Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Participation and Representation in the Digital Age: Participation Repertoires in an Era of Unequal Representation (PRD)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Israel,Italy,Sweden
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

This project addresses the question of how people incorporate increasingly prevalent nonelectoral political acts into individual-level repertoires of participation; and how well represented these different types of political participators are. At a time of growing concern about unequal representation in democracies, two conflicting global trends over the last several decades highlight the importance of these questions: a clear decline in voter turnout, especially among lower status groups; and evidence of increased nonelectoral participation, especially among higher status groups. To assess how these trends in political participation affect patterns of representation, PRD’s theoretical framework integrates new approaches for investigating the links between individuals’ participation repertoires (i.e., how individuals combine voting, protest, online activism) and objective and subjective representational outcomes. PRD’s work packages employ a multi-method approach: “Political acts and political participators” (WP1) analyzes separate surveys and a harmonized dataset and includes methodological innovations using new techniques for identifying participation repertoires. “Participation-representation connection” (WP2) investigates the connections between the political acts and political participators analyzed in WP1 and representational outcomes, and integrates these findings with qualitative fieldwork with activists who focus on unequal representation. Finally, “Mobilizing and organizing low-status groups” (WP3) conducts novel experimental studies using Twitter panel data and field experiments to identify interventions with the potential to produce more equal representational outcomes in the future. By combining an original theoretical framework and methodological innovations, PRD will conduct a uniquely comprehensive empirical investigation of participation repertoires, with a focus on mechanisms that can reduce inequalities in participation and representation.

Keywords: political participation,political behavior,unequal representation,digital media,public opinion,responsiveness,congruence,political attitudes,political efficacy,comparative analysis,data harmonization,latent class analysis,latent variable analysis,experimental design,twitter panel
3D printing fabrication of tailored interfaces for pressurized Protonic Ceramic Electrolysis Cells (Pressuriz3D)

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: Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Pressuriz3D aims to advance in the field of pressurized protonic ceramic electrolysis cells (PCEC) with the utilization of advanced fabrication techniques such as masked-stereolithography (MSLA) and robocasting. Aiming to reduce the utilization of fossil fuels on a global scale, the design of systems for hydrogen production via steam electrolysis is fundamental to increase the reliability of renewable energy sources. PCECs are high-temperature electrolysers which use ceramic electrolytes characterized by high protonic conductivity. Compared with other HTEs (e.g., solid oxide electrolysis cells, SOEC), this type of conduction mechanism can significantly reduce the operating temperature of the device (e.g., from 700-900 °C to 300-650 °C respectively for SOEC and PCEC). Additionally, PCECs can produce directly pure hydrogen eliminating the purification process to remove steam necessary for SOECs. Fabrication of a PCEC via additive manufacturing (AM) techniques can significantly reduce production costs and the waste of material during processing, thus boosting sustainability and circularity aspects. complex-shaped electrolyte can be produced increasing the mechanical resistance with the joining materials to maintain the gas tightness of the system (i.e., glass-ceramic sealants). Patterned surfaces coupled with glass ceramic sealants will allow the utilization of pressurized gases, which are expected to significantly increase PCEC performances. Furthermore, geometry modification of the electrolyte membranes, thanks to the fabrication via MSLA printing, can further improve the performance and the hydrogen production rate. A high impact on the future career of the candidate is expected by complementing his current background with new skills in the field of hydrogen conversion, in particular, the design and processing of PCEC and the integration of glass-ceramic sealants for the fabrication of pressurized systems.

Keywords: protonic ceramic electrolysis cell,hydrogen production,hydrogen,3d printing,glass ceramic,advanced fabrication,pressurized pcec,pressurized cell,pcec,additive manufaturing
TERAhertz integrated systems enabling 6G Terabit-per-second ultra-massive MIMO wireless networks (TERA6G)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Smart Networks and Services
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: SNS (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Spain,Greece,Germany,Netherlands,Finland
Call: Wireless Communication Technologies and Signal Processing (HORIZON-JU-SNS-2022, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6133004.91
EU funding (EUR): 5892962.55
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

TERA6G aims at developing disruptive photonic wireless transceivers enabling Terabit-per-second data throughput capacity and massive Multiple-Input/Multiple-Output multi-antenna techniques operating in the millimeter-wave (30 GHz to 300 GHz) and Terahertz (300 GHz to 3 THz) bands of the spectrum, unlocking the “Fiber-over-the-Air” concept. The concept uses independently steerable wireless pencil-beams with fiber data throughput capacity, allowing mobile site connectivity scenarios in dense urban areas with macro/street level densification, temporal mobile site connectivity in ad-hoc networks, and connectivity to moving objects in public or private networks. Hybrid photonic integration is the key enabler technology to develop a Blass-Matrix Transmitter and an incoherent-multi-band Receiver with key disruptive characteristics, including agility (handling any modulation scheme and continuous tuning of the carrier frequency across the target spectrum range), scalability (handling large number of beams with 2-dimensional antenna arrays for beamformed antenna gain >25 dBi and > 100º steering angles beam-steering) and reconfigurability (performing a variety of functions, from wireless data transmission, or radar ranging to channel sounding). These disruptive wireless transceiver modules characteristics will be exploited at network level by developing the dynamic allocation of the network resources that these bring. We plan to dynamically analyze the position of the different wireless nodes and the channel resources using respectively the radar ranging and channel sounding techniques enabled by the novel reconfigurable TERA6G photonic transceivers. This will allow for novel scheduling methods capable of alternating paths to establish the connectivity, ensuring connection reliability, and considering energy consumption in the establishment of the wireless link. TERA6G is the crossroad of previous H2020 projects TERAWAY, ARIADNE, TERRANOVA and FUDGE-5G.

Keywords: photonic enabled thz communications,tunable thz radio,millimeter wave radar,thz channel sounding,beam forming,beam steering and tracking,multi beam processing,mimo,sdn controller integration
Machine Learning for Structural Health Monitoring of Cultural Heritage (MLCULT)

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: Portugal,Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2024-11-30
Duration (months): 29.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172618.56
EU funding (EUR): 172618.56
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Europe is home to about 400 UNESCO world heritage sites and has a growing tourism industry employing many people directly and indirectly. Hence, it is of concern to ensure the cultural heritage (CH) buildings are inspected properly and correct damage diagnosis is performed. Incorrect damage diagnosis will lead to loss of cultural value and may lead to the closing of the monument, thus affecting society in general and the livelihood of people associated with it. The proposed MLCULT project is motivated by the need to perform damage diagnosis of CH using image-based machine learning (ML) techniques, thus helping to preserve them. The popularity of ML approaches and deep learning algorithms has increased considerably over the last two decades. Computer-vision-based damage detection employing convolutional neural networks will be integrated with laser scan data, nondestructive testing, and other condition assessment data to provide a better estimate of existing areas of damage. The model will be trained from the database of earthquake-damaged CH collected by the host institutions UMinho and Polimi. Several typologies of damage indicators will be identified and quantified, due to weathering, moisture ingress, algae growth, and efflorescence. The project will be supervised by Prof. Lourenço at the University of Minho, Portugal, who is an international expert on CH, and Prof. Luigi Barazzetti at Politecnico di Milano, Italy whose has expertise in computer-vision, drone and image-based damage detection. Finally, a prototype inspection system (first of its kind in CH field) using drones-based real-time damage detection will be demonstrated, specifically for CH damage pathologies. The proposed method can help in identifying structural anomalies in CH that must be urgently repaired and thus can be used in high-quality civil infrastructure monitoring systems. This method would also enable fast screening of CH buildings after a disaster such as an earthquake.

Keywords: heritage buildings,heritage maintenance,image processing,machine learning,structural health monitoring,cultural heritage,monitoring and diagnosis,damage detection,computer vision
Ultrafast molecular chirality: twisting light to twist electrons on ultrafast time scale (ULISSES)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical Sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2476743.0
EU funding (EUR): 2476743.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Chiral molecules are characterized by specific stereo arrangements of their nuclei underlying their key function in chemistry and biology. Yet, little is known about chiral molecular interactions at the level of electrons, occurring on the ultrafast time scale. Developing extremely efficient enantio-sensitive ultrafast all-optical approaches to track electronic dynamics is an important unsolved challenge. We aim to address it in ULISSES – a multidisciplinary project at the interface of physical chemistry, strong-field physics, ultrafast and nonlinear optics. We plan to take advantage of the chiral electron currents, which arise naturally in chiral molecules interacting with sufficiently intense ultrafast light. The chiral nature of these currents is dictated by the molecule itself. We will structure laser polarization in space and time, endowing light with local chiral and global topological properties, to control these electron currents, enabling new, orders of magnitude more efficient, enantio-sensitive all-optical effects, gaining access to the ultrafast electron dynamics and physical mechanisms underlying the chiral function. We will also develop a framework for describing geometrical magnetism, generated by the electron currents in chiral molecules, and introduce a new class of enantio-sensitive phenomena enabled by these geometric concepts. We aim to establish: 1) novel, highly efficient, all-optical ways of enantio-discrimination, 2) enantio-resolved movies of chiral electronic dynamics, 3) chiral topological light – a new tool for chiral interactions, and 4) bridges between light-driven electron dynamics in chiral gases and topological effects in solids. ULISSES will dramatically expand fundamental understanding of the dynamical response of chiral systems to light and lay the foundation for innovative applications of all-optical methods to chiral discrimination in low-density samples with extraordinary sensitivity and molecular specificity.

