Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Tracking the impact of surge barriers on storm sediment transport pathways (StormTRACK)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Netherlands,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-12-15
End date: 2027-12-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 258622.8
EU funding (EUR): 258622.8
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Low-lying coastal regions are facing a severe increase in flood risk as a consequence of climate change, placing a tenth of the world’s population under growing social and financial pressure. To protect these areas from flooding, more storm surge barriers are constructed in estuaries, and the closure of existing barriers during storm events is becoming more frequent. While these measures are necessary to keep coastal communities safe, closing a surge barrier can significantly alter the way storms transport sediments across an estuary. As such alterations can threaten the morphodynamic and ecological equilibrium of these systems with consequences for their long-term stability, understanding how to minimize the impact of surge barriers on estuary storm sediment transport dynamics is necessary. With StormTRACK, I aim to inform sustainable surge barrier operation by conducting the first assessment of surge barrier impact on storm sediment transport pathways in estuaries. To understand how storms transport sediments between different areas of an estuary and how surge barrier closure alters such dynamics, I will develop tools that will allow me to simulate the movement of sand and mud particles in coastal settings at local-to-regional scale and to validate such simulations through remote sensing images of sediment plumes. I will then employ these tools to investigate how surge barriers affect storm sediment transport pathways across tide and wave dominated estuaries for a variety of storm and surge barrier operation scenarios. Implemented at Caltech and TU Delft, StormTRACK will allow me to diversify my competences and skills, through advanced and interdisciplinary training, while strengthening my international and inter-sectoral network. Ultimately, I will be able to provide new fundamental knowledge about the interplay between surge barriers and storm sediments across estuaries and help promote sustainable estuary management across and beyond Europe.

Keywords: sediment transport,storms,surge barriers,lagrangian particle tracking
COMMON STANDARDS FOR SECURITY, PRIVACY AND COST OF THE SURVEILLANCE OF PUBLIC GATHERINGS (GATHERINGS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Civil Security for Society
Theme: Civil Security for Society
Destination: Fighting Crime and Terrorism
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Ireland,Portugal,United Kingdom,Germany,Austria,Bulgaria,Greece
Call: Public spaces are protected while respecting privacy and avoiding mass surveillance (HORIZON-CL3-2022-FCT-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3039140.36
EU funding (EUR): 2826716.25
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

Local surveillance assemblages can be broken down into three constitutive and interrelated parts: technologies used, stakeholders involved and the data transfer between them. This project uses the notion of the 'surveillant assemblage' proposed by Haggerty & Ericson (2000) and inspired by Deleuze & Guattari (1988) as the starting point to provide a better understanding of how surveillance technologies are governed Surveillance practices threaten the privacy of citizens and visitors of public gatherings, but they also have a social impact and economic cost. The first overarching purpose of the GATHERINGS project consists of three ambitions: - to improve the efficacy of surveillance in order to render public gatherings safer - to increase the fairness and transparency of surveillance by making it more privacy-friendly, - to boost feasibility of surveillance for involved stakeholder by making it more cost-effective, both economically and socially. The second overarching purpose is to identify gaps in terms of awareness among professionals and citizens, and bringing about international harmonisation of good practices and common standards with regard to the privacy-friendly, socially sensitive, cost-effective surveillance of safer public gatherings. In order to respond to the call priorities, the GATHERINGS project will: - develop common standards, to maximise privacy and data protection in surveillance practices - develop an accessible matrix, to be used by surveillance professionals, local administrations and event organisers, to weigh security against privacy, economic cost and social impact - set up an international network of surveillance professionals, administrations, experts, policy makers and citizens - develop an awareness-raising programme for citizens and civil society - develop an awareness-raising programme for surveillance professionals - formulate policy recommendations - search for synergies with other ongoing security research projects

