Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
- addressing the challenges of high-performance solution-processed OLEDs using sustainable materials (TADFsolutions)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Germany,Israel,Japan,France,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Spain,Switzerland,United States,Korea, Republic of
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1878398.57
EU funding (EUR): 1846486.68
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

In the 21st century, displays play a central role. They are embedded in almost every type of electronic device and it is difficult to imagine a world without mobile phones, monitors and televisions. Driving the pervasiveness of displays is the disruptive organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology. There are, however, some structural weaknesses in state-of-the-art vacuum-deposited OLEDs. These include the use of scarce metals within the materials of the device and the reliance on energy-intensive and expensive vacuum deposition fabrication methods. Solutions are required to make these devices more sustainable from choice of materials to manufacturing processes. The European Doctoral Training Network TADFsolutions will train a cohort of dynamic researchers to devise, develop and implement sustainable solutions for improving the device performance of solution-processed OLEDs. The 10 PhD scientists will undertake multidisciplinary research to meet this design challenge. Despite being cheaper, the current best solution-processed OLEDs (SP-OLEDs) still rely on scarce noble-metal based phosphorescent emitters and underperform compared to vacuum-deposited OLEDs. Starting from bespoke organic thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitter materials, the performance of SP-OLEDs will be maximized based on improved predictive models of charge transport, film processing techniques, and device structures. A strongly interconnected approach is required not only to effectively train the DFs but to meet the objectives. The TADFsolutions network consists of 8 leading European academics, 3 companies and 5 international partners that are equipped and experienced to not only confront the materials and device design challenges but to provide a robust multidisciplinary and intersectoral training environment to ensure that the DFs have the requisite skills, both soft and technical, to enter the employment market and contribute to securing Europe’s leading role in OLED materials.

Keywords: thermally activated delayed fluorescence,phosphorescence,triplets,organic light emitting,molecular functional materials
LInking laNguage to psyChologicAl well-being in immigRant communitiEs (LINCARE)

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: 2025-04-01
End date: 2027-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187624.32
EU funding (EUR): 187624.32
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The critical challenges posed by the growing migratory movements, in terms of linguistic and cultural collisions, raise the need to deeper understand the acculturation processes faced by groups of migrants while settling in a new social and cultural context. These may encompass certain levels of acculturative stress, which have an impact on migrants’ psychological well-being and are reflected, among other things, in the linguistic outcomes of migration. Previous studies demonstrated a positive link between bilingualism and higher well-being levels, though only considering self-assessed language competence and use, lacking empirical support from real communicative interactions. Thus, the LINCARE project aims to establish whether specific language contact phenomena, found in interaction and typical in migration contexts, can serve as a reliable tool to assess levels of well-being in immigrant groups, by investigating their relation with cultural and socio-psychological aspects, through advanced multivariate analysis techniques. It also seeks to explore whether bilingual practices positively correlate with higher levels of well-being. In so doing, the project will bridge gaps in existing linguistic, cultural, and psychological research and create an integrated framework. It will contribute to inform policy-makers about the multifaceted consequences of migration and possible stress factors affecting migrants during settlement and, in turn, society at large. Therefore, as the United Nations and European Union strive to reduce inequality, promote multilingualism, and protect minority rights and cultural heritage, this project will also contribute to these global challenges. Moreover, working on this project at Tilburg University will enhance my expertise in linguistic analysis and provide me with additional knowledge of the cultural and psychological aspects related to migration. This transfer of knowledge will foster research and innovation on these topics.

Keywords: sociolinguistics language contact phenomena code switching italo romance varieties psychological well being acculturation acculturative stress cultural heritage multivariate analysis
ETILE ROOF: SMART INVISIBLE PHOTOVOLTAICS (ETILE ROOF)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Poland
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 3500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

ETILE ROOF: SMART INVISIBLE PHOTOVOLTAICS Etile Roof is an innovative 2-in-1 photovoltaic roofing system developed by Electrotile. The system features modules approximately 1 m² in size that combine composite tiles with integrated, color-matched photovoltaic panels. This design offers an invisible solar solution, maintaining the aesthetics and thermal benefits of traditional ceramic roofs while overcoming the limitations of standard PV installations. Key features include high power generation comparable to traditional photovoltaic panels, smart innovative micro-optimizers in each module for optimal performance even in shaded areas, and construction from recycled composite materials to enhance sustainability and reduce CO2 emissions. The lightweight, easy-to-install modules are durable, low-maintenance, and resistant to weather, moss, and dirt, featuring self-cleaning coatings. Etile Roof aims to revolutionize residential renewable energy integration by providing a sustainable, efficient, and aesthetically pleasing roofing solution. The Etile Roof system is the first product meeting customer expectations for design, durability, resistance to extreme weather conditions, eco-friendliness, ease of installation, and similarity to traditional roof installations. This increases installer availability, allows for supplementing active roofs with tiles, and offers ease of maintenance due to resistance to moss and dirt. It also provides ease of replacement, simplicity in installation on complex roofs, and monitoring of individual tiles via intelligent built-in micro-optimizers. These features will create a new product category in the market and generate high demand for Etile Roof. The product has the potential to revolutionize architecture, the roofing market, and the photovoltaic industry in Europe. With high market growth driven by trends and regulations, it could become one of the fastest-growing technologies on the continent, advancing the field

Keywords: solar roof tiles,bipv technology,solar architecture
Exploring Populism in Texts: Leveraging AI for Substantive and Methodological Advancements (PopText)

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: Ireland
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): 215534.4
EU funding (EUR): 215534.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This interdisciplinary project embarks on an extensive exploration of the methodologies that underlie the study of populism through textual analysis, with the primary goal of enhancing our comprehension of this intricate phenomenon. The surge of populism on the global stage underscores an urgent need for scholarly investigation. However, the nuanced and adaptable nature of populism presents challenges, complicating efforts to establish a single, universally accepted definition. This conceptual ambiguity not only fuels ongoing debates about the core essence of populism but also permeates empirical analyses, including those centered on textual investigations. Despite the growing body of theoretical and empirical work, a noticeable gap persists in our grasp of the methodological subtleties inherent in the analysis of populism through texts. These methodological intricacies encompass a spectrum of dimensions, ranging from the application of conceptual frameworks to textual analyses, to the adaptation of text-as-data techniques capable of capturing the dynamic evolution of populism over time. This groundbreaking project marks an unprecedented endeavor in conducting cross-national and longitudinal evaluations of political parties' populist discourse. It employs a robust methodology integrating manual coding and machine learning techniques. By engaging with theoretical concepts and deploying cutting-edge AI tools to generate unique datasets capturing populism in texts, this project stands poised to enrich our nuanced understanding of how populism is conveyed across diverse temporal and contextual dimensions, pushing the boundaries of current knowledge in the field.

Keywords: populism,party behaviour,text as data,computational text analysis,comparative politics
Assessment of volatile analysis for embryo selection during in vitro fertilisation (EMBRYOVOCS)

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: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Estonia
Call: Fostering balanced brain circulation – ERA Fellowships (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-TALENTS-04, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 189877.2
EU funding (EUR): 189877.2
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

In vitro fertilisation (IVF) has irrupted as the most important alternative for getting pregnant in a global world with decreasing natality rates. Currently, IVF success rate is around 20%. In order to improve it, the selection of the most suitable embryo for implantation is the most important factor. In the proposed project, we aim to assess embryo selection based on the analysis of the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) they emit during their development. Gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC-MS) technique will be employed in the first step of the project for identifying the pattern of VOCs that characterise the embryos that successfully reach the blastocyst stage, as well as the blastocysts that hatch. An electronic nose system, which possesses several advantages over the GC-MS technique, such as portability, ease of use and considerably lower price, will be next developed for the selective detection of the VOC patterns identified by the GC-MS studies. Initially, the study will be performed on bovine during fellow’s placement at the Beneficiary. The electronic nose that will be developed for the bovine model will be tested on humans in a real-world environment during the additional non-academic placement of the researcher at the business partner. The results of this test will constitute the basis for the future development of a reliable device for the selection of the most suitable embryos for successful IVF outcomes.

Keywords: volatile organic compounds gas chromatography mass spectrometry gc ms electronic nose embryo selection in vitro fertilisation
Next generation X-ray/H+ Micro and Nano Scintillating Detectors (X-MiND)

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: Physics
Countries involved: United States,France,Switzerland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 44.0
Total project cost (EUR): 300441.6
EU funding (EUR): 300441.6
Participants: 4
Project status: TERMINATED

Modern radiation therapy treatment is driven by the everlasting demand for suitable detectors that can perform under different radiation beams (photon, proton, electron, ion, etc.) at small fields. The industrially developed dosimeter/detectors are still limited by the significant size requirement, volume averaging effect, lack of sensitivity, correction factors, and low signal-to-noise ratio, etc. Thus, quality treatment is still hampered and continues to risk the patients. In addition, scintillator-based X-ray cameras are still suffered from low compactness, modest response time, and crosstalk, which shows strong limitations in the existing technology. In this context, this research work is devoted to the design and fabrication of a novel extremely compact, real-time, dynamic, and highly sensitive X-ray/H+ Micro/Nano Scintillating Detector (X-MiND). The developed micro-detector will be tested for high-energy photon and particle beam characterizations along with simulation techniques. A multi-dosimeter system exploited from a bundle of single detectors will be realized and tested, targeting the next generation X-ray cameras. Subsequently, a nanometric scintillating detector will be demonstrated in surface physics application in synchrotron targeting high-resolution local 2D chemical mapping of a material by employing a novel dual-probe technique. Thus, the medical outcomes of this research will explore miniaturized dosimetry, exact dose verification in the small field that initiates early-stage tumor treatments and the first step of new generation X-ray cameras with improved performances. The physics outcomes are expected in the direct surface imaging of X-ray free-standing waves (XSW). The new fundamental knowledge developed in this project could be applied to other multiple domains. From the project, I aim to improve my expertise by training-through-research with leading experts worldwide and bring this knowledge back to Europe to share and integrate me.

