Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Emerging nanoscopy for single entity characterisation (ENSIGN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Staff Exchanges
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Germany,Denmark,Australia,China,United Kingdom,Portugal,Poland,Bulgaria,Hungary,United States,Japan,Switzerland,Türkiye,Italy
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-03-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1205200.0
EU funding (EUR): 1205200.0
Participants: 23
Project status: SIGNED

The capability of interpreting phenomena at the nanoscale level has led to an unprecedented and refined understanding of structures and mechanisms of single entities. This has brought a new era across the fields of biomedicine, biophysics and biomaterial nanoscience, and thus revise our previous concepts on cellular structures and nanoscale electronics. These technologies bear an enormous potential to transform not only the advancement of our knowledge, but also the development of diagnostic/prognostic approaches. However, we currently lack the ability to conduct correlative imaging at this challenging dimension while directly linking the nanoscale mechanical, physical and electrical parameters with macroscopic phenomena. Therefore, it is timely and important to explore innovative measurement and imaging methods, which could overcome the limitations of conventional routes and become enabling technologies for the second correlative nanoscopy revolution. The proposed 'Emerging nanoscopy for single entity characterisation (ENSIGN)' project is such a novel approach, which seeks to develop a transformational, integrated approach for single entity imaging and characterisation. ENSIGN will develop and combine high speed force, electrical, and microwave nanoscopy with optical and electron nanoscopy, to provide a quantitative, simultaneous multiparameter measurement, high speed and cost-effective beyond state-of-the-art capabilities for next generation single entity imaging, electrochemistry, mechanobiology and biomechanics. The developed nanoscopy will have unprecedented high resolution, multi-modal and multi-dimensional simultaneous imaging capabilities and be quantitative, fast and non-invasive. The obtained advanced technique will form a cornerstone for the advancement of cell biology, nanomaterials, and next generation battery, and thus keep Europe's leading position in the world for potential major scientific and technological breakthroughs in these research areas.

Keywords: correlative nanoscopy,single cell biology,nanostructre characterisation,multimodal imaging
Political Lotteries in European Democratisation (POLLOT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499999.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Political lotteries randomly select individuals to take a political decision. Recently, lotteries have put citizens together to find solutions to today’s contentious, polarizing issues, such as disaffection, abortion reform, and climate change. What explains their varied success? Lotteries equalise opportunity of access to all. Random chance can strengthen those otherwise in the minority. A wider variety of opinions can also improve debate and reduce polarization. The ideal, but unfeasible experiment would randomly vary group characteristics, assign real political power, and observe effects over time. Instead, this project draws lessons from past experiments during democratisation in Europe - whereby legislators were randomly assigned to groups within legislatures - and experiments with lotteries in online citizens’ assemblies today. Lotteries ensured that minorities participated in deliberation in small groups, and were assigned influential legislative tasks. These natural experiments with lotteries have never before been investigated using modern statistical methods, and their role in opening access to politics is almost entirely absent from empirical studies of democratisation. This project compiles a novel, comparative dataset of these political lotteries, legislators, parliamentary activity and offices from different European countries. Next, the decisions of randomly assigned groups will be analysed within each natural experiment. A theory of debate in randomly drawn groups reducing polarization will be verified by cross-national comparison across experimental contexts, and in a present-day experiment that allows controlled conditions. By opening access to minorities and contributing to strong, deliberative party and committee systems, lotteries stabilised political conflict. They have the potential to do so again today. The research will help inform evidence-based innovation of our representative democracies, as experiments with lotteries have already begun.

Keywords: lotteries,legislation,legislative procedure,selection,deliberation,parliaments
Empowering EU Rural Regions to scale-Up and adopt small-scale Bio-based solutions: the transition towards a sustainable, regenerative, inclusive and just circular bioeconomy (RuralBioUp)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Circular economy and bioeconomy sectors
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Portugal,Latvia,Estonia,Austria,Czechia,Ireland,France,Romania
Call: Mainstreaming inclusive small-scale bio-based solutions in European rural areas (HORIZON-CL6-2021-CIRCBIO-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2998823.75
EU funding (EUR): 2998823.5
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

Climate change will require concerted innovative ideas and actions at the local/regional level. A sustainable European bioeconomy will not only ensure the protection of the environment and biodiversity, but will also drive the renewal of European industries, the modernisation of primary production systems and lead to the creation of jobs, particularly in rural areas, through the active participation of all regional stakeholders in their local bioeconomies. RuralBioUp project will strengthen the cooperation among regional key actors and knowledge holders, empowering them to establish an inclusive and long-lasting ecosystem (the RuralBioUp Regional Hubs) to support the mainstreaming of bio-based business models in rural areas. In particular, RuralBioUp will establish 9 Regional Hubs (30 stakeholders per Hub) in 6 EU countries, that will co-design and implement 9 Action Plans on 18 value chains. Regional Hubs will be empowered by RuralBioUp's partners with mentoring, coaching and training activities in the implementation of their Action Plans. Thanks to this, at least (a.l.) 1.000 innovators will be supported (through networking events and study visits) and a.l. 50 new collaborations fostered (e.g. partnership agreements between companies and/or farmers, solutions funded, etc.) to adopt small-scale bio-based solutions in rural areas. The project will leverage synergies between existing EU networks (EuBioNet, BioEast, etc.), clusters, and regional organisations and will build upon previous research results (Power4Bio, BE-RURAL, Enabling, Transition2Bio, Biovoices, etc.) by integrating and extending the existing knowledge and data in order to propose different rural business models and new bio-based value chains in the targeted regions, through the realisation of a digital tool (the RuralBioUp One-Stop-Shop) supporting regional actors to take science-based and informed decisions.

Keywords: rural development bio based solutions market uptake stakeholder engagement multi actor approach rural areas empowerment open innovation
AI-powered eVolution towards opEn and secuRe edGe architEctures (VERGE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Smart Networks and Services
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: SNS (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Spain,Netherlands,Türkiye,Germany,United Kingdom,Finland,Sweden,Italy
Call: Edge Computing Evolution (HORIZON-JU-SNS-2022, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5263796.86
EU funding (EUR): 4898437.5
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

VERGE will tackle evolution of edge computing from three perspectives: “Edge for AI”, “AI for Edge” and security, privacy and trustworthiness of AI for Edge. “Edge for AI” defines a flexible, modular and converged Edge platform that is ready to support distributed AI at the edge. This is achieved by unifying lifecycle management and closed-loop automation for cloud-native applications, MEC and network services, while fully exploiting multi-core and multi-accelerator capabilities for ultra-high computational performance. “AI for Edge” enables dynamic function placement by managing and orchestrating the underlying physical, network, and compute resources. Application-specific network and computational KPIs will be assured in an efficient and collision-free manner, taking Edge resource constraints in to account. Security, privacy and trustworthiness of AI for Edge are addressed to ensure security of the AI-based models against adversarial attacks, privacy of data and models, and transparency in training and execution by providing explanations for model decisions improving trust in models. VERGE will verify the three perspectives through delivery of 7 demonstrations across two use cases - XR-driven Edge-enabled industrial B5G applications across two separate Arçelik sites in Turkey, and Edge-assisted Autonomous Tram operation in Florence. VERGE will disseminate results to academia, industry and the wider stakeholder community through liaisons and contributions to relevant standardization bodies and open sources, a series of demonstrations showing progression through TRLs and by creating an open dataspace for enabling public access to the datasets generated by the project.

Keywords: edge computing,artificial intelligence,security and trustworthiness,extended reality applications,automatisation
Understanding the drying behavior of polymer-coated particle dispersions using optical tweezers (CoffeeRings)

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: Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-08-01
End date: 2024-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 222727.68
EU funding (EUR): 222727.68
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

After spilling coffee, a tell-tale circular stain is left by the drying droplet. This universal phenomenon, known as the “coffee ring effect”, is observed independent of the dispersed material. However, for many technological processes (e.g., coating and ink-jet printing) a uniform particle deposition is required and the coffee ring effect is a major drawback. In preliminary work, I found that the coffee ring effect can be avoided by coating the dispersed particles with surface-active polymers, which leads to a homogeneous particle film independent of the dispersed material type, shape and liquid. The aim of the project "CoffeeRings" is to provide a fundamental understanding on how the physio-chemical properties of the polymer coating affect the interactions of the particles and the drying behavior of the respective particle dispersion. I will receive hands-on training on optical tweezers by the hosting group to fundamentally determine and systematically quantify the changes induced by the polymer coating throughout all stages of the drying process with single-particle resolution. In WP1, I will synthesize a series of model particles with a defined polymer coating and adjust polymer type, grafting density and chain length. In WP2, I will use optical tweezers to measure their interaction potential in bulk liquid, their adsorption rate to liquid interfaces, and their interaction potential when confined at liquid interfaces, which will mimic the involved interactions within drying dispersion droplets. In WP3, I will investigate the drying behavior of the particle dispersions and combine the macroscopic drying manifestations with the microscopic interactions determined in WP2. The successful realization of this project will improve the compositions of particle–polymer–solvent mixtures to obtain reliable, homogeneous deposits, which will stimulate technological advances coating and ink-jet printing processes.

Keywords: coffee ring effect
EUmetriosis: Transforming endometriosis care in Europe: an integrated approach to enhance understanding, diagnosis, tailored management and patient empowerment (EUmetriosis)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Tackling diseases and reducing disease burden
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Netherlands,Croatia,United Kingdom,Poland,Italy,Ireland
Call: Tackling high-burden for patients, under-researched medical conditions (HORIZON-HLTH-2024-DISEASE-03-two-stage, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7051377.96
EU funding (EUR): 6981844.36
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

Despite its high prevalence (10% of women and those assigned female at birth; 200 million worldwide) and huge patient and socioeconomic burden (€30 billion annually on sick leave in the EU), endometriosis is one of the least researched and most underfunded diseases. Decades of indifference and neglect, gaps in our understanding of its aetiology and diagnosis, inadequate therapeutic approaches to pain and infertility, and relatively high uptake of unproven self-management strategies characterise the disease. Using a multipronged approach, our project aims to address critical unmet clinical needs around endometriosis. With involvement of patient organisations and patients with diverse real-life experiences across Europe, we will explore how patients perceive self-management in the light of existing stigma and dismissal in clinical interactions. We will conduct a randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of dietary intervention and cognitive behavioural therapy on endometriosis-related pain and subfertility, aiming at developing new treatment options and practical tools. Analysing steroid metabolomics and microRNA profiling will provide a powerful diagnostic approach able to predict the effectiveness of interventions and likelihood of recurrence, while investigating the link between microbiota health, local epigenetic alterations, immune response and endometriosis development will yield a better understanding of disease mechanisms. Utilising eHealth-based technologies and AI/machine learning, we will also develop models that can predict responses to lifestyle behaviours. Project outcomes will empower affected patients to make and shape decisions for their own health, educate the general public about endometriosis and its heavy burden, and reduce stigmatisation, encouraging more individuals to seek help.

Keywords: endometriosis,self management,clinical needs,metabolomics,microbiome,microrna profilling,ehealth based technologies,ai
Protecting threatened river fish against predation (ProtectFish)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Denmark,Austria,Czechia,Sweden,Italy,Belgium,Poland,Germany
Call: Nature protection: Better methods and knowledge to improve the conservation status of EU-protected species and habitats (HORIZON-CL6-2023-BIODIV-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4033168.5
EU funding (EUR): 4033168.5
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

Freshwater ecosystems are heavily impacted by human activities and climate change. Overall, at least 37% of Europe's freshwater fishes are threatened at a continental scale, and 39% are threatened at the EU level. This is one of the highest threat levels of any major taxonomic group (DG. Environment, 2011). Many species of river fish are in a very poor conservation status and even those that are protected by eg. the Habitats Directive, are not regularly monitored and documentation of the population trend and status is often lacking. A recent great increase in predation pressure has further increased pressure on river fish, even in healthy, restored or least-impacted areas. In the EU, predation may be the main reason for widespread loss of populations of Habitats Directive listed grayling (Thymallus thymallus). There is a genuine and widespread concern among managers and stakeholders regarding protection of wild populations of river fish, as grayling, from unsustainable predation pressure. The conflicts involving fish protection and predation have been intense in most member states for decades and despite protective measures, including culling (Birds Directive article 9-derogations), the conflicts have remained intense. ProtectFish aim to investigate the monitoring and protective measures of Habitat Directive-listed river fish species, answering Area A of the call. We will develop and test protective actions, using cormorants (Phalocorax carbo sinensis) and grayling as a case. Small- and large scale field experiments will be conducted to measure the effect of relieving cormorant predation pressure on fish populations. We will examine the background for the conflicts, by estimating the current population status of cormorants and grayling in EU as well as quantify the culling of cormorants. The results of ProtectFish will directly aid to achievement of EU Biodiversity Strategy, Natura 2000 and the WFD as well as improved adaptive nature management on local levels.

Keywords: adaptive nature management,grayling,cormorants,conservation status,monitoring
Reimagining Borders & Rights through the Voices of Displaced/Stateless Women in Nepal (Voicescape)

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: Belgium,Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-03-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 270300.0
EU funding (EUR): 270300.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Hannah Arendt noted in the 1950s that human rights are dependent on the ‘right to have rights’. Gaps continue to exist in provisions of (inter)national frameworks of rights and in how borders are experienced. It is in these ‘grey’ spaces created by such gaps that displaced and stateless persons inhabit—spaces referred to as borderscapes. By exploring borderscapes, we gain a view of Kathmandu's cityscape through the voices of displaced and stateless women, witnessing their intersectional resistances as they claim their rights. This approach decenters from legal status as a primary mode of analysis and uncovers underexplored imaginaries of rights and pathways for social change. Voicescape offers an avenue to reimagine rights by those in the borderscape. It aims to reshape rights-framed research and community-led change models for these women, contributing to Law and Development (L&D) by connecting with critical theories from border studies, gender studies, and beyond. This transdisciplinary perspective, grounded in epistemologies from the margins and critical-participatory research methodologies, shifts the focus from traditional legal frameworks to a bottom-up view of legal status. Voicescape hypothesises that these women establish counter-territorial epistemologies that reshape the relationship between the individual and the state. As a participatory action research project, it will facilitate inclusive dialogues between women and NGOs, leveraging targeted dissemination efforts. A collaborative research and communications plan will produce joint outputs, enhancing the visibility and impact of women’s voices in broader socio-political contexts. A subsequent placement period will further influence practice with community-driven solutions. Voicescape aims to conceptual and practical contributions—advocating for inclusive, locally-led approaches to addressing the gendered violences of borders in Nepal and influencing global practices in law and development.

Keywords: law and development studies,borders,voice,statelessness,forced migration
Screening Souls, Building Nations. Macedonia(s) as a Laboratory for Balkan-wide Authoritatianism (MACAUTH)

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: Greece,North Macedonia,Ireland
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-03-01
End date: 2028-02-29
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1467800.0
EU funding (EUR): 1467800.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The project aims to investigate a little-explored and usually neglected aspect of the Macedonian Question throughout the late nineteenth and most of the twentieth century: namely, the function of the Macedonian Question as a catalyst and a testing ground for the emergence, development and consolidation of authoritarian state policies on a nation-wide scale in all the Balkan nation-states involved. In other words, how the tools used by the rival nation states to extract national loyalty in late Ottoman Macedonia, where nation had been widely conceived first and foremost as a political party, were subsequently transformed into a far broader method of social and political control. MACAUTH will examine the transfer of particular administrative practices of surveillance, control and political indoctrination, as well as state-sponsored violence and its ideological justification in the name of national expediency, from the initial field of their application in Ottoman and post-Ottoman Macedonia to the mainstream political and social life of Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia/Yugoslavia, as well as to the respective diasporic communities. The impact of the same heritage in Romania, Albania, the Ottoman Empire and its successor nation state, the Turkish Republic, will also be assessed. The research team consists of historians from all five Balkan countries which have been historically involved in the Macedonian conflict (Greece, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Serbia and Romania), plus experts on Albania and the Ottoman Empire. It is composed of the PI, nine post-doctoral fellows and senior researchers, two research assistants and two PhD candidates with their supervisors. They will produce a main monograph, at least a thematic collective volume and 20 articles in peer-reviewed journals, two Ph.D. dissertations, three workshops, an international conference, a journalists’ conference for the dissemination of the project’s output and a website.

Keywords: macedonian question,balkan history,national identities,political surveillance