Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet P4PLAY (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Doctoral Networks - Joint Doctorates
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Conformity with the call and work programme: There is a significant shortage of researchers in Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy in Europe. Only five European countries offer PhDs in Occupational Therapy, while none offer PhDs in Occupational Science, which severely restricts professional education and practice and ultimately impacts patients, and families, who receive occupational therapy services. Therefore, the societal challenge for improving health professions training and knowledge in evidence-based practice is a priority for the profession. This European Joint Doctorates programme responds to this challenge in Occupational Therapy career development across Europe through the study of play from an occupational science perspective. The overall research goal is to develop new knowledge on the occupation of play and play deprivation, the impact of physical, socio-cultural, and policy environments on play provision, and the development of innovative solutions to address barriers and provide solutions to play provision in diverse community settings to benefit children, families, and communities. The P4Play programme address four areas of play: play occupation, policy, places and practice. The EJD will establish the first innovative trans-European Occupational Therapy doctoral training programme dedicated to play occupation, participation, policy and practice. The fundamental aim is to develop a sustainable doctoral programme that delivers ambitious and high-quality graduates to drive innovative research and practice in occupational science and therapy. Increasing occupational therapist’s ability to be consumers and producers of research is vital to transform therapy practice so that it is research-informed and evidence-based. The overall goal is to build the capacity of therapists to develop creative solutions towards social transformation.

Mots clés : socio spatial inclusion, play, children, families, communities

Participants :
- Zürcher Fachhochschule (Suisse) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 281276.64 €
- Luleå University of Technology (Suède) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 563965.92 €
- Queen Margaret University (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 606345.12 €
- National University of Ireland (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 824052.96 €
Projet AMBIT (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Congenital anomalies, affecting 6% of all babies, are a major cause of infant mortality and childhood morbidity, of which craniomaxillofacial (CMF) anomalies are often a component part. CMF defects are severely debilitating, where the patient not only suffers physically but also psychologically. CMF implants are used to facilitate and accelerate the healing process upon which a second operation is routinely required to remove these devices as most implants comprise of non-resorbable materials (Titanium-Ti, PEEK), with limited patient-specific customisation, that may lead to stress-shielding, infection or lack of growth, particularly in vulnerable paediatric population. The AMBIT project aims to optimise and customise Bioresorbable Magnesium Implants (BMgI) for CMF applications, to overcome the limitations of current clinical gold-standard non-resorbable Ti-based implants. This action combines my expertise in metallurgy and alloy design with Dr. Eoin O'Cearbhaill’s (UCD Centre for Biomedical Engineering (CBE)) and Dr. Ted Vaughan’s (NUIG) expertise in medical device development, testing and translation. This highly interdisciplinary approach will make a significant contribution to the development of bioresorbable CMF implants that will not only improve the post-operation experiences and lives of CMF implant recipients but ultimately decrease the cost burden on national health systems. Through advanced and well-designed training in research (medical device design, cell-studies for biocompatibility, 3D-Printing) and transferable skills (project management, mentorship, entrepreneurship) that go beyond my current field of specialty, and through the networking opportunities that the host will offer, this action will facilitate my reintegration in Europe, while allowing me to become a research leader in biodegradable Mg alloy design & processing for medical device applications, translating alloy design concepts from ideation to clinical use.

Mots clés : bioresorbable magnesium implants

Participants :
- National University of Ireland (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 196590.72 €
Projet CONRICONF (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Contentious Rights: A Comparative Study of International Human Rights Norms and their Effects on Domestic Social Conflict Over the last 60 years, a broad set of international norms gained importance as instruments to regulate a globalising world. Enshrined in human rights conventions, these norms contribute to strengthen a platform for social mobilization and voice. The introduction of human rights standards at the domestic level, however, has also been responsible for the generation of new tensions on the interpretation and application of these norms. Yet, this type of conflict and polarization among social and political actors remain widely unexplored. This project will examine how ‘human rights act in practice’ in the post-ratification phase using a multidisciplinary perspective and an empirical comparative approach. More precisely, it addresses the task of identifying the conditions under which international norms generate consensus and cooperation or fragmentation and conflict between domestic social and political actors and the consequences in terms of human rights practices. The candidate fellow Dr. Lorenza Fontana will focus on a comparative analysis of two conventions (International Labor Organization’s Conventions 182 on Child Labor and 189 on Domestic Workers) in two countries (Bolivia and Philippines) and lead an interdisciplinary collaboration between Prof. Jean Grugel (University of Sheffield, SIID), and Prof. Beth Simmons (Harvard University, WCFIA). This project will greatly increase our understanding of the effects of human rights norms on domestic societies and provide policy relevant results.

