Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet IMDIGICOMM (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Putting the ‘people at the centre of the digital transformation’ is one of the core goals of EU strategies for the digital decade. However, the excessive power of a few non-European big tech companies governing the digital transition also carries risks for EU citizens. While state-of-the-art theorises and describes the new opportunities and threats of the political impacts of ‘platformisation’, the question of whether and how a new progressive politics for the digital age is emerging is rarely asked. IMDIGICOMM will answer these questions in four steps.  First, building on critical literature on the ‘digital commons’, IMDIGICOMM will elaborate a three-pillar theoretical framework to make sense of how digitalisation affects gender, democratic and productive relations. The assumption underlying IMDIGICOMM is the emergence of a new cleavage counterposing two models of platformisation: the ‘digital as commodities’ and the ‘digital as commons’. Second, empirical research will focus on Progressive Parties in five countries (France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain) to map their ideologies and practices regarding the digital transition to assess whether they facilitate or hamper the advance of the 'digital commons'. Third, the maps will result in a ‘Digital Commons Politics’ Index to measure the extent to which parties’ imaginaries on platform societies contribute to redirect the digital transition, and Qualitative Comparative Analysis will assess the combination of conditions that may lead to an increase in the index. Fourth, the project will evaluate the societal impacts of transformative shifts from the ‘digital as commodities’ to the ‘digital as commons’ through a digital dashboard. IMDIGICOMM represents a stepping stone to elaborate the theoretical and methodological tools to make sense of the politics of the digital age. Finally, IMDIGICOMM aims to open future research pathways to systematise the understanding of the political confrontations in platform societies.

Mots clés : digital commons, digital politics, european progressive parties, political imaginaries, political impact

Participants :
- Université Johannes-Gutenberg de Mayence (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Institut catholique de Lille (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Wrocław (Pologne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Open impact srl (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Valence (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 192865.12 €
Projet DynaMOST (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Sustainable energy generation, conversion and storage are among the most challenging goals of this century. DynaMOST is concerned with MOlecular Solar Thermal (MOST) energy storage and release systems that can convert solar energy into chemical energy. Currently, very few MOST organic and organometallic systems are reported in the literature. Few simple yet elegant approaches are applied to improve their storage capacity and applicability. They rely on mostly trial-and-error variations of metals, alkyl chains, and photoactive units. Advance is hampered by the lack of mechanistic studies, particularly molecular-level information after light excitation. The ambitious goal of DynaMOST is to unravel the fundamental working principles of several MOST pushing ab initio dynamics simulations and quantum chemical methods beyond the state-of-the-art. Systems to study include dimeric transition metal complexes and large organic cyclophanes, which have demanding electronic structures and routine methodological techniques cannot be readily applied. Ultimately, DynaMOST is expected to deliver a rationale for designing new and efficient MOST systems. The experienced researcher will transfer knowledge in the transition metal chemistry, reaction mechanisms, and theoretical spectroscopy to the host group, and gain expertise in emerging quantum chemical methods and time-resolved chemical phenomena. A cross-sectoral workshop will increase the researcher's and host's networks. DynaMOST will provide the applicant with the basis to pursue an independent career, a unique and highly competitive research profile, excellent training, an increased scientific network and a comprehensive box of soft but essential skills, such as communication, management, dissemination and public engagement skills.

Mots clés : quantum chemistry, ab initio excited state dynamics simulations, computational photochemistry, theoretical spectroscopy, transition metal chemistry, organic cyclophanes

Participants :
- Université de Vienne (Autriche) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 199440.96 €
Projet EmerVir (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Emerging viruses pose a tremendous threat to human health and economy, as dramatically shown by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Most emerging viruses are zoonotic, meaning that they can be transmitted between animal species and humans. Although it was estimated that more than one million viral species exist in the two main reservoirs of zoonotic viruses (mammals and birds), only a few hundred are known to infect humans. This means that the majority of wildlife viral species will likely not cause major outbreaks in the human population, but that many potentially human-infective viruses are lurking in nature. Although large-scale metagenomic studies allowed the identification of thousands of new viral species, functional data, including their ability to infect human cells, are often missing. Previous work has examined the human cell tropism of a fraction of wildlife viruses, but no systematic analysis of the factors involved in viral entry has been undertaken. In this proposal, we will use synthetic biology, experimental virology and viral evolution using a large number of human cell lines to implement a high throughput characterization of wildlife viruses' tropism. We will first test whether wildlife viruses’ envelopes from diverse viral families can mediate infection of a large panel of human cell lines. Comparing available transcriptomic data of susceptible and non-susceptible cell lines, we will identify novel wildlife viruses’ host entry factors. Finally, using experimental evolution, we will investigate how viral envelope natural selection and diversification impact the use of these newly identified entry determinants. Overall, this project should improve epidemic preparedness by identifying viral species or variants at higher risk to infect humans, as well as host factors participating to viral entry, which are potential targets for the development of antivirals.