Keywords: social and economic cost
Hydrogen and deuterium survey of minor bodies: transformative science with a purpose-built CubeSat (HYADES)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe Sciences
Panel description: Astro -physics/ -chemistry/ -biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Poland
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 3000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The advent of standardized small satellites called CubeSats has made astronomical research from space more accessible than ever before. The proposed ERC project directly derives from the vast research possibilities offered by this platform, and aims at the construction of a miniature UV space telescope designed specifically to detect hydrogen and deuterium around comets and asteroids through the ultra-luminous Lyman alpha transition. Thanks to the unparalleled sensitivity to these atoms, the envisioned satellite will provide definite answers to some of the most profound problems of the near Universe. First, it will enable ultra-sensitive investigation of future interstellar objects passing through the Solar System in search of their hydrogen clouds, with direct implications to our understanding of orbital anomalies in the absence of detectable dust, such as seen in ‘Oumuamua, as well as their physical nature in general. Second, the satellite will allow for deep investigation of hydrogen content around main-belt comets, probing water-ice outgassing from these bodies with a better sensitivity than the best present-day limits. The high level of sensitivity will be routinely achieved for all known objects of this class, including new main-belt comets discovered by LSST, transforming our knowledge of the ice reservoir in the outer Main Belt. Finally, the satellite will provide homogeneous, model-independent and self-consistent measurements of the D/H ratio for dozens of comets from different dynamical classes down to 12 mag of total brightness, which is a factor-of-hundred improvement in sensitivity over the state-of-the-art methods and a major leap in measurement reliability. The D/H measurements will ultimately resolve the puzzle of cometary origin of water on Earth, and unveil the link between present-day cometary reservoirs and their original place of formation in the solar nebula.

Keywords: comets asteroids interstellar minor objects
FLEXIBLE REMANUFACTURING USING AI AND ADVANCED ROBOTICS FOR CIRCULAR VALUE CHAINS IN EU INDUSTRY (RENEE)

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: Innovation actions
Partnership: Made in Europe (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Greece,Spain,France,Denmark,Italy,Netherlands,Portugal,Luxembourg,Türkiye
Call: Factory-level and value chain approaches for remanufacturing (Made in Europe Partnership) (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8041531.25
EU funding (EUR): 6999863.75
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

RENEE envisions flexible remanufacturing using AI and advanced robotics for circular value chains in EU industry. The objective of RENEE is to implement human-centric production systems relying on advanced robotics and AI to accommodate the remanufacturing of diverse states of used products. Additionally, RENEE will accelerate the workforce upskilling/reskilling by deploying a remanufacturing educational platform and a set of operator support technologies. RENEE follows a holistic approach providing product, process and resource-level enablers for remanufacturing applications including: - Circular value chains configuration toolbox: Including software solutions for product state diagnosis and classification, methods for product ‘design for remanufacturability’, Digital Product Passport, and for remanufacturing value chain configuration and planning. - Digital infrastructure for remanufacturing management: including a) tools for the planning and orchestration of flexible remanufacturing systems, b) deployment of Digital Twins customized for the remanufacturing process, and c) tools to enable product traceability and efficient management of the remanufacturing supplier network. - Robot skills & flexible production modules for remanufacturing: Enabling the resource level autonomy for remanufacturing through the deployment of dedicated robot skills libraries, AI methods for decision-support and process optimization as well as advanced robotics integrated in hybrid production specialized in remanufacturing, - Upskilling/reskilling the workforce for remanufacturing: Supporting operators both during the remanufacturing tasks via inclusive interfaces as well as providing the infrastructure (Educational platform) and required material (courses) for training them to meet the requirements of diversified remanufacturing operations. The RENEE modules will be validated in 4 pilots from the household appliances (refrigerators), robotics, and mobility (electrical motors and bikes) sectors

