Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet INFRALIGHT (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : TERMINATED

Harvesting infrared light, specifically wavelengths above 1000 nm, is of paramount importance for enhancing photovoltaic and photoelectric efficiencies, as well as for applications in imaging and communication. In recent years, significant strides have been made in the realm of infrared optoelectronics, leveraging colloidal quantum dots (0D materials) as a cost-effective alternative to conventional semiconductor technologies like InGaAs, InSb, HgCdTe, and others. Nevertheless, prevailing infrared technologies often rely on toxic compounds such as lead, cadmium, and mercury chalcogenide, giving rise to significant environmental concerns. Recently, heavy metal-free doped metal oxide nanocrystals (NCs), exemplified by Sn-doped In2O3 (ITO), have garnered recognition in the fields of nanoelectronics and energy storage owing to their alluring optical and electronic properties. The integration of plasmonic nanomaterials into semiconductor matrices holds great promise in diverse areas, including solar energy harvesting, photocatalysis, and photodetection. However, their application in the infrared spectrum alongside semiconductors remains relatively underexplored. To address this gap, we introduce the INFRALIGHT project, which introduces a pioneering approach: the establishment of a dedicated Schottky junction between semiconducting fluorographene and heavy metal-free doped metal oxide nanocrystals (e.g., Sn@In2O3) to efficiently capture infrared light. This junction will facilitate efficient charge transfer when exposed to infrared excitation. Our subsequent objective is to demonstrate a proof-of-concept photodetector device operating at a self-bias voltage (0 V). This device will exhibit an enhanced near-infrared (NIR) photoresponse achieved through the photoinduced extraction of plasmon hot electrons from IR hotspot plasmons. Within the framework of INFRALIGHT, we will delve into device development and investigate the interaction of IR plasmons with 2D semiconductors.

Mots clés : infared plasmonics, heavy metal free nanocrystals, 2d materials, fluorographene, charge transfer, plasmon hotspot, ir photodetector

Participants :
- Italian Institute of Technology (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 172750.08 €
Projet LEARNINSYNC (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Social interaction plays a pivotal role in human learning across the lifespan. Research shows that learning in social interaction co-occurs with inter-personal neural synchrony (INS), i.e. the temporal alignment of teacher-learner and learner-learner brain activities. In addition, some have proposed that INS may actively facilitate learning. However, previous work i) does not identify the specific social contextual factors responsible for the emergence of learning, INS and the INS-learning association and ii) provides mainly correlational rather than causal evidence of the INS-learning association. LEARNINSYNC aims to overcome these limitations. It combines EEG hyperscanning and multi-person transcranial electric stimulation (tES) to i) identify the specific social contextual factors contributing to learning, INS and INS-learning association and ii) test whether INS causally promotes learning. Experiment 1 adopts a 2x2 design where two participants (learners) learn from a third one (teacher) in social contexts varying the co-presence of the other learner (present or absent) and the teaching contingency (live or recorded). During the learning stage, EEG signals are measured from all three participants. This will characterise inter-brain dynamics across three people, moving beyond predominant dyadic literature and closer to real-world group learning. Experiment 2 tests the causal role of INS in learning: it exogenously induces teacher-learner and learner-learner INS during the learning stage, by mirroring the neural signals’ frequency, phase, and topography observed in experiment 1, and compares learning after real vs sham stimulation. Understanding the causal role of INS in social learning will inform current theories of INS and models of social and educational neuroscience. In a world where remote and asynchronous learning is increasingly prevalent, this work carries societal impact in the development of interventions for educational and work settings.

Mots clés : interpersonal neural synchrony, social learning, hyperscanning, multi person brain stimulation, social contingency, social co presence, social interaction

