Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Innovative approach by developing oxygen blocking membrane electrolytes for novel solid state sodium-air batteries (OXBLOLYTE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-04-17
End date: 2025-04-16
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The EU’s notion to become climate neutral in 2050, as per the EU Green Deal, strives to transform the economy through advancements in clean renewable energy. While rechargeable Li-ion batteries sustain the current market for energy storage, they cannot continue to achieve the transformative scale of improvement required due to the finite supply of lithium, and their limited energy storage capacities, among others. Sodium-air batteries (NaBs) provide an attractive alternative due to the abundance of sodium – thus low cost – and their lightweight porous air cathodes to reach greater energy densities. Today’s traditional electrolytes are unstable towards Na metal and radical species generated during cycling, allowing oxygen crossover to the anode, which results in battery failure. Moreover, their liquid nature leads to evaporation and leakage issues. OXBLOLYTE Postdoctoral Fellowship will overcome these challenges by developing novel solid-state electrolytes based on Polymer of Intrinsic Microporosity membranes combined with conducting Organic Ionic Plastic Crystal materials. In parallel to these practical concerns, OXBLOLYTE will unravel mechanistic understanding of solid-state NaBs– a field currently unexplored - to allow the correct choice of electrolyte. The research fellow, Dr. Yahia (with expertise in polymer membranes), will conduct the OXBLOLYTE project at CIC energiGUNE (Spain) with the host supervisor, Dr. Ortiz-Vitoriano (pioneer in the relevant research field) which includes mechanical property studies under the supervisor of Dr. Sardon (with expertise in polymers) at Polymat (Spain). OXBLOLYTE facilitates the transfer of 3 I’s knowledge whilst diversifying Dr. Yahia’s networks and leadership skills to further advance his career perspectives and employability. As a result, OXBLOBLYTE will lead to research outputs that will be disseminated to the general public, scientific community and industry with the final aim to enlarge its exploitation potential.

Keywords: non aqueous chemistry,solid state electrolyte,batteries,na air,climate neutrality
U.P.S. (Unravelling Pastoral Societies) project. Follow the sheep: origin and evolution of transhumance in a Central Mediterranean context (U.P.S. project)

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: Italy,United States,Australia
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2029-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 396991.08
EU funding (EUR): 396991.08
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

U.P.S. (Unravelling Pastoral Societies) project. Follow the sheep: origin and evolution of transhumance in a Central Mediterranean context. UNESCO has recently (2019) inscribed Transhumance on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Many European landscapes have been characterised by networks of transhumance routes, across space and time. UPS project focuses on the study of prehistoric transhumance in a pivotal zone of central Mediterranean, Southern Italy. This ambitious research will be based in advanced research centres, using state-of-the-art methods, in line with the multidisciplinary standards of the so-called ‘third revolution of archaeology’. The two Research Questions of the UPS project are: 1) verify if it is possible to track the early origin and development of transhumance, one of the most characterizing aspect of ancient (and modern) pastoral societies; 2) verify if transhumance can be considered one of the main factors inducing connectivity through mobility, making it possible the development of social complexity even in those inner context of peninsular Italy commonly considered less permeable to foreign contacts then coastal settlements. UPS project will be the first project to study prehistoric transhumant pastoralism in southern Italy combining the study of strontium, oxygen and carbon isotope ratios to address intra-annual mobility patterns of both animals and humans in a diachronic perspective. The combination of robust sampling strategies and advanced methodologies acquired through cutting-edge training in state-of-the-art facilities will allow the reproducibility of the results beyond the study area.

Keywords: zooarchaeology,paleoanthropology,pastoralism,transhumance,ancient mobility,multi isotope investigations,connectivity,livestock management,ancient trades,social complexity,cultural contacts
Multifunctional sustainable adsorbents for water treatment assisted with plasma technologies and for health protection from xenobiotics (CLEANWATER)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Spain,Hungary,Poland,Slovakia,Ukraine,Kazakhstan,Mexico,United Kingdom,Moldova, Republic of
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1082314.29
EU funding (EUR): 979800.0
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

Contamination of drinking-water is an urgent global health concern, preferentially in rural areas, and is highly related to the poor and vulnerable population. This challenge requires a single, easy to handle and low-cost solution able to decrease the levels of pathogens, chemical and radiological hazards to tolerable levels in a single and simple pot (from a sorbent on a glass to a more powerful cold plasma technology). Furthermore, climate change, natural disasters and the actual war in Ukraine urges having available fast effective solutions to avoid the spread of waterborne epidemies and being exposed to unsafe levels of heavy metals or hazardous organic pollutants. The complexity of such contamination including organic/inorganic species, cationic/anionic species, different size and shape, etc., requires a multicomponent system and/or device, in the form of a tablet or monolith, able to tackle specifically each of these hazards at once. In addition, this multicomponent system, besides tacking the problem in water, can be prepared and/or modified to be biocompatible so that it can also be used as a dietary complement to mitigate/remove all these hazards in human body (as enterosorbent). Based on these premises, the main goal of the CLEANWATER project is the design and development of multicomponent sorbents prepared by the combination of safe materials (e.g., activated carbons, bone-chars, pectins, among others) able to eliminate these contaminants in drinking water in a single pot or in combination with cold plasma for complete destruction. Furthermore, this sorbent will be modified accordingly to be applied in human body as a dietary complement to remove these species once assimilated in the body.

