Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
An exposition on THe forEign informatioN mAnipulation and interference (ATHENA)

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: Greece,Cyprus,Germany,Sweden,Finland,Spain,France,Ireland,Belgium,Ukraine,United Kingdom
Call: Detecting, analysing and countering foreign information manipulation and interference (HORIZON-CL2-2023-DEMOCRACY-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3099035.0
EU funding (EUR): 3099035.0
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

Russia, China and other countries have exploited the Internet to wage campaigns of disinformation and interference in Europe to disrupt democratic processes for their perceived political and economic benefit. Since its invasion of Ukraine, Russia has greatly increased its cyber attacks and disinformation campaigns against Ukraine and other countries in Europe. The EU understands the urgency of combatting such attacks against our infrastructures, economies, values and democracies. ATHENA will contribute to Europe’s defence against foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI). It will examine at least 30 manifestations of FIMI in case studies, including the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP) used by attackers. The consortium will analyse the behavioural and societal effects of FIMI. It will assess and develop countermeasures against the TTP. It will collect and process FIMI data, develop a knowledge graph, a disinformation analysis toolbox and dashboard showing the prevalence of FIMI and the countermeasures in action. ATHENA will conduct a comparative, eight-country analysis of legal and regulatory frameworks against FIMI and their shortcomings and where Member States and the EU should strengthen their policy framework. ATHENA will produce an easy-to-use questionnaire that anyone can use to decide whether they are confronted by FIMI. We will go beyond state of the art by scanning the horizon for new instances of FIMI, for signs of the evolution in disinformation (as with deepfakes and chatbots). From the start of the project, ATHENA will engage stakeholders through interviews, workshops, a Stakeholder Board and a cluster of relevant projects. We will share knowledge with other stakeholders and provide training in countermeasures to universities and schools. The ATHENA consortium comprises experienced partners, including SMEs, universities, cybersecurity companies, fact-checkers and an association, from Ukraine to Ireland, from Sweden to Cyprus.

Keywords: disinformation,misinformation,foreign interference,cyber attackers,malware
HIGH-VOLTAGE FAST-CHARGING EFFICIENT ELECTRIC VEHICLE POWERTRAINS (HiVEP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Clean and competitive solutions for all transport modes
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: 2ZERO (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Germany,Türkiye,Austria,United Kingdom,Slovenia
Call: Integration and testing of next generation post-800V electric powertrains (2ZERO Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D5-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-02-01
End date: 2028-07-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4983920.75
EU funding (EUR): 4983920.75
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

As governments and consumers worldwide aim for climate neutrality and sustainable transportation, the demand for more efficient vehicles steadily increases, pushing the voltage of the powertrain to new levels. The HiVEP project is a groundbreaking initiative set to revolutionize electric vehicle (EV) efficiency and performance through advanced high-voltage powertrain technologies. Targeting mass-market C-segment vehicles, HiVEP introduces powertrain architectures operating above 800V, enhancing vehicle performance by integrating ultra-efficient power electronics with advanced SiC semiconductors, Active Winding Reconfiguration, integrated chargers, and rare-earth-free electric machines optimized for high voltages. It also includes high-energy-density batteries with 3.6 C-rate and optimized thermal management. These innovations aim to drastically reduce EV charging times at under 10 minutes —a significant adoption barrier—reducing energy consumption by 25%, boosting range by 20% and enhancing driving dynamics. HiVEP also emphasizes the safety and sustainability of its systems, promoting resource efficiency and a lower lifecycle footprint through reduced material usage and energy consumption. Finally, it strives to maximise the affordability and cost competitivess of the innovations, by reducing future powertrain costs by 10-20% at mass production levels. The project combines the expertise of 12 leading European automotive manufacturers, technology providers, and academic institutions, supported by innovative semiconductor manufacturers and EU platforms EARPA and CLEPA. This collaboration fosters a holistic innovation approach to address technical challenges effectively. HiVEP's ambitious goals aim to significantly cut carbon emissions in the transportation sector, align with global environmental targets, and bolster Europe’s leadership in sustainable automotive technology. Expected outcomes could catalyze further EV innovations, broadening adoption and acceptance.