Keywords: molecular chirality,high harmonic spectroscopy,structures light,ultrafast electron dynamics,multiphoton processes,photoionization,ultrafast optics,ultrashort laser pulses
Atomically layered materials for next-generation metasurfaces (METANEXT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed Matter Physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498056.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498056.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Atomically layered materials composed of individual atomic planes bonded together by weak van der Waals (vdW) interactions have sparked a revolution in solid state physics due to their unique electronic properties and capability for forming multi-material heterostructures with atomically sharp interfaces. However, accessing fundamental electronic excitations of two-dimensional (2D) materials optically has so far been a major challenge due to the associated low absorption cross sections and their low environmental stability. METANEXT will establish a new paradigm for amplifying and harnessing light-matter interactions in 2D materials by shaping vdW heterostructures into the resonant building blocks of optical metasurfaces. At the core of the proposed platform is the implementation of nanostructured hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) as a photonically active material, pushing beyond its currently prevalent use as a passive buffer layer in optoelectronics. Leveraging the emerging concept of optical bound states in the continuum, I will use my extensive experience in nanophotonic engineering to design and experimentally realize hBN-based metasurfaces with ultrasharp resonances incorporating mono- and few-layer systems of vdW materials, allowing direct optical access to such 2D systems with unprecedented efficiency and spectral/spatial control over the excitation. Specifically, I will utilize the METANEXT platform to (1) push the limits of light-matter coupling in black phosphorus heterostructures, (2) greatly boost the efficiency of single-photon generation from localized defects in atomically thin molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), and to (3) realize a completely new concept for valley-dependent on-chip lasing from transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers. METANEXT will deliver both fundamental insights into the optical excitation mechanisms of current and future 2D materials as well as important conceptual advances for practical chip-integrated quantum light sources.

Keywords: nanophotonics,metasurfaces,bound states in the continuum,van der waals materials,2d materials,light matter coupling,single photon emission
Next Generation BiOactiVe NAnocoatings (NOVA)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Slovenia,Slovakia,Ireland,France,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Ukraine
Call: Antimicrobial, Antiviral, and Antifungal Nanocoatings (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4699071.25
EU funding (EUR): 4699068.0
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

NOVA aims to provide a comprehensive approach to antimicrobial coating development by creating an effective feedback loop between coating design, end use and functional/safety testing. This consists of combinatorial optimisation of 4 coating technologies: i) light activated based on: UV up-converters, nanoscale photocatalysts and hydrophobic carbon-based Quantum Dots and ii) contact killing biopolymers (chain-length controlled supramolecular assemblies of polypeptides and polysaccharides). The coatings will be adjusted in a use case driven specifications for having the capacity to coat different substrates in the same environment such as hospitals. In order to guarantee safety for citizens and environment, the coatings will be developed with a Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) approach taking into account the environmental risks. NOVA will develop advanced tissue tests and immunotoxicity tests optimized for coatings to provide tools for the regulatory bodies an in depth analysis of future coatings. For demonstrating practical efficacy, real-life mimicking, innovative antimicrobial tests will be developed. The validated coatings will be developed for commercial exploitation by upscaling using the capacities of the industrial partners. For easier adoption specific coating application devices will be designed within the project. Finally, the experimental data generated within the project together with the historical data of coating developers of the consortium will be used for developing predictive models using machine learning methodologies for expedited coating development methodologies in the future. NOVA aims to bring high efficiency, eco-friendly, stable coatings demonstrated within the project in 4 main use cases (textiles, paints, tactile electronics and frequently touched hard surfaces with high hygienical relevance like e.g. in hospitals and common hygienical relevance in public spaces) which can be then expanded for more widespread utilization.

Keywords: bioactive coating,inorganic coating,advanced testing methods,modeling approaches,simulation,ssbd
Conditions for Responsible Research of SRM – Analysis, Co-Creation, and Ethos (Co-CREATE) (Co-CREATE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Climate
Destination: Climate sciences and responses for the transformation towards climate neutrality
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands,United Kingdom,France,Italy,Poland,Finland,Ireland
Call: Solar Radiation Modification: governance of research (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D1-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2057634.45
EU funding (EUR): 1974914.46
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

Experimental research on solar radiation modification (SRM) is controversial and feared to distract from climate change mitigation or leading to dangerous SRM use. It is not clear whether and under which conditions and governance arrangements experimental SRM research may be desirable for reducing uncertainties and lowering the probability of problematic outcomes including unilateral deployment elsewhere. Co-CREATE seeks to help structure this decision problem through co-creative scoping, analysis, and engagement for the development of principles and guidelines. The project starts with a series of scoping notes that outline key dimensions of experimental SRM research including possible cases and their geographical, stake- and rightsholder, and regulatory implications, which ground the conceptual work. Co-CREATE then analyses and develops decision-support tools by asking what we can learn from governance analogues, and how various (risk) evaluation frameworks may help identify key characteristics of research proposals. Co-CREATE furthermore analyses possible legal and procedural conditions including appropriate participation. Co-CREATE itself will for the development of these governance elements enter an extensive stakeholder and rightsholder dialogue that validates preliminary analytical work, ensures stakeholders’ diverse dimensions of concern are included, and strengthens deliberative capacity. Co-CREATE proposes guidelines and principles to facilitate decision-making by the relevant authorities on broader categories of experimental research of SRM as well as case-by-case decisions. A draft will be discussed at a Co-CREATE hosted conference and later refined based on feedback received. Proposed principles and guidelines will be grounded in a understanding of scientific merit, physical and political dimensions of risk and risk-attenuation benefit, and consideration of broader sets of values and concerns – co-creatively identified during the project.

Keywords: governance,research ethics,responsible research and innovation,co creation,transparency