Keywords: porous sorbents,water treatment,xenobiotics,enterosorbents
Material and digital traceability for the certification of critical raw materials (MaDiTraCe)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Increased Autonomy in Key Strategic Value Chains for Resilient Industry
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Germany,Finland,Austria,Belgium,Spain,Netherlands
Call: Technological solutions for tracking raw material flows in complex supply chains (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2022-RESILIENCE-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11024752.5
EU funding (EUR): 11024752.5
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

MaDiTraCe’s main goal is to enlarge and integrate the portfolio of technological solutions reinforcing the reliability of critical raw material (CRM) tracking and the transparency of complex supply chains. The project aims to develop and test independent digital and geo-based approaches for CRM traceability and to integrate them with a generic certification scheme for CRMs throughout mineral supply chains from the mine to the manufactured and recycled products. The project intends to increase the TRL of experimental or largely untested methods in both domains, digital and material sciences. A special attention will be payed to the complexity of mineral supply chains with points of material aggregation and of transformation (processing, refining…) including circular economy (recycling). This methodology will enable downstream industrials to prove the reliability of their sustainability claims, complying with regulation in force (notably EU Battery regulation, German Supply Chain Act) and anticipating implementation of regulation to come (EU Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence). MaDiTraCe’s fundament is a strong stakeholder process (WP1) with upstream and downstream industrials from mining to manufacturing industry and large networks involved via the consortia (EIT-RM) and clusters (ISMC) participating in the project. Continuous interaction with this industrial and policy-oriented stakeholder community on the traceability technology (WP2 and WP3) and the certification schemes (WP4) developed in the project will ensure to stay in line with industrial needs and expectations with respect to regulatory compliance. It will also facilitate implementation and exploitation (WP5) of the project outcomes.

Keywords: critical raw materials traceability sourcing certification digital material passport
Poli-Stability: comprehensive assessment of stability in pollination communities (PoliS)

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 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Species and ecological interactions are disappearing at alarming rates with unknown effects on key ecosystem functions basic for human well being, as pollination. Project PoliS (comprehensive assessment of stability in pollination communities) aims to combine the forces of an expert in the study of stability in complex networks (researcher) and a world leader on pollination services (supervisor) to address one of the most relevant problems in ecology nowadays: how plant-pollinator communities respond to environmental changes. By bridging the classical divide between the empirical and theoretical frameworks to study ecological stability, and using as case study detailed data on 12 communities in the Doñana natural reserve (southern Spain) across a gradient of landscape fragmentation monitored over seven years, this project put forwards solutions to comprehensively quantify the response of pollination communities to environmental perturbations, and elucidates the mechanisms by which pollination communities withstand global change pressures and achieve different axes of stability. The novelty and high transferability of the methodology, in addition to the relevance of the question, make of this project an unique opportunity to advance in the prediction of how pollination communities will respond to a changing world.

Keywords: ecological stability,climate change,landscape fragmentation,ecosystem functioning,plant pollinator communities
Character values and their relation with finite groups structure (CharValues)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173847.36
EU funding (EUR): 173847.36
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Research will be conducted on character theory of finite groups, specifically on characters' values and fields of values. Two new ambitious problems will be investigated. One is a global-local problem, concerning irreducible characters of a group and of his Sylow normalizers, and it will be investigated using machine learning methods. The other consists in searching for a family of irreducible characters which "behaves well" in relation with elements of prime power order. My research will have a considerable impact in the field of character theory and it will have possible applications in other fields of group theory. The use of of machine learning methods in my research may have an impact extending beyond group theory, as it could suggest a similar use in other fields of mathematics. Research to be conducted in Kaiserslautern, under the supervision of prof. Malle, eminent researcher in the field of character theory of finite groups of Lie type. Training on machine learning to be conducted in the CS department of the hosting university. Further training will be conducted on character theory of non-abelian simple groups, and possibly as a teaching assistant in group theory.

