Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Engineering Combined Sensing and Telecommunications ​Architectures for Tectonic and Infrastructure Characterisation. (ECSTATIC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: Digital & Emerging Technologies for Competitiveness and Fit for the Green Deal
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Photonics (co-programmed)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Italy,Sweden,Germany,Greece,Switzerland,Spain
Call: Smart photonics for joint communication & sensing and access everywhere (Photonics Partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2024-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-02-01
End date: 2028-07-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4109363.75
EU funding (EUR): 4109363.75
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

The 5+ Bn km of currently installed data communications optical fibre cable provides an opportunity to create a globe-spanning network of fibre sensors, without laying any new fibres. These traverse the seas and oceans, where conventional sensors are practically non-extent, and major infrastructures, offering potential for smart structural health monitoring. ECSTATIC will develop novel interferometry and polarisation-based sensing approaches for vibration and acoustic fibre-optic sensing technologies. New possibilities will be defined for sensitivity, distance range and localization, offering a range of solutions for different use cases, while ensuring the coexistence of the sensing signal with live data traffic. A new compact photonic chip-based dual-microcomb engine will enable enhanced range, resolution, and bandwidth of distributed acoustic sensing together with fundamental new knowledge on the physics of physical stimuli in relation to state-of-polarisation sensing. Simultaneous interrogation of multiple transmitted comb lines in the microwave domain with multi-wavelength interferometry and novel state-of-polarisation millisecond field programmable gate array-based transceivers will be developed and characterised to improve the sensitivity, spatial resolution, and dynamic range of distributed fiber sensors. To address the limited data storage and processing capabilities of communication networks new digital signal processing algorithms based on edge devices and artificial intelligence/machine learning will be developed and used to extract information via data-compression techniques. Solutions will aim to minimise algorithm complexity while realising real-time sensing of events and network condition with high classification accuracy. These technologies and algorithms will be tested in real-world submarine, metropolitan and infrastructure networks to validate their potential for early warning of seismic events, predictive maintenance, and network integrity.

Keywords: dual microcomb,microwave and optical interferometry,state of polarisation,environmental and infrastructure sensing,joint sensing and communications
Polar Night/Midnight Sun: A history of sleep and time in the Arctic, 1800-1900 (PNMS)

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: Norway
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 283438.8
EU funding (EUR): 283438.8
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Sleep is universal to the human experience. A core element of our daily (circadian) rhythms, sleep is a biological and a cultural phenomenon. When we sleep, how we feel about sleep, and what we deem as normal varies with place and time. The new science of chronobiology is demonstrating that the daily rhythms of sleep and wake, eat and fast, have far reaching consequences for our physical and mental health. Understanding this embodied time can provide a new perspective on the everyday experience of people in the past and open up larger questions about time and society. This interdisciplinary project takes its start in the history of time and sleep and proposes to use an analysis of embodied rhythms to provide new perspectives on the history of Arctic exploration. European visitors to the Arctic in the nineteenth century experienced it as a timeless space where the seasonal fluctuations in light quite literally turned day to night. The Polar Night and the Midnight Sun challenged the crews emotionally and physically as disordered sleeping and irregular eating threatened physical and mental health. At the same time, the unpredictable magnetism of the North Pole frustrated attempts to overcome the Arctic 'timescape' with the tools of European science. PNMS is innovative in its subject area and its methodology. This project combines the tools of historical research with the insights of Henri Lefebvre's rhythmanalysis to attend to bodily rhythms in the past in new and exciting ways. Following Lefebvre's influential methodological lens, I propose to combine work on nineteenth century European sources with a contemporary rhythmanalysis, travelling to Svalbard in the Arctic Circle to observe the changing rhythms of residents in the bright summer and dark winter. This action brings together the insights of the history of science, environmental humanities, temporality studies, and feminist studies of emotion to gain new perspective on the Arctic landscape and its rhythms.

