Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Boosting R&I Talent Interoperability and Employability in Europe (BRITE-EU)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Destination: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Portugal,Romania,Czechia,Serbia,Spain,Sweden
Call: ERA Talents (HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-TALENTS-03, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2912896.25
EU funding (EUR): 2912896.25
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

The BRITE-EU project aims to strengthen research and innovation (R&I) capacity in Widening countries by enhancing employability, promoting cross-sectoral collaboration, and fostering institutional reforms. Starting with the digital health sector, the project leverages the expertise of consortium members from both Widening countries and advanced innovation ecosystems, such as Spain and Sweden. This sector was chosen for its potential to address pressing healthcare challenges and facilitate cross-disciplinary research and innovation. BRITE-EU’s objectives include improving the skills and competences of R&I professionals through knowledge exchange between academia and industry. The project follows a three-phase approach: (1) Needs assessment to identify gaps and opportunities, (2) Capacity-building initiatives, such as training programs and mobility schemes, and (3) Follow-up measures, focusing on institutional reforms and return plans for seconded staff. By adopting a quadruple-helix model, BRITE-EU engages researchers, businesses, and policymakers to create collaborative ecosystems that drive innovation. The project promotes skill development, broadens career prospects, and encourages creativity among researchers. It also facilitates institutional capacity building by transferring best practices in research management, enhancing the European R&I landscape. The expected impacts of BRITE-EU include reversing brain drain, improving gender balance and equal opportunities, and increasing the attractiveness of Widening countries as destinations for excellent R&I talent. Through these efforts, the project will play a pivotal role in creating a sustainable and competitive R&I environment in Europe, ensuring that Widening countries are better integrated into the European Research Area (ERA).

Keywords: employability,collaborative randi ecosystems,career interoperability
Intergenerational Coresidence in Global Perspective: Dimensions of Change (CORESIDENCE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Human Mobility, Environment, and Space
Panel description: Human geography, demography, health, susta inability science, territorial planning, spatial analysis
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2027-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1964375.0
EU funding (EUR): 1964375.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Radical transformations in the family are occurring across the globe. Decades of demographic, economic and cultural change have brought about great changes in family life and households. The CORESIDENCE project investigates a crucial, although unanticipated, facet of these transformations: the global rise of intergenerational coresidence (IgC) among adult children and their parents. This shift is occurring in a variety of demographic, economic and cultural contexts and appears to run counter to expectations that intergenerational coresidence would gradually decline with modernization and cultural change. The primary objective of the CORESIDENCE project is to determine the dimensions of variations in and the rise of intergenerational coresidence around the world and investigate how these trends are related to demographic, social, economic, and cultural/attitudinal factors. To achieve this goal, I will (i) use recent big microdata, which describe family change for more than half a billion people representing more than 120 countries worldwide; (ii) harmonize existing longitudinal data to examine pathways to intergenerational coresidence in six countries representing different norms and forms of intergenerational coresidence (India, Japan, Mexico, Senegal, Spain and the Netherlands). This study will be the largest comparative study of the family and of family change ever undertaken. CORESIDENCE will test social theory by analyzing, for the first time, variation in family forms on several geographic scales and time spans to understand the background factors that drive these changes and theorize about the role of the family in the twenty-first century.

Keywords: intergenerational coresidence,family,demography,material constraints,socio cultural change,cross national studies
Targeting the dark side of the human genome—non-coding regulatory elements—to treat diseases (TargetNCREs)

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: Netherlands
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2023-POC, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2025-10-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The 98% of the human genome, sometimes referred to as the dark side of the human genome, contains many non-coding regulatory elements (NCREs), which control the combinational expression of the limited number of genes (only 2% of the genome) to form diverse cell types and tissues of a complex human body, all from the identical copy of the genome. Most genetic variants and mutations also lie in NCREs. However, the number of NCREs as potential therapeutic targets remains very limited. In TargetNCREs, two novel and unique high-throughput screening systems further developed within the ECR starting grant (Silencer) will be exploited for their innovation and commercial potential to harness the therapeutic values of NCREs. We aim to test and validate previously identified top hits in vivo, carry out pilot research to show the technologies to be effective and appropriate for commercial applications, clarify the IPR protection strategy, engage partners and stakeholders to focus on potential pipelines, and perform a market search for future business development.
Southern Indian Ocean climate evolution and its global linkages (SO-Link)

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: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 211754.88
EU funding (EUR): 211754.88
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

IPCC RCP projections indicate that Earth’s temperature will increase by 1-5°C by 2100, mainly in response to increasing anthropogenic CO2 and GHG emissions. Warming will particularly affect polar oceans (e.g. Southern Ocean (SO)) that uptake most of the anthropic CO2. Such unprecedented changes in the SO will in return strongly impact ocean-atmosphere gas exchange (lower CO2 uptake), SO-sourced ocean circulation (lower nutrient stocks) and marine biological production/diversity (lower phytoplankton stocks) through high-low latitude teleconnections, with strong repercussions on the global economy. However, RCP scenarios are mainly constrained by observational data that are too short in time to cover the full range of climate variability and, thus, to confidently forecast climate change. In this vein, the SO-Link project aims to investigate past oceanic conditions (sea-surface and deep ocean temperatures, ocean circulation, nutrient stocks) and biological variations (phytoplankton productivity and physiological state) in warmer-than-present mean climate states of the Plio-Pleistocene, as analogs of future conditions. To this goal, readily available and well-preserved sediment cores collected in 2019 in the Indian sector of the SO will be used. Innovative quantitative, geochemical and elemental investigations will be implemented on the two SO dominant phytoplankton groups (calcareous coccoliths and siliceous diatoms), based on the expertise of the applicant and host, respectively (at UBx). This knowledge is considered high priority by SCAR, IPCC, Horizon Europe, and UN Framework Conversion of Climate change, and it is in line with UN Decade of Ocean Science of the sustainable development program. The SO-Link project is of clear scientific, societal and policy relevance and will provide stakeholders (Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) for example) with unique information for comprehensive protection of SO biodiversity.

Keywords: pliocene,pleistocene,diatoms,coccolithophores,co2,warming,calcification,silicification,rcp scenario,ipcc,climate change,phytoplankton
Integrated Refined Multiscale Approach for innovative lightweight structures (IRMA)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The project aims to develop a new integrated approach for designing and optimising innovative lightweight structures. In recent years, material engineering has introduced a new class of material with mechanical properties not found in nature: metamaterials. Their exceptional properties are valuable in designing even more performant and sustainable lightweight structures. The complex design achieved by metamaterials is obtained by Additive Manufacturing (AM) techniques. The effective mechanical properties are computed using multiscale homogenization approaches. Topology optimization at a multiscale level brings a great variety of functionalized metamaterial. However, the multiscale approach has been fully developed only for solid models at a heavy computational cost. The AM process has its own manufacturability constraints that limit the optimization process. The defects and material limits need to be addressed to guarantee the component functionality and safety. The IRMA project aims to provide a new approach for a fully integrated design of innovative lightweight structures. The specific objectives are: 1. To formulate a refined approach for the multiscale structural behaviour of innovative lightweight structures; 2. To implement an integrated numerical solution to address micro-structural defects and limits of the metamaterials in lightweight structures; 3. To develop a new numerical optimization method that considers macro- and micro- model constraints to improve the design of lightweight structures using metamaterials. The project is thoroughly designed to maximize training and transfer of knowledge to the host group. Project management, risks, communication and dissemination activities, including industrial partners, are carefully designed. My supervisor's experience, the full integration in his group (CAMMS), and the CIMNE-CERCA resources are the perfect ingredients for developing the IRMA project.

Keywords: lightweight structures refined zigzag models metamaterials multiscale analysis failure assessment optimization
Sociolinguistic Patterns and multi-Lingual INTERactions on the PAHOTURI river (SPLINTER-PAHOTURI)

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: Germany,Australia
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 313394.64
EU funding (EUR): 313394.64
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

It is widely assumed that languages in contact will tend to converge, either lexically, structurally or both. Multilingual speech practices drive the convergence: multilinguals economize cognitive resources by importing lexical items and grammatical structures from one language to another, gradually causing the languages they speak to become more alike. However, recent research suggests that the relationship between convergence and language contact is contingent on social context. Social environments that encourage the use of dialect or language to signal group identity and language ideologies that promote the selection of specific lexical items and linguistic structures as markers for social differentiation can drive divergence between languages in contact. Divergence under contact remains controversial as it implies that the deliberate cultivation of linguistic differences by multilingual speakers can cause dialects or languages to diverge, contradicting a common assumption that language change proceeds unconsciously. In general, actual multilingual competencies and speech practices remain underdescribed in such societies. What is required is a more detailed documentation and analysis of multilingual interactions so that the processes that underlie contact-induced divergence can be observed in practice. This project seeks to fill this gap in our understanding by documenting and analyzing in detail language use in three multilingual villages of the Pahoturi ethnolinguistic group of Papua New Guinea, where contact-induced divergence has been used to explain linguistic diversity. It seeks to document and investigate the relationship between sociocultural variables, language acquisition trajectories, language ideology and multilingual speech practices. The general prediction is that multilingual speakers are more likely to be innovative in their speech practices in particular languages as they consciously attempt to differentiate themselves from their neighbors.

Keywords: language documentation sociolinguistics multilingualism language typology language ideology
Next Generation Self-Sensing Asphalt Concretes for Road Digitalization (NextSAC)

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: United Kingdom,Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276187.92
EU funding (EUR): 276187.92
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Deterioration leads to a substantial increase in the necessity for additional materials and heightened investments in order to effectively maintain and upgrade asphalt roads. The NextSAC project aims to train Dr. Yuanyuan Li as a leading researcher, who will be supervised by a finely integrated supervisory team. NextSAC initiative's primary outcomes include: 1) electrical model for prognosticating the electrical parameters of SACs; 2) Mechanical model for the damage behavior prediction of SACs; 3) Electro-mechanical model for road damage self-sensing; and 4) Industrial application of transformative self-sensing materials and technologies. The theoretical training of Dr. Li will cover interdisciplinary fields of the numerical modeling, infrastructure material, data analysis, electrical modelling, asphalt material and pavement engineering. The compulsory skills training in project management, intellectual property, commercialization, organization, teaching, supervision, networking, communication and financial management, will strongly support the career development of the fellow. An imperative requirement of timely self-sensing of the damage condition is urgently needed for promptly recommending appropriate maintenance strategies and immediate solutions to prolong the asphalt pavements service life. Such proactive measures will undoubtedly reduce waste asphalt materials, consumption of non-renewable resources, and maintenance investments. Subsequent to the fellowship, the individual will attain a substantial proficiency in scientific mechanisms and their practical application in the field of self-sensing materials and technologies. The deliverables outcomes will construct a strong foundation for roads maintenance digitalization, generating a series of positive contributions to the EU across scientific, social, environmental and economic areas.

Keywords: asphalt roads self sensing asphalt concretes electro mechanical modeling damage prediction road digitalization damage self sensing
Financial Institutions and Regulation for Development (FINDEV)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance , management
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2029-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1496312.5
EU funding (EUR): 1496312.5
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This proposal consists of three empirical projects to advance our understanding on the specific conditions and frictions faced by financial institutions operating in low and middle-income countries. Understanding these aspects is crucial to elaborate policies of financial regulation and government intervention that promote structural transformation and development. 1. Ethnic Banking and Central Bank Independence. This project plans to study the political economy frictions behind financial regulation in Africa. Combining bank balance sheets and information on bank chief executive officers (CEOs), we will measure the ethnic connotation of banks and the co-ethnicity between CEOs and regulators. We will investigate the existence of ethnic favoritism in banking, the political use of financial regulation and the role of central bank independence in alleviating this friction. 2. Branch Organization, Multiculturalism and Conflict. Organizations decide their internal hierarchy considering the tradeoff between the use of knowledge and the internal frictions in communication and coordination. These frictions may be particularly high in the presence of a multicultural workforce and if conflict exacerbates within-organization differences. Building new data on hierarchy and management practices among Ethiopian bank branches and an experimental survey of lending discrimination, we plan to study the effect of conflict on the internal organization of banks, their hierarchy and effects on lending markets. 3. Market Incompleteness and Non-Performing Loans (NPLs). Structural transformation implies a move from low to high-productivity sectors. However, incomplete markets prevent banks from selling loans from low-productivity sectors and instead oblige banks to hold NPLs, depressing the financing of structural transformation. This project plans to study the introduction of the first Asset Management Companies focusing on NPL in China, with heterogeneous presence across firms and cities.

Keywords: development economics,financial economics,political economy
360° View Control by Eye Movement for Extended Reality (EyeView360)

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: United Kingdom
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2025-POC, 2025)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Virtual/extended reality (VR/XR) head-mounted displays (HMDs) provide users with a portal to virtually infinite display space that extends all around them. This has the potential to revolutionise work, learning and leisure activities as users can enter personalised spaces from anywhere via their HMD to access 3D data, views and apps all around in 360°. However, full use of the surrounding space is only possible with extensive head and body movement as HMDs are head-coupled – prohibiting access in crowded or constrained spaces, causing neck strain during seated use, and excluding users with limited neck mobility. The EyeView360 project will develop a proof-of-concept for a radically new idea for view VR/XR view control by eye movement – providing users with a new super-power of looking all round in virtual space from seated positions without neck strain. Use of eye movement for view control is highly innovative and challenging as it overlays the use of our eyes for seeing with a control function that manipulates our view. Basic principles for how this may be possible have been observed in the ERC Advanced Grant GEMINI, and the goal of EyeView360 is to demonstrate usability, efficiency and ergonomic benefits of view control by eye movement. The project will develop the innovation potential through an open access toolkit designed to be customisable for uptake across VR/XR platforms, HMD devices and applications. In addition, it will develop a complete proof-of-concept for 360° video viewing as specific application use case. This will be used for extensive testing with users to validation of usability, efficiency and quality of experience.