Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Digital Payments, Multidimensional Taxes (DIPAMUTA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance , management
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1584000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1584000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

Digitalization is revolutionizing our economies. The volume of digital payments has increased exponentially, fueled by electronic commerce and financial transactions. Giant internet platforms are now dominant players at the global level and manage to avoid most taxes. New payment service providers are undermining the traditional business model of banks. We lack a conceptual framework for guiding the regulatory and taxation reforms that are needed to adapt to this digital revolution. I will contribute to provide such a framework by examining 3 questions: 1. Digital payments: regulation and/or public provision? I will study how the banking regulatory model, focused essentially on prudential and monetary issues, needs to be adapted to take care of antitrust and privacy issues. I will also examine if the public provision of digital payments can eliminate the risk of domination of the payments industry by a few private platforms. 2. Should we tax digital payments? Current taxes on digital services and financial transactions are, by and large, evaded by businesses. An alternative is to introduce a (small) tax on all digital payments. It could generate a sizable revenue, would be easy to implement, difficult to avoid, but would also generate distortions. I will incorporate payments into a general equilibrium model, and carry out a cost benefit analysis of this “tax for the 21st century”. 3. Multidimensional taxation in a digitalized economy Traditional sectors are deeply impacted by the digitalization of the economy. Thus, it would be appropriate to consider a global reform of the tax system. However, an important theoretical hurdle is to find a way to solve general screening problems with multiple instruments and multiple dimensions of heterogeneity, which nobody has done so far. Based on a recent breakthrough in numerical methods, I will provide such a general solution, and apply it to multidimensional taxation in a digitalized economy.

Keywords: multidimensional screening,taxation,payments economics,digital currencies,platform competition
FORest PEATtland ecosystem assessment and targeted management for enhanced carbon sequestration, biodiversity and water quality (ForPeat)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Soil health and food
Destination: Soil health and food
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Finland,Denmark,Estonia,Austria,Germany,Italy,United Kingdom,Portugal,Netherlands,Poland,Sweden,Norway,Switzerland,Belgium
Call: Managing forest peatsoils (HORIZON-MISS-2024-SOIL-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2029-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9999470.0
EU funding (EUR): 9999470.0
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

ForPeat is an ambitious research project that will advance science-based approaches to optimise the management of forested peatland. At its core, the project will showcase innovative, sustainable forest practices and nature restoration goals on peat soils, focusing on rewetting and water conservation techniques. These demonstrations will serve as Open Labs, illustrating how to balance climate positivity with biodiversity enhancement. A key aspect of ForPeat assesses the carbon sequestration benefits of forested peatlands in relation to their management and how forest harvesting impacts nutrient cycles, sediment movement, dissolved organic carbon exports from forest peat soils and biodiversity. This comprehensive analysis will provide crucial indicators and baselines to maximise climate change mitigation, adaptation, and biodiversity conservation. To stay at the forefront of environmental monitoring, ForPeat will integrate AI and robotics into remote-sensing and field-data collection methods. ForPeat will explore how these demonstrated activities can be replicated and scaled up, with a focus on developing financial incentives under the EU certification framework. This research will translate into practical recommendations for policymakers and land managers. The project is built on collaboration, employing a multi-actor approach that brings together diverse stakeholders from landowners and foresters to scientists, public authorities, and industry representatives. This inclusive strategy ensures all relevant voices are considered throughout the project's lifecycle, aiming to pave the way for a more sustainable, resilient future for forested peatlands.

