Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet EXPEDITE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Despite the urgent need for adopting multi-hazard risk approaches and for the implementation of resilience-enhancing measures in the EU and at the global scale, several challenges for effective implementation of risk assessment and adaptation responses remain. In particular, the assessment of climate hazards, risk and resilience is often based on static models which lose the appreciation of the temporal and spatial dynamics and complex feedback responses within the system. As a consequence, the information provided often fails to inform decision-makers and other end-users with the correct data to be actioned through timely responses to emerging risks. Barriers to development and implementation of novel approaches and models include the availability, cost and reliability of input datasets; the computational times and costs; the lack of consideration of the combined effect of multiple hazards; the spatial and temporal changes in the exposure of assets and services; and the complex adaptive responses of government, society and the environment to emerging risks. EXPEDITE aims at exploring new pathways to reduce and remove these barriers by exploring, testing and deploying machine learning and data science techniques and by developing and testing a climate service prototype, tailored to end-users. These may include institutional clients (such as Regions) the private sector or individual consumers. The research project, which will last 24 months, will be mainly conducted at CMCC@Ca’Foscari in Venice (Italy) under the supervision of Prof. Andrea Critto, with targeted secondments for advanced training in machine learning and data science at MALGA, University of Genoa and for climate service design and prototyping at GECOsistema srl, a specialised R&D consulting lab. A targeted dissemination and communication plan will allow EXPEDITE to share the research activities, outcomes and outputs with researchers, policymakers, the private sector and the general public.

Mots clés : climate service machine learning big data climate hazard risk resilience

Participants :
- Gecosistema srl (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Gênes (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Ca' Foscari de Venise (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 188590.08 €
- CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet VINCE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The project addresses the inherent presence of value judgments in current integrated assessment models (IAMs) of climate change impacts. Though widely used to inform public policy, many aspects of IAM design and use require making assumptions of an implicitly normative nature: assumptions that are ultimately about the values that individuals and communities ought to pursue. This raises a host of philosophical and methodological questions for which an interdisciplinary approach is needed: which actors and in which contexts – scientists at the model design stage, policy makers at the decision stage, etc.– should be in charge of making the normative choices that IAMs require? What practices and protocols are best suited to facilitate the recognition of normative assumptions in IAMs, the oversight by experts and stakeholders, and (if possible) the resolution of the uncertainty that surrounds them? To answer these questions, the project will first propose a taxonomy of implicitly normative assumptions in IAMs. Then, for each type identified, it will aim to determine which of several approaches is best suited to deal with that type of normativity. The resulting account will be a new model of IAM research that indicates how one ought to proceed in concrete contexts of IAM design, assessment and use. To achieve these objectives, Dr. Nappo will receive crucial training at Politecnico di Milano. Under the co-supervision of a philosopher of science and of a climate economist, he will integrate his demonstrated competences in the epistemology of scientific modelling and climate change ethics with new skills, which include first-hand experience with IAM modelling practices and grasp of their mathematical underpinnings. This training will allow Dr. Nappo to not only advance the literature on IAM normativity significantly beyond its current limits, but to also contribute to making IAM research more reliable and objective through an effective dissemination and exploitation plan.


Participants :
- École polytechnique de Milan (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 172750.08 €
- CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet SpinDy (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The increasing dependence of everyday life on digital technologies raises challenges for materials science. Data is becoming one of the most precious assets of modern society, and its storage and processing require more and more electrical power. In order to keep this energy consumption under control, new technologies are emerging that shift the paradigms of computation. Among these, the field of spintronics holds potential to meeting the current requirements of dense, nonvolatile data storage and logic technology in which information can be written, manipulated and read as efficiently and as fast as possible. The main goal of the SpinDy project is to develop innovative and sustainable spintronic devices. The basic concept behind my proposed approach is to use solid-state gating to act on the device structure during operation and thus tune its functionality dynamically. This will allow to perform low-power reading and writing operations without compromising the stability of the device for long-term information retention. I will implement this working in two parallel directions. The first is by achieving voltage control of orbital currents in light transition metals, which in turn allows to tune the torque efficiency at the interface between the metal and a magnetic material. The second is by manipulating the magnetic properties of a rare-earth-free ferrimagnetic layer through electrical gating. Finally, I will combine aspects of both approaches to develop proof-of-principle dynamical spintronic devices that can act as memory or for logic operations with enhanced performances in terms of energy efficiency and stability thanks to their tunable nature. The main outcomes of the SpinDy project display aspects of great interest from both applied and fundamental points of view and thus will be highly relevant for the research community, including disciplines beyond spintronics, as well as have economical and societal impacts.

