Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Motivations at the Automatic and Deliberate level to bully (MAD2bully)

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: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Bullying among youth is a major problem with devastating consequences for victims. In order to develop effective anti-bullying programs, we have to understand what drives bullying behavior. Research has mainly focused on striving for high status on the deliberate level, but found only weak associations with bullying. We thus may be overlooking other (status) motivations that impact bullying involvement to a much greater extent. I therefore propose that not only the motivation to ‘be on top’, but also the motivation to ‘not dangle at the bottom’ plays an important role in bullying and supporting bullies. In addition, as some youth may not be able or willing to truthfully report their deliberate status motivation, I propose to examine motivation at the automatic level through implicit and physiological measures. The aim of the current MAD2bully project thus is to uncover the role of status motivation in bullying and following bullies. This will be achieved by examining both the reward value of high status and the threat value of low status, on the deliberate level as well as on the automatic level. To assess these innovative new concepts, I will develop and test new state-of-the-art measures of status motivation in Study 1. In Study 2, I will use these measures in a longitudinal multi-method multi-informant design, together with assessments of bullying and following behavior, and developmental, individual, and contextual risk and protective factors. The insights from this project will radically change our understanding of why youth engage in or support bullying. Moreover, the results from this project will also facilitate bully risk-assessments in classrooms and aid the development of effective anti-bullying and anti-following interventions that target the right type of status motivation for each type of bullying involvement.

Keywords: bullying,status motivation,implicit processes,physiological processes,peer relations,schools,popularity,childhood,adolescence
SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT AND APPLICATIONS FOR RESOURCE-EFFICIENT TECHNOLOGIES IN OLIVE (SMARTOLIVE)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Portugal,Switzerland,Argentina
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-SE-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1137985.71
EU funding (EUR): 976950.0
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

SMARTOLIVE aims to revolutionize olive production and processing through precision agriculture and digital innovation, enhancing sustainability and competitiveness. The project will integrate proximal and remote sensing technologies with AI-driven decision support systems (DSS) to optimize water and nutrient management, improve productivity, and enhance tree health. Smart traceability technologies will provide full transparency from orchard to bottle, strengthening consumer trust and market value. The main objectives include: (1) developing a multi-sensor framework to monitor tree water and nutrient status in real time, (2) implementing AI models to optimize orchard management strategies such as irrigation, nutrient application, fruit maturity assessment, and smart pruning, (3) establishing a blockchain-enabled system for smart traceability, and (4) validating these solutions through field trials for scalability and real-world applicability. The project will leverage a multidisciplinary consortium of academic institutions, industry partners, and agribusiness cooperatives, including key stakeholders from Argentina. This partnership aims to facilitate knowledge transfer and the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices in both European and low- and middle-income countries . Data from on-tree sensors, UAV imagery, and satellite remote sensing will feed predictive models to deliver actionable insights, promoting resource efficiency and climate resilience. The smart labeling system will provide consumers with authenticated information on product origin and quality. SMARTOLIVE aligns with Horizon Europe priorities on sustainable agriculture, climate adaptation, and digital transformation, supporting SDGs such as Zero Hunger, Industry and Innovation, Responsible Consumption and Production, and Climate Action.
Connect2Scale - Uniting European Investors and Scaleups (Connect2Scale)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Destination: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Estonia,Finland,Belgium,Slovenia,Lithuania,Latvia
Call: Expanding Investments Ecosystems (HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1061526.79
EU funding (EUR): 1000000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

Connect2Scale creates partnerships between five Business Angel networks - Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Slovenia - and two supporting organizations - European Business Angel Network and Civitta - with the aim of enabling the growth of European start-ups through joint efforts. The project focuses on knowledge transfer from venture capital firms to business angels to close the gap between funding cycles and introduce cross-border investment opportunities in the EU in a harmonized way. Combining unique competences and extensive networks of partners, the consortium aims to direct venture capital funding to start-ups from the moderate/modest ecosystem and to spread the resulting knowledge of the project to a wider circle of investors across the EU.

