Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet GOTaM Cities (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Economic Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

In the context of a growing knowledge economy the competitiveness of global cities is crucially affected by their ability to nurture and attract talented workers. In this global race the European Union is lagging behind in comparison with the US and other Anglo-Saxon economies. The diffusion of anti-immigration sentiments is also worrisome because the recovery from the Great Recession of 2008 is far from being in sight for many EU regions while the access to a diverse set of skills via high skilled immigrants could boost the innovative sectors needed for economic growth. Therefore it is important to provide robust evidence on the economic effects of High Skilled Immigration (HSI) in order to justify policies for their attraction. GOTaM cities aims at understanding how talents are attracted to cities and how they impact on their innovative performance and prosperity. While building on existing literature the project will make several contributions by addressing some unexplored questions and empirical shortcomings: a. GOTaM will focus on HSI in different geographical contexts (i.e EU, US, China and Brazil): the existing evidence is biased towards the US which leaves a lack of understanding about HSI in other areas; b. It will use individual data and focus on city/region level effects: most empirical literature relies on aggregate data at country level; c. It will investigate the qualitative effects of migration: whether HIS enhances the technological and economic diversification of cities by bringing new knowledge to those places; d. It will build a unique comprehensive dataset (and related methodologies) on migrant inventors and scientists which will help the scholarly community and policy makers to carry out informed empirical analysis: the findings so far are disputed also because carried out on specific cases or ethnic groups (e.g. Russian mathematicians); The findings of GOTaM will serve as a basis for inspiring new and more effective immigration policies.

Mots clés : urban cluster, high skilled migration, innovation, technological diversification, patents, inventors, immigration policy, innovation policy

Participants :
- Bocconi University (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 180277.2 €
Projet SINet (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

In the ever-growing Internet of Things (IoT), Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) play an increasingly important role, with a strong demand for robust solutions in extreme environments. The aim of this proposal is to develop a networking solution that handles the intermittent communication links that characterise such environments. An integrated communication system for intermittent links in the Arctic is the main envisaged output for this proposal. The conducted research will draw on my past experience on routing and Software-Defined Networking to tackle heterogeneity and improve overall networking robustness. The achieved outcomes will be aligned with the H2020 Blue Growth challenges on the impact of Arctic changes, defining a networking solution that removes the need for costly and dangerous human expeditions for data collection. The impact of the proposed activities is in accordance with European initiatives, creating opportunities for the modernisation and efficiency of European stakeholders. This proposal will enable pioneering ICT-based solutions, including multi-disciplinary fields such as Cyber-Physical Systems and Satellite links for real-time monitoring. The conducted research work will be further steered by a specialised Scientific and Technical Advisory Board. This board counts with the collaboration of the host institution, the partner organisation hosting the secondment, as well as of two industry partners. This creates a unique opportunity for consolidating my real-world skills and reaching an improved impact. The dissemination and exploitation plans will build upon established contacts and actions, such as chairing activities in the related topics, while also engaging the relevant stakeholders. Technical results shall lead to the publication of 7 papers in scientific and technological peer-reviewed journals and conferences. Moreover, public engagement of non-specialists will be targeted with talks as a researcher and as an MSCA ambassador.

Mots clés : machine to machine, software defined networking, intermittent networks, internet of things, routing, challenging environments, reliability, delay tolerant networks

Participants :
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 196400.4 €
Projet RELMED (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

In the face of rising concerns for energy security and for climate change, huge investment projects about the production of renewable energies in the Southern Mediterranean area are under consideration. Regulatory reform and good governance of electricity markets, offering a stable and competition-based regulatory regime, are fundamental to inspire the trust of potential investors. However, their authoritarian political culture, political instability and developmental policies make Southern Mediterranean countries an unfavourable ground to the development of good regulatory governance. The RELMED project contributes to this conundrum by investigating the factors of Southern Mediterranean countries’ capacity to produce good regulatory governance. It does so by addressing three interrelated questions: 1) How can we explain the functioning of regulatory governance in Southern Mediterranean countries? 2) To what extent do these regulatory environments provide good regulatory governance? 3) What are the improvement opportunities? To offer precise answers to these complex questions, RELMED coins the innovative concepts of ‘regulatory eco-system’ and ‘good regulatory governance’ and develops sophisticated methodological techniques combining social network analysis and original indices to grasp multi-actor regulatory governance and its effectiveness. Empirically, the investigation will focus on three countries of high policy relevance and scientific value: Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. The RELMED project will 1) improve our theoretical grasp of the functioning and effectiveness of regulatory governance in the South, 2) bring new concepts for analysing regulatory governance with the notions of good regulatory governance and regulatory eco-system, 3) enrich our methodological toolbox for mapping multi-actor governance constellations and 4) provide much-needed empirical understanding and policy recommendations regarding electricity regulation in Mediterranean countries.

