Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Next generation imaging technologies to probe structure and function of biological specimen across scales in their natural context (IMAGINE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Technology and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Finland,United Kingdom,France,Italy,Portugal,Spain,Netherlands,Switzerland,Greece,Belgium,Sweden,Czechia,Austria,Denmark
Call: R&D for the next generation of scientific instrumentation, tools and methods (HORIZON-INFRA-2022-TECH-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9569677.52
EU funding (EUR): 9569677.5
Participants: 32
Project status: SIGNED

The IMAGINE project will develop the next generation of scale-crossing imaging technologies to enable an integrated investigation of structure and function of biological systems. It will focus on developing and integrating four major disruptive microscopy technologies, namely: X-ray imaging, cryo electron microscopy, cryo and dynamic super-resolution microscopy and large volume intravital light microscopy. It will furthermore develop the AI-powered image analysis and data integration/sharing capabilities, that are needed to correlate these technologies and make their data widely available. To harness their power for some of the most pressing societal challenges, IMAGINE will prepare its new imaging technologies to be deployed in the field, on Europe’s seas and coastlines, so that the collection of environmental specimen in their natural context can be coupled with their study by highest resolution imaging technologies. The IMAGINE technologies are currently at the cutting edge of physics and engineering and therefore only available in isolation and to specialists. The project aims to bring them to the European life science user community at large by developing and validating them for service readiness, so that they can be provided as future services by Europe’s Research Infrastructures (RIs). To this end, the project will train RI staff on the operation and use of the IMAGINE technologies. To promote broad dissemination as commercial instruments, IMAGINE will develop technologies jointly between academia and industry promoting open innovation with key instrumentation manufacturers in the imaging field. The life science community increasingly relies on RIs to access ever more complex and rapidly developing scientific instruments. The scale-crossing imaging technologies developed by IMAGINE will be critical to empower ground-breaking research in Europe, that is so urgently needed to address some of the biggest challenges our societies will face in the future.

Keywords: imaging,technology,microscopy,synchroton,x ray,cryoem,srm,intravital,life science,structural biology,marine biology,ai,data analysis,research infrastructures,industrialization,training
Twinning for Excellence in Management and Economics of Research and Innovation (TWIN4MERIT)

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
Countries involved: Cyprus,Netherlands,Spain
Call: Twinning (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

The adoption of the new Pact and Governance for the European Research Area (ERA) that includes a new regime for open science endorsed by all EU27 competent ministers for R&I, the need for research integrity and a common set of principles and values to reaffirm solid foundations of R&I (ethics, freedom of scientific research, gender equality and equal opportunities), the increased free circulation of researchers, innovators and knowledge, the cultural distance of R&I consortia and the engagement of citizens in science and innovation and regional convergence in R&I capacity are areas that need rigorous attention. Also, the determinants of R&I productivity, the role and efficiency of R&I funding and both experimental approaches and theoretical economic models that can enable better understanding of the interactions of different actors in a R&I ecosystem are of utmost importance. The Twinning for Excellence in Management and Economics of Research and Innovation (TWIN4MERIT) project aims to examine these meta-research areas of critical importance by facilitating a partnership with two advanced partners in the field in order to advance all related research activities at the University of Cyprus (UCY). This vision will be realised by applying for a Horizon Europe/Twinning grant, in conjunction and under the aegis of the Research and Innovation Service of UCY and the “SInnoPSis” research unit for Science and Innovation Policy and Studies, which is part of a secured H2020/ERA Chairs project by UCY. This newly established research unit coupled with the new network of advanced partners of the TWIN4MERIT proposal, UM and UC3M, will facilitate the gradual upgrade of the research activities in the field both in Cyprus and internationally. The research excellence of the advanced partners is of multiple focus and this will act favourably for UCY in developing a series of different skills in the field and for producing novel research output in the areas of interest.

Keywords: economics and econometrics of science and innovation,randi policy,open science and data,rri,innovation management,scientometrics,science and innovation policy and studies,gender in randi
Europe-America-Japan Accelerator Development and Exchange Programme (EAJADE)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Germany,Switzerland,Japan,United States,United Kingdom,Italy,France,Canada,Sweden,Spain
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-03-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1122400.0
EU funding (EUR): 1122400.0
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

EAJADE is a training and staff exchange network for accelerator R&D within elementary particle physics. The recent update of the European strategy for particle physics emphasises the need for a “Higgs factory” — a lepton collider able to study the Higgs boson in detail. Such a machine is both a precision instrument and a discovery machine for potentially groundbreaking physics. All Higgs factory proposals require wide international collaboration for their implementation and 5-10 years of design refinements and technical developments before construction. The relevant expertise and infrastructures are globally distributed, and a wide interdisciplinary and inter-sectorial network is essential to make progress and train future experts in the field. EAJADE makes use of international staff exchanges as a vehicle to efficiently boost technical progress, exploit facilities world-wide, create unique training opportunities, and build strong collaborations with Japanese and American scientists, and with industry partners in Europe. Accelerator R&D and the realisation of future machines like a Higgs factory are truly global endeavours relying on expertise in a broad set of fields and a number of state-of-the-art technologies. Future facilities also need to carefully address their CO2 footprint, study the use of renewable energy sources and of energy efficiency, and aim to become models of sustainability. These challenges require intersectoral efforts and development of best practices. EAJADE is expected to lead to important and innovative advances for accelerators and the related high-tech industry, with substantial benefits also for other disciplines where accelerators are about to become key instruments. It will also help develop a more performant and sustainable European knowledge-based economy, by providing top-level training to many physicists and engineers, and through the efforts to reduce the energy consumption of accelerator technology used in numerous facilities.

Keywords: particle accelerators,e e higgs factory,international collaboration,sustainability and green technologies,superconductivity,interdiscplinarity,lasers,plasmas,specialised technical training
MERGE- Media, religion, and gender: transnational digital media actions of progressive and conservative social movements (MERGE)

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,Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 288859.2
EU funding (EUR): 288859.2
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

The project explores how conservative and progressive Catholic-inspired social movements employ social media transnationally to discuss gender. It is original, first, in analyzing the heterogeneity of Catholicism in supporting or opposing gender equality; second, in focusing on relevant social issues such as reproductive rights and LGBTQ+ rights; third, in exploring social media use within transnational Catholic activism, often overlooked by existing literature. The fellow will focus on two case studies: 1) Conservative Catholic anti-gender movements that oppose LGBTQ+ rights and feminism 2) Progressive movements within the Catholic Church that advocate for the inclusion of women and LGBTQ+ people. The cases are based on the European and North American context. Hence, the fellow will work in the following institutions: for the outgoing phase, the University of Colorado, U.S., under the supervision of Professor Stewart Hoover, who leads a world-renown center for the study of religion and media, and is an expert in gender; for the return phase, the University of Bologna, Italy, under the supervision of Professor Alice Mattoni, who has expertise in transnational social movements and digital media, research ethics, and grant writing. In the two institutions, the fellow will acquire the skills to address these objectives: 1) Explore transnational social media narratives of Catholic movements through big data analysis, a skill acquired in training in both host institutions 2) Compare the online discourses of progressive and conservative Catholic groups through qualitative analysis, helped by the supervisor’s expertise in software for textual analysis 3) Research Catholic actors’ online and offline strategies through interviews and participant observation, a method honed during a secondment at the University of Pittsburgh. The project will produce results useful for the scientific and social understanding of social media use, contemporary religion, and gender equality

Keywords: religion media gender social movements digital media
Contact-induced blade-casing interactions in aero-engine turbines - An integrated simulation framework for local and global nonlinearities (BC-Int)

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: Italy
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): 188590.08
EU funding (EUR): 188590.08
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Gas turbines play a vital role in terms of energy and mobility in 21st century. Accurate simulation tools are mandatory to increase competitiveness by increasing safety and reducing development costs. The growing tendency of designers to increase the efficiency of turbines has led to reduced operating clearances between rotating and static components and consequently frequent structural contact during operation. On top of that, the design tendency to reductions in fuel burn, noise and emissions makes the structural components lighter, slenderer and under greater excitation which increases their geometrically nonlinear behavior. Reliable analysis of the dynamic response of a turbine during blade-casing contact-induced interactions is of great importance due to its impact on fatigue life or potential catastrophic failure. The project aims at developing a validated numerical tool to predict the vibration due to blade-casing interactions. High computational efficiency will be granted by a nonlinear model order reduction technique able to handle both contact (local) and geometric (global) nonlinearities. The numerical predictive tool will be experimentally validated, taking advantage of the experimental equipment available at the host institution. The BC-Ints project aims at developing and validating mathematical and numerical models where both local and global nonlinearities are taken into account for an accurate prediction of the dynamic behaviour of rotors in case of blade-casing interactions.

Keywords: bladed disk,blade casing interaction,contact dynamics,geometric nonlinearity,blade tip rubbing,modal interaction,experiment
Trust-ML: An Optimization-based Platform for Building Trust in Machine Learning Models used for Power Systems (TRUST-ML)

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: Denmark,Israel
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-15
End date: 2024-06-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230774.4
EU funding (EUR): 230774.4
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Deep decarbonization of the energy sector will require massive penetration of stochastic renewable energy resources and an enormous amount of grid asset coordination; this represents a challenging paradigm for power system operators. With its ability to learn in complex environments and provide predictive solutions on fast timescales, machine learning (ML) is posed to help overcome these challenges and dramatically transform power systems in coming decades. Emerging EU verification standards, however, will require that all ML and Reinforcement Learning (RL) used in safety critical applications be demonstrably trustworthy. In this project, we develop a unified framework, known as Trust-ML, for assessing the quantitative trustworthiness of the neural network models commonly used in power systems. Trust-ML uses a novel, convex optimization approach to assess ML trustworthiness across three key dimensions: performance, robustness, and interpretability. The approach is engineered to be scalable, and by design, it generates exact verification guarantees. Furthermore, Trust-ML is designed to meet the emerging needs of actual power systems. In particular, it can verify the performance of multi-agent RL systems in rigorous ways, and its relaxed counterpart can offer tractable, worst-case performance guarantees in the context of online learning. The resulting verification tools will be published as open-source software packages and shared widely with researchers and industry. This project will advance state-of-the-art methods across several interdisciplinary fields, it will help remove the barriers associated with machine learning deployment in power systems, and its outcomes will help push European power grids into competitive spaces. Coming from MIT with advanced training in power systems, the project PI, Samuel Chevalier, is characteristically well-suited to build Trust-ML, and his team of advisors represents a mixture of experts across power, optimization, and learning.

Keywords: trustworthy ai power systems control
It takes three to tango: semiconductors with three bands for a new generation of optoelectronic devices (TANGO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Materials Engineering
Panel description: Advanced materials development: performance enhancement, modelling, large -scale preparation, modification, tailoring, optimisation, novel  and combined use of materials, etc.
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2031-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2715696.0
EU funding (EUR): 2715696.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Semiconductors, halfway between metals and insulators, are at the heart of the optoelectronic applications that have revolutionized our world for the last 70 years. Their hallmark characteristic is the existence of two electronic bands—the conduction and valence bands (CB and VB)—separated by a forbidden energy gap, which enables electrical and optical access to two distinct electronic populations. 3-band materials (3BM) represent a new class of semiconductor featuring three electronic bands and three energy gaps (one between each pair of bands). The driving force behind two decades of 3BM research has been the development of high-efficiency solar cells. Yet, all the attempts to fabricate an operational 3-band solar cell either failed or proved to be unpractical mainly due to a fundamental reason: the impossibility of the 3BM candidates to maintain three distinct electronic populations at room temperature (RT), due to strong interband thermal coupling. TANGO aims to overcome this hurdle by implementing an innovative band-engineering strategy. A family of functional 3BMs will be achieved via precise tailoring of the band structure of hybrid heterocrystals comprising quantum dots (QD) in a perovskite matrix (QDIP). In this approach, the QD electronic states give rise to a third band thermally decoupled from the VB and CB even at RT. The successful implementation of QDIP-based 3BMs (Objective 1) will permit the fabrication of the first operational 3-band solar cell (Objective 2), setting a new landmark that could lead to cheap high-efficiency photovoltaics.Beyond solar cells, the unique properties of 3BMs, which allow for external access to three electronic populations, will be leveraged to develop a groundbreaking device: the 3-band transistor (Objective 3), able to switch among three logic states. The demonstration of such a 3-state element would imply a breakthrough in the field of multivalued digital logic, which promises enhanced computation and storage capacity.