Keywords: business angels,venture capital,investment gap,scaling up,cross border investments
Minimally Invasive Neuromodulation Implant and implantation procedure based on ground-breaking GRAPHene technology for treating brain disorders (MINIGRAPH)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Spain,Belgium,Germany,Netherlands,Switzerland,Czechia
Call: Tools to measure and stimulate activity in Brain Tissue (HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4428402.5
EU funding (EUR): 4428402.5
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

Neurostimulation therapies hold the promise to treat brain diseases refractory to pharmacological treatment. However, these therapies are not fully adopted due to important technological and clinical challenges, such as highly invasive implantation, multiple side effects due to off-target stimulation, low signal resolution and lack of personalized therapies. The MINIGRAPH project aims to develop a ground-breaking neuromodulation therapy that addresses current needs of the field. We will develop and validate a new generation of brain implants with closed-loop neuromodulation capabilities, enabled by skull implanted flexible electronics unit and miniature and high-density arrays of graphene microelectrodes. Our implant will feature high miniaturization, large spatial resolution and optimal biocompatibility with brain tissue. The closed-loop capabilities will enable to develop personalized and adaptive therapies depending on patients’ needs. In addition, we will also develop and validate a minimally invasive implantation procedure with high precision implantation and low invasiveness through a single small skull incision. The MINIGRAPH project outcomes will truly revolutionize the way we treat neurological and neuropsychiatric diseases in the near future. To achieve our ambitious objectives, we have put together an interdisciplinary consortium formed by high-renowned research centers and a high-promising SME, with all the expertise and resources needed to complete the project within time and budget. Our project addresses the objectives of the “Tools to measure and stimulate activity in brain tissue” pathfinder challenge, as it provides 1) miniature and minimally invasive brain implants, 2) closed-loop neuromodulation therapy for personalized medicine, 3) biocompatible ultra-thin and flexible neuroelectrodes, and 4) minimized power consumption solution. All together, we believe the MINIGRAPH project will be a unique addition to the challenge portfolio.

Keywords: neuromodulation implant,deep brain stimulation dbs,graphene,robotic brain implantation,parkinson s disease pd,closed loop neuromodulation
Wrap It Up: Deciphering experience-dependent myelin growth across development. (WRAPPED)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Compl exity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2030-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1497540.0
EU funding (EUR): 1497540.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Humans start life fully dependent on the care of others, yet we go on to acquire skills no other species is capable of. What is the biological basis of this remarkable plasticity? Animal studies suggest a critical role of myelin in learning and brain plasticity, while post-mortem assessments of the human brain show that myelin maturation, which is completed around birth in other species, continues until adulthood. How does this uniquely protracted myelin development enable and constrain our aptitude for learning? WRAPPED will answer this critical question by assessing changes in myelin during learning at different developmental stages. Recent critical advances in MRI technology now provide the unprecedented opportunity to compare myelin levels within the living human brain over time and between individuals making it possible to probe the role of myelin in human learning for the first time. Seizing this opportunity, WRAPPED will assess learning-related changes in myelin using an innovative two-pronged approach that combines local longitudinal studies with the analysis of large-scale open data. Critically, WRAPPED will not only evaluate adults, but rather probe the entire developmental lifespan to show how myelin changes as infants learn to crawl, when children enter school, and when children, young adults, and older adults are acquiring the same novel skills (juggling and reading Chinese). This ambitious developmental focus will be transformative for our understanding of the interactions between maturational and learning-related changes in myelin. Thereby, WRAPPED will elucidate the biological basis of the unique human learning trajectory that allows us to establish and maintain complex cultures. This characterization of healthy human brain plasticity, in turn, will serve as a vital reference point for understanding psychological and neurological disorders linked to alterations in myelin, such as schizophrenia, autism, and childhood learning disabilities.

