-dimensional (3D) tissues in multicellular organisms. Many physical factors influence the shape of an organism growing from a single cell or a small group of cells: the direction of growth along the x, y and z axis; when and how rapidly growth occurs, and whether the region of growth is diffuse or localised. An almost infinite number of combinations of these factors are possible. Most animals and land plants grow in 3D from the onset of embryogenesis. Other multicellular organisms, however, grow in 3D later in their development; for example, by emergence of a 3D bud from a single row of cells (as in mosses) or by aggregation of hyphae (as in fungi). The large phylogenetic distances between current model organisms complicate the investigation of the mechanisms underlying this diversity of 3D growth strategies. Brown algae, by contrast, display all of these 3D growth modes in a single clade, making them a unique subject for investigation of the mechanisms. Moreover, their independent and recent evolution when compared to the other clades suggests that they have developed divergent 3D growth mechanisms. In this project, my team will observe and quantify parameters of 3D growth in four species of brown algae, each representative of one of the main types of 3D growth mechanisms also found in animals, plants and Fungi. Then we will build dynamic mathematical models that describe these mechanisms by integrating quantitative data on cell shape, cell wall thickness and stiffness, cytoskeleton organisation, turgor and cell–cell tension in dynamic 3D growth simulations, and test them by comparing the 3D growth pattern of wild type algae and genetic mutants. Thus, this project will pioneer what is currently a ‘black box’ of knowledge about the development of brown algae, examining how these organisms raise multicellular structures in 3D space.

Keywords: brown algae,3d growth,quantitative imaging,modelling,mechanics,orientation of cell division,anisotropy,cell axis,genome editing,single cell transcriptomics,cell wall,actin filaments,spindle,confocal microscopy,
Magnetic alloys and compounds for ultra-high harmonics spin current generation (MAGNETALLIEN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed Matter Physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2029-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1996550.0
EU funding (EUR): 1996550.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Limiting power consumption for massive data while increasing data processing speed and transfer rates requires the development of innovative architectures for logic, memory, and hyper frequencies applications. Spintronics brings some answers proposing solutions based on spin-orbit coupling. However, there is still a need to further reduce power consumption, simplify memory architectures, and close the THz gap. I propose unconventional experiments to develop magnetic-based platforms towards sub-THz spin current generation without the use of laser sources and gain access to the study of magnetic materials with high resonance frequencies. I formulate here new challenges presenting cutting-edge concepts involving spin-orbit coupling in magnetic alloys and compounds with magnetic Rashba interfaces. These will allow exploring and exploiting the ultra-high harmonics generation of spin currents, spin-orbitronics signals, in the sub-THz domain by tuning the ferromagnetic exchange and Rashba splitting. Based on these innovative concepts, MAGNETALLIEN has a twofold objective: i) to demonstrate that magnetic alloys and compounds, such as amorphous ferrimagnets and magnetic epitaxial Heusler, that possess strong spin-orbit coupling will lead to a new platform for efficient spin current self-production and, ii) will lead to the production of ultra-high harmonics spin pumping voltage up to tens or hundreds of GHz enabling various uses in new spin-orbitronics experiments. MAGNETALLIEN project will generate knowledge in spin current self-production and self-torque in magnetic alloys and compounds that will allow making decisive progress for less-energy-consuming architectures. Although of fundamental nature, demonstrating the existence of ultra-high harmonics signal which exploitation in innovative devices for spin-orbitronics goes far beyond the state of the art, this project will open new avenues and perspectives to tackle in a disruptive way all-electric sub-THz domain.
Transforming Low-Value Wood Waste into Sustainable, High-Value, High-Performance Electromagnetic Interference Shielding Materials (E-Wood)

