Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Evolution of Advanced Luminescent Technology Software (EVOLUTE)

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: Ireland
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS2 (ERC-2022-POC2, 2022)
Start date: 2023-08-01
End date: 2025-01-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

By 2050, the European Union aims to become climate-neutral, developing into an economy with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. This objective is considered both an urgent challenge (at the heart of the European Green Deal) and an opportunity to improve society . To achieve this ambitious objective, we need to develop and implement new technologies that target the largest energy consumer in the EU: buildings. Collectively, buildings in the EU (homes, workplaces, hospitals, schools) account for 40% of the total energy consumption and generate 36% of GHG at the different stages of their lifetime (construction, usage, renovation, demolition ). Within the ERC Proof of Concept EVOLUTE, we will develop a software platform that enables the optimisation of various geometrical shapes and sizes of luminescent solar (LS) devices, which is expected to have several advantages. a) It has the potential to improve the efficiency and functionality of building-integrated photovoltaics, b) visually appealing photovoltaic panels at lower costs than today’s state of the art, c) better and efficient utilisation of solar energy, d) simplified and minimise the cost of LS devices fabrication. e) develop a comprehensive and efficient light management technology, f) more comprehensive and broadened applications of LS technology. EVOLUTE aims to synchronise technical development and feasibility with commercial viability and to ensure that the unique selling points of our software are fully aligned with the market requirements. The project plan is designed optimally to achieve Technology Readiness Level 5 (from 2/3 currently) and enable us to continue its development within for example an EIC Transition.
Community-driven Digitisation for Heritage at Risk. (Cordhisk)

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: Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187624.32
EU funding (EUR): 187624.32
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The preservation of Cultural Heritage (CH) at risk should represent more than the protection of the tangible matter of the objects. To document and safeguard the experiences that the assets raise in their communities is fundamental for achieving truly comprehensive representations of CH. Otherwise, preservation activities limited to the physical matter of the objects may lead to “musealised” environments that are no longer the core of identity and social encounters, most frecuently after the interruption of social dynamics due to war, displacements or other perturbations. Despite the fact that present-day technologies permit achieving very accurate models of the objects (e.g., 3D models), the phenomenological experience associated with CH (its “genius loci”) is not often considered part of digitisation processes. Cordhist addresses this gap by questioning the role of the community towards the pre- and post-disaster digitisations of CH. Implemented at TU Delft and supervised by Dr Giorgia Giardina, Cordisk will allow me to acquire and implement new skills and training to develop a novel experimental framework (based on Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality) that can demonstrate that comprehensive phenomenological models of CH can be assembled from and for communities. The models will also represent a living document for tracking the changes in CH over time. These digital replicas are meant to become a critical resource for reacting towards CH involuntarily damaged or lost (e.g., during emergency surveying and rescue). Furthermore, the models can become a vehicle for safeguarding what a community desires to preserve for the future, even after the physical destruction of CH. Altogether, this experimental approach based on novel technologies will represent a mechanism for transferring knowledge from and to the communities for achieving more democratic, resilient and sustainable actions towards the preservation of CH by taking a proactive part in this digital transition.

Keywords: cultural heritage digitisation,heritage under threat,genius loci,crowdsourcing mechanisms in cultural heritage,risk assessment,preservation of cultural heritage at risk
Pathways2Resilience: Co-developing pathways towards Climate resilient regions in Europe (P2R)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Adaptation to climate change
Destination: Adaptation to climate change
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany,Austria,Belgium,France,Spain,Lithuania,Greece,Switzerland,United Kingdom
Call: Support to the regions in developing pathways towards climate resilience and corresponding innovation agendas (HORIZON-MISS-2021-CLIMA-02, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 29609362.5
EU funding (EUR): 29609362.5
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

There is a need for a radical step-up in the attention we pay to current and future climate impacts and associated efforts. Despite inspiring examples of adaptation solutions, stand-alone risk reduction projects that tackle issues through direct or existing policy levers are common practice. Adopting a systemic, transformative approach is advocated by the Mission Adaptation and European Green Deal. P2R takes an innovative systemic approach to regional climate resilience; one indivisible from Europe’s future economic and social development, intersecting with net zero commitments, and demanding a markedly different approach from the one adopted so far. P2R will empower at least 100 regions and communities to co-design visions of a climate resilient future and corresponding transformative, locally led pathways and innovation agendas that ensure long-term impact through political commitment. We do this by: (a) mobilising regional interest and progressively elevating the ambition and capability of regions; (b) developing a Regional Resilience Journey framework (and supporting services) to equip regions and communities in developing climate resilience pathways and connected innovation agendas; (c) allocating €21M across 100 regions and communities via two open call cycles to support their Journeys (d) triggering a wide engagement of citizens and diverse stakeholders in the co-creation of the pathways; (e) increasing knowledge on adaptation innovations across Key Community Systems (KCS) and enabling conditions; (f) boosting literacy and access to (innovative) adaptation finance; and (g) developing a Resilience Maturity Curve to baseline and monitor regional resilience capacities. Led by Climate KIC, the P2R consortium brings the combined strength of: regional network organisations, technical designers and innovators of transformative adaptation, adaptation finance experts, learning and capability building specialists, and monitoring and innovation impact partner.

Keywords: climate,adaptation,innovation,pathways,regional resilience
Ordered Nanoporous Carbon Architectures from Biobased Building Blocks (BioNanoCarb)

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,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191760.0
EU funding (EUR): 191760.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Ordered nanoporous carbons are gaining appreciable interest in several green technology applications (efficient charge storage, metal-free carbocatalysis). Nevertheless, at present they can only be fabricated using fossil fuel-based building blocks, through energy-intensive processes with large ecological footprint, and with potential environmental pollution. The overall aim of this project is to provide more sustainable alternatives to these fossil fuel-derived materials by fabricating ordered nanoporous carbons from biobased constituents. Our project will focus on studying biobased polymer-biobased surfactant supramolecular assemblies (objective 1) to develop a soft-templating system using only biobased building blocks (objective 2), for obtaining various ordered nanoporous carbons (objective 3) and apply them in charge storage systems (supercapacitors, objective 4), and for metal-free carbocatalysis (advanced oxidation process, objective 5). Our goal is to have control on the nanoarchitecture and understand structure-performance relationships in applications in order to obtain cutting-edge, high-performance materials for advanced devices. Our novel bottom-up approach will give the first biobased soft-templating method to make ordered nanoporous carbons, and is expected to open up new research directions for sustainable material solutions. This project will provide materials and processes with reduced ecological footprint over existing products and technologies, contributing to a sustainable economic growth and to the realisation of a resilient society.

Keywords: green chemistry,materials science,biomass,nanoporous carbon,supercapacitor,carbocatalysis,water treatment
REAL-TIME OPTIMISATION SOLUTIONS FOR EMBEDDED NONLINEAR MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL APPLICATIONS USING THE LPV FRAMEWORK (REALOPT4CONTROL)

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: France,Brazil,Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-07-07
End date: 2027-07-06
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 278983.68
EU funding (EUR): 278983.68
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Most modern technological applications of social relevance, such as renewable smart-grids and autonomous cars, consist of systems with complex dynamics operating under fast sampling. These processes exhibit behaviours that can only be accurately represented by means of nonlinear models (thus, complex) with sampling periods of micro to milliseconds, which means that decision-making should be done under such time. These systems only operate satisfactorily when adequate control methodologies are used, taking into account performance goals, operational constraints and physical metrics. Thus, this project focuses on the development of real-time optimisation for control, using the Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework. MPC is a very established approach, centred on generating decision actions by solving an optimisation problem. Over the last decades, considerable scientific effort has been devoted to the study of MPC, expounding its vast pertinence. Yet, applying MPC with nonlinear models issues increased digital complexity, typically incompatible with real-time environments. The standard practice consists in applying approximated solvers, which are not reproducible nor optimal. Recent works have shown an alternative to render real-time capable algorithms: designing nonlinear MPC using the Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) toolkit. Even though the theoretical side of LPV MPC is presumably established, and several results indicate competitiveness against state-of-the-art solvers, the translation to a practically-viable tool is not yet rendered universal. That is, a ready-for-application MPC solver, using LPV representations, is not yet available. Accordingly, the main goal of this project is to develop a comprehensive real-time optimisation solver, based on LPV MPC. Such a tool would ensure optimality, representation exactness, and generate control laws within the microsecond range, contributing as a technological advance oriented to modern application of social concern.