Mots clés : virus evolution zoonosis emergent diseases experimental evolution viral tropism pseudovirus viral receptors host entry factors vesicular stomatitis virus

Participants :
- Université de Valence (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 165312.96 €
Projet ODYSSEY (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

In the standard framework of galaxy evolution, galaxies form in a two-phase scenario that comprises a quasi-monolithic formation of an in-situ population, followed by the accretion of of lower-mass galaxies. As these merger processes significantly alter the morphology and kinematic state of a galaxy, reconstructing the assembly history of galaxies is a challenging but fundamental task to understand galaxy evolution. In that context, dense star clusters such as globular clusters, young massive clusters, and nuclear star clusters, that still contain information of their birthplace and subsequent evolution imprinted in their stellar population are potentially powerful tracers of galaxy assembly. While ancient globular clusters are fossil records of early star formation and galaxy accretion, young massive star clusters trace recent star formation episodes and interactions, and nuclear star clusters provide an unique window into the evolution of a galaxy's central region. The ODYSSEY action aims to fully unlock the potential of these star clusters as tracers of galaxy evolution by employing a comprehensive framework that combines for the first time the insights provided by globular clusters, young massive clusters and nuclear clusters. To achieve this, ODYSSEY has two main objectives: 1) exploring the complex interplay between galaxies and the star clusters they host and b) constructing a flexible semi-analytical model that constrains the assembly history of individual galaxies from their star clusters. The proposed research programme will greatly advance our understanding of the mechanisms that shape star clusters and of how they are connected to the evolution of their host galaxies, while at the same time providing a new methodology of how galaxy evolution can be studied.

Mots clés : star clusters, globular clusters, nuclear star clusters

Participants :
- Université de Vienne (Autriche) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 199440.96 €
Projet WORK-AGE-JUST (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The project entitled “Workers’ Agency and Social Justice in the Age of Authoritarianism: Austria and Czechoslovakia, 1938–1989” develops a bottom-up perspective on workers’ engagement and promotion of social justice The project entitled “Workers’ Agency and Social Justice in the Age of Authoritarianism: Austria and Czechoslovakia, 1938–1989” develops a bottom-up perspective on workers’ engagement and promotion of social justice in the labour environment in Central Europe. Using and historically exploring the concepts of labour, social justice, and the welfare state, I will analyse how the notion of social justice was imagined in the workplace, how it circulated among and was communicated by workers during Nazism and Cold War and how the central European countries, such as Austria and Czechoslovakia, treated working conditions and labour relationships in the ‘age of extremes.’ The project aims to (1) explore employees’ understanding of social justice, (2) search for continuities and ruptures from Nazism to Cold War, and (3) bridge the conventional distinction between socialist Eastern and democratic Western Europe by studying institutionalized mechanisms of social justice in the work environment with respect to equality, rights, and labour safety. This is a topic full of relevance for our own times. Labour rights have come to the fore of political debate, in response to growing social inequality, and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Mots clés : social justice, agency, labour, social rights, welfare state, trade unions, national socialism, cold war, communism, austria, czechoslovakia

Participants :
- Université de Vienne (Autriche) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 199440.96 €
Projet RACISMUS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Racism permeates the everyday musical practices of Afro-Peruvian musicians, impacting their living conditions across class, gender, and phenotype. Informed by a colonial racist framework, Peruvian musicians, scholars, and aficionados have historically conceptualized Afro-Peruvian musical practices in terms of essentialist connections with Africa and black bodies; racial prejudices; and colonial social hierarchies. Such racialization of Afro-Peruvian musical practices entails that its practitioners must routinely address racist expectations and stereotypes, and the way they do so has material and emotional consequences for them. RACISMUS analyzes how racist ideas about Afro-Peruvian musical practices affect the living conditions of its practitioners, as well as the strategies they employ to resist or mitigate such impacts. Drawing on scholarship in ethnomusicology, historical musicology, and critical race theory, RACISMUS objectives are to produce empirical knowledge about: (a) the historical foundations of racist ideas that currently shape the artistic practice of Afro-Peruvian music; (b) how, in shaping their practice, those racist ideas impact the conditions of existence Afro-Peruvian music practitioners across class, gender, and color in a context of racial inequality and mestizaje; and (c) the agency of Afro-Peruvian music practitioners in addressing those racist ideas and their impact in their practice, including their decision-making processes, strategies, and resources.

Mots clés : racism, race, peru, blackness, african diaspora

Participants :
- Université de Vienne (Autriche) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 199440.96 €
Projet GEODE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The GEODE project brings explainability to deep learning for Earth observation. GEODE aims at improving the transparency of computer vision models used for analyzing satellite imagery in large-scale mapping projects. As AI models are increasingly used in applications such as environmental monitoring and land-use classification, their opaque decision-making processes limit trust and usability. Using novel XAI (eXplainable AI) techniques, GEODE will offer pixel-level explanations to understand why a given model fails or succeeds on certain objects. Performance maps will indicate where the model is expected to have standard performance. Finally, an active learning strategy will be developed, to define how to conduct labeling work for global mapping.  Answering the why, where and how deep mapping models work, GEODE is a bold step towards unlocking the full potential of AI paired with large volumes of satellite imagery. The project will take place at the Image & Signal Processing Laboratory at Universitat de València in Professor Gustau Camps-Valls' group, a world-renowned leader in machine learning for Earth observation.

