Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Animal Farm: An Architectural History of Intensive Animal Farming (1570–1992) (AnimalFarm)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Studies of Cultures and Arts
Panel description: Social anthropology, studies of cultur es, stud ies of arts
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): 1485625.0
EU funding (EUR): 1485625.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The architecture of intensive animal farming is a pervasive phenomenon of the global built environment, yet little is known about the buildings in which farming occurs. If architectural history is often a history for and by humans, what happens when we apply the tools of this discipline to investigate the zootechnical buildings designed to host livestock? AnimalFarm explores the architectural history of animal farming between Europe and North America, since the modern era and until the present day. Recent architectural historiography has developed an interest in the relationship between humans and other forms of life. Yet, the buildings of animal farming are usually perceived as atemporal, anonymous, and ethically uncomfortable. From sixteenth-century Palladian villas to today’s concentrated feeding operations, Western architecture has evolved along the entanglements between humans and domesticated animals – mostly cattle, pigs, poultry, and horses. Over the centuries, the practice of animal farming has been a pivotal field for spatial, material, and technological experimentations. AnimalFarm employs the methods of architectural history to investigate the print sources, such as treatises, handbooks, and journals, that allowed animal farming to become a transnational and scalable model. The research is conducted on three geographical and chronological strands, that embrace the beginning of agrarian capitalism (1500s-1600s), the dawn of zootechnics (1700s-1800s), and the great industrial acceleration (1800s-1900s). AnimalFarm pioneers a novel research methodology that contaminates the perspective of architectural history with three interdisciplinary layers: critical animal studies, history of veterinary medicine, and history of labor. AnimalFarm ultimately explores the historical roots of a controversial phenomenon of the Anthropocene, and it fosters an alternative gaze on the spatial, material, and ethical implications of the human-animal relationship through time.

Keywords: livestock,rural and industrial architecture,critical animal studies,history of veterinary medicine and zootechnics,history of labor,animal history
ZENPUF-B: Zero-knowledge Enhanced PUF with Blockchain (ZENPUF-B)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1680000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1680000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

By 2035, one trillion connected devices are projected to generate approximately $11 trillion in value. This emphasizes the importance of secure System on Chip (SoC) and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, which are crucial for ensuring the integrity and security of these connected devices. These solutions protect vital systems such as our energy grids, transportation networks, and healthcare devices from cyber threats, thereby playing a crucial role in public safety. Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are gaining attention as a potential way to bolster security and trust in device networks. Nevertheless, they present certain challenges. These include issues with data storage and management, risks of data exposure, vulnerability to server compromises, the need for considerable computational resources, and the threat of response replay attacks, adding complexity and increasing power consumption during transactions. ZENPUF-B, an innovative break-through solution integrating blockchain and Zero-Knowledge Proofs, is proposed to radically improve IoT security and efficiency over traditional PUF-based methods. ZENPUF-B reduces energy consumption by 20-30% and computational resources for authentication tasks by 30-40%. It eliminates the need for complex ECC systems and centralized data storage, thus enhancing efficiency and scalability. Furthermore, it safeguards sensitive information, reducing data breach risks by 90 - 95%. Leveraging blockchain, it can accommodate an increasing number of devices and transactions without affecting performance or security, marking a potential breakthrough in security. TRASNA, the developer of ZENPUF-B, is uniquely positioned to bring this solution to the market and scale it rapidly due to its strategic presence in lucrative IoT markets like Europe, the USA, and Asia. Their leadership in technology, particularly in semiconductors and their associated software and service solutions for mass IoT deployment, paves the way for future growth.

Keywords: internet of things,semiconductor,chip,security,sim,
Development of Ka-band Electronically Scanned Antenna system for satellite communications on the move for Medium Earth Orbit and Low Earth Orbit constellations (RESA L for SATCOM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

ReQuTech, the only European satellite company developing the first ka-band phased array antenna, has been designing advanced satellite antenna systems since 2011. Amidst the rapidly growing demand for seamless connectivity, secure satellite communications have emerged as an essential public utility. European nations now face the challenge of preserving their sovereign communication capabilities as they contend with global competitors like the U.S., India, and China. To address key issues in satellite communications, ReQuTech has pioneered three innovative patented technologies. These include seamless handover capabilities, improved cross-polarization discrimination for antenna arrays, and an integrated multi-band antenna feed design with mesh networking functionality. Leveraging these breakthroughs, the company has developed the RESA family of fully integrated satellite terminals, designed for seamless communications across low, medium, and geostationary Earth orbits. The flagship RESA L Ka-band terminal in particular offers unparalleled versatility. Its advanced phased array antenna system enables robust connectivity in diverse environments, from off-road terrain to rough seas and airborne platforms. Compact and easy to install, the RESA L can be readily mounted on a variety of mobile platforms, including trains, naval vessels, and aircraft. Looking ahead, ReQuTech's project aims to further refine this commercially viable, high-performance multibeam antenna system for satellite communications on the move, as well as MEO and GEO applications. The project’s main objectives are to create an enhanced RESA L terminal, incorporating additional receive antenna tiles to boost reception for GEO and MEO use cases, to finalize the antenna design and to validate the terminal's capabilities with satellite operators. With this project ReQuTech hopes to revolutionize satellite communications and enable seamless connectivity in the evolving broadband landscape.

Keywords: phased array antenna,flat panel antenna,ka band,multi orbit,multi beam,satellite communications on the move,mesh network,seamless connectivity,digital sovereignty,secure broadband
The NeoKidney: Next Generation Hemodialysis Device Making Hemodialysis Finally Portable (PORTADIALYS)

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: Netherlands
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2024 (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3571157.3
EU funding (EUR): 2499810.11
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

NextKidney BV, founded in 2014 and based in Netherlands, is revolutionizing kidney care with NeoKidney, a compact, truly portable home hemodialysis (HHD) device. With over 5 million end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients worldwide, most rely on costly, in-clinic dialysis, which limits mobility, increases fatigue, and has sub-optimal health outcomes. HHD offers benefits over in-clinic dialysis, but adoption remains below 2% due to current devices being bulky and challenging to set up. NeoKidney addresses these barriers by offering a 10 kg portable device that uses patented sorbent technology to recycle dialysate, reducing fluid needs from 45 to 5 liters per session. Its innovative cardiac floating technology also eliminates the need for electrical grounding, enabling use in various settings, including remote and disaster zones. Together, these features make NeoKidney more easily accessible to patients. NeoKidney’s benefits include 40% reduction in mortality, greater patient independence, and healthcare cost savings of up to 43% per patient annually (from €92K to €53K). Integrated remote monitoring allows healthcare providers to track patient data in real time, reducing need for hospital visits. With global dialysis market valued at €82 billion in 2022, and HHD segment expected to grow to €7 billion by 2035, NeoKidney aims to capture significant market share, with projected sales of €650M annually by 2035. NextKidney's commercialization strategy includes selling both the NeoKidney device and high-margin consumables, with initial market entry in Europe and the U.S. NextKidney seeks €41.5M in funding, including €2.5M in EIC grants and €39M in equity (€15M from EICA and €24M from current and additional investors), to accelerate clinical trials, regulatory approval, and market penetration. This funding is critical for maintaining NextKidney’s first-mover advantage, ensuring the rapid rollout of this life-changing technology for home hemodialysis patients.

Keywords: hemodialysis,home hemodialysis,hhd,portable hemodialysis,in clinic dialysis,ichd,patient centric,improved life expectancy,improved life quality,esrd,kidney failure
Preventing Bone Loss by Targeting Endothelial Cell-Tissue Crosstalk (PROTECT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physiology in Health, Disease and Ageing
Panel description: Organ and tissue physiology, comparative physiology, physiology  of ageing , pathophysiology, inter - organ and tissue communication, endocrinology, nutrition,  metabolism, interaction with the microbiome, non -communicable diseases including cancer (and except disorders of the nervous system  and immunity -related diseases)
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2029-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2498719.0
EU funding (EUR): 2498719.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

During healthy aging but also in osteoporosis, a disease that affects more than 22% of European women beyond the age of 50, loss of mineralized bone is caused by a disbalance between bone formation and resorption. While blood vessels are abundant in the skeletal system and play essential roles, they are currently not considered in the context of anti-osteoporosis therapy. Moreover, apart from the role of sex hormones, we know too little about the impact of sex-specific regulators in physiological and disturbed bone homeostasis. Our recent work has provided fundamental insights into the organization of the bone vasculature in mouse, the heterogeneity and functional specialization of endothelial cells (ECs), and the changes during aging. Recent and unpublished research from my team has utilized single cell RNA sequencing in combination with advanced immunostaining and imaging to identify a novel EC subpopulation (termed type R for remodeling). Type R vessels are post-arterial capillaries found at sites of homeostatic and therapeutic bone turnover, mainly trabecular bone, and their activation in young mice can enhance osteogenesis. In aging mice type R vessel clusters emerge inside cortical bone at sites of bone loss. PROTECT will systemically characterize the function of ECs and, in particular, type R capillaries in healthy homeostasis and during bone loss. This will involve the generation of new mouse lines for intersectional genetics and the characterization of critical molecular regulators. We will also characterize sex-specific and age-related factors controlling bone homeostasis and employ approaches to translate our findings into the human system. Preclinical experiments in mice will establish whether ECs and type R capillaries are involved in the response to therapies aiming at osteoblasts or osteoclasts. PROTECT will generate the conceptual basis for future approaches utilizing endothelial cells for the prevention of bone loss and anti-osteoporotic therapy.