Participants :
- Italian Institute of Technology (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 209483.28 €
Projet USFT (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Understanding and quantifying flow, transport, and reaction processes in partially saturated heterogeneous media and their consequences on the relevant Darcy-scale for different multiphase conditions and flow dynamics, remains one of the leading open challenges in porous media research. In this project, we develop a novel framework to predict flow & transport processes at the micro and Darcy scales, in partially saturated media, from the basic pore structure parameters and general flow dynamics. Flow & Transport processes in heterogeneous multiphase media span a variety of disciplines: physics, chemical engineering, environmental practices, geology, agriculture, microbiology, petroleum recovery, to name a few. This project novelty advances current knowledge on several lines. First, we will renew our current perception of the interplay between stable and unstable processes, in multiphase systems, on the most basic pore system features (water-filled pore size distribution). Second, we will develop a Lagrangian CTRW upscaling framework to partially saturated media. These accomplishments and their integration will allow us to characterize diverse flow regimes in heterogeneous media within a unique template that is entirely predictive (i.e., not parameterized by the transport parameters or the spatial pore-scale flow field). This interdisciplinary endeavor incorporates particle dynamic models, macroscale stochastic methods, CFD models, and meta-analysis of microfluidic devices experiments and numerical direct pore simulations. To this end, the project will draw from the complementary skills of the supervisor and the researcher. In this context, this action is fully compatible with the MSCA Work Programme goals: • high-quality researchers’ training and supervision • strengthening research capacity • providing fairer and more attractive working conditions • building new and sustainable international and inter-sectoral partnerships and networks.

Mots clés : flow and transport, upscaling, ctrw, percolation, pore size distribution, flow stability

Participants :
- Conseil supérieur de la recherche scientifique (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 181152.96 €
Projet MediaCare (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

In our digitally driven world, caregivers of children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders (NDDs) deal with an avalanche of information. While information is more accessible than ever, it is also more prone to misinformation, adding to the already significant challenges these caregivers face. The EU defines misinformation as misleading or false information spread across various media. Such misinformation, often disguised as genuine advice, can mislead caregivers, affecting their care decisions and steering them away from evidence-based approaches. In its commitment to fostering a digitally inclusive society and fight misinformation, the EU agenda highlights the role of media literacy, enabling individuals to evaluate and critically interpret media messages. Yet, a gap exists: no media literacy initiatives are tailored to the unique needs of caregivers of children with NDDs. MediaCare is an interdisciplinary initiative blending media literacy and care research to bridge this gap. In MediaCare, I aspire to develop a novel web-based application to enhance media literacy skills for caregivers of children with NDDs. MediaCare objectives are clear: (1) To identify prevalent caregiver media misinformation on NDDs; and to build the MediaCare app to counteract them, offering (2) trusted resources, (3) aid in discerning information, and (4) fostering a digital care community. With a User-Centered approach and gold-standard methods, from a stakeholder-engaged review to usability testing and a Randomized Controlled Trial, MediaCare aligns with the EU's Digital Education Action Plan, promising a pioneering media literacy solution for caregivers. The FORLIPSI department at the University of Florence, a leader in media literacy research, offers me an ideal setting for this project, under Prof. Christian Tarchi’s guidance. MediaCare is expected to empower caregivers, enhancing their ability to navigate the media realm confidently and promoting informed, evidence-based care decisions.

Mots clés : caregivers caregivers of children with neurodevelopmental disorders parents misinformation media literacy

Participants :
- Université de Florence (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 172750.08 €
- Université de Twente (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'Uppsala (Suède) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet CIRPH2 (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Solution-processed photovoltaics and photodetectors have attracted significant attention in the last decades as a result of their ease of manufacturing and low cost. Colloidal nanocrystals form a special group of materials that can be utilized in the production of solution-processed devices thanks to their tunable bandgap, high absorption coefficient, composition tunability and their ability to form nanoheterostructures. Although this technology is very promising in terms of cost effectiveness and large-scale production of consumer goods, its wide-spread utilization in devices that operate in the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum is hindered due to the lack of environmentally-friendly materials with narrow bandgap. Current attempts typically employ lead- and mercury-containing semiconductors as the light-absorber, which complicates their utilization in large-scale applications as these materials do not comply with the European directive on the restriction of hazardous substances (RoHS). This project aims at developing narrow bandgap colloidal nanocrystals that will be used in the productions of RoHS-compliant photovoltaics and photodetectors. Within this project we are going to implement: i) a facile synthesis method for colloidal nanocrystals that do not contain any lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd) or mercury (Hg), ii) deposition and characterization of photovoltaics quality thin films of these colloidal nanocrystals via solution-processing methods and iii) fabrication and characterization of low-cost solution-processed photovoltaics and photodetectors based on these environmentally-friendly nanocrystals.

