Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Opera Fandom in the Digital Age (OPANDA)

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,Australia,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2024-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 188590.08
EU funding (EUR): 188590.08
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Today, interactions between audiences and theatres occur to a significant extent via online platforms and digital media. OPANDA studies the impact of these transformative technologies on opera fandom. Although recent research has addressed the digital dissemination of opera, the phenomenon of cyber-fandom remains under-researched. Situated at the intersection of musicology, sociology and media studies, the project asks how opera fans perform their passion digitally. This entails the investigation of their interactions on the web, but the project also considers how cyber-fandom intersects with traditional fan behaviour. In a post-pandemic and hyper-mediatised society in which the divide between stage and screen is constantly blurred, the project reconsiders past audience practices and envisions possible future ones. OPANDA aims at providing a pioneering study of today’s opera fans (i.e. the most active operagoers), including their digital practices and communities. To reach this goal, OPANDA is based on a comparative and qualitative analysis of representative case studies, combining digital ethnography on web communities and fanzines, participant observation at opera companies (La Scala, Paris Opera, the New York Metropolitan Opera), and interviews with fans. Dr Nicolò Palazzetti (Researcher) is well placed to carry out this research thanks to an outstanding background in musicology and sociology, and a solid expertise in performing ethnography among opera fans. By situating his project at Sapienza University of Rome, he advances his career in new directions. He has the key opportunity to work with Prof. Emanuele Senici (Supervisor), a prominent opera scholar specialising in opera and media, and with Prof. Romana Andò (co-supervisor), an expert in fan studies. A training-based secondment at the Digital Ethnography Research Centre in Melbourne and a dissemination-based secondment at the Music Department of Yale University support the achievement of the project.

Keywords: opera fandom,opera houses,fan studies,opera studies,cultural sociology,media studies,digital ethnography,ethnography,qualitative research,social media,cyber fandom,remediation
Demographic Responses tO Varying Environments under climate change (DROVE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195914.88
EU funding (EUR): 195914.88
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Ongoing climate change has altered both mean and short-term temporal variability of environmental conditions (such as temperature or food resources). While there is strong evidence that wild populations are deeply influenced by changes in the mean environmental conditions and respond accordingly (e.g., shifts in phenology, in species ranges), population responses to changes in the magnitude of environmental fluctuations are poorly understood. This knowledge is, however, crucial to better predict and anticipate climate change impacts on biodiversity. Hosted at the Institute of Mathematics of Bordeaux (University of Bordeaux), the project “DROVE” will be coordinated by Christie Le Coeur, a specialist in population ecology, who will benefit from the supervisor’s (Dr. F. Barraquand) expertise in ecological statistics and theory. This project aims to provide a robust statistical and theoretical framework to unravel the effects of changes in environmental variability on dynamics of wild populations, and to characterise the demographic mechanisms responsible for their persistence under climate change. This goal will be achieved by defining metrics to measure population persistence and demographic strategies in a variable but also density-dependent environment (when population growth slows down as population density increases) as previous work on variable environments has ignored this almost ubiquitous population regulation. The researcher will then build population models with data from long-term, individual-based population datasets of a well-studied species across Europe, the great tit (Parus major), to explain intra- and inter-population variations in demographic strategies and persistence in varying environments. Combining long-term empirical surveys with state-of-the-art model development, this project will provide statistical tools solidly grounded in population dynamics theory to understand environmental variability effects on wild populations under climate change.

Keywords: bird climate change demographic buffering and lability density dependence ecology environmental variability integrated population model population ecology statistics
Modelling pollutant transport across the soil-water-atmosphere conituum, and impacts on ecosystem services (SOILPROM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Soil health and food
Destination: Soil health and food
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Norway,Belgium,Germany,Spain,Greece,Poland,Finland,France,Czechia
Call: Soil pollution processes – modelling and inclusion in advanced digital decision-support tools (HORIZON-MISS-2023-SOIL-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6818387.5
EU funding (EUR): 6818387.5
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

Thanks to a unique upgrade of knowledge and advanced digital tools, SOILPROM will improve the modelling of soil pollution processes for metals, PFAS, nutrients, microplastics, and pesticides through soil, air, water, and plants compartments, to reach reduced levels of pollution and healthier soils across Europe. Using both existing European databases and local newly collected standardised datasets in accordance with DestinE and EUSO requirements, project partners will upgrade, integrate and validate existing soil pollution models under field conditions in its 6 diversified use-cases. The upgraded and integrated models will be usable in an open-access Modelling Platform for scientists coupled with a decision-support tool for practitioners. It will allow to gain knowledge and to increase the capacities in describing key pollution processes and their long-term impacts with respect to the different soil processes, functions, and related ecosystem services. Particularly, emphasis will be placed on quantifying ecosystem services in the 6 SOILPROM use-cases and the related impact of local policies and practices, leading to the development of scenarios. Thus, SOILPROM will deliver suitable recommendations to enhance the uptake of policies and sustainable soil management practices for environmental and human well-being. All along the project and through regular workshops, consultations, and meetings, SOILPROM will work in close collaboration with its end-users, ranging from the R&D community to local, national, and EU policymakers, but also various land managers and related EU projects.

Keywords: modelling,integration,upgrading,pollution,ecosystem services,soil,water,atmosphere,plant
The first non-surgical repair for Pelvic Organ Prolapse (apyx)

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: Israel
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2023 (HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATOR-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5067216.25
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP) affects nearly 50% of women over 40 years old globally. 89% of the cases seek treatment for symptomatic early stage prolapse. Despite the high prevalence and the progression of POP over time, patients currently cannot be offered a repair solution until the condition worsens enough for surgical intervention. However, the surgical interventions of prolapse have several side effects like prolonged recovery, pelvic pain and relapses of POP. Escala Medical has developed a minimally invasive and incision-free repair intervention for early-stage POP repair - Apyx. Apyx is the first medical device for treating early stage prolapse, regaining quality of life and prevention of prolapse deterioration for the vast majority, currently un-addressed, POP sufferers. The EIC project will finalize the development of Apyx, conduct clinical trials, and support scale-up and commercialization activities.

Keywords: pelvic organ prolapse,pelvic floor disorder,women s health,femtech,patient care
Anticounterfeiting solution based on integrated circuits implementing high-entropy physical unclonable functions (entropIC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Transition
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Italy
Call: EIC Transition Open 2023 (HORIZON-EIC-2023-TRANSITION-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2498750.0
EU funding (EUR): 2498750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The EntropIC project aims to advance the technology and market maturity of a comprehensive anti-counterfeiting and identity management solution based on proprietary silicon integrated circuits implementing high-entropy physical unclonable functions. Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are silicon integrated circuits that leverage random variations in the fabrication process to implement a unique function that is unknown to the observer and the manufacturer, and extremely difficult to determine experimentally. From a behavioral viewpoint, PUFs are circuits that respond to digital input strings (challenges) with perfectly repeatable digital output strings (responses), where the challenge-response mapping (the unclonable function) is fully repeatable with aging and with varying environmental conditions. As of now, the practical adoption of PUFs has been restricted by their limited entropy, which makes them vulnerable to cyber attacks (e.g. brute-force and AI-based attacks). EntropIC proposes innovative high-entropy silicon PUFs, with world-record resilience to brute force, AI-based, and side-channel attacks. The breakthrough EntropIC PUF is a “strong” PUF with at least 2 Mbit of entropy, thanks to mixed analog/digital chip design, whereas PUFs available in the market now are of the “weak” type and have maximum entropy of 4 Kbit. The novelty of the high-entropy PUFs proposed in EntropIC, enables us new applications and a different business model. Instead of selling chips or licensing IP, we target a business model that provides a fully managed solution to an industrial customer that needs to defend its brand from counterfeiting, or to deploy and manager secure internet of things devices.

Keywords: physical unclonable functions,integrated circuit design,anticounterfeiting solution,identification solution
Development of oral probiotic-based vaccines for sustainable disease control in aquaculture (PhotoVaccine)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Portugal
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): 191343.12
EU funding (EUR): 191343.12
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Aquaculture is vital to global food security, but the industry is increasingly threatened by bacterial pathogens that cause significant economic losses. Among these, Photobacterium damselae subsp. piscicida is a major pathogen in the Mediterranean area, causing high mortality rates in valuable fish species like the gilthead seabream and Senegalese sole. Traditional vaccination methods in aquaculture often face challenges, including poor efficacy and the stress caused to fish during handling. Thus, there is a critical need for innovative and effective vaccine strategies that are easy to administer and provide robust protection. This proposal (PhotoVaccine) aims to address this challenge by developing novel oral vaccines using spores of probiotic Bacillus strains to deliver Phdp antigens. Building on the NUTRIMU group’s recent proof-of-concept for spore surface display technology, this proposal aims to: i) engineer Bacillus spores to display Phdp antigens on their surface, and ii) assess the immunomodulatory effects and protective efficacy of these PhotoVaccines in fish models. Specifically, we will address the following questions: - Can spores of B. subtilis be used as oral delivery vehicles for Ph. damselae subsp. piscicida antigens? - Are oral PhotoVaccines effective in protecting fish against infections? - What type of response is elicited by oral PhotoVaccines on fish intestinal mucosa? By the end of this project, we aim to develop at least one PhotoVaccine candidate with potential for commercial use, contributing significantly to disease management in aquaculture. This research will also enhance our understanding of fish immunology, particularly how mucosal vaccines can overcome intestinal tolerance to provide long-term protection. The outcomes of this project could transform disease control in aquaculture, promoting sustainability and reducing economic losses due to bacterial infections.

Keywords: antigen,aquaculture,bacillus subtilis,gilthead seabream,host pathogen interactions,molecular microbiology,oral vaccines,photobacterium damselae subsp piscicida,senegalese sole,spores
First digital core banking infrastructure to enable governance structure, regulatory supervision, and 100% MiCA compliance in upcoming digital economy. (DigiCoreBI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2495500.0
EU funding (EUR): 2495500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Crypto.com, one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges with +80M users in 90 countries, has recently made two mistaken transactions: +€6M to a customer and €387M to Gate.io institutional wallet. This type of errors, as other unauthorised transactions (e.g., illegal transfers), are prevented by governance validation protocols in traditional finance. But these protocols cannot be applied directly for digital assets. We provide the first digital core banking infrastructure with 100% segregation of responsibilities to enable BFSI companies to integrate and manage digital assets in 100% compliance with MiCA regulations, including AML/KYC, for the first time. This is a game changer for European banks and asset managers, that will be able to enter the digital assets market directly, this is currently a €1T global market in cryptocurrencies and forecasted €14T digital tokenised assets (e.g., real estate, equities, bonds) are expected to be worth by 2030.

Keywords: core banking digital assets cryptocurrency tokenisation financial markets international finance mica
On-chip topological demodulator for 6G THz wireless communications (TopoChipTHz)

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: France
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2024-POC, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Recent advancements in terahertz (THz) technology have unlocked the po-tential for ultra-high-speed wireless communication, with data rates far sur-passing those of current 5G systems. Operating in the 300-600 GHz range, future 6G systems could enable wireless transmission rates of up to 1000 gi-gabits-per-second, revolutionizing applications like metropolitan networks and uncompressed video transfer. However, current THz technologies face challenges, especially in demodulating high-frequency signals. Existing la-boratory solutions rely on bulky, expensive electronics with limited band-width, high noise, and non-linearity, hindering the scalability of THz com-munication. In this project, we propose developing an on-chip topological coherent de-modulator for THz signals using topological photonic crystals, which ex-hibit robust, low-backscattering wave propagation. Leveraging the valley Hall effect in photonic crystals, the device will feature waveguides, beamsplitters, mixers, and balanced detection outputs, integrated on a silicon chip. This all-optical architecture offers a significant improvement over tra-ditional electronics-based systems, with a target demodulation bandwidth over 50 GHz for signals at 300 GHz. The proposed solution will address key bottlenecks in current THz technolo-gy, including size, bandwidth, and signal-to-noise ratio. As one of the first functional on-chip demodulators for THz frequencies, this device sets a new standard for future applications. Its compact design, scalability, and en-hanced performance position it as a key enabler for 6G wireless systems, driving ultra-fast data transfer for real-world use cases.
High-energy micro-supercapacitors based on low-cost materials (3D-APP)

