Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Science Odyssey: Research Missions Under Starry Skies (Science Odyssey)

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: Greece
Call: European Researchers' Night and Researchers at Schools 2024-2025 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-CITIZENS-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 299250.0
EU funding (EUR): 299250.0
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

Science Odyssey brings Researchers' Night to six major Greek cities in 2024-2025. Its goal is to make science more accessible, promote interaction between researchers and the public, and highlight the important role of science in our society. The Night events will feature engaging exhibitions, interactive experiments, dedicated spaces for EU Missions projects, and exciting scientific demonstrations, along with a variety of fun learning activities. Under the “Researchers at Schools” initiative, researchers will connect with students in classrooms, fostering a dynamic exchange of knowledge and ideas. Also, in line with the project’s commitment to inclusivity, several innovative activities have been planned, such as the “Chat lab” and the “Find Me a Mentor!” initiatives that will facilitate virtual interactions between researchers and students in remote or underserved communities, thereby bridging geographical and social divides. The digital comic “Drawing Science Equality” is another initiative to promote inclusivity by tackling gender disparities in science and promoting a more equitable scientific community. Researchers will be given numerous opportunities to showcase their work and further develop their science communication abilities. Additionally, the project will provide them with a masterclass in science communication, equipping them with the necessary skills to effectively engage with the public. The project aims to reach millions of Greeks and expects an annual participation of 28,000 individuals in the Night events. To do so, it will use digital platforms like social media and podcasts to expand its reach and engage diverse audiences, especially young teenagers and parents. By the end, Science Odyssey aims to have a lasting impact on the general public, youth, researchers, participating organisations, and the EU by advancing science literacy, encouraging STEM vocations, and fostering an appreciation for research that shapes our collective future.

Keywords: research,science,education,entertainment,edutainment,events,public,students,inclusiveness,greece,athens,thessaloniki,larissa,patras,heraklion,rethymnon
Cooperation Of Space NCPs as a Means to Optimise Services for Horizon Europe (COSMOS4HE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: A human-centred and ethical development of digital and industrial technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece,Germany,Italy,Poland,Serbia,Cyprus,Slovakia,Estonia,Portugal,Finland,Norway,United Kingdom,Bulgaria,Lithuania,Czechia
Call: Support for transnational activities of National Contact Points in the thematic area of Space (CSA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 946035.0
EU funding (EUR): 946035.0
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

COSMOS4HE proposal is the successor of COSMOS2020plus and previous projects of Space NCP network. The consortium consists of NCP organisations from 16 countries balancing geographical coverage as well as diversity in level of expertise. The overall aim of COSMOS4HE is to support the professionalisation of the services rendered by the National Contact Points in Cluster 4 thematic area of Space in Horizon Europe and provide additional services targeting Space clients and applicants at EU level and beyond. The activities are structured according to the proposal’s specific objectives: 1) to increase the quality and support harmonisation of Space NCPs services, 2) to lower the entry barriers for newcomer applicants, to attract new types of players and applicants from widening countries, as well as to raise the quality of submitted proposals, 3) to increase the visibility of the thematic area of Space to new types of players by organizing matchmaking activities and ensuring bilateral communication about the crosscutting issues throughout Horizon Europe for the benefit of the European R&I community. The consortium will closely cooperate with the two other Cluster 4 NCP networks in thematic areas Digital and Industry developing synergies. Collaboration will be also sought with other NCP networks, EEN and space stakeholders aiming at maximising outreach and impact. Special focus will be put on broadening participation.

Keywords: space,digital,industry,national contact points,capacity building,networking services,human centric approach
Coupled Flow Processes in Fractured Media across Scales: Insights into Hydraulic Fracture Growth and Radiated Seismic Energy (COFFEE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 189687.36
EU funding (EUR): 189687.36
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Actively seeking viable “clean/green” energy sources is essential for human to maintain sustainable development. Geothermal energy provides an important alternative to fossil fuels and gas in our life. However, most geothermal resources are deep-seated and are either deficient in fluid or permeability, or both. The deep-seated, dry, and tight geothermal reservoirs need to be hydraulically fractured for permeability improvement, thereby promoting fluid circulation and the harvest of heat energy for electricity production. This is often referred to as enhanced or engineered geothermal systems (EGS). Understanding the mechanisms that underpin the link between hydraulic fracture geometry and fluid injection scheme under heterogeneous geothermal reservoir conditions is essential in efforts to reduce the fluid-injection-induced seismicity during EGS creation and production. Within COFFEE, I will combine a multi-scale (laboratory centimetre scale, field decameter scale, and reservoir kilometre scale) approach to, for the first time, look at how the 3D hydraulic fractures propagate under geothermal reservoir conditions. My expertise with rock mechanics and discrete element method modelling and the vast knowledge on geothermal energy and advanced laboratory and field facilities at the host organisation will definitely create the optimal environment to deliver the objectives of COFFEE and promote the transfer of knowledge between all participants. The fellowship will be highly beneficial to establish myself as an independent researcher and junior professor at a leading European university. With this innovative multi-scale framework, I will improve the understanding of 3D hydraulic fracture growth in heterogeneous geothermal reservoirs. This understanding will provide insights on how to reduce fluid-injection-induced seismicity. The outcome of COFFEE can be used as a benchmark for geoscientists and policymakers in further exploring and optimising enhanced geothermal systems.

