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

Climate change is increasingly threatening European forests, yet we lack fundamental knowledge on a key determinant of resilience, namely regeneration. Without this knowledge, we risk overlooking populations at risk of collapse, unable to regenerate, recolonise after disturbance, or migrate. The FECUND fellowship addresses this challenge, and is particularly timely; we are witnessing sharp declines in viable seed supply in a cornerstone species, European beech (Fagus sylvatica), but its effects on regeneration outcomes remain unknown. The primary objective of ‘FECUND’ is to understand the interactions between climate conditions, seed viability, and seedling recruitment in European beech across different climates. FECUND will pursue four specific research objectives: 1) assessing how climate affects beech fecundity and viable seed production, 2) exploring the trade-offs between seed number and size (and quality) across climates, 3) evaluating the impact of seed supply on seedling recruitment, and 4) predicting future species distribution through dynamic forest modelling. These objectives will be met through an interdisciplinary approach, leveraging a European-wide network of researchers and a secondment at Ohio University to integrate empirical data into predictive models. The project is highly relevant to Horizon Europe, which emphasises the need for research that enhances forest resilience in the face of climate change. By providing critical insights into the factors that drive forest regeneration, FECUND will contribute to the development of more effective forest management practices and conservation strategies, and help safeguard the future of Europe’s beech forests. For the fellow, this project offers a unique opportunity to gain expertise in ecological modelling, advanced statistical analysis, and interdisciplinary collaboration, ultimately positioning her as a future leader in forest ecology and biogeography.

Mots clés : masting, fecundity, recruitment, fagus sylvatica, forest, regeneration, demography, dynamic vegetation model, forest ecology, seed production

Participants :
- Ohio University (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Adam-Mickiewicz de Poznań (Pologne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 179006.16 €
Projet NEXTSTEP (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Cofund Doctoral programme
Statut du projet : SIGNED

NEXTSTEP will train 36 young and enthusiastic researchers to exploit the unique and transversal capabilities of analytical research infrastructures (RIs) in tackling the challenges associated with sustainable development and industrial competitiveness in the areas of “Health”, “Digital, Industry & Space”, “Climate, Energy and Mobility” and “Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment”, which are at the heart of Horizon Europe. These skilled researchers will be able to explore materials science, chemistry, biology and engineering and environmental sciences with unprecedented precision (in space, time and sensitivity) using the RI techniques. They will also be trained in complementary skills in innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership providing them with the fluidity to be comfortable in all research and career settings. At the heart of NEXTSTEP are the complementary and sophisticated analytical X-ray, neutron and electron microscopy techniques available at the cutting-edge European RIs: European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF, X-ray synchrotron), Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL, neutron source) and e-DREAM (advanced electron microscopes). The academic, research and technology organisations (RTO) and industrial partners for each NEXTSTEP DC topic will be selected through Europe-wide open calls for challenging and rewarding DC projects and will be included as associated partners. This will create an outstanding, geographically-diverse and inclusive study programme, fostering a cross-border knowledge-triangle network far beyond that of the recruiting institutes themselves. NEXTSTEP graduates will be poised to become the drivers in future efforts to exploit the exceptional capacities of analytical RIs and transform science output into disruptive solutions. The graduates will have influence and impact for decades to come as they progress in careers, be they in academia, industry, stakeholder or NGO organisations.

Mots clés : synchrotron x ray neutron electron microscopy sustainability health digital, industry, space climate, energy, mobility food, bioeconomy, natural resources, agriculture, environment innovation

