Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Power, Politics and Contestation in Global Technical Standard-Setting (TECHtonics)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2029-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999951.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999951.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The governance of global technical standard-setting is in the midst of unprecedented transformation and contestation. Long dominated by wealthy industrialized countries, international standardization organizations have been shaken by the emergence of rising standards powers, above all China. Alongside China, several other Global South countries are now breaching the high barriers to entry in this field. TECHtonics will contribute two theoretical innovations addressed to both the international standardization literature and scholars of global governance more broadly. One aim of the project is development of a framework to study how and why some developing countries manage to acquire standards power, against the odds. A second contribution is introduction of the concept of governance rupture to study the multifaceted forms of contestation unfolding in global technical standard-setting. Since both topics addressed by these frameworks—institutionalized inequality and complex governance challenges—are not unique to technical standard-setting, the findings will advance theory-building on power, politics and contestation in the global governance literature. The project employs mixed methods to provide empirically rich, granular analyses of rising standards powers and governance ruptures in international standardization. One work package features case studies of rising standards powers at different levels of influence in international standardization—aspiring (Kenya), rising (India) and risen (China). A second work package will study the dynamics of governance rupture in global digital standard-setting unfolding across four theatres: power, practice, authority and bloc formation. TECHtonics will directly transfer insights to the practitioners’ world. A practitioner lab and secondments to standardization organizations will be established in order to directly fuse academic insights with practitioners’ needs, ensuring a high degree of research impact beyond academia.

Keywords: technical standards contestation global economic governance rising powers inequality kenya india china
COOPERATIVE AND INTELLIGENT UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE APPLICATIONS (COVER)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Staff Exchanges
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Netherlands,Sweden,France,United Kingdom,Canada,Germany,Singapore,Japan,Italy,Australia
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 579600.0
EU funding (EUR): 579600.0
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

The climate change is now one of the biggest threats faced by our natural world and leads to many extreme weather events, flooding, wildfires and heatwaves. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are the promising technologies for the emergency response applications (ERAs) to provide more efficient and faster services to save lives and reduce economic loss. This project aims to develop an innovative cooperative, connected and intelligent UAVs (CIUs) for ERAs, where sensing and computing resources, and flying information from individual UAV could be shared and exploited through effective communications and control of the CIUs. Specifically, context-aware and service-oriented UAV-to-everything (U2X) networks; robust cooperative UAV sensing and computing (CSC) schemes and intelligent cooperative UAV control strategies for ERAs will be investigated. An international inter-sector and inter-disciplinary consortium consisting of world leading academic institutions and prominent industrial partners is created to collaborate on developing novel CIU technologies in ERAs. Cutting-edge communications networks, edge computing, cooperative sensing, intelligent control, and machine learning related technologies will be investigated to tackle the associated challenges. With competent and complementary expertise of the partners and their extensive international research collaboration experience, this project will promote research innovation, foster knowledge sharing, enhance the potentials of participating researchers, and contribute to the European leadership in the UAVs, cooperative sensing and computing, multi-agent control, information and communications technology (ICT), and emergency response sectors. The developed CIU technologies and applications are not only applicable in various ERAs, like flooding, wildfires, and earthquake; but can also be readily extended to other applications, such as smart cities, public safety, agriculture, and the wider scientific community.

Keywords: unmanned aerial vehicle uav emergency response control system machine learning wireless communications cooperative sensing and computing mobile edge computing mec
Opioids and insulin secretion: a new avenue to fight type 2 diabetes (OpiO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physiology in Health, Disease and Ageing
Panel description: Organ and tissue physiology, comparative physiology, physiology  of ageing , pathophysiology, inter - organ and tissue communication, endocrinology, nutrition,  metabolism, interaction with the microbiome, non -communicable diseases including cancer (and except disorders of the nervous system  and immunity -related diseases)
Countries involved: France
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): 1997915.0
EU funding (EUR): 1997915.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and obesity are leading causes of morbidity and mortality, becoming a major burden on public health. Failure to understand their pathophysiology has frustrated efforts to develop improved therapeutic strategies. T2D and obesity are complex polygenic disorders. Genome-wide association studies have identified hundreds of loci associated with metabolic traits, but they have not led to promising new drug targets, so far. In contrast, the identification and characterization of rare mutations causing monogenic metabolic disorders have been instrumental in repositioning or developing drugs. Beyond this proof of concept, the challenge is to use genomic medicine for innovative molecules restoring impaired insulin secretion that characterizes T2D. OπO has stemmed from the old but forgotten correlation between opioids consumption and metabolic trait abnormalities. Opioids classically act through delta opioid receptor (DOP encoded by OPRD1), kappa and mu opioid receptors. Based on my preliminary data that include large-scale human functional genetics of OPRD1 mutations, my hypothesis is that DOP is a major link between opioids and metabolism in humans. More specifically, I propose that DOP and opioid signaling have a crucial direct role in insulin secretion from pancreatic β cells; making DOP a promising new drug target against T2D. In this context, I suggest four tasks in OπO: the first two tasks will decipher the role of DOP and opioid signaling in metabolism with a specific focus on islets and β cells, while the two following tasks will decipher the systemic contribution of opioids and opioid receptors to metabolism. The methodologies that I proposed are truly comprehensive and innovative as they combine preclinical animal studies (with a humanized mouse model), deep phenotyping of islets, pharmacology, multi-omic analyses, genome editing, functional genetics, genetic epidemiology (including Mendelian randomization) and clinical intervention study.

Keywords: insulin secretion,pancreatic beta cell,type 2 diabetes,opioid,opioid receptor,obesity
Sustainable End-of-life routes for single-use monodose packaging for oily products (E-OILE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Increased Autonomy in Key Strategic Value Chains for Resilient Industry
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Hungary,Greece,Israel,Denmark,Norway,Belgium,Portugal
Call: Biodegradable polymers for sustainable packaging materials (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2024-RESILIENCE-01-TWO-STAGE, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2029-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7854089.04
EU funding (EUR): 6616783.77
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

The packaging industry is responsible of around 60% of post-consumer SUP wastes and most likely to become litter in natural environments. While factors such as fast consumption patterns, safety concerns or compact size, hinder effective packaging waste recycling, the need for safe alternative biodegradable solutions is mandatory. E-OILÉ will address safe and sustainable biodegradable packaging solutions close to the market by: a) demonstrating at TRL 7 cost effective production of biodegradable materials based on novel biopolyesters and polysaccharides, engineered to enhance barrier and mechanical performance, to replace Polyolefin materials (PP and PE) and PET in monodose packaging solutions ecodesigned as biodegradable monomaterial structures or combination with coating technologies and following the SSbD framework ; b) implementing a circular business model, food and cosmetic products, through 4 Uses Cases (UC): Olive oil- UC1; oily sauces- UC2; Body oil- UC3 and Oil serum- UC4); c) validating the packaging performance, shelf life, safety and sustainability along the whole supply chain (from material producers to end users) and demonstrating complete biodegradability following relevant standards and in environmentally relevant conditions and, therefore, sustainable End-of-Life (EoL) pathways for the new packaging solutions in combination with the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and advanced modelling mechanisms for digitally-assisted accurate prediction of degradation processes. The consortium is integrated by 15 partners of the whole supply chain: large companies, SMEs and Start-up as materials producers (2) to the end-users of food and cosmetic sectors (2) through the packaging producers (3). Partnership will also involve supporting RTOs and other non-profit organizations with expertise in disciplines such as compounding, SSbD, biodegradation testing, packaging and product validation, exploitation, SSH for consumer engagement and digital technologies

Keywords: biodegradation,packaging,food,cosmetics,bio based,single use
Which Factors Drive Macroevolutionary Rates of Speciation and Extinction (MacDrive)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental B iology, Ecology  and E volution
Panel description: For all organisms : Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change , evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology , marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and mod elling
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1495579.0
EU funding (EUR): 1495579.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Biodiversity is modeled by the process of speciation and extinction. There is clear evidence both from living and extinct species that biodiversity is extremely variable through time and among species. However, we still do not know what factors, e.g., environmental or species intrinsic, drive speciation and extinction rates on a macroevolutionary level. To complicate matters, species diversification models are not identifiable, that is, there are infinitely many combinations of continuous speciation and extinction rate functions that are statistically indistinguishable. First, I will extend previous diversification models to jointly infer time-varying and lineage-specific diversification rates using phylogenies of extinct and extant taxa. Second, I will tackle the non-identifiability problem and explore which patterns, e.g., rapid increases in diversification rates and mass extinctions, can be inferred. Third, I will use a combined paleo-phylogenetic approach and estimate diversification rate from phylogenies with extinct and extant taxa. Thus, I will combine statistical, computational, neontological and paleobiological approaches to study macroevolutionary dynamics. I will produce species-level phylogenies each Carnivora, Cetartiodactyla, Crocodyliformes and Squaliformes using novel morphological datasets and models. I will test if diversification rates are correlated with environmental factors (e.g., CO2 or temperature) or species specific traits (e.g., body size and life history traits). Ultimately, we will test if specific traits are correlated with mass extinction survival probabilities, as for example the Lilliput Effect predicts smaller species to have higher survival probabilities.

Keywords: macroevolution,diversification,phylogenetics,birth death process,modeling,theory,bayesian inference
Creating NEBourhoods Together. Munich-Neuperlach as test-bed for urban innovation landscapes (NEBourhoods)

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
Call: Support the deployment of lighthouse demonstrators for the New European Bauhaus initiative in the context of Horizon Europe missions (HORIZON-MISS-2021-NEB-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2025-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5483644.75
EU funding (EUR): 4983648.0
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

