Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Soft magnetic exoskin transducing human motion (SCOUT)

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: 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: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Wearable robotics is undergoing a disruptive transition, from rigid exoskeletons to lightweight soft robotic exosuits, which have achieved remarkable results in human motor assistance and augmentation. These devices, however, still lack intuitive control approaches imposing additional cognitive load on their users. A future wearable robot that can help us to walk, run, jump, dance, and restore independence in people with neuromuscular impairments, requires the key ingredient to achieve the symbiotic connection between the user and the robot. In the classical control strategy for wearable robots, inertial measurement units (IMUs) are often exploited to detect user’s motion intention. Although the latter are valuable wearable tools, their reliability and accuracy are often debated, due to their drift and poor battery life (being powered), raising challenges for researchers and engineers to improve their stability over time. The SCOUT project aims to break this technological bottleneck by developing a novel wearable artificial sensor system based on passive magnetic markers to detect human motion. Inspired by the natural human sensorimotor system, and exploiting recent advances in magnets localization, a soft magnetic exoskin will be designed to transduce joints motion of the user into decipherable magnetic fields. These will be decoded by a central interpreting unit to have a real-time, reliable, and robust measure of human kinematics without the need of time-consuming parameter tuning and calibrations. Besides the intended benefit for current wearable robots, this project could develop a novel human-machine interface with wide potential for a diverse range of applications, such as human motion analysis, ergonomics, virtual reality, and robotic teleoperation.

Keywords: wearable robotics,human motion tracking,cognitive human robot interface,robotic exosuits,neurorehabilitation,human augmentation,magnetic tracking
Precision tissue biobanking made easy (ARTS)

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: Norway
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS2 (ERC-2022-POC2, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Large scale biobanks are essential to meet the world-wide demand for high quality tissues to understand the development and progression of disease, or discover and validate novel biomarkers. Current biobanking protocols for harvesting and processing tissue are manual and therefore rely on experienced and costly on-site personnel. Imagine the possibilities of scientific discoveries in personalized diagnostics, prognostics and treatment if high-quality tissues could be made available from several hospitals using streamlined, harmonized and automated biobanking protocols, that would also allow for maximal utilization of this precious material. In this PoC, we propose a shift from a human centered to a semi- or fully automated tissue harvesting and processing protocol. Specifically, we propose to develop further, test and validate (from TRL4 to TRL7) an Augmented Reality enhanced and automated Tissue Sampler (ARTS), a technology that is cost-effective, simple to operate, and allows for maximal tissue utilization. The ARTS prototype was developed within my ongoing ERC StG and already enables sub-samples to be selected from tissue based on invisible features such as diseased and non-diseased cells – one of the general challenges of biobanking today. In this PoC, we will include comprehensive process monitoring and sample tracking features such as position, temperature and processing time to allow automated sub-sampling while ensuring operator quality assurance with minimal hands-on time. We will also incorporate a tested user-friendly interface ready for industry and a potential spin-off company. ARTS will allow biobanks to serve customers with specific and high-quality targeted sub-samples which will enhance the value of the material through increased reproducibility, faster processing and more efficient utilization. In addition, ARTS will relieve financial burden and achieve more long-term sustainability for biobanks, which typically depend on public funding.
Graphene Quantum Sensors (GaToR)

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: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 202125.12
EU funding (EUR): 202125.12
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Quantum sensors are the most direct application of current quantum technologies. They have shown improvement in magnetic sensors, atomic clocks, gravimeters, accelerometers, geolocalization, gas detection, imaging resolution and biomedical sensors. Nevertheless, a concrete incorporation of quantum sensors to the every day life requires to overcome fundamental challenges, such as robustness to the environmental noise and integration to the current technology. Here I show how to probe graphene for quantum sensing magnetic fields. Putting together the tools of high-harmonic spectroscopy with quantum metrology, I propose a framework capable of quantifying solid-state systems for sensing applications. Solid state materials have unique quantum features, due to their extreme sensibility to the boundary conditions. Other effects, such as superconductivity, appear in strongly correlated materials, such as twisted bilayer graphene. Analysing the high-harmonic spectroscopy in twisted bilayer graphene allows to propose experimental settings to detect its phases of matter, electronic localisation and band structure. In this proposal I describe why graphene has the potential of working as a robust magnetic field quantum sensor. Currently, the techniques of quantum metrology and parameter estimation, allow to quantify for the first time the performance of materials in presence of of incident external fields. Here I propose to use this framework, to determine the performance of single layer and twisted bilayer graphene in presence of magnetic fields, and compare it to the available quantum sensors in the market. In this process, it is possible to pin down the key features in graphene for measuring these fields. Combining the results of fundaments of quantum metrology with high-harmonic spectroscopy gives a complete analysis of the performance of graphene together with a experimental proposal to detect its key features, probing twisted bilayer graphene as a robust quantum sensor.

Keywords: graphene,high harmonic generation,quantum metrology,phase transitions
Becoming me: how does the infant brain construct a self? (SELFiE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Compl exity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics
Countries involved: Denmark,Japan
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2030-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2681825.0
EU funding (EUR): 2681825.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Our capacity for self-awareness is often considered a defining feature of human consciousness and in adulthood allows us to imagine how others see us, recollect our past and contemplate our future. Our work has shown that in infancy, the emergence of a self-representation profoundly changes developing cognition. Yet, there are currently no mechanistic accounts of how it could develop, and empirical investigation within contemporary developmental science is surprisingly absent. In the current proposal, I put forward the first mechanistic account of the development of a self-representation, drawing upon recent data from cognitive neuroscience. This new account articulates a biological foundation that captures the idea that it is in detecting oneself as the target of another person’s attention that a concept of self emerges. I propose a pathway through which caregiver communicative cues towards infants – particularly direct gaze – give rise to a belonging to the body feeling state via their modulating effect on the heartbeat and its afferent cortical representation. Motivated by a bias to seek the targets of others’ gaze, a concept of self emerges from filling a placeholder target with this feeling state. This theory will be tested in 4 interlinked projects. Project 1 examines the longitudinal relationship between early interoception and a conceptual self-representation; Project 2 tests the novel hypothesis that direct gaze alerts infants to their interoceptive signals and Project 3 builds on this to test the claim that early in life, infants encode direct gaze as 'about me' which then fosters the inclusion of new self-related events in a reinforcing loop. Project 4 adds a crucial cross-cultural comparison capitalizing on natural variability in caregiving to test the model described in this proposal. This project seeks to fill a crucial gap in our understanding of development, essential for any theory that seeks to fully explain human consciousness.

Keywords: self representation,self awareness,self concept,infants
Antiviral Proteins Applied as Therapeutics in Aquaculture (AntiVirFish)

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: Spain,Norway
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS1 (ERC-2022-POC1, 2022)
Start date: 2022-05-01
End date: 2023-10-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

In the last decades aquaculture seems to be the only real alternative for global fish food supply. At present, the aquaculture world production has reached 82.1 million tons worldwide representing the fastest growing animal production sector in the world. Among aquaculture species, salmonid aquaculture, trout and salmon species, are the highest-value species for global and European aquaculture. The biggest global constraint to aquaculture production is disease with an estimate of a 10% of all cultured aquatic animals lost because of infectious diseases, amounting to >10 billion USD in losses annually on a global scale. Among infectious diseases, viral outbreaks are a serious concern, since they are an impediment to the development, productivity, and profitability of fish farms. Intensive fish farming amplifies diseases caused by bacteria, viruses, and parasites, resulting in severe losses. Few vaccines are available for viral diseases in aquaculture and they are not completely effective. Moreover, up to date there are not antiviral therapeutic treatments to mitigate the outbreaks in unvaccinated fish or to diminish the percentage of losses do not covered by prophylactics vaccines. During my ERC Starting Grant our group identified a number of antiviral proteins in rainbow trout nucleated red blood cells (RBCs) implicated in halting viral infections. The OBJECTIVE of this project is to perform a Proof of Concept of the antiviral molecules previosuly identified. We will evaluate the new business opportunity of introducing a new antiviral therapeutic that decreases viral infection and related economic loss in aquaculture.
Tracing the chemical evolution of super-Earth exoplanets (MagmaWorlds)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe Sciences
Panel description: Astro -physics/ -chemistry/ -biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Netherlands
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): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The first low-mass exoplanet spectra from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have toppled previous understanding on their internal structure and phase state, suggesting that mixing between the deep planetary interior and atmosphere affects key observables. A newly emerging class of volatile-rich exoplanets, bridging the classes of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes, promises to enhance observational insights into atmosphere-interior feedbacks but requires novel models to interpret and predict observables to distinguish different scenarios. MagmaWorlds will chart the diverging evolutionary pathways of the emerging volatile-rich and volatile-poor super-Earth populations, and thus enable to trace the historical chemical evolution of super-Earth exoplanets. My team and I will build a numerical framework of the chemical evolution of super-Earth exoplanets, bridging the ultra-hot conditions of atmosphere-stripped lava worlds with the climate of temperate volatile-rich super-Earths. This will allow us to carry out targeted simulations for the most observationally accessible low-mass exoplanet population. We will develop self-consistent planetary evolution sequences over geologic time, spatially resolving how mixed-phase interior structure, liquid-solid tidal forcing, and species-fractionating escape from primary (H-He-rich) to secondary (C-N-S) to rock vapour (Si-Mg-Fe-Na) atmospheres affect present-day exoplanet observables. The MagmaWorlds project will deliver chemically and physically self-consistent spectra, C-H-N-S fractionation between interior and atmosphere, planet/star contrast ratio, transit/eclipse depth, and structural relations over billions of years that can be used to constrain the chemical evolutionary history of super-Earth exoplanets. The simulations will inform JWST, Ariel, and ELT observing proposals and the interpretation of observational data, opening time and internal chemical structure as new dimensions to inform and interpret exoplanet surveys.

Keywords: planetary physics atmosphere formation magma oceans planetary interior
TWINNING FOR DEVELOPMENT OF WORLD-CLASS NEXT GENERATION BATTERIES (TwinVECTOR)

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: Czechia,Austria,Germany,Finland
Call: Twinning (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2025-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1349659.5
EU funding (EUR): 1349658.5
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The TwinVECTOR project aims to create a centre of excellence at the Tomas Bata University in Zlín TBU, focusing on next generation battery sustainable design, energy business models, and sustainability assessments, with the support of upgraded research and administration unit (RAU). The RAU therefore coordinates the capacity building measures of the partners´ activities to emphasise the synergy and the creation of the centre of excellence at TBU. Hence, TBU will team up with excellent foreign institutions: VTT, AIT, KIT, and BAYFOR. The whole spectrum of activities is planned to activate knowledge at TBU, set-up knowledge pool and capacity building activities enabling flexible, multidisciplinary project teams to address the topic of the next generation of batteries with the help of life cycle thinking via sustainability assessments. Additionally, advanced battery technologies also need to be assessed via a combination of techno-economic simulation tools, cost-benefit analysis, and business model innovation. The widening country of Czechia, specifically the Zlín region, aims to increase scientific expertise and capacity in these areas and methods. The consortium members will share the expertise so that TBU can boost the research capacity to undertake world-class R&D activities in the energy storage field and bring them to the market. The ability to produce original ideas will be reflected in multiple outcomes expected in the short-term horizon: EU projects submitted in cooperation with excellent partners, scientific papers, conferences, and business agreements. High-impact research is expected long-term with technology transfer into practice. The existing research capacity of all members will be strengthened via additional capacity-building activities in partnership with BAYFOR.

Keywords: battery,life cycle assessment,techno economic,sustainable design
Towards a more equal and fair society: Nova SBE as an international reference institution in addressing inequalities’ drivers and effects. (EQUALNovaERA)

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: Portugal
Call: ERA Chairs (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-TALENTS-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-03-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 67.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2492433.75
EU funding (EUR): 2492433.75
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Inequality is among the most pressing issues of our times. The world has been fast-changing in recent years and the pandemic crisis has put a spotlight on economic inequalities and fragile social safety nets that leave vulnerable communities to bear the brunt of the crisis. The outbreak of a war in Ukraine, with millions of refugees and unforeseen impacts worldwide, will most likely worsen the current situation. It is urgent to tackle inequalities in a comprehensive way, designing public policies grounded on solid knowledge. However, there is still a lack of basic information. Economic growth numbers are published every year, but they do not tell us about how growth is distributed across the population, who gains and who loses from economic policies. Besides, beyond income and wealth, it is also critical to address other dimensions of socioeconomic disparities, such as health, education, gender, or environmental inequalities. Therefore, it is urgent to advance research on inequalities, transfer knowledge to society, and contribute to well-informed, science-based public policies. EQUALNovaERA aims to position Nova School of Business & Economics (Nova SBE) as an international reference in addressing inequalities’ drivers and effects through research, education, and community engagement while contributing to deepening the European Research Area and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. More specifically it will 1) Create a new Research Group on inequalities; 2) Set up an Institute of Public Policies with the mission of contributing to a more equal and fair society through research, education, and community engagement; 3) Position Nova SBE as an international reference institution in addressing inequalities’ drivers and effects through research and education; 4) Promote science-based awareness on inequalities’ drivers and effects to tackle societal grand challenges; 5) Introduce sustainable structural changes at Nova SBE on and beyond the inequalities’ theme.

Keywords: inequalities human capital education health microeconomics public policy policy evaluation
Automating quantum control with machine learning (qx)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Finland
Call: EIC Accelerator Challenge: Technologies for Open Strategic Autonomy (HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOR-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3565000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2495500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Quantum computing will be one of this century's most transformative technologies. These machines will open a new world of possibilities for science and industry. But first, we need to radically transform how we operate quantum computers. Quantum computers are intricate and delicate instruments. Tuning them is time-consuming and difficult. And they go out of tune rapidly. In the end, these amazing instruments spend much more time being tuned than used. If we want to turn quantum computing into a robust industry, things have to change. This is the challenge we take on at Quantrolox. We develop solutions that keep quantum computers automatically in tune. Our quantum autopilot software continuously monitors and adjusts thousands of parameters to ensure smooth operation. In this way, we accelerate development cycles and drastically increase uptime.

Keywords: automation and control systems,machine learning and statistical data processing,scientific computing,quantum computing,quantum technology,simulation and modelling tools