Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet REPROFIC (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Elizabeth Grosz has astutely observed that the entire history of Western thought is permeated by “a profound somatophobia” (1994, 1). Female bodies, particularly their reproductive processes, have been viewed within medicine as prone to illness and disorder. They have historically been characterized as impure and polluting, with ‘leaky’ boundaries that disturb social order. Such representations have contributed to the reality that many conditions specific to women, such as endometriosis and dysmenorrhea, lack sufficient research, attention and prioritization, and have not received adequate funding and resources. This project contends that literature is where we should seek to gain oft-overlooked and undervalued insights into women’s healthcare practices across Europe. The project explores representations of the reproductive body as both a contested site and a potent source of knowledge and considers how contemporary writers connect their bodily trauma with the body politic. This project will increase cohesion between literary, medical, and policy discourses and create a template for analyzing and interpreting 'repro-fiction' that can be replicated in other geographical locations to envision a philosophy of reproductive justice where care for the body takes center stage.

Mots clés : motherhood, narrative medicine, feminist literature

Participants :
- Université d'Uppsala (Suède) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Vilnius (Lituanie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 181136.16 €
Projet AMI-CryoML (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's (AD), Parkinson’s (PD), and prion-related disorders pose major global health challenges due to their progressive nature and lack of effective treatments. Central to these conditions is the misfolding and aggregation of proteins into amyloid structures, which cause severe cellular damage. Despite advances in understanding amyloid aggregation, the role of structural polymorphism in these processes remains underexplored. This proposal aims to address this gap by investigating amyloid aggregation modulators and their effects on aggregation kinetics and polymorphism.  The project has five main objectives: 1. Data Collection on agregation modulators: Systematically gather and curate data on known modulators that impact amyloid aggregation, focusing on their chemical properties and mechanisms. 2. Aggregation kinetics studies: Study the impact of selected modulators on the kinetics of amyloid self-aggregation using ThT assays. This includes analyzing how modulators influence different phases of aggregation and testing their efficacy on a range of amyloids, including prions, CsgA, and α-synuclein. 3. Study structural polymorphisms via CryoEM: Utilize Cryo-Electron Microscopy (CryoEM) to resolve and map the structural polymorphs of amyloids under various conditions. Providing insights into impact of modulators on structural polymorphism and aggregation kinetics. 4. AmyloGraph database enhancement: Develop a new module for the AmyloGraph database to store and analyze data on modulators, aggregation kinetics, and structural polymorphisms. 5. Development of ML models: Leverage machine learning to develop predictive and generative models to forecast amyloid aggregation kinetics and modulator effects, incorporating structural polymorphisms, and generate new modulators targeting specific polymorphic forms.

Mots clés : amyloid prion polymorphism machine learning cryoem neurodegenerative diseases chronic wasting disease transmission aggregation

Participants :
- Université de Vilnius (Lituanie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 181136.16 €
Projet DARE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The debate over the access to sexual and reproductive health and rights has been going on for centuries. In Europe, the right to bodily autonomy has been included in the EU Fundamental Rights Charter very recently, in April 2024. This decision has taken place in a context where social and political landscapes remain divided between those who support and those who oppose free, safe, and legal access to abortion. Given that the news is a major source of information for citizens and influences public opinion and attitudes, Project DARE aims to critically examine how the polarisation surrounding the abortion debate has been discursively manifested in contemporary European mainstream news media discourse. DARE is characterised by an interdisciplinary approach that integrates quantitative corpus-based methods with qualitative discourse analysis to study the polarising discourse strategies used to conceptualise abortion and its related social actors in four major European news websites. As a feminist critical socio-cognitive study, DARE will take into account the potential influence of the context, ideological and gender biases, discrimination, and stigma in the reproduction of polarising discourses and attitudes towards abortion. DARE will be the first interdisciplinary project to compile and critically analyse a corpus of news articles on abortion published during the pandemic and post-pandemic period (2020-2025). Through this work, DARE aims to fulfil its overarching feminist goals of normalising abortion and advocating for reproductive justice in contemporary society. By addressing the timely issues of health and well-being, and gender equality, DARE will contribute to constructing a resilient, inclusive, and democratic European society, in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the Horizon Europe 2023/2024 Programme.