Keywords: peats soils peatlands open labs ai remote sensing multi actor approach
Towards TOPological insulator-based electronic devices for ROOm Temperature operation (TopRooT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Destination: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Portugal,France
Call: Fostering balanced brain circulation – ERA Fellowships (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-TALENTS-04, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 156778.56
EU funding (EUR): 156778.56
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The proposal TopRooT (“Towards TOPological insulator-based electronic devices for ROOm Temperature operation”) aims at providing a route to novel electronic devices based on topological insulators. Nowadays, most of the research on topological insulators is for cryogenic (quantum)-electronics, but they also show huge potential for room temperature applications. To this end, a crucial technology is the integration of topological insulators (TIs) with topologically-trivial materials, such as ferromagnets (FM), enabling applications in spintronics and beyond. The proposal focuses on the study and optimization of TI/FM heterostructures and their application in spin-orbit torque magnetoresistive random access memories (SOT-MRAM). SOT-MRAM is at the forefront of the emerging technologies that enable a new generation of brain-inspired and energy-efficient computing, extremely relevant to drastically decrease the energy consumption of information and communication technologies, as stated in the European Commission’s strategy on “Shaping Europe’s digital future”. State-of-the-art implementation of SOT in TI/FM heterostructures is achieved at the microscale, which is not enough to achieve the needed high density of devices. Therefore, the proposal will specifically target the fabrication of nanoscale TI/FM heterostructures and pursue their implementation in full nanoscale magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) devices for SOT-MRAM, addressing the integration and efficiency challenges that arise. This will be achieved by growing Bi2Se3 (the chosen TI system) by molecular beam epitaxy and by sputtering the FM and MgO layers for the MTJs. Nanoscale fabrication will be achieved by electron beam lithography and auxiliary techniques. The efficiency of the SOT in TI/FM heterostructures will be accurately quantified via Harmonic Hall Voltage measurements at room temperature, while full MTJ devices will be subjected to electrical transport measurements to obtain the relevant device metrics.

Keywords: topological insulators
Circle Patterns Bridging Hyperbolic Geometry and Statistical Mechanics (CircleBridge)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: Luxembourg,United States
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): 200400.0
EU funding (EUR): 200400.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

In our digital age, the development of discrete models that accurately capture the essential properties of their continuous counterparts is crucial for precise predictions and broad applications, from statistical mechanics to computer science. The CircleBridge project focuses on discrete conformal structures, particularly circle patterns, which serve as effective discretizations of conformal (angle-preserving) geometry — a field deeply rooted in complex analysis, geometry, and differential equations. CircleBridge seeks to expand the concept of circle patterns into the broader realm of complex projective structures, laying the groundwork for new theoretical insights. The project has two primary objectives: First, it aims to deepen our understanding of the space of circle patterns, developing computationally feasible tools to connect discrete conformality theories with their continuous analogs in Teichmüller theory and hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Second, CircleBridge will explore the implications of these findings in statistical mechanics, where circle patterns have recently emerged as a universal framework for the planar bipartite dimer model. By uniting leading experts from these fields in a transatlantic collaboration, CircleBridge will advance both theoretical knowledge and practical methodologies. This interdisciplinary effort aims to create a unified mathematical framework, paving the way for future discoveries across multiple disciplines.

Keywords: circle packings and patterns discrete differential geometry ddg hyperbolic geometry complex projective structures teichm ller theory dimer models
Turning cIties Planning actionS for Positive Energy Districts into success (TIPS4PED)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Climate neutral and smart cities
Destination: Climate neutral and smart cities
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Ireland,Belgium,Germany,Spain,Finland,Greece,Hungary
Call: Positive clean energy district (PED) digital twins – from modelling to creating climate neutral Cities (HORIZON-MISS-2023-CIT-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7397803.75
EU funding (EUR): 6484685.89
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

TIPS4PED will design, develop, and test in a relevant environment the effectiveness and the techno-economic viability of a Digital Twin based Platform, to support municipalities in the implementation of Positive Energy Districts. The TIPS4PED Platform will be able to support municipalities in the decision-making delivering a series of evidence-based results, increasing the environmental sustainability of cities, and reducing operational costs. The project will adopt a people-centric approach, which aims at engage, train and empower citizens and potential stakeholders. TIPS4PED will do this by leveraging on consortium knowledge and prior EU experience and being motivated by the goals set forth by the European Commission. To design and manage the PED effectively and foster its implementation through city planning actions, different modules will be made available on the Integrated Assessment Platform, to support municipalities from the technical perspective, as well as the social, financial, regulatory and administrative ones. The tools will be developed thanks to a end-users co-design approach, capable of providing constant feedback to the software development process. The TIPS4PED solutions will be tested in one LightHouse city (Turin), where the IAP will be connected to a sensoring system for the realtime management of the assets, and replication studies will be conducted in three Follower Cities (Cork, Kozani and Budapest). The testing and replication phase willl result in the creation of 4 cities Digital Twins and decarbonization roadmaps. TIPS4PED seeks to suggest scalable and easily reproducible technologies and digital optimization as a key solution for to achieve 2030 EU goals, while taking into consideration various market circumstances, and environmental, safety, and regulatory aspects.

Keywords: positive energy district ped digital twin renewable energy sources sustainable mobility policy recommendation
Design and Synthesis of MXene-Based 3D Porous Heterostructure Composites for Enhanced Photocatalytic Ammonia Production Under Ambient Conditions for Sustainable Hydrogen Energy Storage (Bezzagood)

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: Portugal,Switzerland
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): 156778.56
EU funding (EUR): 156778.56
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

While hydrogen is an excellent green energy carrier, which holds tremendous potential as a sustainable, environmentally friendly, efficient, and clean energy alternative, its storage remains costly, energy-intensive, and hazardous. Recently, the possibility of chemical storage of H2 in the form of ammonia (NH3) is receiving increasing attention. However, despite the potential of NH3 for hydrogen storage the existing fossil fuel-based NH3 production technology is highly energy intensive and costly. Photocatalytic NH3 synthesis is gaining familiarity as it is environmentally benign and sustainable, however, the conventional photocatalysts suffer from low NH3 yield, poor photocatalyst operational stability, and low solar-to-chemical conversion efficiencies, thus it is the current scientific challenge to design an efficient photocatalyst to convert atmospheric N2 to NH3. Hence, the design and construction of novel hybrid photocatalysts with enhanced photocatalytic performance is vital for efficient synthesis of ammonia as a hydrogen energy storage medium. In recent years, the two-dimensional transition metal carbides, carbonitrides and nitrides ( MXenes), are gaining popularity for photocatalytic N2 reduction owing to their diverse elemental compositions, large surface area, light-harvesting ability, and capability to host a broad range of intercalants. Besides heterojunction formation by combination of MXenes with 3D reduced graphene oxide (rGO) and other novel photocatalysts such as Metal–Organic Frameworks, Z-scheme photocatalysts would significantly increase photocatalytic performance of the hybrid by combining the merits of each component. Besides the interconnected structure of 3D rGO framework possesses a macroscopic porous structure, for efficient incorporation of semiconductor nanoparticles in the 3D structure. Thus, the current study designs and fabricates innovative 3D MXene-based hybrid photocatalyst for efficient photocatalytic synthesis of NH3

Keywords: hydrogen energy ammonia nh3 for hydrogen storage 3d hybrid photocatalysts for efficient nh3 synthesis safe,cheaper hydrogen carrier chemical mxene based 3d heterojunction hybrid catalysts
Evolutionary mechanisms of gene regulation in dynamic environments (eGRIDE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Integrative B iology : from Genes and Genomes to S ystems
Panel description: For all organis ms: Genetics, epigenetics, genomics  and other ‘omics studies , bioinformatics, systems biology , genetic diseases , gene editing, innovative methods and modelling,  ‘omics for personalised  medicine
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1961573.0
EU funding (EUR): 1961573.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Living systems are the product of evolution in a dynamically changing world; they endlessly adapt to new challenges imposed by their environment. Yet, our understanding of evolutionary mechanisms involved in adaptation to dynamic environments is very sparse. Even though gene regulation is well-known to endow cells with the ability to adjust their phenotype according to environmental fluctuations, we know little about genetic changes that fuel regulatory evolution or about the benefits and costs of regulatory changes. This lack of knowledge impacts several fields in biology: from the biomedical challenge of cancer plasticity where evolved gene regulations allow cancer cells to escape treatment, to the challenge of synthetic biology where gene circuits must be controlled despite environmental fluctuations. This project builds on genomic advances to determine how the evolution of gene regulation depends on 1) mutational effects – “what can happen?”, and 2) the selective advantage of regulatory changes in dynamic environments – “who can survive?”. These fundamental questions will be addressed at the transcriptomic scale by combining innovative experimental and computational approaches in a powerful model organism: the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Using a novel high-throughput method by which the transcriptomes of thousands of genotypes can be profiled in different environments, we will determine how random mutations potentiate or constrain regulatory evolution and we will identify genetic variants altering gene regulation. By competing random mutants and performing functional assays under diverse regimes of selection, we will determine when and for which genes the evolution of expression regulation is beneficial. This work will advance our understanding of the genetic mechanisms underlying regulatory differences and of their adaptive value in dynamic environments, providing an empirical foundation for the development of predictive models of regulatory evolution.

Keywords: dynamic environments quantitative genetics gene expression plasticity functional genomics cellular adaptation fate of mutations
Socio-technical modularity and the decentralization of infrastructure (DECENT)

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: Sweden
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-07-01
End date: 2031-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1486698.0
EU funding (EUR): 1486698.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

There is a strong theoretical imperative for why centralized grid-/network-based societal infrastructures is the gold standard worldwide. Yet, there is a growing realization that this ideal fails to deliver on social, economic and ecological promises. This project starts from the observation that decentralized societal infrastructures are gaining momentum in high- and middle-income cities. Examples include micro-grids (energy), small-scale wastewater treatment (sanitation), multi-modal mobility (urban transport) and short food value chains (agri-food). However, existing theoretical approaches to infrastructure innovation and sector transformation offer no convincing explanation for how cities overcome the strong imperative (e.g. path dependencies and lack of economies of scale) against context-sensitive small-scale solutions. Moreover, there is no systematic empirical evidence on the drivers, mechanisms and spatial patterns of infrastructure decentralization in different sectors and geographical contexts. I develop a framework based on insights from socio-technical transition studies, modularity theory and economic geography. The core claim is that decentralization is connected to modularization at different levels of structuration. The project also addresses what place-specific factors and multi-scalar reconfiguration processes mediate the success of decentralization. Methodologically, I further develop the ‘Path Tracing’ approach by combining it with ‘Socio-Technical Configuration Analysis’ (STCA) and pioneer its application in comparative analyses of three societal infrastructure sectors (urban water management, urban mobility and agri-food) in high- and middle-income contexts (cities in Europe and India). Based on the findings I will formulate a new theory of infrastructure decentralization that opens new horizons for research, revising the role of decentralized infrastructure vis-à-vis the centralized paradigm that has prevailed since the early 20th century.

Keywords: decentralization,modularization,societal infrastructure,multi scalarity
Customized porous structures and advanced testing for orthopedic implants (CUSTOM)

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: Belgium,Hungary,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Switzerland,Finland,United States,Italy
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-03-01
End date: 2030-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4718898.18
EU funding (EUR): 4595238.18
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

The number of shoulder replacements is projected to increase by 300-400% between 2020 and 2040. With the current technology, 10% of those artificial shoulder implants will fail within the first 10 years of service, mainly due to soft tissue failure, infection, and implant loosening. The specific type and timescale of failure depends on the type of implant, patient age, and other patient specific metrics, but to avoid a similar exponential increase in revision surgeries, the next generation of implants must mitigate the known failure mechanisms. CUSTOM brings together all relevant academic and industrial expertise that enables a concept to clinical overview of emerging medical device technologies, and applies them to the shoulder implant as a use case. CUSTOM focuses on combining (1) computational tools that allow patient-specific design, (2) additive manufacturing to realize the custom, complex designs and structures and their further postprocessing to incorporate multi-functionality, and (3) blended in-silico and experimental testing to reduce the burden on experimental testing for certification. In doing so, CUSTOM can address the major failure mechanisms of current shoulder implants and improve their overall functionality and longevity. The project leverages this research as a tool to train the next generation of researchers in the necessary technical skills on design, manufacturing, testing, and certification. CUSTOM connects the researchers to all relevant stakeholders including surgeons, patients, researchers, as well as certification and regulation bodies, and combines it with soft skill training to develop transferable and entrepreneurial skills that are required to translate their research and ideas into the next generation of orthopaedic implants.

Keywords: additive manufacturing,orthopaedic implants,pre clinical testing,patient specific design