Creating NEBourhoods Together will pave the way to make Munich-Neuperlach “New European Bauhaus-ready”. Neuperlach (NPL) was Germany's biggest post-war urban expansion area with about 65.000 inhabitants. To make this 50-year-old district fit for the future the City of Munich set up an integrated urban concept and action plan based on comprehensive analysis of the challenges together with citizens and stakeholders in 2020/21. NPL faces weaknesses, e.g. higher than average unemployment and lower educational levels or high numbers of migration population. But it has strengths that, against the backdrop of these challenges, can become a breeding ground for a beautiful, sustainable and inclusive regeneration: strong social ties and bottom-up dynamics, vast green areas and largescale housing and office structures in need of renovation that can grow into something new. The City of Munich is committed to the EU-missions and aims at becoming a Climate-neutral and Smart City. In NPL, our test-bed for this mission, we will plant tangible pilots as lighthouse demonstrators and thus, going beyond urban regeneration so far, deliver NEBourhoods, inspiring and replicable nuclei of practises on the ground for the future of urban development. The partnership led by the City of Munich brings together UnternehmerTUM, TUM, HM University of Applied Sciences, Architekturgalerie Munich, NGOs and more. Combining co-creation and entrepreneurship, putting culture and creativity at the core of the transformation process, the project will deliver accessible and empowering solutions to make the EU-Green Deal beneficial for all in NPL and beyond. The district will be carefully cultivated into a resilient urban innovation landscape. Within two years, we will create NEBourhoods together and show how we can realise circular thinking and acting in society and economy, activate the green transformation in building, mobility, energy, food and health and enhance public space.

Keywords: new european bauhaus,integrated development,circularity,urban regeneration,energy,climate neutral and smart cities,co creation,entrepreneurship,arts,culture
Directed Evolution of Metastable Electrocatalyst Interfaces for Energy Conversion (DEMI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Synergy grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Denmark,Switzerland,Germany
Call: ERC Synergy Grants (ERC-2023-SyG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9973679.0
EU funding (EUR): 9973679.0
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

It is our aim to transform the research field of electrocatalysis from the established “initial (as-synthesized) state approach” to a data-centric understanding of the metastable active interface of electrocatalysts, constantly evolving under reaction conditions. We want to overcome the limitations of elemental or binary alloy catalysts by exploring and exploiting high entropy materials (HEM) as a discovery platform for sustainable materials, with the aim to identify in the extremely large, multidimensional search space new electrocatalysts that are both stable and active. To understand and control the active interface of HEM electrocatalysts, we combine the core expertises of the PIs: theoretical modelling and simulations, high-throughput synthesis and characterization, nanoparticle synthesis, electrochemical operando techniques as well as machine learning. Our synergistic approach will significantly advance these individual competences by key conceptual innovations: (i) Evolutionary screening of micro-libraries to efficiently identify stable materials covering the complete HEM composition space; (ii) Accelerated atomic-scale characterization of HEM surfaces by combining combinatorial HEM synthesis with atom probe tomography; (iii) High-throughput operando experiments with thin film material libraries; (iv) Developing inverse activity-structure relationships and theoretical descriptors for metastability; v) Implementing active learning approaches based on materials informatics and using a semantic data lake. We will establish a theory of metastability as a core concept for the understanding of electrocatalysis for the most important energy conversion reactions: oxygen reduction and evolution, and CO2 reduction. Instead of passively accepting the degradation of catalysts during operation, we will direct the evolution through the highly multidimensional space towards long-lasting, active HEM interfaces.

Keywords: electrocatalysis,high entropy alloy catalysis,materials discovery,stability degradation
Mapping the Controllosphere (CONTROLMAP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Compl exity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2480212.0
EU funding (EUR): 2480212.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The sensation of cognitive effort is integral to everyday human experience, is a core construct in psychological theories of behavior, and contributes to multiple psychiatric disorders like ADHD and depression. However, despite decades of study the neural origin and functional purpose of cognitive effort remain poorly understood. This constitutes one of the most important outstanding questions in cognitive neuroscience and a major challenge to mental health research. Recently, I proposed a new, mathematically formal theory of cognitive effort that draws together concepts from dynamical systems analysis, linear control theory (LCT), artificial neural networks (ANNs), cognitive psychology and neurophysiology. The theory relates cognitive effort to the fact that brain neuroanatomy and neurophysiology render some neural states more energy-efficient than others. In particular, I introduced the concept of the "controllosphere," an energy-inefficient region of neural state space associated with high cognitive control, and proposed that cognitive effort serves to move the system state out of this high-energy region. The goal of this project is to test the controllosphere theory. I will use ANNs to simulate human behavioral and neural data collected in tasks that require mental effort, and apply LCT to these models to make formal predictions about which neural representations are more or less effortful. I will then test these predictions using a wide variety of empirical techniques in a series of experiments with human participants. The establishment of a verified formal theory of cognitive effort will fill an important gap in the cognitive neuroscience of cognitive control, strongly impact clinical practice, and provide important insights for the development of novel artificial intelligence systems that balance computational function against energy use.

Keywords: cognitive effort,cognitive control,linear control theory,recurrent neural networks,artificial neural networks,prefrontal cortex,anterior cingulate cortex,electroencephalogrophy,magnetoencephalogrophy,neural dynamics,intrinsic manifold,task manifold