Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Trustworthy Unified Robust Intelligent Generative Systems (TURING)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: A human-centred and ethical development of digital and industrial technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: AI-DATA-ROBOTICS (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Greece,France,Serbia,Germany,Italy,Slovenia,Cyprus,Canada,Slovakia,Switzerland,India,Netherlands
Call: Explainable and Robust AI (AI Data and Robotics Partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2024-HUMAN-03, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7497790.0
EU funding (EUR): 7497790.0
Participants: 23
Project status: SIGNED

The need to implement complex physics systems is critical across various scientific and engineering domains. However, traditional numerical models for simulating these systems are computationally expensive, requiring significant time, resources, and cost. Recent advancements in AI present a promising alternative, with AI models demonstrating the ability to capture the dynamics of complex physical systems. Despite these successes, AI models suffer from key limitations, including challenges with generalization, vulnerability to bias, ethical concerns, and accuracy, particularly when applied to unseen tasks or variable-range predictions. These limitations are collectively viewed as issues of robustness. The TURING project aims to address these shortcomings by developing robust AI-driven solutions. It integrates multidisciplinary advancements from Machine Learning, Computer Engineering, Physics, and SSH to pre-train generative, multimodal foundation models capable of capturing the physics of dynamic systems that share common properties. Starting with a cautious approach, the models will incorporate representations of increasingly complex physical systems as robustness is ensured. Once pre-trained, these foundation models will be fine-tuned for specific tasks, enhancing their domain-specific robustness. The tasks will target critical engineering and physics problems in nuclear energy, particle physics, and meteorology, which are of high priority for the EU. The task-specific and foundation models, collectively termed "TURING models", will be developed in collaboration with partners from India, Canada, and Switzerland. To maximize the impact of TURING models, the project will ensure compliance of its activities with regulations such as the EU AI Act and then publicly release those models, along with the TURING Framework (MLOps SW tools and web-based app with conversational capabilities), enabling developers and end users to leverage this technology for their applications.

Keywords: physics and ai models,model pre training and fine tuning techniques,generative foundation models
Socio-Economic Metabolism PATHways for sustainable metal cYcles (SEMPATHY)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Human Mobility, Environment, and Space
Panel description: Human geography, demography, health, susta inability science, territorial planning, spatial analysis
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

SEMPATHY aims to develop and apply a multi-material, mass balance-consistent, composition-aware, and process simulation-based method called Material Pathway Analysis to provide the basis for modelling, simulating, and optimising sustainable global material cycles for technology metals. SEMPATHY addresses the urgent challenge of global metal cycles not being closed and the environmental impacts of metal production and processing becoming more relevant globally. At the same time, global demand for technology metals rises due to the shift to renewable energy, electromobility, clean energy-intensive industry, digitalisation, and aerospace. The SEMPATHY project promises a revolutionary better understanding of global anthropogenic metal cycles and, for that purpose, develops a better modelling framework for examining metals' pathways in the anthroposphere. SEMPATHY leverages new information on the first and final use of metals and metalloids in materials, components, and products. It creates a database for the elemental composition of these materials, components, and products. The project uses process simulation to identify composition-dependent processes and recycling yields for technology metals. By providing access to these yields to sociometabolic research, it identifies optimisation potentials in the circular economy. SEMPATHY creates a new revolutionary modelling framework that allows the development of a new Material Pathway Analysis methodology that provides a systemic view of global metal cycles and allows tracing metals even within their use as alloying elements, contaminants, or waste streams. These metal pathways will be visualised through interactive maps generated using the data and computational methods developed throughout the project. SEMPATHY creates the basis for next-level modelling, simulation, and evaluation of material flows, essential for a sustainable, resilient, and secure supply of technology metals, many of which are Critical Raw Materials.

Keywords: material flow analysis,process simulation,metals,
A photonic microphone with better-than-human-ear sound quality (PIONEAR)

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: Sweden,Switzerland,Poland,Ireland
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open (HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDEROPEN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2482745.0
EU funding (EUR): 2482745.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

Microphones play an increasingly important role in how we communicate and perceive the world in our ever more digital and virtual lives. They have developed tremendously in the past decades in terms of size and cost and are now ubiquitous in consumer electronics as well as in professional and industrial applications. Yet, despite all this progress, microphone technology falls short of perceiving audio as well as the human ear: No microphone has self-noise ≤ 0 dB SPL (defined as the threshold of human hearing), the capability to sense sounds up to 130 dB SPL, and with a bandwidth of 20 kHz. The main objective of PIONEAR is to create the proof-of-concept of a novel miniature microphone with better-than-human-ear sound quality. It will be enabled by a radically new chromometric sensing solution, that PIONEAR will develop by integrating electronic, micro-mechanic and photonic technologies. To realise this new sensing technology PIONEAR brings together a unique consortium of 4 research partners and 3 SMEs from across Europe, all of which are leading experts in their field, e.g., in manufacturing the special vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSEL), fabricating the miniature acoustic chamber and membrane and assembling and packaging of the whole device with the highest precision. We expect PIONEAR to have a profound impact across multiple sectors: Armed with arrays of microphones that have very low noise, devices will be able to listen with programmable directivity and unprecedented selectivity, enabling products with intelligently selective, human-like, hearing. Applications range from consumer electronics and hearing aids to autonomous robots and vehicles, and environmental monitoring. Moreover, the underlying sensor concept is not limited to microphones. We expect that it will offer similar performance improvements in a broad range of sensor categories, e.g., pressure and ultrasonic sensors, biochemical sensors, gas and aerosol sensors, and accelerometers.