Participants :
- European synchrotron radiation facility (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 3763200.0 €
- Laboratoire européen de biologie moléculaire (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet RAREFIND (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Cofund Doctoral programme
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The RAREFIND project is an innovative doctoral training program designed to meet the growing need for specialized education in advanced gene and cell therapies. Coordinated by Fondazione Telethon (FTELE) with the School of Advanced Studies (IUSS) as implementing partner, RAREFIND offers a dynamic interdisciplinary and intersectoral training environment. The program encourages international mobility and promotes excellence in research across FTELE’s leading institutes, TIGEM and SR-TIGET, both recognized for their pioneering contributions to genetic research and therapy development. RAREFIND aims to train 22 doctoral candidates (DCs) through cutting-edge research projects on gene therapy, gene editing, and related fields. Participants, selected through a rigorous and competitive process, will receive comprehensive education combining scientific expertise with transferable skills. They will gain hands-on experience in leading laboratories, collaborate closely with non-academic entities, and benefit from secondments and specialized training. This approach ensures exposure to a broad range of perspectives, preparing DCs to advance the development of personalized therapies for rare genetic diseases. A key pillar of the program is its emphasis on career development. RAREFIND offers tailored mentorship, targeted professional skills training, and opportunities to engage with leaders from academia, industry, and regulatory bodies. This holistic approach ensures that graduates are equipped not only for academic research careers but also for leadership roles in biotechnology, pharmaceutical companies, and other sectors in gene and cell therapies. By integrating translational research with real-world applications, RAREFIND accelerates the transformation of scientific discoveries into therapeutic solutions, strengthening Europe’s biomedical landscape.

Mots clés : gene therapy training cell therapy doctoral network

Participants :
- Telethon Foundation (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 2613600.0 €
Projet CoCirculation3 (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Cofund Postdoctoral programme
Statut du projet : SIGNED

CoCirculation3 is a flagship programme for the recruitment of researchers to academic and non-academic hosting institutions inTurkish Research Area, which is an integral part of European Research Area. Within the framework of CoCirculation3 a total of 100 postdoctoral researchers will be recruited through 3 calls for maximum of 24 months in 5 years. CoCirculation3 is individually driven mobility program and TÜBİTAK assures that the applicants will be able to freely choose a research topic (which will have a Green Deal aspect) host and supervisor fitting their individual needs. The researchers are expected to conduct research on the Scientific Priorities adopted and announced by TÜBİTAK that are compatible with European Green Deal. In order to increase the participation of host institutions from the non-academic sector TÜBİTAK intends to add S&E Panel, next to Standard Panel. The unique value propositions of CoCirc3 are rooted to its focus to enhancing the participation of non-academic sector; the brand new allowance defined as Entrepreneurship Allowance to enhance the entrepreneurial initiatives of the PostDoc Fellows and creating an eco-system for Industry-Academia Partnerships; the outstanding approach in enhancing the career development of the postdoc fellows through Mentor-Mentee Mechanism; creating a community of Alumni in TRA. The implementing partners are mobilized who will recruit the researchers as hosting institutions. Those implementing partners will also have the flexibility to host secondments and Non-academic Placements.Turkish and European Research Area as a whole will benefit from the contribution of the CoCirculation3 fellows to the research landscape. TÜBİTAK will contribute 39% of the total budget while European Commission is requested to co-fund 61%. CoCirculation3, with a specific focus to Green Deal will enhance the excellence of research in TRA through the mobility and integration of talented researchers.

Mots clés : transnational mobility, career development, societyandenterprise panel, incoming post doc researchers training, green deal, intersectoral secondment, brain circulation, non academic placement

Participants :
- Conseil de la recherche scientifique et technologique de Turquie (Turquie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 9552000.0 €
Projet TIES (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Cofund Postdoctoral programme
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Turku Intersectoral Excellence Scheme (TIES) is an innovative fellowship programme that seeks to advance the state-of-the-art for postdoctoral research excellence. It is based within Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) at the University of Turku (Finland) and is supported by Turku Science Park. TIAS has a record for producing world-class research and developing its fellows for research leadership roles. TIES offers: • Scientific excellence: TIES integrates intersectoral perspectives and methods into TIAS’s interdisciplinary Institute for Advanced Studies model on a formal basis. This expands the horizons of academic research, enabling it to envision original solutions able to address complex issues that affect society as a whole. • Career development: TIES offers a new range of options for non-tenured researchers, enabling them to move freely between sectors, acquire unique skills and experiences, increase their career choices and develop as intersectoral thought leaders. • Innovation: TIES seeks to build a sustainable infrastructure for innovation by 1. enabling knowledge, technology and researchers to circulate freely at regional, national and international levels; 2. forging deep relations of trust between sectors, connecting intellectual excellence with the practical know-how and infrastructure needed to realise new concepts. TIAS proposes to recruit 4 TIES fellows in 2022 and 2023 (8 positions in total) through an open, international, competitive, merit-based selection process dependent on external peer-review, in line with the European Charter and Code. These will be full members of TIAS, with excellent working conditions. During their 36-month fellowships, they will be required to practice international and intersectoral mobility, conduct research in a non-academic sector, undertake research secondments with a non-academic host organisation, and develop an individual development programme with mentors and supervisors from inside and outside academia.

