Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Three-Dimensional Imaging of Selective Particle Storage in Nanocapillaries (SPS_Nano)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175920.0
EU funding (EUR): 175920.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Precise manipulation of colloidal particles is essential to foster nanotechnology applications in chemistry, materials, biology, and devices. Fundamental insights into their dispersion, assembly, and reactivity, enable precise engineering of advanced materials and the development of innovative nanoscale devices, thus revolutionizing fields ranging from catalysis to electronics. For instance, colloidal particles with antagonistic electrophoresis (DEP) properties can be selectively inserted into a nanocapillary. When considering nanoparticles as carriers of data in a medium like water, arranging them in a specific sequence in the nanocapillary enables data storage. The feasibility of this particle storage relies on the ability to visualize and manipulate the nanoscale motions of the nanoparticles. One of the most sensitive and accurate ways to track particle movement is by monitoring individual particle fluorescence in optical microscopes, which is crucial for non-invasive imaging of particles in any colloidal environment. SPS_Nano aims to develop a three-dimensional dynamical imaging method to track and understand the controlled motion of nanoparticles using dielectrophoresis. This colloidal data storage is an alternative to current state-of-the-art solid-state devices which have fundamental limits to the scaling potential hindering the way to cost-effective memories. SPS_Nano lays the foundation of colloidal data storage technology which can enable low-cost high-density memory by reducing the particle size and increasing the nanocapillary aspect ratios in the future.

Keywords: single particle tracking,dielectrophoresis,colloidal nanoparticle,optical trapping,data storage
Exploring Complex Realities Around Gender Based Violence, Multiple Legal Orders and Role of Police in Addressing GBV Cases in Pakistan and Pakistani Immigrant Community in Norway (GBV_COP_SOC)

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,Hungary
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-08-15
End date: 2025-08-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 210911.04
EU funding (EUR): 210911.04
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Violence occurs in all countries, rich or poor, developed or developing, irrespective of caste, creed, color, social status, wealth, urban or rural residence, or the ages of victim and aggressor. Keeping this in mind, this study is designed to understand gendered aspects of Gender based violence in Pakistan and Pakistani Families living in Norway. Despite extensive legislation and steps taken by the federal and provincial government, the plague of GBV is at rise in Pakistan and rest of the world. Interestingly, to address the GBV issue at state level, community policing has emerged as an alternative approach to conventional, top-down approach to ensure Human security . Community policing also addresses gender inclusive policing which in response provides room to address serious issues like gender based violence. Such community based approaches to policing are instrumental in addressing the sensitive issues like GBV, however, the effectiveness of these approaches in complexed contexts are under-researched and debated in recent scholarship. Similarly, it is equally interesting to understand the choices people make in legally pluralistic societies because it will provide greater understanding to reflect on how people maneuver, negotiate and choose the legal system to address GBV . At the Norwegian level, it would be very valuable to review how police works with GBV victims from immigrant communities from Pakistan .Hence, there is need to understand the gaps and challenges within the designed mechanism to curb GBV with special focus on gendered social relations, legal pluralism and why it is important for police to understand contextual complexity . Qualitative data collection method will be used to collect data both from Pakistan and Norway. Study is framed from grains from various filed of studies like Security, feminism, IR, Legal and Development Studies to ensure interdisciplinarity.

Keywords: gender based violence,community policing,alternative conflict resolution,legal pluralism
EMBRACing changE: Overcoming obstacles and advancing democracy in the European Neighbourhood (EMBRACE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on Democracy and Governance
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Netherlands,Ukraine,Sweden,Belgium,Georgia,France,Greece,Serbia,United Kingdom,Palestine, State of
Call: Democratic politics in the EU’s neighbourhood (HORIZON-CL2-2021-DEMOCRACY-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2784843.75
EU funding (EUR): 2784843.5
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

EMBRACE analyses blockages to democratisation in the European neighbourhood, identifies ways to overcome them and suggests new policy tools for EU democracy promotion (EUDP). EMBRACE takes stock of developments in democracy-building, assessing EUDP instruments, ambitions and concepts. EMBRACE investigates episodes of political deadlock and opening to identify, analyse and explain behavioural, institutional and structural blockages, and the conditions under which they can be overcome. EMBRACE is sensitive to variation in democratisation trajectories, and the cultural, historical, and geopolitical context in which blockages emerge. It also keeps an eye on the blockages from within the EU. EMBRACE surveys the local needs for an improved EUDP and develops new policy tools (e.g. digital platform, EUDP mapping tool, EUDP best-practices collection, policy papers, video clips, podcasts, training webinars) for EUDP practitioners and pro-democracy activists. EMBRACE’s approach to empirical research combines a quantitative large-n with a qualitative middle-n comparative research strategy. Quantitatively, EMBRACE analyses the larger trends of EUDP and its effects on democratisation over the last two decades in all 23 neighbours. Qualitatively, EMBRACE investigates episodes of deadlock and opening from 12 selected countries in Eastern Europe, South Caucasus, Western Balkans, Northern Africa and the Middle East. Intra- and cross-regional comparison is systematically included in EMBRACE’s research design and WP structure. For data collection and analysis, consortium partners located in EU- and in non-EU countries team up. Six stakeholder committees monitor the entire research process assuring that local needs and narratives are considered. In doing so, EMBRACE provides the EU with in-depth knowledge and an innovative policy toolkit enhancing partnerships for a stable and secure European neighbourhood, and incentivising resilient political actors to embrace democratic change.

Keywords: democracy promotion,european neighbourhood,eudp,democratisation,blockages,geopolitical competition,political actors,civil society,narratives,cross regional learning,policy tools
Innovative treatment for extrapulmonary benefits in COPD: effects and mechanisms of supramaximal High-Intensity Training (COPD-HIT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Prevention,  Diagnosis and T reatment of Human Diseases
Panel description: Medical technologies  and tools for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases, therapeutic approaches and interventions , pharmacology, preventative  medicine, epidemiology and public health , digital medicine
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1490438.0
EU funding (EUR): 1490438.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Given the substantial negative impact of extrapulmonary manifestations on vital clinical outcomes, including mortality, the need for new effective treatment modalities also beyond the lungs has been highlighted as an urgent challenge in the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), one of the most common and deadliest diseases of the 21st century. The aim of COPD-HIT is to pave the way for new understanding of the development and treatment of extrapulmonary manifestations in COPD with a focus on brain health, muscle quality, and cardiac function. To do this I will focus on the following research objectives (RO): ● RO1) Determine the effect of supramaximal High-Intensity Training (HIT) on the brain, muscle, and heart ● RO2) Determine how exercise training and inflammation impacts the trajectories of neurodegeneration ● RO3) Develop a novel in-vitro model to determine signaling pathways following various loading intensities To reach these objectives, I aim to conduct high-quality multicenter randomized controlled and experimental trials. Further, I will lead an international research alliance with access to state-of-the-art research infrastructures and enable a unique interdisciplinary approach to fulfill my goals. This includes using advanced measurement techniques for muscle, brain, and cardiorespiratory evaluations, muscle biopsy analyses, in-vivo & in-vitro strategies, and combining quantitative and qualitative methods. Taken together, with COPD-HIT, I am in a strong position to perform an international novel project that will determine how to enable extrapulmonary benefits in COPD in a hitherto unprecedented way.

Keywords: high intensity interval training,copd,skeletal muscle,cognitive dysfunction,limb muscle dysfunction,
Additive Manufactured Automotive Antenna for Autonomous Driving (ACTIVATING)

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: Germany
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2023 (HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATOR-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2542500.0
EU funding (EUR): 1779750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