Mots clés : human rights, social conflict, international conventions, civil society, domestic politics, children rights, domestic workers rights, bolivia, philippines

Participants :
- The Open University (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Newcastle University (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 269857.8 €
- Harvard University (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet SC-HYBWalls (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Control of both structural and non-structural damage is of utmost importance in Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering. Alleviation of the structural damage and reducing collapse risk under sever ground motions has been a general research focus in earthquake engineering. However, earthquake reconnaissance reports also foreground the significance of injuries, fatalities and economical losses due to failure of non-structural components. Furthermore, the functionality of some critical buildings carrying acceleration-sensitive equipment such as hospitals can be interrupted due to non-structural damage after a seismic event. Therefore, it is vital to urgently meet an inevitable social demand for truly resilient construction. In target resilient buildings, both structural and non-structural damage should be minimized simultaneously in order to mitigate direct and indirect losses such as repair costs and costly downtime during which the building cannot be used or occupied. Different strategies have been implemented by researchers to mitigate the structural and non-structural damage. As an instance, self-centering frames have been developed with the aim of avoiding residual drifts after a seismic event. Meanwhile, hybrid steel-concrete frames consisting of coupled walls with controlled energy dissipation mechanism have recently grabbed a lot of attentions since they take the advantage of both stiffness of RC walls and the ductility and energy dissipation capacity of steel components. The aim of this project is to develop and investigate a novel resilient structural system in which a self-centering mechanism is coupled with hybrid steel-concrete structural systems. Hence, the new system will be capable of resisting moderate to high intensity ground motions while both structural and non-structural damages are kept minimum simultaneously. Employment of this novel earthquake resilient structural system also leads to sustainable, fast and simple construction.

Mots clés : earthquake resilient, hybrid steel concrete construction, self centering structures

Participants :
- University of London (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 212933.76 €
Projet PolyTEM (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Controlling the polymorph (crystal structure) of crystalline materials is of vital importance to both material science and the pharmaceutical industry. Many crystal polymorphs are difficult to access, however, as polymorph is determined by both kinetics and thermodynamics. Recently, it has been observed that precipitation of crystals in confinement often leads to the formation of unusual polymorphs. For example, CaCO3 forms purely as aragonite when it is precipitated in small nano-pores. These observations suggest that confinement could offer a generic route to polymorph control. However, the fundamental mechanisms underlying this confinement effect are poorly understood. In this project, I will combine in-situ cryogenic transmission electron microscopy (cryoTEM) and liquid phase (LP) TEM to study how confinement effects give rise to polymorph control. In-situ cryoTEM allows detailed structural analysis of “snapshots” of the nucleation process, while LPTEM enables dynamic, time-resolved analysis with millisecond time resolution. Notably, although these two advanced techniques perfectly complement each other, they have never been combined to study one system. CaCO3 will form the principal focus of the study, and a graphene pocket (GP) will be used as the confinement system as it not only favours aragonite formation, but is also ideally suited to both cryoTEM and LPTEM studies. The study will reveal how CaCO3 nucleate in the GPs and develop into aragonite, and the role of surface chemistry in this polymorph control process will be investigated. The project will then be extended to functional materials (e.g., TiO2) or drug crystals (e.g., Ritonavir), in order to learn how to use confinement to control polymorph by design. The research will allow us to fully understand the formation of aragonite in nano-sized confinements and more fundamentally, will bridge the gap in knowledge about how crystal polymorph in general is controlled in confinement.