Keywords: geothermal energy enhanced geothermal system coupled flow induced seismicity hydraulic fracturing
EDUcation about ClimATE change and polar science (EDUCATE)

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: Türkiye
Call: European Researchers' Night 2022-2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-CITIZENS-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2023-05-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 149125.0
EU funding (EUR): 149125.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Recent scientific reports of increasing global temperature, rising sea level trends, and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels clearly indicate the presence of global climate change. As important regions of the world for regulating the global climate system, the polar regions face the consequences of this change in an amplified way. Although the responsibility of mankind is evident for these results, basic knowledge on climate change and polar regions is limited in the public. Therefore, education and raising awareness on these subjects are essential to overcome this global challenge. This proposal aims increasing the awareness on polar regions and global climate change and fostering the recognition of related research and researchers in the public (especially young people) by presenting the conducted studies and results in an appropriate language, demonstrating the impacts of these studies on our world and daily life, and introducing researchers and their professions to create role models for the younger generation in a fun environment. To this aim, science workshops, stand activities, exhibitions, seminars, and concerts will be organized in İstanbul and Gaziantep cities. With the awareness campaign to be carried out before/during/after the events, an element of curiosity will be created about the polar regions, global climate change, and scientific researches on these issues by using digital platforms, as well as social and visual media. Planned activities will increase the public knowledge on basic principles and methods of related research on polar and climate science, improve the understanding of the impacts of climate change and related research on our daily lives, explain the importance and key benefits of these research to the public. In addition, the proposal intends to increase the interest of young people in polar and climate research, break the stereotypes about the researchers and give information on European Union and related opportunities.

Keywords: climate change,polar regions,education,outreach,awareness
Compositional Compression in Cognition and Culture (C4)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Compl exity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2030-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499845.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499845.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Compositionality and cumulative culture are two foundations of human intelligence that have separately been proposed as "the singular factor" differentiating human cognition from other animals or AI. Compositionality is a core concept in cognitive science, allowing us to solve new problems by recombining familiar elements in novel ways. Cumulative culture is deeply rooted in anthropology, highlighting humanity's unique capacity to massively improve on the wisdom of past generations. Here, C4 (pronounced cee-four in a nod to the explosive compound) seeks to unify these domains under a mathematical framework for compositional compression, offering ground-breaking new predictions by accounting for synergistic interactions between representations. Just as information-theory provided foundational insights across numerous domains, C4 promises broad applications for understanding how humans encode and transmit recombinable fragments of knowledge --- internally within our brains, interpersonally between individuals, and multi-generationally across societal timescales. The goals are threefold: 1) To develop a framework for compositional compression that can explain curriculum effects in individual learning; 2) To predict complementarity in dyadic interactions between diverse individuals; 3) To develop a model of compositional culture, with a causal account of the leaps and bounds that characterize cultural evolution. These goals are only now possible due to recent advances in program induction and large language models, facilitating the transcription of natural language explanations into an explicit and compositional Language of Thought. In sum, C4 proposes fundamental innovations to our understanding of how humans encode and transmit information, where a framework for compositional compression can unite individual cognition with societal evolution under the common understanding of reuse, recombination, and creative re-engineering of past solutions.

Keywords: compositionality,efficient coding,curriculum learning,collaboration,cultural evolution
The early metabolic stages in the evolution of antimicrobial resistance (MetEvoAMR)

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: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-03-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173847.36
EU funding (EUR): 173847.36
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a rising global health threat and rapid evolution of resistance against existing or newly developed antibacterial compounds is predicted to lead to 10 million deaths and $60 trillion of lost economic output by 2050. While resistance-conferring mutations, their inheritance and spread by horizontal gene transfer are increasingly well-studied, our understanding of “pre-resistant” cells’ survival and resilience in the presence of lethal antibacterial doses remains unclear. This proposal is stimulated by recent findings suggesting that the extracellular metabolic environment and metabolic adaptations play an overlooked role in transiently buffering antibiotic lethality and, therefore, increase the emergence of subpopulations of cells and their effective size that supports the evolution of antimicrobial resistance. In this proposal, I will systematically dissect mechanisms at work in subpopulations of “pre-resistant” cells of priority pathogens Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii that can transiently cope with antimicrobial treatment. I propose to combine my expertise in bacterial physiology with the Ralser Lab’s ultra-fast, massive-scale proteomics and phenomics technologies. I will systematically investigate the metabolic stress response in clinically relevant conditions, and identify the key metabolic and signalling processes that support the survival of subsets of challenged cells upon exposure to major classes of clinically applied antimicrobials. Finally, adaptive evolution experiments combined with CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing will validate causal effectors of identified tolerance mechanisms that precede the appearance of resistance-conveying adaptations. Here, I will acquire technical skills in innovative technologies and the host lab will benefit from my experience in working with pathogenic bacteria. I will lead public engagement efforts and disseminate scientific research outputs on an important global health issue.

