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

This research, drawing on state archives, private memoirs, and literary materials provides the first dedicated history of auditory cultures of the People's Republic of China (PRC). By focusing on the act of listening across three pivotal and transitional moments of PRC history and at three levels of state, locality, and individual, it explores the role of sound from three perspectives: as a tool of nation-building deployed by the state; as a medium through which the Chinese revolution was experienced at an individual level; and in the contestation between these two domains as the soundscape became a site of contention and negotiation between the state and the citizen. The researcher's background in social, cultural, and political history of the Mao era, along with the supervisor's expertise on Chinese modern history and experience researching the history of sound and broadcasting in the Republican Era (1911-1949), will be deployed to provide the ideal background for this innovative but delimited project. The key questions asked will be threefold: 1) How, and under what understanding of the act of listening, did the state deploy sound as a political and social tool in the People’s Republic of China? 2) How were such state initiatives deployed at the local level and with what results? 3) How was the act of listening among individuals transformed in response to state initiatives? The resulting interdisciplinary research will expand the field of global soundstudies beyond its current Eurocentrism, apply Sound-Studies to China for the first in-depth and long term empirical study, and enhance European knowledge of modern China.

Mots clés : china, sound studies, maoism

Participants :
- Université nationale de Taïwan (Taïwan) — 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 €
Projet COMPHACRISIS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

COMPHACRISIS will be carried out in line with the Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe, under the supervision of Professor Imelda Maher at University College Dublin (UCD). The main question of the research is: what are the significant differences between normal, crisis and post-crisis EU competition law and policy in the pharmaceutical sector? Analysing the normal enforcement of competition law, evaluating the crisis enforcement of competition law, exploring the significant consequences of the crisis policies in the post-pandemic law and designing an Effective Health Crisis Competition Law Framework are specific objectives of COMPAHCRISIS. The European Union competition law enforcement and three member states (Germany, Italy, and Ireland) will be reviewed in COMPHACRISIS. To conduct the project, both the semi-structured interview method and doctrinal method will be used. COMPHACRISIS leads to significant improvement of my scientific profile, better networking with the research and industrial community through interviews, workshops, seminars and conferences, and helps me gain different skills such as project management skills, qualitative and quantitative skills, mentoring, grant writing, interview and analytical skills. I will also take some courses in Econometrics methods and Health Policy. I will be able to submit papers in English to leading international competition law journals and learn new research methods and teaching skills from my supervisor. The results of COMPHACRISIS will be published in prestigious journals, and I will present my research at well-known and international conferences. We will also organise two specialised workshops in UCD. Using social media and social networking tools to present the work is among the COMPHACRISIS communication activities. COMPHACRISIS will lead to a new approach in understanding the importance of competition law in the pharmaceutical sector during and after a crisis, and influence European policy-makers and legislators.

Mots clés : competition law, antitrust, competition policy, competition authority, european commission, state aid, pharmaceutical sector, health law, pandemic, post pandemic, eu law, health sector

Participants :
- University College Dublin (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 215534.4 €
Projet SHAPE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

SHAPE proposes a new cultural approach to the study of 21st century Spanish American documentary poetry as a form of social and community resistance in the shaping of a shared memory about extreme violence in Latin America. This is a peculiar type of poetry using in the very body of the poem a variety of ethnographic, historical (archive texts, chronicles), visual, audio-visual, and virtual documents that have not been created by the poet. The use of those texts in an intimate and non-mimetic code such as poetry determines a stylistic short-circuit which has developed, in different forms, across all Latin America. In this context, documentary poetry has been commonly used to verbalise the tragic consequences of the systemic institutional and non-institutional forms of violence against women, migrants, indigenous or LGBTQ+ people. In spite of the key social function this poetry has assumed in Latin America in recent years, no comprehensive study has been produced on it yet. SHAPE aims to fill this gap by building a model of interpretation of documentary poetry not only as an aesthetic expression, but also as a powerful tool to preserve and construct social memory about suffering. To that aim, SHAPE intends to adopt an interdisciplinary methodological approach involving literature, cultural studies, cultural history, and ethnography, in order to investigate how this poetry contributes to the processes of resistance to extreme violence. Due to the intertextual nature of documentary poetry, my expertise in intertextuality and genre contamination is a key factor for the successful completion of the project. The aim is to generate a new cross-cultural conceptual reflection on how to use literature to resist new forms of racial and social discrimination. Thanks to this MSCA grant, I will strengthen my academic profile by acquiring the relevant competences to offer a new wider perspective on how to view the problem of social and institutional violence in Latin America.

Mots clés : spanish american literature and culture intertextuality documentary literature latin american studies violence gender migrants minorities cultural memory racial and social discrimination

Participants :
- Université de Caroline du Nord à Chapel Hill (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Ca' Foscari de Venise (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 284877.2 €
Projet W2FARM (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Imagine you are a farmer who arrives in a land in the far west of Europe and encounters unfamiliar plants and people. How would you react? Would everyone adapt in a similar way? These are the kinds of decisions that the first farmers made when they arrived on the Atlantic coast during the Neolithic period. The life of the first farmers is more than a single and linear story, it is a mosaic of different narratives, both individual and collective, that need to be addressed. Despite the significant contributions of many scholars to our understanding of Neolithic communities in Western Europe, both in terms of their material and immaterial manifestations, there remains considerable uncertainty about the impact of the complex human-environment relationships associated with the adaptation of sedentary life on the Atlantic shores. Using a convergent and multidisciplinary research approach involving archaeobotany, chemical analysis, functional ecology and food systems, this project aims to examine the adaptation of the Atlantic region to the first agricultural communities from the 5th to 3rd millennium BC. By analysing the whole process of crop selection and wild food management, from the initial stages to the final preparation of food, the project offers insights into the rationale behind these choices. Studying the early farmers is not only a matter of historical interest; it also provides a basis for understanding the evolution of food systems and the factors that shaped them, giving us invaluable lessons for the present and emerging future of biodiversity and food security.

Mots clés : neolithic, agriculture, crop selection, foraging, ecological adaptation, ancient tastes

Participants :
- Université d'Oxford (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Biopolis (Spain) (Portugal) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 191343.12 €
- Université du Pays basque (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- University College Dublin (Irlande) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet SrSiO3-basedCement (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Despites dental pulp capping materials should meet the certain requirements, the available materials have one or more shortcomings—poor biocompatibility and rheological properties, fail to maintain pulp vitality and to simulate reparative dentine formation and expensive etc. Mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) is widely used material because of its beneficial properties. However, its composition bismuth oxide, which is suspectable to toxicity, has an impact on rheological properties. This emphasizes the necessity of looking for inexpensive alternatives to materials that meet the specifications. This project's goal and novelty are to investigate the potential processing of the dental pulp capping cement, which is made of strontium silicate (SrSiO3), strontium fluoride (SrF2), piezoelectric material (PZM) and tricalcium silicate (Ca3O5Si) and its rheological properties and hemocompatibility. Because SrSiO3, SrF2, PZM and Ca3O5Si have the promising properties. This project's work packages are split into four categories based on the interdisciplinary approach since it involves the synthesis and characterization of PZM, the processing and characterization of cement, the identification of rheological parameters utilizing ISO standardizations, and hemocompatibility, and acquiring new transferrable skills. Additionally, the interactions among the selected compounds will be determined. The scientific impact of this project is comprehending the physical properties and the immune system's response to evaluate the cement's suitability as a replacement for existing materials, as well as resulting in further uses in dentistry and medicine. The societal impact is providing millions of patients in Europe with predictable and outstanding treatment outcomes each year to maintain pulp vitality and health. Eventually, it will ease the financial load on millions of patients who need dental care, will be avoiding inflated medical expenses and misuse of the patent (economic impact).

Mots clés : strontium silicate strontium fluoride tricalcium silicate piezoelectric materials dental pulp capping

Participants :
- Nordisk institutt for odontologiske materialer as (Norvège) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université norvégienne de sciences et de technologie (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 283438.8 €
- Université de Manchester (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet ALGR2S (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Robotics is crucial in Europe for driving innovation and maintaining global competitiveness in advanced manufacturing, service and automation, etc. At present, one of the primary limitations hindering the further development of robotics today is the lack of sufficient intelligence, which prevents robots from being deployed in complex tasks such as those in home-services, and healthcare. Robotic skill learning aims to provide robots with the necessary intelligence to acquire the skills needed for performing these complex tasks. The explosion of AI technologies in recent years has provided a large platform and space for robot skill learning. The primary objective of this proposal is to develop a generalizable robotic skills learning system leveraging advanced AI techniques. This system will be designed to emulate the human skill-learning process, thereby enhancing both the reliability and explainability of the learning behaviors. The researcher will investigate foundation model techniques to provide human-level generalization ability for robots. Moreover, The researcher will present novel biologically inspired sensorimotor policy learning algorithms to significantly enhance the reliability and explainability of the system. The system will be validated via various applications such as assembly across different objectives. During the project, the researcher will acquire a solid multidisciplinary scientific and transferable skills training, covering from AI theorems, robotic applications, project management skills and career planning, etc. The final aim of the project is to push the Europe in a good position to ride the coming wave of "AI + Robots".

Mots clés : robotics, learning from demonstration, imitation learning, ai, sensorimotor policy, dynamic system learning

Participants :
- Université de Liverpool (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 260347.92 €
- Imperial College London (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Manchester (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet QUARC (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

In this project I will develop techniques and tools to demonstrate unconditional and practical quantum advantage. The quantum speedups that have been developed so far are mostly based on certain assumptions from complexity theory, or they are established relative to imaginary back boxes, called oracles, that are assumed to perform certain tasks and implement certain operations on input data. I will design problems that can demonstrate quantum advantage without such assumptions. The tools and techniques that will be developed in this project can have a wide range of applications in other disciplines, in particular, I will export tools and algorithms from theoretical quantum computation to more practically relevant applications in machine learning and cryptography. I specify concrete objectives that address important gaps in the development of quantum advantage. I design work packages to systematically implement my envisaged approaches and methods. I will bring my expertise from quantum information and incorporate it in quantum effects and computation to reach my goals. I clarify the role of the fellowship in my career development towards establishing my own research group. I explain my approaches towards implementing this project in an impactful manner.

Mots clés : quantum advantage, unconditional proofs, practical quantum algorithms, non oracular designs

Participants :
- Université technique de Munich (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 189687.36 €
Projet HI-Twist (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Narwhals are mysterious animals that have fascinated humankind since ancient times. They are known for their unique spiralled tusks, which made people believe in the existence of unicorns for centuries. The up to 3 m long straight tusk displayed by males always has a left-hand spiral macrostructure, making it unique in the animal kingdom. Very little is known about these fascinating animals, and the reason, origin and biological structure of their tusk is a great question mark among marine biologists and bio-material scientists. In the proposed project, we will aim to reveal the hierarchical structure and biomineral characteristics of this unique biological material: their tusk. For that purpose, we will employ a combination of recently developed 3D X-ray imaging techniques in a hierarchical approach, studying their nano, micro and macrostructure with X-ray computed tomography, X-ray diffraction and X-ray small angle X-ray scattering. Novel imaging techniques using synchrotron radiation like tensor tomography will reveal the structural organization and anisotropy of the tusk building blocks, and diffraction computed tomography will provide very valuable information about the biomineral phase in the tusk and teeth. The multi-length scale approach explained in this project will be a pioneer in the field and we expect to establish a new methodology for a more complete structural characterization of biological and composite materials. All that will be implemented and developed in the 24 months of the project, which compiles 4 experiments in large-scale synchrotron facilities, data analysis strategies development and the establishment of a complete multiscale model of the narwhal tusk biological structure.

Mots clés : x ray imaging, computed tomography, tensor tomography, synchrotron radiation, narwhals, mineralized tissue, tusk, biomineralization

Participants :
- Université d'Aarhus (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 214934.4 €
Projet SMECC (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The maintenance of skeletal muscle mass and function is critically important in various conditions, including aging, cancer, muscular dystrophies, and more. It presents a considerable societal concern, impacting not only individual health but also imposing substantial healthcare expenditures. Despite its clinical relevance, there are currently no fully effective treatments to prevent or reverse muscle wasting due to an incomplete understanding of the involved mechanisms. While much attention has been given to intracellular signalling regulating muscle size, such as the Akt-mTORC1 pathway, the role of muscle perfusion and paracrine interactions between muscle fibers and endothelial cells (ECs) remains poorly understood. Recent studies point to the strong interconnection between muscle fibers and ECs, highlighting their reciprocal influence on each other's function. This project aims to illuminate these interactions, exploring how changes in muscle mass influence protein homeostasis in ECs and how alterations in ECs' proliferation and permeability impact muscle physiology. To address these questions, we will utilize cutting-edge technologies including molecular biology, animal phenotyping, histology, omics, and advanced bioimaging techniques such as tissue clearing and light sheet fluorescence microscopy, while employing innovative models to elucidate the mechanisms underlying in vivo changes in a cell-type specific manner. We will use novel tissue-specific mouse lines, such as MetRS mice, to monitor protein homeostasis within defined time windows, allowing for the study of muscle-EC crosstalk. The anticipated outcomes of this project include a deeper understanding of how ECs and muscle fibers communicate during changes in muscle size and function. By exploring these interactions, we aim to uncover key molecular mechanisms that govern muscle-EC interplay, enhancing our knowledge of ECs' role in muscle biology and guiding future therapeutic strategies.

Mots clés : cellular signalling crosstalk endothelial cell skeletal muscle tissue specific transgenic mice angiogenesis muscle wasting aging

Participants :
- Université de Padoue (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 209483.28 €
Projet DLEAD (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The initial hint of DM came from F. Zwicky in 1933 while studying the Coma cluster. Since then, extensive evidence has confirmed DM's existence and its relic density has been precisely measured. However, the particle nature of DM remains unknown. Despite numerous experiments -direct, indirect, and collider searches, no signal has been detected. Recent limits from LUX-ZEPLIN 2024 have tightly constrained the DM parameter space, nearing the neutrino floor. This proposal addresses DM non-detection by opening up new parameter spaces that have not been fully explored. We will investigate three scenarios beyond the standard WIMP and FIMP models which have either faced significant constraints or are challenging to detect. First, we will explore baryon asymmetry through new diagrams contributing to lepton asymmetry and FIMP DM production from WIMPs in a non-standard cosmology. Additionally, lepton flavour violation, neutrino mass, and gauge coupling unification will be investigated. We will consider a super-WIMP-like mechanism for FIMP-type DM, with potential long-lived particle signals detectable at FASER/MATHUSLA and contributions to relativistic degrees of freedom observable at CMB-S4. Second, we will analyse inflationary models resulting in a low reheat temperature. By setting the mother particle mass higher than the reheat temperature, we can achieve FIMP DM production at stronger couplings due to the Boltzmann-suppressed number density, potentially explaining the lack of DM detection so far. Third, we will explore a multi-component DM model where one component annihilates into another which then annihilates into Standard Model particles. By adjusting the second component’s fraction, we can evade current bounds and offer future detection prospects. The first, inert component helps account for the total DM density. The proposal is timely in the context of DM non-detection and suggesting new detection avenues across various methods.

Mots clés : dark matter, leptogenesis, freeze in, freeze out, neutrino mass

Participants :
- Université de Padoue (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 209483.28 €