Keywords: microphone,chromometry,photonics,vcsel,laser
Impact of metal pollution on freshwater ecosystems submitted to extreme climate events (CLIMETAL)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209914.56
EU funding (EUR): 209914.56
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Freshwaters simultaneously receive a high diversity of contaminants, metals being amongst the most toxic. The growing use of metals for energy transition (e.g. electric vehicles, wind turbines, solar panels) is exposing freshwater ecosystems to unknown threats. These also suffer from the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme climate events (i.e. droughts and floods), which may cause hydric stress, physical abrasion, lower dilution, or contaminant pulses. These overall influence metal bioavailability and expose the biota to unknown toxicological effects. CLIMETAL will address these challenges by exploring the fate of metals used in energy transition, including those with understudied toxicity (lithium, rare earth elements, etc.), as well as their separated and sequential biological effects under the hydrological alterations associated to droughts and floods. CLIMETAL will investigate the influence of these alterations on metal bioavailability, and the subsequent consequences for their bioaccumulation and ecotoxicological effects. Bioavailability of metals will be estimated by modelling their chemical speciation and by measuring their labile concentrations, giving rise to a collaboration with physical chemists (= secondment). Metal bioaccumulation as well as biological and functional effects on freshwater ecosystems will be assessed using primary producers (biofilms) and primary consumers (invertebrates). These two biological compartments are connected and provide a complementary response to the metal exposure under distinct hydrological alterations. The proposal adopts an interdisciplinary approach involving ecotoxicology, environmental chemistry, ecology and modelling and combines complementary methods from laboratory (microscosm, mesocosm) to fieldwork. Data generated in CLIMETAL will contribute to fulfill the European Green Deal, which aims to reduce the impact of climate change and environmental pollution as well as protect ecosystems.

Keywords: ecotoxicology metal hydrology biofilm
Comics Culture in the People’s Republic of China (ChinaComx)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Comics Culture in the People’s Republic of China (ChinaComx) sets out to investigate the intellectual, political, social, historical, and transcultural dimensions of a medium still heavily understudied: lianhuanhua, literally “linked images.” It studies them as a medium from the People’s Republic of China and its place within the larger Chinese and global comics culture. Studying the conditions of comic art’s production, distribution and consumption, the project sheds light on how comics contribute to the project of nation building, to the creation of a new socialist man and to the continued legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In addition, it investigates how these at times highly propagandistic texts were read by ordinary citizens. In clearly circumscribed case studies, the project analyzes large amounts of literary and filmic adaptations, the conventions of text-image relations (and the breaking of these conventions), narrative qualities, as well as the visual language which is very much indebted to other visual forms of art, including traditional Chinese visual art, cartoons, propaganda posters, photography and movies. With its focus on practices and meaning making, ChinaComx moreover delves into the changing global cultural, political and economic connections within the socialist cultural sphere, within the Greater China region, East Asia and beyond, tracing distinct and changing relationships of domestic and foreign elements. The case studies cover developments since the late 1940s to the present and situate concrete phenomena within larger developments and traditions. In providing more knowledge about comic culture from China and in contributing to theoretical debates, ChinaComx aims to delineate the term „lianhuanhua“ as a distinct genre and area of academic research that bears specific characteristics, being embedded in a particular context of origin, yet, changing across time and space as Japanese manga or Franco-Belgian bandes desinnées.

Keywords: comics,media studies,modern and contemporary china,chinese culture,literature and politics,propaganda,
SHAring Researchers’ Passion for Education and Rights - The European Researchers’ Night in Italy 2024-2025 (SHARPER)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy
Call: European Researchers' Night and Researchers at Schools 2024-2025 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-CITIZENS-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 20.0
Total project cost (EUR): 990250.0
EU funding (EUR): 990250.0
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

SHARPER means SHAring Researchers’ passion for Education and Rights and it is the European Researchers’ Night and the Researchers at Schools program in 15 cities of 9 regions in Italy in 2024 and 2025. A diverse set of public engagement actions created by a community of more than 300 stakeholders from all over Italy: researchers from universities, communicators, teachers and students, entrepreneurs, and cultural bodies. This increasing network works together as one to build a better, desirable, and peaceful future based on shared knowledge generated jointly by researchers and citizens. The core philosophy of Sharper is inclusion and accessibility to reliable information, quality education for all. The cities involved: Ancona, Bari, Cagliari, Camerino, Catania, Genova, L’Aquila, Nuoro, Palermo, Pavia, Perugia, Sassari, Urbino, Terni and Trieste and their territories are transformed into accessible labs where everyone, side by side with researchers, can explore complex issues summarized by the five Mission areas of the Horizon Europe program. A multi-actor and multidisciplinary approach are the key used by communicator and researchers to engage citizens of all ages, both: those who are interested into these topics and want to know more about the role of researchers in building the future, or those who are skeptical and rarely or never get involved in cultural initiatives about research. Students, teachers and the school community that also includes families are a central actor of Sharper that engage them in a rich and wide set of activities organized locally, nationally and internationally all year round. From open and accessible labs to workshops and games, from talks to performances that involve students in their schools or online to meet young researchers from all over the world and discover how wide is the researchers’ job in terms of topics interests and skills that young generation can practice becoming responsible citizens.