Keywords: arctic,sleep,history,exploration,circadian rhythms,rhythmanalysis
MeTamaterial sensor for battery-less Structural Health Monitoring (MeTa4SHM)

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: Netherlands,Belgium
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 217076.16
EU funding (EUR): 217076.16
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

In this project, we aim to realize a novel, battery-less Acoustic Emission (AE) sensor for low-cost Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of critical infrastructure, such as bridges. Current AE systems are often bulky and rely on batteries or continuous power, which complicates installation, increases costs, and generates large volumes of data that require centralized processing. There is a clear need for more affordable and flexible infrastructure monitoring solutions. If SHM could be performed without batteries or external power, sensors could be deployed in diverse locations at a very low cost. This project will combine expertise in civil and structural engineering with passive information processing (from the host research group at AMOLF), to create and validate a battery-less, cost-effective sensor capable of detecting AE waves on-site for early damage detection. The design and fabrication phases will be guided by the competencies in intelligent metamaterials, physical computing, MEMS, and microfabrication of Dr. Serra-Garcia, supervisor of the project at AMOLF. The lab-scale testing phase will be led by Prof. Verstrynge, an expert in the calibration and testing of prototype AE devices at KU Leuven (secondment institute). I will receive high-level training through research to complement my background in SHM, ultrasonic sensor design, and wave propagation with new skills in intelligent metamaterials, MEMS, microfabrication, and advanced AE device testing techniques. I will support my training by attending courses, managing the project’s financial aspects, reinforcing my academic track with high-impact publications, and expanding my network of collaborations. The multidisciplinary expertise gained through this project will uniquely position me to lead in both established fields like MEMS and emerging areas such as intelligent metamaterials and physical computing, which are shaping new areas of research.

Keywords: mems,mechanical metamaterials,structural health monitoring shm
Engineering Eco-Friendly and Sustainable Reflecting Crystals in Yeast to Replace Hazardous TiO2 Based Pigments (CrystalCellFactory)

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: Israel
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2024-POC, 2024)
Start date: 2024-08-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The superior optical properties and stability of Titanium dioxide (TiO2) has made the material attractive to many industries, for use in food, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals. Despite these benefits, the wide use of TiO2 has raised significant health concerns, culminating in the 2022 European Union's decision to ban its use as a food additive. This regulatory shift has precipitated an urgent demand for healthier, environmentally sustainable alternatives that do not compromise on performance. Unfortunately, current alternatives fail to match TiO2 in terms of efficacy and stability, thereby limiting their adoption. This PoC, proposes an innovative solution by which yeast serve as eco-friendly "biofactories" to produce guanine crystals. These crystals, which are naturally utilized by animals to reflect light, possess remarkable optical properties, with enhanced thermostability, and superior compatibility compared to current TiO2 alternatives. We will modify yeast to express the specialized highly efficient guanine-producing enzymes, originally identified in zebrafish as part of our ERC project. Inspired by nature, our project will exploit yeast's remarkable biosynthetic abilities to obtain efficient production of these crystals. Our preliminary results demonstrate the feasibility of this approach, and are backed by robust metabolomic profiling that enables precise measurement of guanine levels, identification of metabolic bottlenecks, and detection of by-products. In preparation for commercial rollout, our strategy involves mapping our innovation within the EU food industry, identifying precise market segments, and crafting an initial business model. This multifaceted approach is designed to both showcase the economic viability and market potential of our yeast-produced guanine crystals and also to position them as a safe, sustainable, and high-performing TiO2 alternative, in line with the EU's health-centric regulatory framework and consumer expectations.
daTa and pRocesses in sEismic hAzarD (TREAD)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Italy,Netherlands,France,Germany,Spain,Switzerland,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2664388.8
EU funding (EUR): 2664388.8
Participants: 23
Project status: SIGNED

The aim of TREAD is to train a new generation of seismic hazard scientists to tackle the challenges of earthquake forecasting in complex tectonic contexts such as the Europe and Mediterranean regions. A change of paradigm in seismic hazard is necessary to be able to fully account for the specifics properties of earthquake source and seismic modes in those areas. For example, to calculate the probability of having multiple earthquake ruptures, the interaction between active faults across various space-time scales needs to be accounted for, as well as the effects of stress transfer and fault-fluid interaction in earthquake triggering. TREAD objectives are: 1) Developing a novel integrative approach to seismic hazard analysis in Europe and the Mediterranean by bridging the gap from small-scale laboratory experiments to large-scale observations. 2) Establishing physics-based earthquake modelling by linking computational modelling of earthquakes from millions of years to fractions of a second. 3) Transferring earthquake geology and computational modelling to hazard and risk assessment adapted to the need of government, industry and scientific stakeholders. To reach those objectives we gathered the TREAD consortium that comprised 14 academic institutions and 8 private partners of the highest scientific level from 7 European countries, covering frontiers knowledge and practices in observational, experimental and modelling fields. TREAD will: 1- include a unique large-scale training component to create the ground for a new generation of experts in the field of seismic hazard and risk assessment; 2-will promote interactions between seismic hazard and geomechanics practitioners and risk and decision-making activities producing an interdisciplinary and holistic training program; 3-will address factors not integrated in the actual models but essential to better anticipate seismic hazard in Europe and the Mediterranean regions.

Keywords: earthquakes seismic hazard model seismic risk assessment modelling deformation paleoseismology carbonate rocks rheology seismicity earthquake rupture
Dynamics of the solar corona in the era of data intensive observations (DynaSun)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Staff Exchanges
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Colombia,Belgium,Czechia,United Kingdom,Argentina,Austria,Germany
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2028-02-29
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 924600.0
EU funding (EUR): 924600.0
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

The aim of this proposal is to establish close research collaboration between several leading European and South American research teams specialising in solar physics; and gain new, paradigm-changing knowledge about dynamic processes in the solar atmosphere, through the systematic research staff and knowledge exchange and joint research efforts exploiting existing data and facilities, including innovative data analysis techniques based on the machine-learning approach. The expected scientific impact is a major development of our knowledge of the key physical processes operating in the solar atmosphere, including breakthroughs in revealing the coronal heating mechanism, transformative progress in our understanding impulsive energy realises such as solar flares and CMEs, major development of MHD wave theory, and first application of machine-learning techniques in the study of solar atmospheric wave processes. The project includes four scientific work packages which address specific key challenges of modern solar physics and heliophysics: quasi-periodic pulsations in solar flares, heating of the solar atmosphere, and large and fine scale evolution of CMEs, and a communication and dissemination work package. The expected economic and technological impacts include gaining first-hand experience in the analysis of complex oscillatory processes, experience in designing and applying machine-learning techniques for pattern recognition, novel diagnostic techniques of input parameters for space weather forecasting models, creating a ground for knowledge exchange with local industries, and production of highly-skilful specialists in numerical modelling and data analysis. The expected societal impact is strengthening the research links between the European and S. American research communities; improving the public awareness of modern solar and heliophysics, and motivating school students to pursue careers in science.

Keywords: solar flares,magnetohydrodynamic waves,coronal mass ejections,coronal heating
RBD Dimer recombinant protein vaccine against SARSCoV2 (RBDCOV)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Other health destinations
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,Italy,Germany,Türkiye,United States
Call: Vaccines & therapeutic clinical trials to boost COVID-19 prevention and treatment (HORIZON-HLTH-2021-CORONA-01, 2021)
Start date: 2021-12-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9779211.26
EU funding (EUR): 9779211.25
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

The main objective of RBDCOV project is to test the efficacy, tolerability, and safety of a new vaccine against different variants of COVID-19 based on the outstanding data generated using a recombinant protein developed by the consortium partners. Two different clinical trials will be run during the project duration to test the variants recombinant RBD protein vaccine, codifying for Beta and Alpha SARS-Cov-2 variants in paediatric population and in immunocompromised adults. The aim of the project is to focus not only on the current SARS-CoV-2 variants but also in the emerging ones as Beta and Alpha variants. Thus, a continuous monitoring of the new emerging variants will be performed throughout the project to ensure that the platform is prepared to cope with the disease. The platform used for the generation of the vaccines is adaptable to variants and will be ready to include in the design any other potential variant that could appear in short, medium and large term. Preclinical data are already available. The core of RBDCOV consortium has been in close contact to the corresponding agencies and considering Reflection paper on the regulatory requirements for vaccines intended to provide protection against variant strain(s) of SARS-CoV-2, preclinical data supporting the first vaccine candidate can be extrapolated for the vaccines against the new emerging variants. This create a unique opportunity for RBDCOV consortium to generate the first RBD recombinant vaccine to be approved in Europe. This vaccine will be manufactured by an European technological company that will change actual paradigms and allow the really change to One health concept, based on the close relationship between the animal world and the onset of certain infections in humans.

Keywords: one health,recombinant protein
Subaltern Privacy: Echoes of The Resistance in the Hispanic World (SUBPRIVACY)

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: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 263393.28
EU funding (EUR): 263393.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

During the early modern period, the Spanish monarchy treated its religious minorities mercilessly. From 1492 onwards, the Crown officially banned Judaism and Islam from its territory and offered their followers the possibility to convert to Catholicism and remain in the Iberian Peninsula. Many members of these communities accepted baptism, but a significant number of these new Christians limited their conversion to the official and public sphere. Privately, they continued to practice their pre-conversion beliefs, customs, and traditions. The high level of exposure in everyday life meant that many of them were exposed and suspicions of being false Christians spread throughout the kingdom. Society soon began to label converts as heretics and traitors, discriminating against them, and officially excluding them from public life based on their religious background and ethnicity. Faced with social stigma and the fear of being accused before the Inquisition, the descendants of these minorities began to eradicate all traces that identified them as converts—keeping their true identity and all links with their ancestors in the strictest secrecy. In this scenario of intolerance, hatred, and religious fanaticism, the project “Subaltern Privacy: Echoes of The Resistance in the Hispanic World” (SUBPRIVACY) will focus on the resistance practiced by subaltern groups in Spain (Jew converts, Moorish, crypto-Jews, and crypto-Muslims) against the assimilation, surveillance, and punishment policies of the Hispanic establishment. Its main objective will be to examine the resistance actions of these groups designed to preserve their ancient faith, culture, and collective memory underground, using the historical notions of privacy as an analytical lens.

Keywords: historical notions of privacy,privacy and secrecy,historical resistance,subaltern studies,hispanic religious minorities,cultural preservation,surveillance and punishment,ethnic discrimination
Colonial Recipes, Then and Now (CORE)

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: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: Fostering balanced brain circulation – ERA Fellowships (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-TALENTS-04, 2022)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 156778.56
EU funding (EUR): 156778.56
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

CORE (Colonial Recipes, Then and Now) investigates how domestic colonial food cultures in the Portuguese empire (1450-1600) reflect the mobility, agency, labour, and knowledge of women and enslaved cooks; and how colonial recipes can create space for more nuanced conversations around colonial heritage. The project takes a ‘global history’ approach to the empire, examining the extent to which the mobility of people, foods, labour, and knowledge between key port cities shaped colonial food cultures. By focusing on domestic spaces, it places women and enslaved cooks, who did the labour of food preparation, centre stage. In this way, the project revalorises domestic spaces as sites of global exchange, which have been largely excluded from studies of global history, as well as insisting on the importance of gender to understand the complexities of the relations between mobility, food, and empire. By spotlighting colonial recipes, CORE will spark new scholarly conversations about the insights these texts offer into: ‘subaltern’ mobility, creativity, and adaptability; the intersecting production of gender, race, and class; and colonial households as the centre of social provisioning and wider infrastructures of empire, examining how new colonial cuisines intersect with colonial regimes of trade, agricultural production, and domestic slavery. It makes three historiographical interventions, namely it: (1) responds to calls to write a global history of the early modern Portuguese empire; (2) brings the ‘new imperial history’ further into dialogue with a history of the Portuguese empire by showing how food illuminates colonial politics, especially negotiations around gender, race, and class; and (3) contributes to public debate around the production of heritage about the colonial past, using colonial recipes to interrogate the multiple valences and contradictions of the empire, and its legacies in the present.

Keywords: food history,subaltern,history from below,colonial heritage