Mots clés : spintronics, spin orbit torques, magneto ionics, solid state gating

Participants :
- Conseil supérieur de la recherche scientifique (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 165312.96 €
Projet SAXOmics (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Astaxanthin (Ax) is crucial for achieving the pink-red hue in farmed Atlantic salmon, a key quality factor at sale. Since salmon cannot produce Ax naturally, it is added to their feed. Beyond pigmentation, Ax's antioxidant properties may boost salmon growth and health. However, farming challenges have led to a decline in muscle Ax levels, possibly due to rapid growth, welfare challenges, and low retention rates. Despite Ax's high cost and its importance in fish feed, retention in salmon remains low, under 12%. Improving Ax retention and pigmentation is a key challenge in salmon aquaculture, essential for the industry’s growth and salmon health. The SAXOmics project aims to enhance understanding of Ax metabolism, focusing on its absorption, transport, and retention, to improve Ax retention, feed and fish quality, and address pigmentation challenges. Enhancing Ax absorption and retention is crucial, as dietary lipids and other factors promote Ax retention, though the exact molecular mechanisms are not fully understood. Recent research suggests that gut microbiota affect lipid metabolism, pointing to a possible role in the Ax mechanism. By employing a groundbreaking interdisciplinary approach that integrates multi-omics technologies and advanced bioinformatics tools, this project will delve into the molecular mechanisms of Ax metabolism and develop innovative feed formulations to optimize Ax absorption, transport, and retention. The project will include enterocyte and muscle cell culture and salmon pigmentation trials, complemented by thorough training in omics technology, animal ethics, experimental design, and scientific communication. Joint efforts with Nord University, NTNU, and BioMar will support practical applications and commercialization of the findings. By month 30, I will have advanced expertise in salmon rearing and nutrition, practical omics skills, and a strong network, positioning me as a competitive candidate capable of driving innovation in my field.

Mots clés : astaxanthin, salmon, cell culture, gut microbiome, omics techniques

Participants :
- Université de Bodø (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 314473.2 €
- Biomar as (Norvège) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université norvégienne de sciences et de technologie (Norvège) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet Mother Earth (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Increasingly serious environmental crimes and large-scale human-induced disasters generate harm that impacts local communities. For instance, in 2015, the Fundão Dam collapse contaminated 650 kilometres of the Doce River with toxic residues, affecting the life of 1.6 million people living in the watershed. Among them, indigenous and afro-indigenous peoples have their life and culture impacted. This project seeks to understand and conceptualise what indigenous and afro-indigenous peoples’ cultural rights are affected by environmental degradation in Brazil and Colombia. It aims to co-develop with local communities in those countries a toolbox to identify and protect their cultural rights and to claim redress for cultural losses.

Mots clés : indigenous and afro indigenous peoples cultural heritage law, environmental law

