Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Lithium NiObate empowered siLIcon nitride Platform for fragmentation free OPeration in the visible and the NIR (LOLIPOP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: Digital & Emerging Technologies for Competitiveness and Fit for the Green Deal
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Photonics (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Greece,Netherlands,Ireland,Germany,Belgium,Switzerland
Call: Advanced Photonic Integrated Circuits (Photonics Partnership) (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4996729.25
EU funding (EUR): 4996729.25
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

Despite the huge progress by photonics, extended spectral bands at wavelengths below 1100 nm remain heavily underserved in terms of integration solutions. At the same time, the silicon nitride is booming and the lithium niobate is making an impressive comeback in the form of lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI), with both materials being transparent both in the visible and the NIR. With all these viewed as a unique opportunity, LOLIPOP steps in to develop a disruptive platform that will offer the highest integration, modulation and second order nonlinear performance in the entire spectrum from 400 up to 1600 nm, based on the combination of the LNOI and the silicon-nitride (TriPleX) technology. To this end, LOLIPOP will develop die-bonding and micro-transfer-printing methods for low-loss (<0.5 dB) integration of LNOI films on TriPleX without compromise in the functionality of the two platforms. It will also develop a process for growth of Ge photodiodes (PDs) inside pockets and a process for flip-chip bonding of active elements inside recesses on TriPleX. Given the possibility of the Ge-PDs to operate in the entire 400-1600 nm spectrum, and the flexibility of the bonding process to adapt to different actives and wavelengths, the picture of this ultra-wideband technology is complete. LOLIPOP will demonstrate its potential via the development of: 1) The first ever integrated laser Doppler vibrometer at 532 nm with ultra-narrow linewidth (<5 kHz) and ultra-high modulation (6 GHz), 2) The first ever integrated FMCW-LIDAR at 905 nm with ultra-high linear chirp (10 GHz) and optical phased array-based 2D beam scanning, 3) Photonic convolutional neural networks with record scale, computation speed (24 TOPS) and power consumption reduction compared to electronic solutions, and 4) The first ever integrated squeezed-state source with 6 dB squeezing level for quantum applications at 1550 nm. A roadmap for the offering of LOLIPOP technology as commercial service will be prepared.

Keywords: visible part of spectrum,silicon nitride,lithium niobate,heterogeneous integration,micro transfer printing,lidar,optical neuromorphics,laser doppler vibrometer,optical parametric processes
A Statistical Mechanics Framework for Immiscible Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media (AGIPORE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and Processes Engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Norway
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The flow of immiscible fluids in porous media is at the heart of a wide range of applications, some of which are central to humanity. Oil recovery has traditionally had such a role, but more recently, aquifer replenishment to maintain water supplies has become a field of increasing worldwide importance. Immiscible multiphase flow in porous media is a problem in hydrodynamics of extraordinary complexity. Not only does one have the intricacies of moving fluid interfaces, but the flow occurs within a pore space having a highly contorted geometry. Porous media typically span orders of magnitude in length scales: The pore scale may be in the micrometer range or less whereas the macroscopic scale may be in the kilometer range. Is there a way to find a description of the flow at these large scales from a knowledge of how the fluids behave at the pore scale? My claim is that there is. Statistical mechanics, which has been used to derive thermodynamics from the motion of molecules, can be reformulated to do the same for immiscible multiphase flow in porous media. This sounds like an impossible task as statistical mechanics demands equilibrium whereas the flow problem is driven. The approach I propose is based on information theory and hydrodynamics. My objective is to develop a complete theory for immiscible multiphase flow in porous media at large scales based on a reformulation of statistical mechanics that encompasses the pore scale physics and which is simple enough to be useful in practical engineering applications. This will allow me to reproduce accurately the formation of viscous fingers when a less viscous fluid invades a more viscous fluid. This is a problem as important in field-scale modelling as it is difficult. This will be the first time a statistical mechanics framework for non-thermal, non-equilibrium systems has been developed. This has interest far beyond the realm of porous media.

Keywords: multiphase flow in porous media,upscaling,relative permeability,viscous fingers,maximum entropy
ultra-massive MIMO for future cell-free heterogeneous networks (MiFuture)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Spain,Portugal,Finland,Sweden,Poland,France,United Kingdom,Belgium
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4740086.06
EU funding (EUR): 4038994.8
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

The increasing demand of higher data rates while ensuring sustainability through reduced energy consumption levels call for a collective effort to define and set up the new generation of mobile communications. It is expected that some of the newly arising services will need to accurately map the environment for a seamless interaction of the physical and the digital worlds, and then require a combination of communications, positioning and sensing. The vision of MiFuture is that an evolution of massive multiple input – multiple output (MIMO), the technique that has provided the unprecedented spectral efficiency of 5G, towards ultra-massive MIMO (UmMIMO), will be a key ingredient in the future mobile radio access network. MiFuture will pave the path towards the implementation of heterogeneous cell-free networks with an ultra-massive number of antennas that will satisfy the throughput, energy efficiency, positioning accuracy and feasible complexity requirements that the evolution of mobile communications towards 6G demands. This evolution will require a new generation of excellent researchers able to address the emerging complex engineering problems that the thriving area of mobile communications is facing. MiFuture will develop a high-level personalised multidisciplinary programme to provide 15 Ph.D. candidates, supervised by committed experts from industry and academia, with research competences and transferable skills (e.g., entrepreneurship, project management, IPR, open access) with the long-term goal to lead scientific advances in the new concepts arising in the field of wireless communications. These creative young researchers will face real world implementation, work across multiple European countries and organisations, become knowledgeable in standardisation activities, present at workshops in front of researchers and industrial stakeholders and interact with the general public to make them aware of how 6G can help in their daily lives.

Keywords: 6g mobile networks ultra massive mimo signal processing cell free open ran radio resource management prototyping measurements
Simulating electronic dynamics with Quantum Trajectories by combining exact factorization and Density Functional Theory (QT-DFT)

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: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 200141.89
EU funding (EUR): 200141.89
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The quantum mechanical simulation of time-dependent (TD) phenomena is relevant for many technological and medical applications, as in solar cells design, control of radiation damage in biomolecules, photocatalysis, nanoscale conductance devices, and quantum computers. With this proposal, the candidate intends to overcome the most critical limitations of current methods for the calculation of electronic dynamics - most notably of TD Density Functional Theory (DFT) - by pioneering a combination of (1) innovative density functional approximations and (2) an algorithm for time-propagation that treats one electron semi-classically. The common thread linking these parts is the so-called exact factorization, an overarching strategy that has been used by both the candidate and the supervisor in the contexts of DFT and molecular dynamics (MD), respectively. According to this strategy, the wavefunction is rewritten as a product of a “marginal” and a “conditional” amplitude and the corresponding Schrödinger equation is conveniently expanded into two coupled equations, providing a clear decomposition of the chemical environment. Joining together the candidate's expertise in fundamental DFT and the supervisor’s expertise in trajectory-based approaches, the algorithm that will be developed takes inspiration from the method elaborated by the host for ab initio MD simulations and adapts and supplements it in a way suitable to treat the motion of electrons. The project includes validation of the algorithm on simple electronic structures (simple atoms/molecules), whose static and dynamical densities and potentials are computationally accessible and can serve as benchmark. The end goal of the project is to develop a reliable and computationally practical method for the simulation of ultrafast processes that can support and complement the emergent experimental techniques (attosecond spectroscopy), particularly for those cases for which present TDDFT or alternative approaches fail.

Keywords: density functional theory,exact factorization,electronic dynamics,ultrafast processes,trajectory based approaches
Improving the living and labour conditions of irregularised migrant households in Europe (I-CLAIM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on Social and Economic Transformations
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Netherlands,Italy,Finland,Germany,United Kingdom,Poland
Call: Conditions of irregular migrants in Europe (HORIZON-CL2-2022-TRANSFORMATIONS-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2282953.75
EU funding (EUR): 2282953.75
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

The project investigates the living and working conditions of irregularised migrant households in Europe from an intersectional perspective. It aims to reveal the spectrum of irregularity in contemporary Europe and cast light on the everyday experiences of migrants with irregular, unstable and/or precarious legal status. I-CLAIM develops the concept of ‘irregularity assemblages’ to capture how migrants’ ‘irregular condition’ is produced by the interplay of immigration and asylum laws, policies and practice, wider labour market and welfare regimes, and political, media and public narratives. The irregular condition is shaped by migrants’ social position and positionality as well as by processes that occur at international, European, regional and local levels. This approach will inform our theoretical understanding, methodology and analytical framework and how the consortium organises its work. Moreover, it enables us to design, assess and validate detailed policy options and public interventions targeted at place-specific, sectoral, and intersectional criticalities and vulnerabilities experienced by a range of people in irregular situations in Europe. To achieve its overarching ambition, we will engage at all stages of the project cycle with relevant European, national, local and sectoral actors in six countries (Finland, Germany, Italy, The Netherland, Poland and the UK) through Country Stakeholder Groups (CSG) and a European Stakeholder Group (EISG). Moreover, we will organise a series of consultative and participatory initiatives to produce new knowledge, inform public and political debate, validate key research findings, and design policy recommendations.

Keywords: migrant workers irregular migrants immigration regimes immigration enforcement discrimination social exclusion narrative analysis multi sited ethnography
More-than-Human Histories of Rural Landscapes in the Andes, 19th-20th century (HI-LANDeS)

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,Chile,Bolivia, Plurinational State of
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): 226694.4
EU funding (EUR): 226694.4
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

HI-LANDeS develops a conceptually innovative and empirically grounded historicising approach to the transformation and governance of rural landscapes. In the face of planetary-wide anthropogenic change, new knowledge and methods are required to better grasp how human and nonhuman lives co-produce socio-environmental transformations through “more-than-human” histories. Strategic sites for carbon storage, water sources, and biodiversity, as well as home to resilient indigenous communities, Andean wetlands offer a unique case-study to examine “more-than-human” landscape histories, and how these can inform contemporary socio-environmental challenges. The main objective of HI-LANDeS is to construct and apply an analytical framework that integrates a historicising, systemic, and more-than-human perspective on rural landscapes to investigate the role of communal practices and knowledge production around water and land in the transformation and governance of rural landscapes. HI-LANDeS departs from two case studies in indigenous communities of the Bolivian-Chilean highlands, based on archival research, fieldwork, and community workshops, analysed within a global framework and a transdisciplinary collaboration. HI-LANDeS will produce new empirical knowledge, critical theoretical insights, and innovative co-creational methods that can contribute to more inclusive conservation and rural development policies, in the Andes, Europe but also more globally. This global fellowship facilitates a three-way transfer of knowledge between expertise in rural history, world-ecology, and rural development at UGent (Belgium), a strong tradition in Andean historical anthropology at UTA (Chile), and the fellow’s trajectory in environmental humanities. Through an intersectoral secondment at NGO Agua Sustentable (Bolivia), the fellow will enable a knowledge transfer between historical research and environmental governance.

Keywords: environmental humanities,rural history,andes,landscape,historical anthropology,indigenous communities,environmental governance,19th century,20th century,bolivia,chile
Predicting rewilding impacts on ecosystems through ecological interaction networks (NetRewild)

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: Denmark,Netherlands,Switzerland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 329241.6
EU funding (EUR): 329241.6
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Scaling up ecosystem restoration is critical during the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) to combat the climate crisis, enhance biodiversity and restore essential ecosystem services. Trophic rewilding, which often involves the reintroduction of species to reinstate natural processes, is promising but remains controversial due to uncertainties about its broader, long-term impacts on ecosystems. To address these concerns, further research is needed to guide effective, science-based restoration efforts. In this context, NetRewild addresses key challenges in restoration ecology by focusing on the complexity of species interaction networks that drive ecosystem processes. Interaction networks serve as a key link between individual species and overall ecosystem properties such as structure, stability, and function. This innovative approach moves beyond traditional restoration methods, which typically emphasize individual species or habitats, offering a more holistic perspective on ecosystem dynamics. NetRewild will use trait-based models to predict animal-plant interactions and associated ecological functions, such as seed dispersal and plant regeneration, based on species traits and assemblages across Natura 2000 sites. The research will focus on two main areas: first, how functional traits explain the mechanisms driving interaction patterns and ecological processes, addressing a critical knowledge gap essential for predicting future ecosystem impacts; second, how historical changes in herbivore communities and future rewilding scenarios shape ecosystem function and stability. The expected results will provide a science-based foundation for actionable strategies to support successful rewilding initiatives, while integrating insights from real-world applications.

