Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Smart Battery Manufacturing Research and Development Assistant based on Augmented Reality Technology and powered with the ARTISTIC project Computational Models (SMARTISTIC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS1 (ERC-2022-POC1, 2022)
Start date: 2022-04-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The SMARTISTIC project aims at developing and demonstrating a first prototype of a smart and interactive Augmented Reality (AR) software designed to assist in the decision-making of battery scientists, engineers and operators while they are working in electrode formulation and manufacturing in laboratories or in production lines. The software will be usable from tablets and AR glasses by touch gesture and hand gesture respectively. The software will blend holograms with the real world manufacturing equipment. Such holograms will be powered with the unique physical and machine learning (ML) models developed and validated experimentally in my ERC CoG ARTISTIC project and which can predict the impact of manufacturing parameters on the final electrode properties. By interacting with the holograms and without the need of programming skills, a user can in real-time create databases from her/his ongoing experiments, launch computations for analysis of experimental results, or request ML predictions about the impact of her/his intended formulation and manufacturing process on the electrode properties. She/he can also use the software to analyze possible deviations between the experimental results and the predictions to identify more easily factors that could explain unexpected experimental results. The prototype will be developed by accounting for the users' needs and from the observation of work situations. Once developed, we will perform tests and demonstrations to assess the software usability and ergonomics for its improvement while used in real situations. They will be carried out in the battery manufacturing platform of our laboratory and in companies and in institutes which already manifested interest in our proof of concept. The assessments will permit improving the software to ensure its wide acceptance. We will also analyze the IP, technology transfer and market opportunities to valorize the intended software, also thanks to networking activities.
Advancing Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Clinical Trials (EDICT)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Ireland,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Spain,Croatia,France,Switzerland,Sweden,Canada,United States,Belgium,Denmark
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-03-01
End date: 2030-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4349934.0
EU funding (EUR): 4349934.0
Participants: 26
Project status: SIGNED

“Advancing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Clinical Trials” (EDICT) establishes an innovative Doctoral Network to transform how equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) principles are embedded in clinical trials across Europe. While clinical trials are essential for advancing medical knowledge, systematic exclusion of diverse populations undermines scientific validity and limits healthcare impact. EDICT will train the next generation of research leaders, equipped with specialised methodological expertise and practical skills to transform how clinical trials are designed and conducted, ensuring meaningful representation of diverse populations. Leveraging expertise from multiple sectors—including academia, the pharmaceutical and MedTech industries, patient advocacy, regulatory bodies, trial networks, science communication, and evidence production—EDICT will support 16 (14 EU; 2 Swiss) doctoral candidates in developing solutions that enhance recruitment, improve data inclusivity, and ensure that trial outcomes are representative of broader population needs. The network will deliver concrete EDI innovations, including standardised metrics for measuring trial diversity, AI-powered tools for detecting recruitment bias, culturally-adapted consent processes, and implementation frameworks. These outputs will transform how EDI is implemented across the clinical trials ecosystem. Through structured mobility between interdisciplinary academic, industry and policy environments, doctoral candidates will develop comprehensive expertise across four key domains: standardised measurement of trial diversity, innovative EDI methodologies, practical implementation tools, and frameworks for systemic change. EDICT will establish a permanent network of EDI champions, driving sustainable improvement in clinical trial inclusivity while advancing Europe's capacity to conduct equitable, representative, and scientifically robust health research.