Mots clés : abortion polarisation news media discourse bias feminist critical discourse analysis socio cognitive discourse studies

Participants :
- Université de Vilnius (Lituanie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 181136.16 €
Projet CPIRA (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The project is devoted to theoretical studies of coherent optical phenomena in multilevel Rydberg atoms under external magnetic field by using vortex beams. The applicant will investigate the parity-time (PT) symmetry condition via optical vortex light in Rydberg atoms. Then, he will proposed a novel model for efficient transformation of the probe energy from zero order of diffraction to the higher orders in the PT symmetry condition. After that he will propose a model for measurement of external magnetic field as well as orbital angular momentum transfer in a Rydberg atom via optical vortex light. It is expected that these studies will lead to future feasible experiments, and have technological impact on quantum photonics applications in EIT-based devices, storage and manipulation of light, quantum computing and information. In addition, the project will contribute to the personal and professional growth of the fellow, via training of his communication, management and other soft skills.


Participants :
- Université de Vilnius (Lituanie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 158597.76 €
Projet HONESTY (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Constricted by electron spin statistics, the maximum internal quantum efficiency of 100% can be achieved in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) by utilizing purely organic thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials. However, due to strong charge transfer, they exhibit broad emission with a full-width-at-half maximum (FWHM) > 70 nm. Recently, multiresonant TADF (MR-TADF) emitters, a sub-class of TADF materials based on alternating boron and nitrogen atoms embedded into polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon scaffolds, are attracting much interest in OLEDs. Their key attributes include a narrow FWHM, high photoluminescence quantum yield, and unprecedented color purity. Even though these MR materials have advantages in color purity over conventional TADF materials, their device stability is weak and results in a poor operational lifetime (LT) due to the large singlet-triplet energy gap, delayed fluorescence lifetime, and too slow rate of reverse intersystem crossing (RISC). Especially, narrowband blue OLEDs LT (<100h) is still inferior to the conventional TADF OLEDs. The HONESTY project seeks to address the above issues by rationally designing organic narrowband novel TADF emitters. Our designs comprised four types (a combination of boron and non-boron) targeting a high RISC rate, leading to highly stable narrowband blue OLEDs with long LT. Among the four types, one design includes yet unexplored rigid tellurium-based acceptor decorated with high triplet energy donors, which is keen for new TADF scaffolds. The rigidity of all chemical components with slightly twisted confirmation and aryl groups on donors will work coherently to furnish highly stable OLEDs with suppressed efficiency roll-off, improved device stability, and long LT. Overall, the HONESTY proposal is anticipated to provide a breakthrough in stable blue narrowband TADF-OLEDs with the supervision of Karolis Kazlauskas, a physics expert in stable OLEDs working at Vilnius University, Lithuania.

Mots clés : photophysics, organic light emitting diodes, narrowband materials, and boron chemistry

Participants :
- Université de Vilnius (Lituanie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 142757.76 €
Projet MISTiCal (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

While a variety of building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) solutions is emerging, with conventional photovoltaic systems already installed on roofs and facades, many modern buildings consist of large areas of windows, which represent an available surface to implement semi-transparent photovoltaic (STPV) modules. Their implementation will permit the production of electricity, and its immediate consumption for the end-user, without problem of transport and eventual loss. Moreover, it will contribute to a better energy autonomy and independency. The MISTiCal project aims to establish efficient semi-transparent solar cells for window applications by developing a novel micro-structured architecture for Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaics and the respective fabrication processes. Using CIGS micro-stripes with a width of ~200 micrometers, they are below the resolution of the human eye at a viewing distance above 70 cm, making the window fully transparent to natural daylight. Comparing to other STPV technologies, such as silicon, dye-sensitized (DSSC), organic solar cells (OPV), or ultra-thin CIGS, the micro-structured CIGS STPV presents a good alternative with several strengths such as its industrial maturity and its competitive cost with Si-based solar modules, high efficiency, stability and good aesthetics. The objectives of the MISTiCal project will be (1) to optimize the CIGS device stack for the semi-transparent property, (2) to optimize the micro-structuring of CIGS to demonstrate semi-transparent solar cells, and (3) to assess the performance and the bifacial functionality of the solar cells. The overall goal is to demonstrate a power conversion efficiency of 8% at an average visible transmittance (AVT) of 50%, surpassing the present state of the art for STPV.

Mots clés : semi transparent solar cell, building integrated photovoltaics bipv, cigs thin film photovoltaics, window, micro stripes

Participants :
- Cnet centre for new energy technologies sa (Portugal) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'Uppsala (Suède) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (Portugal) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 195973.2 €
Projet EYE-to-ELA (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Early life adversity encompasses a range of experiences, from maltreatment and neglect to parental mental health issues and neighborhood poverty, with long-term effects on mental and physical health. More research is needed to identify sociocognitive risk and protective factors that contribute to adaptive trajectories in at-risk children, especially within diverse socioeconomic and psychosocial contexts. Asynchronous remote testing (participant-administered data collection outside the lab) can enhance sampling and increase access to typically understudied groups. However, its application for assessing neurocognitive development in at-risk populations has not been studied yet. This proposal aims to use innovative remote data collection methods to examine sociocognitive attention biases in infants and children (6-36 months) from families who have experienced early life adversity. The study will be co-designed with families, and practitioners working with them, to enhance engagement and relevance. I will validate the protocol by comparing data collected remotely with data collected at the Psychology Research Center (CIPsi) of the University of Minho, in collaboration with Prof. Adriana Sampaio. I will also collaborate with Prof. Rhodri Cusack (Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience in Dublin), a leader in pioneering initiatives for at-home infant testing, to implement web-based eye-tracking and automated tools for estimating looking times. This fellowship will establish protocols, techniques, and infrastructure for large-scale screening and monitoring of infants and children across Portugal and globally. The outcomes could influence policy, community support, and targeted interventions for disadvantaged families. A non-academic placement at the ProChild CoLAB, a private non-profit association dedicated to fighting childhood poverty and social exclusion through research-action projects, will maximize the impact and uptake of the results.

Mots clés : attention, cognition, social attention, alertness, individual differences, infancy, early childhood, adverse childhood experiences, early life adversity, online testing, looking measures, eye tracking

Participants :
- Université du Minho (Portugal) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 258978.9 €
- Prochild colab against poverty and social exclusion-association (Portugal) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Trinity College (Irlande) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet SO-TOX (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

African countries are home to some of the world’s most polluted cities, where bad air quality is the most potent risk factor for mortality. However, they are nearly unrepresented in the research on air pollution levels and health impacts. Without adequate knowledge of air quality and mitigating the sources of pollution, the problem will only get worse given Africa’s expected population boom. This project through a holistic framework involves a strong exposure-health linked dual-component in the profile of PM to understand the current status of air pollution in Luanda (Angola). It aims to answer the following 3 main questions as; What causes air pollution? What are the effects? What are the possible solutions to tackle it? The project will focus on two different levels, source identification through receptor model techniques, and in-vitro assessment of cytotoxic and genotoxic properties of the PM to link physicochemical characteristics of air pollution to health risks. The first source profiling and toxicological screening of air pollution in Africa (Luanda) will contribute to understanding the causes of poor health and defining regional and national policies aiming at improving wellbeing in Luanda and other African cities with similar problems, making them more resilient and sustainable. This will represent a chance to review/adopt legislation, propose source-oriented cost-effective control strategies, and lay the foundations for a future measurement network. This proposal includes both the transfer of knowledge to the host institution and the training of the candidate in new advanced techniques. The project will have a strong connection with the recent World Health Assembly resolution, which has set actions to address air pollution and its health risks in Africa as a priority

Mots clés : airborne particles, source apportionment, health effects, capacity building

Participants :
- Agostinho Neto University (Angola) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'Aveiro (Portugal) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 172618.56 €
- Institut polytechnique de Bragance (Portugal) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet LAURICON (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Through LAURICON we will show that the geological age differences between the ore deposits (“contacts”) in the Laurion mining region can be systematically investigated by laboratory analyses. In the next step, these different groups, each one deriving from a different geological “contact”, will be linked with archaeological objects made of Laurion ores (coins, by-products) with the same silver and lead isotopic fingerprint, thereby answering questions from mining archaeology and the wider field of ancient history. I, the post-doc researcher, Dr Frank Hulek, will undertake multi-disciplinary research activites and acquire advanced skills in archaeometric approaches at the NSRC “Demokritos” at Athens under the supervision of Dr Yannis Bassiakos and will carry out two secondment phases at the German Mining Museum. During a placement at the Lavrion Technological and Cultural Park, I will pass on my knowledge to a non-academic institution. The project will increase knowledge about the Laurion mineralization, that, according to recent research, had developed in more than one metallogenetic events. This will be proven by mineralogical and silver plus lead isotope analyses of ore samples from the Laurion. At the same time, these analyses will help to redefine the typical isotope ratios of Laurion ores and by that further improve the accuracy of provenance studies in this project and in archaeometallurgy in general. Based on this improved analytical data, the project will establish a chronology for the introduction of deep shaft mining techniques in the Laurion mining region, using data from Athenian silver coins as reference material. Likewise, the origin of the raw material that was used for silver production at two important workshop sites, Lambrika and Frankolimano, will be investigated. Based on the improved knowledge about Laurion ores developed through LAURICON, it will be possible to tackle the question if local ore sources or similar imported ores/slags were used.

Mots clés : lavrio, classical archaeology, isotope analysis, archaeometallurgy, mining archaeology

Participants :
- Université Nationale Technique d'Athènes (Grèce) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Dmt-gesellschaft fur lehre und bildung mbh (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- National Centre of Scientific Research "Demokritos" (Grèce) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 211658.4 €
Projet TRUREGEN (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Trust and regulation are key aspects that allow the advancement of the society. In setting regulations to govern the behavior of citizens, firms, states and policymakers adopt regulatory design choices that are partly grounded in trust between them and key actors in the field at hand. However, we do not know a lot when it comes to iterative processes through which trust and regulation affect each other over time. Through a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, TRUREGEN aims to study the bidirectional relation between levels of trust and regulation. Focusing on the case of EU energy regulation during 2008-2022, the project 1) maps the nature of EU energy regulation along two key dimensions (specificity-broadness; stability-revisability), 2) assesses statistically significant relations between such a nature and current and past levels of trust/distrust among key EU and national actors (policymakers, regulators, regulatees, consumers, citizens), and 3) traces causal mechanisms underpinning these statistically significant relations. Expertise and facilities offered by the host (KU; Prof. Latusek), together with my existing experience and talent, mutually reinforce my development as independent researcher during the fellowship. In addition, advanced training (e.g. statistics, grant writing, science communication), two-way knowledge transfer allow me to realize my long-term career goals after the fellowship. A customized dissemination and communication plan will make the project and its results known well beyond the academic community, while also seeking active engagement with a wider audience (e.g. workshops, class experiments). Altogether, TRUREGEN at once bridges a major scientific gap, enhances my future career prospects, and makes a timely contribution to pressing societal debates.

Mots clés : regulation, trust, energy regulation, european union

Participants :
- Académie Leon-Koźmiński (Pologne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 155793.6 €