Keywords: quantum dot in perovskite,intermediate band solar cells,halide perovskites,colloidal quantum dots
Molecular Editing by Nitrogen Insertion (NINSERT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Synthetic Chemistry and Materials
Panel description: New materials and new synthetic approaches, structure -properties relations, solid state chemistry, molecular architecture, organic chemistry
Countries involved: Germany
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): 1462500.0
EU funding (EUR): 1462500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

NINSERT constitutes a program to embark on selective and mild nitrogen insertions, both within and beyond carbonyl chemistry. Reagent development, catalyst design, and synergistic effects will be evaluated to provide a platform for late-stage skeletal editing, an area that has been recently brought to the forefront of organic chemistry. With a primary emphasis on heterocyclic motifs, commonly encountered in natural products and drug candidates, NINSERT offers a powerful tool to streamline future syntheses of nitrogen containing compounds. Notably, approximately 59% of all small-molecule drugs feature nitrogen heterocycles, underscoring the profound impact this program will have on pharmaceutical research. Adjusting physico¬chemical properties by late-stage nitrogen insertion will enable medicinal chemists to tailor the overall compound profile on its way to candidate-nomination and ultimately clinical studies. Furthermore, asymmetric methods, as elucidated in this proposal, will give rise to molecular complexity within the 3D chemical space. Guided by the principles of strain-release and molecular recognition, we will utilize our expertise on asymmetric ring expansion and atom insertion reactions to deliver highly selective methods applicable to both academic and industrial research. Despite the pioneering work of Beckmann and Schmidt over a century ago, nitrogen insertions have remained significantly constrained over the years, largely due to their substrate limitations, harsh reaction conditions, and unselective outcomes. The progression to selective and widely applicable nitrogen insertions has been long overdue and marks a major driving force behind the development of NINSERT.

Keywords: asymmetric catalysis,stereochemistry,molecular editing,e z isomerization,radical polar crossover
Understanding Psychological Impossibility (UPI)

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: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230774.4
EU funding (EUR): 230774.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

“Understanding Psychological Impossibility” (UPI) will develop the first systematic account of psychological impossibility. To do this UPI will innovatively combine philosophical theorizing with empirical results from experimental philosophy, and the cognitive and brain sciences. In three work packages it will develop an 'a priori' account of psychological impossibility (WP1), examine this account using the methods of experimental philosophy (WP2), and then based on these results and normative considerations, such as whether the concept could issue discriminatory or prejudiced judgments, engineer a final account of psychological impossibility (WP3). UPI will radically improve our understanding of the relationship between people’s options, freedom, and moral responsibility, and provide the theoretical resources for ethical decision making when faced by people who have different affordances for choice and action. Understanding the way in which people do, or do not, shape their psychology with respect to psychological impossibility will advance our understanding of what happens when things go wrong, and when people develop psychologies that they do not want. Further, while our psychological impossibility judgments can do a lot of good, shaping our psychologies in a manner that is aligned with the true and good, they can also do a lot of harm. By understanding why we issue the psychological impossibility judgments that we do, we can then revise that understanding so that we do not prevent people from having access to equal opportunities to pursue their interests and the capacity to develop the kind of psychology that they want.

Keywords: experimental philosophy