Keywords: clinical trials methodology trials methodology equity diversity inclusion edi dei patient engagement inclusive trial design
Improvised Music and Decolonisation (IMPRODECO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In the course of the 20th century, musical improvisation became strongly associated with emancipatory politics, as expressive freedom in music symbolised forms of societal, cultural, and political freedom more generally. In the 1960s, European improvisers distinguished their 'free improvisation' from jazz and other improvisatory music by calling it 'non-idiomatic', i.e. not drawing on previously existing musical styles. Although the genre of free improvisation has formed a unique space of transnational and intercultural collaboration, such a utopian understanding risks an erasure of actual forms of inequality and exclusion. After all, to draw on one's own musical tradition inevitably means to play in a specific idiom. To what extent has this definition of freedom as non-idiomatic playing excluded the participation of musicians of colour? The aim of this proposal is to understand the politics imbedded in free improvisation in a European postcolonial context. We investigate the hypothesis that non-idiomatic music constructed a form of musical whiteness in the spheres of musical practice, discourse, and institutions. We develop a novel understanding of musical idiom in terms of differentiation rather than convention, and we describe how questions of freedom and idiom were negotiated in musical practice. As a case study, we investigate the musical practice of improvising musicians from former Dutch colonies active in the Netherlands after World Warr II (ca. 1945-2000) and analyse how they negotiated their position between the idiom of jazz, a supposedly 'universal' non-idiomatic form of improvisation, and their own musical traditions. Through archival research, oral history, and the analysis of musical practices, IMPRODECO will make a fundamental contribution to jazz historiography, postcolonial perspective on Dutch music history, musicological theories of improvisation, and to current debates about racial inequality in Dutch music and society.

Keywords: improvisation,decolonisation,postcolonialism
An innovative toolbox based on Pd-catalysis for protease inhibitor synthesis, applied to the discovery of pan-anti-flaviviral compounds (ChemProFlav)

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: Belgium
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175920.0
EU funding (EUR): 175920.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Protease inhibitors can potently block the viral replication cycle. In the context of flaviviruses, NS2B-NS3 protease is a promising viral drug target because of its well conserved backbone among flaviviral species, opening the perspective of developing pan-anti-flaviviral NS2B-NS3 inhibitors. All reported NS2B-NS3 inhibitors, however, suffer from low potency and/or poor biopharmaceutical properties. Structural optimization has proven to be slow and challenging, in part because synthetic methodology for fast, chemically versatile and diversity-oriented modification is lacking. To address these challenges, we propose a methodology to assemble protease inhibitors with varying warheads and side chains in just 2 steps from common starting materials, and apply it to the discovery of pan-anti-flaviviral compounds. First, selected amide/carbamate and aldehyde building blocks will be condensed in a reported three-component reaction with phenylsulfinic acid and benzotriazole, delivering individual ‘masked’ N-acylimines. These will be further submitted to innovative cross-coupling steps, in which warheads will be introduced. Once the methodology is optimized and the scope is determined, at least 10 additional analogues of a known NS2B-NS3 inhibitor will be prepared with variations in the warhead, P1 side chain and P2-P3 moieties will be synthesized. They will be subjected to enzymatic affinity determination, binding kinetics analysis and cellular assays. Experimental data will be used to validate a Molecular Dynamics study of NS2B-NS3 inhibitors. The project is envisaged to deliver significant societal, scientific R&I, and economic impacts by managing flavivirus infections and creating business cases for industrial R&I in Europe.

Keywords: flaviviruses protease inhibitors ns2b ns3 protease inhibitors pan anti flavivirals masked n acylimines palladium catalysis
Towards a Universal Model for Eutectic Electrolytes in Zinc Batteries by Operando Diagnosis (EuUniv)

