Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet SARSESNA (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Since 2010 Danish screen production has enjoyed international attention with the popularity of high-quality films and TV series. Yet these emerge from a specific culture-political milieu that is concentrated in the capital Copenhagen. Current research on Danish production is similarly Copenhagen-centric. This imbalance means that peripheral regions of Denmark like Aarhus are neglected and underdeveloped as production hubs. This project addresses the question of how regional screen industries of small nations can be sustained and strengthened by examining the site-specific activities of the West Danish Film Fund (DVF) and its collaborations with the Aarhus 2017 EU Capital of Culture project. My main objectives are to 1) produce a 'deep map' of the regional screen ecosystem in Aarhus, 2) identify the implications of new funding and support initiatives, and 3) outline strategies on how regional screen production can productively harness geography, heritage, and tourism to strengthen domestic and international ties. I utilise a combination of qualitative and quantitative methodologies in screen studies to achieve these goals. Through a 4-week secondment at DVF and close links between Aarhus University (AU) and industry players, I will interview screen practitioners and policymakers across the region, examine policy and funding practices, analyse quantitative data relating to production and distribution, and evaluate industry innovations. This project includes both transfer of knowledge to AU and the training of the candidate in advanced techniques. This interdisciplinary research will be the first to significantly deepen knowledge on the regional screen industry of Aarhus and provide policy advice, build networks, concepts and tools on how to sustain the regional screen milieu. Results will have strong applicability to other Capitals of Culture and EU regions, enhancing understanding of how regional screen industries balance national cultural policy with local identity.

Mots clés : film, television, media ecology, screens, production, funding, peripheral region, cultural policy, sustainability, cultural economy, denmark, capital of culture, creative industries, small nation

Participants :
- Aarhus University (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 212194.8 €
Projet TRADElam (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : TERMINATED

Since the 3rd millennium BC, the Persian Gulf has been a key international trade route both connecting the civilisations around it, such as Elam, Mesopotamia, Dilmun and Magan, and orienting these societies towards the Indian Ocean. The lack of diversity in natural resources on both sides of the Gulf motivated early Middle Eastern states to explore maritime trade in order to obtain and exchange raw materials and finished products (e.g. copper, timber, textiles). Especially, littoral societies on the shores of the Gulf shared a maritime culture based on long-distance trade, and were part of an interlinked system that included agricultural villages and oases that sustained the caravan trade. In order to achieve a deeper understanding of interregional contacts between Elam, Mesopotamia and Eastern Arabia, one requires a profound knowledge of the political climate promoting commercial exchange, the maritime and overland trading itineraries, the import and export products, and the people involved in these commercial networks. TRADElam aims to study the commercial relations and trading networks in the Gulf region during the 1st half of the 1st millennium BC. While there is abundant maritime traffic recorded for the 3rd-2nd millennium BC, traces of Gulf commerce become scarce in the early 1st millennium BC. The first part of the project will therefore create a general overview of the commercial networks between Elam, Eastern Arabia and Mesopotamia during the 1st half of the 1st millennium BC. To achieve this, one will study the maritime and overland trade routes and identify the natural resources as well as the import and export products of each region. The second part will focus on the role of the indigenous coastal communities involved in these commercial relations.

Mots clés : persian gulf history, ancient maritime trade, elam, mesopotamia, eastern arabia

Participants :
- Macquarie University (Australie) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgique) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 254633.28 €
Projet NOFLAME (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Since we live in the polymer age, and polymers are highly inflammable, flame retardants have become a key component in industry to reduce the impact of fires. Flame retardants save people's lives, their property and in some cases even the environment. However, traditional flame retardants like halogenated compounds present some serious disadvantages, like environmental persistence and toxicity, and their use is currently limited by REACH (EC 1907/2006). Halogen-free flame retardants like organophosphorus compounds or metal hydroxides, on the other hand, deteriorate the mechanical properties and have poor effectiveness. In this area, nanotechnology provides us some badly needed new approaches. In NOFLAME, we will explore a new approach based on the development of polymer flame retardant nanocontainers with high thermal stability, low flammability and good compatibility with polymeric matrices. These nanocontainers will help solve the problems of poor dispersion and low interfacial adhesion of the inorganic and hybrid nanomaterials applied so far. Furthermore, the ability to encapsulate a wide range of substances makes them highly attractive to develop multifunctional nanomaterials. The main activities within NOFLAME are: 1) the synthesis of several nanocontainers and the encapsulation of organic and inorganic flame retardant compounds, 2) the introduction of the nanocontainers in the polymer matrix and 3) the evaluation of their influence on the mechanical and flame retardant properties of the final material. Combining their expertise for NOFLAME, the fellow Dr. Maria Velencoso, the host MPIP and the partner BAM will execute a thrilling research project to produce novel flame retardant nanomaterials and meet an urgent need of the European plastics industry.

