Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Locating Intergenerational Ties, rematriating late-19th-century unpublished photographs of Sámi Women and Children (LIT)

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: Norway
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 210911.04
EU funding (EUR): 210911.04
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Employing a decolonial approach inspired by critical museology and Indigenous studies, LIT aims to initiate a visual restitution/rematriation process fostering attention to Sámi people’s experiences during colonial encounters, and to illuminate individual life-stories of women and children photographed by Italian anthropologists Mantegazza and Sommier between 1879 and 1886. It wishes to generate dialogical knowledge of unpublished visual/written materials, enabling Sámi communities of interest to gain access to these scholars’ photographs. In complex socio-historical Indigenous/settler contexts such as Sápmi (the Sámi homeland), Sámi people’s control over their own heritage has proved essential to processes of cultural and ethnopolitical self-determination. Part of the Sámi visual heritage consists of photographs taken - often through mild violence and coercion - by academics engaged in physical anthropological practices involving Sámi individuals of all ages and genders. The resulting academic and divulgative publications circulated in Europe for decades, shaping and reinforcing stereotypes of Sámi peoples and cultures. Photos taken in colonial encounters by late-19th/early-20th century scholars to visualize Sámi people’s supposed biological-cultural inferiority (until a few decades ago inaccessible to the Sámi) have become important means of decolonization and empowerment through art and activism. The visual restitution of such photographs is of the utmost importance not only from a cultural heritage perspective but is also considered by Sámi institutions and individuals as an urgent necessity. LIT proposes an innovative approach based on the co-construction of knowledge and with a gender dimension. I shall reconstruct life stories of women and children photographed by Italian ethnologists, locating their descendants and returning their photographs to their communities. LIT would benefit my career, making me a leading researcher in Sami Studies and museology.

Keywords: indigenous,s mi,and decolonial studies critical museology curatorial practices history of anthropology visual anthropology cultural studies archival studies collective memories,oral history
CRYOsphere Science Concluding in new Observations and Productive Exploitation-HopOn (CryoSCOPE-Hopon)

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: Finland,Czechia
Call: Hop-on facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-03, 2025)
Duration (months): 34.0
Total project cost (EUR): 592742.5
EU funding (EUR): 592742.5
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The CryoSCOPE-HopON project significantly advances the understanding of cryosphere–atmosphere–hydrosphere interactions by integrating enhanced particulate monitoring, innovative drone-based remote sensing, and comprehensive Rain-on-Snow (ROS) event data to refine process-based and Earth System Models (ESMs). With the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CZU) providing expertise in advanced aerosol profiling, drone spectrometry, albedo–impurity mapping, and targeted monitoring of ROS and snow-dust storms, the project strengthens predictive capabilities for snow and ice melt, flood risk, and water resource management under a changing climate. CZU’s contributions include generating integrated, high-resolution datasets for model calibration, co-developing risk indicators for agriculture, energy, and civil protection, and promoting FAIR data principles alongside standardized methodologies. Their involvement enhances model fidelity by linking atmospheric composition to hydrological processes and fosters long-term societal impact through comprehensive stakeholder engagement and capacity-building within established scientific networks. By expanding CryoSCOPE-HopON’s geographic scope from Arctic to mid-latitude mountain environments and applying cutting-edge drone technologies, CZU amplifies the consortium’s technical capacity, scientific innovation, and outreach, thereby addressing critical uncertainties in cryospheric change and its downstream socio-environmental risks across Europe and beyond.

Keywords: rain on snow,vertical profile,snow albedo,drones
Human-robot collaborative construction system for shotcrete digitization and automation through advanced perception, cognition, mobility and additive manufacturing skills (RobetArme)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,Denmark,Spain,Bulgaria,Italy,Portugal,Austria,France,Ireland,Switzerland,Belgium,Germany
Call: Breakthrough technologies supporting technological sovereignty in construction (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8959275.0
EU funding (EUR): 8959275.0
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

RobetArme will deliver a human-robot collaborative construction system for the automation of shotcrete (i.e. concrete spray casting), which is an emerging technology in construction domain. A multitasking Inspection-Reconnaissance mobile manipulator-IRR (ROB) will fuse the latest Geotechnical models (BIM/CIM) (DTT), high-density visual data and semantic SLAM (CERTH) representations to automate modelling and fast reconstruction (DTU) of the surface to be shotcreted. IRR will facilitate rebar reinforcement through metal additive manufacturing (ANIMA) capitalizing on its precise repair skills (EPFL). The Shotcrete and Finishing mobile manipulator ?SFR (COBOD) will apply dexterous concrete placement through closed-loop visual guidance methods, suitable for turbid conditions (KUL). Concrete mix-design and study on innovative reinforced cementitious materials (TITAN) will contribute to the reduction of materials? and water waste during shotcrete. The SFR robot equipped with universal tool changing (ROB) will also automate the surface finishing step through delicate and human-like robot manipulations, enabled from a safety operation toolkit that includes physical human-robot collaboration and human-aware navigation (CERTH). A Digital Twin (DTT) coupled with simulation tools (SDU), advanced decision making (ICE) and task planning (CERTH) skills will facilitate fast and greener shotcrete automation. RobetArme will be evaluated (DS4) on four diverse construction sites, i.e. tunnels/culverts (BYCN), bridges posttensioned boxes (ARUP), beams & piles of buildings (CEAS) and ground support walls (BYCN), assessing its autonomous shotcreting abilities. RobetArme will substantially increase the repair/maintenance automation, will foster adoption of robots in Construction 4.0 era (EFF), while it will increase construction productivity providing flexibility to the maintenance personnel, contribution to standards (UNI) and better quality to their workplaces (MORE).

Keywords: shotcrete application,construction collaborative robot,autonomous maintenance and inspection,additive manufacturing,digital twin,cim and bim,iot,decision making
Multidisciplinary Approaches and Software Technologies for Engagement, Recruitment and Participation in Innovative Energy Communities in Europe (MASTERPIECE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,Italy,Spain,France,Sweden,Switzerland,Türkiye
Call: Supporting the action of consumers in the energy market and guide them to act as prosumers, communities and other active forms of active participation in the energy activities (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D3-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6815358.85
EU funding (EUR): 5996625.88
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

MASTERPIECE aims at creating a digital coordination and cooperation arena that will facilitate the creation and operation of energy communities throughout Europe. The facilities given to members of the community to contribute to services and other developments will represent the distinction of the solution offered in this proposal, making it participative-by-design. The project's objectives are: i) to develop technical and social innovations to empower traditional energy consumers and to make them active agents of collaborative energy communities, paving the way towards a new energy market paradigm; ii) to create user-centric solutions that are based on participatory approaches such as co-creation and naturally accelerate citizens’ involvement; iii) to propose new business strategies and incentive mechanisms that activate the reactions of market participants craving for business opportunities that imply energy use and cost reduction; iv) to configure a standardised and sound cyber-security infrastructure so the active citizens are protected against cyber-attacks, at the same time that privacy is defended in accordance with the revised EPBD and the GDPR law; and v) to demonstrate the applicability and replicability of methodological, technical and business innovations in a variety of real life pilots in different geographical locations, with heterogeneous social and economic environments and different regulatory/administrative frameworks. MASTERPIECE will follow a staged implementation approach, utilizing use cases with different maturity and TRLs. To demonstrate and evaluate the proposed innovations, it will leverage 4 pilot cases in different geographical areas and within different operational/policy frameworks (France, Italy, Sweden and Turkey).

Keywords: energy community,social science and humanities,engagement,awareness
Deciphering Irish Alcohol and Substance use: Post-war Representations and Accounts (DIASPORA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1417818.0
EU funding (EUR): 1417818.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

DIASPORA will focus on the Irish in post-war London and New York to provide a nuanced and penetrative investigation of the intersections between alcohol, drug use, mental health, migration and ethnicity. Crucially, it will interrogate the cultural and societal implications of the ubiquitous “drunken Irish” label, the disproportionate rates of alcoholism reported among Irish migrants/diaspora, and the perceived day-to-day roles of recreational drugs, drink and drinking spaces – both positive and negative – in the lived experiences of this cohort. The project will trace the interplay between expert, state, religious and cultural representations, before contrasting findings with first-hand accounts by Irish migrants/diaspora. By casting alcohol and drugs as prisms through which to view experiences and portrayals of the Irish abroad, the project will expose fault lines in existing historical studies of (i) Irish migration; (ii) migration, health and ethnicity; and (iii) alcohol and drugs, which have eschewed any meaningful examination of this topic. By drawing together these ordinarily distinct strands of historiography, and placing an ethnic stereotype at the centre of its investigation, it will redefine scholarly debates about other ethnic groups, as well as broader discourses on the physical and mental implications of migration and discrimination. DIASPORA’s overarching aim is to use the longevity of Irish migration to London and New York to enlighten the evolving ethnic and racial experience in Britain and the US. The project will offer a blueprint for future comparative analyses of health, ethnicity and race in historical perspective. To do so, it will blend traditional historical methodologies, including robust archival research on government files and Irish community and service centre records, with oral histories, and analysis of medical, sociology, social work and religious journals, autobiographies, fictional literature, drama, film and documentaries.

Keywords: alcohol and drugs history history of medicine history of psychiatry irish migration irish diaspora
Delineation of experience-dependent astrocyte-neuron cognitive dynamics (ANCoDy)

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: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230774.4
EU funding (EUR): 230774.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In the brain, cells called astrocytes are as abundant as neurons, but are much less understood. Over the recent years, we have begun to appreciate how closely astrocytes support the development and function of synapses, the proposed substrate of memory. One emerging function of astrocytes is their direct involvement in learning and long-term memory. Indeed, astrocytic activity is affected in major brain disorders that affect memory, such as Alzheimer’s disease. The overarching aim of this fellowship is to study how astrocyte-neuron coordinated activity relates to learning and memory. I propose that astrocyte-neuron activity dynamics are shaped by learning over days to support memory formation. To test this hypothesis, I will use state-of-the-art microscopy and genetically encoded fluorescent proteins, both available in the host laboratory, to record the activity of large numbers of neurons and astrocytes while mice are trained in a perceptual learning task over days. In this way, I will be able to see how neurons and astrocytes change their activity in response to learning. I will then manipulate the activity of astrocytes using clever genetic tools and light, while the mice are being trained, and monitor the effects of this manipulation on the activity of neurons and memory performance. This step will allow me to establish causal links between astrocyte activity and memory. Finally, I will use modern statistical learning techniques to explore the contribution of astrocytes and astrocyte-neuron interactions to the computational capacity of the brain. This proposal capitalizes on my strong expertise in rodent behaviour and data analysis, my knowledge and strong interest on how experience shapes brain activity, and the established microscopy and genetic techniques in the host laboratory. Overall, this project will allow me to acquire new skills and knowledge in microscopy and astrocyte biology, and generate testable hypotheses for my future research.

Keywords: astrocytes,learning and memory,calcium imaging,activity dynamics,longitudinal
AGnostic risk management for high Impact Low probability Events (AGILE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Civil Security for Society
Theme: Civil Security for Society
Destination: Disaster-Resilient Society for Europe
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Romania,Iceland,Portugal,Ukraine,Netherlands,United States,Italy,United Kingdom,Japan
Call: Enhanced preparedness and management of High-Impact Low-Probability or unexpected events (HORIZON-CL3-2022-DRS-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4563406.27
EU funding (EUR): 4563406.25
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

AGILE will design, develop, and apply a holistic methodological framework and practical tools for understanding, assessing, managing, and communicating HILPs events with a systemic risk and resilience perspective. The project will combine and integrate a wide range of established and innovative methodologies into a novel and replicable multi-sectoral risk and resilience stress testing methodology to better: UNDERSTAND (Systems theory, Lateral thinking, Strategic Foresight, Machine Learning) ANTICIPATE (Scenario Building & table-top exercises, Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, Machine Learning) and MANAGE (Resilience assessment, capability development strategic training) These approaches and services will be co-created within a unique transdisciplinary consortium of research organisations, NGOs, SMEs, first responders, and local and regional authorities. The scalable and replicable methods will enable for the identification of common points of failure of critical societal functions in response to compounding low probability high impact threats as well as provide recommendations for both risk-informed system hardening and threat-agnostic systemic recovery. The project will ultimately improve the strategic and operational risk management capacities and capabilities of DRM stakeholders on local, regional and national level and thus strengthening the societal resilience to new and emerging risks in Europe and beyond. The project provides the means and the methodology to ensure a wide ranging impact of its results to not only improve the understanding, anticipation and management of HILP risks and events, but the direct and wide-ranging contribution to key European and international policy priorities and global challenges such as the EU disaster risk management policies (in particular UCPM), the European Green Deal priorities (EU Climate Adaptation Strategy), as well as the EU Security Union Strategy.

Keywords: hilp understanding,risk and resilience assessment,multi sectoral resilience stress tests,decision making,capability development,exercises,risk communication,critical societal functions,drm
Strain engineering to design functional 4D polymorphism in nanostructured materials (STRAINSWITCH)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical Sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

It is often easy to observe the ability of polymorphic materials to undergo a phase transition through changes in colour, conductivity, photovoltaic efficiency, or other functional properties. In contrast, it is challenging to control under which external stimuli–stress, temperature, adsorption–these materials switch. Yet, enabling such polymorphic material design would be a game changer for pressing societal challenges, from access to drinkable water to producing green energy. This requires a firm understanding of how changing a material’s structure impacts its polymorphism and macroscopic function. In STRAINSWITCH, I aim to transform polymorphic material design by establishing the strain engineering concept. The central characteristic in my in silico approach is strain: the extent to which a material deforms due to external or internal triggers. On the one hand, external stimuli generate strain, even before they activate a phase transition. On the other, spatial disorder in a structure, tuneable from the atom to the device scale, also induces strain that interferes with external strain fields. My key hypothesis is that it is possible to systematically predict which disorder is needed to ensure polymorphism only occurs under well-defined external triggers by balancing these internal and external strain fields. To confirm this hypothesis, I will develop new in silico methods with the goal to: i. understand how disorder induces strain fields in a material that propagate through both space (3D) and time (+1D) to enable 4D design; ii. predict which internal strain fields activate a material’s polymorphism under specific external stimuli. In STRAINSWITCH, I will combine both goals to establish fundamental disorder-strain-function relationships that can be validated experimentally for metal-organic frameworks and metal halide perovskites. They will pave the way for 4D polymorphic material design with application in water harvesting, photovoltaic devices, and more.

Keywords: strain fields,molecular dynamics,phase transformations,metal organic frameworks,metal halide perovskites,stability,functional material design,nanostructured materials,electronic structure methods,force field methods