Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Complex Fluids in Fractured Geological Media for Enhanced Heat Transfer (GEONEAT)

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: Italy,United States,France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 265099.2
EU funding (EUR): 265099.2
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

GEONEAT aims at unraveling the potential of engineered shear-thinning (ST) fluids in enhanced geothermal systems to improve heat recovery efficiency and in heat tracer tests to infer structural parameters of deep hot reservoirs. Cutting-edge interdisciplinary methodologies from applied mathematics and hydrology are merged in a novel framework to achieve two scientific objectives: (1) characterizing quantitatively how using engineered fluids impacts coupled flow and heat transfers in fractured media at all scales; (2) inferring structural information on fractured media from coupling inverse modeling to field measurements of the heat exchange using complex fluids of different rheologies. To this aim, two technical challenges will be tackled: (1) the development of a multiscale model of coupled flow and heat transport in fractured geological formations; (2) the obtention of experimental data in a synthetic analog medium, to validate the model and constrain an inverse model for characterizing the medium’s geometry. GEONEAT relies on the expertise of a top-notch consortium consisting of the University of Bologna (beneficiary, supervisor Prof. Vittorio Di Federico and co-supervisor Prof. Valentina Ciriello, experts in subsurface stochastic modeling), Stanford University (outgoing phase, supervisor Prof. Daniel M. Tartakovsky and co-supervisor Prof. Roland Horne, experts in uncertainty quantification, inverse modeling, and geothermal energy), and the University Rennes 1 (secondment, supervisor Prof. Yves Méheust and co-supervisor Dr. Maria Klepikova, experts in subsurface heat transfers and analog experiments of flow and transport). Dr. Lenci will receive excellent training in the three institutions to pursue outstanding research, propelling his career development towards becoming a tenured researcher in EU academia. GEONEAT will contribute to promoting the growth of a low-carbon, sustainable, renewable energy market, consistent with the EU’s green goals and priorities.

Keywords: fluid mechanics heat transport fractured media fracture networks upscaling modeling experiments uncertainty quantification neural networks shear thinning fluids inverse modeling
In a Space of ‘Illegal Lawfulness': The Normative Order of Radical Environmental Movements and the Enforcement of International Environmental Law” (REMFORCE)

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 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-16
End date: 2026-09-15
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 210911.04
EU funding (EUR): 210911.04
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In response to the escalating climate crisis, environmental activists are increasingly resorting to radical methods to pressure states into fulfilling their international climate commitments. This marks another chapter in the long history of transnational radical environmentalism. For over half a century, profound dissatisfaction with the consistent failure of states to uphold their international environmental responsibilities has driven some transnational environmental organizations to employ radical tactics in their pursuit of conservation goals. Consequently, these organizations assert that they have successfully halted underground nuclear testing, secured global whale protection, and conserved ecosystems, prompted state revisions of climate policies, and achieved numerous other environmental objectives. While social science and legal scholarship have explored radical environmentalism from various perspectives, the scholarly debate mostly frames it as a social force grappling with the state's ongoing inability to fulfill its environmental promises. This project departs from this state-centric view of radical environmentalism. Utilizing the methods of social science and legal research, along with the theoretical framework of legal pluralism, REMFORCE seeks to uncover whether radical environmentalism of transnational environmental organizations has developed into a normative system of environmental enforcement parallel to the state-centric one. At the time of severe environmental challenges and the unprecedented disruption of the international legal order, REMFORCE aims to reconceptualize our understanding of the radical environmental movement as an auxiliary system of enforcement and provide deeper empirical insight into the role of radical non-state actors in the enforcement of international environmental law.

