Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
DIGITAfrica, Towards a comprehensive pan-African research infrastructure in Digital Sciences (DIGITAfrica)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Research infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Development and infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Spain,Italy,Greece,Kenya,Germany,Senegal,Tunisia,Cameroon,Netherlands,South Africa,Switzerland
Call: Strengthen the bilateral cooperation on research infrastructures with Africa (HORIZON-INFRA-2024-DEV-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499375.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499375.0
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The African Union's Science, Technology, and Innovation Strategy for Africa (STISA-2024) positions science, technology, and innovation as fundamental drivers of Africa’s socio-economic development and growth. It emphasizes the need to strengthen three main pillars: 1) Building/upgrading Research Infrastructures (RI), 2) Enhancing professional and technical competencies, and 3) Promoting entrepreneurship and innovation. It also highlights the importance of fostering collaboration among African countries and establishing partnerships with international stakeholders. ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) is identified as a critical priority sector. Areas such as computer science, telecommunications, cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning, security, and IoT offer potential for creating new knowledge, research capacities, and industries that address African and global challenges. DIGITAfrica aims to lay the foundations of a pan-African comprehensive RI in Digital Sciences, which will have a transformative impact on AU-EU shared R&I, as well as innovative education and training. DIGITAfrica will prepare the transformation of this partnership into a sustained research initiative in common strategic fields. Drawing from the expertise of partners across five AU countries, each with a strong background and representing diverse African contexts, alongside EU partners who coordinate the first two ESFRI DIGIT RIs dedicated to Digital Sciences, DIGITAfrica aims to exchange experiences, consult stakeholders, and foster dialogue to collaboratively develop a strategic approach. DIGITAfrica will serve as a catalyst for realizing the vision of a pan-African Digital RI and should become a cornerstone of Euro-African cooperation in R&I. The impact of DIGITAfrica will contribute to digitally transforming the African continent for prosperity and inclusivity, and to move with Europe towards a shared twin green and digital transition agenda.

Keywords: research infrastructure,digital sciences,computer science,internet,cloud,artificial intelligence,machine learning,open science,innovative education
Moving Bodies and Memories of African Slavery in South America (MOVING)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
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): 2499958.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499958.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The MOVING project is aimed at developing an ethnographic and multi-disciplinary methodology to study the bodily traces of Africa-originated slavery enduring in post-slavery and diasporic contexts. The project is rooted in an anthropology of the memories of slavery that the PI has been conducting mainly in Colombia for the past fifteen years, and in her previous work on bodies, senses, emotions and nationalism in India. As importantly, the PI is a certified practitioner of a conscious, embodied movement methodology which she has been integrating into her academic practice, as field researcher and in teaching and supervision. Taking research into new theoretical and methodological directions, the project focuses on people’s bodies and moves, and the individual and social transformative potential of the movement of emotions and memories through that of bodies. The project seeks to explore conditions of possibility for people who do not necessarily self-identify as ‘Afro-descendants’, despite their African heritage, to reclaim their history and transform their relation to it through body-based and artistic practices. The project also investigates whether the chronology of events pertaining to the abolition of slavery may account for significant differences in the ways the latter’s legacy has been acknowledged, or not. MOVING will adopt a comparative focus on three countries, i.e. Brazil, Chile and Colombia, while pioneering a methodology combining three types of research: ‘classic academic’ documenting the legacy and contemporary memories and experiences of Africa-originated slavery, and the renewal of Africa-related modes of reconnecting with this African legacy through everyday bodily ways; ‘experimental’ and ‘arts-based creative’, with scholars of body-based practices, somatic practitioners and artists; and ‘action-oriented’ involving social participation of citizen scientists and wider society.

