Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
FEMale ENtrepreneurs in Asia: Innovation, Policies, Challenges and Opportunities in: Laos, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Vietnam (FEMENA)

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,Belgium,Italy,Poland,Latvia,Maldives,Viet Nam,Papua New Guinea,Pakistan,Nepal,Kyrgyzstan,Philippines,Lao People's Democratic Republic,Sri Lanka,Portugal,Germany,Moldova, Republic of,Albania,Kazakhstan
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-SE-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-03-01
End date: 2030-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1603200.0
EU funding (EUR): 1603200.0
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

Across the globe, widespread research continues to reaffirm that women face inferior income opportunities when compared with men. Women are less likely to work for income or to actively seek work; they have fewer opportunities for business expansion or career progression; they are disproportionately more likely to be homemakers yet household labour is not remunerated nor considered to be ‘work’. Women make up around half of the economically active population, however they are underrepresented in various fields, including entrepreneurship. According to World Bank data, in 2022 the global labour force participation rate for women was just over 50% compared to 80% for men. Globally, female labour force participation has not increased greatly over the last three decades and male/female disparities remain stark especially across large swathes of Asia. This is despite the fact that Asia is widely regarded as the engine for global economic growth. International organisations estimate that if women had equal representation in all labour markets, GDP could increase to approximately $136 trillion by 2025. At the same time female entrepreneurship and indicators for gender equality appear to go hand-in-hand, making both key factors for a country's economic development. With a total of 20 partners (10 from Europe and 10 from Asia, including 8 non-academic partners) FEMENA draws on world-class expertise to design an inter-disciplinary, international and inter-sectoral research and training programme that addresses the central questions of how female entrepreneurship is framed, fostered, and promoted across Asia. Four phases of secondments will develop an integrated methodological framework based on Amartya Sen's capability approach to explore how individuals, across a range of contexts and operating in difference sectors, assess their opportunities and abilities rather than applying categories that risk being too context-specific or that ignore path dependency effects.

Keywords: female entrepeneurship,asia,private sector development,entrepeneurs,business,gender equality
Transforming CO2 into added-value construction products (Carbon4Minerals)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Climate neutral, Circular and Digitised Production
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: Processes4Planet (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Belgium,Germany,Czechia,Norway,Netherlands,Austria,Switzerland
Call: Valorisation of CO/CO2 streams into added-value products of market interest (Processes4Planet Partnership) (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 20322450.0
EU funding (EUR): 14846811.0
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

The European Green Deal sets ambitious targets to GHG emission reductions for the process industry, that can only partly be reached by the transition to renewable energy. Residual, hard-to-abate CO2 emissions from industrial processes such as steel and cement production will need to be captured, and wherever possible, processed and recycled into new products. The shift towards low carbon processes may disrupt existing industrial symbiosis pathways. If no alternative linkages are developed, this may lead to increasing emissions in downstream sectors. The transitions in steel and energy production lead to dwindling supplies of low carbon resources for cement production such as blast furnace slag and coal fly ash. The core concept of Carbon4Minerals addresses the simultaneous use of CO2 from industrial flue gases with current and future waste streams to unlock a vast stock of resources for innovative low carbon binders and construction materials (80-135% lower CO2-emissions than reference). A total of 8 industrial pilots will be built and operated across the process value chain from CO2 capture to cement production and low carbon construction products. This cross-sectorial innovation has the potential to reduce European CO2 emissions by 46 Mt/y, equal to 10% of the EU process industry emissions, while safeguarding the competitiveness of the European industry. A consortium of technology providers, producers and research partners will develop, test and demonstrate the processes. Technical, environmental and economic feasibility will be validated by an integrated assessment, in combination with the development of a service life test package tailored to these new products. Co-learning modules are developed to support industrial implementation and market introduction.