Mots clés : flame retardancy, flame retardant nanomaterials, miniemulsion polymerization, nanocontainers, in situ emulsion polymerization, dopo monomer

Participants :
- Max Planck Society (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 159460.8 €
Projet SingleMother (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Single motherhood has become a widespread phenomenon within contemporary societies, part of an ongoing revolution in family life. In order to address the outdated and thoughtless language being used to describe single mothers and their children, I will scrutinize the emergence and development of 21st century European cultural attitudes toward single motherhood using desk-based methods. To reconstruct its evolvement since the beginning of the century, this study proposes an innovative multidisciplinary approach, which combines comparative analysis of the UK’s and Russia’s policies toward single mothers with content and multiple approaches to text analysis of non-fiction, children’s and young adult fiction, social semiotics and multimodal discourse analysis of children’s illustrated literature. The overall aim of the proposed research is to advance my career through the completion of the present project, which examines the development and current stage of the cultural attitudes and policies directed toward single motherhood in two politically different countries. This aim is reflected through three primary objectives: to investigate contemporary European policy on single motherhood with focus on the UK and Russia, with attention to public attitudes toward the variation (unwed mothers, widows, divorced mothers, single mothers by choice) within single mothers as a social group; to examine the gendered British and Russian cultural ideologies since the beginning of the century up to the present and expressed through non-fiction and children’s and young adult literature and centered around social and cultural facets: abortion, virginity, affairs with men, pedagogical strategies, bad habits, beauty and clothes, professional career and education, and (re)marriage; to examine how this coding system was adapted to rules and grammar of the visual and, therefore, represented in children’s illustrated texts.

Mots clés : women s studies, single motherhood studies

Participants :
- University of Cambridge (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 212933.76 €
Projet SuSiPOD (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Single-photon detection is an emerging technology, with applications ranging from medical imaging and LIDAR systems to space communication and fundamental quantum optics. Moreover, single-photon detectors are considered an enabling technology for the development of quantum information science, paving the way for the realization of one of the main challenges of the 21st century: the quantum computer. Currently, single-photon detection is carried out using semiconductor-based avalanche photodiodes; however, this technology is limited by large timing jitter, unavoidable dark counts, after pulsing, and limited detection efficiency. A recently proposed alternative relies on a superconducting nanowire biased just below its critical current, so that an impinging photon triggers a transition from the superconducting to the normal state, resulting in a voltage spike at the nanowire leads. The detection efficiency can be boosted close to unity by coupling the superconducting nanowire to the evanescent field propagating in a waveguide. However, the fabrication of high quality, ultra-thin superconducting layers is challenging, and the operation wavelength of such devices is limited by the waveguide band gap. We have identified GaN/AlN as the best suited waveguide material system, approximately lattice matched with NbN, and with a transparent band from 400 to 6000 nm. The target of the SuSiPOD project is the establishment of a technology platform for the fabrication of a new generation of broadband superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors built on III-nitride waveguides, in which photons are coupled laterally with the help of a tapered optical fibre. This new geometry should allow near-unity absorption probability in a wide spectral range, since the substrate is transparent to visible and infrared light. The project success will be proven by the realization of a working prototype which will greatly outperform state-of-the-art single-photon detectors.

Mots clés : single photon detector, photon counting, photodetector, superconducting detector, superconducting nanowire

Participants :
- Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 173076.0 €
Projet 2D-QuEST (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Single-photon sources are the foundation of quantum optical technologies, including quantum communications, computing and metrology. Since the first demonstration of single-photon emission from sodium atoms in a low-density atomic beam in 1977, this nonclassical phenomenon has been observed in various types of solid-state zero-dimensional (0D) and one-dimensional (1D) materials, such as single molecules, quantum dots, nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond, silicon carbide, and carbon nanotubes.Very recently, a new class of single-photon emitter has emerged based on atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides and hexagonal boron nitride monolayers. These novel single-photon emitters are due to the generation and recombination of excitons that are spatially localized by natural defects in 2D materials . Bright and stable light emission from these defect excitons occurs at photon energies below the delocalized exciton emission and thus exhibit ideal nonclassical single photon characteristics. Furthermore, their intrinsic presence within atomically thin 2D materials brings the advantages of the unprecedented materials compatibility and processing flexibility associated with this materials paradigm. In particular, the defects in 2D materials can be located at desired positions with atomic precision suggesting the potential to build extended quantum emitter networks. These promising properties offer a new path to the scalable integration of high-quality quantum emitters in quantum optical technologies. However, the research of 2D quantum emitters (2DQEs) is just at an early stage with many open questions about their fundamental properties, including their chemical and electronic structures and emission control. The answers to these open questions will deepen current knowledge in quantum optics and material science. Most importantly, they will guide the development of 2DQEs towards practical quantum application.

Mots clés : single photon emitters, 2d materials, plasmonics, photophysics, photochemistry, emission control

Participants :
- Imperial College London (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 224933.76 €
Projet EXAM (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Singlet exciton fission is a carrier multiplication process in organic semiconductors that generates two electron-hole pairs for one photon absorbed, affording quantum efficiencies up to 200%. Photovoltaic devices based on singlet fission have received large attention recently for their potential in efficiency enhancement and to break the Shockley-Queisser limit on the efficiency of single-junction photovoltaics. Recent advancements in singlet fission have been materials-limited due to the rarity of molecules which meet the essential energetic requirement for the process, that the energy of the lowest triplet excited state be approximately half the energy of the lowest singlet excited state. Also important is to ensure the chemical stability of the candidate compounds that would broaden their application prospect. In this proposal, we exploit the excited-state aromaticity view to manipulate the excited state energy levels and build novel singlet fission candidates. Based on theoretical and experimental study, selective models will be evaluated, synthesized and analysed, aiming at a novel strategy for manipulating the excited state energy and stability of organic semiconductors with the aromaticity view. The main aimis to demonstrate highly stable, tuneable organic materials which undergo singlet fission through exploitation of the aromaticity of both the ground state and excited states and feasible design rules for these materials. The materials are expected to be promising candidates as singlet fission functional layer for solar cells and other multiple exciton generation applications. The result concept represents better understanding and tailoring excited state properties of organic semiconductors, which can be expended to wide range of materials with particular excited state nature for even wider application prospect.

Mots clés : singlet fission, excited state aromaticity

Participants :
- University of Cambridge (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 224933.76 €
Projet Siphony (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Siphony is a disruptive project created from a Breakthrough Materials Coalition between CellMat Laboratories and Dr. Danilo Cantero. This is a multidisciplinary venture involving the Physics and Chemistry of polymers and the Thermodynamics and Process Engineering of Supercritical Fluids. Sub and Supercritical water will be annex to the use of carbon dioxide in the foaming of Polymethyl methacrylate. The innovative and never seen before addition of sub and supercritical water will create benefits in the chemical swelling of the polymer and the addition of thermodynamic energy of explosion, approximately 5-6 times more than carbon dioxide itself. With this, it is expected to achieve the extra hit of power and material softening to reach an outstanding nano cellular polymer of very low density (10 times density reduction compared to initial polymer) and high pores density (>1013 pores/cm3). This kind of materials has outstanding properties as insulators (thermal and acoustic) in many fields of the industry. This proposed invention by employing Siphony process will create an exceptional rated polymer that will revolutionize the insulation industry by dropping insulators weight and increasing the heat transference resistant. Siphony also involves the application of the revolutionary concept invented by Danilo Cantero: the Continuous Sudden Expansion Reactor. The application of this technology to the foaming process of PMMA will bring unconventional properties to the product as well as to the process of foaming. This technology has demonstrated accurate control of residence time and temperature in a continuous mode. In this project, the technology will be redesigned to maximize the water/carbon dioxide dissolution in PMMA and the water/carbon dioxide expansion by sudden decompression in an isenthalpic stage. Also, the high level of shear that is incorporated by this process will be optimized to generate the best performing combination of PMMA particle size and cells size.

