Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Deciphering the formation of AmorPHous binders in ancient RomaN mortars for modErn applications (DAPHNE)

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 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226420.56
EU funding (EUR): 226420.56
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Cultural heritage materials can be the starting point for the experimentation of binding materials to be used in the field of constructions. It is the case of hydraulic mortars from ancient Roman aqueducts. In fact, the preliminary characterization of these mortars revealed the occurrence of an amorphous binder, which composition is comparable to a calcium-sodium/potassium aluminosilicate hydrate (C-(N,K)-A-S-H). However, the factors that allowed the formation of this peculiar binder, not previously attested in other ancient structures, are still unknown. The aim of DAPHNE is to elucidate the chemical composition and physical structure of amorphous/nanocrystalline binders in ancient Roman mortars and understand the processes that lead to their formation using geochemical experimentation. In the future, the assessment of the properties of the amorphous binder can verify its employability as sustainable and durable material for cement industry applications, chasing the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Keywords: amorphous binder,ancient roman mortars,materials science
Mechanisms Linking Early-Life Stress and Resilience to Climate Change in Amphibians (AMPHISTRESS)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-12-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Climate change imposes a myriad of environmental stressors to wildlife that are particularly challenging to early life-stages in animals with complex life histories such as amphibians. Poor developmental conditions have been shown to impact survival later in life. As amphibians are the most threatened vertebrate class, identifying mechanisms that shape their capacity to cope with environmental stress is vital for predicting population responses. In AMPHISTRESS, I aim to investigate how early-life stress can affect resilience to climate change in amphibians by exploring the underlying neuroendocrine and physiological mechanisms mediating the interplay between environmental change, behaviour, and stress physiology. Hereto, I will employ an interdisciplinary approach exposing amphibian larvae to sub-optimal developmental conditions (elevated temperature, pond drying, hypoxia) and first assess the resulting impact on glucocorticoid “stress” hormone levels, oxidative stress, animal personality/coping style, growth, and short-term stress responsiveness before and after metamorphosis. Then, I will assess the movement behaviour of juveniles toads under semi-natural conditions to understand if early-life stress-induced altered growth trajectories interact with dispersal capacity. Lastly, I will build heuristic models to identify how individual stress-responses to climate change can scale up to affect population dynamics. AMPHISTRESS will provide novel information on the effects of climate change-induced habitat alterations on amphibians, and the importance of habitat connectivity for amphibian dispersal, survival, and population persistence thereby generating knowledge with direct conservation value. Finally, this project will be the cornerstone of my long-term research goals to link developmental conditions and life-history trajectories in an eco-evolutionary framework and would provide me with a unique opportunity to strengthen my scientific profile to advance my career.

Keywords: phenotypic plasticity,glucocorticoid hormone,amphibian conservation physiology,climate change,oxidative stress,coping style,growth trajectories
Neuromodulation of episodic memory - how stress influences Time In MEmory and perception (TIME)

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: Italy,Switzerland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-08-01
End date: 2026-07-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 319516.16
EU funding (EUR): 319516.16
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Recent European data shows that stress shortens life expectancy by 2.8 years. Critically, it also affects the way we sense and remember everyday life. TIME presents a novel approach to a fundamental question in neuroscience: how stress affects our memory and perception of experience over time? Previous research disregarded the role of specific neuromodulators, studied stress effects selectively for a certain memory stage and used isolated stimuli rather than complex events in naturalistic contexts. Moreover, stress effects on memory have never been linked to time perception during a stressful experience. TIME addresses these critical gaps with an innovative combination of functional magnetic resonance (fMRI), a pharmacological manipulation and a novel experimental paradigm in virtual reality (VR). The project aims at building the first comprehensive model of stress effects on memory of events and perception of time. First, we hypothesize that a stress hormone cortisol released across all memory stages (encoding, consolidation, retrieval) affects our ability to separate overlapping episodes and segment our experience into events (WP1,WP2). Second, we hypothesize that a higher sampling rate of sensory input may result in a distorted sense of time and influence subsequent temporal memory (WP3). Involved mechanisms will be measured and verified at the behavioural, physiological (WP1,WP2,WP3), neural (WP2) and perceptual (WP3) level. I will carry out the research at CISA, Geneva (outgoing phase, supervised by prof. Rimmele, prof. Vuilleumier) and SISSA, Trieste (return phase, supervised by prof. Bueti), with short visits at Columbia University, NYC (prof. Davachi). Together, these world-leading centers offer a unique environment to make the project realistically achievable by bridging the gaps between neuropharmacology, neuroscience, psychophysics and psychophysiology. TIME will move basic and applied science forward, boost my academic or non-academic career prospects.