Mots clés : electricity, regulation, governance, regulatory governance, development, mediterranean, morocco, algeria, tunisia, public administration, public policy

Participants :
- CERCA Institution (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 170121.6 €
Projet ILSAINC (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

In the last two decades, education policy, practice and research have been transformed by the appearance and growing influence of International Large-Scale Assessments (ILSAs), which are standardized tests administered by International Organizations (IOs) all around the world. The outsourcing of the development and implementation of ILSAs from International Organizations to private companies has created a global ILSA industry. But how does the global ILSA industry operate and how does it shape ILSAs? Over the last two decades, a small, well-established group of private companies have come to control the global ILSA industry, even as ILSAs expand in scope and reach. Although scholars have extensively studied how ILSAs have impacted on education, the global ILSA industry has not been addressed by scholarship possibly due to its recent emergence and the high levels of access that are necessary. Drawing on global education policy scholarship on privatization, Critical Data Studies, and Business Studies, and applying a network ethnography approach, this research project aims to: 1) map the global ILSA industry by identifying the actors to whom ILSAs are outsourced; 2) to theorize how the global ILSA industry emerged, stabilised and operates - particularly focusing on the global ILSA industry institutions and relationships, the network functioning, forms of agency, and power practices; 3) to investigate how ILSAs are shaped by the practices, values, profit interests and power dynamics of the private sector. Ultimately, this analysis seeks to challenge unfair practices that have been normalized over the past two decades and aims to make all those developing education accountability infrastructures also accountable and their practices more transparent.

Mots clés : international large scale assessments, education privatization, global education industry, education data making, interdisciplinary, network ethnography

Participants :
- Autonomous University of Barcelona (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 160932.48 €
Projet SAFVEN (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

In the last two decades, in the wake of the renewed interest in early modern diplomacy and shifting toward interdisciplinary and transcultural approaches, the interactions between Europe and the Islamic Middle East have received considerable attention. Scholars are increasingly emphasizing interconnected and shared history of Europe and the Middle East. The nature of these connections can be traced through the comprehensive examination of early modern cross-cultural encounters between the Islamic Middle East (Ottomans, Safavids) and Europe (Venetians). While the history of the diplomatic relations between the Safavid Empire and Venice has been relatively well studied, its cultural impact, especially the material dimension of diplomatic encounters has been largely neglected. Despite a "cultural turn" in the history of diplomacy and a growing interest in symbolic communication in diplomatic practices, there remains little scholarship on importance of ritual and ceremony in Safavid-Venetian diplomatic relations. No attempt has been made to study in a systematic way the cultural and political meanings of gifts, reciprocity in gift exchanges, connections between gifts and identities, institutional, ceremonial and economic aspects of material exchanges in Safavid-Venetian diplomatic encounters. The proposed research aims to explore a largely neglected subject – the significance of symbolic communication, ritual and ceremony in Safavid-Venetian diplomatic relations and a material dimension of the Safavid-Venetian diplomatic encounters, which is essential for a better understanding of cross-cultural interactions between two empires. The project will allow me to acquire new skills (codicological analysis of manuscripts, Latin and Italian palaeography) and improve my existing skills (archival research, interdisciplinary use of sources, project management).