Keywords: finite groups,character theory,characters field of values,character degrees,sylow subgroups,galois mckay conjecture,application of machine learning
Deployment and Assessment of Predictive modelling, environmentally sustainable and emerging digital technologies and tools for improving the resilience of IWW against Climate change and other extremes (PLOTO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Safe, Resilient Transport and Smart Mobility services for passengers and goods
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Luxembourg,Romania,Hungary,Greece,Germany,Finland,Slovenia
Call: Climate resilient and environmentally sustainable transport infrastructure, with a focus on inland waterways (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D6-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8715422.5
EU funding (EUR): 7497694.38
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

PLOTO aims at increasing the resilience of the Inland WaterWays (IWW) infrastructures and the connected land- infrastructures, thus ensuring reliable network availability under unfavourable conditions, such as extreme weather, accidents and other kind of hazards. Our main target is to combine downscaled climate change scenarios (applied to IWW infrastructures) with simulation tools and actual data, so as to provide the relevant authorities and their operators with an integrated tool able to support more effective management of their infrastructures at strategic and operational levels. Towards this direction, PLOTO aims to: - use high resolution modelling data for the determination and the assessment of the climatic risk of the selected transport infrastructures and associated expected damages; - use existing data from various sources with new types of sensor-generated data (computer vision) to feed the used simulator; - utilize tailored weather forecasts (combining seamlessly all available data sources) for specific hot-spots, providing early warnings with corresponding impact assessment in real time; - develop improved multi-temporal, multi-sensor UAV- and satellite-based observations with robust spectral analysis, computer vision and machine learning-based assessment for diverse transport infrastructures; - design and implement an integrated Resilience Assessment Platform environment as an innovative planning tool that will permit a quantitative resilience assessment through an end-to-end simulation environment, running “what-if” impact/risk/resilience assessment scenarios. The effects of adaptation measures can be investigated by changing the hazard, exposure and vulnerability input parameters; - design and implement a Common Operational Picture, including an enhanced visualisation interface and an Incident Management System. The PLOTO integrated platform and its tools will be validated in three case studies in Belgium, Romania and Hungary.
AvantDante: the Reception of Dante in 1945-2001 US Avantgarde Poetic Communities (AvantDante)

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: Italy,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2028-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 420751.08
EU funding (EUR): 420751.08
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

AvantDante offers the first systematic study of the translation and reception history of Dante Alighieri’s works and persona in the US avantgarde poetic communities between 1945-2001. The variety of poetic practices that emerged over this period is characterized by an experimental approach to composition and a sensitivity to the resistance of a text to closure, through extensive use of translation, parody, and pastiche. This project adopts a reader-oriented perspective and a transdisciplinary methodology to argue that the conspicuous degree of interaction by avantgarde poets with the figure and works of Dante constitutes a means to community creation, at a time when responses to (including rejection of) dominant and received modes of poetry was performed through an eclectic engagement with the modernist cultural legacy and a metatextual reflection on poetic language itself. AvantDante makes use of archival and digital tools to revivify a heterogeneous corpus of print evidence from public, national, and university libraries, special collections, and archives in the US; it deploys elements of philological and textual analysis to explore cultural metamorphosis, reappropriation, translation, and transmission; and it blends literary, socio-historical, material and digital approaches to map, visualize and convey an innovative and comprehensive reconstruction of these avantgarde movements as eclectic circles or communities of readers and mediators of Dante. Further, in exploring cultural appurtenance, linguistic identity, and translation practices through a lens of Dantean reception, problematising the larger project of constructing a specifically “American” literary idiom and explicit or implicit dialogue between poetic communities, this research will provide the first literary-historical overview of the legacy of modernist Dantean translation experiments in avantgarde American poetry

Keywords: dantean reception dante studies postmodern american poetry digital humanities reception theory translation studies comparative literatures archival studies
Preventing explosions: Resolved measurement of turbulent flow electrification (MefiX)

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: Germany
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

"Please research electrostatic charging," pleaded the R&D leader of a major chemical company. While other ignition sources for explosions can be detected, seen, or smelled, electrostatic charge appears unexpectedly whenever liquids or solids flow. Responding to the urgent need for reliable detection of electrostatic charge, we propose advancing the MefiX flow charge measurement system, a groundbreaking innovation from the ERC project PowFEct, to the proof-of-concept stage. MefiX represents a paradigm shift in safety management, offering the world’s first system capable of measuring turbulent flow charge in situ and with spatial resolution. Leveraging advanced machine learning techniques, MefiX identifies hidden ignition sources, providing early warnings against dangerous increases in electrostatic charge during liquid or powder transport processes. The primary technical objective of this PoC is to transition MefiX from a laboratory experiment to a functional prototype. We will validate its technical feasibility under real-world operating conditions and develop a compact, automated, cost-effective prototype device. Our business development activities will assess the project’s commercial viability, supported by secured patents and engagement with European and international stakeholders. To attract customers and investors, we will showcase MefiX at trade fairs and establish a comprehensive roadmap for its future commercialization. Guided by an advisory board comprising multidisciplinary experts, we aim to bridge the gap between scientific excellence and commercial success, foster safe workplaces, and contribute to a prosperous society. Given the immense value of industrial plants, it is highly profitable for companies to invest in MefiX. With quantifiable benefits regarding safety enhancement, economic savings, and potential lives saved, MefiX promises to revolutionize industrial safety protocols, ensuring a safer and more secure future for all.

Keywords: electrostatics explosions particles measurement