Keywords: optimisation,model predictive control,embedded systems,nonlinear systems,real time environments,renewable energy systems,modern mobility systems
Resilience of coworking spaces (RECOS)

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: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 203464.32
EU funding (EUR): 203464.32
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

RECOS proposes a comprehensive and innovative way of understanding key factors contributing to urban resilience of coworking spaces (CWS) under the impact of external shocks. However, dynamic perspective and supply-related aspects of CWS aspects are not fully understood. Therefore, RECOS aims at addressing knowledge gaps regarding the lack of longitudinal, spatial perspective on the resilience of CWSs on the intra-urban level and the dynamics of the coworking location and shifting location factors as well as knowledge gap regarding the underrepresentation of the demand perspective, namely hybrid-workers, with regard to urban location strategies. RESOS foresees to address these objectives and gaps by a) creating CWS resilience assessment framework; b) mapping location patterns and location factors of CWS; c) designing a prototype online platform that exploits spatial syntax for optimising individual work location strategies. Training programme implemented at TUDelft and supervised by prof. dr. Hilde Remøy, associate professor with 15 years of experience in research on adaptive reuse of real estate, will allow me to diversify my individual competences. RECOS will enhance my career and leadership capabilities in project management through interdisciplinary research, improve implementation of experimental design techniques, and improve academic writing for publication purposes. A two-way transfer of knowledge is guaranteed since RECOS combines my expertise in policy and demand factors of CWS’s resilience with the host’s expertise in urban design and supply factors of CWS’s resilience. Impacts include empowering individuals in informed life-work choices, knowledge on remote work, commuting, improved CWS profitability and occupancy. Therefore, RECOS will contribute to Europe’s knowledge-based economy and society by providing valuable knowledge on EU Missions regarding resilience of regions and communities and climate neutral and smart cities.

Keywords: coworking spaces,location,resilience,metropolitan,comparative studies,spatial syntax,conjunct analysis
3D Cuprate Twistronics as a platform for high temperature topological superconductivity (3DCuT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed Matter Physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: Germany,Italy
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2029-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999712.5
EU funding (EUR): 1999712.5
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

2D superconductors can be used to build ultra-clean interfaces for Josephson junctions, the superconducting analog of a transistor. A small twist in the relative crystal orientation of 2D superconductors could become a new platform for topological superconductivity, an exotic state of matter that holds great promise for quantum computing at high temperatures. Based on my methodological developments for the realization of twisted cuprate ultra-clean interfaces, the field is rapidly evolving, and these interfaces are now the leading candidate for the implementation of high-temperature topological superconductivity. However, the combination of well-controlled twisted cuprate heterostructures and complex circuits calls for new experimental methodologies. 3DCuT will develop micro/nanodevices and techniques to fabricate and control cuprate van der Waals twisted heterostructures in three-dimensional nanoarchitectures: 1) We will develop novel fabrication tools to integrate complex thermal and superconducting circuits in fragile twisted cuprate bilayers. We will explore if a topological gap opens near ´magic´ angles in twisted bilayers by studying the Josephson effect. 2) We will fabricate trilayers cuprate heterostructures with different twist angle symmetries, where the topological gap is amplified and time-reversal symmetry broken states appear across a wide range of angles. 3) We will create a heterostructure between a superconducting cuprate twisted heterostructure and a topological insulating crystal, allowing us to create a chiral Majorana edge mode. At the end of this project, we will have provided a brand-new solid-state tool for emerging quantum technologies in computation, metrology, secure communication, single-photon imaging, methodologies for the entire field of 2D materials, and a comprehensive understanding of the governing principles and ingredients for topological superconductivity at high temperatures.
Formalisation of Constructive Univalent Type Theory (ForCUTT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499776.25
EU funding (EUR): 2499776.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