Keywords: radical environmentalism,transnational environmental organizations,environmental enforcement,enforcement of international law,normative orders,non state actors,legal pluralism
Integration of Multi-component MOF-based Photocatalyst in Liposome Nanoreactors (IMMPACT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Synthetic Chemistry and Materials
Panel description: New materials and new synthetic approaches, structure -properties relations, solid state chemistry, molecular architecture, organic chemistry
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-05-01
End date: 2031-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1589643.0
EU funding (EUR): 1589643.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The European Union’s ambition to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 requires us to transition from fossil fuels to sustainable forms of energy. Artificial photosynthesis, which converts solar energy into chemical fuels using abundant resources like CO2 and H2O, represents a real alternative. However, current photocatalytic systems suffer from inefficiencies in sunlight capture, charge recombination, and poor stability in aqueous media. The IMMPACT project proposes a pioneering strategy: compartmentalising supramolecular catalysts based on metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), photosensitisers, sacrificial reagents, and charge carriers within liposome-based nanoreactors. This innovative approach leverages supramolecular receptors to facilitate transmembrane transport of MOF building blocks, allowing unprecedented control over the bottom-up assembly of MOFs within compartmentalised nanostructures. Using liposomes as bio-inspired nanoreactors will enhance the stability of MOF-based photocatalysts in aqueous media, improve sunlight-absorption efficiency, and accelerate the charge separation by bringing the catalytic centre and the photosensitiser into close proximity. This groundbreaking research merges material science, supramolecular chemistry, and catalysis to drive the boundaries of solar-fuel technology. The success of the IMMPACT project will not only advance our understanding of compartmentalised photocatalytic systems but also mark the first use of ionophore-facilitated ion transport for nanostructuring hybrid materials, thereby paving the way for new horizons in nanomaterial development and sustainable energy technologies.

Keywords: liposome nanoreactor,ion transport,metal organic frameworks,photocatalysis
THE NEXT STENT GENERATION: A FIRST-IN-CLASS REGENERATIVE NANOFIBER STENT TO RECONSTRUCT ARTERIES FROM THE INSIDE OUT (EX-STENT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2023 (HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATOR-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3706138.5
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Below-the knee critical limb ischemia (BTK-CLI) is the severe blockage of the arteries in the limb, leading to reduced blood flow. This condition currently affects over +3.5M people in the EU and US. The current standard of care for BTK-CLI is balloon angioplasty. This treatment unfortunately has failed to show strong clinical outcomes: around 40% of patients suffer from procedural complications, 73% of the cases develop restenosis within 3 months and 25% of patients end up requiring minor or major limb amputations. STENTiT has developed a first-in-class stent with regenerative capacity, a paradigm shift for medical stents. The Regenerative Stent is fully composed of nanofibers which allows for unique vascular restoration. The stent gradually dissolves while new vascular tissue is being formed, fully rebuilding the artery to secure long-term patency. STENTiT requests a €2.5M grant and €10M in equity to complete the clinical studies and prepare the Regenerative Stent for market launch.

Keywords: medical devices,nanotechnology,nano materials,nano engineering,novel materials,regenerative
Spin Mechanics in the Strong Coupling (SMESC)

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: France
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): 226420.56
EU funding (EUR): 226420.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The ability to prepare a macroscopic mechanical oscillator in a non classical state would have dramatic implications, both at the fundamental level, by upgrading our knowledge of the boundary between classical and quantum physics, and on a more applied point of view, by using the potentially long coherence time of state of the art mechanical oscillators as quantum memories in a quantum information experiment. If alternatives exist, the direct coupling of a spin platform to a mechanical oscillator is one of the most advanced route to reach such milestone. So far, the strong coupling regime, characterized by a spin mechanical exchange rate above both the mechanical and the spin decoherence rates, has not been attained except in GigaHertz frequency mechanical oscillators coupled to superconducting qubits. Among spin platforms, Nitrogen Vacancy centers in diamond offer very long coherence times and a large optical transition. Immersed in a strong magnetic gradient bias, their energy splitting depends on their position, creating the spin-mechanical interface. Among mechanical oscillators, silicon carbide nanowires offer very low masses and therefore an extremely high force sensitivity, which is of prior interest to measure the very low force induced by a single spin flip to a magnet attached to its tip. Spin MEchanics in the Strong Coupling (SMESC) will build a cryogenic spin mechanical coupling platform with a NV center host and a silicon carbide nanowire functionalized with a nanomagnet. It will demonstrate the first operation of such platform in the strong coupling regime by performing a single shot readout of the spin state by reading the position of the mechanical oscillator.