Participants :
- Queen Mary University of London (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgique) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 175920.0 €
Projet BeNiFIt (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Early detection is crucial in improving treatment outcomes and alleviating the burden of chronic diseases, as emphasized by the EU Mission: Cancer. In vivo dianosgtic approaches have been shown to eliminate a couple of post-processing stages, but no significant reduction in turnaround delays has been reported, in addition to being costly, bulky, and invasive. The next natural step in innovation would be to reduce turnaround delays from the present best of 10,000 minutes to within a few tens of minutes, a 1000X improvement, which BeNiFIt aims to introduce. The goal of the BeNiFIt project is to show that intra-body nanoscale communications (IBNC) can be used to make in-vivo diagnostics possible. This will pave the way for more advanced early detection and real-time monitoring methods that are minimally invasive, low-cost, and have small turnaround delays. Through BeNiFIt, I will demonstrate the competence of IBNC for in vivo detection of biomarkers with high accuracy by using nanomachines equipped with biosensors. A cooperative sensing approach will be developed to maximize the sensitivity and specificity of the biosensors, thus reducing the number of false positives/negatives caused by the presence of other molecules. In addition, I will design an approach to integrating the sensing and communication hardware to meet the hardware requirements of nanomachines. A near-field magnetism-based system and passive communication architecture will be implemented to ensure ultra-high safety and energy efficiency. Lastly, an open-source system-level simulator will be developed, spanning microscopic to macroscopic scales, to analyze the impact of the design choices on the system’s performance. The KPI targets of BeNiFIt include >95% detection accuracy and a 10X reduction in treatment costs, besides the 1000X reduction in turnaround delays. These outstanding performances are set to disrupt the healthcare industry.

Mots clés : nanonetworks, inbody communications, intrabody communications, wireless sensor networks, passive communication, 

Participants :
- Université polytechnique de Catalogne (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 165312.96 €
- Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université norvégienne de sciences et de technologie (Norvège) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet CALIOPE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Learning to play a musical instrument such as a piano requires many hours of exercises, generally either suggested to the student by a teacher or taken from a “method” book. These books are collections of progressive exercises meant to teach specific techniques and address the commonest mistakes and difficulties that players face while learning. One downside of these books is that the exercises are not personalized to the students, and thus cannot address specific difficulties and characteristics of each learner. Teachers could potentially write or find exercises that are tailored to the different needs of their students, but this activity is very time-consuming, and given the number of students that many teachers have, it becomes prohibitive. Given the many recent advances in the field of music generation, we propose that it should be possible to generate exercises automatically to form a personalized method for each student. The teacher would describe the characteristics of the student and their strength and weaknesses to a software system, as well as the teaching goals that should be covered in the generated exercises. In return, the system would create a sequence of exercises that are specific to the needs of the student and to the concerns of the teacher. This “interactive opus” would allow for a more effective and engaging learning experience, since the learning difficulty curve would follow each student rather than enforcing a general curriculum. In CAL:IOPE, I propose to study both a theoretical model for the description of piano learning students, and a computational system to generate progressive exercises based on that model. Advancing knowledge in Computational Creativity and music generation to tackle long-term structure, this project will aim to create an entire set of musical exercises that are coherent in style and difficulty, leading research towards music generation that is useful to human musicians.

Mots clés : computational creativity, music generation, computer supported education

Participants :
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgique) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 191760.0 €
Projet MINERVA (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

In this project, MINERVA (Minimal Individual for Explaining Root Variation in Ancestry), I will craft novel computational methods to infer the minimal number of individuals required to explain the genetic diversity in populations that underwent severe bottlenecks. Through a scalable algorithmic framework, MINERVA will enable accurate autosomal haplotype reconstructions. We will leverage non-recombining genome regions, the Y chromosome, and mitochondrial DNA, inherited paternally and maternally, respectively. This will be reconciled with the autosomal phylogenies to provide a complete view of population dynamics across recombining and non-recombining genomic regions. With a new dataset from South America, this project will illuminate the genetic ancestry of the continent’s first settlers. While initially focusing on South America, MINERVA will be applicable to other bottlenecked populations, such as those in Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and Sardinia. Currently, no accurate methods exist for reconstructing ancestral haplotypes in bottlenecked populations, which is essential for determining whether high-frequency deleterious variants are inherited from ancestral haplotypes, arose through selection, are de novo mutations, or were introduced through admixture. This research will advance our understanding of population-specific genetic variation and improve the accuracy of genome-wide association studies and polygenic risk scores. Bottlenecked populations often have higher rates of genetic diseases, and our work will offer critical insights into their origins and transmission, with implications for genetic counseling and public health. During a secondment, I will collaborate with the Wuasikamas organization in southern Colombia to ensure cultural relevance. By engaging with the Inga community, I will present findings and foster a reciprocal exchange of knowledge, ensuring the research respects and benefits the communities involved.