Mots clés : computer vision, explainable ai, earth observation, large scale mapping, 

Participants :
- Université de Valence (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 209914.56 €
Projet SCITIZEN (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Citizen science (CS) encompasses a variety of ways in which society engages with science, ranging from knowledge production to policy change. In recent decades, institutions around the world, and particularly the European Commission, have issued programmatic documents, promoted informal science education initiatives and designed participatory actions through citizen science. Although inclusion is a central concept in citizen science, no rigorous studies have been conducted to assess the degree of inclusiveness of projects and to propose evidence-based measures for improvement. This project will address these challenges: SCITIZEN will generate the first standardised method for measuring inclusion in citizen science projects, using sociological research techniques, and will make it publicly available. A major original contribution will be the creation of an "inclusion scale" to assess the degree of inclusion of a certain project, being useful for informing ongoing and future projects and for understanding differences between systems (e.g. US and EU; local/regional/global levels; bottom-up and top-down designs). This will be integrated into an "online form" (open access) allowing different stakeholders worldwide the self- assessment of projects (e.g. promoters, funders, institutions, civil associations, policy makers). SCITIZEN will use that tool in a second phase of the action to evaluate inclusion in the European landscape of citizen science projects (past and present), and to inform the design of new projects. The inclusion scale is expected to be an additional indicator of project quality at the European level and beyond. In the medium term, this action aims to increase public participation in science with inclusion at its core.

Mots clés : citizen science, public understanding of science, science engagement, public participation in science and technology

Participants :
- Université nationale australienne (Australie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 228172.08 €
- Université de Valence (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 333129.36 €
Projet StrucRadiation (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Long distance dispersal and adaptive radiation events have produced some of the most species rich ecosystems in the world. While colonizing lineages can adapt to new environments, the selective processes by which they do so is unclear given the paucity of genetic diversity in founder populations. Recent interest in the evolutionary role of transposable elements suggests they may contribute in generating genetic diversity through structural variation, doing so faster than the rate of background mutation. Despite research to date, evidence for exact mechanisms of transposable element mediated adaptive evolution is sparse. To address this, I propose to study a radiating clade of Diospyros (Ebenaceae) species on New Caledonia, a biodiversity hotspot. Following a long distance dispersal event, ca 30 species form an adaptive radiation and have larger genome sizes than congeners that arrived independently on the archipelago. Previous work has suggested that the divergence within the radiating lineage was driven largely by edaphic specialisation occurring independently multiple times. Here, I plan to investigate whether genes involved in adaptation to soil type are associated with structural variants, and whether these variants are mediated by transposable element activity. I will use three pairs of sister species, each of which is adapted to either fertile volcanic or poor ultramafic soils, enabling me to test for repeated patterns of adaptive evolution. This action will shed light on the potentially crucial but poorly understood contribution of transposable elements to adaptation, speciation, and biodiversity. Moreover, this work will provide understanding of the adaptive limits of different lineages in the face of ecological upheavals, relevant in the present context of environmental challenges.

Mots clés : adaptive radiation edaphic adaptation structural variants transposable element adaptive introgression photosynthesis soil chemistry

Participants :
- Université de Vienne (Autriche) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 183600.96 €
Projet AntTRAILS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

It is well-established that our species has profoundly shaped biodiversity, and irremediably altered biogeographic boundaries, following human migrations, technological advances and trade. Still, it remains unclear whether this represents a recent phenomenon only, or has been ongoing since the onset of farming, ~12,000 years ago. Many domestic and commensal species that spread with early farmers have today become integral to our daily lives, but less is known about non-model species providing ecosystem services such as ants. Ants were and are a dominant force in ecosystems where human societies developed, undoubtedly representing one of the strongest invaders linked to our historical practices. While they play vital roles in the environment, ants can also have harmful impacts on local habitats, human health and the economy. AntTRAILS will thus explore the history that we share with ants in the Mediterranean region, by investigating how one of the most widespread and synanthropic ant groups in the region responded to human-induced environmental changes over millennia. Integrating morphometry and whole genome sequencing I will first delimit the number of native cryptic species in the region, to subsequently uncover their ancestral distribution range. I will then combine cutting-edge methodologies in population genomics and spatial ecology to reveal how farming, historical trade, and human migrations altered ant biodiversity since the Neolithic Revolution. Comparing historical genomes retrieved from museum specimens to modern ant genomes, I will finally explore the most recent effects of globalisation and climate change on both native and invasive ant species. AntTRAILS will therefore map the anthropogenic impact across space and time, offering insights that will inform strategies for preserving biodiversity and managing invasive species in a rapidly changing world.

Mots clés : phylogeography, entomology, invasion biology, ants, human history, trade, climate change, environmental niche modelling, genomics, museomics, biogeography

Participants :
- Conseil supérieur de la recherche scientifique (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Humboldt de Berlin (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 202125.12 €