Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
The emotional signature of anhedonia in depression and psychosis in daily life: Developing a fine-grained and temporal understanding using advanced Experience Sampling Methods (EMOTE)

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: Belgium
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2025-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191760.0
EU funding (EUR): 191760.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Depression and psychosis in adolescents and emerging adults have a significant economic, health, and social burden on an international scale. Targeting transdiagnostic factors that are common across disorders, and doing so early before symptoms develop or worsen, is critical to maximise impact and get more bang for buck. Anhedonia, the pervasive inability to anticipate and experience pleasure or interest, is a transdiagnostic feature of depression and psychosis. Anhedonia has received comparatively little research attention compared to other symptoms, meaning that it is not well understood or addressed in therapy. The current research will use existing high-quality datasets in an ambitious exploration of the emotional processes related to anhedonia in depression and psychosis, with a focus on adolescents and emerging adults. It will extend prior research by using advanced real-time methodologies that provide a fine-grained and temporal understanding of emotional experiences in anhedonia in daily life. This approach will dramatically advance the field by aiding the future development of transdiagnostic techniques targeting anhedonia that are more effective than those currently available. The workplan also outlines training and career development activities that focus on experience sampling methodology, complex multilevel and time series data analysis, open science, and building transferable professional skills to lead an independent and productive lab. These skills will underpin the fellow’s ability to establish a profile as an up-and-coming researcher with a competitive edge for funding and employment. The research fellow and supervisor are the ideal team to conduct this work. The fellow’s strong background in research on youth depression and digital programs delivered at scale complements the methodological expertise of the supervisor, who is an expert in psychosis and real-time data collection methods in real-world contexts.

Keywords: psychiatric disorders
Agile Exploration and Geo-modelling for European Critical Raw materials (AGEMERA)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Finland,Croatia,Zambia,Estonia,Bulgaria,Spain,Germany,Poland,Netherlands,Hungary,Bosnia and Herzegovina
Call: Innovation for responsible EU sourcing of primary raw materials, the foundation of the Green Deal (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-08-01
End date: 2025-07-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7494662.5
EU funding (EUR): 7494657.0
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

New environmental, economic and societal requirements in the EU’s transition to a low-carbon and digital economy call for innovative methods, technologies and techniques to be developed and applied in mineral exploration. To unlock the CRM potential in Europe, AGEMERA will conduct local state-of-art geological and geophysical surveys over a total of ~4,700 km2 in order to detailly map CRM resources in 6 EU countries and 1 third country (Zambia). The geophysical field trial surveys will demonstrate three novel non-invasive survey methods (at up to a TRL5) based on remote sensing and related data analysis: 1) passive seismic methods, 2) multi-sensing drone system combining magnetic, radiometric and electromagnetic sensing, and 3) muon-based multidetector density detection system. The project will use data from open-access databases (e.g., European Geological Data Infrastructure, EGDI), the data collected from the field by project geoscientists, and various geophysical survey methods to refine and improve the genetic mineral system models of the various deposit types known to contain lithium, cobalt, molybdenum, vanadium, PGMs, niobium, tantalum, bauxite and REE. The project will introduce the existing guidance for the application of UNFC for mineral resources to the partner countries through stakeholders, courses and public events. The project will survey citizens in the project countries, create a CRM educational package targeting schools and universities, publish an online CRM serious game, organise public events, as well as online news flashes, with the aim to reach 5,000,000 citizens by 2030. The project will create an open-access SoftGIS analysis and database on people’s social, cultural, environmental and economic concerns related to mining and mineral exploration. These data enable the creation of socio-economic potential maps to be used in parallel with the geological potential maps, consequently ensuring a basis for socially accepted and sustainable mining.

Keywords: survey,seismic,muography,electromagnetic,magnetic,radiometric,slo,sle
Training the next generation of researchers that will bring rehab robots to clinical practice (TAILOR)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Spain,Netherlands,Italy,Switzerland
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2096033.4
EU funding (EUR): 2096033.4
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

Injuries and diseases affecting the nervous system pose significant challenges for patients and impose substantial socioeconomic burdens. Digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, hold great promise in revolutionizing recovery processes owing to their robustness, adaptability, and ability to assimilate diverse patient information. Despite this potential, current evidence suggests that these technologies have not fully met expectations. We propose two primary reasons for this discrepancy: (1) the absence of robot-based therapy in established clinical guidelines that therapists follow systematically, and (2) the suboptimal implementation of crucial features in therapeutic interventions—specifically, tasks should be tailored, intensive, optimally challenging, allow movement variability, and foster high patient engagement. In essence, interventions should be personalized to each patient's unique condition and requirements. TAILOR aims to bridge this gap by offering invaluable insights and knowledge to the next generation of researchers. This knowledge will empower them to comprehend the core principles of robotic technology, leading to the development of highly personalized therapies that deliver long-term functional effects and significantly enhance treatment outcomes. This shift is pivotal for the widespread and definitive integration of robotics into rehabilitation practices. TAILOR represents a unique system for collecting comprehensive data on the therapy process, and using AI methods to extract knowledge and to design controllers for automated therapy. We expect that these AI-driven controllers will enable rehabilitation to be tailored to a neuromotor status of a specific patient to a degree not possible before, automatically adjusting to all the aforementioned factors. The result will be a more efficient, comfortable, and optimally challenging therapy, which will allow a boost to the functional recovery of these patients.

Keywords: human robot interaction,decision modeling,gait rehabilitation,stroke,rehabilitation robotics
Sustainable, Engaging and CREative Tourism as a driver for a better future in rural and remote areas (SECreTour)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on the European Cultural Heritage and the Cultural and Creative Industries
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Denmark,Italy,France,Albania,Ireland,Slovenia,Hungary,Slovakia,Switzerland
Call: Fostering socio-economic development and job creation in rural and remote areas through cultural tourism (HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2999988.75
EU funding (EUR): 2999988.75
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

Tourism is more than travelling and consuming and it has a great potential for sustainable development when it focuses on culture, nature, knowledge, and experiences. Creative Cultural Tourism can be used as a driver for innovation and cooperation and, to counteract its negative impacts, SECreTour will primarily focus on the local communities’ needs, perceptions and expectations. Tourism will be conceived as a tool to complement and diversify the income of the territories and communities, but also as a way of giving visibility and recognition to rural areas and their inhabitants, also promoting the installation and generation of services other than cultural. By developing a Fair, Creative and Sustainable Tourism (FaCS-Tourism) approach together with Heritage Communities (HC), the SECreTour consortium will assess the sensitivities and affordances of different local realities, needs and types of cultural heritage, visualizing and avoiding touristification and promoting alternative business models. FaCS-Tourism and HC will therefore enable governance and citizen engagement not only for touristic-economic planning, but also for community building and cultural heritage management and protection. Through a series of pilot cases, the project will demonstrate how cultural heritage can be used as a real driver for sustainable and fair development, promoting at the same time its conservation. Pilots have been carefully chosen to represent a full range of European territories, communities and heritage, including not only rural and agrarian landscapes, but also memory places of local identities, minorities, conflictive dark heritage. Pilots will be a focus for every part of the research as they will enable to test general ideas and observations in local detail and in specific governance contexts, and to facilitate effective communication, cooperation and problem-solving through an interdisciplinary and trans-sectoral approach.

Keywords: heritage communities payment for services benefit redistribution social contract biocultural heritage agrarian heritage participation engagement cooperation
Indigenous Migration Law - Emic Visions on Borders (IMi-Vision)

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,Austria
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Indigenous Peoples engage in de facto migration governance on a daily basis all over the world. Yet, their perspective and experiences are mostly unheard, and their laws unaccounted for. Adopting an innovative bottom-up approach, IMi-Vision aims to design an overarching legal framework governing migration that acknowledges the relevance of both Indigenous and States laws in contexts where Indigenous Peoples’ territories overlap with and span beyond the borders of States. This is fundamental to explore bordering areas that have, so far, been de jure ruled by national laws but de facto managed by Indigenous laws thereby creating legal uncertainty and contrasting praxis. Two case-studies have been selected: one in Europe (Saami communities) and another in Latin America (Cofán communities). They offer a fertile sample to assess the first exploration of the topic. In my project, I adopt a socio-legal methodology that envisions a contextualized exploration of legal phenomena, and that is underpinned by the following two entangled approaches: legal pluralism and participatory approach. Data are collected (and co-constructed) through anthropology of law’s methods. More specifically, I will conduct interviews and engage in participant-observation during two- to three-month-long field “immersion”, and then engage in a legal and content analysis of the data to capture inter-normativity and contribute theoretically to migration (law) studies. Investigating Indigenous Peoples’ legal answers to migration will prevent the widening of the existing gap between State narratives, migration policies and empirical evidence that currently affects the relevance of responses to migration within Europe and beyond. IMi-Vision thus not only contributes to changing ways migration law and governance are envisioned, but also empowers Indigenous Peoples as migration law-makers and has a direct policy implication on States’ and Europe’s external migration programs.

Keywords: indigenous peoples rights legal pluralism
Ultrasonic Guided Wave-Based NDT of Hydrogen-Loaded Pipelines (H2PipelineInspect)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-11-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173847.36
EU funding (EUR): 173847.36
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Hydrogen is seen as secure, clean and inexpensive energy of the future. To this aim, the European union has laid out strategies for large-scale production and deployment of hydrogen in the future. This translates to the most economical way of transmission of hydrogen through existing natural gas pipelines. However, one of the serious issues that can present a setback to this ambitious project is the failure of pipelines due to defects. One such less-addressed/hard-to-detect failure mechanism called Hydrogen Induced Cracks (HICs) is considered for the proposed work. In order to detect HICs in hydrogen-loaded gas transmission pipelines, an ultrasonic guided wave (UGW) based NDT technique will be developed. Towards this, a torsional guided wave mode will be optimized for its frequency from the perspective of defects (HICs) in pipe segments using the Scaled Boundary Finite Element Method (SBFEM) simulation tool available at BAM. An array of shear mode piezo-crystals for the optimized frequency will be used in the generation of the torsional mode. Towards UGW based testing, pipe segments with actual HICs will be prepared at hydrogen test rig at BAM under the guidance of BAM’s material scientists. Additionally, pipe segments with artificial notches simulating HICs will also be prepared. Further, Laser-based measurements will be carried out to map the wave fields around the crack to understand the physics of wave-defect interaction. Further, the effect of operational conditions of a pipeline such as pressure and temperature on torsional mode will be studied using both experiments and simulation. Overall, the project will involve both simulation and experiments to gain deeper understanding of the problem. Emphasis is also given on the validation of simulation results for the smooth progress of the project. Furthermore, ultrasonic phased array testing will also be carried out to successfully validate the UGW measurements pertaining to defects and to localize and size them.

Keywords: non destructive testing,ultrasound,pipelines,structural health monitoring,hydrogen transport
Chiral Active Granular Matter (CHIAGRAM)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Germany,France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173847.36
EU funding (EUR): 173847.36
Participants: 2
Project status: TERMINATED

In this proposal, chiral active granular matter (CHIAGRAM) is designed and investigated through a combination of numerical, experimental, and theoretical studies. Granular particles are characterized by collisions that dissipate energy and have been recently “activated” by breaking the translational symmetry of their shapes or internal components. The novelty of this proposal lies in the introduction of chirality through the breaking of the rotational symmetry. The resulting CHIAGRAM will be characterized by a broad range of fascinating single-particle and collective phenomena, such as circular motion, clustering, hyperuniformity, and spatial velocity correlations, whose properties will be systematically investigated through experiments and theoretical models. The implementation of an airflow mechanism and the behaviour of CHIAGRAM under flow will represent an intriguing forward research step in the field of (active) granular systems and, more generally, active matter. Emergent properties, such as negative mobility, odd diffusivity, as well as long-range collective phenomena, are expected because of the interplay between airflow and chirality. The project will fundamentally benefit from the expertise of my supervisor, a world-leading and pioneering scientist in the field of (chiral) active matter, as well as from the experimental and theoretical support provided by the secondment host, a world-leading expert in (active) granular systems. CHIAGRAM will distinguish for originality, proposing a novel granular material with fascinating properties that will open a new research line of experimental and theoretical investigation bridging active chirality and granular matter.

Keywords: active matter,active granular matter,chiral active particles
Nation of Mechanics: Animality and Indigeneity in American Automotive Culture (NOMECH)

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: Norway
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-04
End date: 2026-08-03
Duration (months): 35.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226751.04
EU funding (EUR): 226751.04
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The NOMECH project examines fiction by Indigenous American authors of the late twentieth century for literary representations of animals, automobiles, and the natural environment. NOMECH develops a novel approach to reading the road journey in American fiction (a genre which has historically excluded Indigenous writers) by centring Indigenous stories in which the environment is frequently presented as a character in and of itself, in contrast to the colonial tendency to personify the cars and ignore the living nonhuman world under the wheels. Combining approaches from literary studies and the environmental humanities, NOMECH explores the extent to which Indigenous American authors present counter-narratives to the colonial story of automobility in which human contact with the natural environment is defined by driving over it: moving from a relationship based on dominance, conquest, and subjugation to one which places more emphasis on mutually beneficial ways of living with other animals and technology. Exploring fiction from 1960–2000 by authors such as Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo), David Seals (Huron), Sherman Alexie (Spokane-Coeur d’Alene), while endeavouring to uncover lesser-known Indigenous texts in the collections of KWEC—the Kim Wait/Eisenberg Native American Literature Collection (Amherst, MA), NOMECH seeks to answer the following research questions: To what extent is humanity’s relationship to the automobile reimagined in Indigenous American fiction? How did Indigenous authors challenge the stereotype of technological ineptitude without compromising on traditional relationships to the environment? And how does the symbolic reverence for Indigenous ways of life in automotive culture obscure the very real violence against such populations? The outcomes of the project include, among others, a public-facing exhibition (online and in-person) at KWEC.

Keywords: environmental humanities indigenous literature american literature twentieth century automobile animal studies
Development of an In-Vivo Brillouin Microscope (with application to Protein Aggregation-based Pathologies) (IVBM-4PAP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,France,Portugal
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open 2022 (HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDEROPEN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-03-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3868938.0
EU funding (EUR): 3868938.0
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

The role and importance of mechanical properties of cells and tissues in cellular function, development and disease has widely been acknowledged, however standard techniques currently used to assess them exhibit intrinsic limitations (invasive, lack of 3D capability and of sub-cellular resolution). Recently, Brillouin Microscopy (BM), a type of optical elastography, has emerged as a non-destructive, label- and contact-free method that can probe the viscoelastic properties of biological samples with diffraction-limited resolution in 3D. This led to increased attention amongst the biological and medical research communities. However, due to the long acquisition time (hours), this novel technique has been applied only to fixed samples. One important open challenge is to use this approach to follow the mechano-biological processes in living cells and in real time. Aim of our project is overcome the spectral-imaging acquisacknowledged, however standard techniques currently used to assess them exhibit intrinsic limitations (invasive, lack of 3D capability and of sub-cellular resolution). Recently, Brillouin Microscopy (BM), a type of optical elastography, has emerged as a non-destructive, label- and contact-free method that can probe the viscoelastic properties of biological samples with diffraction-limited resolution in 3D. This led to increased attention amongst the biological and medical research communities. However, due to the long acquisition time (hours), this novel technique has been applied only to fixed samples. One important open challenge is to use this approach to follow the mechano-biological processes in living cells and in real time. Aim of our project is overcome the spectral-imaging acquisition time limitation by applying the heterodyne detection scheme, allowing the collection of viscoelastic properties in living sample at a sub-second timescale. We will attempt solving specific physio-pathological open problems in biomedicine for the first time.

Keywords: biomechanics,brillouin microscopy,viscoelasticity,3d in vivo imaging,kabuki syndrome,neurodegenerative diseases,phase transitions