Mots clés : safavid venetian interactions, early modern diplomacy, reciprocal influences, between the safavids and venetians, safavid venetian gift exchanges

Participants :
- Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 180277.2 €
Projet VesSenDrugDeliv (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

In the project of Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship, I will design a versatile molecular platform that is used to construct multifunctional amphiphiles, which co-assemble with amphiphilic gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) to form monodisperse and stable targeting drug delivery vesicles. By incorporating multiple targeting ligands and multiple hydrophilic and hydrophobic drugs, I aim to discover efficient vesicle formulation with increased targeting selectivity and potent cytotoxicity to tumor cells. The route of the targeted drug delivery will be followed spontaneously via transiting surface plasmon resonance of AuNPs, and the impact of the targeted drug delivery on the targeted tumor cells will be monitored in real time by live cell Raman micro-spectroscopy. Furthermore, any targeting ligand, hydrophilic and hydrophobic drug can be easily tuned for a variety of different targeted tumour cells.

Mots clés : vesicles, targeting drug delivery, plasmonic gold nanoparticles, living cell raman microspectroscopy

Participants :
- Imperial College London (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 195454.8 €
Projet ISSUL (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

In the recent years, the continual improvements of weather forecasting models and the sustained need for reliable weather predictions beyond the weekly timescale resulted in the development of subseasonal to seasonal (S2S) forecast models and an intense research work from the scientific community. Despite the large number of research studies, S2S forecast models still show a limited skill in summer over Europe. In addition, southern Europe, has received much less attention, even though it is highly vulnerable to high-impact summer heatwaves, and very sensitive to climate change. The aim of this project, ISSUL, is to better understand and improve the S2S prediction of heatwave frequency and intensity and their associated weather patterns over southern Europe. To do this, a combination of two machine learning algorithms, an optimisation algorithm, to identify the best set of predictors, and a neural network, to provide non-linear predictions will be used. This approach has never been attempted before for these timescales. It is expected to perform better than standard S2S forecast models in predicting heatwave frequency and intensity and associated weather patterns and to bring larger improvements compared with traditional statistical forecasts that do not identify all the predictors and cannot represent non-linear complex interactions. ISSUL is divided into three parts. The first part aims at identifying the best set of predictors, using the optimisation algorithm, at evaluating it and understanding it is related to heatwaves over southern Europe via a dynamical analysis. The second part aims a predicting the frequency and intensity of heatwaves and associated weather patterns using a neural network. The third part aims at evaluating the performance of this combined machine learning approach compared with standard S2S forecasting model.

Mots clés : atmospheric dynamics, machine learning algorithms, statistical forecast at subseasonal to seasonal timescales, summer extreme events, southern europe

Participants :
- Spanish National Research Council (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 160932.48 €
Projet ICEDRAGON (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

In their twilight years, solar-like stars in the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) phase enrich the interstellar medium (ISM) with fresh material (gas and dust) for new stars and planets. AGB stars lose their outer layers to the ISM through a stellar outflow or wind, forming an extended circumstellar envelope (CSE). The wind is thought to be dust-driven, with dust grains forming close to the star. State-of-the-art observations have revealed the composition of the inner CSE, allowing the first identification of gas-phase seeds for dust grains, and the presence of disks around AGB stars. Despite major knowledge gains over the past three decades, it is still not fully understood how dust forms, grows, and drives the stellar wind, limiting our understanding of both stellar evolution and the chemical enrichment of the ISM. Moreover, the structure and chemistry of AGB disks is unknown; if similar to protoplanetary disks, second generation planet formation may be possible therein. Solving these puzzles requires new and sophisticated models that connect dust formation with chemistry and couple gas and dust chemistry throughout the wind and in the disk. With ‘ICE and Dust Reactions in AGB Gaseous Outflows and disks with Nucleation’ (ICEDRAGON), we will develop the first models that link the chemistry throughout the whole CSE and the first chemical model of an AGB disk. The novel models will allow us to study, for the first time, the organic refractory feedback of dust grains delivered to the ISM and the role of dust formation on the gas-phase chemistry throughout the CSE. This is necessary to deduce the physics behind the wind launching mechanism, that is encoded in the observed composition. The AGB disk model will provide the first answers to the viability of secondary planet formation. The synergy between fellow and host is ideal for this astrochemical (and fundamentally interdisciplinary) project, as it combines their respective expertise in chemical modelling.

