Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Sensory information processing impairments following prenatal cannabis exposure: focusing on noradrenaline to move towards early and sex-tailored therapeutic strategies (SPICE-FONTS)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209483.28
EU funding (EUR): 209483.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

How we experience the world is fundamental to survival and guides our behavior from completing a simple motor task to forming relationships. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the inability to filter out sensory information, a function termed sensorimotor gating, is an early and transversal endophenotype for diverse neuropsychiatric disorders. Nevertheless, research on the mechanisms linking maladaptive information processing and psychopathology is surprisingly lacking. According to epidemiological data, prenatal cannabis exposure (PCE) is a predictive risk factor for sensorimotor gating deficits. Notably, a rat model of PCE was able to (1) show that only preadolescent males display impaired sensorimotor gating functions upon subsequent “hits” (e.g. acute stress), and (2) associate this at-risk endophenotype with aberrant dopamine (DA) signalling in the mesolimbic pathway, which stretches from the ventral tegmental area (VTA) to the nucleus accumbens shell (NAcS). Remarkably, females do not show any of these alterations. One proposed gate towards these sex-dependent vulnerable and resilient phenotypes is the locus coeruleus (LC), the major source of noradrenaline (NA) in the brain and a key regulator of the stress response. Indeed, the LC, besides being a sexually dimorphic nucleus, is known to innervate the VTA and influence the mesolimbic DA pathway, including transmission in the NAcS. Nevertheless, the implication of LC→VTA NA inputs in the context of sensorimotor gating has never been investigated. The current project proposes to employ state-of-the-art neurobiological techniques to test with unprecedented precision and resolution the overarching hypothesis that the LC NA system exerts a sex-dependent regulatory role onto VTA DA functioning in the context of sensory information processing in health and disease (i.e. PCE, stress). Identifying biased NA mechanisms could be exploited to restore deranged developmental trajectories during sensitive windows of neurodevelopment.

Keywords: sensorimotor gating prenatal cannabis exposure transversal endophenotype sex differences vulnerability resiliency dopamine ventral tegmental area noradrenaline locus coeruleus stress
Extending Techniques in Wall-Crossing and Enumerative Sheaf Theory (Ext-WEST)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: Norway,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 284179.68
EU funding (EUR): 284179.68
Participants: 2
Project status: TERMINATED

The goal of ExtWest (Applying and Extending Techniques in Wall-Crossing and Enumerative Sheaf Theory) is twofold: First, we plan to find and realize new applications of the recent technical developments in the field of enumerative sheaf theory, thereby proving new groundbreaking results. Second, we plan to develop new techniques inspired by the extisting results, and to thereby extend the range of accessible questions in this research area.

Keywords: donaldson invariants,donaldson thomas theory,vafa witten theory,moduli spaces of sheaves,enumerative geometry,instantons,wall crossing,quot schemes,stability conditions
Secrecy-Preserving Proofs with Solid Foundations (SPP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer Science and Informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1390625.0
EU funding (EUR): 1390625.0
Participants: 1
Project status: TERMINATED

The traditional notion of a proof offers no secrecy --- proving the validity of a blockchain transaction would reveal its details, proving qualification for a loan would reveal private financial information, and proving that a system has been hacked could reveal sensitive details about the system. Remarkably, using cryptography, this problem can be solved. Secrecy-preserving proofs are a class of protocols allowing to prove assertions about secret information, without actually revealing the information. The most prominent notion of such a proof is that of zero knowledge proofs, which reveal no information at all. Recent years have seen zero knowledge proofs transition from theory to practice. With major investment from industry and governments, they are now being deployed and standardized. Driven by large-scale applications such as blockchains, deployment efforts have put special stress on efficiency, often compromising on the core principal of rigorous security analysis based on solid hardness assumptions. At the same time, the nearing possibility of new threats such as quantum attacks, only requires stronger security. The goal of the project is secrecy-preserving proofs that meet present day challenges, without compromising on the gold standard of cryptographic security. We envision a world where secrecy-preserving proofs are reliable enough to be used in high-stake applications, and efficient enough to be used in large-scale applications. The project will apply foundational theoretical research to overcome existing barriers and challenges toward achieving this goal.

Keywords: foundations of cryptography,provable security,zero knowledge proofs,non interactive zero knowledge,nizk,succinct arguments,snark,post quantum cryptography,quantum cryptography,non black box techniques,black box separations,obfuscation
Nature-inclusive Designs For Reconciling Offshore Renewables With Ocean Protection (NiD4OCEAN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Ocean, seas and waters
Destination: Ocean, seas and waters
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Norway,United Kingdom,Spain,Netherlands,Denmark,Lithuania,Portugal,Germany
Call: Cross-basin topic - Innovative nature-inclusive concepts to reconcile offshore renewables with ocean protection (HORIZON-MISS-2023-OCEAN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2353523.75
EU funding (EUR): 2224748.82
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