Keywords: social anthropology,transmission,self and social transformation,kinesthesia,body language,senses,emotions,memories,artistic methodologies,movement and somatic psychotherapy
Control exchange-coupling Interactions in poRphyrin-based Quantum logIc gaTes (CIRQuIT)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Ireland,Germany
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): 199694.4
EU funding (EUR): 199694.4
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The role of quantum computing in simulating quantum and complex systems (e.g., molecular and biological systems) is central to the "second quantum revolution", generating enormous investments of industrial companies (e.g., IBM, Google, etc.) and EU members. Current technologies are mainly based on solid-state fundamental units, i.e., the qubits, whose working principles rely on superconductivity or electron/nuclear spin physics. Beyond them, molecular systems based on magnetic compounds are attracting specific interest in the community. By exploiting the versatility of molecular systems and the infinite possibilities enabled by synthetic chemistry, it is possible to engineer the systems' physical and chemical properties. For instance, several qubits can be interconnected within a single structure through organic and coordination chemistry approaches, thus improving more complex structures for implementing advanced quantum logical operations (i.e., quantum logic gates). The CIRQUiT project aims to go beyond the current state-of-the-art molecular quantum logical units by introducing molecular machines for quantum information processing. The three main ingredients of this project are: i) organic and coordination chemistry, ii) light, and iii) magnetism. Two molecular qubits will be anchored to a central diamagnetic photochromic unit acting as a switch of magnetic interactions. The differences in magnetic anisotropy properties of the two qubits will keep them distinguishable and manipulable through microwave pulses. By exploiting cyclization and cycloversion reactions of the photochromic core (enabled by continuous or pulsed irradiation with UV and Vis light sources, respectively), it will be possible to switch exchange coupling interactions between side units. In this way, the two qubits can act as individual units when uncoupled and as quantum logic gates "on demand", mimicking the workflow of a quantum circuit.

Keywords: molecular spin qubits,photochemistry,photochromism,epr spectroscopy
Emergent awareness from minimal collectives (EMERGE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Italy,Netherlands,Germany,France,United Kingdom
Call: Awareness Inside (HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2993261.25
EU funding (EUR): 2839511.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

Awareness in biological agents has converging definitions when considering local states describing content-related consciousness from an agent-specific perspective. However, it becomes highly debated when it comes to global states. The issue magnifies when considering collectives of artificial agents. Several frameworks exist, all unsatisfactory in the limitations posed to agents’ heterogeneity and disappearance of the local self into an integrated state. Ultimately, existing frameworks are ineffective in explaining, facilitating, and supporting cooperative behaviours in artificial agents. The lack of a compelling theory of global awareness in AI is currently a significant barrier to the effective deployment of artificial agents in the real world. EMERGE tackles this grand challenge by introducing the novel concept of collaborative awareness for collectives of minimal artificial beings. We will investigate how simple agents can develop a representation of their mutual existence, environment, and cooperative behaviour towards the realization of tasks and goals. EMERGE builds on a scenario of artificial beings with no shared language and constrained individual capabilities, which nevertheless leads to high-complexity behaviours at the collective level. Collaborative awareness becomes an emergent process supporting complex, distributed, and loosely coupled systems capable of high degrees of collaboration, self-regulation, and interoperability without pre-defined protocols. EMERGE delivers a philosophical, mathematical, and technological framework that enables us to know how and where to allocate awareness to achieve a goal through the collective optimally. We will demonstrate EMERGE concepts on robotic use cases, with hints of broader applicability of the framework to Internet of Things, pervasive computing, nanotechnologies. We will also investigate the ethical implications of collaborative awareness, focusing on moral responsibility, vulnerabilities, and trust.

Keywords: swarm engineering non linear dynamics soft robotics integration theory ai ethics human ai interaction lifelong learning artificial evolution
User-oriented Solutions for Improved Monitoring and Management of Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in vulnerable European Seas (B-USEFUL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Innovative governance, environmental observations and digital solutions in support of the Green Deal
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Denmark,Netherlands,Germany,United Kingdom,Spain,Iceland,Greece,Norway,Portugal,France,Italy
Call: User-oriented solutions building on environmental observation to monitor critical ecosystems and biodiversity loss and vulnerability in the European Union (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4609981.25
EU funding (EUR): 4609981.25
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The biodiversity, health and services of European marine ecosystems is severely threatened as cumulative human pressures and impacts continue to spread and increase throughout our seas and along our coasts. In order to put biodiversity on the path to recovery and thus achieve the ambitious policy goals set out by the EU Green Deal and the Biodiversity Strategy 2030, we need well informed science advice and operational decision-support tools allowing end-users to decide on conservation actions for biodiversity protection (e.g., MPAs), while at the same time seek to minimize trade-offs with other human use of ocean space (e.g., fishing, off shore energy and shipping). B-USEFUL will develop and deliver user-oriented solutions fit for uptake and implementation in decision making by effectively building upon existing European data infrastructures and governance frameworks for ecosystem-based management advice and marine spatial planning. This will be achieved by delivering upon the following objectives (here presented in short form) addressing the expected outcomes and impacts of the call and destination, namely to: (i) identify end-user needs; (ii) co-develop biodiversity indicators, targets and scenarios; (iii) create a standardized biodiversity and pressure data base; (iv) assess the status and cumulative impacts on biodiversity; (v) quantify risk and vulnerability to biodiversity loss; (vi) perform model forecasts of changes in biodiversity and ecosystem services; (vii) co-develop an interactive, online decision-support tool fit for management strategy evaluation of actions ensuring biodiversity protection. The project will embrace a process of co-creation where all outputs are iteratively co-developed, validated and approved by end-users. This serves not only to build mutual trust and credibility, but also facilitate direct uptake and implementation of the user-oriented tools and knowledge within operational decision-making for marine management and conservation.

Keywords: ocean governance,ecosystem based management,marine spatial planning,marine protected areas,marine ecosystem services,decision making,participatory management,co creation,marine biodiversity
A Sensor for Autonomous Navigation in Deep Space (SENSE)

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: Italy
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS1 (ERC-2022-POC1, 2022)
Start date: 2022-04-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The “space revolution” is expected to become the biggest industry in history. During the last decades, space exploration has contributed to the development of various technologies (i.e., GPS, weather predictions, solar cells, reliable power grid, Earth observation services) that feedback into the economy and improve our lives. In 2020, the global space economy was valued at about $ 446.9 B. With the advent of deep-space CubeSats, nanosatellites that disrupted this industry, space agencies are planning to launch tens of CubeSat in deep space per single launch. The number of deep-space probes is bound to thrive, yet their growth is unsustainable with current practice. Human-in-the-loop operations are particularly relevant for flight-related procedures in cruise phase: the spacecraft position is determined from ground, with a consistent involvement of resources and assets. It is acknowledged that a sustainable deep-space exploration requires enabling self-driving spacecraft. The SENSE project forges an autonomous navigation sensor for the self-positioning of spacecraft in the solar system. The project stems from the ERC-funded project EXTREMA (ERC-CoG-2019). SENSE aims to elevate the celestial triangulation method conceived in EXTREMA to a proof-of-concept sensor at TRL 4. Our autonomous navigation sensor, nanoSENSE, is a disruptive innovation that will change the modus operandi for spacecraft navigation. SENSE will revolutionize the way spacecraft travel in space, by cutting the cost of ground control of the whole cruise phase and unlocking the new space mission concept. The project follows a suitably devised pathway to cover technical validation activities and assessment of exploitation opportunities. SENSE has raised the interest of leading sectoral players (see Letters of Interest).
Biophysical Models of Bacterial Growth (BIGR)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed Matter Physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2028-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1708613.0
EU funding (EUR): 1708613.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Biology operates in a dynamic, changing environment, with fluctuations occurring over many time and length scales. Microorganisms are capable of duplicating themselves accurately over a short time in this noisy environment. This self-replication, known as the “cell cycle”, must be tightly regulated in order for replication to be efficient. Key processes such as growth (both of volume and biomass), division and DNA replication must be coordinated. What biophysical cues are measured by the cell and what feedback is utilized to achieve this tight control is a fundamental, open and inherently interdisciplinary question. The goal of this proposal is to build integrated models which can account for the simultaneous regulation of multiple cellular traits, and account, quantitatively, for the coupling between the various cellular processes. We will consider coarse-grained models that operate both on long timescales – the coupling of DNA replication, gene expression and cell division – and short timescales, associated with water flow and ion transport across the membrane. Building on our expertise in the physics of stochastic processes, we will develop biophysical models that explain how microbes deal with fluctuations. We will develop new analysis tools that will enable us to learn from fluctuations, in particular through the powerful methodology of causal inference, which has not been previously applied in this context. The models will allow us to study the implications of variability on the population growth and fitness, and elucidate the design principles involved. Taken together, these models will take us toward comprehensive and predictive biophysical models of bacterial growth.
Computer assisted diagnosis with lung ultrasound for community based pulmonary tuberculosis triage in Benin, Mali and South-Africa (CAD LUS4TB)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Global Health EDCTP3
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: EDCTP3 (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: South Africa,Benin,Mali,Belgium,Switzerland,United States
Call: Innovative digital health solutions for sub-Saharan Africa (HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2024-01-two-stage, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2030-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7072368.25
EU funding (EUR): 6809786.25
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

