Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Literary Games, Poetics and the Early-Modern Novel (JEUX)

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: Norway
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): 1984779.0
EU funding (EUR): 1984779.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Literary games were a wide-spread practice in seventeenth-century France, and prominent novelists wrote fictions about a salon company playing the “game of the novel” (jeu du roman). While literary games were clearly defined, the novel was a genre that had yet to establish its standards. In order to enhance our understanding of a decisive period for the novel (1600-1700), this project proposes to study how authors model their own practice creatively through play. JEUX is the first comprehensive, systematic investigation of literary games and their impact on the development of the standards for the most prominent literary genre today – the novel. JEUX thereby takes a ground-breaking perspective on the novel in the making. The main objectives are to (1) analyse systematically the impact of early-modern literary games on the narrative standards for fictional worlds, formal coherence and narrators in the novel; (2) identify how literary games contribute to the self-theorising of a new genre; (3) re-evaluate the role of play and games in writing literary history. Using an innovative combination of literary theory, game studies, narratology and anthropological fieldwork, JEUX goes beyond traditional metaphors of literature as a kind of gameplay and investigates an actual literary game from theoretical, historical and empirical perspectives. To assess play as practice, JEUX will invite creative-writing students to play early-modern games and, thereby, pioneer a new methodological approach to explore cultural practices as a potential site for creativity, innovation and community also in the contemporary world. JEUX will sharpen current understanding of decisive developments in the form, poetics and history of the novel. It will enhance our grasp of the dynamics between games and narratives and contribute to the rediscovery of the cultural heritage of literary games. Through the investigation of the neglected corpus of evidence, JEUX will tell a new history of the novel.
IMPETUS4CHANGE (I4C): IMPROVING NEAR-TERM CLIMATE PREDICTIONS FOR SOCIETAL TRANSFORMATION (Impetus4Change)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Climate
Destination: Climate sciences and responses for the transformation towards climate neutrality
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Norway,United Kingdom,France,Germany,Belgium,Czechia,Spain,Taiwan, Province of China,Denmark
Call: Supporting the formulation of adaptation strategies through improved climate predictions in Europe and beyond (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-02, 2022)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9573842.36
EU funding (EUR): 9573842.36
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

IMPETUS4CHANGE (I4C) will make significant scientific advances that will enhance our collective ability to act on and adapt to near-term climate change. The overarching objective of I4C is to improve the quality, accessibility and usability of near-term climate information and services at local to regional scales – where impacts are most keenly felt and on-the-ground adaptation is implemented – to strengthen and support end-user adaptation planning and action. Several specific objectives work towards this overarching goal: 1) Improve understanding and flow of climate information through knowledge networks; 2) Address persistent shortcomings to deliver seasonal to decadal predictions of improved quality; 3) Develop novel methods to downscale predictions to local scales; 4) Improve assessments of hazards and translate this into usable information for local risk assessments; 5) Make advances towards the goal of end-to-end seamless climate services; 6) Through transdisciplinary co-production approaches develop fit-for-purpose "Adaptation support packs" at municipal scales through our so-called urban Demonstrators; 7) Ensure high impact and visibility through robust and targeted communication and engagement; 8) Commit to Open Science through development of open access tools and exploitation of data/model outputs via relevant platforms thereby ensuring improved accessibility and usability of climate knowledge. The I4C approach is to address and improve the full value chain of near-term predictions from global climate to local impacts. Many of our fundamental science activities in modeling, downscaling, and tailoring near-term climate are novel and experimental. Additionally, the inclusion of an expert team of social scientists will allow a more rigorous co-production process as the project transforms data to information, information to knowledge and knowledge to action.