Keywords: neuromodulation,memory,perception stress,emotion,cortisol,pattern separation,event segmentation,hippocampus,amygdala
Arctic Summer Sea Ice in 3D (SI3D)

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: Norway
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2062021.25
EU funding (EUR): 2062021.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Arctic sea ice is diminishing with climate warming at a rate unmatched for 1000 years. As the receding ice pack changes rapidly and becomes increasingly mobile, the demand from academic and commercial stakeholders for accurate and timely sea ice forecasts is intensifying. Forecasting accuracy is enhanced with the assimilation of sea ice thickness observations from satellite altimetry. However, these data are currently unavailable during summer when they would be most valuable for stakeholders, owing to significant data processing challenges. This has been identified as a key observation gap for polar research by the IPCC. SI/3D will address this gap, harnessing deep machine learning, modelling of the radar altimeter response, and dedicated field campaigns, to overcome the processing barriers. I will integrate satellite data from multiple ESA, EU-Copernicus, and NASA altimetry missions to produce the first 15+ year high-accuracy record of pan-Arctic sea ice thickness without interruptions in the summer. With this unique dataset, I can achieve the following goals. (1) To close the Arctic sea ice volume budget, pinpointing the mechanisms driving seasonal decay and breakup of the ice pack and the feedbacks of sea ice loss on Arctic temperatures. (2) To upgrade seasonal sea ice forecasts from state-of-the-art modelling systems by assimilating summer ice thickness observations. SI/3D will create a new discipline of sea ice research by using altimetry to study the Arctic summer, which is risky. Having led the first published pilot research in this field, however, I am ideally placed to carry out the project and will leverage the expertise I have gained at three international Arctic research institutions to make it happen. On completion, this work will transform opportunities for Arctic system science, improving sea ice modelling, forecasting on timescales from weeks to years, mass budgeting, and biogeochemistry studies during the critical summer melting months.

Keywords: satellite altimetry,arctic,sea ice thickness,seasonal sea ice forecasting,coupled sea ice ocean modelling
Social industrial collaborative environments integrating AI, Big Data and Robotics for smart manufacturing (CONVERGING)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Climate neutral, Circular and Digitised Production
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: AI-DATA-ROBOTICS, Made in Europe (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Greece,Spain,Italy,Israel,Germany,Luxembourg,Finland,Japan,United Kingdom
Call: AI enhanced robotics systems for smart manufacturing (AI, Data and Robotics - Made in Europe Partnerships) (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9959033.11
EU funding (EUR): 8093945.49
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

Global economic crises and the COVID19 pandemic have dictated manufacturing firms to rethink their production and business models. Production systems need to adopt both human and automated resources that can work together seamlessly. As a response, CONVERGING aims to Develop, deploy, validate and promote smart and reconfigurable production systems including multiple autonomous agents (collaborative robots, AGVs, humans) that are able to act in diverse production environments. The diversifying factors will be a multi-level AI based cognition (line, station, resource levels) which will exploit the collective perception (Digital Pipeline) of these resources, allowing them to interact with each other and seamlessly coexist with humans under a "social industrial environment" that ensures trustful, safe and inclusive user experience The project proposes the development of systems that can: 1. Perceive: Identify and recognize processes/resources/environment and their status by introducing Big Data, Real Time Integration & Communication Architecture, Digital Twins and Human in the Loop techniques 2. Reason: Analyze the production system status and autonomously formulate plan of actions using AI, Planning and Reconfiguration Algorithms as well as Resource Autonomy solutions 3. Adapt: Automatically modify h/w and control systems to execute the formulated plans through the use of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Smart Devices and Adaptable Mechatronics 4. Collaborate: Seamlessly work with humans or other resources establishing a social industrial environment which exploits Smart Human Machine Collaboration, User experience assessment and User centric workplace design 5. Innovate: Expand its capabilities and Openness via an Open Pilot Network as well as links to local and international innovation ecosystems CONVERGING will demonstrate its results in the Automotive, Aircraft Production, White Goods and Additive Manufacturing products processing sectors.

