Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet EUINTBRI (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The Fellowship's purpose is to make a comparative assessment of China’s soft power strategy in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and how a group of selected European countries (Italy, the Netherlands and Hungary) and the EU are engaging with and positioning themselves. The research analyzes the key components of the Initiative unlocking its vision, such as narrative, concepts and values; its modus operandi, intended as forms of engagement; its impact, in terms of scientific cooperation and education; and its prestige, on how China’s image is portrayed abroad. Through this comparative analysis, the research investigates how European countries are supporting, contraposing, and/or overlooking China's strategy assessing the implications for EU integration dynamics. The project’s overarching aim is to use the expertise from a representative of the policy sector (Fellow in charge) who has worked closely with the Chinese government and has direct access to Chinese sources, guided by a long-standing academic professor (researcher in charge) from a reputed European university and a profound expert in EU integration dynamics and the EU-China relationship to generate new knowledge and understanding. The project aims to strengthen a network of academic and policy stakeholders in Europe and China that can support a deeper understanding and dialogue, thus enhancing much-needed institutional collaboration between the theoretical and practitioners’ level. The Fellowship will intervene in the fields of international relations and EU integration studies. However, by promoting closer collaboration not only at subject and individual level but also at institutional level, the Fellowship is expected to generate greater partnerships across various disciplines via increases in the number of collaborations among European universities located in the selected countries and in China.

Mots clés : china soft power, italy, the netherlands and hungary, comparative analysis, bri vision, modus operandi, impact, image, strengthen collaboration between the theoretical and practitioner s level

Participants :
- University of Groningen (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 281358.72 €
Projet GOSSAN (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The GOSSAN project will provide a full and accurate study on the geochemical, morphological and structural composition of iron oxides and oxyhydroxide compounds, The attention will be focalized on goethite in different types of Supergene Ore deposits (SOD). More precisely, it is aimed to investigate the concentration, structural position and cationic exchange and economic potential of goethite as an unconventional source of “Critical Elements” (CE). Furthermore, the behaviour of the the goethite precursor phase (ferrihydrite) will be documented by assessment of the ions behaviour during maturation and transformation to goethite and finally hematite. The project will be developed in two years in which the reseacher will examine the mineralogy and geochemistry of many supergene samples of the NHM collections by the useof the analytical facilities provided by NHM. Ion exchange reactions will be assessed by experimental tests while the geochemical uptake of metallic trace elements will be studied by the use of TEM and Synchrotone XAS techniques. Furthermore, metallurgical treatments will be carried out on selected natural metal-bearing goethite specimens from different SOD in order to study the potential recovery of the metals trapped in the structure to assess the economic potential of iron oxides and oxyhdroxides The project also comprises a well-defined plan of training activities for the researcher in order to enhance its skills and help him to develop its future career as researcher.

Mots clés : goethite, ferryhdrite, oxhydroxide compounds, ion exchange, mineral deportment, critical elements

Participants :
- Natural History Museum (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 183454.8 €
Projet GenomMed (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Cofund Doctoral programme
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The GenomMed programme will train international experts who are wanted in the European job market and future research leaders in translational genomics. These experts aim to solve health care -related questions in cardiovascular and metabolic diseases and neurosciences. They will have skills to create solutions and innovations to develop novel treatments in the European and global environment. Health care is globally faced with a growing burden of major age-associated diseases. New means of diagnosis and treatment are needed to survive the challenges. This will be gained by offering world class research-oriented PhD training in genomics, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, neurosciences, and clinical adaptation of research results. In depth knowledge and methodology training will be topped up with well-planned transferable skills curricula providing the graduates with skills needed in changing career paths after their initial researcher training. Other means to achieve training goals include well-planned mobility periods to international collaborators’ research environments, meaningful secondments at intersectoral partners’ projects, and frequent exposure to interdisciplinary activities between the participating research groups. The GenomMed Doctoral Programme will take the researcher training to the next level in terms of research excellence, productive international and intersectoral mobility, and interdisciplinary exposure. Graduates will gain a unique set of research and transferable skills. Career development is a built-in feature of the training leading to increased employability of graduates in and outside academia and enhanced R&I input for the European economy and society. In pursuance of better trained PhDs, HR practices of hosting institutions will be developed and harmonized, and intersectoral collaboration will become regular. Furthermore mobility schemes at system level will develop and become part of everyday actions in research organizations.

Mots clés : phd training, career development, genomics, neurosciences, cardiovascular diseases, metabolic diseases, translational research, interdiciplinarity, internationality, intersectorality, mobility

Participants :
- University of Eastern Finland (Finlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 1255680.0 €
Projet HORIP (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The HORIP project will employ higher-order term rewriting to characterise intensional program properties: properties concerned with "how" rather than "what" a program computes, such as complexity, compressibility and safety. Term rewriting is a formal system which can be used to specify algorithms. Unlike common programming languages, term rewriting has a simple, formal definition which admits non-determinism. Higher-order term rewriting is an extension therof, which shares these advantages but has greater expressivity. To analyse program properties, we may either use dedicated techniques, or translate queries into different fields, with term rewriting as a powerful option. In doing so, methods from widely different areas can be applied. HORIP aims to analyse intensional properties using higher-order term rewriting. The first phase will attack two lines of research ripe for success: implicit complexity and compiler correctness. For the former, the supervisor is an expert in complexity and the fellow in higher-order term rewriting. For the latter, we will work together with industry collaborator Dr. Rose, who develops the CRSX framework which seeks to describe compilers using a special form of higher-order term rewriting. Leveraging the expertise of all three parties and potential local collaborators, strong results are expected, especially since the higher-order setting avoids many intrinsic limitations of previous work. In the second phase, we extend these ideas to complexity and compressibility of logical circuits. This builds on the first year's experience with implicit complexity, and the expertise of the scientist-in-charge. HORIP is basic research, building on very recent advances from several international research groups. There are potential future business applications, as well as also purely theoretical goals. All results and related code will be published open source, so as to aid both basic and applied followup research.

Mots clés : higher order term rewriting, intensional program properties, implicit complexity, logical circuits, compiler specification, crsx

Participants :
- University of Copenhagen (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 200194.8 €
Projet HiLSS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The HiLSS Project aims to investigate the relationships between sustainability and landscape heritage with particular reference to soil loss and degradation over the long term. The project will take a multidisciplinary approach that combines archaeology, Historical Landscape Characterisation (HLC), geosciences, and computer-based geospatial analysis (GIS - Geographical Information Systems) and modelling (RUSLE - Revisited Universal Soil Loss Equation). The research objectives of the HiLSS project are to quantify the impact of human activities during the Late Holocene in order to create spatial models which can inform the development of sustainable conservation strategies for rural landscape heritage. This project will focus on two mountainous regions that present historical and cultural similarities but located in different climatic zones of Europe (1- Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, Italy; 2- Northern-mid Galicia, Spain). In previous HLC studies, land-use has been evaluated from the perspective of cultural heritage, whereas RUSLE have used it as a proxy for the land-cover of an area and its effect on soil erosion. The HiLSS project will propose an innovative methodology that combines both the historic/cultural values and the environmental values of land-use to inform development of a model for the sustainable conservation. By considering the different agricultural land-use HLC types in GIS-RUSLE modelling, it will be possible to quantify the effect on soil loss for each HLC type and consequently to devise more environmentally sustainable management for each type. Environmental sustainability and historic landscape conservation are typically treated as two separate fields, but the HiLSS project will develop a transformative model for interdisciplinary research, proposing a new way to embrace both cultural and natural values as components of the same landscape management plans.


Participants :
- Newcastle University (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 212933.76 €
Projet NewLightScalar (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The Higgs boson was discovered at CERN in 2012 putting the last missing brick into the Standard Model that successfully describes phenomena up to the TeV energies. However, the Standard Model is incomplete offering no explanation for a range of phenomena, which motivates the development of various extensions. Some of these extensions predict the existence of new particles at low energy scale, and can be therefore tested in meson decays. The main aim of this project is to observe physics beyond the Standard Model in kaon decays through the search for a new light scalar particle χ in the decay K+→π+χ, χ→μ+μ- at the NA62 experiment at CERN.

Mots clés : kaon decays, physics beyond standard model, light scalar, inflaton, na62

Participants :
- University of Birmingham (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 195454.8 €
Projet SMEFTONE (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The Large Hadron Collider and particle physics as a whole is entering a high precision era. A powerful tool for studying new physics in precision experiments where new particles may not be produced directly, but their influence on lower energy physics may be seen indirectly, is that of Effective Field Theories. I propose to use the Background Field Method, a useful formulation in perturbative quantum field theory, to aid in the calculation of one-loop amplitudes in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory. After completing basic calculations allowing for the one-loop program to proceed, I will focus on calculations relevant to Z boson physics first as this is the area most in need of precision calculation and will open the door for important studies of next generation collider design. Then I will finish by calculating the Higgs boson width to one loop order with up to 3 final state particles in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory. This will serve as an update to the tree level Higgs width package currently being produced by myself and my supervisor. A core element of this proposal is the production of another package, tentatively named "SMEFT-ONE," in which I will release the results of all one loop calculations produced as a result of this proposal. The purpose of this package will be the dissemination of the work to the particle phenomenology community as a whole with a focus on the ability to directly use the results in independent studies.

Mots clés : effective field theories, the standard model, the standard model effective field theory, smeft, one loop calculations, collider physics, large hadron collider

Participants :
- University of Copenhagen (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 207312.0 €
Projet LI-RAP (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : TERMINATED

The Long Island Rap Renaissance: hip-hop’s suburban turn and America’s changing Black middle class, 1986-1993 is the first scholarship to bring together a neglected strand of hip-hop history – that of the major role played by artists from New York’s Black outer suburbs in the international explosion of hip-hop as a cultural and aesthetic force from 1986 – with an account of the history of race, class and Black suburbanization that frames it. Not only does this research mark an important revision in hip-hop studies – which thus far has tended to view hip-hop as quintessentially urban ghetto music, focusing its social analysis on extreme inner-city social/economic marginalization, and occluding the socially and geographically complex reality of hip-hop’s development in the 1980-1990s. It also provides an invaluable youthful lens on the major conjunctural shifts, and losses, experienced by African Americans in post-Civil Rights America. This will bring new insights to debates explored by sociologists like Omi and Winant (1986), Landry (1988), Marable (2002) and Wiese (2004) regarding the increasingly ambivalent experience of race, class and suburbia for middle-class Blacks in the 1980s. Looking both to the history of hip-hop’s presence in Long Island, to the developments created there and how its music sounded the suburban Black experience, the study will entwine aspects of cultural and aesthetic history, accounting these globally impactful developments in popular music, with a profound social and political history that is particularly pertinent in today’s political climate. The aim will be to achieve a more nuanced generational understanding of race and class at this pivotal moment in history as it fed into hip-hop, its politics and aesthetics. The study will revise these received histories and make legible the true diversity of African American and Afrodiasporic culture(s) in hip hop.

Mots clés : hip hop studies, african american studies, race, suburbia, black middle class, new york studies, social history, cultural history

Participants :
- National University of Ireland (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 196590.72 €
Projet RISEWISE JAM (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : MSCA other
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions pay particular attention to physical accessibility and inclusion and foresee financial support for the additional costs entailed by recruited or seconded researchers/staff members with disabilities. This grant will cover the additional costs that the staff member with disabilities faces due to the increased mobility costs.

Mots clés : disability, inclusion, difference, special needs, gender, rise, accessibility

Participants :
- University of Genoa (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 15000.0 €
Projet mmChannel (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The Millimetre-wave (mmWave) frequency band offers wide available bandwidth for 5G and future wireless networks. However, due to the large propagation attenuation of the mmWave frequency, real-world environmental factors, including weather, foliage, humans, vehicles, have a significant impact on the channel path loss. In order to design and optimise 5G and future networks, a mmWave channel model considering the environmental factors is urgently required. In this project, we aim to equip a ray-tracing channel model with environmental factors in the mmWave band. The goal will be approached through 3 work packages (WPs). First, the ER will develop a parametric attenuation model by parameterising the environmental factors and integrate it with a ray-tracing simulation model. Second, the ER will acquire the channel data for each corresponding environment factor and extract parameters using machine-learning-based methods. Third, the developed channel model will be applied to evaluate and optimise mmWave wireless networks taking environmental factors into account. This project will be an extension of the ER’s previous work, which will develop him to be a mature researcher.

Mots clés : millimetre wave, channel modelling, propagation modelling, channel measurement, machine learning

Participants :
- Ranplan wireless network design ltd (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 212933.76 €
Projet NanoMembR (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The NanoMembR project will elucidate key elements of membrane stability under the influence of UV radiation. The stability of biological membranes is of great importance for the structure, homeostasis and functioning of all living systems. Membrane molecules have also attracted, due to their robustness and longevity, strong interest from planetary and space scientists as potential biomarkers for life detection missions to other planets. Membrane damage, perturbation, instability and fragmentation upon UV exposure will be investigated on the nanoscale using cutting-edge infrared nanoscopy. Scattering-type scanning near-field microscopy (s-SNOM) combined with Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy allows to combine spatial information of nanometre resolution with chemical mapping. This novel technique will enable us to study subtle changes in the structural integrity of model membranes and monitor changes in the micro- and nano-domains. In addition, we will be able to correlate membrane stability and membrane composition by intercalating structural and functional modifiers such as sterols, hopanoids and pigments. Upon radiation in oxic environments, the lipid structure of a membrane is known to be altered by peroxidation chain reactions. Under anoxic conditions radiation induced changes in lipid alteration could vary significantly, with intriguing implications for the stability of membrane molecules under different environmental conditions than found on Earth. Understanding fragmentation patterns of membranes and identifying final break-down products will provide scientific support and a database for key biomarkers detectable in remote environments. Results from this work will feed directly into planned experiments on the International Space Station (ISS), which are scheduled on new nanosatellite-technology-based exposure platforms with in-situ infrared spectroscopic capabilities, monitoring membrane stability under the influence of solar and cosmic radiation.

Mots clés : biomembranes, photostability, uv radiation, astrobiology, biomarkers, s snom, ftir, space and planetary environment

Participants :
- Freie Universität Berlin (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 171460.8 €
Projet The Night Deal (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : European Researchers' Night
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The Night Deal proposal aims at organising a European Researchers' Night (ERN) event in Nicosia. The proposal's overall objective is to reach out to the wider public and raise awareness about the research and innovation (R&I) activities undertaken at national and EU level while boosting knowledge about the benefits of science to society in order to stimulate the interest in research careers, especially among young people and their families. The Night Deal aims also at promotimg the agenda of the European Green Deal initiative for a greener and smarter world, for a more sustainable future through R&I. The Coordinator, the Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF), as the National Agency for supporting R&I, has within its remit gained a long experience in organising activities for the promotion of R&I towards the public and especially the younger generation, with the ERN events being an integral part of its philosophy since 2006, and always with the vivid support from the National R&I System. The proposed event will be the result of a long-lasting and well established collaboration of the RIF with all relevant R&I stakeholders (government, industry, academia) and participants from the public ensuring maximum complementarity. Building on past experiences, The Night Deal will bring together researchers from all sectors and disciplines, along with the public, increasing appreciation of the researchers’ work, raising awareness on the importance of R&I for society and the economy and motivating young people to take up a career in research. With the motto 'science for all' as a flagship and through pre-events, side and main event consisting of a balanced mix of edutainment and inreactive activities aiming at people of all ages, genders and educational backgrounds, The Night Deal will celebrate R&I achievements, especially EU funded and will ultimately remove stereotypes about the researchers’ profession, creating a much needed R&I culture among the Cypriot society.

Mots clés : european researchers  night, science communication, research career, science for all

Participants :
- Research Promotion Foundation (Chypre) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Autres, subvention : 100000.0 €