Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
EU Decarbonisation in Times of Crises: Exploring Social Innovations and Enhancing an Equitable Twin Transition (DeCrises)

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: Finland,Latvia,Norway,Poland,Lithuania,Germany,Bulgaria,Slovakia
Call: Multilevel governance in times of digital and climate transitions (HORIZON-CL2-2024-DEMOCRACY-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-04-01
End date: 2028-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2667916.25
EU funding (EUR): 2667916.25
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

DeCrises addresses the complex challenges of the European Union (EU)'s twin transition that is reshaping society, the economy, and infrastructure at every level of governance. Through four case studies from the EU and European Economic Area, our primary goal is to pinpoint the gaps in the existing Multilevel Governance (MLG) framework guiding the twin transition and propose solutions that pave the way for an equitable transition. While the EU committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, recent global crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and geopolitical tensions, have added complexity to the twin transition. This underscores the importance of cross-border collaboration and coordinated strategies at various levels of governance. DeCrises focuses on five objectives: To conceptualise a bottom-up MLG framework to foster citizen participation and stimulate social innovation and collaboration for an inclusive twin transition; To develop a robust MLG implementation strategy to translate the vision of a just twin transition across all levels of governance within the EU; To develop an understanding of community-led social innovations as drivers of twin transition and their role in MLG processes; To identify strategies to enhance regional and intra-regional collaboration and resilience; To facilitate and establish channels of collaboration and knowledge exchange between a diverse set of actors and explore ways to enhance policy instruments at various levels of governance. Transitioning to a green future requires significant changes to institutions historically tied to fossil fuels and limited levels of digitalisation. We focus on a shift from top-down decision-making to a more inclusive, democratic approach involving various levels of governance, including governments, businesses, and civil society. Our project provides comprehensive policy recommendations for improvement of MLG to strengthen democratic governance in the EU and ensure a just twin transition.

Keywords: twin transition,climate,digital,energy,democratic governance,inclusiveness,just transition,regions,social innovations
Optimising food information and communication towards healthier and more sustainable dietary patterns (Infoodmation)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Innovative governance, environmental observations and digital solutions in support of the Green Deal
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Denmark,Portugal,Slovenia,Spain,Netherlands,Germany,Austria
Call: The role of mainstream media, social media and marketing in fostering healthy and sustainable consumption patterns and how to encourage good practices (HORIZON-CL6-2024-GOVERNANCE-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3135185.39
EU funding (EUR): 2998444.32
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

Food choices are determined by a wide range of factors (socio-economic conditions, gender, age, etc.). On top of this, mainstream media, social media, and marketing play an important role in food choices, but how they do so is not well understood, nor is the knowledge sufficiently applied to promoting healthy and sustainable diets and discouraging less healthy and less sustainable ones. Infoodmation aims to fill these gaps by increasing the knowledge of how these sources of food information influence food consumption and using it to develop best practices for food system actors, policies, and regulations to support healthier and more sustainable dietary patterns. The project will identify approaches, tools, channels, techniques, and messages used by the private sector, governments, and civil society (Infoodmation Key Actors) to communicate about food (also focusing on vulnerable groups, such as children, adolescents and those of a low socio-economic status). These effects will be assessed, alongside the effectiveness of parental control, the impact of negative vs. positive messages and the effects and spread of misinformation (and how to counter it). EU legislation related to food information will be evaluated in light of these findings, as will policy measures at the national, regional, and local levels in EU member states. These analyses will result in a compendium of best practices, policy briefs, and recommendations for responsible business strategies addressing different Key Actors, supported by capacity building tools and an open-access Knowledge Hub of results, recommendations and materials on food communication. Continuous consultation with food system actors will ensure that the recommendations are relevant, fair, feasible, and adaptable to different contexts. Infoodmation consists of a multidisciplinary consortium with an extensive network of Key Actors, multi-stakeholder initiatives and EU-funded projects related to healthy and sustainable eating.

Keywords: sustainable eating misinformation capacity building best practices policy recommendations business strategies
Visualizing microbial societies: exposing the principles of single-cell phenotypic heterogeneity via massively multiplexed imaging (SocialBugs)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Integrative B iology : from Genes and Genomes to S ystems
Panel description: For all organis ms: Genetics, epigenetics, genomics  and other ‘omics studies , bioinformatics, systems biology , genetic diseases , gene editing, innovative methods and modelling,  ‘omics for personalised  medicine
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499084.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499084.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Bacteria are social organisms that interact and coordinate their behaviors to shape our world. Whereas their clonal populations are genetically identical, they contain phenotypically distinct members. This diversity provides resilience to unpredictable environmental changes, such as antibiotic exposure or nutrient depletion. It also facilitates cooperative interactions between different sub-population via specialization in costly activities such as virulence factor production, forming an extended basis for sociality. Yet, the phenotypic landscape in any given species remains largely unexplored due to the technical challenges of profiling individual bacteria, particularly in spatially structured biofilms and host tissues. Recent breakthroughs in microbial single-cell transcriptomics, developed by the PI of the current proposal (Dar et al., Science 2021), now provide a unique opportunity to illuminate this hidden complexity. This proposal seeks a systematic and experimentally derived view of phenotypic variation. We will comparatively study pathogenic and non-pathogenic Pseudomonas species in three settings, each illuminating distinct core principles of cell-cell variability. In Objective 1, we will focus on free-living populations, building on the massive multiplexing capacity of our method to comprehensively map phenotypic cell states, outline their interplay with physiological and environmental factors, and study their evolution. We will characterize the spatiotemporal dynamics of cell states directly within 3D biofilms in Objective 2, and contextualize our results in vivo during infection in Objective 3, simultaneously measuring host-and-microbe spatial expression. Comprehensively studying phenotypic heterogeneity is a critical next step for understanding how microbes survive in complex environments, socially interact, and subvert their hosts during infection. If successfully executed, this proposal will shed light on the plasticity that defines microbial li