Keywords: x ray h micro dosimetry,dosimetry,radiation therapy,scintillating dosimetry,x ray detectors,x ray imaging,
Machine learning methods for the reconstruction of dual tracer PET images (Dual Tracer PET)

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: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-03-01
End date: 2026-10-31
Duration (months): 44.0
Total project cost (EUR): 189687.36
EU funding (EUR): 189687.36
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a medical imaging technique that displays in vivo brain-wide metabolic processes. Prior to PET image acquisition, a tracer, labelled with a positron emitting isotope, is injected to the patient. This so-called radiotracer distributes over the body and accumulates in e.g. inflammatory tissue. To date, the acquisiton of a PET image is limited to one tracer, thereby only displaying one metabolic process in the brain. However, the acquisition of two separate PET images acquired with different tracer simultaneously would give novel and unique insights in the communication between e.g. neurotransmitter systems. These insights could be used for the development of new drugs for e.g Alzheimer patients and would increase the understanding of the healthy and diseased brain. The acquisition of 'dual tracer' PET images can be achieved by combining two radiotracers with different properties: The first 'standard' radiotracer emits two photons that are recorded by the PET system, while the second 'non-standard' tracer emits two photons and an additional gamma ray. By identifying the additional gamma ray, the photon detections of the two tracers can be separated and two PET images can be reconstructed. 'Dual tracer' PET image reconstruction yields challenges due to undesirable effect of photon detection. In this project, a machine learning algorithm will be trained to detect and correct for these effects. Moreover, the image acquired with the 'non-standard' tracer yields low image quality. A Convolutional Neural Network will be trained to denoise this PET image. In the proposed project, a reconstruction algorithm for dual tracer PET based on machine learning techniques and resulting in two separate PET images with high image quality will be developed and implemented. The proposed project will demonstrate if dual tracer PET imaging has future potential and will help to understand the highly interactive neuronal communication in the brain.

Keywords: image reconstruction,positron emission tomography,dual tracer pet
FastML: Efficient and Cost-Effective Distributed Machine Learning (FastML)

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: Austria
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

Deep Learning is an area of massive progress, with myriad applications and significant industry adoption. A key enabler of its progress is the ability to train large, highly-accurate Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) in a distributed fashion, across tens to thousands of different computational nodes. Yet, DNN training at scale poses severe challenges to standard paradigms in distributed computing; existing distributed training approaches and their practical implementations, via training libraries such as PyTorch or TensorFlow, often suffer from major distribution bottlenecks, which can significantly reduce computational efficiency, leading to wasted time, money, and energy. The FastML proof-of-concept (PoC) project will tackle this efficiency challenge head-on, by introducing a distributed training framework that will significantly reduce or even eliminate the overheads of parallelization for practical distributed training workloads, in common usage scenarios. FastML’s distinctive feature is leveraging the algorithmic and software techniques developed by our ERC Starting Grant, in order to reduce distribution overheads at scale without impacting training convergence or model accuracy. FastML stands in contrast to current distribution techniques, which rely on hardware overprovisioning–essentially, providing very fast but also very expensive interconnects between the computing nodes. As such, FastML can bring significant infrastructure and running cost improvements to its users, as well as lowering the cost and hardware entry barrier to training accurate machine learning models. The PoC will design and develop the FastML software library to target industry-relevant workloads via pilot projects jointly with our industrial partners. In addition, we will perform an in-depth market study, devise intellectual property and go-to-market strategies, and produce a minimally-viable product (MVP), which will be demonstrated to potential customers and investors.
Photography in the Making of Knowledge: European Art-historical and Scientific Investigations on Asia (PhotoMaKEASIA)

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: Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-12-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 188590.08
EU funding (EUR): 188590.08
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The history of photography shares a profound connection with the history of the modern scientific disciplines, including art history, anthropology, and archaeology, as well as modern medicine, biology, and the natural sciences. With the visual turn in the humanities, an increasing number of historians have analyzed visual materials from a new perspective, conceiving images as central rather than peripheral objects of historical analysis. Images ranging from early X-ray photographs to drawings of distant cultures contributed in different ways to the production of knowledge. All provided viewers with an impression that they were seeing something that would otherwise be invisible to them, whether inside the human body or geographically and ideologically distant. The PhotoMaKEASIA project addresses the following questions: How did European scholars and scientists use photography to construct knowledge about Asia? To what degree did the photographic medium itself influence or affect the results of their studies? Do contemporary photographs of Asia continue to shape scholarly and popular understandings? Departing from studies that focus on photography and the “colonial gaze,” this project concentrates instead on how photographs shaped knowledge in response to pragmatic concerns and scholarly interest in Asia. The project develops four case studies: 1.) photographs of 1850s European expeditions to China to study silkworm cultivation; 2.) images created to document archaeological expeditions by the ISMEO (Rome); 3.) photographic reproductions of artworks used in art historical studies; 4.) and contemporary documentary photography. Based on these four studies, the project will trace the history of photographic images in the construction of European knowledge about Asia in order to rethink photographs’ role in both the past and the present.

Keywords: history of photography,photography in asia,photography as a method,chinese art history,china,asia