Mots clés : cryotem, liquid phasetem, polymorph control, confinement, calcium carbonate, graphene

Participants :
- University of Leeds (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 224933.76 €
Projet ANSWER (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Conventional robots usually consist of heavy rigid components, such as engines, gearboxes and rigid linkages that are made of high-density materials. Although they can perform complex movements and processes, they are typically not able to perform movements similar to those of biological models. Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) allow flexible mechanisms to behave as artificial muscles. They typically consist of mechanically pre-strained elastomer membranes and compliant electrodes. They are lightweight and can produce impressive muscle-like strains. DEAs are capable of mimicking the well-established antagonistic principle found in nature. To control dielectric elastomer actuators, complex, expensive and external electronic control units are generally required, which often makes the practical application of DEA complicated and rather attractive of commercial products. However, dielectric elastomers can also act as sensors and piezoresistive switches (Dielectric elastomer switches - DESs), enabling the integration of monitoring and control functions in compliant components themselves. During the proposed project at the Biomimetics Laboratory at the University of Auckland and the TU Dresden, dielectric elastomer components will be used in complex soft robotic systems. The aim of the proposed project is to integrate sensing, signal processing and actuation by the use of only flexible dielectric elastomer components in soft robotic structures without using conventional electronics. Based on the current knowledge of the DESs at the Biomimetics Laboratory, sensor-actuator systems comprising dielectric elastomer (DE) sensors, actuators and logic switches will be designed, to monitor, evaluate and react to certain environmental conditions. The developed laboratory scale processes will be transferred to modern production technologies at the Solid State Electronics Laboratory in Dresden in cooperation with the Werner-Hartmann-Zentrum for technologies of electronics.

Mots clés : robotics, smart materials, artificial muscles, dielectric elastomers, electro active polymers, adaptive structures, high voltage logics, high voltage signal generation

Participants :
- TU Dresden (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 176115.15 €
- University of Auckland (Nouvelle-Zélande) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet CO2PhotoElcat (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Conversion of CO2 to synthetic fuels is essential for climate-change mitigation and renewable energy production. This project will develop a novel, disruptive and sustainable approach to the photoelectrocatalytic CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR). The interdisciplinary methodology will combine breakthrough approaches to self-assemble nanoparticles into metallic nanofilms at fluidic interfaces, with electrochemical control of ion and electron transfer at an immiscible liquid|liquid (L|L) interface, and custom in situ UV/vis and Raman setups to probe the electrified L|L interface. The major innovation will be unprecedented electrochemical-control of the degree of plasmonic photo-charging of the interfacial metallic nanofilms to overcome the kinetic bottleneck of the multielectron, multiproton CO2RR towards more energy-dense C2 or C3 hydrocarbons. This MSCA-IF will significantly support the EU’s goal to decarbonise the energy sector, detailed in the European Green Deal, via high-impact scientific research and intellectual property generation for environmentally-friendly technologies. The Experienced Researcher (ER) will be supervised by Dr Micheál D. Scanlon at the University of Limerick (UL), Ireland, and undertake a secondment with Prof. Steven Bell at Queens University Belfast (QUB), U.K. The ER will engage in well-structured dissemination activities of the project results both to expert scientists and the general public using a multitude of engagement and outreach platforms. While the ER is accomplished in spectroelectrochemistry and nanomaterials synthesis, this fellowship will greatly expand his core scientific experimental and communication skills, international outlook, and broaden his professional network and inter-sectoral employability. Ultimately, this enhanced research capacity will allow the ER is to establish his own world-class research laboratory focusing on electrocatalysis through competitive grant acquisition, e.g., an ERC Starting grant.

Mots clés : electrochemistry at the interface between two immiscible electrolyte solutions, nanoparticle self assembly at immiscible liquid liquid interfaces, metallic nanoparticle fermi level equilibration