Keywords: climate prediction,climate adaptation,societal transformation,impacts,extremes,hazards
Grounding through the lens of backchannels in signed conversation: Cross-linguistic insights (SignBack)

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: Norway,Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-15
End date: 2026-07-14
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 220173.04
EU funding (EUR): 220173.04
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

1 in 1000 deaf or hard-of-hearing individuals in the EU communicates in one of 31 national or regional signed languages (SLs) as their first language. Understanding how deaf signers of different SLs coordinate their interaction to build and maintain mutual understanding, known as grounding, is thus a key issue in unveiling the highly cooperative nature of human communication. However, research on the interactional infrastructure of SLs is still understudied. Combining insights from comparative linguistics, computational and conversational analysis, SignBack describes how deaf signers from two unrelated SLs, namely, Norwegian SL (NTS) and French Belgian SL (LSFB) achieve mutual understanding in conversation. To achieve this, I will analyse one core mechanism recognised for providing positive evidence of understanding in interaction, namely backchannels. This project will be the first cross-linguistic study to adopt a synchronic, corpus-based approach to SLs by combining quantitative statistical processing with a qualitative, interactional view on language to achieve a better understanding of human interaction in context. The integration of these methods across SLs will provide key insights into the interactional practices of two linguistic minorities, thereby further contributing to a more dynamic and semiotically diverse view of language. SignBack will make a major contribution to the field of (SL) linguistics by further documenting two under described SLs. It will provide vital implications to a range of domains including (i) curriculum design for SL interpreters, (ii) effective development of SL-based human-computer interaction and (iii) baselines for clinical research investigating impaired social functioning. The innovation of this project therefore lies not only in its object of study, which includes an overlooked side of linguistics but also in its cross-linguistic scope by being more socially inclusive towards two endangered linguistic minorities.

Keywords: signed language linguistics,conversation analysis,corpus linguistics
Revealing New Physics Through Primordial Neutrinos (REVEAL)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-04-01
End date: 2027-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 307958.88
EU funding (EUR): 307958.88
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Primordial neutrinos are key messengers from the Early Universe, offering a probe of the cosmic times as small as 0.01 seconds after the Big Bang. This represents a key test of both the standard models of particle physics and cosmology. Upcoming Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observations will achieve unprecedented precision in measuring neutrino properties, potentially revealing or constraining new physics. Establishing this linkage requires a unified, efficient, model-independent approach to solving the neutrino Boltzmann equation in the presence of new physics. Current studies lack all these features, resulting in a fragmented, limited, and opaque state-of-the-art. This project will systematically study the effects of various new physics scenarios on primordial neutrinos and their impact on CMB, Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN), and baryon acoustic oscillations. It will develop a novel approach to solving the neutrino Boltzmann equation using an improved Direct Simulation Monte Carlo method, addressing limitations in current methods. Several new physics models will be considered within the approach, including decaying particles (like Heavy Neutral Leptons and late reheating particles) and non-standard neutrino interactions. The analysis will culminate in CosmoCalc, a framework to map new physics models to neutrino properties and primordial abundances, calculating cosmological constraints and/or sensitivities. It will also integrate cosmological observations with laboratory searches to refine the parameter space for new physics, guiding future accelerator experiments like SHiP. By providing results and tools open-access, this project will connect theoretical predictions with observational data, enhance interdisciplinary collaboration, and improve the interpretation of high-precision measurements from upcoming cosmological missions, paving the way for future exploration of the universe's fundamental properties.

Keywords: primordial neutrinos,new physics,boltzmann equation,cosmological observations,cosmic microwave background,big bang nucleosynthesis
Health Economic Impact of Population-based Interventions for Prevention of Overweight and Obesity (EcIMPACT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Prevention,  Diagnosis and T reatment of Human Diseases
Panel description: Medical technologies  and tools for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases, therapeutic approaches and interventions , pharmacology, preventative  medicine, epidemiology and public health , digital medicine
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1496598.0
EU funding (EUR): 1496598.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Overweight and obesity account for one eighth of the disease burden and five percent of health care expenditures in Europe and cause large societal productivity losses. Thus, cost-effective strategies for the prevention of overweight and obesity are urgently needed to assure the financial sustainability of health and social security systems. Population-based interventions (PBIs) that change the social and environmental context are promising strategies, however, robust evidence on their health and economic impact is lacking. This uncertainty might lead to inefficient resource allocation and harm for patients and society. In EcIMPACT, I aim to 1) quantify the real-world causal effect of two policy relevant PBIs on body weight, 2) estimate the causal effect of excess body weight on health and economic outcomes, and 3) model the long-term health and economic impact of PBIs by combining results from Aims 1 and 2. I will do so by combining innovative methods from economics, public health, and epidemiology. Specifically, I will pool data from large cohort studies, surveillance initiatives, and household panels across Europe and use econometric methods that exploit natural policy experiments (Aim 1), link primary and secondary data sources that comprise granular genetic, phenotypic, and socio-economic information and apply cutting-edge Mendelian Randomization techniques (Aim 2), and build a simulation model that integrates those estimated parameters in a novel model type (Aim 3). Synthesizing cutting-edge methods from different academic disciplines, EcIMPACT will provide urgently needed evidence for decision makers on the value of PBIs that will ultimately improve population health. EcIMPACT will advance public health research substantially by showing that combinations of innovative quasi-experimental and model-based techniques, which leverage the full potential of modern data infrastructures, can guide health policy in an efficient and timely manner.

Keywords: impact evaluation,health economics,natural experimants,simulation modeling
Verification and Analysis for Safety and Security of Applications in Life (VASSAL)

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: Coordination and support actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Czechia,France,Austria
Call: Twinning Bottom-Up (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499875.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499875.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

VASSAL project focuses on leveraging the scientific excellence and innovation capacity of the consortium in the field of software engineering to support safety and security of digitised economies and societies. The key objective is to bring together expertise of the consortium in specific domains to enhance and create a new knowledge for robust and resilient SW engineering through scientific strategy combining model-based design, formal methods and economics for source-codes and systems. As SW becomes more complex, ensuring its safety and security (vulnerabilities free) becomes increasingly challenging and vital, not only in safety-critical systems but across various operation systems and IoT as well. Formal methods and model-based design are taking an increasingly significant role, building upon its already widespread use in safety-critical applications, such as automotive or aerospace. As basic building blocks in engineering process, they enable to build robust and resilient SW and HW systems (security-/safe-by-design) ensuring the reliability and correctness, leveraging cybersecurity, and improving the development life-cycle, that lead to savings in operational costs of systems. The economic assessment and implications of advanced SW engineering tools are not commonly available. VASSAL will deliver a rare opportunity to explore and document the potential benefits of and challenges in deployment in order to leverage the awareness and make inroads to broader exploitation by end-users (especially SMEs) in segments, where these issues are being overlooked due to the alleged non-returnability of the investment.

Keywords: formal methods,model based design,safety and security of software,economics of software tools,software engineering
Greener Future Digital Research Infrastructures (GreenDIGIT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Technology and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Czechia,Italy,France,Spain,Belgium,Hungary,Germany,Greece,Poland,Switzerland
Call: New technologies and solutions for reducing the environmental and climate footprint of RIs (HORIZON-INFRA-2023-TECH-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5006755.08
EU funding (EUR): 4938972.5
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

In order to keep Research Infrastructures at the highest level of excellence in science, new technologies and solutions must be developed to steer toward a reduced environmental footprint, as it is the case for all domains of our societies. Lowering the environmental impact of digital infrastructures should be a priority as they today contribute 3 to 4% of the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emission in the world and expected to triple from 2020 to 2050. GreenDIGIT brings together 4 major distributed Digital Infrastructures at different lifecycle stages, EGI, SLICES, SoBigData, EBRAINS, to tackle the challenge of environmental impact reduction with the ambition to provide solutions that are reusable across the whole spectrum of digital services on the ESFRI landscape, and play a role model. GreenDIGIT will capture good practices and existing solutions and will develop new technologies and solutions for all aspects of the digital continuum: from service provisioning to monitoring, job scheduling, resources allocation, architecture, workload and Open Science practices, task execution, storage, and use of green energy. GreenDIGIT will deliver these solutions as building blocks, with a reference architecture and guidelines for RIs to lower their environmental footprint. It will include the extension of a workload manager, Virtual Machine Manager, AI/ML training framework, and IoT/5G/network management solutions from 4 participating RIs with new brokering logic to optimize task execution toward low-energy use. User-side tools and Virtual Research Environments will also be expanded with energy usage reporting and reproducibility capabilities to motivate users to apply low-energy practices. The new solutions will be validated through reference scientific use cases from diverse disciplines and will be promoted to providers and users through an active dissemination and training programme, in order to prepare the next generation of Digital RIs with a low environmental footprint.