Participants :
- Université de Copenhague (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 247553.28 €
- Fundación internacional wuasikamas (Colombie) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet QuBics (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

In response to recent climate tragedies, European Union (EU) is taking rapid action with its ambitious European Green Deal (EGD) to transform our economies and societies greener. As a result, the EU is encouraging the transformation of our buildings and vehicles from energy consumers to energy producers by installing lightweight, flexible, colourful, transparent, low-cost, and environmentally friendly solar panels. These are precisely the features of organic photovoltaics (OPVs). Despite the benefits, the commercialization of OPVs has yet to occur, with power conversion efficiency (PCE) being the primary impediment. In recent years, significant advancements in developing novel design architecture, such as quaternary blend systems (q-OPVs) that employ cutting-edge non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs), helped achieve PCE of over 18%. However, a lack of understanding of the fundamental mechanisms behind novel q-OPVs has impeded further advancement. As a result, Dr. Arunagiri Lingeswaran (experienced researcher (ER)) intends to solve this issue by employing advanced spectroscopic techniques to develop a new design rule for fabricating one-of-a-kind and highly efficient q-OPVs that go beyond the state-of-the-art. ER intends to bring an efficiency breakthrough in the OPV field by utilizing the inter/multidisciplinary aspects of research involving physics, chemistry, materials science, and device engineering to achieve this ambitious goal using the host institution's excellent infrastructural resources. The proposed project (QuBics) complements the ER's expertise in fabricating cutting-edge q-OPVs and the host scientist's knowledge of studying device physics. Overall, the new skills and expertise obtained via this fellowship will help ER mature into a better researcher capable of managing his research group in a few years, ideally in Europe, his desired career path.

Mots clés : quaternary organic photovoltaics, non fullerene acceptors, renewable energy, device physics, optoelectronics, semiconductors, emerging solar technology, clean energy transition

Participants :
- Université de Linköping (Suède) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 222727.68 €
Projet HITEH (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Recently, energy harvesting technologies based on the concept of thermoelectricity with direct conversion of waste heat into electricity has received great attention. Thermoelectric (TE) devices have already been used in various industries such as combustion engines, coupled to photovoltaic cells, and to power small home appliances. Conventional TE devices based on electronic conducting materials working through the thermo-diffusion of electrons and holes have been intensively studied and achieved significant performance innovations; however, the small electronic Seebeck coefficient (~100 µV K-1) limits their practical applications. At the same time, these devices cease to work as temperature difference diminishes and are not capable of storing charge. Most of them are based on hard inorganic materials with no/limited flexibility and are not applicable in wearable applications. Therefore, it is necessary to develop new electrolytes with a high Seebeck coefficient and large surface electrodes for high charge storage capability to solve these issues.  In this project, we propose the development of stretchable hydrogel electrolytes and 2-Dimensional (2D) MXene electrodes. The proposal consists of 1) design and synthesis of the stretchable hydrogel electrolytes that exhibit intrinsic stretchability (> 300 %) and humidity-independent high ionic Seebeck coefficient (> 50 mV K-1), 2) realizing 2D MXene electrodes capable of high capacitance (> 500 F/g), 3) fabricating energy harvesting and sensing devices based on ionic thermoelectric.  This project will give an opportunity for the researcher to gain state-of-the-art knowledge on ionic thermoelectric materials and devices. The experience of the supervisor in various thermoelectric generators will also be fully exploited through this project. Our proposal will contribute to materials science, particularly in energy harvesting society, polymer electrolytes, and 2 dimensional MXene materials.

Mots clés : stretchable, hydrogel electrolytes, mxene, ionic thermoelectric, energy harvesting, supercapacitor

Participants :
- Université de Linköping (Suède) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 206887.68 €