Mots clés : evolved stars, agb winds

Participants :
- University of Leeds (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 212933.76 €
Projet MULTIPROB (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

In this Marie Sklodowska-Curie action we explore the prospects of controlled multi-photon scattering processes as a probe of the nonlinear interactions and the dynamics of complex open quantum systems. The core of the project builds around the development of novel analytical and numerical tools to model complex scattering processes under correlated noise and dissipation. The project is thus mainly theoretical, but it is also interdisciplinary and focuses on problems and setups that admit immediate experimental implementations in a variety of state-of-the-art platforms, such as superconducting qubits coupled to microwave photons in transmission lines or quantum emitters coupled to photonic crystal waveguides. Moreover, the techniques and ideas that we will develop should be essential for the understanding and control of light-matter interactions in the multi-photon regime, as well as for the engineering and modelling of new and robust photon-based quantum technologies.

Mots clés : quantum optics, stochastic processes, waveguide qed, nanophotonics, superconducting circuits, quantum simulators, multi photon scattering, quantum information

Participants :
- Spanish National Research Council (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 170121.6 €
Projet Multi-SIP Hydrogel (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

In this Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship project entitled “Multi-SIP Hydrogel” I will design a modular synthetic platform for preparing multifunctional self-immolative polymer (SIP) hydrogels designed to accelerate tissue regeneration in chronic skin wounds. The hydrogels will contain multiple SIP components, each designed to rapidly degrade and deliver a therapeutic payload in response to a specific biochemical stimulus typical of a chronic wound (e.g., reactive oxygen species or enzymatic action). During the two years of this Fellowship, I aim to establish a proof-of-principle SIP-hydrogel system that will undergo sequential stimuli-responsive degradation and promote cell proliferation in vitro. This Fellowship will be undertaken under the supervision of Prof. Molly Stevens in the Division of Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine at the Karolinska Institute (KI), which has the world-leading expertise in polymer chemistry, biomaterials engineering, cell biology and tissue engineering crucial to the objectives of the proposed work plan. Due to the modular design of the "Multi-SIP Hydrogel" platform, there is broad scope for designing SIP-hydrogels matched to different tissue types once a proof-of-principle is established. This will initiate new research areas at the cutting edge of biomaterials science, which will help me to establish my own independent research career following the proposed Fellowship.

Mots clés : dynamic hydrogels, self immolative polymers, stimuli responsive materials, live cell raman microspectroscopy

Participants :
- Karolinska Institutet (Suède) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 173857.2 €
Projet IMAGINACTIVISM (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

In this action I will track the people and processes involved in adapting the novel The Fifth Sacred Thing as a transmedia phenomenon, whose stated goal is: “to help nurture and support the movements that are already growing to put our world on a path of peace, justice and ecological harmony”. I will focus on the producers’ intentions to “be faithful to the book’s artistic vision … but also … to the values of earth-care and social justice the book represents”. I will explore the ways that they work to “set new standards for environmental accountability in the film industry … bring resources into the inner city by networking with community organizations … put up a website with extensive resources and develop many ways that the people who are inspired by the vision can learn the skills they need to create it and connect with others who share it.” Together, the book’s artistic vision and the producers’ plans provide a rich case study in inventive approaches to creating, inclusive, innovative and secure societies. I will use this empirical case study to develop and test the concept of ‘imaginactivism’ as a way of thinking through the influences fictional or artistic cultural productions exert on social and political activism, and vice versa. I will pursue research skills training in new media research and production, as well as videoethnography, so that my research methods, dissemination, and public engagement mirror and extend the phenomenon I am investigating. This will enable me to meet the objectives of: producing articles and a monograph about the transmedia phenomenon of The Fifth Sacred Thing; articulating the methods to ground conceptual work on ‘imaginactivism’ through an empirical case study; disseminating the methods to academic audiences pursuing research on cultural production and social activism; disseminating a road map for linking cultural production and social and political action to cultural producers, activists and potential activist publics.

Mots clés : imaginactivism, utopian fiction, grassroots activism

Participants :
- Cardiff University (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 251857.8 €
- University of Oregon (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €