Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
COnstRaiNing the Origin of Galactic cosmic RAys using gamma-ray and Neutrino Diffuse Emissions (CORNO GRANDE)

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: Italy,China
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 186383.4
EU funding (EUR): 186383.4
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

While cosmic rays (CRs) were discovered more than a century ago, their sources have not been firmly identified yet. It is commonly believed that CRs below PeV energy have a Galactic origin. However, we struggle to find Galactic sources able to accelerate CR up to PeV energy. The standard candidates, supernova remnants (SNRs), do not seem to reach such high energies, suggesting the need for an alternative source class. A key factor in addressing this question is the observation of other messengers, such as gamma rays and neutrinos. These particles, produced by CR interactions with the interstellar medium, carry valuable information about the locations of sources, and the propagation of CRs around sources and through the Galaxy. The LHAASO detector recently reported the observation of ultra-high-energy (UHE) gamma rays from various sources, including the Cygnus cocoon, providing a first experimental proof that star clusters (SCs) might be PeVatrons. Additionally, observations suggest that the regions around some of these sources exhibit a reduced diffusion coefficient, likely due to high levels of magnetic turbulence. With LHAASO unveiling the UHE gamma-ray sky, it is timely and crucial to use these observations to identify the sources of CRs. In the first work package (WP) of CORNO GRANDE, we will investigate how different scenarios for CR transport around sources affect the capability of LHAASO to resolve PeV sources. In the second WP, we will explore SCs as potential PeVatrons. In particular, we will use a semi-analytical model to describe CR propagation from SCs and SNRs. By computing the CR flux at Earth and comparing it with local measurements, we will constrain the magnetic turbulence around sources. In the last WP, we will constrain the number of PeV SCs in our population using the LHAASO catalog. Finally, we will calculate the gamma-ray and neutrino diffuse emission produced by our population and compare it with recent measurements by LHAASO and IceCube.

Keywords: galactic cosmic rays,gamma rays and neutrinos,cr transport around sources and in the galaxy
Early-life URBAN environmental exposures and childhood multimorbidity: An Exposome-wide approach (URBANE)

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: Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 29.0
Total project cost (EUR): 182245.2
EU funding (EUR): 182245.2
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

URBANE addresses an important and timely question: how does the urban environment impact the developmental origins of multimorbidity? Neurodevelopmental, cardiometabolic and respiratory adverse health outcomes are increasingly prevalent at young ages, with diseases such as obesity and asthma affecting up to four out of ten children in Europe. Multimorbidity, the co-occurrence of two or more health conditions, in childhood is thus becoming a major public health problem with short- and long-term consequences. Although it is well known that environmental hazards play a role in the development of diseases, the contribution of the complex environment in which we grow up and live on the development of multimorbidity remains unclear. URBANE addresses this knowledge gap. The project will leverage the resources of the Portuguese population-based birth cohort Generation XXI and follow an exposome-wide approach to the study of urban environmental impact on childhood multimorbidity. For that, the project will use a wide range of geospatial urban exposure data (e.g., air pollution, and characteristics of the urban natural and built environment) and multiple adverse health outcomes (e.g., high blood pressure, obesity, asthma, behavioral problems) collected at the vulnerable early stages of the lifecourse (pregnancy and childhood). The project will explore socioeconomic status and gender differences and also assess whether DNA methylation changes and dysregulation of hormone leptin explain the urban environmental impact on multimorbidity. URBANE will contribute to the discovery of urban environmental priorities, vulnerable subpopulations and aid in the identification of underlying mechanisms. URBANE is highly interdisciplinary, and fosters knowledge exchange. The project aligns with major EU strategies related to the urban environment and non-communicable diseases prevention, and thus its results are expected to be of high relevance for researchers, policy makers, and society.

Keywords: exposome early life origins children multimorbidity
SafeTravellers: Secure and Frictionless Identity for EU and Third Country National Citizens (SafeTravellers)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Civil Security for Society
Theme: Civil Security for Society
Destination: Border Management
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Portugal,Germany,Luxembourg,Netherlands,France,Austria,Greece,Italy,Cyprus,Finland,Romania,Slovakia,Belgium
Call: Enhanced security of, and combating the frauds on, identity management and identity and travel documents (HORIZON-CL3-2022-BM-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7477390.02
EU funding (EUR): 6081079.21
Participants: 24
Project status: SIGNED

Identity theft is rapidly expanding, causing substantial financial loss to millions of people all around the world. This invisible crime is also widespread across EU countries, where a growing number of citizens is targeted by sophisticated fraudulent attacks each year, both offline and online. 56% of Europeans have experienced at least one type of fraud in the last two years. European security officials speak of an “epidemic” created by a spike in demand from asylum-seekers and from terrorists carrying counterfeit documents to enter the EU. Security documents are increasingly being counterfeited or tampered with by criminals to facilitate transnational crime. The continued vulnerability of different types of identity and travel documents makes it extremely difficult to combat this problem. SafeTravellers value proposition aims at a) strengthening the security at the borders, b) improving the productivity of the Border Authorities and LEAs by providing them with the appropriate tools to combat identity fraud at the hardware, identity and travel document, and biometrics level, while c) offering a frictionless border crossing experience for EU/TCN citizens as they will not have to stop at the border checkpoints. SafeTravellers is both proposing a new way of citizen identification based on multiple biometrics instead of the problematic identity document, as well as an enhancement of the current way of identity verification at the borders through a set of tools that will detect attacks at the biometric hardware, identity and travel document fraud and attempts to falsify biometrics. The proposed solution is GDPR compliant and introduces various privacy-preserving mechanisms to safeguard the citizens' rights. Through the distributed European Multi-Biometric Data Space offered by SafeTravellers, each Member State will keep in its jurisdiction the personal data of its country nationals while allowing cross-border identity checks without transferring or revealing any biometric data.

Keywords: securing identity and travel documents biometrics machine learning visual analytics fraud detection
Assessing long-term changes in Indigenous Environmental Knowledge (IEK-CHANGES)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Human Mobility, Environment, and Space
Panel description: Human geography, demography, health, susta inability science, territorial planning, spatial analysis
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499922.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499922.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Ethnobiological research provides contradictory evidence of changes in Indigenous Environmental Knowledge (IEK) systems, with some studies suggesting processes of knowledge erosion and others emphasizing adaptability and resilience. The ecological impacts of such changes are also largely unknown, given that ethnobiologists generally lack diachronic or longitudinal data for the study of IEK changes over long periods of time, and their knock-on effects on biodiversity. Using systematic ethnobiological place-based data collection in a unique research site in the Bolivian Amazon with an untapped wealth of long-term ethnobiological information, in this project I will rigorously assess the processes through which IEK systems change over time, and the ecological impacts associated with such changes. This project will be conducted in partnership with the Tsimane’ Indigenous Peoples through processes of knowledge co-production. The combined use of cutting-edge geospatial analyses with ethnographically-grounded data will allow me to disentangle the interwoven relationships between IEK changes and biodiversity loss, and provide a more granular interpretation of causality in hypothesis-driven ethnobiological research. The project will contribute to a paradigm shift in the way in which change and causality are addressed and theorized in ethnobiological scholarship, enriching scholarly discussions about the push and pull between continuity and change within IEK systems, and significantly expanding our knowledge of the pathways through which the loss of collective intergenerational memory impinges negatively on biodiversity conservation. The project’s ground-breaking nature lies on its focus not only on changes in IEK content (e.g., plant uses), but also on the contexts for such changes (e.g., biocultural landscapes), and its interwoven ecological impacts (e.g., forest loss).

Keywords: biocultural conservation environmental stewardship ethnobiology ethnoecology indigenous knowledge indigenous peoples
Continental Rifting and Volcanism in the Western Sicilian Channel (CoRVoS)

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: Malta,Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2025-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 161411.52
EU funding (EUR): 161411.52
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Understanding the mechanisms of continental rifting is fundamental to the study of plate tectonics. CoRVoS will investigate the relationship between tectonic processes, and magmatism in the Sicilian Channel Rift Zone (SCRZ). Although our understanding of active, plume-associated rifting has been advanced recently, the SCRZ is characterised by passive rifting. A comprehensive regional model detailing how volcanism has developed in this region is lacking, and would generate further understanding regarding to what extent passive rifting is accommodated by magmatism. There are a lack of interdisciplinary studies investigating both the structure and geochemistry of such regions, which is crucial in devising a robust model. CoRVoS proposes to use a unique catalogue of volcanic samples from 22 submarine volcanoes in conjunction with high-resolution bathymetry and structural data, which will be collected as part of a funded research cruise. Whole-rock, mineral, and melt chemistry, thermobarometric models, and textural studies of the volcanic products will allow for the determination of the crustal evolution of magmas. This data will be compared across areas of the rift zone with differing tectonic processes, determined using high-resolution bathymetric data. 40Ar/39Ar geochronology will determine of the age of volcanism, allowing for temporal analysis of magmatic processes. The volcanic activity in this area includes historical submarine eruptions, and four new volcanic edifices were recently discovered off the coast of Southwest Sicily. The hazard associated with these volcanoes, and any tsunamis they may generate, to the densely populated coastal areas of Sicily, the shipping industry and seafloor infrastructure, is currently poorly quantified. CoRVoS aims to assess this risk using the type, extent, and age of volcanic activity to investigate whether these sites are active, how recent the activity was, whether the activity was explosive and how much material was ejected.

Keywords: volcanology,continental rifting,structural geology,marine geology,marine geophysics,geochemistry,igneous petrology,geomorphology,tectonics
Empowering healthy lifestyle behaviour through personalised intervention portfolios to prevent and control obesity during vulnerable stages of life (HealthyW8)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Staying Healthy in a rapidly changing society
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Luxembourg,Germany,Bulgaria,Spain,Italy,Portugal,Denmark,Netherlands,Romania
Call: Prevention of obesity throughout the life course (HORIZON-HLTH-2022-STAYHLTH-01-two-stage, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 10000000.0
Participants: 25
Project status: SIGNED

Over 30% of EU citizens at vulnerable stages and situations in life are at increased risk to transgress from healthy weight to overweight and further to obesity. Though many interventions to tackle obesity have been proposed, they have rarely been effective. The aim of HealthyW8 is to advance the efficacy of current and future efforts and investments in obesity prevention initiatives across Europe. Most interventions suffer from not adapting to personal context (e.g. socioeconomic aspects, host-biological factors, environment, dietary preferences, fitness level etc.), focus only on diet or physical activity alone, do especially overlook emotional aspects, and fail to engage and motivate the user. Thus, initiatives on obesity prevention in policy and practice are often of marginal impact. HealthyW8 will address these shortcomings by iteratively developing, together with stakeholders, a digital-based healthy lifestyle recommender for evidence-based, tailored interventions and tools including a human digital twin to bridge the gap between science, societal actors and stakeholders (e.g. healthcare professionals, food industries, policymakers) and EU citizens. The targeted populations are those undergoing transitions, i.e. schoolchildren (5-10 y, and their parents), young adults (18-25 y) and the elderly (>65 y). In the mid-term, we estimate that with 200,000 HealthyW8 users, we will prevent 10,000 obesity cases/y. In the long run, the impact will be maximized through adopting the project’s proposed methodology, platform and tools by as many EU institutions and entities as possible. HealthyW8 is a highly experienced, synergistic and complementary consortium that will built on a previously developed digital dietary app (LIFANA) and draw on transdisciplinary research in pan-EU multicentre pilots and long-term randomized control trials to achieve its overarching objective of increasing impact of current and future obesity prevention interventions and policies in the EU.

Keywords: healthy lifestyle recommender system,digital empowerment,health literacy,personalised prevention,pre obesity biomarkers,mhealth,human digital twin,behavior change techniques,physical activity
Resilient Solutions for Coastal, Urban, Estuarine and Riverine Environments (RESCUER)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Norway,Spain,Italy,Denmark,France,Portugal,United States,Germany
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2873304.0
EU funding (EUR): 2752149.6
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

The Doctoral Network (DN) “RESCUER“ (Resilient Solutions for Coastal, Urban, Estuarine and Riverine Environments) will focus on the training of young researchers (Fellows) in the general area of coastal oceanography, hydraulic and coastal engineering, applied mathematics, and scientific computation. The network will leverage advances in the numerical treatment of hydrodynamic equations in the past decade to create multi-physics models able to address pressing needs in practical modeling of various phenomena in the coastal zone with the goal of improving overall safety of coastal areas. Ensuring the safety of property and commercial developments onshore and offshore requires an integrated approach, including phase-resolving wave modeling, tracking and mitigation of morphological changes, potential flooding in urban areas and monitoring of water quality. While protective structures and emergency plans for catastrophic storm waves and storm surges are well established, the confluence of global warming and sea level rise with other known natural risk factors and increasing human activity create a new set of hazards and requires new thinking in coastal modeling and the planning of mitigation strategies. To address the challenges outlined above, we will rely on numerical techniques which are in each case tested against existing models and validated with experiments and field measurements. In our work with consulting companies and government agencies, we have identified a trend towards coupled models instead of traditionally used stand-alone models and a need for operational capabilities. These needs will be answered using new multi-physics models, state-of-the-art numerical methods, image recognition algorithms and innovative programming techniques such as GPU programming. The synergistic interplay of physical modelling, numerical analysis and large-scale simulation with lab experiments and field work plays an essential role in this network. Our project goes beyond the state of the art by improving existing numerical models, employing GPU programming and super-resolution techniques and building a unified suite of solvers that will allow us to address the multi-physics problems in coastal, estuarine, riverine and urban areas.

Keywords: coastal safety wave forecasting,pollutant dispersion,urban flooding,phase resolving models operational models gpu acceleration
Program-Specific Agents (PROSA)

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: Germany
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2025-POC, 2025)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In recent years, novel AI coding assistants based on large language models (LLMs) have become extremely popular in creating code. However, at least 50% of the effort of software development goes into understanding and maintaining existing software, tasks that still pose grand challenges for LLMs. This is because most maintenance tasks are related to the dynamic behavior of programs, which is insufficiently captured by learning from static code alone. Understanding how the individual pieces of a large program work together can take human experts months to years. As part of our ERC Advanced Grant “S3—Semantics of Software Systems”, we have developed innovative techniques to systematically _test_software systems, comprehensively exploring their behavior. This allows us to capture the dynamic features of inputs, outputs, and executions and train programspecific machine learning models that relate them to each other. The resulting model can then answer maintenance questions such as “What configuration input do I need to make this button green?” or “What input triggers this error message?” Our underlying research has already shown the principal feasibility of this approach, but has been limited to small examples. The question is whether these approaches scale to the multitude of features that occur during executing a complex program. This is the aim of this proof of concept proposal: To create a demonstrator of a Program-Specific Agent that is automatically trained from a nontrivial piece of software and that can answer maintenance-related questions with high accuracy. Training such an agent on even a single piece of software will require substantial resources—hence this grant proposal. However, any such trained agent will act as an expert on the software’s behavior as long as it exists, promising substantial cost savings for the future of software development.