Keywords: carbon capture and use,low carbon construction materials
User-centered data privacy and utility (PrivatePersonalData)

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: Greece
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-06-26
End date: 2025-06-25
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 169326.72
EU funding (EUR): 169326.72
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Personal data are constantly collected and shared via web cites, mobile applications like social networking and navigation apps, smart home devices like smart TVs and voice assistants, and IoT devices. Personal data are then monetized to support targeted advertising, personalized services, differential pricing, risk assessment and influencing public opinion. This happens at the expense of privacy and fairness for individuals and the society. To address this, governments around the world are enacting privacy laws, e.g. GDPR (European Union) and CCPA (California). Unfortunately, since profits can be at odds with privacy considerations, industry players have an incentive to circumvent the law. What is more, the technical concepts and associated tools developed so far and used by the laws are neither strong enough nor wide enough in scope. Last, users themselves are conflicted: they enjoy the plethora of personalized services but are alarmed by the loss of their privacy. In this proposal we advocate for a user-centered approach to privacy where each user may dictate how much privacy is willing to trade in exchange for services. We will systematically investigate the efficiency of state of the art privacy mechanisms, both formal, e.g. differential and information theoretic privacy, and data-driven, e.g. generative adversarial privacy, in terms of how well they protect data privacy while maintaining some utility of the obfuscated data and the services that depend upon them. We will do so not only via analysis but also via real world experiments in the context of applications at the forefront of personal data privacy leaks. We will also introduce novel privacy tools for real world use cases which allow users to select the desired level of data privacy and utility of service. Use cases of interest include mobile smartphone data leaks, online tracking via web browsing and apps usage, and user profiling within popular apps like video sharing.

Keywords: privacy in the context of networking applications using analysis and data driven learning
Interaction of Elasto-inertial Turbulence and material microstructure – INTER-ET (INTER-ET)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and Processes Engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2030-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Transport and handling of complex fluids is an important contributor to World energy consumption (10% is estimated to come from pumping suspensions), and improving their mixing and heat transfer is a key for new applications from process industry to medicine. A tiny amount of polymers, making the fluid viscoelastic, can completely change its flow, reducing turbulent friction and pumping power by around 70 % at large scales, but creating a whole new kind of turbulence at small scales. Elastic turbulence has recently received exponentially increasing attention, as a promising way to increase mixing and heat transfer at small scales (e.g. lab-on-a-chip applications), efficient cleaning and storage of fluids in the ground, but also as undesired source of chaotic flow paths and friction (cell sorting, blood flow). However, large gaps exist in understanding elastic and elasto-inertial turbulence, between conflicting experiments and theories, and multiscale interactions needed to sustain it. The INTER-ET proposal will revolutionize the state-of-the-art understanding of elastic fluids turbulence and its interaction with material microstructure, by synergetic simulations and experiments that were impossible until now. This will be achieved by our high-fidelity methods that for the first time enabled three-dimensional studies of elastoviscoplastic fluid turbulence, suspensions of tens of thousands of particles, and experimental time-resolved measurements on microscale. Theories for Newtonian turbulence do not hold for elastic fluids, and there is an urgent need for improved theories and models in wall-bounded turbulence of complex fluids. INTER-ET proposal aims to: i) perform the first simulations and experiments of EIT in matching wall-bounded geometries, ii) apply methods for direct experimental measurement of time-resolved stress fields and compare with simulations, iii) improve microscopic models and predictions of elastic instability and turbulence.

Keywords: complex fluids,direct numerical simulation,rheology,viscoelastic fluid,yield stress material,microfluidics
Fostering Trust in AI driven Healthcare: SecUre and uNbiased knowleDge guided gEneRative AI (THUNDER)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Spain,Czechia,Belgium,France,Tunisia,Austria,Germany
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): 777981.43
EU funding (EUR): 771540.0
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

