Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Hunting Dormant Black Holes in the Galaxy with SDSS-V (Stellar-BHs-SDSS-V)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced 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: Germany
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-08-01
End date: 2028-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2855000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2855000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Stellar evolution models suggest that there ought to be ~10e7 stellar-mass black holes (BHs) in our Milky Way. However, we currently know only of ~20 BHs, and those are in binaries where accretion makes them shine in X-rays. Beyond that, no non-accreting ‘dormant’ BH has ever been robustly identified across the Galactic disk. Finding dormant BHs in binaries (dBHBs) is fundamental to learning when which BHs form, how massive stars die, and what the precursors of BH gravitational wave events are. Such BHs cause characteristic time variations in radial velocity (RV), flux, and light-centroid positioning of their luminous companion, providing an avenue for detection and study. Spectroscopic, astrometric and photometric surveys now yield the data needed to search for dBHBs. Yet, recent dBHB candidates have instead turned out to be short-lived evolutionary phases of close binary stars: thus, any successful search for dBHBs must entail sifting through vast samples using a combination of these signatures, and rigorously eliminating ‘false positives’. I propose an unprecedented search for Galactic dBHBs that should find ~100 of them, drawing crucially on the spectra of ~580,000 massive stars from the SDSS-V survey. As SDSS-V project scientist, I have helped shape it as the only all-sky, multi-epoch spectroscopic survey, systematically focused on stellar physics. Novel analysis of these spectra will be meshed with detailed modeling of TESS light curves and Gaia astrometry. Through guaranteed-time, high-resolution follow-up spectroscopy on the candidates, we will get detailed RV curves and crucial ‘spectroscopic disentangling’ to identify false positives that have two luminous components. Either dBHBs do not exist in any numbers in our Galaxy, or this proposal will find and characterize them. Beyond the ‘risky’ search for dBHBs, this program will break ground in identifying numerous other dark companions to massive stars, such as white dwarfs or neutron stars.

Keywords: spectroscopic surveys spectral modelling
Provision of Integrated Computational Approaches for Addressing New Markets Goals for the Introduction of Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design Chemicals and Materials (PINK)

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: Slovenia,Belgium,Austria,Germany,United Kingdom,Switzerland,Norway,Italy,Greece,Cyprus,Luxembourg,Finland,Sweden
Call: Computational models for the development of safe and sustainable by design chemicals and materials (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7126013.73
EU funding (EUR): 6218132.55
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design materials and chemicals (AdMas&Chems) are a central requirement for reaching the ambitious goal of making Europe the first digitally-enabled circular, climate-neutral and sustainable economy. PINK will provide an open innovation platform supporting industry by: INNOVATE new computational approaches for AdMas&Chems development and for assessing their safety and sustainability performances by (a) integrating data and predictive models and (b) complement them with new AI techniques for data searches. INTEGRATE these into a computational SSbD Framework by translating industrial requirements and new market demands into decision support as well as training and skill development needs. PROVIDE an integrated platform, the PINKISH Platform, providing decision support based on advanced data visualisation and Generative AI technologies based on all generated data. FAIRIFY the information exchange along the value-chain and life cycle of AdMas&Chems by developing an advanced Interoperability Framework, sharing the corresponding approaches and FAIR tools with the communities, and making data, models, workflows and software FAIR and whenever possible publicly available. VALIDATE the newly developed PINK models and software as well as the PINKISH platform on two Developmental Case-Studies. BOOST the innovation capacity of industry in general, and that of SMEs in particular, by making all PINK innovations accessible, promoting the cost-effective tools, further demonstrate these in a number of Industrial Demonstrators, and encouraging their sharing and use through dedicated training and skills-development. This will be the starting point for implementing a business plan for commercialisation and long-term sustainability of the platform. The PINK Project will run for 48 months. It is organised in 6 work packages (WPs) representing the tasks above, 1 WP for initiating community outreach (REFINE) and 3 coordination and dissemination WPs.