Mots clés : institute for advanced studies transdisciplinarity non academic impact knowledge exchange mentorship leadership development training autonomy bottom up intersectoral career development

Participants :
- Université de Turku (Finlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 1146240.0 €
- Turku Science Park (Finlande) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet Sustain-FIT (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Cofund Postdoctoral programme
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Sustain-FIT is an innovative MSCA COFUND programme providing international mobility by funding and implementing 50 three-year incoming fellowships to the Republic of Ireland in the area of industrially focused sustainability research. Sustain-FIT will be run by Enterprise Ireland, the national innovation agency and the Fellows will have the option to be hosted at any of the Irish higher education institutions and public research organisations. The Sustain-FIT research and innovation focus is on the European Green Deal eight policy pillars: clean energy, sustainable industry, building and renovating, sustainable mobility, biodiversity, sustainable food systems, eliminating pollution and climate neutrality. Digitalisation projects that benefit Green Deal objectives are also supported, in line with the Declaration on a Green and Digital Transformation of the EU. Implementation of the programme includes an extensive promotion of recruitment calls to an open, merit-based competition for the applying researchers, founded on equality of opportunities and best practices in international peer review. Applicants will have the freedom to choose their Host Research Organisation (HRO) and Secondment Enterprise, and to define their own research training project. Recruited Fellows will be supported with a dedicated programme management arrangement that has access to the full range of Enterprise Ireland professional supports and HRO supports in a structured career development framework that includes a mandatory 6-12 month intersectoral secondment, high-quality supervisory support from the HROs and Enterprise Secondment partners, access to discipline-specific training and structured transferable skills training, and personal career development support. Sustain-FIT will develop a new cadre of researchers who can move seamlessly to industry in Europe bringing high levels of research expertise in an area of high priority: industrially focused sustainable research.

Mots clés : industry, enterprise, sustainability, applied research

Participants :
- Enterprise Ireland (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 7164000.0 €
Projet SeNTASC (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Clean energy is crucial for a carbon neutral European continent, and wind, hydropower, geothermal, biomass, and solar energy conversion will generate hundreds of billions economic activity in the coming years. Among these, photovoltaics (PV) plays a crucial part in electricity generation directly transformed from sunlight. Recently, the efficiency of the dominant PV technology, Si, has reached over 26%, which is near the 29.4% theoretical efficiency limit for single-junction solar cells. In order to overcome this limit, the tandem concept that minimizes thermalization losses of photo-excited carriers has been successfully proven with multi-junction cells, where different band gaps are stacked in series. Over the past decades, the main challenge has been the lack of an efficient, long-term stable, low cost, and process compatible top sub-cell. Recently, selenium (Se) became an attractive option because of its suitable high bandgap , feasible process at low temperature, and reported efficiency. This proposal (SeNTASC) aims at developing selenium absorber photovoltaic (Se PV) top subcell stacking with high-efficiency Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGS) bottom subcell toward long-term stable and high-efficiency tandem solar cells by implementing novel approaches in buffer layer bandgap modulation, advanced hole-selective metal oxide layer modification, and finally achieving an inverted bifacial Se PV. The above-mentioned strategies will lead to ~10 % efficiency with open circuit voltage over 1 Volt with bandgap around 1.95 eV in an inverted superstrate configuration. Reaching these objectives, Se will be established as an excellent candidate for a top subcell in a tandem with high-quality CIGS solar cells. In this configuration, a maximum theoretical efficiency near 40% is expected.

Mots clés : chalcogenide compound and solar cell

Participants :
- International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (Portugal) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 159815.04 €
Projet DPaTh-To-Adapt (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Climate change is having pervasive impacts on biota that is collectively resulting in a fundamental alteration of the structure, function and feedbacks within ecosystems across the globe. A major challenge for climate change science is to develop an understanding of the sensitivity of organisms to the changing environment, and try and find spatial, broad taxonomic or trait based generalities that will enable more accurate identification of regions and ecosystems at severe risk of climate change impacts (sensitivity hotspots) so that mitigation and adaptive management actions can be prioritised. There are, however, several challenges associated with predicting sensitivity hotspots. At the forefront of these challenges is our understanding of the drivers of organism’s thermal tolerance thresholds, and the proximity of temperature thresholds to the local climate extremes and climate change projections, herein called thermal safety margin (TSM). This project merges concepts from physiology, ecology, evolutionary biology, biogeography and physical oceanography into an interdisciplinary conceptual framework that exposes inconsistencies among current paradigms and fundamental limitations to our understanding of the sensitivity of marine organisms to climate change. The conceptual framework presented here offers a testable, interdisciplinary model to address this knowledge gap. Specifically we ask the questions 1) How do patterns in thermal tolerance breadth and thermal safety margins vary throughout species’ geographical ranges? And 2) What are the environmental drivers, biotic traits and evolutionary factors that determine an organisms thermal tolerance? Through identifying the nature of thermal tolerance patterns and identifying some of the mechanisms influencing these patterns, this research aims to increase the accuracy and resolution of predictions of the sensitivity of marine biota to climate change.


Participants :
- Spanish National Research Council (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 170121.6 €
Projet ClimAHealth (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Climate is a key environmental factor and one of the main selective pressures affecting the survival of organisms, including human beings. Human populations were exposed to a wide range of environmental conditions after the migration Out of Africa, which could have shaped the evolution of traits related to metabolism, like thermoregulation. In this project, we will search for signals of selection caused by climate across the human genome to study climate adaptation in our species. We will assess the existence of recent and ancient events of selection using novel approaches that increase the statistical power respect to previous methods and control for many genomic confounding factors that are usually overlooked. We will combine bootstrapping and machine learning methods to this end. This project will focus on the influence of climate in the evolution of traits related to metabolism (thermoregulation in tissues like brown adipose tissue and skeletal muscle). We will also consider the influence of adaptive introgression from archaic humans (e.g. Neanderthals) that human populations encountered during their migrations. Finally, the evolutionary information generated will be used to inform genetic association studies and medical genetics. We will assess the influence of climate adaptation in current health issues by testing the relationship between climate-selected variants and prevalence of non-infectious chronic diseases. Finally, we will propose and test novel candidate genes for these diseases from genomic regions with high signals of climate selection.

Mots clés : positive selection, climate adaptation, adaptive introgression, thermoregulation, brown adipose tissue, skeletal muscle, machine learning, evolutionary medicine, genetic epidemiology, candidate genes

Participants :
- University of Granada (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 263732.16 €
- Arizona's Public Universities (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet SIMPHAC (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : TERMINATED

Clouds may never have had a more important meaning to society as they have today. They regulate the Earth's energy balance and are key drivers of how climate responds to changing greenhouse gas levels. Moreover, they generate precipitation, which has a direct impact on the supply of fresh water on Earth. Clouds however are the most elusive component of the climate system, and the largest source of predictive error in any atmospheric and climate models. Of all cloud types, mixed-phase (consisting of both liquid water and ice) clouds are by far the most uncertain, while they dominate the energy balance and precipitation in many regions of the globe. At the heart of this uncertainty is the inability to capture ice crystal formation and the explosive multiplication that can occur, which in turn fundamentally affect cloud processes. The exact mechanisms involved and their relative importance remain unknown; as a result a description of these processes is currently missing in weather forecast and climate models. Our aim is to resolve this ice formation “paradox”, by quantitatively understanding the mechanisms responsible for enhanced cloud ice levels, and develop parameterizations of these processes for use in numerical models. For this purpose we will use state-of-the-art highresolution models, a unique laboratory dataset and in-situ observations, while our parameterizations will be tested in a weather forecast model. Our initial focus will be in the Arctic, the most climatically sensitive region of the planet, but results have the potential to improve mixed-phase cloud representation at lower latitudes as well. As clouds are a critical component of the climate system, improving cloud-ice representation in models is expected to result in more accurate weather predictions and future climate projections

Mots clés : mixed phase clouds, cloud parameterizations, cloud microphysics, cloud ice processes, weather, forecast models, high resolution models

Participants :
- Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (Grèce) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 153085.44 €
- National Observatory of Athens (Grèce) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €