Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Quantum Darwinism with GPU-accelerated numerical simulations- study of the transition from the quantum to the classical (QDGPUS)

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: Poland
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): 163166.16
EU funding (EUR): 163166.16
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Quantum Darwinism describes how quantum systems lose their quantum properties and become classical and objective due to interactions with the environment. The standard Copenhagen interpretation simplifies this process as an instant wave function collapse. Understanding the details of this quantum to classical transition is an essential scientific as well as a philosophical question. Practically, it could lead to better isolation of quantum systems, resulting in more efficient experiments, and reduced errors in quantum computers. This project will utilize Graphics-Processing-Unit(GPU)-accelerated numerical simulations to model the environment and its interaction with the system of interest in detail. The simulation software will be developed from pre-existing software created by the Researcher, resulting in a fast and efficient process. Recent advances in GPU technology will enable the study of around 30 qubits (or equivalent for other systems). These simulations will be used as a tool and a testbed to study the dynamics of the Quantum Darwinist quantum to classical transition process, and to explore the impact of the initial state and internal dynamics of the environment. Firstly, we will study different measures of nonclassicality, particularly one based on the Kirkwood-Dirac quasiprobability distribution, and compare and correlate them with quantum discord, usually used in the context of Quantum Darwinism. We will also model weak measurement and its impact. Secondly, we will find the mathematical conditions for the emergence of a Spectrum Broadcast Structure (a condition stronger than Quantum Darwinism), with respect to the environment's initial state and dynamics. Thirdly, we will study in detail the compatibility of objectivity and thermal states, and intermediate phases that might emerge during the transition. The software developed will be made open-source, and published with an instruction manual for the benefit of the scientific community.

Keywords: quantum darwinism,quantum foundations,quantum information,numerical simulations,gpu accelerated simulations,
Enhancing Robustness and Security of Edge AI Systems for Safety-Critical Applications (GuardAI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Civil Security for Society
Theme: Civil Security for Society
Destination: Increased Cybersecurity
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Cyprus,Greece,United Kingdom,Austria,Italy
Call: Security of robust AI systems (HORIZON-CL3-2023-CS-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4316775.0
EU funding (EUR): 4316775.0
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

The GuardAI project seeks to enhance the security of edge AI systems, addressing their critical vulnerabilities. Emphasis is placed on high-stakes domains, as outlined in the EU’s AI Act, where these systems, including drones, connected and autonomous vehicles, and network edge infrastructure, are becoming widespread and will play a pivotal role in making crucial decisions. These cutting-edge applications heavily rely on real-time decision-making and the processing of sensitive data, rendering them susceptible to various security threats and adversarial attacks. Therefore, the overarching objective of GuardAI is to develop the next generation of resilient AI algorithms tailored for edge applications. Leveraging cutting-edge technological advancements, the project will develop innovative solutions to ensure the integrity, security, and resilience of these systems, fostering trust, and accelerating the safe adoption of AI-driven technologies. A holistic contextual understanding will be integrated, enabling systems to adapt and make informed decisions in dynamic environments. Through a multi-disciplinary and multifaceted approach, by bringing together researchers, industry experts, government agencies, AI practitioners, and advanced threat analysis methods, and robust AI algorithms, GuardAI aspires to create a paradigm shift in AI security. The development of standardized evaluation criteria forges a path to certification frameworks, and real-world insights facilitate a systematic approach to ensuring security-by-design concepts. Embracing a holistic approach, GuardAI also examines ethical considerations in AI technology development to promote ethically sound digital landscapes. Overall, the project will strive to elevate the standards of secure AI systems through cutting-edge advancements and a comprehensive, collaborative approach.

Keywords: adversarial attacks,ai driven technologies,deep learning,resilience,real time decision making,edge ai systems,drones,autonomous vehicles,network edge infrastructure
Theranostic platform for early diagnosis and treatment of cancer based on Acoustofluidics (TheraSonic)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and Communication Engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-03-01
End date: 2031-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499726.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499726.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This proposal develops a pioneering microscale ultrasound-based system to enrich extracellular vesicles (EVs) from µL volumes of whole blood and cancer spheroids, targeting early cancer detection and revolutionizing therapeutic approaches. EVs, nanoscale particles (30-1000 nm) released by mammalian cells, hold potential as biomarkers for cancer detection and as drug delivery vehicles due to their cell-specific cargo and ability to penetrate cell membranes. However, current isolation methods like centrifugation are time-consuming, require large sample volumes, and lack purity and scalability, limiting clinical application, particularly in high-throughput biomarker discovery and therapeutic development. I propose to overcome these critical barriers through the creation of TheraSonic, a disruptive acoustic force-based microfluidic platform that leverages a novel particle trapping effect in bulk volumes. TheraSonic will enable the unprecedented enrichment of EVs from µL biofluid samples, offering transformative improvements in purity, scalability, and throughput. By integrating spheroid culturing and multi-omics, this platform will reveal insights into cancer heterogeneity. Moreover, TheraSonic uniquely enables the selective isolation of EV subpopulations based on size, surface markers, and acoustic properties. This unprecedented resolution will uncover highly specific cancer vesicle profiles that current methods fail to detect, leading to the discovery of highly sensitive and specific cancer biomarkers. The scalable nature of the platform will be harnessed to significantly increase capacity and throughput, providing needed EV material for novel autologous EV therapies. Combined with organ-on-a-chip technologies, it will facilitate the development of individualised cancer treatments on an unmatched scale. In summary, TheraSonic represents a disruptive innovation that will induce a paradigm shift in EV enrichment, profoundly impacting cancer research and treatment.

Keywords: microfluidic,acoustic particle manipulation,extracellular vesicles,cancer,detection,therapy
Recurring Elements of Modern Facades (1960–1990). Foundations for the Conservation of High-Tech Modernism. (CONSTEMO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499919.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499919.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

High-Tech architecture made use of standardized, serial components whose characteristics were meticulously described in technical specifications. The scope of this historic information is almost unmanageable, the analogue sources are increasingly difficult to access. The challenge of quantity is mirrored by the scale of the built structures, constraining the possibilities of thorough building investigation. As a result, these building elements are often replaced during renovation before they could be acknowledged, evaluated, and possibly preserved. What if, based on a few geometric details recorded on site, one could identify standardized building products semi-automatically and make use of the historic knowledge by integrating both into Historic Building Information Models? The method I aim to develop will first target window frames manufactured between 1960 to 1990 in Germany. A close historic reading of hitherto neglected sources will produce a thesaurus, mapping technological development, production, and distribution. In this process, the analogue archival material will be digitalized, structuring both geometric and alphanumeric information. A second work package will develop sophisticated 3D scanning techniques for documentation and comparative analysis of similar facade elements. Parallel, existent conditions of the case studies will be evaluated in relation to standards of conservation and retrofitting. The outcome of these steps will be implemented iteratively into a graph database for efficient matching of 3D scans with information of historic building products, finally leading to semi-automatic identification. The resulting digital repository will for the first time allow for a comprehensive overview and understanding of windows in High-Tech architecture. Innovative means of surveying and the new insights into the construction history of serial, standardized components in late 20th century modernism will be crucial for future conservation and reuse.

Keywords: construction history,building survey,building conservation,hbim,high tech architecture
Climate Change and Human (Im)Mobility: The Role of Compound and Cascading Risks (2C-RISK)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Human Mobility, Environment, and Space
Panel description: Human geography, demography, health, susta inability science, territorial planning, spatial analysis
Countries involved: Austria
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2030-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499933.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499933.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The 2C-RISK project is the first to comprehensively analyze the interrelated effects of compound and cascading climatic and non-climatic risks on human mobility worldwide and to pioneer the empirical assessment and quantification of climate-related immobility. Climate change can have major implications for human mobility through its impacts on security, livelihoods, health and well-being, potentially leading to increased displacement and migration. At the same time, not everyone affected decides to move, and climatic risks and related impacts can also lead to heightened immobility. Patterns in (im)mobility are crucially shaped by a range of drivers and moderators influencing who becomes mobile, when, and why. While the multicausal nature of climate-related (im)mobility has been recognized, there are considerable gaps in the understanding of how climatic risks interact with other compound drivers and risks in influencing mobility outcomes. Considering risks in isolation may miss crucial interdependencies between different risk types and related impacts over time and space. Exploring these interdependencies can fill in the missing links as to when and why households become mobile under climatic stress, and when and why they decide or are forced to stay put despite difficult circumstances. To this end, the 2C-RISK project: (1) provides novel estimates of the effects of compound and cascading climatic and non-climatic risks and impacts on mobility outcomes; (2) advances empirical research on climate-related immobility; and (3) employs innovative nowcasting and projection methods to explore potential changes in mobility in the short and long term. By laying novel foundations for understanding the conditions under which climate-related (im)mobility occurs and by identifying populations in situations of heightened distress, the 2C-RISK project will contribute to more informed policies aimed at safeguarding the well-being of populations in a changing climate.

Keywords: risks immobility statistical analysis nowcasting projections
New Enabling Visions and tools for End-useRs and stakeholders thanks to a common MOdeling fRamework towards a climatE neutral and resilient society (NEVERMORE)

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: Italy,Spain,Greece,Romania,France,Austria,Sweden,Germany
Call: Better understanding of the interactions between climate change impacts and risks, mitigation and adaptation options (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D1-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6687425.0
EU funding (EUR): 6687423.0
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

The NEVERMORE project is determined in supporting excellence in climate research and overcoming the current silo approach in evaluating climate change impacts and risks across sectors and adaptation and mitigation policies and measures. To achieve its ambitious goals, the project will develop an integrated common assessment framework consistent across scales for modelling, simulating and evaluating impacts and risks of climate change, as well as policy measures. Climate science and Earth Systems information (1); methods for impacts (2) and risks analysis (3); social knowledge (4) are included in the models for delivering multi-sectoral climate impact assessments under consistent and integrated socio-economic and climate scenarios. The NEVERMORE approach integrates information from physical modelling of impacts and risk analysis methodologies and aligns them across different scales: from national, EU and global scales (in the IAM) to local and regional scales via five case studies (Sitia-Crete-GR, Trentino-IT, Västerbotten and Norrbotten-SE, Murcia-ES, Danube delta-RO) that represent various socio-ecological EU contexts. Consistency among the different scales is ensured by combining bottom-up and top-down approaches. The NEVERMORE assessment framework will be embedded in a practical and user-friendly ICT toolkit, including decision-making tools, designed and developed with and for different stakeholders and end-users involved throughout the project via five Local and a Transnational Council of Stakeholders, by leveraging social innovation frameworks, participatory processes and co-design techniques. NEVERMORE’s ultimate goal is to better understand the interactions between mitigation and adaptation policies and measures to deliver sound technical and policy recommendations towards a climate neutral and resilient society.

Keywords: climate modeling integrated assessment modelling iam climate resilience adaptation measures and mitigation strategies risk and vulnerability assessment social innovation participatory approach
Genomic basis of sexual dimorphism, sexual conflict and male ornament variation (SConCichlid)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-02
End date: 2028-01-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 260347.92
EU funding (EUR): 260347.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Sexual selection is one of the major drivers for the evolution of striking phenotypes such as male ornaments contributing to sexual dimorphism in many species. These phenotypes represent some of the most remarkable within-species variation and primarily result from a shared genome between sexes. This may lead to genomic conflicts between males and females arising due to divergent reproductive fitness or survival optima for each sex and have profound implications for genome and trait evolution. Such sexual conflict can hinder the ability of species to evolve towards trait optima, but has also been hypothesized to contribute to the maintenance of genetic variation through balancing selection thereby enhancing their adaptive potential. Despite this, the mechanisms underlying the development of sexually dimorphic traits, the nature and extent of sexual conflict and its role in shaping genetic and morphological diversity remain poorly understood. In this project, I propose to study the genetic and developmental mechanisms underpinning the sexually dimorphic traits using a powerful model system of a cichlid species Astatotilapia calliptera. I will perform RNA-seq and ATAC-seq of different tissue types, sex, and ecomorphs of A. calliptera to identify the genes and gene regulatory machinery involved in the development of sexually dimorphic traits. Next, I will perform whole-genome sequencing of 600 individuals to identify genetic loci under potential sexual conflict by testing for intersexual allelic divergence and balancing selection across the genome. Finally, I will use genome-wide association methods to uncover the phenotypic effects of sexually antagonistic variation throughout development and life history, and determine if sexual conflict contributes to maintaining genetic and morphological variation, particularly in sexually selected male ornaments. This study will profoundly impact our understanding of the mechanisms underlying organismal development and diversity.

Keywords: sexual selection,sexual conflict,genotype phenotype mapping,cichlids,sexual dimorphism
Wide Angle and Resolution Metrology (WARM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2021 (HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATOROPEN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6357210.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

WOOPTIX will upgrade to a 300mm field of view (FoV) metrology system a ready-to-market 50mm field of view Wooptix´s tool, based on a disruptive technology that measures the phase component of a beam of light (wavefront sensor) with a naked sensor, reaching a resolution orders of magnitude higher than other wavefront sensors. This technology has been patented by the company. The scalability of the solution will present an outstanding business opportunity for WOOPTIX leading the company to achieve an amazing turnover rise. Our semiconductor metrology system is capable of measuring the full 300mm silicon wafer geometry with a lateral resolution of 3.2µm and a height resolution of 0.3nm acquired in a single image snapshot in 100ms while capturing 15 million data points. The system works by using a standard digital image sensor to acquire the intensity of the reflected, non-coherent light from the silicon surface at two sperate locations along the optical path.

Keywords: wavefront phase,wafer geometry,silicon device manufacturing,semiconductor equipment
Russia’s interventions in conflicts of the Middle East and Africa: Local perspectives on a Russian emerging model of conflict management (RuMEA)

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,United Kingdom,Lebanon
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2029-07-31
Duration (months): 35.0
Total project cost (EUR): 384484.02
EU funding (EUR): 384484.02
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

RuMEA aims to analyse Russia’s interventions in recent conflicts of the Middle East and Africa (MEA), exploring their interaction with local political contexts. Russia approaches these crises through a mix of hard power, coercive diplomacy, and economic activism, guided by the principle of non-interference with these regions’ authoritarian regressions. As such, it provides local leaders with a model of conflict management that differs radically from liberal-oriented approaches that dominated international customs in the post-Cold War era. But what explains local preferences for ‘the Russian model’? This project adopts a dual perspective to analyse (1) the Russian model’s distinctive features and (2) explain its appeal to countries on the ‘receiving end’ of Russia’s political intervention, advancing debates in Russian and Middle Eastern/African studies. It utilises a diverse set of methodologies to deepen specific aspects of Russia’s engagement in the MEA, including elite interviews (to assess local preferences), media content analysis (to understand public discourse), and archival investigation (to document Russia’s long-dated experiences of dealing with regional crises – Cold War and the 1990s – which may offer insights into contemporary practices). These are the gaps I intend to address with this research project, which lies at the intersection of Area Studies, International Relations (IR), and International History. RuMEA builds upon methodological skills I gained during my previous experiences as a historian working on Soviet-Arab relations while taking my research trajectory into new directions. The Fellowship will be based at Harvard University (Kennedy School, HKS) and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (UNIVE), and includes secondments at the University of Oxford and Carnegie Beirut office.

Keywords: russia,middle east,africa,russian interventions,conflict management,local perspectives,local leaderships,local elites,elite preferences