To enable autonomous driving, vehicles need to perceive their surroundings in 360 degrees under any conditions. Autonomous vehicles thus require a variety of high-performance sensors, including camera-, lidar- and radar systems. These sensors need to be weather-independent, reliable, cost-effective, and invisible. While cameras and lidar are struggling with various drawbacks, radar sensors have the potential to fulfil all requirements. However, critical technical hurdles need to be addressed first, and Golden Devices' technology plays a key role in overcoming them. High-performance antennas are a crucial factor in achieving the necessary level of sensor system performance. Antennas are the connecting and at the same time limiting element between chips, software, and the external environment. The antennas transmitting and receiving signals from radar sensors are currently based on printed circuit boards (PCB). Due to their 2-dimensional structure and very limited design possibilities, these PCB antennas have severe shortcomings in terms of performance. 3-dimensional waveguide antennas are a promising alternative, significantly reducing transmission losses and increasing bandwidth. However, the established design of waveguide antennas is based on a split-block approach, which means that several parts are assembled and manufactured mainly by injection moulding. Both factors are limiting the performance of waveguide antennas and therefore radar sensors. To overcome this limitation, Golden Devices has developed a unique manufacturing process based on 3D printing and a proprietary metallization concept. Unlike the split-block process, Golden Devices manufactures the waveguide antennas in one piece. This provides numerous essential advantages in terms of technical performance, significantly reduced product development times and costs, and thus faster time-to-market. In the next step, we will now scale and automate the manufacturing process to realise series production.

Keywords: additive manufacturing 3d printing metallization antenna waveguide rf mmwave radar sensor electroplating
Integrated Low-carbon and Resilient Hierarchical Microgrids Framework for Energy-flexible Buildings (I-CARE)

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: United Kingdom,Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-03-01
End date: 2028-02-29
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 260347.92
EU funding (EUR): 260347.92
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

This project aims to train a talented researcher, Dr. Shunbo Lei, by an interdisciplinary research program which is focused on developing advanced modelling, operation and planning technologies to establish an Integrated low-Carbon And Resilient hierarchical microgrids framework for Energy-flexible buildings (I-CARE). I-CARE is urgently needed from scientific research in collaboration with industry to allow them to better integrate building energy systems and power grids for both decarbonisation and resilience enhancement. The Fellow's original interdisciplinary background in grids and buildings and expertise in optimization algorithms make him a unique asset to Europe for developing innovative I-CARE technologies. As demonstrated in his CV, he has proven track record in grid resilience and building energy efficiency, and his accomplishment has been outstanding for his career stage. The Fellow will be further trained through a series of technical skills and theories related to advanced building simulation and building microgrid technologies at the main host Loughborough University and co-host TU Delft. The technologies and skills he will master during I-CARE will significantly diversify his capability, including building microgrid modelling, energy hub methods, big data technologies, and model predictive control. Moreover, I-CARE will provide him opportunities to transfer the knowledge he gains in the project to the benefits of European hosts and the regional industrial liaison, together with his existing knowledge on low carbon resilience integration of buildings and grids. Starting from integrated building flexibility modelling, this project will develop a novel solution to achieve co-optimised and coordinated operation and planning of building microgrids and external microgrids. Fostered by I-CARE, a leading expert in low-carbon and resilient energy systems is expected and will contribute greatly to European and global industries and academic communities.

Keywords: low carbon resilience,commercial building microgrid flexibility,hierarchical microgrids,distributed and decentralised optimisation,optimisation under uncertainty
Colonial Legacies and Redress: A Digital Mapping Solution for Europe (RedressHub)

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: Belgium
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2024-POC, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Colonialism is often seen as a chapter in history, yet its consequences – interwoven with structural racism and discrimination – continue to affect societies both inside and outside of Europe today. A growing number of institutional and civil society actors recognize the urgency of addressing these enduring legacies. Their efforts encompass policy, legal, and political reforms, historical truth-seeking processes, formal apologies, reparations, restitution of looted artifacts, memorialization, and the dismantling of colonial symbols. These measures and mechanisms, and the broader processes surrounding them are commonly referred to as ‘redress’. However, these initiatives remain highly fragmented, with limited knowledge-sharing and lesson-learning across different contexts. RedressHub will bridge this gap. As an innovative online database platform, RedressHub will leverage advanced data technologies, interactive visualization tools, and participatory design to map and connect redress initiatives for colonial harms and their legacies across Europe. This platform will serve as a dynamic space for a broad user community to engage in groundbreaking cross-sector collaborative justice efforts. It will become an essential resource for grassroots and community actors, policymakers, educators, human rights practitioners, and many other stakeholders to learn about, support, design and implement more meaningful and scalable redress initiatives across Europe—and beyond. RedressHub will thus transform the theoretical insights and methodological innovations from ERC-StG-804151 (Justice Visions) into practical, actionable tools that empower diverse stakeholders to acknowledge and address historical injustices and their lasting impact on contemporary societies.
High-precision eye-tracking in nonvisual settings (DEEP-EOG)