Keywords: ern,passion,marathon,researchers,excellence,cities,schools,fun,steam,gender equality,eu missions,innovation,education,rights,entertainment,humanities,science,performances,night
Global Entrepreneurial Talent Management 4 (GETM4)

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: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Ireland,North Macedonia,Estonia,Korea, Republic of,Chile,Kenya,United Kingdom,Slovenia,Poland
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1296542.86
EU funding (EUR): 1292600.0
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

The main objective of GETM4 is to research how entrepreneurs can deal with disruption to support not only economic development but also societal wellbeing in a digitized world. Although the COVID19 pandemic was widely predicted, the resulting government restrictions caused unprecedented disruption all over the world. And since disruption has become the norm (e.g. wars, energy crises, climate change), we must be better prepared and learn how to respond appropriately to it. GETM4 aims at identifying how entrepreneurial talent (of individuals, higher education, and industry) can play a crucial role in exploiting the opportunities and tackling the issues created by disruption. Underpinned by cutting edge digital innovation, entrepreneurship is often expected to promote physical and mental wellbeing, while at the same time entrepreneurs wellbeing is frequently threatened by widespread of technology itself. To tackle this paradoxical situation, an innovative, multi-perspective approach is needed. The research approach to tackle a global disruption, needs to be global. Strong of an 18 partner Consortium comprising of a transnational, transdisciplinary, transgenerational, trans sectorial and gender balanced research team, GETM4 will organize over 300 secondments across 9 countries and 4 continents, and a series of sandpits rotating between the partner institutions. This global approach will allow researchers to gain first-hand and in depth insights on relevant research topics and develop their skills through networking and trainings. Our research will be underpinned by a “respectful impact” perspective as we believe research and innovation should be transferred and translated respectfully between the Global South and North and knowledge should be shared equitably and in all directions.

Keywords: resilience,change,covid19,disruption,wellbeing,respectful transmission,respectful innovation,inclusion
Stochastic PDEs and Renormalisation (SPDE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Mathematics
Panel description: All areas of mathematics, pure and applied, plus mathematical foundations of computer science, mathematical physics and statistics
Countries involved: Austria
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2029-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498849.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498849.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The field of stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) has been revolutionised in the last decade by breakthrough works of Hairer, Gubinelli-Imkeller-Perkowski, and many others. A new understanding of renormalised solution theories emerged, solving long-standing singular equations arising in various areas of probability and mathematical physics. The purpose of this project is to study a number of important questions in the field, open new directions, and challenge central open problems: (i) Launch the investigation of singular SPDEs that preserve Gibbs measures of distributional Hamiltonians such as the density of self-repellent polymers; (ii) Tackle the question of a quasilinear renormalisation formula, the last remaining component of the quasilinear solution theory; (iii) Develop an efficient quantitative approximation theory of singular SPDEs, removing the criticality barrier from the rate of convergence.
Coming to Terms: Proof Theory Extended to Definite Descriptions and other Terms (ExtenDD)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Compl exity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics
Countries involved: Poland
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): 1629775.0
EU funding (EUR): 1629775.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The project is concerned with two areas which so far have rarely come together: complex terms and proof theory. ExtenDD focuses on definite descriptions as the most important and troublesome singular terms and on sequent calculus and its generalizations as the most important tool of modern proof theory. Since Russell's 'On Denoting', regarded as a paradigm of analytic philosophy, definite descriptions occupy a central place in philosophical research and many deep and detailed studies have been carried out. The second half of the 20th century saw the development of new approaches to this phenomenon based on non-classical logics, in particular free logic in which, contrary to Frege's and Russell's classical logic, it is not assumed that every term refers. Yet despite the long history of research into definite descriptions, a paradigm of formal logic has so far rarely been applied to them: proof theory. The methods developed by Gentzen, in particular those relating to his sequent calculus, provide the means for the deepest study of proofs and their properties. Yet only a small effort has so far been put into the adequate treatment of definite descriptions in this framework. The same counts for other complex singular terms such as set abstracts and number operators. ExtenDD fills this important gap in research. Applying the methods of proof theory to definite descriptions is profitable to both sides. Competing theories of definite descriptions and complex terms in general, their advantages and shortcomings, are shown in a new light. The behaviour of complex terms needs subtle syntactical analysis and requires enriching the toolkit of proof theory. ExtenDD deals with both challenges: it develops formal theories of definite descriptions and modifies the machinery of proof theory to cover new areas of application. The realization of ExtenDD affects significantly the field of proof theory, automated deduction and philosophy of language.

Keywords: proof theory,definite descriptions,philosophy of language,non classical logic