Participants :
- University of Limerick (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 184590.72 €
Projet GiSTDS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Coordination of different players in active distribution systems by increasing the penetration of distributed energy resources and rapid advances on the aggregators, microgrids and prosumers with private territory individuals establishes new challenges in control and management systems from the owners’ point of views. Undertaking digitalization of future distribution systems, GiSTDS introduces an edge computing framework based on GridEye, the core production of DEPsys, which provides real time visibility and monitoring. Relevant drawbacks in the distribution system management platforms in handling the scalability of players, look ahead preventive management systems regarding contingency condition and lack of physical boundaries for third party entities (aggregators) will be addressed by GiSTDS. The main novelties of this project in comparison to the GridEye are: 1) Developed P2P trading module provides automated double auction negotiation in real time fashion which enables all private entities with and without specific physical boundaries to participate in local and flexible electricity markets. 2) Modification of GridEye’s modules to address the scalability and resilient operation in both the normal and contingency conditions. 3) To present a look ahead energy managements schemes for the operators, GiSTDS will be equipped to the forecasting module based on auto-regressive with exogenous variables (ARX) and machine learning techniques such as long short term memory (LSTM) and recursive neural network (RNN). Therefore, GiSTDS based on modified and developed modules explores comprehensive distributed framework for control, monitoring and operation of energy systems with multiple dispersed players in different scales. The edge computing solutions in GiSTDS eectively digitalis energy systems and creates major opportunities in terms of avoiding big data concerns and getting a bottom-up monitoring approach for the network supervision.

Mots clés : scalable transactive, double auction p2p trading, network supervisory, real time decision making, distributed optimization, forecasting

Participants :
- Depsys sa (Suisse) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 203149.44 €
Projet CoralChange (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Coral reefs are among the most diverse, spectacular and productive ecosystems on the planet. However, coral reefs are also among the marine ecosystems more susceptible to the adverse effects of the on-going global change. The frequency and severity of coral bleaching and mass mortality events increases every year, with serious consequences on the long-term viability of coral populations. However, during the last years, few studies have investigated the future of coral populations under different global change scenarios using demographic models. Moreover, these studies have not considered the capacity of corals to adjust their physiology to maintain performance despite environmental change (acclimatization) with the additional energetic cost of this adaptive mechanisms and their consequent transgenerational effects on the viability of future offspring. The CoralChange project will investigate, for the first time, the transgenerational effects induced by global change in stony coral and octocoral species in order to determine how their population dynamics and viability is compromised in the long-term. To achieve this goal, I will develop demographic predictive models combining field and experimental data that include coral physiological condition, trophic plasticity, reproductive success and larval viability. This new approach will identify the possible energetic costs of adaptive mechanisms to ocean warming and acidification that may undermine the early, and most vulnerable, life stages of corals. The results of this study will be essential to develop effective management and conservation strategies to safeguard coral reefs under multiple stressors, as well as identify coral species and populations with higher probability to survive in future conditions.

Mots clés : global change, coral reefs, coral reproduction, adaptive mechanisms, sublethal effects

Participants :
- University of Washington (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Barcelona (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 245732.16 €
Projet THEOCORPES (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Core level X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) is one of the most widely used experimental techniques in surface science and surface analysis. However, the interpretation of recorded spectra is challenging. Often the amount of chemical insight that XPS can provide is compromised by problems with assigning detected “peaks” to specific chemical environments. Theoretical modelling can provide an alternative means for determining the spectroscopic signature associated with a given chemical environment, and could therefore be used to overcome the long-standing peak-assignment problem. In this project, the accuracy of existing theoretical methods for guiding the interpretation of XPS spectra will be tested, and new methods for predicting satellite peaks and simulating vibrational effects in core level XPS will be developed. In particular, the accuracy of the Δ-Self-Consistent-Field (ΔSCF) method will be tested for solids and surface species; the ΔSCF method will be combined with Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT) to predict satellite structures in core level photoemission spectra; and a fully quantum mechanical method based on the Density Functional Theory (DFT) and normal mode analysis will be developed for the simulation of vibrational effects in XPS. Through the testing and development of computationally affordable theoretical methods, this study will provide impetus and justification for users of XPS to take full advantage of theoretical modelling when interpreting their experimental results. Several dissemination and communication activities have been planned to ensure that the theoretical work will reach its inteneded audience and ultimately help XPS users from a wide range of fields to gain greater insight into the systems that they study.

Mots clés : theoretical spectroscopy, surface analysis, computational materials science

Participants :
- University of Tartu (Estonie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 154193.28 €