Keywords: phenotypic variation,single cell transcriptomics,spatial transcriptomics,biofilms,pseudomonas,infection
Alentejo Green Hydrogen Valley delivering integrated full-chain sustainable hydrogen ecosystem with technical, economic, social and environmental benefits and superior upscaling/replicability. (H2tALENT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Hydrogen
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CLEANH2 (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Portugal,Luxembourg,Germany,Brazil,United Kingdom,Spain,Morocco
Call: Small-scale Hydrogen Valley (HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2023-1, 2023)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2029-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9948453.94
EU funding (EUR): 8828774.82
Participants: 30
Project status: SIGNED

H2tALENT launches a flagship Hydrogen Valley in Alentejo-PT to consolidate the strong investment in place and boost the penetration of “green” hydrogen by deploying new initiatives across the entire value chain from local production to use including distribution for a range of applications in industry, mobility and buildings while also connecting with existing/planned infrastructures and initiatives. In the next 5 years are foreseen 2.1 GW electrolysers, 180 ktons/y of “green” H2, 2 B€ investments and 5000 jobs in Alentejo. Safe design and operation are ensured to deliver certified “green” hydrogen. H2tALENT produces >500 ton/y used by several off-takers in industry, mobility (public bus & truck) and building (municipal pool). The strategic position of the Sines Port is valorised as a key multi-modal hub for interconnection and import/export as well the industrial ecosystem surrounding it. Optimal energy system integration is ensured via technology assessment and impact modelling to contribute to the national energy transition strategy. H2tALENT generates investments around 20 M€. Digital Twinning and tools for optimal planning and operation are delivered to support upscaling and replication, while professional upskilling and public perception equip the workforce with the needed competences and deliver social benefits. H2tALENT builds a global network where lessons learned from existing valleys are gathered, cooperation with Brazil and Morocco fostered and replication promoted in 2 follower valleys in DE Saxony and UK Midlands. Roadmaps and concrete actions for upscaling and replication are defined for the Sines Port, Alentejo and Portugal. The consortium includes 29 partners from 7 countries covering the entire value chain including energy suppliers, DSO, technology manufacturer, system integrator, end users and RTO/university experts in digitalization, public acceptance, environmental assessments and technology assessment with strong political support.

Keywords: sines port,industrial,mobility and building h2 applications,territorial cohesion and planning,digital twins,follower hydrogen vallyes,international hydrogen cooperation
Harnessing the Market Potential of Single-Atom Catalysts through Next-Generation Large-Scale Synthesis (CATSYNEX)

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: 2024-11-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 162857.14
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The CATSYNEX project, born from the ERC-StG SAC_2.0 project, addresses the pressing need for scalable production of single-atom catalysts to revolutionize industrial catalysis. While homogeneous catalysts dominate pharmaceutical synthesis due to their precision, they suffer from recovery, instability, and cost issues. Heterogeneous catalysts offer easier separation but struggle with lower degree of selectivity and activity when used in pharmaceutical reactions. Single-atom catalysts bridge this gap, offering atomically precise control during catalyst formulation, enhanced catalyst stability, higher turnover frequencies, and reduced material costs. However, current synthesis methods limit single-atom catalysts to laboratory scale. CATSYNEX aims to change this by developing scalable SAC production methods. The scientific validation involves optimizing SAC synthesis for uniform dispersion and high catalytic activity, ensuring reproducibility across batches and scaling to industrial quantities. Catalytic performance will be tested against traditional catalysts to showcase SAC superiority at different scales (from mg to kg), and over multiple catalytic cycles. Business validation includes analyzing IP landscape, regulatory framework, market appeal, and manufacturing economics. Through CATSYNEX, SACs are poised to become valuable tools for various chemical industries, driving innovation by making pharmaceutical synthesis more efficient, more sustainable, and cost-effective, and addressing some of the pressing critical challenges of the 21st-century manufacturing processes.
Beyond Bad Apples: Towards a Behavioral and Evidence-Based Approach to Promote Research Ethics and Research Integrity in Europe (BEYOND)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Theme: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Destination: Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Norway,Germany,France,Finland,Latvia,Estonia,United Kingdom,Cyprus,Netherlands,Ukraine
Call: The empirical and behavioural approach to research ethics and integrity (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ERA-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2541520.0
EU funding (EUR): 2541520.0
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

Ethics and integrity are key dimensions of excellence in research and crucial for public trust in science. BEYOND will reinforce efforts to promote adherence to the highest standards of research ethics and integrity (RE/RI) and prevent research misconduct (RM) by developing and disseminating regulatory and educational interventions that elucidate institutional and individual responsibilities for ensuring and fostering research environments conducive to ethical research. To that end, BEYOND will adopt a complex ecosystemic perspective on research ethics and integrity that recognizes the multiple responsibilities of researchers and other stakeholders to enrich the overly simplistic Bad Apples approach that underpins most existing measures to prevent research misconduct. BEYOND will EXPLORE the existing literature on behavioural ethics and moral psychology as well as the socio-economic consequences of research misconduct and ENGAGE all involved stakeholders in a public consultation. To GUIDE and EQUIP all stakeholders in the research ecosystem, BEYOND will utilize this knowledge to develop 1) psychologically informed contextual interventions to promote RE/RI and prevent RM from the perspective of individual and institutional responsibilities, 2) methodologies to measure the short-, medium- and long-term impact of RE/RI trainings on attitudes and behaviours of students and researchers, 3) a best practice manual and guidelines to supplement standard operating procedures from a complex research ecosystemic perspective as well as a 2030 roadmap towards improving the RE/RI culture and 4) new training materials and tools to supplement existing educational efforts. BEYOND will mobilize all stakeholders via the three thematic networks involved in the consortium (ENRIO, EUREC, The Guild) and the stakeholder advisory board to ensure widespread dissemination of results and facilitate their institutional uptake and embedding.

Keywords: research ethics,guidelines,best practices,training,education,behavioural interventions,public engagement
New trends or old habits? Stability and changes of political styles since 1960 (POLSTYLE)

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: Belgium
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): 1496219.0
EU funding (EUR): 1496219.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Hardly a week goes by without reports of elected officials – often pictured as ‘populists’ – having used vitriolic language and attacked the personal traits of their opponents. In a context of ‘restyling of politics’, the style of political actors is presented as increasingly emotive, personalised, and confrontational. In the absence of systematic comparative study, such claims remain however trivial intuitions and anecdotes that are as old as politics. This raises critical questions: are modern political styles new trends or old habits? What are the institutional and political factors that constrain or favour the rise of certain styles? The POLSTYLE project provides a groundbreaking empirical and theoretical contribution by analysing the evolutions of political styles in four European democracies since 1960. It posits that configurational evolutions shape the stability and changes of political styles over time: it depends upon the varying responses of the types of actors, arenas and political systems vis-à-vis abrupt exogenous shocks and endogenous incremental changes. For these empirical and theoretical goals, the project builds a unique dataset of actors’ political styles performing in various arenas (TV, print press, parliaments, and Twitter). Different indicators will trace evolutions of political styles in terms of contents, nature of interactions and forms of expressions. Finally, the project develops a theory that explains how and why patterns of styles unfold according to configurational evolutions. Overall, the POLSTYLE project decisively contribute to ongoing theoretical debates about the nature of political representation in modern democracies, and how democratic linkages with voters are built on a daily basis. While some scholars and political observers suggest that current political styles entail nothing less than the inexorable decline of democracy; other scholars have praised them as virtues for the functioning of our democracies.

Keywords: elites,party politics,comparative politics,political communication,content analysis,historical analysis
Hop-on to Computation for a new age of Resource Aware architecture: waste-sourced and fast-growing bio-based Materials - Boosting Innovative Timber Evaluation (RAW-BITE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Denmark,Estonia
Call: Hop on Facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-06, 2023)
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 599336.25
EU funding (EUR): 599336.25
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

RAW aims to enable the widespread adoption of bio-based materials in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sector through a novel resource model that utilises waste-sourced and fast-growing materials, disrupting established material logics and enhancing carbon storage in buildings. A key objective of RAW is the development of non-destructive biomaterial characterisation methods. Efficient use of reclaimed timber requires precise knowledge of localised material properties in order to make informed, irreversible decisions about its reuse in structural applications. Assessing these properties is particularly challenging in urban environments, where materials need to be assessed on site before or shortly after demolition. By including TAL in the consortium, we directly support RAW's aim to develop new models for non-destructive characterisation of biomaterials. TAL's expertise will allow us to refine the computational pipelines for reclaimed wood through highly localised quality assessments, seamlessly extending our computational capabilities. Additionally, TAL introduces computer-vision based mobile applications for material characterisation - a novel approach that makes advanced material evaluation practical and scalable. This is suitable for early on-site assessment during reclamation and is targeted at resource-constrained SMEs. It enables informed decisions on a per-piece basis by integrating data into the RAW joint semantic data model and strengthens circular practices by maximising the reuse of high quality assessed timber. These advances have the potential to transform industry practices, taking the project beyond the state of the art and promoting sustainability and efficient materials assessment in the AEC sector.

Keywords: alternative materials,bio based materials,non prescriptive design,digital fabrication,non destructive material characterisation,predictive material models