Keywords: development,learning,human,infancy,childhood,white matter,myelin,qmri,dmri,fmri
Longing for an economic past? Political economic nostalgia in East Asian societies (PENEA)

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: Belgium
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2031-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1495042.0
EU funding (EUR): 1495042.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project explores whether frustration with capitalist modernity leads East Asians to express discontent with economic development and to seek alternative futures. East Asian societies have experienced accelerated modernisation, but citizens in late-industrialised economies today reject hypercompetitive and unequal societies. In parallel, nostalgia has emerged as a major trend in consumer practices and cultural productions in the region. It is mostly contemplated as a cultural phenomenon. But when nostalgia expresses longing towards a pre-developmental past, it also belongs to the field of discontent with economic development and can shape citizens’ political economic mobilisation. The PENEA project therefore explores if East Asians long for their pre-developmental past, and if they mobilise for political economic change on this nostalgic basis? Combining sociology and political economy, it achieves three objectives: 1. documenting the expressions of nostalgia among East Asian citizens; 2. conceptualising these forms of nostalgia; 3. analysing if and how nostalgia is a source of mobilisation in East Asia. In East Asian societies that are post-developmental or developmental, expressions of longing for a recent economic past can be expected, and this longing can motivate actors to undertake individual or collective actions that produce political economic change. The PENEA project will test these hypotheses in high income, late-industrialisers (Japan, South Korea), middle-income Communist states (China, Vietnam) and fast-growing lower middle-income states (Philippines, Cambodia), through an innovative combination of traditional and social media analysis, surveys, interviews, participant observations and discourse analysis on textual and visual documents. The PENEA project is the first systematic, interdisciplinary and comparative study to identify political economic nostalgia in East Asian societies today, and to analyse how East Asians react to rapid development.

Keywords: nostalgia east asia development sociology political economy
Towards next Generation UV Optical Waveguides (NEXG-UV)

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: Belgium
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2024-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175920.0
EU funding (EUR): 175920.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Information processing, sensing and life science technologies are currently subject to a revolution driven by integrated photonics that promises high sensitivities and low-power consumption. Photonics based on silicon and silicon nitride cover well the infrared and visible spectrum of light, respectively, and even allow for a low-cost co-integration with complementary metal-oxide semiconductors (CMOS) electronics. However, these technologies do not cover the UV part of the spectrum which is important for many emerging technologies such as biosensing or ion quantum computing. NEXG-UV will innovate a next generation UV-photonics platform based on Alumina, public which is not only transparent in the UV-spectrum and features a great power capacity but also is compatible with large-scale fabrication of the CMOS platforms. Contrary, to prior attempts we will realize alumina photonic devices with smooth sidewalls and surfaces. Like copper patterning of the CMOS back-end, we will make use of chemical mechanical polishing in combination with a dry-etched dielectric template and high-aspect ratio deposition techniques such as ALD. This will enable photonic elements with small-feature sizes, large scale aspect-ratios and especially smooth surface to supress Rayleigh scattering that normally dominates losses at shorts wavelengths. This will have a significant impact for instance in quantum computation on trapped ion qubit systems and in life sciences on label free sensing/detection of biomolecules.

Keywords: integrated photonics,waveguides,alumina,silicon oxide,ald,ultraviolet,cmp
Asymmtric Copper(I) Catalysis in Artificial Metalloenzymes (Cu-CATARMs)