Keywords: molecular metabolism,antimicrobial resistance tolerance,metabolomics,mass spectrometry,stress response,bacterial physiology,adaptation,regulatory networks
REliability and risk Assessment of flexible MOdular structures with vibration control DEvices in multi-hazard environments (READMODE)

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 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): 189687.36
EU funding (EUR): 189687.36
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Development of sustainable and resilience infrastructure is very important because particularly in Europe, building structures are accountable for materials extraction, CO2 emissions, and energy consumption. The decline of residential building impacts is one of the crucial goals identified by the European Union (EU) to meet the Paris goals and move forward for circular economy. Therefore, REliability and risk Assessment of flexible MOdular structures with vibration control DEvices in multi-hazard environments (READMODE) project proposes an innovative approach to analyze the reliability and risk of modular structures. In this project, a probabilistic approach is considered to increase the accuracy of structural reliability and risk assessment. It contains the development of improved mathematical models for the reliable and resilient infrastructures. Also, a detailed novel solution will be given for enhancement of resiliency in the modular buildings. The output of this research will provide cost-effective and time-saving techniques for resilience improvement. The fellowship will lead to closer cooperation and knowledge transfer between researchers at host and between different sectors. The research findings specifically, and my personal enhanced competencies generally, will lay the groundwork for future theoretical study in resilient infrastructures. Most European countries are already developed and contain many existing structures and infrastructures that need to be resilience. This will prepare authorities for potential changes in design approach and calculations for future projects and will have significant impact on understanding the risks and safe design of resilient infrastructures.

Keywords: reliability and risk,response mitigation,modular buildings
PYREPAX – Past, present, and future of the Pyrenean pastures (PYREPAX)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-04-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 206641.2
EU funding (EUR): 206641.2
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

For centuries, the relationships between Pyrenean valleys were regulated by pacts called “pacerías”. These agreements were intended to maintain peace between valleys (hence their name, which derives from the Latin word “pax”), and to regulate the ownership and use of the natural resource which was at the basis of the Pyrenean communities: grassland. The pacerías between valleys on the same side of the frontier have received little historiographical attention, and their environmental dimension has barely been studied. PYREPAX focuses on the agreements regarding two mountain pastures in the Aragonese Pyrenees, Guarrinza and Cerbillonar. Each of them was a common of two valleys, the former of Ansó and Echo, and the latter of Panticosa and Broto. The project examines the pacerías, the practices associated with them, and their role in shaping the environment since the mid-eighteenth century. More widely, PYREPAX studies the reciprocal influences between society and nature, and the co-evolution of those relationships across time. The project intends to explain why and how the relationships between human societies and nature have changed by examining the evolution of the pacerías and the practices related to them. Furthermore, PYREPAX examines the current situation of the pastures and the communities from a historical perspective and through an interdisciplinary approach (ecology and environmental economy), by carrying out fieldwork, surveys, and interviews. In the last phase, the project will put into dialogue the ancient pacts with local actors, natural scientists, and regional management authorities with a view to redesigning some pacerías, thus creating permanent fora for debate based on interdisciplinary scientific knowledge, providing tools for bettter management of the pastures, promoting economic activity such as extensive livestock breeding, fixing population in rural areas, and, in short, achieving social, scientific, economic, and environmental benefits.

Keywords: environmental history,public history,political ecology
Phase Diagram of MultiPrincipal Element Alloys (PD-MPEA)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

MultiPrincipal Element Alloys (MPEA) have emerged as a novel class of materials with broad potential applications in engineering fields due to their unprecedented properties. The phase diagrams, essential for designing these alloys, have been traditionally obtained through costly experiments and Calphad calculations based on semi-empirical functions. In this project, a novel methodology is presented to determine the phase diagrams of MPEA by combining the first principles calculations and the Calphad methodology. The strategy is based on two main pillars. Firstly, first principles calculations based on density functional theory in combination with the cluster expansion formalism and Monte Carlo simulations will be used to determine the Gibbs free energies of binaries and ternaries alloys including the contributions of configurational, vibrational and magnetic entropy. Secondly, this information will be used as input to create thermodynamic databases that will be used to predict the phase diagrams of MPEA following the Calphad methodology. This strategy will be demonstrated in NiCrCo and NiCrCoFe MPEAs. The approach developed in this proposal will provide a roadmap to calculate accurate phase diagrams of any MPEA, a fundamental step to optimize the performance of these alloys and accelerate their introduction into the market. The applicant will transfer her expertise and international connection in the field of thermodynamic modelling through Calphad to the host institute. She will work with researchers of the host institution to prompt new areas of research that can attract new funding and receive regular training on transferable skills. All these activities will enlarge her portfolio of skills and will ensure further development of her career.

Keywords: multiprincipal element alloys,phase diagram,first principles calculations,statistical mechanics,monte carlo,calphad,thermodynamics,precipitate