Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Towards greener and more sustainable analytical approaches: Development of an integrative supercritical CO2-based multidimensional system for bioactive compound study in natural and biological samples (GREENMULTIDIMCO2)

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: France,Japan,Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-13
End date: 2028-01-12
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 301660.8
EU funding (EUR): 301660.8
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

Chemical characterization is essential to the study of bioactive compounds in natural and biological samples but conventional preparative and analytical techniques are usually time, energy and solvent-intensive, posing environmental and health risks. Supercritical carbon dioxide (CO2) present an eco-friendly alternative due to its interesting physio-chemical properties. Prof. West’s research group has been developing approaches involving supercritical CO2 for two decades, and recently developed an integrated system combining supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) and supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) for the on-line extraction and analysis of polar and non-polar bioactive compounds from plants. Although feasible, such coupling is very challenging, especially when targeting compounds with a wide range of polarities. The next step is thus to further improve the developed system and explore its applicability to other samples with different matrices and classes of compounds. Specifically, the use of unified chromatography (UC), an advanced version of SFC, will be investigated to further expand the efficiency and potential scope of the system. Since the interfacing of the two techniques is a major bottleneck preventing the system from reaching its full potential, finding innovative solutions to facilitate the extract transfer from the first to the second dimension is necessary. An important part of this project will thus be devoted to investigating new interface modalities to address the compatibility problems and instrumental issues pertaining to this hyphenation. To boost chromatographic separation power and facilitate structural elucidation, the potential of incorporating multidimensional (mD) separation steps while coupling the system with mass spectrometry (MS) will also be explored, to develop a novel on-line (mD-SFE)-(mD-SFC/UC)-MS system. Finally, the system’s utility will be demonstrated through qualitative and quantitative analyses of real-life samples.

Keywords: multidimensional chromatography hyphenated techniques bioactive molecules extraction methods green chemistry natural products biofluids
SCALABLE MULTI-CHIP QUANTUM ARCHITECTURES ENABLED BY CRYOGENIC WIRELESS / QUANTUM -COHERENT NETWORK-IN PACKAGE (QUADRATURE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Spain,Netherlands,Germany,Italy,Ireland,Switzerland
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open 2022 (HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDEROPEN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3420513.75
EU funding (EUR): 3420513.75
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Today’s tremendous interdisciplinary effort towards building a quantum computer promises to tackle problems beyond reach of any classical computer. Although intermediate-scale quantum computers have been recently demonstrated to exceed the capability of the most powerful supercomputers, it is widely recognized that addressing any real-world problem will require upscaling quantum computers to thousands or even millions of qubits. This proposal focuses on the grand challenge of scalability in quantum computers, from a full-stack architectural standpoint, and enabled by communication networks operating within the quantum computing package at cryogenic temperatures. The QUADRATURE project hence aims to pioneer a new generation of scalable quantum computing architectures featuring distributed quantum cores (Qcores) interconnected via quantum-coherent qubit state transfer links and orchestrated via an integrated wireless interconnect. This novel architecture supports reconfigurability to serve massive flows of heterogeneous quantum algorithmic demands. The main objectives are (i) to experimentally prove the first micro-integrated all-RF qubit-state transfer link within a cryogenic tunable superconducting cavity waveguide in the microwave and THz frequency region for quantum-coherent frequency-multiplex and routing (ii) to achieve experimentally the transfer of classical data through wireless in-package links by integrated cryo-antennas and tranceivers (iii) to build protocols for a quantum-coherent integrated network enabling the exchange of qubits through the coordination of the quantum-coherent data plane and the wireless control plane (iv) to develop appropriate scalable architectural methods such as mapping, scheduling, and coordination approaches across multiple Qcores, and (v) to demonstrate the scalability of the approach via multi-scale design space optimization and for a set of quantum algorithm benchmarks, with at least 10x improvement in overall performance.

Keywords: scalable quantum computing systems wireless network on chip quantum coherent communication links cryo cmos quantum computing architectures quantum algorithms
Representations of Poverty in Early Twentieth-Century Literature and Sociology (CP20)

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: 2024-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 210911.04
EU funding (EUR): 210911.04
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The early twentieth century saw a major shift towards an interest in representing the experiences of the poor within British culture. This project develops an account of how this trend might be defined in relation to earlier nineteenth-century patterns, developing and scrutinising the hypothesis (founded upon Michel Foucault's analysis of neoliberalism) that heightened levels of attentiveness masked a continued commitment to productivist values, deemed by Kohei Saito, Jason Hickel, and others to be socially and environmentally harmful. Using a mixed methods approach, combining computational criticism, archival research, and theoretical analysis, this project explores evolutions in early twentieth-century representations of poverty in Britain within the domains of literature and sociology. In the first instance, a digital corpus of representations of poverty is built and analysed to quantitatively analyse this trend. In the second, archival case studies of four authors (Elizabeth Gaskell, Bronislaw Malinowski, Charles Booth, and Storm Jameson) enable a more nuanced appraisal of these findings through close reading of neglected texts. In the third, a theory is developed concerning the relationship between poverty representation and productivism in the early twentieth century, indicating that popular literature and sociology played a key but under-acknowledged role in enabling the advancement of productivist ideology. Through an extensive range of dissemination, exploitation, and communication activities - including workshops, video content, and interaction with campaign groups - an effort is made to ensure that these findings broaden the scope of current inquiries into productivism and its associated harms.