Machine learning (ML) offers transformative opportunities for healthcare, with applications ranging from precision medicine to operational optimization. However, progress is constrained by limited access to diverse, high-quality datasets, exacerbated by fragmentation, data scarcity, and stringent privacy regulations. Traditional data augmentation methods fail to fully capture the complexity and heterogeneity of healthcare data. Generative AI, particularly large language models (LLMs), offers a promising alternative by synthesizing realistic datasets while addressing data scarcity. Yet, their adoption in healthcare is hindered by critical concerns about trustworthiness, including semantic validity, fairness, bias mitigation, fidelity, privacy preservation, and real-world utility. This research identifies key gaps in developing trustworthy generative models and ML methods for healthcare. These include the absence of standardized synthetic data evaluation frameworks, trust deficits in healthcare generative models, resource intensiveness, and design-induced opaqueness. The overall objective of the THUNDER project is to forge a comprehensive framework for trustworthy and responsible generative AI in healthcare. This will be achieved by defining (i) standardized evaluation metrics, (ii) developing advanced knowledge-guided generative models, and (iii) creating a fully frugal-by-design and interpretable-by-design learning models. These efforts, driven by interdisciplinary and intersectoral mobility and knowledge exchange, will establish a new paradigm for AI-driven healthcare. We will target Sepsis as a global health priority identified by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Keywords: generative models,metrics,neural networks,frugal machine learning
From Wild to Domesticated: How do root traits and microbial communities affect soil carbon stabilization in cropping systems? (ROOTEX-C)

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,Austria
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 194074.56
EU funding (EUR): 194074.56
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Domestication resulted in a loss of crop diversity, and greater susceptibility to biotic and abiotic stressors. But did this transition to domesticated varieties also influence soil carbon (C) stabilization pathways? To address this question ROOTEX-C will bring together a multidisciplinary team with expertise in plant physiology, microbiology, biogeochemistry, and soil science. The aim is to investigate how belowground plant traits, such as root architecture and exudation patterns, interact with microbial communities and influence soil C stabilization across different crop domestication statuses. By employing cutting-edge methodologies, including metabolomics, metagenomics, stable isotope probing, and novel methods for estimating microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE), ROOTEX-C aims to significantly advance our mechanistic understanding of plant-soil C processes and gain insights into the effects of crop domestication on plant belowground traits. Project findings could ultimately inform crop breeding programs and agronomic practices that seek to enhance soil C contributing to both global food security and climate change mitigation. Beyond its scientific contributions, this project is pivotal for the fellow's professional development. By acquiring advanced interdisciplinary skills in microbial ecology, biogeochemistry, and plant physiology, she will gain the technical expertise required to tackle complex environmental and agricultural challenges. The collaboration with leading institutions and renowned experts will not only enhance her technical skill set but also strengthen her professional network, fostering future interdisciplinary research collaborations. The experience will significantly enhance her career prospects, positioning her for leadership roles in both academic research and industry sectors focused on sustainable agriculture.

Keywords: organic matter stabilization,microbial communities,root exudates,biogeochemistry,carbon use efficiency
The Religious Politics of Theme Parks in the 21st century: Imagineering Religion, Heritage and National Sentiments (MAKEBELIEF)