Mots clés : continuous production of nano cellular polymers with near critical co2, water mix

Participants :
- University of Valladolid (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 172932.48 €
Projet DNCSS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Sleep and anaesthesia are both commonplace states that involve reversible loss of consciousness. However, the precise regulatory mechanisms underlying both still remain elusive, particularly at the circuitry level. Previous studies suggest that sleep is homeostatically regulated and it has been proposed that the interaction between circadian rhythm and intrinsic sleep drive determines sleep status. Although much efforts have been made, the sleep field still lacks clarity regarding the nature of the “sleep drive” as well as how it modulates sleep homeostasis. My host lab recently revealed that neuronal ensembles in the PO area, particularly in the lateral PO (LPO) area, a small region at the base of the brain that contains a mixture of sleep-active, wake-active, and temperature-sensitive neurons, are selectively activated during recovery sleep and drug-induced sedation. These results indicate that the LPO neurons are able to sense the sleep drive. In this proposal my goal is to identify LPO associated functional connectivity encoding sleep drive and sedation. By combining TetTagging functional ensembles of neurons with in vitro and in vivo optogenetics, electrophysiology and imaging techniques in mouse, I aim to 1) evaluate alterations of excitatory/inhibitory inputs onto the defined LPO neurons during prolonged wakefulness and sedation; 2) identify the origin of inputs onto the defined LPO neurons; 3) tdetermine the effects of altered connectivity involving active LPO neurons on sleep and sedation status in vivo. The results of the proposed research will provide novel insights into the regulatory mechanisms underlying sedation and the homeostatic drive of sleep.

Mots clés : sleep, neural circuitry, hypothalamus, gabaergic neurons, synaptic transmission, tettagging, retrograde tracing, rabies virus, optogenetics

Participants :
- Imperial College London (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 183454.8 €
Projet Bump-BET (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Small molecules can be used to probe for biological function of individual proteins. Achieving high selectivity with small molecules against structurally similar paralogues is a challenging task that makes it difficult to characterize function of individual member in the same protein family or individual domain in protein containing multiple target domains. The Bromo and Extra-Terminal (BET) proteins play important roles in transcriptional regulation by controlling networks of genes involved in cellular proliferation and cell cycle regulation. Key to the functions of BET proteins is a pair of highly homologous bromodomains (BD) in tandem, which bind and recognize histone acetylation on its tail. Elucidation of the process controlled by BET proteins would benefit greatly from chemical probes that perturb individual BD with high selectivity. Development of small molecules, including clinical candidate drug I-BET, builds a foundation for us to utilize this chemical probe approach, however lack of selectivity of I-BET against individual BD renders it inapplicable to serve as a chemical probe for individual protein or domain. Recently, we had demonstrated the feasibility of a “bump-and-hole” approach to engineer BD of BET proteins and I-BET molecule to achieve high selectivity. Here we propose to enhance the selectivity of BD and I-BET derivative pair to apply this technology and to probe for the function of individual BD in a cell-based model. Interaction between modified I-BET and selected BD variant, which retain its histone binding functionality, will be further optimized to achieve >100 fold selectivity against all wildtype BD. After that, a cell-based model will be built to substitute endogenous BET protein with exogenous BET containing BD variant. The ultimate goal is to develop a general chemical biology tool to elucidate the role of any individual BD-containing proteins by targeting specifically the engineered BD without affecting any other BD.

Mots clés : bromodomain, bromo  and extra terminal protein, histone modification reader, protein engineering, drug design, bump and hole strategy, protein ligand interaction

Participants :
- University of Dundee (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 183454.8 €