Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Grammaticality and the minimal verb phrase: Evidence from colloquial registers (MicroGram)

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: Austria
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230184.72
EU funding (EUR): 230184.72
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The main objective of this project is to explore in a systematic, data-driven and cross-linguistic fashion the morphosyntax of a recently discovered, unique clause type: radically truncated clauses (Halm 2021 ). Such clauses are radically minimal because, exceptionally, they are spelled out (i.e. uttered) at a very early stage of the derivation (i.e., sentence-building), prior to receiving almost all of the clausal layers that a sentence is supposed to have on top of the minimal verb phrase (VP) itself. In radically truncated clauses, layers of tense, agreement, mood, modality, aspect, voice and dedicated higher functional projections such focus or negation are missing: what remains is the minimal VP: the verb itself, its internal argument (an object or an unaccusative subject) and verbal particles (if they exist and are VP-internal in a given language). This minimal VP itself can be the target of adjunction (topicalization, quantifier raising and the adjunction of adverbial adjuncts) resulting in larger structures. Such truncated clauses have so far been neglected since they are only produced in specific, colloquial registers (live speech under intense time pressure, electronic communications), and such registers were difficult to observe and gather data on before the advent of widespread electronic text-based communication. My objective is i) to systematically collect and rigorously analyse a large amount of data on this construction from a set of typologically distinct languages and ii) to develop insightful theoretical conclusions from this large body of new empirical evidence. The theoretical questions where the study of radically truncated clauses is likely to be illuminating include linearization (or word order, more generally), case assignment, the exact size of nominal arguments, and the tradeoff between grammaticality, communicative efficiency and morphosyntactic effability.

Keywords: generative morphosyntax minimal verb phrase truncated clauses headedness case assignment nominal arguments clause types finiteness
Life-Inspired Soft Matter (Dyna-Mat)

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: Finland
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

To fulfil the quest for increasingly functional materials, biology has already offered inspiration towards advances in materials science. So far, bioinspired materials include, e.g., liquid- and dirt-repelling surfaces, structural colours, biomimetic composites, strong fibers, tissue templating, and underwater adhesives. On the other hand, stimulus-responsive, shape memory, and reconfigurable materials have been presented with switchable functional properties. They are typically in global or local energy equilibrium and their properties do not evolve or learn to allow new responses. The next challenge is to explore whether some of the characteristics considered typical for life could inspire new behaviours of artificial soft matter towards life-inspired materials. Herein I suggest three approaches: 1) Voltage controlled dynamic out-of-equilibrium dissipative mechanical properties and temperature-based switching between dynamic and static properties. 2) Light and voltage-driven self-regulation with feedback loops for adaptation, homeostasis, and oscillations. 3) Optical spiking for dynamic structural colours. The impact of this project arises from demonstrators and paradigm changing concepts for materials memory, biological learning-inspired processes, and dynamic feedback control. The underlying embodied intelligence and adaptibility pave ways to new materials concepts. In the long run, materials with such properties are foreseen, e.g., in human-device interfacing, artificial skin, prostheses, technical aids, wearables, soft robots, and medical applications.

Keywords: life inspiration,adaptation,responsiveness,feedback,dissipative,out of equilibrium,spiking,gels
Exosome Characterization Platform for Early Detection of Breast Cancer (EXCEED)