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: Netherlands
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2028-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1996729.0
EU funding (EUR): 1996729.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Why do religious theme parks appear in secular countries? MAKEBELIEF investigates how in the 21th century, immersive media are mobilized to 'imagineer' religion. The project provides a comparative analysis of religious theme parks in China, Turkey the Netherlands and the United States. MAKEBELIEF investigates religious theme parks on three levels: Firstly this project analyses through documentary analysis why religious organizations, heritage institutions, government agencies and corporations in constitutionally secular countries came to design and use immersive media environments to orchestrate a public image of religion. Secondly, by using participatory observation and media genealogy, MAKEBELIEF analyzes how immersive media forms (e.g. animatronics, 4d cinema, re-enactment, the diorama but also the theme park as a genre) are deployed in attempts to engineer people’s image of religion worldwide. Thirdly, through ethnographic engagement with visitors and social media analysis, it researches how audiences react to and re-appropriate such attempts at ‘imagineering’ religion. MAKEBELIEF offers four case studies, a synthesizing and comparative work package and a visual anthropological work package to explore the dynamics of religion in the 21st century. This way, MAKEBELIEF breaks ground in three areas 1) providing an academic framework that integrates the study of religion, heritage and politics to better identify 21st century contestations for public meaning of religion; 2) furthering the study of immersive media environments by researching its roles in religion, heritage and nation 3) an improved understanding of how attempts to influence people’s perception of religion play out in the everyday lives of 21st century citizens. MAKEBELIEF’s findings will be of importance to those concerned with the future role of religion, including policy makers, religious communities and heritage institutions.
Uncovering novel metabolism, microbial interactions and environmental roles of electroactive ANaerobic MEthanotrophic archaea (electroANME)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2025-COG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-04-01
End date: 2031-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Anaerobic methanotrophic (ANME) archaea are ecologically critical microorganisms that remove methane from natural environments, thereby reducing emissions of this potent greenhouse gas. However, their physiology and ecology remain vastly unexplored due to the lack of axenic (single species) cultures of ANME archaea, their slow doubling times (in the order of weeks or months) and their complex nutritional requirements and interactions with other organisms. Recently, we achieved a breakthrough in ANME archaea cultivation, developing bioelectrochemical systems with highly enriched (>95% pure) and rapidly growing (doubling time ~4.5 days) cultures of Ca. Methanoperedens, a representative freshwater ANME archaeon. Now, in electroANME, we propose to leverage our expertise in growing and characterizing ANME archaea and our unique access to these near-axenic cultures to address urgent scientific questions related to microbial methane removal. In Aim 1, we will elucidate the molecular mechanisms involved in methane oxidation, particularly by elucidating how ANME archaea perform extracellular electron transfer to electron acceptors. In Aim 2, we will identify bacterial partners of ANME archaea and delineate the mechanisms involved in direct interspecies electron transfer between ANME archaea and bacteria. In Aim 3, we will explore the metabolic diversity of ANME archaea, including in the absence of external electron acceptors, and probe the environmental relevance of these metabolic processes. The findings from this project will not only provide novel insights into the physiology and ecology of ANME archaea but also have the potential to improve climate models and inform future biotechnological applications exploring the capacity of these microbes to oxidize methane, thereby helping to address the pressing societal problem of climate change.

Keywords: microbial physiology,archaea,microbial interactions,climate change,methane,methanotrophs
Establishing museomics as a tool to inform the conservation of endangered species (MUSEOMIC)

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: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173847.36
EU funding (EUR): 173847.36
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Global biodiversity is being decimated by human activities, including agriculture, deforestation and land use change. This is causing unprecedented population declines and pushing species to extinction, especially in tropical ecosystems. Genetic health is an important measure of population viability, and to help identify populations at risk, this is now being included in conservation programs however, incorporating this level of information on genetic diversity can be challenging. Additionally, because standing levels of variation differ between species this makes assessing whether a population has “low” or “high” genetic diversity can be very difficult. In response, MUSEOMIC, will harness new ancient genetic and museomics techniques (sequencing of museum specimens), to measure changes in genetic diversity in three extremely vulnerable mammals (anoa, babirusa and Sulawesi warty pig) in the biodiversity hotspot of Wallacea. As an isolated tropical archipelago in Indonesia, Wallacea is the perfect natural laboratory for understanding how ancient and anthropogenic disturbances have impacted the genetic erosion of the three flagship mammals and is contributing to their decline. By tracking changes in genetic health through time and space, MUSEOMIC will gain insights into the extinction risk these unique taxa face and will directly benefit population management and long-term survival by identifying unique genetic diversity, designating conservation units, and making captive breeding recommendations. Hosted by Prof. L. Frantz at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (LMU), through MUSEOMIC, Dr Rosie Drinkwater will gain new skills in bioinformatics and population genetics, grow her research network, and succeed as a future leader in conservation biology.

Keywords: mammals,wallacea,southeast asia,genomic erosion,palaeogenetics,deforestation,extinction risk