Keywords: ecological networks,restoration ecology,rewilding,species re introductions,megafauna,ecosystem stability,ecosystem function,predictive models,nature based solutions
Projecting the fate of Arctic and Alpine ungulates: how past climate and harvesting shaped genetics and demography (AA-ungulates)

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 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): 195914.88
EU funding (EUR): 195914.88
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Conserving biodiversity urgently requires the integration of knowledge across ecological-time, -scales and -disciplines. AA-ungulates will fulfil such major ambition, developing an innovative framework joining palaeoecology to evolutionary demography. By extracting invaluable knowledge from millennia of natural history and detailed demographic data, this project will provide advances in predicting species persistence under rapid global changes. Specifically, the project will study 1) the effect of climate and harvest on effective population sizes of Arctic and Alpine ungulates at historical (using subfossil genomics) and 2) contemporary (using genomics and demography) timescales, to 3) project their population viability under credible climate scenarios. To achieve these novel goals, I propose a pioneering approach linking state-of-the-art genomics from ancient and modern specimens to individual-monitoring programs. To maximize societal impacts, the research focuses on charismatic ungulates sharing histories of hunting-induced bottlenecks and inhabiting biomes warming the fastest on Earth. These unique empirical datasets will allow theoretical advancements by identifying common genetic-to-demography processes, with important insights on how population viability is tied to low genetic diversity. To undertake this integrative endeavor, a two-way transfer of knowledge will be crucial between the Beneficiary (Université Savoie-Mont Blanc, USMB, France) and I. In G. Yannic’s expert group, I will learn about alpine ecology and paleogenomics and in turn will bring knowledge of arctic ecology and demographic biostatistics. A strong collaborative team from 9 institutions in 4 countries, gathering eminent specialists in key aspects of AA-ungulates, will further enrich my network and skills. The high-quality outputs planned, supplemented by the diverse early-career programs at USMB, will give a springboard to become an independent expert in multiscale evolutionary demography.

Keywords: ancient dna,capture mark recapture,effective population size,mitogenomes,paleogenomics,population matrix,reproductive success,species viability,subfossil
CORROSION STABILITY OF AELECTRA SYSTEM (CORR-AELECTRA)

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: Denmark,Croatia
Call: Hop on Facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-06, 2023)
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 480726.25
EU funding (EUR): 480726.25
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The CORR-AELECTRA project aims to gain the knowledge on the behavior of selected metallic materials in liquid ammonia in the presence of hydrogen. This knowledge will support development of AELECTRA technology for liquid anhydrous ammonia production and separation. Currently there is a very limited research on performance of different metallic materials in such a complex environment where hydrogen, ammonia and water are present at high pressures. FCET will fill the knowledge gap by conducting electrochemical, spectroscopic, microscopic and mechanical examination of metallic materials; during and upon the exposure to liquid ammonia alone or in combination with hydrogen. Metals will be exposed to additional conditions, such as water contamination, elevated temperatures, different composition of gases, as well as the surface polarization. CORR-AELECTRA will facilitate the material choice and help AELECTRA technology achieve longest possible operation time with a minimum degradation in performance. The current AELECTRA consortium lacks partners that have expertise in corrosion science and FCET, as a partner from widening country will join AELECTRA and bring this expertise. FCET has had 100+ projects with industry on corrosion problems. FCET's participation in CORR-AELECTRA will help FCET gain international visibility, in in a context of applied corrosion in electrochemical energy storage and conversion, and in particular those related to ammonia production and storage. In addition, FCET team members will gain new skills in project management in complex international projects. This will open new venues and make FCET attractive partner in new transnational projects within HORIZON Europe.

Keywords: ammonia,hydrogen,corrosion,hydrogen embrittelment