Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Innovative and sustainable carbon-based composites for high temperature sensible thermal energy storage (STOREHEAT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced 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: France
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2494415.0
EU funding (EUR): 2494415.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Although affordable solutions exist to store and recover heat from low temperature sources, the high temperature ones (> 550 °C) such as the concentrated solar and waste heat from high temperature energy intensive industries remain challenging since efficient and affordable storage materials are scarce. The waste heat from these industries is huge and corresponds to 16% (122 Terawatt hours) of the total heat consumption/year in Europe. STOREHEAT targets the investigation of an outstanding and novel family of High Storage Capacity materials, namely Calcium Carbide-based Composites (3C), for High Temperature Heat Storage. 3C is produced at much lower temperature (1000 – 1200 °C) than the current solutions (1800-2500 °C) based on silicon carbide (SiC) ceramics from fossil source (coke) mainly. 3C is synthesized by carbonization of calcium rich biochar and have not yet been mentioned in the literature neither for high temperature storage nor the mechanism of their formation explored. Preliminary synthesis attempts showed a high temperature storage capacity for 3C of 20% higher than that of SiC while consuming much less energy and using sustainable resources for its production. The scientific breakthrough lies on the counter-intuitive and pioneering approach proposed to combine and stabilize the hierarchical carbon and metal species both from biochar to take advantage of their respective high thermal conductivity and heat capacity at high temperature. This seemingly winning combination, key for effective heat storage has never been done before. To achieve this objective, I propose an ambitious research approach combining in-situ and dynamic experimental methods and modelling to unlock the mechanisms governing the chemical phases assemblage and stabilization of 3C. The storage performance will be evaluated and optimized. The findings will push a way beyond the frontier of knowledge and broaden research opportunities in scientific communities interested in energy storage.

Keywords: materials for high temperature energy storage in form of heat advanced carbon materials engineering carbon metal composites hierarchical and tunable materials in situ characterization of chemical phase and structure transformations modelling biomass energy and environmental transitions decarbonization of industry
Dance-induced Neural Synchrony for Embodied Connection (DaNSEC)

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: United Kingdom,Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-07-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 345234.9
EU funding (EUR): 345234.9
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Chronic pain is a major public health challenge in the EU. Fibromyalgia (FM), a common chronic pain condition, disrupts both bodily self-consciousness and its connection to that of others (the social bodily self). No cure and complex symptomatology lead to invisible disability, alienation and social difficulties, creating an urgent need for new theoretical approaches and treatments. One of the most effective interventions is dance, although there are no specific dance training protocols for FM, and the mechanisms in dance responsible for its health benefits remain unknown. In typical adults, moving in synchrony with others triggers interpersonal neural synchrony (INS) (of movement, physiological function and brain activity), which increases bonding and reduces pain. It is unknown whether people with chronic pain experience the same INS and how this may affect their bodily self and social connectedness. Therefore, our aims are: 1) to co-design and validate a dance protocol for investigating INS in FM, and 2) to investigate the effects of social (vs individual) dance on the social bodily self in FM to reveal the role of INS in these effects. Our project is based on a participatory design and a robust experimental plan, including a randomised controlled trial. We will use functional near-infrared spectroscopy hyperscanning, physiological recording, and precise body tracking to quantify INS during dance in people with pain and pain-free controls. The key impact of DaNSEC will be new high quality knowledge, made possible by the complementary expertise of two world-class advisors in interpersonal synchrony (lead advisor) and dance (co-advisor). The results of this project will open up new avenues to explore the therapeutic potential of interpersonal synchrony for FM and other chronic pain conditions. The fellowship will complement my expertise in FM and the bodily self with knowledge of INS and dance, and will be a major step towards becoming an independent researcher.

Keywords: fibromyalgia,bodily self awareness,chronic pain,dance,interpersonal synchrony,fnirs,multisensory integration
The Next Generation Innovation Talents' initiative (InnoNext)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: other EIC
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Next Generation Innovation Talents (HORIZON-EIC-2023-TALENTS-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-08-01
End date: 2026-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3986000.0
EU funding (EUR): 3986000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

In today's fast-paced global landscape, innovation is the catalyst for progress. The 'Next Gen Innovation Talent' initiative is dedicated to fostering a cohort of skilled, entrepreneurial thinkers who can translate ideas into tangible, market-ready solutions. Our mission is clear: to nurture an entrepreneurial mindset among researchers and emerging innovators. We view innovation as more than just generating ideas; it's a rigorous process of turning those ideas into practical, market-ready solutions. To achieve this, we've designed a comprehensive two-year program based on a robust and flexible methodology that leverages cutting-edge AI instruments to support the program. It begins with discovering talents and a detailed needs assessment for each participant, providing valuable insights into their unique aspirations. We then facilitate connections between researchers and the corporate world using an intelligent matching procedure, creating an environment encouraging collaboration and creativity. Participants in our program are not ordinary interns; they are the future architects of innovation and problem-solving from the most relevant European research programs (e.g. ERC and EIC). We provide robust support through mentorship, resources, and tailored opportunities, empowering them to envision ambitious goals and overcome obstacles in pursuing transformative solutions. We aim to quantify our impact through a target of no less than 600 internships, each representing a distinct personal and professional growth journey. Our ultimate aspiration is to witness the birth of groundbreaking inventions, the rise of visionary leaders, and the establishment of a culture where innovation and society thrive.

Keywords: researchers talents ai entrepreneur mindset internship startup,entrepreneurship,acceleration,mentorship,sme,incubator,
BOOSting excellence in environmental EPIgenetics (EPIBOOST)

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: Portugal,Belgium,Spain
Call: Twinning (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499016.25
EU funding (EUR): 1499016.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The EPIBOOST project joins a widening partner and two internationally-leading partners that will steer a solid capacitation strategy towards tackling the challenges to the recently proposed uptake of epigenomics by Environmental Assessment frameworks. Capacitation activities cover for 5 specific objectives. The 1st is to optimize research protocols, enhancing the practical skills and research profile of the Widening partner for the development of excellent Science in the field of environmental epigenetics. This constitutes the nurturing stage, where we will be twinning (exchanges and training sessions) under an overall philosophy of learning- and advancing-by-doing allowed by a preparatory research project, which will build knowledge on the suitability of DNA methylation signatures as informative biomarkers of environmental contamination and effects. The 2nd objective is focused on the seeding of the talent that will sustain the European critical mass at the best world-class standards in the field, through the organization of several training events (advanced courses, summer schools and short courses in scientific meetings) targeting young EU researchers. The 3rd and 4th objectives regard the absolute need of a capacitated science management and administrative support to effectively grow world-class research in the field; these will be tackled through an immersive training programme focusing key core facilities (ethics & animal housing; sequencing), managers exchange for on-site training, professional training and real-time funding application preparation. The fifth addresses network growing and will be achieved through a systematic strategy for involving international flagship experts in capacitation activities and stakeholders in the project, which will strengthen the Consortium for new research and innovation ventures.

Keywords: environmental epigenetics epigenetic biomarkers dna methylation gene expression microalgae microcrustaceans fish next generation sequencing bioinformatics sequencing facility and animal housi
Systematically Dissecting the Regulatory Logic of Chromatin Modifications (ModLogic)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Integrative B iology : from Genes and Genomes to S ystems
Panel description: For all organis ms: Genetics, epigenetics, genomics  and other ‘omics studies , bioinformatics, systems biology , genetic diseases , gene editing, innovative methods and modelling,  ‘omics for personalised  medicine
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999565.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999565.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Chromatin modifications are a key mechanism for regulating gene expression patterns in normal and disease settings. Nonetheless, despite the ubiquity of epigenomics data, the causal functions of specific chromatin modifications have proved challenging to unravel. This knowledge gap reflects limited approaches to dissect how chromatin modifications influence transcription quantitatively and context-dependently, across diverse genomic features or variants in any given cell-type. Here, we propose to systematically interrogate the functional impact of specific- and combinatorial- chromatin modifications within tens-of-thousands of contexts in living cells, using a novel modular epigenome editing platform. We will produce the largest precision chromatin-perturbation dataset to date, and exploit it to capture multi-modal functional responses at allelically-resolved single-cell resolution, across developmental lineages. The unprecedented scale of the work will uncover the regulatory logic by which distinct chromatin states interact with genomic motifs, sequence variants, and cellular identity, to shape quantitative gene expression patterns. By integrating data and deploying genetic screens, we will further identify the trans-acting and cis-structural mechanisms that underpin complex relationships. Our technology will circumvent the key limitations of existing approaches, by excluding pleiotropy and redundancy, whilst systematically isolating functional genome x epigenome interactions. The cumulative insights will be used to build a predictive model based on rational rules for how specific changes in chromatin marks instruct - or reflect - gene expression states within specific contexts. This will aid design strategies for precision medicine, and create guiding principles to attribute functional significance to epigenome profiles in health and disease.
Food Systems Transformation in Southern Africa for One Health (FoSTA-Health)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food systems from primary production to consumption
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Czechia,South Africa,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Kenya,Malawi,Zambia,Tanzania, United Republic of,Austria
Call: One Health approach for Food Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA) (HORIZON-CL6-2021-FARM2FORK-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4117592.75
EU funding (EUR): 4117592.75
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

Food Systems Transformation in Southern Africa for One Health (FoSTA-Health) will develop ambitious and inclusive visions of, and action plans for food systems transformation for achieving positive One Health outcomes in southern Africa. The project is centered around four key transformation agendas: (1) transformations within and out of maize; (2) transformations of land use and irrigation; (3) transformations from domestic to export markets; and (4) diet diversification. In relation to each, we will work with cross-system stakeholder groups (from government, industry, farmers, non-governmental organisations, and rural communities) and draw on evidence from case study contexts in Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia to build an understanding of the complex system dynamics that link food systems transformation to diverse animal, environmental and human health outcomes. A set of representative transformation pathways (RTPs) describing alternative plausible transformation futures, will be outlined, and novel integrated modelling tools used to collaboratively evaluate the potential these offer for delivering positive One Health outcomes. This will be combined with a mapping and analysis of leverage points of food system transformation at local/landscape, national and regional government, and supply chain scales. Action plans will be developed and capacities built for supporting action around leverage points at each of these scales. Across FoSTA-Health particular attention will be paid to equity and justice in the visioning, governing and outcomes of transformative change. Critical reflection on participation and power dynamics within the focal contexts of the project, and within the project itself, will be the basis for making recommendations and advocating for the equitable and inclusive governance of food systems transformation.

Keywords: food systems,transformation,one health,leverage points,equity,southern africa
Low-dose breast CT with monochromatic x-ray sources (MONOBREAST)

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: Netherlands
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS1 (ERC-2022-POC1, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-02-28
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Although breast cancer screening and improvements in treatment have reduced breast cancer mortality by 30%, this disease still kills over 600,000 women yearly worldwide. To further reduce its morbidity and mortality, new and improved imaging modalities that improve the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of breast cancer are needed. Over the last two decades, changes in x-ray detector technology have revolutionized x-ray-based breast imaging. Among other developments, new digital detectors made feasible the ERC Consolidator project BREAST4D during which a new imaging modality, dynamic contrast enhanced dedicated breast computed tomography (4D DCE-BCT) is being developed to personalize treatment of breast cancer. However, x-ray source technology has remained essentially unchanged for the last 100 years. The continued use of the x-ray tube as the source of x rays restricts the reduction in dose and the quantitative accuracy achievable with advances in the rest of the system. Very recently, however, a new monochromatic x-ray source has been developed that provides the necessary flux, x-ray energy, field of view, and portability, to be used in x-ray breast imaging devices. In MONOBREAST, the capabilities, applicability, and innovativeness of BREAST4D will be extended by introducing these monochromatic x-ray sources to breast CT imaging and combining them with the advanced image reconstruction method developed during BREAST4D. Resulting in a dose reduction of at least two thirds, such a monochromatic breast CT system will be applicable to every stage in the breast cancer chain, from screening with non-contrast BCT at doses equivalent to those of current screening with digital mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis, to static CE-BCT for diagnosis and the originally planned 4D DCE-BCT for treatment personalization. In addition, these new sources will not only result in substantially lower doses, but also in substantially higher accuracy with lower algorithmic complexity.
2D quantum confinement dual functional materials for CO2 capture and in-situ utilization (ICarbon-neutral)