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: Italy
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2024-POC, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In the rapidly evolving landscape of cognitive neuroscience, a significant surge in research has highlighted eye movements as a critical yet previously underestimated window into neuro-cognitive processes. Our project is at the forefront of this paradigm shift, proposing an innovative machine learning-based approach to decode eye movements with high precision using electrooculography (EOG) channels alone. This method is set to revolutionize eye-tracking technologies, particularly in non-visual contexts such as closed eyes or during sleep, where traditional methods are ineffective. The initial phase of our research involves the extensive collection of simultaneous eye-tracking and EOG data under various conditions, including simulated sleep patterns. Using state-of-the-art deep neural networks to map high-precision eye-tracking data onto the simultaneously collected EOG signal, we aim to achieve a level of EOG electrode precision that has previously been unattainable. A key focus of our deep-learning model is its ability to generalize, thereby minimizing the need for extensive individual calibration. In practical terms, our project holds transformative potential across multiple domains. In the scientific field, it enables the exploration of eye movements with closed eyes, which is necessary for mind-reading research and mental states like meditation, providing new insights into the human mind. In medical monitoring, it opens avenues for non-invasive sleep analysis and the diagnosis of sleep-related disorders, previously hindered by the low precision of current gaze-tracking technology. The most groundbreaking application lies in developing a wearable device that enables widespread, effortless tracking and analysis of eye movements during sleep, thus democratizing the use of advanced cognitive monitoring tools to offer insights into sleep patterns and build a healthy sleep routine.
How pathological mutations and drugs alter the intracellular movements of the cardiac sodium channel (Nav1.5). (MOVINGHEART)

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: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-06
End date: 2025-09-05
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230774.4
EU funding (EUR): 230774.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The sodium voltage-gated ion channel Nav1.5 is a key player in shaping the cardiac action potential. Hundreds of pathological mutations that lead to the dysfunction of Nav1.5 are linked to severe pathologies, such as life-threatening arrythmias. The function of these channels is based on precise voltage-dependent molecular motions that result in the opening and closing of their sodium-conducting pore. Despite very recent advances in determining their atomic structure, knowledge of the dynamics of these conformational changes is still lacking. Similarly, it is unknown how pathological mutations, clinically used drugs or post-translational mutations affect these changes. In this project, I therefore propose to – for the first time - decipher the dynamic motions of the Nav1.5 intracellular domains by combining the measurement of the functional state of Nav1.5 through electrophysiology with fluorescent sensor recordings of the motions via voltage-clamp fluorometry. The challenge of establishing a fluorescent sensor on the intracellular domains of Nav1.5 will be overcome by the generation of semi-synthetic Nav1.5 that are engineered to contain a fluorescent dye via tandem protein trans-splicing. The probed motions will be then interrogated in the presence and absence of pathological mutations, drugs and post-translational modifications, such as phosphorylation. This will yield unprecedented insight into their mechanisms of action and will help to propose new ways of targeting the regulation of Nav1.5. This novel approach will therefore have direct implications for the future treatments of patients with cardiac arrhythmias. This innovative project, in an international environment, at the interface of biophysics, fluorescence, pharmacology and peptide synthesis, will also help me deepen my scientific, transversal skills and maturity. This in turn will provide me with the maturity required to become a team leader of my own research group.

Keywords: ion channel,membrane proteins,electrophysiology,fluorescence,protein engineering,biophysics,conformational changes,peptides