Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet EPHYFLU (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Poultry production has risen as the main livestock sector worldwide, with this growth being primarily driven by low and middle income countries such as Bangladesh. Unfortunately, the high circulation of avian influenza in domestic flocks undermines economic and societal benefits of poultry production in this country and raises significant concerns for human health. Nonetheless, avian influenza transmission in Bangladeshi poultry remains poorly characterised. To fill this gap, the EPHYFLU project will shed light on the transmission patterns of H9N2 avian influenza virus, the most common strain in Bangladesh, by combining state-of-the-art mechanistic models and high quality sequence data. In particular, this project will develop novel methods to leverage genomic data to inform epidemic models, which will be used to assess the effectiveness of a range of veterinary public health interventions aiming to reduce H9N2 avian influenza transmission. This program will result in novel policy recommendations for avian influenza control in Bangladesh, and contribute to the integration of phylogenetic and mechanistic modelling.

Mots clés : avian influenza, epidemiology, agent based models, phylogenetics, phylodynamics, bayesian inference

Participants :
- Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 211754.88 €
- Vet Agro Sup (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet ErgodicHyperbolic (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Mathematics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The purpose of the project is to study limit laws and mixing properties for weakly chaotic systems. The theory of strongly chaotic systems has been extensively developed in the last decades and there are now methods that can be used in studying their statistical properties: e.g. a functional analytic approach (transfer operators, anisotropic Banach spaces) or a geometric approach (distribution of stable and unstable foliations). However much less is known for systems which do not have such a strong chaotic behavior and in particular are of zero entropy. In the project I plan to develop general methods to study many natural classes of systems which exhibit slower (or weaker) notions of randomness (or chaos), e.g. suspension flows. I plan to study mixing and statistical properties of such systems with the goal of characterizing their chaotic behavior and compare it with strongly chaotic systems. In particular, I also plan to study the infinite measure case where the theory has not yet been developed and where possibly other notions of mixing have to be developed.

Mots clés : mixing, ergodic systems, stochastic limit laws, infinite invariant measure

Participants :
- Université Jagellonne (Pologne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 139953.6 €
Projet BEYOND META (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The value of the global 5G services market is expected to grow to $249.2 billion by 2026. The considerably increased resources required (i.e. greater spectral bandwidth, greater throughput, lower latency) have already led to the transition of telecommunication channels at higher frequency bands, where the design and utilization of artificially resonant materials, metamaterials, and their two-dimensional equivalents -metasurfaces- has emerged. Metasurfaces, the lightweight, easy-to-fabricate artificial sheet structures composed of subwavelength particles, exhibit unique electromagnetic properties of effectively controlling and manipulating the wave propagation and constitute the enabling technology for the design of mm-wave components. Fully planar waveguiding structures, beam-steerable leaky wave antennas, perfect absorbers are only a few applications of the emerged metasurface concept. Furthermore, increased requirements of multi-Gbps systems have already given a boost to reconfigurable designs of components via electronic tuning of their parameters. BEYOND META will provide a significant contribution to the wireless and mobile telecommunications sector, focused on the field of antennas and propagation, by developing a robust and powerful computational tool for the analysis, design, fabrication and measurement of metasurfaces, as an enabling technology for the production of novel components in the mm-wave region, in order to be incorporated in 5G communications systems, according to the industry demands. Special emphasis will be given on reconfigurability of innovative structures (antennas and absorbers), via application of electronically tunable mechanisms. The realization of these specific objectives will be performed by the researcher at the Section for Electromagnetic Systems of the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), and at Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL) of Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), at the secondment phase.

Mots clés : antennas, metamaterials, metasurfaces, finite element method, periodic structures, mm wave communications, microwave communications

Participants :
- Université technique du Danemark (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 214934.4 €
- Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (Grèce) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet BARTAS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest scientific and health challenges of our time. If actions are not taken, antibiotics resistance infections will become the first cause of death by 2050. One of the most common signs of bacterial infection is a rapid increase of the host temperature that exposes bacteria to a heat shock (HS). To survive and quickly adapt to this new environment, bacteria activate the synthesis of specific proteins, called heat shock proteins (HSPs). In E.coli, HSPs expression is mediated by the alternative sigma factor sigma32 (Sig32). The molecular processes that are associated with the bacterial stress responses induced by a combination of change in temperature and presence of antibiotics have not yet been investigated in detail due to the technical challenges of monitoring this combination of stresses with the necessary temporal and spatial accuracy. Cell-to-cell fluctuations in protein expression could affect single cells survival. Therefore, these processes should be studied with single cell precision. I propose to investigate bacterial responses to the combined stresses of temperature increase and antibiotics at single cell level in live E.coli using a combination of microfluidics and single molecule/super-resolution imaging. I will design and build a microfluid system able to control the stress landscape of temperature and antibiotic concentrations. This will allow me to study Sig32 expression during HS using fast-maturating fluorescent protein fusions. Next, I will monitor how HS affects proteins synthesis by measuring the diffusion changes of single ribosomal subunits (S30 and S50) during HS, using single particle tracking PALM. Finally, I will quantify the interplay between HS response and antibiotic susceptibility by monitoring Sig32 levels and the diffusion of ribosomal subunits. Taken together my results will provide for the first time a quantitative picture and a new framework to study bacterial response to multiple stresses.

Mots clés : bacterial stress response, single molecule microscopy, super resolution microscopy, heat shock, antimicrobial resistance

Participants :
- École polytechnique (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 211754.88 €
Projet CEMCON (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

EU has set an ambitious goal of achieving a circular economy following the “2050 climate neutrality goal” of the European Green Deal. The construction industry faces significant challenges to meet this in managing concrete waste, which often ends up in landfills. This proposal aims to address this issue by developing a circular solution for recycled concrete fines (RCFs) to be used as supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs), thereby converting these fine concrete wastes into cement (CEMCON). The main objectives are to characterize and categorize RCFs from various recycling plants, develop a treatment method to activate different types of RCFs, and understand the performance and environmental impacts of these activated RCFs when used as SCMs. To achieve these objectives during this fellowship, I will systematically categorize RCFs based on their composition and reactivity, identifying a generic activation method to enhance their reactivity. Together with my supervisors, I will generate new knowledge by evaluating the performance of activated RCFs and analyzing their energy consumption, carbon footprint, and potential for circular economy integration through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The expected outcome is a revolutionary method for utilizing concrete waste in construction, significantly enhancing the reactivity of waste materials and paving the way for broader applications, including the treatment of other industrial wastes such as mining by-products. To implement the research findings into the world outside laboratory, this research will be scaled up to industrial production of RCFs as SCMs by operating a flagship plant in the Netherlands in collaboration with our associated partner C2CA. CEMCON project provides insights for construction sector on how to use concrete waste fines as cementitious materials. This helps contractors reduce material and project costs. Thus, CEMCON aligns with the EU's aim to promote the circular economy in the building sector.

Mots clés : circular raw materials, recycling and reuse, supplementary cementitious materials, recycled concrete fines, waste management

Participants :
- C2ca technology bv (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'Oulu (Finlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 302646.0 €
Projet POMZAB (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Even though Li-ion batteries have dominated the market so far, they lack the desired properties for large scale electric grids or electric vehicles. Besides, there are some concerns regarding the safety and raw-materials availability in the future. In this context, Zn-air batteries emerge as the most promising candidates to be the post-lithium technology for their lower weight and volume, and inherently safety. However, their cycle life is still below the required standards. Therefore, the goal of this proposal is to develop efficient electrically rechargeable Zn-air batteries with high energy density and cycling stability. To achieve this, near neutral electrolytes will be used instead of traditional highly alkaline solution employed in non-rechargeable devices. The latter leads to significant improvements in Zn anode cyclability increasing battery life. However, to fully exploit the potential of this technology, bifunctional catalytic materials specifically design to operate in this pH conditions are necessary and still missing. This project seeks to address this matter using metal oxide nanoclusters, known as polyoxometalates (POM), as homogenous bifunctional catalyst to promote both oxygen evolution and reduction reactions. These materials have outstanding electrochemical properties including an excellent reversibility, which makes them ideal for rechargeable energy storage devices. This research plan will investigate the electrocatalytic activity of various POMs in near neutral electrolytes using several electrochemical techniques. These will be later test in lab-scale Zn-air batteries to assess the performance of POMs as bifunctional catalyst in real operating conditions. The combination of near-neutral electrolytes and POM-based air cathodes is expected to allow fabrication of ZAB devices with increased cycle life, specific and volumetric energy density and power density. These improvements will consolidate ZAB secondary batteries as a post-lithium technology

Mots clés : zinc polyoxometalates electrocatalysis bifunctional air cathode energy storage

Participants :
- Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 181152.96 €
Projet GraBBIng (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : TERMINATED

The key research goal of the MSCA PF (Project Acronym - GraBBIng) is to enhance the leadership and research capability of the Marie Curie Fellow Dr.Vanesa Quintano via implementing a highly challenging and innovative research project focused on the development of highly sensitive and selective clinical biosensors based on two-dimensional (2D)-nanomaterial (graphene oxide, GO) to address European Union (EU) and World Health Organization (WHO) raised issues in public health care. Graphene will be used and duly functionalized to work as a sensor for the direct and accurate detection of novel biomarkers for the early diagnosis of lung cancer. 2D nanomaterial research and development will be performed under the supervision of Prof. Rakesh Joshi, Associate Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering and leading the Graphene Research Group-UNSW Team Graphene, Australia. Additionally, a one-year return phase especially dedicated to the biosensor optimization and clinical validation will take place under the supervision of Prof. Laura Lechuga, Head of the Nanobiosensors and Bioanalytical Applications Group at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) in Barcelona, Spain. Researcher Dr Vanesa Quintano is expert in nanotechnology and graphene-based biosensors for biomedical applications, Prof. Rakesh is a nanotechnology expert in graphene-based materials and Prof. Lechuga is expert in biosensors and analytical applications. The project implements a set of coordinated actions among its different partners that maximize international collaboration between universities, research centers and industry in different European and worldwide countries. The European competitiveness will be potentiated throughout the project with the exploitation of the research results, ultimately giving high-level EU employment and maintaining the European status quo of high‐level‐knowledge countries.

Mots clés : graphene, biosensor, lung cancer, mirna, surface chemistry, device, 2d materials, graphene oxide, biomarker, nanomaterials, nanotechnology, nanoscience

Participants :
- Université de Nouvelle-Galles du Sud (Australie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 283433.76 €
Projet QoSeRM (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

By now, the Internet has become a topmost critical infrastructure. Current technology trends point toward a new era of dependable Internet, which includes the concepts of the Internet of Everything, Network Intelligentization, Vehicle-to-everything communication, Augmented and Virtual Reality applications, and many others. Telesurgery, autonomous driving, Industry 4.0 and the stock market are just a few examples of the emerging mission-critical services that involve telecommunication and on which both people and governments increasingly rely. To address the rising challenges of these new mission-critical application-based concepts, ultra-reliable and low-latency communication channels have to be established. Despite this reliance on the Internet, nowadays, it often falls behind the needs and expectations. To enable the advent of a truly dependable Internet, the main goal of QoSeRM is to drastically improve the most important Quality of Service (QoS) metric, the end-to-end availability, that measures the fraction of time in which two endpoints are able to communicate. To create such a reliable Internet, we have to step further from protecting only the classical single network equipment failures and ensure that telecommunication remains operational in the presence of large-scale regional failures caused by natural or man-made disasters too. To this end, QoSeRM forges two major building blocks into an overarching framework, namely: 1) enhanced time series prediction techniques for predicting future spare link bandwidths, and 2) scalable resilient routing algorithms for utilising the spare link capacities for sending redundant data between the communicating endpoints. Thus, my findings will combine the strengths of artificial intelligence and combinatorial optimisation, which are two fields with very different philosophies: while the former says that ‘data is better than algorithms’, the creed of the latter is contrary: `algorithms are better than data’.

Mots clés : dependable internet, ultra reliable low latency communication, resilient routing, time series prediction, network failure protection, disaster resilience, shared risk link group, srlg

Participants :
- Université technique de Berlin (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Babeș-Bolyai (Roumanie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 149575.68 €
Projet CO2Slag Cement (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Nearly 580 million tonnes per year (Mt/y) of ferrous metallurgical slags (FMS) are produced as by-products of iron, steel, and alloy production. The accelerated reaction of CO2 with Ca/Mg present in these FMS can result in the formation of Ca/Mg-carbonates, offering a relatively simple and low-energy pathway for CO2-abatement. This CO2-mineralization process has the capacity to directly sequestrate ~140 Mt-CO2/y globally, leading to the potential availability of ~720 Mt/y of carbonated-FMS as a by-product. The carbonated-FMS are expected to be rich in amorphous alumina-silica and Ca/Mg-carbonates: when used in combination with Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC), they are expected to form a composite cement similar to the presently marketed Limestone-pozzolana-OPC cement. In this context, this study focuses on the utilization of the carbonated-FMS to produce low-carbon cement with potential CO2-avoidance of ~500 Mt-CO2/y. To maximize the cementitious reactivity, the carbonation mechanism will be studied using different types of FMS and synthetic analogues of the major Ca/Mg-rich minerals present in them. The CO2-mineralization process and environment will be optimized to maximize the cementitious reactivity of carbonated-FMS by controlling their phase compositions, microstructures, and morphologies. When introduced as supplementary cementitious material (SCM), its hydration reaction with OPC will be studied to maximize its utilization potential. For the final mortar/concrete products containing carbonated-FMS, the environmental leaching will be studied. Moreover, pathways for the end-of-life recycling of the product will be analyzed through cradle-to-cradle scenario analyses. Finally, for easy acceptance by the practitioners, the product will be subjected to detailed life-cycle analyses and environmental impact assessments.

Mots clés : sustainable construction materials, co2 utilization, metallurgical waste utilization, cement, life cycle assessment, environmental impact assessment, metallurgical waste, sustainable development

Participants :
- Keko geopolymeerit oy (Finlande) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- École polytechnique fédérale de Zurich (Suisse) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'Oulu (Finlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 269418.0 €
Projet SUB-BIO-24 (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Biodiversity is crucial for maintaining ecosystem stability and environmental health. The anticipated extinction of over one million species in the coming decades poses a grave threat to ecosystem functions and services, particularly in freshwater systems, which are among the most neglected in conservation efforts. Groundwater ecosystems, in particular, are critically overlooked, with less than 10% of known habitats globally protected. These ecosystems, which are highly biodiverse and rich in endemic species, provide the majority of the world's drinking water. However, their close connection to surface ecosystems makes them especially vulnerable to surface threats such as urbanization, which can raise groundwater temperatures by 3-4ºC. This urban heat island effect endangers groundwater species and the vital functions they support. Despite their importance, research on groundwater biodiversity remains limited due to the inaccessibility of these environments and the challenges posed by traditional sampling methods. This proposal explores the use of environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding to monitor biodiversity in alluvial groundwater ecosystems and link eDNA profiles to species' functional traits. By developing and refining eDNA protocols and building a functional biodiversity library for groundwaters, the research seeks to establish a cost-effective, accurate method for monitoring biological processes in groundwater. Additionally, the study will apply these protocols to assess the impact of subsurface urban heat islands (SUHI) on groundwater communities and their functional diversity. In collaboration with experts from Slovenia, Austria, Denmark, and Guatemala, this project aims to enhance our understanding and management of groundwater ecosystems, ensuring their long-term sustainability.

Mots clés : ecosystem based management, groundwater biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, functional biodiversity, metabarcoding

Participants :
- Université de Ljubljana (Slovénie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Bia podjetje za laboratorijsko in p (Slovénie) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Institut national de Biologie (Slovénie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 198557.52 €