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: Türkiye,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 268803.36
EU funding (EUR): 268803.36
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide. Early detection is the most critical element, as the survival rate increases by up to 99%. Although there are conventional screening techniques such as mammography, breast cancer is still the second leading cause of cancer death in women. One of the holy grails in cancer research is to develop a blood test for early detection. Sensitive, non-invasive, and easy-to-use liquid biopsy techniques will revolutionize cancer diagnosis and treatment monitoring. The goal of this project is to develop a complete platform for the isolation and label-free optical characterization of biological nanoparticles called exosomes extracted from blood. Exosomes are secreted from the cells into the body fluids and play an important role in intercellular communication. These particles are emerged as potential biomarkers for liquid biopsy applications, as they carry information about their original cell. However, the translation of exosome-based analyses from research labs to clinical settings is limited due to the lack of efficient isolation and quantification tools available. We aim to develop a novel exosome characterization platform, named multimodal Interferometric-Raman imaging platform to detect and quantify exosomes at a single-particle level without using any labels. The combination of the label-free imaging capability of interferometric microscopy and the chemical content information provided by Raman spectroscopy will be an important step for exosome-based diagnostics applications. The proposed system will be integrated into a state-of-the-art isolation tool, creating complete isolation and multiparameter characterization platform. The proposed platform will be tested with the exosomes isolated from tumor cells to determine possible biomarkers that can be used for diagnosis. The diagnostic capability of the system will be validated with healthy donors and breast cancer patients(30 persons each)

Keywords: biosensing,exosomes,liquid biopsy,microfluidics
Data-driven market power in the production of addiction (DATA-ADDICT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: Finland
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-04-01
End date: 2030-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499956.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499956.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The DATA-ADDICT project studies data-driven market power in the production of addiction. It focuses on online gambling as a key empirical example of a highly addictive, digital, and data-driven industry. Commercial operation in online environments produces unprecedented amounts of data. Data are circulated within networks and used to increase profit via extractive commercial practices and political influence. Data-driven practices can be particularly harmful when employed by industries that produce and sell addictive commodities, such as gambling. Yet, and largely due to existing asymmetries in accessing data generated and held by industry actors, there has been a notable gap in our understanding of how data translate to power for addictive industries in online environments. What kind of data do addictive industries collect and circulate within their networks? How do these industries mobilise data to influence consumers and regulation? The project builds a theoretical understanding of data-driven market power in the production of addiction via four interrelated research streams. First, it charts how data are collected, used, and circulated by the online gambling industry and related actors; Second, it looks at how data are mobilised by these industries to leverage power over consumers; Third, it analyses how these industries mobilise data to influence regulation; Fourth, running alongside the three empirical streams, it forms a theoretical conceptualisation of data-driven market power by using empirically informed middle range theory building and by drawing on social theories of digital capitalism and power. The project produces a novel theoretical understanding of power in digital addictive commodity industries and beyond. The project also formulates and systemises new empirical methods to access and analyse industry data. At a societal level, the project generates crucial information on how to prevent harmful practices employed by addictive commodity industries

Keywords: gambling,addiction,commercial determinants,qualitative
Stimuli responsive bio-based bisphenols for the synthesis of recyclable thermosets (StimulART)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator 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: Austria
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2029-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999271.25
EU funding (EUR): 1999271.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Thermosets are an intriguing class of polymeric materials characterized by high durability and excellent thermal stability, indispensable in many industrial sectors such as construction, transportation and aviation. However, due to precisely these sought-after characteristics, they are typically not recycled, contributing to raising environmental concerns. Moreover, thermosets are typically manufactured from unsustainable, petrol-derived Bisphenol-A. StimulART will tackle the two key scientific challenges that need to be addressed in order to achieve sustainability in thermosets and to integrate this material class into the Circular Economy: a.) Enabling efficient low-temperature recycling through judicious structural and molecular design b.) Achieving meaningful use of renewable resources by embracing their innate structure and reactivity. This highly interdisciplinary StimulART cuts across scientific boundaries ranging from the chemistry of renewables and sustainable biorefining, organic & green chemistry and catalysis, separation science, materials synthesis and characterization in order to develop fundamental molecular and sustainable biorefinery concepts. Thereby, it will allow access to well-defined, structurally modular, stimuli responsive bisphenols directly from lignocellulosic biomass for creating recyclable, high-performance polybenzoxazine and epoxy thermosets, enabling closed loop recycling strategies in thermosets. The main objectives are: i) a wide variety of new stimuli-responsive bisphenols obtained directly from lignocellulosic biomass, through innovative protection group- or biomass orthogonal click chemistry, ii) semi-continuous flow-setups with integrated bisphenol separation via crystallization/precipitation and catch-and-release iii) the development of recyclable, bio-based epoxy- and benzoxazine thermosets and novel catalytic strategies to enhance their end-of-life processing StimulART matches Horizon Europe strategies like the Green Deal.