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: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2025-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 203464.32
EU funding (EUR): 203464.32
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposal that Cu-CATARMs (Asymmetric Copper(I) Catalysis in Artificial Metalloenzymes) aims to design and develop a proficient artificial metalloenzyme which contains a low oxidation state copper (Cu(I)) center, enabling a series of enantioselective new-to-nature transformations in a protein environment. The Roelfes group has been engaged in creation of LmrR based ARMs for the asymmetric copper-catalyzed new-to-nature reactions. Reliable approaches have been developed by the Roelfes group to efficiently recruited the copper(II) species to the LmrR pore, either introducing metal binding unnatural amino acids through in vivo stop codon suppression or supramolecular assembly via the π–π stacking interaction between tryptophan moieties and metal complex. Our approach is enabled by reducing the copper(II) center which is chelated by anchoring moiety of LmrR to copper(I) center with mild and efficient reductants in situ (objective 1). This design of copper(I) catalysis in LmrR based artificial metalloenzyme will be exploited to develop the following objectives: Objective 2. Asymmetric conjugate addition of alkynes; Objective 3. Asymmetric intramolecular cyclopropanation; Objective 4. Apart from developing the novel methodologies, we will also devote ourselves to reveal the detailed mechanism, aiming to provide theoretical guidance for future works. Overall, the successful development of Cu-CATARMs project will represent a proficient strategy to apply low oxidation state transition metals in enzyme catalysis. The results of the project will inspire the development of C-C/C-N bond formation reactions through copper(I) catalysis in ARMs and offer new strategy for the organic chemistry and material communities when planning a synthetic route for a specific target.

Keywords: copper i species,artificial metalloenzymes,enzyme design,asymmetric catalysis,mechanism study
Quantum software platform for multiphysics simulations (Qu&Co-Flow)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: EIC Accelerator Challenge: Technologies for Open Strategic Autonomy (HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOR-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2024-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3566570.0
EU funding (EUR): 2496599.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project will develop Qu&Co-Flow: the world’s first hybrid Quantum/AI software platform for multiphysics simulations. Qu&Co-Flow integrates the most advanced simulation algorithms and deploys them to accelerate Europe’s transition towards sustainable mobility. Qu&Co-Flow will be the first software capable of performing realistic battery/fuel cell performance and degradation and aerodynamics simulations. Further, it can be seamlessly integrated into standard simulation software by leading vendors.

Keywords: quantum computing,electric vehicles,fuel cells,aereodynamics,differential equations
Digital assets and tools for Circular value chains and manufacturing products (DaCapo)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Climate neutral, Circular and Digitised Production
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Made in Europe (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Spain,France,Finland,Italy,Greece,Netherlands,Germany,Sweden,Switzerland
Call: Digital tools to support the engineering of a Circular Economy (Made in Europe Partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5994489.25
EU funding (EUR): 5994489.25
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

DaCapo aims at establishing a systematic approach enabling the creation of human-centric digital tools and services for improving the adoption of Circular Economy strategies along both manufacturing value chains and products lifecycles (design and engineering, manufacturing, use phase and End of Life). These tools and services, focused on the creation of new digital assets, AI-based systems and the application of process and product Digital Twins, will greatly improve sustainability, efficiency, and use of imported and CRM in manufacturing, towards digital-enabled industrial sustainability and resilience. The backbone of the project will be a new methodological approach supporting decision-making, considering business models, material flows and circular strategies along the manufacturing value chains. Digital Product Passports and a Circular Economy Decision Support System will be developed as high-level tools, facilitating the trustful exchange of assets, the selection of optimum circular stock management strategies and tools, and the definition of informed and coordinated products lifecycle management decisions in a safe, reliable and agile way. A modular Digital Thread concept will be developed as a normalized method for orchestrating the gathering and contextualization of data at different points of the product lifecycle, enhancing data availability for the definition of indicators and optimisation criteria. On top of that, DaCapo will develop a digital architecture aligned with interoperability and connectivity standards, guaranteeing end-to-end horizontal and vertical integration, boosting data sharing and exploitation under the EU Data Spaces framework and maximizing replicability potential. A consortium of 8 top Research Institutions and 6 relevant industry partners, backed by 1 EU association for technology standardisation, will demonstrate DaCapo on 3 relevant and EU Critical Value Chains production environments (aeronautics, electronics and logist

Keywords: circular economy,r cycles,ai,digital twins,digital product passport,digital thread,eco design,sustainable and resilient manufacturing,predictive maintenance,human centricity,product lifecycle