Keywords: nv centers,non classical mechanical state
Precarity Amongst Women Migrant Nightworkers in Ireland (PRECNIGHTS)

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: Ireland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 215534.4
EU funding (EUR): 215534.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

PRECNIGHTS is an ambitious anthropological project on labour migration and precarity, contributing with novel theory on differential inclusion of the essential, yet invisible women migrant nightworkers (WMN) in Ireland. Through an innovative interdisciplinary and ethnographic approach, the research will impact scholarly debates in migration, and will inform key Irish and European stakeholders on migrant workers’ rights. To reach these aims, PRECNIGHTS’ objectives are: 1) Unpack how are WMN expected to perform their gender in nightwork; 2) Explore factors that affect WMN’s responses to invisibility and precarity; 3) Examine how management practices and work culture impact WMN’s understanding and crafting of their self-presentations; and 4) Unpack the structural invisibilisation and precarisation of WMN. PRECNIGHTS aims to make visible WMN through intersectional methodology that not only examines precarity, migration, gender and nightwork, but also focuses on how each of these four dimensions magnifies the lived experiences of the others; and, further, through ground-breaking, digital, and nocturnal ethnography that captures night experiences. Together, these enable an inclusive analysis of the lack of ‘power and privilege’ and the forms of ‘oppression and inequality’ faced by WMN. PRECNIGHTS, thus, uniquely contributes to scholarly efforts and policy work dedicated to understanding the contemporary European labour migration regime, which produces conditions of marginality in urban settings, not just in Ireland, but also in other EU contexts. PRECNIGHTS will be hosted by ISS21, University College Cork and will progress under Dr Caitriona Ni Laoire’s vital supervision, as her background and expertise in qualitative multi-modal research and socio-spatial dynamics of inclusion/exclusion are at PRECNIGHTS’ core.

Keywords: precarity,migrant,gender,night work,labour integration,night ethnography,ireland
Doctoral Network on Spectrum Analytics as a Service (SpecX)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Belgium,Spain,Italy,Germany,Finland,Poland,United States
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2030-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4670352.36
EU funding (EUR): 4305002.4
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

The overall research goal of SpecX is to provide a high-level research programme and doctoral training to 15 Doctoral Candidates (DCs) in large-scale spectrum measurements, analyses, and applications in future telecom infrastructure. The goal is to create a research and innovation workforce with transferable and sustainable skills in applied mathematics, radio hardware, cellular infrastructure, edge computing, spectrum data collection, artificial intelligence, spectrum management methods, and business aspects to assess and analyse big spectrum data and provide innovative services. This goal will be achieved by a unique combination of local and networkwide research training designed to provide the DCs with the needed fundamental elements to conduct the research programme for measuring real spectrum data, analysing it, developing innovative methods, and inventing new valuable applications. Hands-on in-depth training will be strengthened with non-academic placements, as well as multidisciplinary, intersectoral, and international cooperation, to maximise the employability of DCs and the project’s impact in the short- and long-term.

Keywords: spectrum sensing,spectrum data,measurements,analytics,infrastructure,data analysis,sdr prototyping
Endoplasmic Reticulum-Mitochondria contact sites structural and functional adaptation during Insulin Resistance (MAMllingIR)

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: 2022-07-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173847.36
EU funding (EUR): 173847.36
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The high calory intake and the sedentary behaviours represent one of the most common stress to which humanity is subjected. This is leading to an increased incidence of obesity that can be aggravated by dysfunctional metabolism, among which insulin resistance (IR) is the most common scenario. Two crucial processes know to lead to IR are Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) stress and mitochondrial dysfunction. Mitochondria and ER are in tight physical contact through the mitochondria-associated ER membranes (MAMs), which are emerging as an important hub for glucose homeostasis. MAMs are involved in a plethora of cell functions, such as lipid synthesis, ROS and Ca2+ signalling, autophagy and inflammation, all processes tightly linked with cellular insulin sensitivity. In support to this notion, MAMs miscommunication was shown to occur in the presence of IR. Nevertheless, no conclusive molecular mechanisms can explain MAMs adaptation during IR. Furthermore, how MAMs remodelling affects the signalling between ER and mitochondria (Ca2+, ROS, lipid exchange) during IR progression and how this affects ER and mitochondria functions are still open questions. The overarching aim of this proposal is to characterize the alterations of intracellular signalling in mouse models of hepatic IR at the level of MAMs and to develop a standardized methodological approach to assess inter-organelles signalling changes during pathophysiological cues. To this goal, I will implement innovative approaches in vivo to quantify these contacts and to identify the MAMs molecular composition during IR. Furthermore, I will characterize the consequence of IR on MAMs signalling pathways by combining ‘omics approaches and imaging technics, to identify the molecular and functional signature of the MAMs during the IR in vivo and characterize new molecular pathways involved in the onset of IR in the liver.

Keywords: mitochondria,endoplasmic reticulum,inter organelles contacts,intracellular signalling
Shine a Light on Villa Adriana. Analysing and reconstructing the original lighting asset and the illumination design process of the architectural complex of Villa Adriana, Tivoli. (S.A.L.V.A.)

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,Italy,Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2025-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 206641.2
EU funding (EUR): 206641.2
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The fellowship will be carried out in the Archaeology Area of the Department of Geography, History and Philosophy of the Pablo de Olavide University of Seville, with the supervision of Prof. Hidalgo Prieto. The project aims at analyzing and reconstructing the original lighting asset and the illumination design process of the outstanding architectural complex of Villa Adriana in Tivoli, Italy. Built under Hadrian’s reign, it counts more than 30 major building complexes. Given its importance and its good state of preservation the site has been studied in all aspects but the theme of light has remained neglected. Thanks to my background skills, new technologies for surveying, georeferencing, 3D reconstruction, virtual light reproduction, and thanks to the synergy among archaeologists, architects, IT experts, historians of science, lighting engineers, I will be able to approach this topic in a systematic way, addressing the technical and stylistic aspects of the lighting design praxis in its whole. The project will focus on three case-studies selected for their different features, functions and requirements: the triclinia halls, the Baths buildings, and the Praetorium complex. Their archeological remains will be surveyed with cutting edge technologies to gather accurate data, examined in relation to their context and imagined in their elevations through digital reconstructive models to investigate and reconstruct their original luminous ambiences. Though a secondment at the School of Specialization in Archaeological Heritage of Sapienza University of Rome and at Biblioteca Hertziana Visualizing Science in Media Revolution Research I will address the aspects related to lighting engineering and history of science. To verify, perfect and communicate the results achieved I will conduct a non-academic placement of 6 month at KatatexiLux, a firm highly specialized in virtual reconstructions and IT assisted research in the field of history of roman architecture and archeology.

Keywords: lighting engineering cultural heritage,cultural memory computational modelling and digitisation in the cultural sphere roman history
Côte d'Ivoire Ethics Capacity Building Initiative (CECaBI II) (CECABI II)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Global Health EDCTP3
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: EDCTP3 (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Côte d'Ivoire,South Africa,Senegal,France
Call: Strengthening ethics and regulatory capacity (HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2023-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1000000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The number of studies and experiments on humans is increasing in Africa. For the past two decades, the setting up of national health research ethics committees (NREC) in Africa, encouraged by the WHO, UNESCO and CIOMS, has resulted to a need for a framework to guide and standardise how Phase II to IV clinical trials in Africa are conducted. Additionally, NREC and National Regulatory Agency (NMRA) must proactively play their roles in managing and regulating clinical trials. In Côte d'Ivoire, an important decree signed by the President of the Republic in April 2020 defines the regulation of clinical trials in the country. The decree positions Universities and the establishment of institutional research ethics committees (IRECs) as the third pillar for enhancing the conduct of clinical trials and other categories of health research. However, only a couple of institutional review committees exist, with a very small proportion of researchers being aware of these IRECs. Furthermore, knowledge about the existence and functions of NRA is estimated to be much lower comparative to NREC. The need for NREC, NMRA and IRECs to work in synergy is a critical prerequisite for raising the quality of clinical trials to international standards. Funded by EDCTP II, the CECABI project (CSA2020ERC-3081), was instrumental in laying the foundation for building the regulatory and ethics capacity in Côte d'Ivoire. Important, it identified critical gaps that need urgent attention. The proposed CECABI II is a three years project that seeks to 1) Build capacity in clinical trials, GCP and research ethics for research practitioners 2) Enhance quality assurance through ISO certification of the NREC 3) Digitalise the operations and ongoing collaboration between the NREC and NRA 4) Support the domestication and digitalisation of AVAREF system 5) Monitor and evaluation to implementation of the project

Keywords: sub saharan africa