Keywords: green chemistry lignin biorefining renewables sustainability recycling
Direct Current – Power flOws in megawatt-scale Energy gRids (DC-POWER)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Germany,Spain,Switzerland,Greece
Call: Demonstration of DC powered data centres, buildings, industries and ports (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8452854.15
EU funding (EUR): 7136536.5
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

The current electric energy distribution grid—based mainly on alternating current (AC)—has served us for over a century. Transporting energy generated at large power stations over long distances to a distributed network of consumers. It is starting to show its shortcomings due to a rise in local generation with renewable energy sources and the essentially direct current (DC) nature of many modern electric loads. Modern grids need to deal with two-way energy flows, local intermittent generation from renewables and local energy storage in stationary batteries. Medium voltage distribution microgrids using DC instead of AC hold the promise to address the shortcomings of the AC main grid. There are several initiatives in low voltage secondary distribution grids, and DC-POWER is expanding their concepts into the medium voltage range. We propose the D3Bus, a bipolar DC bus operating at ±1.5 kV. Compared to standard 3-phase 400V AC distribution the D3Bus can reduce distribution energy losses by over 90%, reduce downtime, equipment cost, and space requirements while increasing sustainability. DC-POWER demonstrates, tests and validates the D3 Bus concept in two operational pilots: One powering an industrial-scale hydrogen electrolyser stack at 2 MW power, and one powering a new data centre with up to 500 kW installed IT power. Both pilots include sizeable solar PV arrays (200 kW), while the data centre also includes a directly coupled DC UPS solution. In order to realise these pilots, DC-POWER develops several DC-DC converters, an AC active frontend, as well as system protection components and a power/energy management system. The D3Bus is intended as a first stepping-stone towards standardization of MVDC distribution microgrids. It is such industry-wide standards that will enable and accelerate the adaptation of the electricity distribution system towards the energy demands of the future and net zero.

Keywords: medium voltage,direct current,data centre,electrolyser,power conversion
CUTibacterium acnes Engineered for Antimicrobial peptide Momentary Production (CuteAMP)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 194074.56
EU funding (EUR): 194074.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Our skin is colonized by a myriad of bacteria, fungi and viruses that are collectively called the skin microbiota. The most common and consequential bacterial skin pathogen in humans is Staphylococcus aureus. It is an invasive pathogen responsible for varied ailments that commonly evolves resistance to antibiotics. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have drawn interest from the scientific community because they are less prone to resistance development. However, they typically require complex formulations to enhance their half-life due to low stability, which decrease their efficiencies when topically applied. I propose to genetically engineer Cutibacterium acnes, one of the most prevalent and abundant commensal microbes of the human skin, to produce AMPs for the treatment of S. aureus-associated skin infections. For this, I will develop a novel expression platform based on a synthetic linear plasmid with features of bacterial telomeres that will be progressively degraded after a limited number of replication cycles. I will also screen AMPs for their potency and specificity against S. aureus and the best candidates will be encoded on the linear plasmid. The use of the linear plasmid as a platform of AMPs production will (i) ensure that the delivery of the AMP is limited in time to prevent the development of antibiotic resistance, and (ii) provide a stringent biocontainment of the modified bacteria, as engineered cells eventually revert to their wild-type genotype upon programmed plasmid loss. This project merges my expertise in synthetic biology and biochemistry with that of the host in engineering the skin microbiota. The linear plasmid with pre-programmed degradation will be a foundational tool for future engineering of commensal bacteria as live therapeutics. It will also represent a paradigm shift in biocontainment for genetically engineered organisms, that will hopefully bring the use of engineered skin bacteria for microbiome-based therapy a step closer to reality

Keywords: cutibacterium acnes,staphylococcus aureus,plasmids,biocontainment,antimicrobial peptides,skin microbiota engineering,translational synthetic biology,transient gene expression
Using Human Rights to Change Abortion Law: Involvement Patterns and Argumentative Architectures in the Global Figuration of Human Rights (Abortion Figurations)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: Poland
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): 1998869.0
EU funding (EUR): 1998869.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Abortion laws are the crux of human rights diversity today. Abortion laws evidence best how differently human rights meanings are construed in various local settings. However, we know very little about how this diversity is generated in practice. This project will scrutinize the communication processes that use human rights as arguments to change abortion laws. We will contrast abortion debates from the last ten years in pairs of countries that represent three regional human rights systems: Mozambique and Senegal (the African Union), Poland and Ireland (the Council of Europe), and Argentina and Honduras (the Organization of American States). These debates show the ambivalence of human rights: they were used successfully to argue both for more liberal and more restrictive abortion laws. To explain this ambivalence, we will apply concepts of argumentative architecture and involvement patterns, coined by the PI as part of her figurational sociology of law, based on Norbert Elias’s theory of the process of civilization. Using a mixed-methods approach that combines qualitative sociology, legal analysis, and corpus linguistics, we will offer a multi-dimensional model for a globally comparative, interdisciplinary socio-legal study of human rights. We will study the structure, composition, and embedding of arguments, along with group perspectives, emotions, and circles of identification of arguing actors so as to arrive at a heat map that will show the distribution of involvement in argumentative architectures. By constructing a global meta-typology of argumentative architectures and involvement patterns in abortion debates, we will explore the integrative, civilizing potential of human rights and identify the centrifugal forces in human rights figuration that comprise the local, regional, and global levels. Finally, we will revisit the role of human rights as a universal toolbox for ideologies in order to plead their conditional rehabilitation.

Keywords: sociology of human rights,abortion,law and society studies,figurational sociology,law and corpus linguistics
Reworlding: Repositioning Participatory Design to Tackle Socio-Environmental Challenges (REWORLDING)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Belgium,Ireland,Sweden,Denmark,Italy,Croatia,Switzerland
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2811268.8
EU funding (EUR): 2811268.8
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

Socio-environmental issues are experienced differently by different actors, communities and organisations, leading to societal polarisation and inhibiting urgently needed actions around these issues. As Participatory Design (PD) researchers, we observe a need for design approaches that can bring diverse actors together to tackle these challenges in participatory ways, with particular care for those who remain silent, both as human and non-human actors (e.g. plants, rivers or insects). REWORLDING doctoral network aims to investigate and outline such a careful and situated PD approach that can better understand and create synergies between the different worlds in which people live and work, and the non-human worlds they are entangled with. This is achieved through an interdisciplinary methodology based on collective learning and participatory action research, embedded in inter-sectoral collaborations with non-academic partners who address socio-environmental issues from diverse perspectives. In doing so, the network identifies and articulates reworlding design capabilities that can support next-generation researchers in tackling the connections of social and environmental challenges. Design capabilities link research and training in REWORLDING. The research program explores the capabilities needed to address socio-environmental issues and their translation to specific skills and training needs. Based on research insights, the training program iterates the proposed courses and enhances identified capabilities by exposing the 10 recruited researchers to non-academic socio-environmental practices. The program includes Retracing lecture series, Reconnecting methods training, Reimagining summer schools, Reinstitutioning webinars and Reworlding assemblies. Through articulated pathways to impact, we connect the project activities with stakeholders on different scales and relevant programs at European and international levels (such as SDGs and European Green Deal).

Keywords: reworlding,participatory design,socio environmental challenges,collective learning