Keywords: bone,osteogenesis,osteoblasts,osteoclasts,blood vessels,vascular,endothelial cells,mouse
A Global Evaluation of Public Policies to Mitigate and Reverse Land Degradation (LAND-POLICY)

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: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1452644.0
EU funding (EUR): 1452644.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Land degradation is one of the major sustainability challenges of our time. It is a driver of climate change, biodiversity loss, and water pollution, and reduces global agricultural productivity. This requires effective and economically efficient policies. Here, I outline a project that combines the global measurement and modelling of land degradation trends with econometric research designs to estimate policy effectiveness, their benefit cost ratios, and how design features and contextual factors explain policy performance. This research builds on the unique expertise I have developed over the last 5 years. The project consists of four work packages. In the first WP, global datasets will be build, including a new database of public policies relevant to land conditions, maps of different land degradation indicators, such as soil productivity trends, vegetation and agricultural yield changes, soil erosion and pollution, and land cover changes, such as cropland expansion and forest loss. In the second WP, econometric research designs (such as difference-in-differences, difference-in discontinuities, and synthetic control) will be used to estimate the causal effect(s) of public policies on land conditions. The comprehensiveness and global scope of the analysis means that for the first time, we will have the “full picture”, largely free of selection and publication biases, and methodologically unified. In the third WP, all the policies’ costs and benefits will be compared to each other and we will quantify how much benefit each policy has been generating per its costs. In the fourth WP, we will use both conventional econometric techniques and novel machine learning approaches to systematically explain when and why some public policies perform better than others. This research will generate new insights on how to improve public policies to mitigate and reverse land degradation. I expect it will generate high interest among academics, policy makers, and the public.

Keywords: land degradation public policies impact evaluation cost benefit analysis heterogeneous treatment effects
Hop On High mobilitY Printed nEtwoRks of 2D Semiconductors for advanced electrONICs (HYPERSONIC-Hop on)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Greece
Call: Hop on Facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-06, 2023)
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 587500.0
EU funding (EUR): 587500.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

HYPERSONIC proposes a multilevel materials engineering approach covering a wide value chain from materials formulation to device fabrication and evaluation, including (1) printing networks of various types of nanosheets with minimum inter-nanosheet resistance (by either chemical formation of covalent bonds to cross-link the nanosheets or by geometrical control of the nanosheets’ shape having a specific length/thickness ratio), (2) characterising the electrical and electronic properties of films, (3) demonstration of proof-of-concept p- or n-type conduction (thus CMOS compatible) high-performance thin-film transistors (TFT) devices, and (4) demonstrating medium-scale integration of circuits by incorporating them in functional sensors. However, devices based on networks of nanosheets usually exhibit (a) structural defects and inhomogeneities in thickness, (b) variability in fabrication processes, and (c) environmental sensitivity due to substrate effects and ambient conditions, leading therefore to significant device-to-device variability and reliability issues. The enhanced statistical analysis through large-scale data collection and statistical modelling of multiple devices is still missing from HYPERSONIC. This approach, combined with machine learning (ML) tools for pattern recognition, could therefore constitute a key step towards performance prediction, reliability forecasting, and fabrication process optimisation through closed feedback loops. The participation of the widening partner HMU through this Hop-on Facility constitutes a complementary addition to the consortium, enabling the optimisation of 2D-based electronic devices. HYPERSONIC’s success will further enhance Europe’s research and leadership in printed electronics for both consumer and commercial applications, addressing the needs of emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and wearables, especially where rigid silicon technology is not applicable, aiming at improving our well-being.

Keywords: high performance electronic devices,smart circuits,flexible and wearable electronics and sensors,nanosheets,inter nanosheet junctions,layered nanomaterials,functionalisation,nano mechanics
Conciseness of words in residually finite and profinite groups (GroupConciseness)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: Spain,Brazil
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 239922.72
EU funding (EUR): 239922.72
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The notion of conciseness of words in groups was introduced by Phillip Hall at the beginning of the second half of the past century. Hall conjectured that every word is concise in the class of all groups, but this was proved to be false in 1989 by Ivanov in its general form. However, the question whether every word is concise in the class of residually finite groups, raised by Andrei Jaikin-Zapirain, is still open, and is currently the main conjecture in the topic. In recent years, the notion of strong conciseness in profinite groups has also been introduced, and in this context, an analogous conjecture has been proposed, namely, that every word is strongly concise in the class of all profinite groups. This proposal is thus devoted to the study of conciseness and strong conciseness of words, as well as some related notions, in residually finite and profinite groups. For the purpose of getting closer to the proofs of the aforementioned conjectures, we suggest a multidisciplinary approach by combining group theoretical, topological, and measure theoretical methods. For instance, we propose studying conciseness and strong conciseness of words in certain classes of pro-p groups, such as p-adic analytic pro-p groups; or introducing the notion of Hausdorff conciseness by relating the Hausdorff dimension of the set of word values with the Hausdorff dimension of the verbal subgroup. This project proposal is a natural continuation of the applicant’s research career, who has already worked in several word-related problems, and will highly contribute to strengthening the candidate’s research skills, as well as to bringing novel and interesting ideas to the host organisations.

Keywords: group theory,residually finite groups,profinite groups,pro p groups,word problems,conciseness of words,hausdorff dimension