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: France
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS1 (ERC-2022-POC1, 2022)
Start date: 2022-05-01
End date: 2023-10-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Miniaturized energy storage solutions are key to powering the modern era of connected devices, which is at the heart of “Internet of Things” (IoT) concept. Microsupercapacitor electrodes with 3D architectures have drawn increasing interest in recent years due to their better energetic performances while maintaining a reduced footprint occupancy. Thin films of pseudocapacitive RuO2 active materials deposited onto highly porous Pt current collectors, sculptured via the hydrogen bubble templated electrodeposition, have led to energy storage microdevices with extremely high power, long lifetime and with energy densities competing with that of micro-batteries. These microsupercapacitor electrodes stand miles ahead from previously reported studies both in terms of their surface area and surface capacitance, making them suitable for embedded electronics demanding high energy/high power density per footprint area. However, the cost of Ru and Pt considerably limits their commercial applications on a large scale relegating Ru-based micro-supercapacitors to niche applications. The substitution of ruthenium with alternative transition metal electrodes characterized by lower cost and higher abundance is therefore a requirement to reduce the price of electrochemical microstorage systems and enable long-term sustainability for a wide range of applications in everyday life. The EU-funded 3D-APP project will address this challenge in producing MnO2 deposited on porous Ni using simple and scalable processes that result high-energy electrodes that are economically feasible. These electrodes will be combined with innovative ionic liquid-based electrolytes in solid form to achieve collective and scalable fabrication of low-cost prototypes onto silicon wafers or flexible polymer substrates.
Robotics and AI as Enablers for Greener Dismantling, Remanufacturing and Recycling (ROB4GREEN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: Digital & Emerging Technologies for Competitiveness and Fit for the Green Deal
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: AI-DATA-ROBOTICS (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Greece,Netherlands,Spain,Belgium,Italy,Luxembourg,Ireland,France
Call: Industrial leadership in AI, Data and Robotics boosting competitiveness and the green transition (AI Data and Robotics Partnership) (IA)[[https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2021/662906/IPOL_STU(2021)662906_EN.pdf]] (HORIZON-CL4-2024-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10805375.0
EU funding (EUR): 9999762.5
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

During the last years, EU manufacturing has faced production flexibility challenges by deploying, among others, novel hybrid manufacturing systems, involving collaborative robots and mobile manipulators combined with flexible grippers, vision systems, sophisticated tasks/actions planning solutions and flexible integration platforms. Despite the importance of AI enabled flexible robotic systems, several aspects settle back their wider adoption, and impact on the objectives of the green deal: •Limited cognition/ intelligence: existing solutions support non-trivial tasks but cannot act autonomously. •Insufficient perception and diagnostics: In a circular economy, there is an increased need for understanding the state of products or parts that are being handled, after they have been used. •Decision making is restricted: Current decision-making focuses on process or line level, not taking into account optimization at value chain level or per individual product. •Small scale adaptation of AI due to small number of available data and training needed, to support tailored solutions in high variability context. •Lack of use of explicitized knowledge in AI and robotics. Lifecycle data and knowledge is not used across the value chain to improve decision making after a product’s first life. •Complexity in robot programming and interaction which requires the involvement of skilled engineers, does not provide flexibility in execution, Thus, ROB4GREEN aims to develop easy to use and deploy AI driven collaborative robotic systems, that can reason and adapt to a variety of strategies for processing products after their first life, both hardware and behavior wise, improving existing skills and generating new ones, working autonomously combining data and knowledge. Such systems will be validated at scale and in major industries, showcasing optimization ranging from cell to the whole value chain, towards achieving significant impact on the objectives of the green deal.

Keywords: green dismantling remanufacturing recycling perception cognition reasoning adaptation