Keywords: english literature literary history interwar years productivism degrowth history of sociology social exploration critical theory michel foucault,storm jameson elizabeth gaskell
Affordable TAndem Cell Architecture by Multi-thin-epitaxy Approach (ATACAMA)

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 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 211754.88
EU funding (EUR): 211754.88
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. It is essential to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions. We need more and better photovoltacis (PV) to drastically reduce the CO2 emissions. PV will need to be widely distributed to be able to replace the enormous (and growing) amounts of conventional electrical energy. Availability of surface areas allocated to PV, preferably close to the end use of the electricity, will become an issue. Reliability and a high energy yield per area will become important for the success of PV products. Europe presents higher complexity than other regions, because of its limited space and high-density population. Current Silicon technology is basically limited by its single junction (one semiconductor bandgap) to efficiencies below 30%. Multi-junctions/Tandems using more than one semiconductor diode (aiming at different energies in the spectrum) are the demonstrated path to overpass this limit and achieve efficiencies close to 40%, as done for three junctions (3J) on III-V and with 35% achievable by using a Si bottom junction (3J GaInP/GaAs/Si). Two tandems technologies have emerged as promising to upgrade the current Si technology: perovskites/Si and III-V/Si. III-V/Si presents the highest efficiency and stability (20-30years) but two orders of magnitude higher cost. The ATACAMA project will develop the top junction for a III-V/Si tandem (AlGaAs/Si), with a drastic reduction in cost for the III-Vs by (1) ultra-thin absorbers using low-cost nanostructuring and (2) substrate multi-thin-epitaxial enable by a novel epitaxial lift-off process. Furthermore, the III-V/Si tandem has to attain a high efficiency (>30%)(3), that will ensure a cost-effective solution. Nevertheless, the tandem must ensure circularity (recyclable path) to split the Si from the III-V, by gluing with transparent polymers, with a melting point of 200°C, ensuring the possibility of easily recycling in the future the AlGaAs cell from the Si cell.

Keywords: quasirandom,hyperuniform,tandem,epitaxial lift off,iii v,silicon
The concept of teotl: a complex approach to the principal religious category of pre-Hispanic Central Mexico (TEOTL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: Poland
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499925.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499925.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Since the 16th century, the polymorphous and overlapping identities of Nahua (Aztec) deities have puzzled, first, the friars carrying out their evangelization project in New Spain, and later, throngs of researchers eager to better understand the pre-Hispanic Nahua system of beliefs. Despite many scholarly efforts, today, we are still far from satisfactorily apprehending the various intricacies of of the concept of teotl. Rendering of the Nahuatl term teotl as “god,” helpful as it was in the process of cultural translation, neither reflects its full semantic scope nor explains ontological and cosmological implications of this notion. Nevertheless, up to this date, no one has attempted to embrace this problem bringing together multiple yet complementary perspectives integrated by an innovative set of analytical tools. The project TEOTL aims at unfolding the underlying notions of this pre-Hispanic Nahua key religious concept by combining its four crucial aspects. These are: 1. “Nahua pantheon”; 2. teotl in relation to other important religious categories, such as tonalli, nahualli, or ixiptla; 3. philological analysis of the term teotl in collocations, compounds, and the discourse of Nahuatl texts; 4. appropriation of the notion of teotl in colonial Nahuatl Christian discourse. Using the heterogeneous textual and iconographic dataset derived from the well-known source base, TEOTL will employ a novel combination of research methods at the intersection of traditional (ethnohistory, religious studies, art history, philology, linguistics) and digital humanities (network analysis in historical sciences). This unexplored research path will lead to a reconceptualization of our approach towards the Nahua notion of the sacred and its decolonization. Also, the obtained results may be applicable outside of Mesoamerican studies as a model for approaching similar non-Western cultural and religious phenomena.

Keywords: mesoamerica,ethnohistory,nahuatl language,aztecs,culture contact,pre hispanic religion
Multi-Sensor Bayesian Data Assimilation for Large-Scale Drought Monitoring System (MuSe-BDA) (MuSe-BDA)

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: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-08
End date: 2025-08-07
Duration (months): 35.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230774.4
EU funding (EUR): 230774.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Climate change and anthropogenic modifications are bringing multiple changes in different regions of the world, affecting the patterns of rainfall, evapotranspiration and stored terrestrial water, which will increase the probability of climate disasters, such as agricultural losses, water scarcity, and famine. Drought monitoring and hydrological early warning system are important tools for water resources management, and they must be further complemented by forecasting facilities that are well integrated with the EU’s Earth Observation data. In this project, based on Forootan and Mehrnegar's expertise, an accurate and efficient, as well as physically and mathematically consistence Bayesian-based Data Assimilation (DA) framework(s) will be developed to integrate the benefits of synergistically available satellite geodetic and Earth Observation (EO) data and the state-of-the-art of hydrological models to better understand and forecast the recent and future spatial-temporal changes in continental water storage and water fluxes. The proposed Multi-Sensor Bayesian Data Assimilation (MuSe-BDA) are unique in terms of flexibility to assimilate various satellite data, and they are computationally efficient. Building on the effort in MuSe-BDA, this is the first attempt to simultaneously merge multi-land surface models with satellite-derived Surface Soil Moisture (SSM), Surface Water Level (SWL) anomaly from satellite altimetry, Land Surface Temperature (LST) from remote sensing data, and gravity field estimates from GRACE and GRACE-FO missions. The application will be demonstrated in simulating and forecasting episodic large-scale droughts within Europe (north and south) and USA (e.g., California and Texas) covering 2003-onward with an unprecedented spatial resolution of 0.05° (~5 km) at daily temporal rate, which is essential for practical applications such as agricultural early warning and the assimilation of satellite data ensures the compatibility with the real world.

Keywords: bayesian,data assimilation,drought monitoring,europe,conus,hydrology,meso scale,remote sensing earth observation eo
Comprehensive Platform for Correlating Biomolecular Dynamics and Biomechanics with Multiscale Optical Spectroscopy (MotionPicture)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and Communication Engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-03-01
End date: 2031-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1497000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1497000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Measuring the molecular dynamics and interactions of biomolecules in live cells is crucial for understanding cellular mechanisms. While recent advances in super-resolution fluorescence microscopy have enabled molecular-level resolution in fixed samples, capturing dynamics in live cells remains a major challenge. Conventional methods for studying molecular dynamics struggle with high fluorophore concentrations, photobleaching, and the need for extensive prior knowledge about the setup and sample. In addition, measuring the molecular diffusion properties without knowing the local viscosity complicates the study of anomalous diffusion dynamics. The overall goal of the MotionPicture project is the development of a platform based on optical microscopy with massive information content to quantify molecular dynamics and local viscosity with unprecedented detail, speed, and ease of use. The project involves the construction of a photon-resolved microscope combining fluorescence and Brillouin microscopy. We will use various methods to shape and move the fluorescence excitation beam and tag every emitted photon with multiple signatures, such as spatial information, time of arrival, and energy. We will develop a deep-learning based analysis framework to extract molecular dynamics information from the high-dimensional data set. In parallel, we use label-free Brillouin microscopy to correlate the fluorescence data with the biomechanical properties of the same sample. Compared to the state-of-the-art, this project aims to derive a more complete picture of the molecular dynamics and in a faster, more robust, less phototoxic, and more user-friendly way. The unique combination of the fluorescence and Brillouin information will have significant potential for the study of biomolecular dynamics. We will demonstrate this potential in the context of biomolecular condensates, which play a vital role in many processes and whose behavior has been associated with several diseases.

Keywords: fluorescence correlation spectroscopy,fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy,fluorescence lifetime,molecular dynamics,brillouin microscopy,biomolecular condensates,
Sustainable biochar-enhanced upcycling solutions for Zero-Waste valorization of organic waste into circular economy products (Bio4UP)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Spain,France,Ireland,Greece,Slovenia,Colombia,Peru
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-SE-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1734175.71
EU funding (EUR): 1513020.0
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

The sustainable management of organic waste is a critical global challenge, leading to greenhouse gas emissions and resource inefficiency utilization. Bio4UP tackles this by developing biochar-enhanced technologies within a zero-waste strategy, integrating biotechnological and catalytic approaches in a circular economy framework. The project aims to: (1) Develop multifunctional biochars for organic waste valorization; (2) Optimize biochar-integrated processes in anaerobic digestion, biogas purification, and catalytic CO2 conversion into methanol or methane to improve efficiency and sustainability; (3) Valorize biochar-containing digestate into biopesticides and biostimulants via solid-state fermentation; (4) Develop decision-support tools and sustainability frameworks to guide circular economy strategies; and (5) Foster interdisciplinary, intersectoral, and international collaboration through staff exchanges and knowledge transfer. Bio4UP aligns with MSCA SE principles by bringing together 9 European beneficiaries (Spain, France, Ireland, Greece, Slovenia) and 2 Latin American partners (Colombia, Peru) from academia, industry, and research institutions. The project mobilizes 302 person-months of staff exchanges, fostering expertise in biochar engineering, process optimization, and sustainability assessment while promoting mutual knowledge exchange between Europe and LMICs. By integrating lab-scale research with pilot-scale validation, Bio4UP bridges scientific innovation and industrial application, supporting the European Green Deal and Horizon Europe’s circular economy objectives. The project advances scalable waste-to-resource pathways, enhancing bioenergy production, reducing emissions, and fostering sustainable agriculture in alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals, while strengthening researcher mobility and career development.

Keywords: biochar organic waste valorization anaerobic digestion biogas upgrading solid state fermentation methanol production biostimulants biopesticides circular economy interdisciplinary collaboration