Mots clés : colloidal nanocrystals, rohs, low cost, green energy, photodetectors

Participants :
- Italian Institute of Technology (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 193643.28 €
Projet TimeCity (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

This project will advance knowledge on how cities contribute to the production of time of marginalized groups. Cities are key nodes in the production of social inequalities of time, as places where national and global processes locate and where many precarious groups reside and their uncertainties are strongly reflected. This project analyses time of Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong and critically examines the role of the city in the production of time for this marginalized group. The study will reveal the spatio-temporal causes of urban marginalized migrants and its broader implications for research on time in Urban Sociology. The objectives are (O1) to analyse the temporalities at play in the lives of the migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong, (O2) to analyse the lived experiences of time in the migration trajectories of Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong and retired migrant domestic workers in Metro Manila and (O3) to draw implications and develop a conceptual framework for the study of time of marginalized groups in Urban Sociology and publish this in high-impact journals. These objectives will be achieved using qualitative research among policy-makers, NGOs and other agencies, as well as Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong and retired domestic workers in Metro Manila.  The project establishes a valuable exchange of knowledge and skills between the researcher and the Institute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF) at Uppsala University. The supervisor, Prof. Miguel A. Martínez, is a leading scholar in urban sociology and has worked on topics including migrant workers, citizenship and the production of urban space, while the researcher brings considerable complementary knowledge of the social theory of time in cities and everyday life. IBF provides an excellent multidisciplinary research environment, where the researcher will be able to gain skills and experience relevant to her career goal to obtain a position at a first-rate university in the EU.

Mots clés : time, temporalities, domestic workers, precarity

Participants :
- Université d'Uppsala (Suède) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 222727.68 €
Projet UNCARIA (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Cardiovascular diseases account for nearly 45% of all deaths in Europe, with a yearly cost to the EU economy of €210 billions. The emergence of a new generation of deep neural networks (DNNs), powered by higher computing capabilities and the availability of large amounts of data, has enabled unprecedented predictive accuracy, bringing the promise of improving risk assessment and early diagnosis to the field of computational cardiac image understanding. Unfortunately, clinical translation of these tools has not been effectively accomplished yet. A key reason is the black-box nature of these models: through the observation of large-scale annotated data, DNNs can build rich, complex decision boundaries in the image space, but the sequence of mathematical operations leading to such decisions is not readily interpretable by humans. The goal of this project is to open this black-box in a specific direction: building in these models the ability of understanding when they deliver a prediction with a well-founded confidence degree, and when a prediction is reached based only on local statistical regularities of training data and may not be reliable. Current models largely lack this ability, and this undermines their potential for clinical adoption. This project revolves around a fundamental idea: redefining the conventional way of training DNNs so that they can not only produce accurate diagnostic predictions but also model their own errors and have an awareness of them. This proposal involves the transfer of the candidate to a worldwide renowned computer vision group, with a secondment in a top-tier medical research institution, followed by a returning stage in one of the most prestigious biomedical image analysis research groups within Europe. The proposed workplan is designed to train the candidate in both cutting-edge computer vision and clinical knowledge in the outgoing stage, maximizing potential for knowledge transfer to the European host during the incoming phase.

Mots clés : medical image analysis, deep learning, uncertainty, computer vision

Participants :
- Pompeu Fabra University (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 224071.2 €
- University of Adelaide (Australie) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet CareWork (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

CareWork is an anthropological study of domestic paid female care work for children and elderly persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Motivated by the global under-recognition of this essential activity as real labor and by recent global changes in its organization, my research goes beyond the almost exclusive anthropological theorization of care within kinship studies. Building on (socialist) feminist scholarly traditions on domestic work, which places care at the centre of political economy, CareWork investigates informal paid female domestic care work as a socially productive and reproductive relational activity in a dialectic relationship with broader social transformations in BiH and beyond. To enhance and fill gaps in current scholarship it uses an innovative methodology: it traces care work through ‘care clusters’ (various households differentially affected by it) and focuses on two connected sites—Sarajevo (primary site) and Austria (auxiliary site, a nearby top destination for BiH labour migration by carers)—to reconstruct the dynamics and dialectics of such work. This ethnographic study revolves around the following questions: a) How is this care work organized?; b) How does it shape up in relation to broader social processes (e.g. reconfigurations of labour and social security, of ethnonational relations, of migratory patterns) in light of processes of Europeanization?; c) What kind of effects/changes does this care work produce for the various stakeholders? In BiH global changes are particularly visible as it is marked by multiple formal—postwar, postsocialist, Europeanizing—transformations over the last 25 years. Tracing how social transformations converge in care work, CareWork affirms care as a central category of anthropological theory and demonstrates how social scientists can productively employ it as a prism for studying social transformations, as a deeply gendered node of social reproduction with retrograde and emancipatory potential.