Keywords: multi objective optimisation,data resource and modelling tools integration,decision support system,interoperability framework
Orchestrating next-generation mobile modular laboratories for pandemic monitoring preparedness (ONELAB)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Civil Security for Society
Theme: Civil Security for Society
Destination: Disaster-Resilient Society for Europe
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Cyprus,Greece,Austria,Belgium,Italy,Germany,Hungary,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Japan
Call: Fast deployed mobile laboratories to enhance situational awareness for pandemics and emerging infectious diseases (HORIZON-CL3-2021-DRS-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4424145.0
EU funding (EUR): 3674111.25
Participants: 23
Project status: SIGNED

Expert opinion from across the world recommends, & calls for, modular laboratory systems to be made available for disease monitoring missions. The WHO calls these, “Rapid Response Mobile Laboratories” (RRML). ONELAB will develop modular RRML for rapid, flexible, scalable, multi-scenario deployments into the widest range of possible settings. These next-generation facilities will support next-generation measurement-technologies/methodologies and, through satellite communications, form wide-area GIS enabled laboratory information systems. Thus, simultaneously providing point-of-need disease detection, along with high-level situational awareness. ONELAB will also develop advanced measurement systems for a staged disease detection response. Exploiting a panel of acute viral infection biomarkers enables early detection of disease during its asymptomatic incubation. Using this at the outbreak of disease, when much is still undefined, supports effective immediate & targeted public health interventions. Additionally, using proven methodologies developed in response to COVID 19, ONELAB will develop & demonstrate a workflow for semi-autonomous disease specific biomarker discovery. This application & delivery of agile science enhances the capability & capacity of current disease testing-strategies substantially RRMLs are only as good as the skilled teams who operate them. So, ONELAB builds world-wide networks & partnerships of experienced experts to: define contextually-aligned best practice; develop a consensus-driven concepts of operation; and, disseminate this though a pandemic testing playbook. We will develop capability & capacity with training & networking-events that continue beyond the project. Finally, community mass-testing requires engagement & acceptance from all citizens, which is why we will engage with the public, & produce a citizen’s guide to mass community testing, supported by educational outreach resources.

Keywords: detection and identification of infectious agents standardised testing approach interoperable solutions situational awareness end user training multi agency decision making multicontinental
A Ferrosilicon Latent Heat Thermophotovoltaic Battery (THERMOBAT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Transition
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Spain,Norway,Sweden,Netherlands
Call: Energy Harvesting and Storage Technologies (HORIZON-EIC-2021-TRANSITION-CHALLENGES-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2575920.0
EU funding (EUR): 2575920.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

THERMOBAT will develop an innovative Latent Heat Thermophotovoltaic (LHTPV) battery for long duration storage (10 to 100 hours) and combined heat and power (CHP) generation. The system stores electricity in the form of latent heat at very high temperatures (1200 deg C) using a new kind of ferrosilicon alloy with very high energy density (> 1 MWh per m3) and converts it back to electricity and low-temperature heat (< 70 deg C) on-demand using solid-state Thermophotovoltaic (TPV) devices. The value proposition is the supply of a very cheap system (< 10 Euro per kWh) that has a very high energy density (> 400 kWh per m3), high global efficiency (> 90 %), that is safe, flexible, compact, silent, recyclable, scalable, and able to produce clean heat and electricity on demand. The dispatchable CHP generation capability of the LHTPV battery will be demonstrated in a sport center that is managed by one of the largest Spanish companies dedicated to the design, maintenance, and operation of infrastructures. THERMOBAT builds on the results (demonstrated proof of principle) achieved within the FET-OPEN project AMADEUS in which a small lab-scale prototype of the system was built and tested. THERMOBAT will bring LHTPV technology closer to commercialization by developing scalable, low-cost, and environmentally friendly processes for the manufacturing of the key components of the LHTPV battery. In addition, we will focus on accelerating tech-to-market activities through Thermophoton, a recently established UPM spin-off company that will receive UPM's know-how and will develop a detailed business plan to make the innovation fully marketable. This tech-to-market plan is also a continuation of another EU funded project named NATHALIE (FET Innovation Launchpad) in which the market and the potential application of the invention on industrial, commercial, and institutional buildings have been analyzed.

Keywords: power to heat to power,long duration energy storage,renewable cogeneration,latent heat energy storage,phase change material,silicon,thermophotovoltaic,ultra high temperature
Bias-free high-performance solar NH3 production by perovskite-based photocathode and in-situ valorisation of glycerol (PECSolFuel)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

PECSolFuel aims to develop an environmentally benign bias-free photoelectrochemical device for energy-efficient NH3 production to replace the energy-intensive and fossil-fuel-driven Haber-Bosch process. To achieve this, PECSolFuel has been tailored to overcome the current limitations of the solar-driven NH3 production alternative schemes involving: 1) the lack of selective and stable catalyst for efficient N2 reduction; 2) the dependence of sluggish and energy demanding reactions; 3) the requirement of a high photovoltage and 4) the catalyst degradation during long-term operation. By choosing appropriate redox reactions (such as glycerol oxidation coupled with nitrate reduction) and the rational catalysts design (involving the stabilization of small metal nanoparticles on the step-edges of photocatalytic inorganic supports), as well as the efficient integration of photoelectrodes using perovskite-based photocathodes, the photoelectrochemical device produced in PECSolFuel will not require external energy input. The synthesis of value-added products via glycerol oxidation reaction coupled with nitrate reduction reaction will be studied for the first time within this project. PECSolFuel will deliver: i) New catalysts that are not only highly-selective and active, but also highly-durable for both the nitrate reduction and the electrocatalytic oxidation of glycerol; ii) High-performance integrated perovskite photocathodes; iii) A two compartments photoelectrochemical device enabling a 20 % of solar-to-NH3 conversion efficiency by in situ valorisation of glycerol. Joining Dr. Gimenez group will allow me to establish myself as independent researcher and leading expert in solar fuel production in a group with key expertise, resources and links with academia and industry for the success of this action. PECSolFuel will provide me with hands-on experience and training in scientific competences and strengthen my transferable skills, while expanding my professional network.

Keywords: photoelectrochemical system,electrocatalysis,metal nanoparticles,perovskite based photocathode,solar fuel production
Label-Free Raman Approaches for Patient-Specific Biochemical Tumor Mapping to Monitor Personalized Anticancer Resistance Simulation (RAMPART)

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: Italy,Germany,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209483.28
EU funding (EUR): 209483.28
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

RAMPART aims to address the significant clinical challenge of tumor resistance to anticancer therapies, a key factor contributing to treatment failure and decreased patient survival, particularly in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (HNSCC). The project’s primary objective is to develop a label-free, nondestructive and rapid methodology using Raman and multimodal imaging to identify biomarkers of tumor resistance, by monitoring the biochemical responses of ex vivo patient-derived tumor slices to both immunotherapy and radiotherapy. To do so, RAMPART will employ cutting-edge Raman spectroscopy, including both spontaneous (SR) and a multimodal microscope (SRS-TPEF-SHG), to perform high-resolution biomolecular mapping and imaging of patient-derived tumor samples. This approach allows for precise detection of biomolecular changes within the tumor microenvironment (TME), offering a comprehensive understanding of the factors driving therapy resistance. The project will be conducted at Politecnico di Milano (main host), and two secondments at Jena University Hospital (UKJ) and Johns Hopkins University (JHU), where I will prepare patient-derived HNSCC slices. The relevance of RAMPART lies in its potential to significantly enhance clinical decision-making in HNSCC oncology, advancing the state-of-the-art in tumor evaluation, with label-free and nondestructive approaches for biomolecular tumor imaging. By establishing a protocol for the early detection of resistance biomarkers, the project will enable rapid, personalized treatment strategies tailored to individual patients, driving to decision-making time of 5-7 days. Additionally, the insights gained into tumor heterogeneity and the TME will contribute to a more profound understanding of their roles in treatment outcomes. The project’s findings are expected to potentially impact on the field of precision medicine, ultimately improving survival rates and quality of life for patients with HNSCC.

Keywords: raman,tumor resistance,therapy simulation,biomolecular imaging,label free
ERA Chair in Internet of Underwater Things at LABUST (UWIN-LABUST)

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: Croatia,Israel
Call: ERA Chairs (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-TALENTS-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499300.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499300.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

UWIN-LABUST project aims to create conditions and opportunities at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical and Engineering and Computing (UNIZG-FER) in Croatia for high quality researchers and research managers to move and engage to achieve excellence in a sustainable manner within the area of Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT), at the Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies (LABUST). The objectives of the UWIN-LABUST project are: 1) to recruit Prof. Roee Diamant from University of Haifa as ERA Chair holder who will establish his own team consisting of 3 post-docs, a technology transfer officer, and a group leader; 2) to achieve excellence in the research area of IoUT (a network of smart interconnected underwater objects) with particular focus on 3 strategic research domains: a) underwater sensor communications, b) underwater acoustic signal processing, and c) underwater collaborative autonomy; 3) to ensure sustainability of the achieved excellence; and 4) to increase UWIN-LABUST group scientific involvement and visibility. These objectives will be reached through a set of strategic measures: expert visits and outgoing study visits for providing knowledge transfer; research & innovation management trainings and establishment of Technology Transfer Office for transferring results from academia to industry; new MSc and PhD courses to ensure knowledge transfer to new generations; organization of workshops, summer schools and conferences for strengthening links to industry, end-users, and the scientific community. Ministry of Science and Education of Croatia has provided a letter of commitment guaranteeing additional financial support for equipment and infrastructure to UWIN-LABUST project from European Structural and Investment Funds. Dean of UNIZG-FER also committed to ensuring additional financial research support.

Keywords: internet of underwater things underwater sensor communications underwater acoustic signal processing underwater collaborative autonomy
Regulation of the DNA Repair Response by DELLA proteins (DELLAsFixGenome)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

DNA damage represents a threat for organisms because it can generate harmful mutations in the genetic material that not only affect the individual, but can also be transmitted to the next generation. Plants are sessile organisms that are exposed to mutagenic agents, and it is a reported cause of productivity loss in crops. When DNA damage occurs, organisms trigger a signaling pathway called DNA Damage Response (DDR). The aim of DDR is the transcriptional regulation of genes related to cell cycle, endoreduplication and cell death, to limit the harm. Preliminary data obtained at the laboratory indicate that plants with low and high DELLA activity are less and more tolerant to DNA damage under stress conditions, respectively. DELLAs are important growth repressors involved in several regulatory pathways. These proteins act as regulatory 'hubs' linking environmental signals with cellular functions and coordinating growth and stress responses. In this project we propose to elucidate the mechanism by which DELLA proteins act to enhance DDR using drought stress in Arabidopsis thaliana as a study model. This will generate new knowledge about the function of DELLAs in plants, allowing the possibility of design novel tools to improve crops of agronomic interest in the future.

Keywords: plant della proteins dna damage gene expression regulation
Travelers on the Margins: Mobility of Arabic-Speaking Christians in the Ottoman Empire (MOBASC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Germany,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173847.36
EU funding (EUR): 173847.36
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Middle Eastern migration has always impacted European social and economic life. Yet, Eurocentrism overshadows discussions of current migration policies as well as scholarship on historical mobility. While the mobility of Arabic-speaking Christians across the centuries to and within Europe has received some scholarly attention, their mobility beyond European borders is largely overlooked, leading to an incomplete view of those who migrated to Europe. To fill in the missing pieces of the picture, my project “Travelers on the Margins: Mobility of Arabic-Speaking Christians in the Ottoman Empire (MOBASC)” investigates the travels of this minority on the fringes of Europe, in the lands held by the Ottoman Empire (1517-1922). Those Christians who traveled to Europe began their journeys within that Empire—indeed their mobility was often confined to its territories—and St. Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, served as a way-stop for many (as well as a destination for pilgrims). This project’s primary sources are notes written by these travelers on the margins of hundreds of the monastery’s Arabic manuscripts, recently made available online. These notes, mainly in Arabic but also in Greek and Syriac, offer rich insights into the writers and their origins and itineraries. I will collect and reconstruct the travelers’ accounts through their notes using my expertise in Arabic manuscripts and digital cataloging and harnessing innovative approaches from micro and global history, as well as social history, Eastern Christian studies, and ego-document studies, and the skills I will acquire during the fellowship in digital humanities, document studies, and Greek and Syriac manuscript cultures. This will enable their travels to be contextualized, analyzed, and compared with other mobility from the same era, in particular travels that continued to Europe. In turn, motives, patterns, dynamics, and strategies of mobility will be revealed, which can be compared to current migration patterns.

Keywords: arabic speaking christians,arabic manuscripts,mobility,st catherine s monastery,sinai,marginal notes,marginalia,manuscript culture,ottoman empire,social history,digital humanities