Keywords: human robot collaboration,autonomous robots,digital twins,multi level perception for adaptability,social industrial environment,decisional autonomy,robotics integration and communication platform
an electric Contrast medium for computationally intensive Electroencephalographies for high REsolution BRain imaging withOut skull trepanation (CEREBRO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Italy,France,Austria,Switzerland
Call: EIC Pathfinder Open 2021 (HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDEROPEN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2498688.0
EU funding (EUR): 2498688.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

Imaging the brain activity is fundamentally important for many brain-related scientific disciplines. Among the non-invasive neuroimaging strategies, Electroencephalography (EEG) from scalp potentials is one of the primary. In EEG the neuroninduced electric potential is measured by using electrodes on the patient’s scalp. The skull however, highly resistive, shields EEG recordings limiting the spatial resolution. The standard way to avoid skull shielding effects is to invasively implant EEG electrodes under the skull (ECoG) or in the brain cortex (StereoEEG), in both cases after trepanning the patient’s skull. Scalp EEGs are noninvasive but lack spatial imaging accuracy. ECoG and StereoEEG are highly accurate but require skull trepanation and they image only a limited part of the brain. There is the need for increasing the resolution of scalp EEG providing the same level of accuracy of invasive EEGs. This will be the grand challenge which CEREBRO will achieve by conceiving the first ever existing EEG contrast medium, able to provide imaging of the entire brain and in a non-invasive way.
LASER-BASED RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY TO CLOSE THE LOOP IN FLEXIBLE PACKAGING INDUSTRY (FYCHTECH)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: European innovation ecosystems
Theme: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Destination: Elevating the scalability potential of European business
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Women TechEU (HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-02, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2024-05-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 107058.29
EU funding (EUR): 74940.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

FYCH is a women-founded innovative start-up that has developed a new disruptive integral solution for recycling currently non-recyclable multilayer plastic products. FYCH´s technology can separate the layers by mechanical processes using a water-based solution with non-hazardous reactants, removing the adhesive, inks, and other coatings. FYCH has also developed a deodorization/decontamination step using water vapor to increase the quality of final recycled products. All the technologies involved in the recycling process have been invented and developed by FYCH´s co-founders. FYCH was founded in 2020 to scale up and commercialize the results of the Ph.D. Theses of Andrea and Oksana (co-founders and promoters). Andrea is CEO and responsible for the business development and organization; Oksana is COO and responsible for customer relations and projects management. Both of them have 100 % dedication to the company. During the first two years, they achieved two public grants, one private investor (who is also an industrial partner), built a pilot recycling line, and created jobs. They also have been developing the company´s business model, market analysis, and marketing. At this moment, FYCH wants to go to the market and find the first customer ready to scale up the technology to the industrial scale. To reach this goal, FYCH must work on several aspects: determine end markets for the final recycled products, attract the attention of the most significant potential customers, update the business model by improving the financial strategy and the market analysis, and protect the patent in other countries to expand the limits of business opportunities. FYCH will use the financial support of the Women Tech EU programme to hire the services of professionals that can help up to reach our objectives. And the mentorship, networking, and training will be especially beneficial because Andrea and Oksana have a technical profile and are working hard to improve our business skills.