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: Ireland
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2024-POC, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The rapid advancement of electronic and communication technologies has heightened the complexity of electromagnetic environments, increasing the risk of device malfunctions and health hazards. This reality highlights the crucial need for effective electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding materials to protect human health and ensure reliable operation of sensitive electronics. Alongside the swift pace of technological innovation and frequent product updates, there is a growing global demand for EMI shielding materials, which in turn exacerbates electronic waste and environmental challenges. In response, government regulations, such as E.U. directives on waste from electrical and electronic equipment, have also been implemented, aim to improve the recycling rates of electronic products for enhanced sustainability. Thus, developing green, sustainable EMI shielding materials from renewable resources is essential. Wood, being a renewable and abundant resource, offers a viable solution. In the E.U., about 50.2 million tons of wood waste are produced annually, with only a small fraction recycled. Similar issues exist globally, with only 17% of wood waste recycled in the U.S. in 2018. Recycling wood waste into high-value products can not only help mitigate environmental concerns but also offer substantial economic benefits. Herein, we propose utilizing abundant, low-value, pulverized wood waste combined with 2D MXenes to produce high-value functional nanocomposite inks for additive manufacturing of EMI shields. By overcoming technical challenges including ink formulation, rheology adjustment, manufacturing accuracy optimization, and performance enhancement, this approach will allow users to create custom, high-efficiency EMI shielding solutions that precisely meet their specific needs with minimum material wastes and reduced prototyping costs, and enhance the overall sustainability of electronics for industrial applications.
COoperative Cyber prOtectiON for modern power grids (COCOON)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Civil Security for Society
Theme: Civil Security for Society
Destination: Increased Cybersecurity
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,United Kingdom,Spain,Netherlands,Cyprus
Call: Improved monitoring of threats, intrusion detection and response in complex and heterogeneous digital systems and infrastructures (HORIZON-CL3-2022-CS-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-18
End date: 2026-09-17
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5852817.5
EU funding (EUR): 5218854.88
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

The convergence of Information Technology (IT) with Operational Technology (OT) environments for digitising mission-critical stability and flexibility of Electrical Power and Energy System (EPES) operations as well as new Ancillary Services (AS) business markets through Distributed Renewable Energy Sources (DRES), has undoubtedly expanded the cyber-attack spectrum in modern power grids with intrinsic cyber-physical properties. To achieve a pragmatic and cooperative cyber-physical protection, COCOON brings an inter-disciplinary approach consisting of the synergy between networked systems and power systems engineering research with system operations over real setups. Through COCOON, cyber protection in EPES should a) function optimally and securely, b) natively provide inter-domain secure information exchange, c) address real-time power systems requirements for timely cyber-physical threat detection and mitigation, d) enhance operator training for grid protection operations. The bottom-up systems-oriented approach offered by COCOON will enable the composition of practical data-driven cyber-physical protection mechanisms to operate if needed on real-time and enhance (i) cyber-physical anomaly diagnosis, (ii) vulnerability assessment and risk profiling, (iii) cyber threat mitigation and (iv) trustworthy information exchange. COCOON will be demonstrated in four distinct pilot studies focusing on detecting, classifying and mitigating composite cyber-vectors targeting (i) AS instrumentation in energy communities through their interface with a DSO (Greece), (ii) cross-TSO grid stability data updates within the EU South East network coordinator (regional, based in Greece), (iii) DSO substations (Netherlands), and (iv) DRES aggregators interfacing with a DSO (Spain).

Keywords: cyber physical protection,anomaly diagnosis and mitigation,vulnerability assessment,risk profiling,programmable data planes
Wind as main propulsion by ORCELLE (Orcelle)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Clean and competitive solutions for all transport modes
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: ZEWT (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Norway,Sweden,Belgium,Lithuania,Greece,Germany
Call: Exploiting renewable energy for shipping, in particular focusing on the potential of wind energy (ZEWT Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D5-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9058727.5
EU funding (EUR): 8989977.5
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