Keywords: powertrain,inverter,electric motor,thermal management,energy management,battery,fast charging,efficiency
IMPlementation of Affordable gene Correction Therapies (IMPACT)

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: Netherlands
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2024-POC, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Rare genetic diseases affect over 30 million people in Europe. Although individually rare and very diverse, they are all caused by genetic mutations. Recent progress in genetic technologies now holds the promise to correct the root cause of these diseases. However, it remains difficult to develop these innovative technologies into affordable therapies for these diseases that only affect few patients, limiting commercial interest. IMPACT aims to overcome the translational gap between scientific gene editing and in human gene correction therapies that will be affordable and readily available for patients with rare genetic diseases. To overcome this gap, we will use a multifaceted approach to set up the infrastructure for a gene correction therapy for Methylmalonic Acidemia (MMA) by elucidating and addressing the essential (1) regulatory, (2) manufacturing, and (3) financial requirements. This approach involves preclinical testing of the therapy in a perfused ex vivo human liver, clarifying the intellectual property strategy, and involving experts, stakeholders, and end users to define the regulatory, manufacturing, and financial strategies required for academic development and clinical implementation. As such, IMPACT aims to valorise the innovative gene correction strategy developed with the ERC Starting Grant to deliver prime editing tools as mRNA encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles to correct the disease-causing mutation in the liver of patients with MMA. With IMPACT, we do not only aim to develop gene correction therapies in our academic hospital for MMA. Through our efforts in generating the infrastructure for a therapeutic platform approach with only slight adaptations to target different mutations, we ultimately aim to develop therapies for the many patients with different genetic diseases.

Keywords: gene correction therapies,clinical translation,regulation,affordable therapies
INCITE-DEM – Inclusive Citizenship in a world in Transformation: Co-Designing for Democracy (INCITE-DEM)

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: Portugal,Germany,Norway,Netherlands,Finland,Estonia,Spain,Slovenia,Italy
Call: The future of democracy and civic participation (HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-03-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2988838.75
EU funding (EUR): 2988838.75
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

INCITE-DEM's experienced Consortium aims to enhance inclusive participation and civic engagement while expanding democratic innovation and dynamic feedback mechanisms between citizens and institutional actors in representative democracies. Currently, “wicked problems” relating to ecological crises but also media developments and digital divides create unprecedented pressures on democracies. Next to related socio-economic challenges, we’re witnessing a decline in political trust and the formation of new societal cleavages. INCITE-DEM will offer a unique contribution to the future of democracy in Europe by harnessing historical and quantitative and qualitative social science research, agent-based modelling, design thinking, and advanced analytical methods for the purpose of expanding inclusive participation and engagement and fuelling democratic innovation. Furthermore, we will implement Democracy Labs (DLabs) in six countries, where citizens, representatives of democratic innovation initiatives, policymakers, and other stakeholders come together to co-create imaginaries of inclusive democratic innovations. The new solutions and democratic futures envisioned are the objects of design fiction products. All innovations co-created in the DLabs are then validated through a choice experiment survey with citizens and interactive fora with policymakers, to check their feasibility and the potential for implementation. Lastly, a set of policy roadmaps for a sustainable, inclusive, and innovative democracy in a world facing deep societal, technological and ecological transformations are produced and presented to a broad range of stakeholders at multiple levels of governance in Europe.

Keywords: inclusivity digitalisation sustainability historical review democratic innovations case studies democracy labs design fiction choice experiment,interactive fora,policy pathways
Physically-Based Ocean Transport (P-BOT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed Matter Physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-12-01
End date: 2029-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1941033.0
EU funding (EUR): 1941033.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The ocean absorbs 90% of the heat associated with global warming and 30% of anthropogenic CO2. How such tracers are accumulated and redistributed within the turbulent ocean is a central issue of long-term climate prediction. The challenge stems from the existence of ocean mesoscale eddies: turbulent vortices tens of kilometers wide that are not resolved by climate models despite being key contributors to ocean transport. In the absence of a better theory, the associated transport is parameterized in global models using ad hoc coefficients with arbitrary depth dependence. The present project will improve upon this unsatisfactory state of the art. Based on a multi-method approach combining theory, laboratory experiments, numerical simulations and satellite data analysis I will derive a physically-based parameterization for turbulent transport in the 3D ocean. The derivation hinges on my recent quantitative theoretical advances for the magnitude and 3D structure of turbulent transport in the canonical models of oceans and atmospheres (the Charney, Eady and Phillips models): - I will augment these theories by including the additional physical ingredients of the real ocean: bottom slope, arbitrary large-scale flow and density stratification, etc. - I will determine the frictional dissipation on the ocean floor by combining rotating-platform laboratory experiments with 3D-printed realistic ocean-floor topography. - I will infer transport and bottom friction independently through the combination of satellite and profiler data. - I will derive the resulting parameterization using multiple-scale expansion before implementing it in a state-of-the-art climate model. As opposed to the current practice of adjusting transport coefficients to the current state of the ocean, the physically-based parameterization will remain valid in a warming climate, a necessary condition both for paleoclimate studies and for reliable climate forecast over the coming centuries to millennia.
Ocean Visions: The Impact of Private Oceanographic Vessels and Documentary Making on Ocean Science Governance and Research (OceanVisions)

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: Netherlands,Norway
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187624.32
EU funding (EUR): 187624.32
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Ocean science is no longer the sole domain of public research institutes and their vessels. Private oceanographic vessels are increasingly able to influence its governance and research practices. The business model of private vessels relies on producing wildlife documentaries that feature telegenic discoveries and charismatic animals, alongside ocean scientists themselves. While their vessels actively enable scientific research, companies like OceanX also ensure the steady production of striking moving images for wildlife documentaries, such as BBC’s Blue Planet. OceanVisions aims to understand how these private vessels affect the daily governance of ocean science research, and specifically how their emphasis on documentary film production shapes ocean scientists’ objectives and routines. By foregrounding practices of visual content production for scientific analysis and documentaries, OceanVisions explores everyday governance arrangements in ocean science and analyses how scientists adapt their knowledge creation practices to the requirements of film-making onboard oceanographic vessels. This research project utilises an innovative research design, conducting a comparative ethnography between one public research vessel, owned by the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, and one private vessel, owned by OceanX. This interdisciplinary project – which brings together studies on the governance of science with the anthropology of science – will be carried out at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University, a leading institute focusing on scientific research and its connections to technology, innovation, and society. The project will also benefit from a secondment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Keywords: anthropology of science,ethnography of scientific practices,governance of science,ocean science,oceanographic vessels,wildlife documentary making
Animal Cognition in Urban Environments: The effect of diet and the gut microbiome (UrbanCog)

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: Belgium,France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175920.0
EU funding (EUR): 175920.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Natural habitats are disappearing at record speeds, and our world is becoming increasingly urbanised. Recently, researchers started exploring how cognitive abilities (the mechanisms by which animals acquire, process, store and act on information from the environment) may allow animals to adapt to urban environments. Many of these studies revealed cognitive differences between urban and non-urban dwelling animals and linked these to informational challenges related to the highly dynamic nature of urban environments. Here I hypothesize that urban diets also contribute to such cognitive differences. Although lab-based studies indeed showed important effects of diet on the development of cognition, this idea so far received little attention in the urban cognition literature. I will address this important knowledge gap by combining theoretical frameworks and methodology from psychology, ecology, and microbial sciences. Furthermore, as most of the previous work linking urbanization with cognition was correlational in nature, I will supplement my interdisciplinary approach with a powerful combination of controlled laboratory experiments and measures of cognition in the wild. Specifically, I will test how high-fat high-sugar diets (WP1), and the gut microbiome (WP2) shape cognition in three domains that are considered crucial for survival in urban environments, namely spatial learning, inhibitory control, and social learning. I will use feral pigeons, a species that thrives in urban environments, and whose diet varies widely between urban and non-urban environments, as my model species. This project will build on my experience as an animal cognition researcher, allow me to develop new methods to measure cognition and acquire new skills in GPS tracking and microbiology. By combining approaches from different fields, and continuing implementing open-science practices, this project will raise my profile internationally in the field of cognitive ecology.

Keywords: animal cognition,diet,gut microbiome,urbanization,pigeons
A Novel Cyber Security Platform that automates the detection of security vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts and supports remediation efforts to reduce the €1.6bn citizens lost to cybercrime in 2023. (CBCG)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1624000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1624000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Proposal Objectives: 1. Reduce the €1.6bn citizens lost to hacked smart contracts in 2023 through the research and development of a pioneering cyber security platform that automates and orchestrates the detection of harmful security vulnerabilities and supports remediation. Smart contracts are critical to blockchain applications, they eliminate dependence on intermediaries by automatically executing transactions in near real-time, occurring simultaneously for all parties once the necessary criteria are met. 2. CBCG's vision is to facilitate increased access to safe digitised financial services via blockchain rails. These applications will support the financial inclusion of the reported 1.4bn unbanked citizens around the world (Findex Report, 2021). Smart contracts are the key technology required to make this vision a reality, to be a viable solution smart contracts need to be robust and resistant to the nefarious activities of bad actors. 3. Win a minimum of 2.23% share of the global smart contract market by 2030. The market has been forecast to reach €711m by 2030 therefore CBCG estimates annual recurring revenues of €16.5m. These objectives will be achieved by developing the current working prototype to the point of being production-ready. The platform is being readied in collaboration with CBCG's skilled Alpha testers (Pessimistic.io, Hacken and QuillAudits) who are world-leading smart contract security auditors and likely to be CBCG's first paying customers. The platform is continually being improved as CBCG responds to valuable feedback from the testers. Additionally, CBCG has a comprehensive go-to-market strategy which includes a clearly defined target audience of smart contracts auditors and developers and a detailed sales and marketing plan to reach them. This project is relevant to the EIC Accelerator programme, CBCG is a technology start-up with plans to develop and scale a disruptive security technology in the fast-growing blockchain market.

Keywords: cybersecurity,blockchain,artificial intelligence,machine learning,collaborative working,integration,orchestration,automation,mica regulation,distributed ledger technology,web 3 0 security
The Sensory Ecology of Water: A Multisensory Anthropological Study of Outdoor Swimming in the Arctic (EcoSENSES)

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: Belgium,Norway
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2025-10-31
Duration (months): 25.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191760.0
EU funding (EUR): 191760.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

My project aims to re-think human-more-than-human interconnectedness by examining entangled relationships between arctic waters, the senses, and place. As a community of practice, outdoor swimming in Norway provides a unique lens through which to examine a sharing in the sensible grounded-in holistic planetary wellbeing. Following the global COVID-19 pandemic and wellbeing crisis, practitioners, tourism agencies, and popular media outlets have lauded outdoor swimming as a therapeutic cure for human health, wellbeing, and for a perceived lack of connection to nature. Examining relational notions of wellbeing in blue-spaces, and stewardship of nature in immersive experiences outdoors, generates novel insights into sensory knowledges and the cultural values of waters in rapidly changing arctic climates. In doing so, this project expands the methodological affordances of anthropology by conjoining participant sensation in qualitative sensory ethnography with discourse analysis and close readings, in the pursuit of three objectives: 1) identify historical and contemporary meanings of Norwegian outdoor recreation (friluftsliv) and wellbeing as presented in and related to outdoor swimming; 2) trace how interactions with water and more-than-human others shape the swimming sensorium; and 3) uncover the potential for sensory ecologies to inform planetary conviviality in water management and competency policies. Sensory approaches used in this project may reveal power relations, local forms of water management and wellbeing resilience, the negotiated use of space, and formation of place-attachment. This examination of how the perceived therapeutic healing practice of outdoor swimming can be mobilized to include material and ecological strategies for advancing water security and ensuring quality water sources for all Europeans.

Keywords: swimming,the senses,blue space