Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Societal Constitutionalism in a Hegelian perspective (SOCIAL)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175920.0
EU funding (EUR): 175920.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Contemporary political philosophy must address the rise of autonomous social sectors (economy, media, science) that escape state regulation by expanding beyond national borders and that challenge traditional forms of politics. The problem at stake is the relationship between civil society and state which Hegel first outlined from the perspective of the nation-state and which has since been radically reconfigured. SOCIAL aims to develop a new approach to this issue by investigating today’s autonomisation of economic, social and cultural institutions and their integration at the political level. The purpose is to contribute to the debate on the specificity of a transnational subject by introducing conceptual tools in the wake of Hegelian institutional theory. The research will focus on the Hegelian philosopher A. Kojève who explored the possibility of a civil society beyond the state and the relationship between the social and the political on a post-national scale. SOCIAL will highlight the common ground between this neo-Hegelian model and contemporary reflections on societal constitutionalism – in particular the work of the jurist G. Teubner – to outline a new transnational societal constitutionalism in a global perspective. The research will draw on the evolution of functional systems and on institutional pluralism, aspects that current majoritarian approaches such as Kantian cosmopolitanism or Rawlsian theory of international justice do not sufficiently take into account. SOCIAL aims to provide a unified perspective and a new way of conceiving philosophical research in current dialogue with extra-philosophical fields and contemporary debates. Its originality lies in the integration of a neo-Hegelian perspective in political philosophy with different traditions like the theory of social systems and legal pluralism, which are crucial for understanding the structure of society in a world articulated by the coexistence of many parallel legal orders beyond the state.

Keywords: social and political philosophy,philosophy of right,hegelianism,koj ve,social constitutionalism,legal pluralism
Understanding High-Temperature Oxidation of Nickel- and Iron-Based Alloys in Hydrogen-Rich Environments for Energy Applications (HOT-HYGEN)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-06
End date: 2027-10-05
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 202125.12
EU funding (EUR): 202125.12
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The project aims to comprehensively study the high-temperature oxidation behaviour of NiCr and FeCr alloys with alloying additions of e.g., Ti, Mn and Si in the wet/hydrogen-containing atmospheres with emphasis on the growth mechanisms and failure of surface Cr-oxide scales. While these materials have been well-studied in oxygen and air, their performance in the atmospheres than can be encountered in hydrogen power plants and fuel cells, remains unexplored. This research is therefore relevant to the ongoing transition towards hydrogen as a sustainable energy source. Understanding how Ni- and Fe-based materials behave in such conditions is essential for developing more efficient and durable components for power generation. The project will utilize a combination of thermodynamic modeling (ThermoCalc, FactSage) and advanced experimental techniques, including e.g., oxidation testing, Scanning Electron Microscopy, X-Ray Diffraction and TEM/APT (Transmission Electron Microscopy/Atom Probe Tomography). The use of correlative TEM/APT will enable the study of grain boundary diffusion and selective oxidation, providing insights into fast diffusion pathways and oxidation mechanism at the atomic level. Oxygen isotopes will also be used as tracers to allow for quantitative analysis of the elemental distribution providing unique insights into the oxidation mechanisms, crucial for correlating microstructural features with oxidation kinetics and identifying the role of minor elements in material degradation processes. The research will be conducted in an iterative approach, refining theoretical models based on experimental findings to optimize alloy compositions for high-temperature, hydrogen-rich environments. This comprehensive approach will not only advance the fundamental understanding of oxidation processes but also contribute to the development of materials for hydrogen applications, supporting the EU’s green energy transition and reducing CO2 emissions.

Keywords: high temperature oxidation,nickel alloys,ferritic steels,hydrogen atmospheres,grain boundary diffusion,atom probe tomography,thermodynamics,modeling,energy sector,oxidation kinetics
Replicable and Efficient Solutions for Optimal Management of Cross-sector Energy (RESONANCE)

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: Finland,Greece,Germany,France,Sweden,Slovenia,Denmark
Call: Replicable solutions for a cross sector compliant energy ecosystem (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D3-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10178758.79
EU funding (EUR): 8032034.75
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

The RESONANCE project develops an innovative software framework that provides means for rapid development and plug-and-play deployment of standard-compliant Customer Energy Manager (CEM), Resource Manager (RM), and their aggregation solutions. The CEM, specified in the EN 50491-12 standard family, is the next-generation demand-side flexibility management (DSFM) solution in Europe. CEM is a software agent that automates DSFM by interacting with smart appliances (represented by RMs), aggregators, and the markets to maximize customer benefits. According to the new EN 50491-12-2 standard, CEMs are envisioned to 1) provide a more deterministic demand response, and 2) be able to optimize consumer benefits with respect to multiple incentives and optimization targets. To achieve this, there is a need for accurate models of flexible assets (smart appliances) and model predictive control techniques to automate the decision-making within the customer premises. The RESONANCE Framework will facilitate the adoption of CEMs as the next generation DSFM system by significantly reducing the development efforts and costs. This is achieved with 1) a standard-compliant and modular system architecture, and 2) an innovative modeling pipeline that combines automated machine learning (AutoML) with physics-based modeling to provide accurate and robust models of flexible assets with minimum effort. The project brings together 19 partners (including a cluster with 40 organizations) with inter-disciplinary expertise and forms a basis for a cross-sector energy ecosystem that significantly contributes to the mobilization of DSFM at a large scale. Large scale piloting in six member states with a variety of consumer sectors, flexible assets (e.g. electric vehicles, HVAC systems, and white goods), stakeholders, and market settings (including sector integration with district heating) is utilized for demonstrating and validating the scalability and replication potential of the solutions.