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: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-13
End date: 2027-10-12
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276187.92
EU funding (EUR): 276187.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The demands of the Paris Agreement mean that we must shift toward a cleaner energy and transportation infrastructure. This requires new energy storage technologies. The rechargeable aqueous zinc battery (AZIB) offers a cheap, sustainable, safe, and high storage capacity solution suitable for complementing the intermittency of renewables, alongside commercial applications spanning transport to flexible ‘smart’ apparel. As a relatively nascent technology, AZIBs unfortunately suffer from fundamental materials chemistry issues, undergoing rapid performance decay over repeated charge/discharge cycles. I am an experienced researcher in eutectic electrolytes, a type of electrolyte with strong interactions between its constituent components, and I believe they can pose a solution to many of the failures that occur in AZIBs. However, understanding the complexity going on inside an operating battery is notoriously difficult, yet doing so is necessary to unlock the fundamental knowledge required for me to design the ideal electrolyte to combat AZIB capacity fade. Working with Dr Robertson at Warwick University, I will learn how to perform advanced insitu characterisation of AZIBs, across X-ray spectroscopy and transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and use them to diagnose these complex processes. This will allow me to design an optimal eutectic electrolyte for AZIBs, which I will then investigate for scale-up feasibility at Warwick’s battery pilot line. My research objectives: - Reveal the role of different eutectic electrolyte compositions on the AZB metal anode. - Diagnose why AZIB cathodes are more robust when cycled with certain eutectic electrolytes - Design a suitable eutectic electrolyte for a full-cell AZIB, taking into account industrial scale-up considerations. Supported by gaining technical training in operando electrochemical TEM and X-ray diffraction, in-situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy, and an introduction to pilot-line scale-up of new battery technology.

Keywords: zinc batteries,aqueous zinc batteries,in situ characterization
Steering the visual content of long-term memory in monkeys (SteerMEM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Neuroscience and Disorders of the Nervous System
Panel description: Nervous system development, homeostasis and ageing , nervous system  function and dysfunction , systems neuroscience  and modelling , biological basis of cognitive processes and of behaviour, neurological and mental disorders – In humans and all other organisms
Countries involved: Italy
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): 1450000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1450000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The overlap between the neural substrates and processes underlying perception and memory makes it difficult to dissociate them, and the complexity of high-level visual processing further complicates this task. By leveraging large-scale electrophysiology, intracortical microstimulation, and artificial intelligence, I will disentangle the complex relationship between visual perception and memory in monkeys, and develop innovative techniques for steering the visual content of memories and dissociate sensations from perception. First, I will record and manipulate the neural activity of the inferotemporal cortex (IT) and perirhinal cortex (PrC) in macaque monkeys to provide a comprehensive and systematic investigation of the neural mechanisms underlying visual perception and memory. Then, I will provide causal evidence on the role of conscious perception in shaping the visual content of memories, and the importance of the IT-PrC circuitry in this process. Furthermore, I will determine the threshold between visual perception and memory, testing the hypothesis that a subsets of neurons in PrC can elicit a sense of familiarity independently of any visual input. Finally, I will demonstrate how memory gates visual information to control behavior in a closed loop experiment, employing state-of-the-art wirelles recording and microstimulation in freely behaving monkeys. SteerMEM has the potential to revolutionize our understanding of visual perception and memory, paving the way to significant advancements for both neuroscience and clinics. SteerMEM will test a groundbreaking approach to manipulate long-term visual memory in a controlled and quantifiable fashion, and test the long-term applicability of this approach in ecological conditions. Finally, SteerMEM will lay the ground for AI-powered microstimulaiton in cognitive cortical prostheses for the potential treatment of memory impairments, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Keywords: non human primates monkeys object recognition vision perception inferotemporal cortex intracortical microstimulation electrophysiology object memory artificial intelligence
Bioplastics and plastic additives as emerging environmental pollutants on a marine key species, Gilthead Sea Bream (BioBream)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 206641.2
EU funding (EUR): 206641.2
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Biodegradable plastic (BP) has been proposed to replace traditional plastic, consequently, their production has exponentially increased. Nowadays, aquatic fauna is exposed to chronic low doses of complex mixtures of chemicals, among them, plastic additives released from plastic items. However, a fundamental gap of knowledge exists about the effects of BPs and associated additive plastic mixtures in early development. This represents an important environmental and health problem because, until it is filled, toxicological threats remain ambiguous. The goal of BioBream is to assess the implications of switching from legacy plastic to alternative BPs on key marine species. For that, we will use the early stages of a commonly farmed species in the Mediterranean, gilthead sea bream. A comprehensive program consisting of 3 independent, yet complementary work packages will assess the impacts of BPs and their additives on fish physiology, transcriptomic and epigenetic responses. These data will provide key insights into the mode of action of these new compounds and a mixture of plastic additives. Then, we aim to elucidate and further validate new biomarkers for aquatic pollution on marine fauna. Together with the vast experience of the host PI, Dr. Sole, and her previous data, we expect to integrate all the results to build a qualitative adverse outcome pathway. The multidisciplinary team at ICM-CSIC and the advisory board will ensure the successful achievement of the proposed goals with close supervision of the progress of the project. The project will be complemented with a placement at Placton for advanced training in outreach, a local company devoted to communication and environmental education related to the marine environment. BioBream is significant because it is expected to fill the gap of BP and mixture impacts on a marine key component of the trophic chain with interest in aquaculture. This will consolidate the applicant as a promising early-career researcher.

Keywords: bioplastics,mixture,plastic additives,sparus aurata,embryo,oxidative stress,detoxification,epigenetics
CO-FUNDED Brain Circulation 3 (CoCirculation3)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Türkiye
Call: MSCA COFUND 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-COFUND-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2030-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9552000.0
EU funding (EUR): 9552000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

CoCirculation3 is a flagship programme for the recruitment of researchers to academic and non-academic hosting institutions inTurkish Research Area, which is an integral part of European Research Area. Within the framework of CoCirculation3 a total of 100 postdoctoral researchers will be recruited through 3 calls for maximum of 24 months in 5 years. CoCirculation3 is individually driven mobility program and TÜBİTAK assures that the applicants will be able to freely choose a research topic (which will have a Green Deal aspect) host and supervisor fitting their individual needs. The researchers are expected to conduct research on the Scientific Priorities adopted and announced by TÜBİTAK that are compatible with European Green Deal. In order to increase the participation of host institutions from the non-academic sector TÜBİTAK intends to add S&E Panel, next to Standard Panel. The unique value propositions of CoCirc3 are rooted to its focus to enhancing the participation of non-academic sector; the brand new allowance defined as Entrepreneurship Allowance to enhance the entrepreneurial initiatives of the PostDoc Fellows and creating an eco-system for Industry-Academia Partnerships; the outstanding approach in enhancing the career development of the postdoc fellows through Mentor-Mentee Mechanism; creating a community of Alumni in TRA. The implementing partners are mobilized who will recruit the researchers as hosting institutions. Those implementing partners will also have the flexibility to host secondments and Non-academic Placements.Turkish and European Research Area as a whole will benefit from the contribution of the CoCirculation3 fellows to the research landscape. TÜBİTAK will contribute 39% of the total budget while European Commission is requested to co-fund 61%. CoCirculation3, with a specific focus to Green Deal will enhance the excellence of research in TRA through the mobility and integration of talented researchers.

Keywords: transnational mobility,career development,societyandenterprise panel,incoming post doc researchers training,green deal,intersectoral secondment,brain circulation,non academic placement
invisible Waterline Ouboard Power-drive (iWOP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Austria
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1600000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1600000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Nautical leisure and commercial combustion engines emit large amounts of CO2 (4 Mton/year by pleasure vessels in the EU) and other pollutants like NOx, SOx, CO and suspended particles. Other notable concerns are noise pollution and unburned fuel & oil release (30%). Regulations are promoting the use of sustainable propulsions. Now, electric systems inherit the combustion engine design lacking a purpose-built platform for electromobility. This generates issues like retrofitting difficulty, inefficiencies, still reliance on oil, and supply change complexity. Volta future complete and compact iWOP, eliminates the upper section of conventional outboards positioning the entire motor at the waterline-level. iWOP brings unique features like universality, increased autonomy (2x), higher efficiency (15%), double reliability, production scalability and a maintenance and oil free system. Now, we are at TRL6 and aim to reach a revenue of €50M+ by 2030 leading to 200 ktons/year of CO2 savings.

Keywords: maritime electromobility,outboard vessels electrification,e power,leisure and commercial watercrafts,aquatic electric propulsion,e aquatic fast transition