Keywords: flexible robotics,digital product passport,digital twins,remanufacturing processes,artificial intelligence,training platform,worker upskilling,circular economy,sustainability
Impact of genome size on range size: a case study in a model plant family (RANGE)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 217076.16
EU funding (EUR): 217076.16
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Plant range size (geographic area occupied by a species), a key predictor of species’ extinction risk, is shaped by an interplay of evolutionary and ecological processes. Yet understanding how species’ biological traits interact with environmental factors to determine range size remains challenging. I hypothesize that plant trait flexibility (ability of traits to evolve to different trait states) and genome size (total DNA in cell’s nucleus) are two key biological factors that influence range size. Genome size imposes biophysical constraints on cell size and rate-related cellular traits (like cell cycle duration) impacting functional traits, e.g., photosynthetic rate, seed size. Large-genomed lineages with stronger biophysical constraints, are predicted to exhibit slower trait evolution compared to small-genomed lineages that, at the whole plant level, can impact where they can and cannot grow. High nutrient demand of large-genomes can also restrict species’ range size in nutrient-poor conditions. But it remains unclear how genome size’s effects on trait flexibility and diversification, influenced by abiotic factors, impact range size. I will address this knowledge gap by establishing a single quantitative framework using the widely distributed palm family (Arecaceae) as a model system. Palms possesses considerable genome size and trait diversity. A major methodological challenge of obtaining genome size data will be addressed by developing a method to predict genome size from leaf stomatal guard cell size. With a secondment and collaborating with a team of leading experts, I will expand my expertise on cytogenetics and evolution while acquiring new skills on ecological analyses, and develop my supervisory and leadership skills. Together, this project will lay the foundations for my future role as an independent group leader in plant evolutionary ecology with a focus on cytogenetics, to aid in conservation efforts.

Keywords: range size,genome size,biogeography,distribution,palms,herbarium,plant traits,abiotic factors,ecological modelling,adaptability,macroecology
Development and exploitation of new molecular tools to understand rhamnogalacturonan-II metabolism in plants (RG-II)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Austria
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 199440.96
EU funding (EUR): 199440.96
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Most plants cells have a wall protecting them from environmental stress and diseases caused by pathogens. The cell wall is made up of a network of complex carbohydrates including rhamnogalacturonan II (RG-II), a major component of pectin. RG-II is the most complex carbohydrate in nature and has been shown to play a critical role in plant growth, development, and protection from environmental stresses. Mutations altering the structure and composition of RG-II for example have been shown to lead to strong developmental phenotypes or lethality and decreased crop yields. RG-II components have been shown to be targeted by plant pathogens responsible for significant crop losses in agriculture and recently in the human diet by beneficial species of the human gut microbiota a key player in host-microbial interactions. Despite its importance and potential, we know very little about how RG-II is made and how it performs its functions due to its complex nature and lack of appropriate tools to study it. I have recently developed a molecular tool box including a genetic approach using the gut microbe Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron to generate diverse chemically defined RG-II-derived oligosaccharides, RG-II-degrading enzymes and recently new RG-II binding proteins and oligosaccharides. I will expand this toolbox, generate high-throughput technologies and later exploit them to enhance our understanding of RG-II biosynthesis in plants. This work will form the foundation to allow fine modulation of RG-II structures for both plant and human health benefit. I am a British national and I completed my PhD at Newcastle University (UK) through a UK commonwealth scholarship. I have significant experience in glycobiology, microbial genetics and enzymology. At Boku University I will have the opportunity to develop skills in synthetic chemistry, glycan array development and exploitation and plant protein expression in various hosts including human embryonic kidney (HEK) cells and purification

Keywords: rhamnogalacturonan ii,plant cell wall,glycan arrays,glycosyltransferases,plant biology,carbohydrates
The Four Freedoms of the EU Internal Market: Is the Free Movement of Persons More Basic? (EUFREEDOMS)

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 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-11
End date: 2026-05-10
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191760.0
EU funding (EUR): 191760.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