NiD4OCEAN will advance the emerging field of nature-inclusive designs, NiDs, (and nature-based solutions, NBS, in general) for offshore renewables by providing effective, novel, context-dependent solutions to industry, managers, and policymakers. This will accelerate their implementation to support the achievement of the international and EU targets for carbon neutrality, biodiversity restoration and sustainable blue economy. Three distinct European ecoregions (North Sea, Baltic Sea, and Western Mediterranean) have been strategically selected due to their different technologies, habitats, ecosystems, and sectorial conflicts with the development of offshore renewables. An Innovation Challenge Series will be developed to promote novel NiDs and NBS for each ecoregion's wind and floating solar structures (addressing issues such as design, material choice, noise, and laying cables). Each ecoregion will use a transdisciplinary approach to develop context-dependent metrics and impact assessment frameworks to evaluate the benefits and risks of selected NiDs for offshore wind. Moreover, data and monitoring requirements for evaluating the performance of NiDs will be identified to be later incorporated into recommendations towards standards. An evidence-based decision-support tool will be co-created with industry and managers to provide clarity on the selection process of NiDs in offshore wind farms. Finally, a co-created policy toolkit for the requirements of offshore wind development to comply with biodiversity protection and restoration targets will be delivered. The NiD4OCEAN consortium (involving scientists, industry, SMEs, NGOs, and the standardization community) together with the establishment of the NiD4OCEAN network, will be key to an ambitious communication and dissemination strategy designed to reach all relevant stakeholders. NiD4OCEAN strives to raise awareness across stakeholders on the need to prioritize win-win solutions for biodiversity and decarbonization.

Keywords: nature based solutions
ReCoNnect 3: Building a Community (ReCoNnect 3)

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: Romania
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): 273945.63
EU funding (EUR): 273945.63
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

On the urge to reconnect science and research with the public’s curiosity, but also with its needs and priorities, one has to develop an active and continuous dialogue showing mutual respect, understanding and trust between the different communities. In ReCoNnect 3 we identify two priorities for the context of the present science outreach status in the country: a) reaching smaller or underprivileged communities, from the educational point of view, and b) strengthening the groups of science communicators and connecting them in common events. Addressing these priorities by the means of ERN events is one of the most important opportunities to increase the quality of science communication and awareness about the benefits science brings to humans. The consortium is made up from 5 research institutes, among the largest and most prestigious in the country, 4 universities, with high scientific expertise which is complemented by journalism expertise, and one public scientific body, that have been participating in previous research outreach events and coordinate some of the largest STEM educational networks (teachers and pupils) derived from the European programmes. By organising each year, 20 NIGHT events, a national science contest, a science caravan in the less developed regions of the country, as well as other 20 local events, meetings and visits of scientists in local schools, we are building the most significant and comprehensive science outreach program in the country. That ensures that the research and science are more accessible to pupils and schools, while at the same time creates visibility for researchers and science communicating groups and individuals.

Keywords: science education,science for all schools,caravan for schools,equal opportunities,research for security,peace and earth
Visible Dynamic organic Optical Metasurfaces (VisDOM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Materials Engineering
Panel description: Advanced materials development: performance enhancement, modelling, large -scale preparation, modification, tailoring, optimisation, novel  and combined use of materials, etc.
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2028-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2972876.0
EU funding (EUR): 2972876.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Optical nanoantennas are nanoscale objects that acts as antennas for light. They can provide local and abrupt optical phase shifts, which has led to an emerging type of flat ultrathin optical components called metasurfaces. The concept of metasurfaces has enabled many important applications, including ultrathin flat lenses and high-performance OLEDs. In addition to their attractive form factor, metasurfaces pushes the limits of what is achievable in terms of light-matter interactions, exemplified by demonstrations of intriguing phenomena like invisibility cloaking, anomalous refraction and the photonic spin Hall effect. However, a major limitation of traditional metasurfaces is that they are static, in the sense that we cannot tune their functions after they have been produced. The reason is that traditional nanoantennas are made from materials with fixed material properties, such as gold, silver or titanium dioxide. It has proven highly challenging to make nanoantennas that can be dynamically tuned and particularly for the visible spectral range and by electrical stimuli. My group recently introduced conducting polymers as a new organic materials platform for tuneable plasmonic nanoantennas and metasurfaces, but those systems are still restricted to wavelengths outside the visible range. In VisDOM, I will develop and study a new type of electrically tuneable optical nanoantennas for visible light. While benefitting from our recent achievements on dynamic nanoantennas, the proposed nanoantennas will be based on a conceptually new idea and mechanism, forming an ambitious project that goes well beyond state of the art. The important goal of VisDOM is to contribute with a new type of dynamic organic nanooptics and electrically tuneable optical metasurfaces for visible light.