Keywords: flexibility management
Light elements in irons and metal-rich meteorites: Their isotopic distribution and evolution in the protoplanetary disk (IRONIS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth System Science
Panel description: Physical geography, geo logy, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1779805.0
EU funding (EUR): 1779805.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Knowledge of the light element (H, C, N) characteristics of planetary building blocks is key to our understanding of the development of habitable conditions on Earth. Since 'magmatic' iron meteorites originate from the metallic cores of the earliest, differentiated planetesimals, they may preserve a record of H, C, and N isotopic variations in the inner and outer solar system during the first stages of planetary accretion. Based on novel multi-light-element isotopic analyses of irons and other Fe-Ni alloy-rich meteorites and experimental simulations, project IRONIS aims to answer the fundamental questions of (i) how the distributions of H, C, and N (and their carrier phases) evolved in space and time within the earliest stages of the protoplanetary disk, and (ii) how H, C, and N were distributed between metals and silicates during planetesimal accretion, differentiation, and subsequent evolution. A major objective is to develop novel secondary ion mass spectrometry protocols for analyzing H, C, and N in situ in Fe-Ni alloy, and to combine these with 'bulk' N-noble gas analyses by static noble gas mass spectrometry. The originality and uniqueness of project IRONIS thus lies in the coupling of two state-of the-art analytical techniques, which allow the quantification of any solar gas and cosmogenic nuclide contributions. Only once the effects of these secondary components are understood, can spatiotemporal isotopic variations in the protoplanetary disk be investigated. In parallel, new cross-calibrated N analyses of experimental run products will provide constraints on the degree of N isotopic fractionation during alloy-silicate partitioning, and will permit us to assess if the N isotopic compositions of irons represent a primary feature of their parent bodies. Ultimately, by investigating the remnants of the first planetesimal populations, project IRONIS will provide new fundamental insights into the cosmochemical history and evolution of life-forming light elements.

Keywords: hydrogen,carbon,nitrogen,noble gases,isotopes,mass spectrometry,meteorites,planetesimal cores,solar system
Twinning Innovation Hub for Microbial Platforms in Plastic Upcycling (TwInn4MicroUp)

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: Coordination and support actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Greece,Ireland,Serbia,Italy
Call: Twinning Green Deal (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1349663.75
EU funding (EUR): 1349663.75
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

Plastics have become indispensable in various industries today, but their widespread use has resulted in a severe environmental crisis—plastic waste accumulation. Traditional methods of plastic waste management are insufficient and recycling faces quality and degradation challenges. Enter upcycling, a process gaining prominence in converting plastic waste into valuable chemicals and materials in an eco-friendly manner. TwInn4MicroUp presents an innovative approach to plastic waste upcycling, employing green bio/mechano/chemical technologies to recover plastic monomers. Modern molecular techniques will be utilized to create microbial cell factories capable of producing bioactive compounds from these plastic-derived feedstocks, revolutionizing industries related to bio-colorants, biotherapeutics, bio-nutraceuticals, biosurfactants, and biomaterials. TwInn4MicroUp is on a visionary mission to create the MicroUp HUB, an advanced Research and Innovation Hub in Synthetic Microbial Biotechnology. In our pursuit of maximal impact, we aim to establish strategic partnerships, strengthen NTUA's capabilities, enhance scientific excellence, and promote entrepreneurship and innovation. Our overarching goal is to establish NTUA at the core of the MicroUp HUB, leaving a lasting legacy by advancing scientific knowledge, environmental protection, public awareness, economic development, and global collaboration. Together, we are steering toward a sustainable and responsible future.

Keywords: mechano enzymatic plastic degradation,upcycling,synthetic microbial biotechnology,research innovation hub,capacity building,biopigments,polyhydroxyalkanoates,bio oil,bio surfactants
Fundamentals of formal properties of nonmanuals: A quantitative approach (NONMANUAL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Compl exity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics
Countries involved: Norway
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Sign languages, in addition to using the hands, also use positions and movements of other articulators: the body, the head, the mouth, the eyebrows, the eyes and the eyelids, to convey lexical, grammatical, and prosodic information. This linguistic use of the nonmanual articulators is known as nonmanuals. Contrary to current assumptions in the field of sign linguistics, this project proposes the hypothesis that all sign languages use the same basic universal building blocks (nonmanual movements) but that each language is different in how it combines these building blocks both sequentially and simultaneously. Languages also differ in the regularity, frequency, and the alignment properties of the nonmanuals. In order to test this hypothesis, the project will investigate formal properties of nonmanuals in five geographically, historically, and socially diverse sign languages using data from published naturalistic corpora of the sign languages, Computer Vision for extracting measurements of the movement of nonmanual articulators, and a statistical technique of Functional Data Analysis for a quantitative comparison of dynamic nonmanual contours. This will result in the first quantitative formal typology of nonmanuals grounded in naturalistic corpus data. The novel methodology proposed in this project requires testing, adjustment, and development, which constitutes an important component of the project. The developed methodological pipeline will be a secondary output enabling large-scale reliable quantitative research on nonmanuals in future. Finally, the established typology of formal properties of nonmanuals in the five sign languages will serve as basis for a cross-modal comparison between nonmanuals and prosody/intonation in spoken languages in order to separate truly universal features of the human linguistic capacity from the effects of the visual vs. auditory modalities.

Keywords: sign language linguistics,nonmanual markers
Linguistic Ambiguities in Advocates General's Opinions (LAAGO)

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: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 260347.92
EU funding (EUR): 260347.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This cross-disciplinary project analyses linguistic ambiguity in English and Italian Opinions of the Advocates General (AGs) of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).The study focuses on the use and semantic consequences of the lexical and structural ambiguities produced by using three different linguistic practices: text production in a first language, second language text production, and translation. Three corpora of Opinions per language (representing the three practices) will be analysed using a mixed methodology of corpus-based and manual methods to identify and compare linguistic ambiguities and their consequences in the semantic interpretations of the texts. The outcomes will show the impact of different linguistic practices on the use and production of the ambiguities, hence on the Opinions' semantic interpretation, highlighting that it necessarily has implications for the development and interpretation of EU law. This is vital to understand the repercussions of the linguistic policies in EU jurisprudence.

Keywords: corpus linguistics legal translation studies courts of justice of the european unions advocates general s opinions structural and lexical ambiguities first second language production
Comprehending Human Action using Social Networks (CHAIN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance , management
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2029-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1491649.0
EU funding (EUR): 1491649.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This proposal consists of three interconnected projects that study how social networks shape the behavior of 1) scientists, 2) politicians, and 3) citizens by using the structure of networks for identification. The first project investigates how social media networks shape knowledge production in academia. Through a comprehensive dataset of economists and their Twitter activity, the project provides insights into the information acquisition process of scientists and how scientists’ networks impact the direction of science. The project will examine the causal effect of social media usage on research output, collaboration, citation patterns, and careers. Moreover, the project will highlight inefficiencies in the scientific process that arise through scientific fads and herd behavior. The second project will generate some of the first large-scale empirical analyses of the role of congressional staffers in the policy-making process. Based on comprehensive data on congressional staffers, their networks, and the activities of congress members, the project will generate pathbreaking insights into the impact of staffers on congressional voting behavior as well as policy priorities. The project will isolate the effect of staffers using a network-based identification strategy that leverages the educational ties of staffers. In this way, the research project will break new ground in the field of political economy by opening the black box of the policy-making process. The third project focuses on the political effects of social media and the effectiveness of algorithmic interventions by investigating the impact of sharing limits on the social media platform WhatsApp. The project will analyze how this change to information flows on a network affects conflict events, believes, and election results in the world's largest democracy: India. The research project thereby addresses a gap in the field of social media research by shedding light on an often-proposed policy intervention

Keywords: networks,social media,politics,law making,science,algorithmic regulation,information flows,political staffers,protests,conflict
Will leaf phenology keep pace with climate warming? (LEAFPACE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth System Science
Panel description: Physical geography, geo logy, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2029-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2013578.0
EU funding (EUR): 2013578.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Leaf phenology, the study of the seasonal timing and drivers of budburst, leaf unfolding, maturation and senescence, is the starting point of land carbon (C) cycle models, driving C allocation between organs, and thus largely controlling C budget estimates. It is often cited as one of the largest uncertainties in future climate predictions. Despite centuries of research, the environmental control of leaf phenology is still not fully understood. State-of-the-art approaches empirically relate phenophases to macroclimatic air temperature, unable to capture conditions sensed by the tree (microclimate) or species-specific variability. This translates into models unable to accurately reproduce forest response to climate change. Understanding why trees grow or shed their leaves is thus key to assessing the resilience of forests. This project proposes a new paradigm for exploring the biophysical and ecophysiological controls of leaf phenology across scales, based on a unified theory linking phenology to species strategy and the coordination of physiological processes in a limiting environment. Key innovations are: (1) new insight into the microclimatic control of phenology through unprecedented monitoring of the bud/leaf energy budget, (2) the identification of the key links between phenology and species strategy, (3) the quantification of the colimiting factors of leaf phenology across scales, accounting for environmental and physiological processes, and (4) the application of a new generation of models incorporating the biophysical and ecophysiological controls of phenology. These insights are urgently needed to reduce uncertainties in C cycle estimates and to assess the response of forest to climate within the context of the IPCC. These innovations will unlock several domains to which phenology is central (forestry, agriculture) and open a realm of untapped research questions and applications that require robust forecasting of forest dynamics (drought, fire).

Keywords: phenology,forest,climate change,biogeochemical cycles,terrestrial biosphere model,remote sensing