There has been in the past 15 years remarkable achievements in the field of interactive theorem proving, both for checking complex software and checking non trivial mathematical proofs. For software correctness, X. Leroy (INRIA and College de France) has been leading since 2006 the CompCert project, with a fully verified C compiler. For mathematical proofs, these systems could handle complex arguments, such as the proof of the 4 color theorem or the formal proof of Feit-Thompson Theorem More recently, the Xena project, lead by K. Buzzard, is developing a large library of mathematical facts, and has been able to help the mathematician P. Scholze (field medalist 2018) to check a highly non trivial proof. All these examples have been carried out in systems based on the formalism of dependent type theory, and on early work of the PI. In parallel to these works, also around 15 years ago, a remarkable and unexpected correspondance was discovered between this formalism and the abstract study of homotopy theory and higher categorical structures. A special year 2012-2013 at the Institute of Advance Study (Princeton) was organised by the late V. Voevodsky (field medalist 2002, Princeton), S. Awodey (CMU) and the PI. Preliminary results indicate that this research direction is productive, both for the understanding of dependent type systems and higher category theory, and suggest several crucial open questions. The objective of this proposal is to analyse these questions, with the ultimate goal of formulating a new way to look at mathematical objects and potentially a new foundation of mathematics. This could in turn be crucial for the design of future proof systems able to handle complex highly modular software systems and mathematical proofs.

Keywords: type theory,interactive theorem proof systems,axiom of univalence,constructive mathematics
Emotions and bodies in fact-based media production: Integrating affective and embodied knowledge into journalism and documentary filmmaking (AFfacts)

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-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2031-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Fact-based media production such as journalism and documentary filmmaking depend on truthfulness, reliability, and accuracy. Traditionally, their epistemologies set objectivity, rationality, and mind against subjectivity, emotionality, and bodily experience. Recently, media studies have seen an emotional turn: a rapid increase in scholarly attention to the role of emotions, affect, and bodily sensations in media production, content, and consumption. Yet, the epistemic value of emotions and bodies – how they limit and enable what media professionals know – is yet to be seriously considered. Furthermore, the rational/emotional dichotomy mindset has contributed to a professional culture that suppresses feelings, leaving media industries unable to adequately respond to emotion-related challenges of media labour, such as media professionals’ mental well-being or the disconnect between media and their audiences. This project’s vision is to empirically (O1), theoretically (O2), and practically (O3) integrate emotions as embodied knowledge in fact-based media epistemologies. Based on ethnographic research among media professionals working in three production “nodes” – journalism and documentary filmmaking about politics, conflicts, and culture, located in six Central-Eastern European countries – the project first seeks to understand the epistemic value of emotions and bodily experiences in journalism and documentary filmmaking. Second, the project aims to comprehensively theorize the epistemic value of emotions and bodies in fact-based media production by developing and elaborating the concepts of affective epistemology and the epistemic affordances of emotions. Third, the project experiments with a series of nature retreats for media professionals, to test whether and how ecotherapy can enhance journalists’ and documentary filmmakers’ emotional literacy and mental well-being and help practically integrate emotions and bodily experiences into fact-based media production.

Keywords: journalism,documentary filmmaking,epistemology,emotions,bodies,media labour,mental well being,emotional literacy,ecotherapy,nature retreats,ethnography,experiment