Keywords: research infrastructures,datacenter energy efficiency,end to end energy monitoring,environmental impact assessment methodology,experimental research reproducibility,training for sustainability
Soft photonic crystal driven innovative optical metamaterial to realize high quality factor band- edge lasing (MetaPhoton)

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: Physics
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 260347.92
EU funding (EUR): 260347.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

'Integrated photonics’ is a highly promising technology for next-generation photonic materials, and has been identified as a key research area for Europe’s digital transformation, fulfilling EU sustainability goals. Compact and coherent micro-lasers are essential components as light sources in photonic integrated circuits. ‘Optical metamaterials’ is an emerging area of nanophotonics research, in which the electrical and magnetic resonances of the sub-wavelength components, manipulate light at the nanoscale. Precise spectral tuning of the resonances leads to collective interferences with demonstrated potential for realizing high-efficiency micro-lasers. MetaPhoton aims to develop an innovative optical metamaterial-based lasing system with the soft photonic blue phase liquid crystal (BPLC) as the active medium. The host BPLC, whose immense potential as an optical metamaterial is yet unexplored, serves a dual purpose: (i) supports nanoparticle lattice to form metamaterial, and (ii) exhibits photonic band gap guided resonance modes, which interfere with particle-driven optical resonances. The collective interferences in the soft photonic metamaterial are promising to drive next-generation high quality factor (Q) photonic band edge micro-lasers. The project gains strength from my previous experience in soft photonics & optical metamaterials, combined with the extensive experience of the host supervisor in LC-based photonic systems and that of the collaborators in nanophotonic imaging and spectroscopy. While the “optical metamaterials” field has passed its naissance and is emerging into a matured research stage, MetaPhoton is set to inspire a new research area – “soft photonic crystal-induced high-Q nanophotonics”, which is highly relevant now to advance the field. The research and career development skills gained during the fellowship by working on this cutting-edge project will be the key to establishing myself as an independent researcher.

Keywords: soft photonics,blue phase liquid crystal,optical metamaterial,mie resonance,fano resonance,photonic band gap,selective reflection,band edge lasing,darkfield hyperspectral imaging
Near natural hearing restoration through waveguide-based optical cochlear implants (OptoWavePro)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Transition
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany,Finland,France
Call: EIC Transition Challenge: Full scale Micro-Nano-Bio devices for medical and medical research applications (HORIZON-EIC-2023-TRANSITION-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-04-01
End date: 2027-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499983.75
EU funding (EUR): 2499983.5
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

OptoWavePro aims to develop a human prototype for an optical stimulator for optogenetic hearing restoration in individuals with profound hearing impairment. Leveraging optogenetics and biomedical engineering, we strive to restore near-natural hearing by precise optogenetic control of the auditory nerve for which we obtained preclinical proof. Our multidisciplinary team will design, fabricate, and validate the stimulator, emphasizing safety, efficacy, and regulatory compliance. Preclinical studies will validate efficacy, reliability, and biocompatibility, to prepare clinical trials. The OptoWavePro consortium will introduce a new paradigm of integrating arrays of laser diodes, micro-lenses and polymer-based waveguides on minimal space for the optical stimulator to meet the required form factor of the optical cochlear implant. We will facilitate the upscaling of optical stimulation channels by combining custom-designed and complementary elements with lateral channel pitches of only 100 micrometers throughout the optical pathway. Our biomedical engineering focusses on achieving efficacy and safety by housing all electronic components in a hermetically sealed titanium housing with optical feedthroughs and efficient and stable light in- and outcoupling of the waveguide array. The optical cochlear implant has the potential to revolutionize hearing restoration, merging scientific innovation with clinical impact, and transforming lives globally.

Keywords: optical cochlear implant,optogenetics,hearing restoration,biomedical engineering,microsystem technology,optical engineering,laser diodes,optical waveguides