Keywords: optical nanoantennas,metasurfaces,conducting polymers,dynamic organic nanooptics
Solid-state cooling under pressure and electric field: novel multicaloric strategies to improve material performance (SCOPE)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

There is an increasing need to find novel and sustainable alternatives to current dominating cooling systems. These systems are based on the compression and expansion of powerful greenhouse polluters and thus contribute notably to global warming when released to the atmosphere. Caloric materials, which display thermal changes upon variations on the corresponding applied field, are promising candidates because 1) they can be energy efficient and 2) do not compel the direct use of greenhouse gases. Among the different caloric families, those sensitive to hydrostatic pressure (barocalorics (BC)) are of particular interest because of the wide range of candidates, their very large caloric effects and no mechanical breakdown. Nevertheless, BC materials suffer from high intrinsic irreversibilities that limit their caloric efficiency. Interestingly, some BC materials exhibit ferroelectric transitions that make them sensitive to the application of electric fields and, hence, display electrocaloric (EC) effects as well. The goal of this MSCA project is thus to take advantage of multicaloric effects to improve the caloric performance in polar barocaloric materials. To do so, for the first time we will simultaneously apply pressure and an electric field to these materials by performing unprecedented experiments of calorimetry and dielectric spectroscopy under these two fields. From these measurements, we will be able to define novel multicaloric routes to enhance the reversibility and, thus, report improved caloric performances. Additionally, a detailed characterisation of the lattice dynamics will be performed to understand the physical origin of these novel multicaloric strategies. This proposal joins the expertise in barocalorics of the Host Group and the expertise in electrocalorics of the Applicant. The successful achievement of our proposal will represent a breakthrough in the material science community, both at the fundamental and applied level.

Keywords: solid state cooling,pressure,electric field,first order phase transition,multicalorics,ferroelectrics
The Ghost in the Translation Machine: Charting Language Proficiency, Exploring Technology, and Making Translators Fit for a Digital Age (LinguaTech)

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: Austria,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 199440.96
EU funding (EUR): 199440.96
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The EU’s commitment to support its multilingual character, the European Commission’s priority of creating ‘a Europe fit for the Digital Age’ and the raising EU and global demand for translation services, as evidenced, e.g., by the latest European translation industry ELIS reports (2013-2021), entails research and investment in language training on the one hand, and the provision of high-quality translation services that seize the opportunities offered by the latest technologies on the other hand. LinguaTech is the first in-depth study that produces and combines on new findings on additional language (AL) competence at the highest levels, alongside neural machine translation and Generative AI post-editing competences, and applies these to translator training. It will result in a definition and measure (descriptors) of the AL competence of translators that will be supplemented with insight into the linguistic demands of machine translation post-editing and selected Generative AI models. They will feed into the ultimate deliverable, the LinguaTech Toolbox, complete with descriptors, guidelines (how to teach AL to translators in the AI age), tools (linguistic match-up marker), and a short online training course on technology-enabled AL teaching. AL teaching, streamlined with the demands of newest technology, will give translation students a competitive advantage upon their entry on the EU language market in terms of expertise, cost, quality, technology, and adaptability to innovation, while at the same time it will provide a better skilled workforce for the quickly growing language industry and institutional language departments. Additionally, the insight generated by LinguaTech and its dissemination and exploitation will benefit experienced translators, who frequently face insecurity towards technology. The research will be supported by a secondment at RWS, who are major player on the global and European translation market, and will be available open source.

Keywords: machine translation post editing
Recycling of end of life battery packs for domestic raw material supply chains and enhanced circular economy (BATRAW)

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: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,France,Germany,Türkiye,Belgium,Korea, Republic of,United Kingdom
Call: Developing climate-neutral and circular raw materials (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12323911.33
EU funding (EUR): 9786739.2
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

BATRAW main objective is to develop and demonstrate two innovative pilot systems for sustainable recycling and end of life management of EV batteries, domestic batteries, and battery scraps contributing to the generation of secondary streams of strategically important CRMs and battery RMs. The first pilot will deliver innovative technologies and processes for dismantling of battery packs achieving recovery of 95% of battery pack components and separating waste streams including cells and modules by semi-automated processes for recycling. BATRAW's second pilot will scale and demonstrate efficient pre-treatment and continuous hydrometallurgical recycling of battery cells and modules including innovative steps for C-graphite, Al and Cu separation from black mass and Mn extraction, achieving a recovery of the full range of battery RMs (Co, Ni, Mn, Li, C-graphite, Al and Cu) at selectivity of 90-98%. Innovations wil be scaled and demonstrated in a pilot systems with recycling capacity of 1 ton lithium-ion battery (LIB) packs dismantled per shift (8 hours) and treat 300 kg BM per day. BATRAW outcomes are of strategic importance within the prospects of the exponentially growing EU battery market and reducing EU import dependency of CRMs. The project will further promote the overall sustainability and circularity of battery products and raw materials by developing new procedures for battery repair and reuse, enabling faster diagnostics and conversion of EV packs into second life batteries, delivering eco-design guidelines for battery manufacturing, demonstrating blockchain platform for raw material tracking and supply chain transparency (Battery Passport) and delivering guidelines for safe transports and handling of battery waste. The project aims to maximize market uptake and impact through ambitious C&D&E plan including circular business models, innovations workshops, dissemination in EU platforms, policy briefs and other strategies to reach markets and stakeholders.

Keywords: lithium ion,domestic batteries,raw materials,repair,reuse,recycling,hydrometallurgy,disassembly,pilot,collection,logistics,circular economy,graphite,second life