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: United Kingdom,Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-07-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276187.92
EU funding (EUR): 276187.92
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

CO2 capture and utilization (CCU) is recognized as one of the most promising technologies for achieving carbon neutrality. However, there is a considerable gap between the CO2 capture and the discrete CO2 utilization in the conventional CCU processes, i.e., the captured CO2 should be additionally compressed, liquefied, and transported to the chemical plants for utilization, which would increase the system complexity and energy penalty. Based on the research expertise of the Researcher and the Host, we propose a novel integrated CO2 capture and utilization technology (ICCU), where the captured CO2 will be in-situ converted and the sorbent will be simultaneously regenerated. The project aims to develop Cu-based dual functional materials (DFMs) with a characteristic of two dimensional quantum well confinement that inhibits sintering, where the captured CO2 can be in-situ converted into value-added products directly. ICCU not only reduces process complexity and operation cost but also slows the DFMs’ deactivation for milder operation conditions than the conventional separated CCU processes. To fulfill this technology, kinds of cost-effective Cu-based DFMs will be designed and explored in the ICCU processes, and the reaction mechanism in the materials will be analyzed on a micro-scale. In addition, a technical-economic evaluation (TEA) would be done to assess the application potential in the industry. The proposal is the integration of the specialty of the Fellow on the calcium looping process for CO2 capture and the specialty of the Host on heterogeneous catalysis especially the CO2 hydrogenation to make CO (a basic building block for carbon-based chemicals). Finally, the proposed ICCU with DFMs is expected to replace the conventional separated CO2 capture and CO2 utilization strategies, ease the energy crisis, and contribute to carbon neutrality.

Keywords: carbon capture co2 utilisation dual functional materials
Natural Language Understanding for non-standard languages and dialects (DIALECT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer Science and Informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1997815.0
EU funding (EUR): 1997815.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Dialects are ubiquitous and for many speakers are part of everyday life. They carry important social and communicative functions. Yet, dialects and non-standard languages in general are a blind spot in research on Natural Language Understanding (NLU). Despite recent breakthroughs, NLU still fails to take linguistic diversity into account. This lack of modeling language variation results in biased language models with high error rates on dialect data. This failure excludes millions of speakers today and prevents the development of future technology that can adapt to such users. To account for linguistic diversity, a paradigm shift is needed: Away from data-hungry algorithms with passive learning from large data and single ground truth labels, which are known to be biased. To go past current learning practices, the key is to tackle variation at both ends: in input data and label bias. With DIALECT, I propose such an integrated approach, to devise algorithms which aid transfer from rich variability in inputs, and interactive learning which integrates human uncertainty in labels. This will reduce the need for data and enable better adaptation and generalization. Advances in salient areas of deep learning research now make it possible to tackle this challenge. DIALECT’s objectives are to devise a) new algorithms and insights to address extremely scarce data setups and biased labels; b) novel representations which integrate auxiliary sources of information such as complement text data with speech; and c) new datasets with conversational data in its most natural form. By integrating dialectal variation into models able to learn from scarce data and biased labels, the foundations will be established for fairer and more accurate NLU to break down language and literary barriers. I am privileged to carry out this integration as I have contributed to research in top venues on both cross-lingual learning and learning from biased labels.

Keywords: low resource natural language processing nlp,nlp for non standard language,distributed representations for multilingual text