With chest X-ray and molecular tests virtually absent at the primary healthcare care level, where most patients with presumptive TB present in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), there is a need for accessible, affordable and scalable diagnostic tools for TB triage. CAD LUS4TB represents an interdisciplinary partnership spanning across Western (Francophone) and Southern-African regions with EU countries, aimed at enhancing access to effective TB triage to rule out TB disease among symptomatic adult patients presenting at the primary healthcare level. This initiative focuses on generating population-tailored evidence and advocating for the integration of computer-assisted diagnosis (CAD) using artificial intelligence (AI) to support the implementation of lung ultrasound (LUS) into healthcare policy. Unlike typical vertical triage tests, US has multiple other existing AI-assisted diagnostic tools and can facilitate a multi disease approach after TB exclusion, including for pneumonia and cardiovascular assessment. We propose to externally validate and deploy a novel digital technology adapting image-based analysis tools and software for mobile phone ultrasound applications. AI technology sharing serves as one of its key pillars. The adoption of CAD-LUS requires a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, translational approach to clinical research. Our consortium comprises these key fields, including clinical research, diagnostics, implementation science, social science, health economics and policy translation, as well as data/computer science. It addresses all expected outcomes and contributes to several specific expected impacts of this call. Evidence on the integration of CAD-LUS is expected to accelerate adoption of accessible triage tools for TB in SSA and support achieving target 3.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals. The CAD LUS4TB tool is anticipated to achieve a high diagnostic yield due to its user-friendliness, scalability and possibility to address multiple diseases.

Keywords: tb triage,point of care tests,lung ultrasound,computer assisted diagnosis,multi disease strategy,open ai
New European Bauhaus for All (NEB4All)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Other missions
Destination: Other missions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Belgium,Malta,Austria,Cyprus,Estonia,Finland,France,Georgia,Hungary,Iceland,Moldova, Republic of,Montenegro,Poland,Portugal,Romania,Sweden,Ukraine,Switzerland,Greece,Latvia,Lithuania,Armenia
Call: Supporting the preparation and implementation of the NEB Facility with the support of Horizon Europe and New European Bauhaus National Contact Points (HORIZON-MISS-2024-NEB-IBA, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2136299.12
EU funding (EUR): 2124257.75
Participants: 27
Project status: SIGNED

The New European Bauhaus (NEB) brings the European Green Deal to life through inclusivity, aesthetics, and sustainability, evolving from grassroots efforts to impactful implementation. Central to this is the NEB Facility, which bridges research and innovation (R&I) with roll-out efforts, focusing on local neighbourhoods. NEB4All supports the Facility by strengthening a transnational network of Horizon Europe (HE) and Policy (POL) National Contact Points (NCPs), fostering collaboration, sharing best practices, and empowering NEB NCPs to deliver exceptional support to NEB Facility stakeholders. NEB4All unites 28 NCPs from 25 countries, combining the expertise of experienced and newly appointed members. Through tailored training, mentoring, and peer learning, it enhances NCP capacities, improving stakeholder support, increasing participation in NEB calls, and elevating proposal quality. Key objectives of NEB4All include: (1) Building NCP Capacity: Providing training and tools to align HE and POL NCPs and bridge knowledge gaps. (2) Raising Awareness: Equipping NCPs to engage national stakeholders and promote the NEB Facility effectively. (3) Improving Feedback Mechanisms: Creating systems to collect stakeholder insights and deliver actionable feedback to the European Commission. (4) Supporting Stakeholders: Empowering applicants through matchmaking events and stakeholder meetings. NEB4All lowers barriers to participation for stakeholders like municipalities, companies, researchers (from technical backgrounds and social sciences, humanities and arts), and civil society, fostering connections across the NEB ecosystem. By ensuring high-quality services and gathering actionable feedback, it enhances the NEB Facility’s visibility, accessibility, and impact, driving sustainable innovation and inclusive growth across Europe.

Keywords: neb,policy,horizon,roll out,network,neb facility,ncps