Keywords: recycling,multilayer,packaging,high quality,circular economy
Nitric oxide-driven anaerobic oxidation of lignocellulose (NOD-AOL)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental B iology, Ecology  and E volution
Panel description: For all organisms : Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change , evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology , marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and mod elling
Countries involved: Norway
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2029-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999858.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999858.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In the riparian zone of eutrophic lakes and in field denitrification beds, microbial communities degrade lignocellulose, in anoxia, while maintaining a denitrifying lifestyle. During this process nitrate is converted to nitrogen gases via a series of reactions and intermediate products, fueled by the degradation of lignocellulosic biomass. The microbial interactions, metabolic pathways, and enzymatic mechanisms, underlining this remarkable process remain largely unknown. Intriguingly, in these anoxic habitats, enzymes involved in O2-driven oxidative lignocellulose conversion are found and expressed, yet their source of O2, their potential use of other oxidants, and their catalytic mechanism in anoxia remain unknown. Exploring this knowledge gap is a high-risk endeavor with potential to discover yet undescribed enzymes or enzyme systems capable of anaerobic oxidation of lignocellulose (AOL). I hypothesize that oxidative cleavage of lignocellulose under denitrifying conditions follows aerobic routes including lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) and lignin-active oxidases, and further, that the activity of nitric oxide dismutases (NODs) provides a source of O2 for LPMOs and lignin-active enzymes. This is conceptually high risk, linking together biological processes in a new way. Herein I will scrutinize my key hypotheses by in-depth characterization of both LPMOs, lignin-active enzymes and NODs to a depth never done before. I will study whether LPMOs can employ relevant non-conventional denitrification-linked electron acceptors and use novel approaches for characterizing the enigmatic NODs. NOD-AOL is highly interdisciplinary and addresses questions central for understanding the global carbon and nitrogen cycles, which may ultimately help counteracting climate change.

Keywords: denitrification,agriculture,eutrophication,enzymes,anaerobic lignocellulose degradation
Hydrogen technologies for decarbonization of industrial heating processes (HyInHeat)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Climate neutral, Circular and Digitised Production
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: Processes4Planet (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Italy,Finland,Belgium,Norway,Sweden,France,Greece,Austria,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Integration of hydrogen for replacing fossil fuels in industrial applications (Processes4Planet Partnership) (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 24007413.75
EU funding (EUR): 17707718.25
Participants: 33
Project status: SIGNED

The main objective of HyInHeat is the integration of hydrogen as fuel for high temperature heating processes in the energy intensive industries. While some of the equipment is already presented as hydrogen-ready, the integration of hydrogen combustion in heating processes still needs adoption and redesign of infrastructure, equipment and the process itself. HyInHeat realizes the implementation of efficient hydrogen combustion systems to decarbonize heating and melting processes of the aluminium and steel sectors, covering almost their complete process chains. To reach this overarching objective within the project, furnace and equipment like burners or measurement and control technology but also infrastructure is redesigned, modified and implemented in eight demonstrators at technical centres and industrial plants. Besides hydrogen-air heating, oxygen-enriched combustion and hydrogen-oxyfuel heating is implemented to boost energy efficiency and to decrease the future hydrogen fuel demand of the processes. This might result in a total redesign of the heating process itself which will be supported by simulation methods enhancing digitalisation along the value chain. Since critical production processes are converted, it is a fundamental requirement to maintain product quality and yield. Priority is also given to the refractory lining to prove sustainability. From an environmental perspective, new concepts for NOx emission measurement in hydrogen combustion off-gas are developed. Material flow analysis and life cycle analysis methods will support the comprehensive cross-sectorial evaluation, which allows the determination of the potential for the implementation of hydrogen heating processes in energy intensive industry. With these activities, HyInHeat contributes to the objectives of decreasing CO2 emission of the processes while increasing energy efficiency in a cost competitive way keeping NOx emission levels and resource efficiency at least at the same level.

Keywords: hydrogen,burner,furnace,steel,aluminium,refractories