EUFREEDOMS examines the philosophical underpinnings of the four fundamental freedoms of the EU single market (the free movement of goods, persons, services, and capital). While the legal literature on the four freedoms is huge, much less effort has been made to analyse the freedoms in philosophical terms. Philosophical debates have focused predominantly on the free movement of natural persons. Yet, there are many interesting questions about all the freedoms. How can we best interpret the rights protected by the freedoms? Which kind of justifications should be given of the four freedoms? How are EU citizens benefited by having each of the freedoms? How should we understand the relationships between the freedoms? is there a hierarchy between the freedoms? Is the free movement of persons worthier of protection than the free movement of capital? How should we handle conflicts between the freedoms and other values (e.g. social rights)? EUFREEDOMS is an interdisciplinary project that contributes to the political theory literature of the EU with an analysis of the philosophical foundations of the four freedoms, which will contribute to shed light on the nature of the rights protected by the freedoms, and hence also on the possibility of establishing a hierarchy between the freedoms, arguing that the free movement of persons is more fundamental than the other freedoms: indeed, that it should be considered a basic right. EUFREEDOMS aims to shed light also on the way in which the four freedoms should be balanced with other considerations (e.g. social rights). There are many areas where EUFREEDOMS can have considerable impact: for example, it can contribute to a better understanding of the shape that EU integration should take in the future, and to better legitimising the four freedoms in the eyes of EU citizens.

Keywords: political philosophy of the eu free movement rights eu law european integration
Faster and More Energy Efficient Machine Learning for Embedded Systems (EmbeDL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: EIC Accelerator Open (HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOR-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3640830.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

EmbeDL is a Software Development Kit installed on premises to optimise complex DL models on embedded hardware systems. It empowers product manufacturers by providing them with the entire toolchain and services necessary to accelerate their AI-driven system development and launch into production. What is currently taking months, years or abandoned R&D, can now be done in weeks. Using the EmbeDL platform, the product development team can: -Automatically optimise a DL model for specific hardware while meeting energy consumption, hardware cost, and other requirements, by pruning/compressing a state of the art model in a hardware and requirements-aware fashion or searching automatically for the optimal model. -Automatically evaluate hardware for its model (currently existing as an internal tool to be developed into a full fledged product), by a combination of predictive methods and hardware-in-the-loop. -Accelerate the development cycle with easy to use and highly automated tools.

Keywords: embedded devices,deep learning,neural networks,edge ai,tinyml
CO-creating the next generation platform of PILOT and demo infrastructures, unlocking faster innovation and EU bioeconomy growth (COPILOT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Circular Bio-based Europe
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: CBE (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Belgium,Finland,Spain,Ireland,Denmark,Czechia,Slovenia,France,Italy
Call: EU-wide network of pilot plants and testing facilities, improving SMEs and start-ups' access to scale-up (HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499577.5
EU funding (EUR): 1499576.5
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

The overall aim of the COPILOT project is to build the reference database of bioeconomy-based Europe wide open-access infrastructures that accelerate the scale-up of innovations and to unify and interlink the related bioeconomy ecosystem for scaling-up: Infrastructures, Innovators and Enablers into one vibrant community. Since pilot and demo equipment is very expensive and requires specific expertise in a short span of time, open access infrastructures are the most cost and speed-effective manner to support the deployment of biobased industry-driven innovations in the market. In accordance with the European Bioeconomy Strategy and Action plan, COPILOT aims to create an open access pilot and demo database embedded into a self-sustainable platform: 1. Exploitation of past pioneer EU projects experiences and achievements (Pilots4U, ESFRI and BioeconomyVenture) 2. Co-creation dynamics coming from the community to create a tailored-made platform for users’ needs; Engagement and stimulation to participate in COPILOT activities via 3 Open Calls. 3. Key services, training, and matchmaking opportunities aiming to foster collaborations among the community to unlock a clearer and faster access of the bioprocesses scale-up in the EU for Innovators and Enablers This will be carried out in close collaboration with the full consortium build on a strong pool of experts within the fields of bioeconomy ensuring the involvement of all the relevant EU regions to consolidate the maximum outreach of the initiative. It consists of 10 partners with complementary competences: 2 major partners involved in the EU bio-economy Infrastructure ecosystem, involved in the Pilots4U project as well (VTT and BBEPP); 7 clusters or networks of start-ups, spin-offs, corporates, investors and public authorities (IBF, FOOD+I, B4C, KHZ, SGZ, SPRING and BIOEAST), and 1 partner representing the largest global start-up network who will ensure the right methodology and strong impacts of the FSTP strategy (F6S).

Keywords: open access pilot demo facilities,scale up,database,platform,self sustainable,scale up ecosystem,innovators,infrastructures,enablers,investors,road to market