Mots clés : female domestic paid care work, social reproduction, social transformations, domestic division of labor, ethnic relations, social inequalities, war and postwar migrations, europeanization

Participants :
- University of Graz (Autriche) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 174167.04 €
Projet CATHEDRAL ACOUSTICS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Cathedral acoustics represents a key part of Europe’s intangible cultural heritage at risk of being altered by architectural deterioration or restoration work. This multidisciplinary project aims to preserve the acoustics of four English cathedrals, which represent the diversity of this group of heritage buildings, by characterising their acoustic behaviour through impulse response measurements as well as by recreating their sound environment throughout history using computer models. Virtual acoustic techniques are applied to provide a simulation of the aural experience within the buildings at different points in history, including extracts of speech and music pieces that were part of liturgical or cultural celebrations. Moreover, listening tests are conducted to assess the acoustical perception in cathedrals. This fellowship will develop the applicant’s skills in virtual acoustics, sound design, and the use of new technologies for the study and dissemination of acoustical heritage, while at the same time the fellow’s technical background in acoustic engineering provides opportunities for knowledge transfer to the host institution. The project’s innovative approach will bring economic and social benefits to the EU by promoting and enriching heritage tourism, and by making the acoustical heritage of cathedrals widely accessible through the auralisations. The importance of sound as intangible cultural heritage will be disseminated to the general public through talks in festivals, public exhibitions and workshops. It will also result in 3 journal publications, 6 conference papers and the organisation of an international symposium on acoustical heritage. The project will encourage international collaboration networks in the field of heritage acoustics, focussing on the study of cathedrals around Europe using the methodology applied during the fellowship.

Mots clés : acoustics, heritage, virtual acoustics, acoustic simulation, sound

Participants :
- University of York (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 195454.8 €
Projet GIPTRAP (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Celiac disease affects about 1% of the population worldwide. It is an autoimmune disease triggered by gluten intake in genetically predisposed individuals. Celiac disease causes intestinal villi atrophy that results in a deficient absorption of nutrients and other risks. Gluten major sources are wheat, rye, barley and some oats. Currently, the only effective treatment is a permanent gluten free diet (GFD). However, a fully GFD is difficult to achieve. The average daily gluten intake in celiac patients is estimated to be 150-400 mg, when 50 mg are enough to damage the intestine of most celiac patients. Accordingly, symptoms persist in 65% of patients, with only 8% reaching complete gut recovery. Preliminary data showed that an antibody raised against the most immunogenic gluten peptide suppressed 90% immunogenicity of hydrolyzed gluten ex vivo. This project proposes a novel therapeutic strategy to alleviate the effect of exposure to gluten for celiac patients not completely responsive to GFD. I aim to assess the potential of anti-Gluten Immunogenic Peptides (GIP) antibodies as therapeutic tools by evaluating their effectiveness to neutralize GIP in vitro and ex vivo. I will develop improved humanized recombinant versions of anti-GIP antibodies, analyze their performance and stability, and optimize their production in mammalian cell cultures in collaboration with partner biotech companies and academia research groups with long experience in the field, bringing novel transferable knowledge to the host institution. The recombinant antibodies will also be explored for their improved performance in diagnostic applications for determining GIP excretion. This Fellowship will allow to extend my existing network beyond Academia towards Biotech Industry and will provide me with significant experience to mature towards independent project management in industrial research in the fields of recombinant protein production and immunotherapy.

Mots clés : celiac disease, gluten immunogenic peptides  gip, anti gip antibodies, humanized antibodies, antibody production, mammalian cell cultures, lentiviral vectors, antigen neutralization therapy

Participants :
- Biomedal (Spain) (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 160932.48 €