In the ORCELLE project we will develop and demonstrate a solution for wind as main propulsion. With wind as main propulsion we mean an energy efficiency gain of more than 50% as an average saving in full year operation. Under ideal sailing conditions the energy efficiency gains are close to 100%. Engines are only used in situations with insufficient wind resources, for manoeuvring and increased ship safety. ORCELLE builds on several large previous projects where we have worked to build simulation tools, wing systems and initial designs of a prototype vessel. In this project we combine improvements to the simulation framework and wing systems by building two physical demonstrators: A 1-wing retrofit (targeting 10% efficiency gains) and a multi-wing newbuilt demonstrator (targeting +50% efficiency gains overall). The demonstrators are RoRo (PCTC) vessels that will operate in a trans-Atlantic route transporting cars and other cargo. We have an extensive set of sensor systems onboard the ships which will allow them to function as research vessels to validate & improve designs, simulation tools and prototype designs of ship & wing systems. A tailored, dynamic weather routing software and service will be developed to optimize sailing performance. The project is a strong opportunity to combine the investments needed to get full scale demonstration and data capture with advanced models and tools for wing propulsion vessels. The project coordinator is Wallenius Wilhelmsen, a world leading RoRo logistics operator with some 130 RoRo vessels in global service. Beyond the demonstrator, we use the models and tools to develop advanced conceptual designs and operational plans for multiple vessel types: Tanker/bulk carriers, shortsea vessels, containerships, cruise and ferries. This forms the basis for our dissemination & exploitation work to enable a large-scale shift towards wind as the main propulsion on a very high percentage of vessels (relevant for 80%+ of the world fleet).

Keywords: wind propulsion decarbonizing shipping energy efficiency
Rethinking emergency from a legal historical perspective: contexts, actors, practices, 1914-2020 (EMERGE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1943750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1943750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Rule of law and human rights are under pressure worldwide. The political and legal landscape is dramatically changing, with situations of crisis becoming a recurrent presence in the life of our polities. We thus witness a resurgence of emergency legislation and measures that states employ to tackle the nefarious effects caused by numerous disruptions: from financial instability to terrorist activity, pandemics, or military threat. Traditionally, emergency has been understood as a mechanism that has only temporary and limited effects on legal systems: once the crisis recedes, fundamental rights and constitutional process are restored. EMERGE argues that emergency has long-lasting effects subsisting the crisis. They affect our understanding of human rights, the rule of law principle and constitutional practices. EMERGE will advance a paradigmatic shift in the study of emergency by offering an original re-evaluation of the impact emergency has on the operation of the law. It will provide a much-needed legal historical explanation of how the historical experience of emergency has shaped constitutional and political cultures across Europe in the past century. Delivering a chronological examination and a timeline of the practice of emergency in relation to economic, social and political crises it will critically re-evaluate key moments in European constitutional history from 1914 to 2020. EMERGE will offer a comprehensive analysis of emergency by forging a unique multidisciplinary approach drawing on comparative legal history (contextual legal history), legal theory (law in action, law in context, narrative jurisprudence) and digital humanities (similarity, network and sentiment analysis). Rather than focusing exclusively on legal rules, it will study the agency of individuals, actors and subjects of emergency legislation and reconfigure emergency as a multi-layered socio-legal phenomenon involving social actors and political choices shaping constitutional cultures.

Keywords: comparative law constitutional law emergency human rights judicial independence legal history legal theory rule of law
The impact of senescence on the biomechanical characteristics of ageing skin (SenAgeBiomech)

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: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276187.92
EU funding (EUR): 276187.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Skin ageing is characterized by structural changes in the extracellular matrix (ECM) that impair the mechanical properties of the tissue, such as elasticity and stiffness. A key driver of tissue and organismal ageing is cellular senescence, a state of irreversible cell-cycle arrest that triggers functional, metabolic and morphological changes. The accumulation of senescent fibroblasts in the dermis leads to impaired ECM remodelling and contributes to the mechanical decline associated with skin ageing. This project will explore how senescence influences the biomechanical characteristics of skin, focusing on changes in cell-ECM attachment. Building on my own prior observations that senescence is associated with increased cell-ECM attachment – evidenced by larger focal adhesions and elevated adhesion forces, I will extend this analysis across multiple tissues and establish it as a hallmark of senescence. Next, I will investigate the molecular mechanisms underlying enhanced senescent cell attachment by analysing surface proteomics, the composition of focal adhesions, and the role of mTORC1 hyperactivity. Alongside, I will develop a 3D hydrogel model mimicking aged dermal ECM to enable functional studies of senescent cells under physiologically relevant conditions. Lastly, I will assess potential treatments to promote cell migration and ECM remodelling in vitro. By integrating molecular, cellular, and biomechanical approaches, this project aims to deepen our understanding of skin ageing mechanisms, paving the way for novel therapeutic strategies to maintain skin health throughout the lifecourse.

Keywords: senescence,cell ecm interactions,mtorc1,aged dermis,3d hydrogel,ecm remodelling
Quantum Simulation of Lattice Gauge Theories - Exploring fundamental physics in the era of quantum information (QS-Gauge)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Austria
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499802.5
EU funding (EUR): 1499802.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Gauge theories are ubiquitous in physics with applications ranging from fundamental high-energy physics(HEP) over emergent condensed matter phenomena to quantum information science and technology. Their study often requires non-perturbative numerical simulations and several regimes of interest remain inaccessible due to the numerical sign problem of Monte-Carlo simulations. Motivated by recent advances in the control of synthetic quantum systems QS-Gauge addresses the quantum simulation of lattice gauge theories (LGTs) beyond the reach of classical computations. Our objectives are (i) to establish a class of regularized gauge theories co-designed for quantum simulation, enabling (ii) the construction of digital quantum algorithms tailored to “LGT-aware” hardware, and (iii) to analyze paradigmatic phenomena such as confinement using classical tensor network (TN) simulations which serve as benchmarks for quantum devices. QS-Gauge is based on an unconventional generalization of the well-established Kogut-Susskind Hamiltonian formulation of LGTs, where the defining non-abelian Lie algebra is deformed to a quantum group. The resulting theories are related to string-net models employed for the classification of topological order in condensed matter which we will leverage to adapt TNs to HEP applications. As these truncated non-abelian LGTs are efficiently represented as multi-level systems, we pursue the development of quantum algorithms for qudits instead of qubits as elementary information carriers. In close collaboration with experimental colleagues and in synergy with the development of early fault-tolerant hardware, we focus on trapped-ion qudit quantum computers and fermionic alkaline-earth Rydberg atoms for optimized (fermion-)qudit architectures. Our results are expected to have far-reaching interdisciplinary impact and inform the development of future quantum devices, also for condensed matter physics, quantum chemistry and general quantum information processing.

Keywords: quantum simulation,trapped ions,rydberg atoms,tensor network methods
An innovative vibration decoupling systems operated at mK temperatures for cryogenic detectors and quantum computing (QUANTUM-VIBES)

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: Germany
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2025-POC, 2025)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172500.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The booming fields of cryogenic detectors and quantum computing require mK temperatures, driving the rapidly growing market for dry dilution refrigerators (DDRs). This key technology enables a high degree of automation and makes ultracold temperatures accessible to non-expert end users. However, DDRs induce mechanical vibrations that dramatically degrade the performance of particle detectors and destroy the coherence of quantum bits - a potential showstopper for quantum technologies. We have overcome these limitations with an innovative vibration decoupling system (VDS), which has been developed in an ongoing ERC Starting Grant for fundamental particle physics. The invention features a sophisticated spring-pendulum system that suspends the payload at mK temperatures from an independent reference frame at room temperature, dramatically reducing DDR-induced mechanical distortions to levels below ambient vibrations. This pioneering work in the laboratory was a breakthrough for the operation of cryogenic detectors in state-of-the-art DDRs. These first results have triggered interest from the scientific community and the cryostat industry, which represents an attractive entry market for the innovation. Quantum computing is expected to become a major future market within the next decade. The intellectual property rights of the novel device and its innovative thermal and mechanical concepts are protected by a European patent application. QUANTUM-VIBES will optimize the VDS for robustness and reproducibility and will conduct a dynamic market study to identify potential customers and assess market size. An already established collaboration with an industrial partner enabled the foundation of a spin-off company with the major goal of developing a VDS proof-of-concept that will pave the way for commercialization in an attractive entry market.

Keywords: quantum computing,cryogenic detectors,vibration decoupling,mk temperatures,dilution refrigerator,vibration damping,q bits,particle detectors,particle physics,astroparticle physics,neutrino detector,dark matter detector