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

UN peacekeeping operations constitute a complex endeavor to prevent conflict and protect civilians, which often can only be achieved through close collaboration of different nations, functions and services, both military and civilian. Although interoperability is crucial for the success of integrated missions, no previous study has systematically examined differences in models of interoperability along national lines; furthermore, until now, the taxonomy of knowledge requirements for effective interoperability remains disorganized and undertheorized in scholarly literature. Previous experiences in missions have demonstrated that military peacekeepers, even when operating under the same mandate, may have different understandings of the abilities and skills required to interact with other contingents and services in missions. This project sheds light on such unexplored issues. Through case studies and comparative research, it aims to identify and assess how knowledge management across different national peacekeeping organizations affects variations in models of practices of interoperability in peace operations. As case studies, I have selected four national peacekeeping training organizations located in different nations and regions: India, Brazil, Netherlands and Ethiopia. Given the project's focus on the field of peace and conflict studies, it adopts a strong interdisciplinary approach. To ensure the successful development of the purpose of this project, I will conduct my research at the Radboud University of Nijmegen, under the guidance of Professor Dr. Matthijs Moorkamp, a leading scholar in the field. This project will prepare me to become a tenured scholar, refine my research skills, strengthen my scholar profile, and enable me to establish myself as an experienced researcher.

Mots clés : peace missions, interoperability, knowledge management, knowledge taxonomy

Participants :
- Université Radboud de Nimègue (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 203464.32 €
Projet MacroRedox (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Society has witnessed a rapid development of energy storage materials as a result of the increasing demand caused by electrification of transport and commercialization of portable electronics. Conventional, widely used lithium-ion batteries rely on transition-metal oxides (Co, Ni) used to manufacture positive electrodes; unfortunately, depletion of the Li, Co and Ni sources is inevitable and there is an urgent need for alternatives based on abundant, green and cheap materials. Organic compounds are composed of earth-abundant elements (C, N, O, S, H), and, in principle, can be accessed from renewable resources using greener methods. Organic batteries by far outperform inorganics in post-lithium battery technologies, especially in case of multivalent batteries, where they currently offer the most realistic possibility of commercialization. However, organic battery materials have many drawbacks, one of them being the fact that they are amorphous and lack ion-diffusion pathways. The goal of the research project is to investigate the fundamental processes of ion diffusion in molecular organic electrode materials with intrinsic porosity. The compounds will be investigated as model systems for next-generation organic electrode materials. The proposed molecules possess large nanopores in the structures, can stabilize charges through conjugation, and can undergo several redox processes, which makes them perfect candidates as model systems to explore ion diffusion. This project will benefit from a wealth of experience in organic synthesis and the exploration of redox properties of macrocyclic molecules accumulated by the Fellow, Dr. Wojciech Stawski, and combined with the expertise of Prof. Birgit Esser in battery research, which will lead to a deep understanding of ion-diffusion processes in those materials and provide design principles for their preparation.

Mots clés : porous macrocycles battery materials organic conjugated ion diffusion

Participants :
- Université d'Ulm (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 202125.12 €
Projet NAfrAM (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Microbial resistance to antimicrobial compounds has become one of the biggest threats to global health. The inability to treat infectious diseases poses a severe threat to human health, and the costs associated with antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are immense. The severity of AMR is emphasized by implementing the fight against AMR into major goals of the United Nations, European Union, or World Health Organization. One of the major issues with AMR is the long-term decline in the development of novel antibiotics; thus, new antibiotics are urgently needed. Microbes living in the harsh condition of Antarctica represent a promising new source that is worth exploring for new antibiotics. Recent studies showed a significant genetic divergence of Antarctic microbes from other microbes worldwide and suggested the enormous potential of these microbes to produce novel bioactive metabolites. Therefore, the main goals of this project are devoted to the characterization of the overall biosynthetic potential hidden within different Antarctic microbial communities through identification of a broad spectrum of the biosynthetic gene cluster (BGC), determination of their diversity, phylogeny, and environmental distribution, followed by target genome mining for the discovery of BGC producing new antibiotics. The acquired knowledge will then be used for the heterologous expression of antibiotic BGC in a suitable host, followed by compounds isolation, bioactivity verification, and the elucidation of the structure. To pursue the raised objectives, interdisciplinary methods will be integrated, such as bioinformatics, molecular/synthetic biology, and analytical chemistry. Such an interdisciplinary project will provide the applicant with excellent training in both scientific and transferable skills. Together with the applicants' participation in the excellent national and international network of the supervisor, Prof. Ziemert, will significantly enhance the applicant's career perspectives.

Mots clés : meta genome mining, antarctica, microbes, specialized metabolites, antibiotics

Participants :
- Université Eberhard Karl de Tübingen (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 189687.36 €
Projet UPLANDS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Although we often regard language acquisition as an automatic process, there can be huge variation in the speed and success of different learners. As a good command of language is essential for many life outcomes, it is crucial to understand the mechanisms that lead to successful language acquisition. Some influential theories point to prediction-based learning as a crucial language acquisition mechanism. Prediction, the ability to anticipate other’s upcoming words or actions, is already known to play an important role in human communication. For instance, predicting when our conversation partner will stop speaking allows us to start our responses immediately, thus leading to fluent conversations. A prediction-based mechanism is at the heart of error-based theories of language acquisition, which suggest that children and adults constantly predict the next word when listening to others talk. They then assess whether their predictions were correct and if not, an error-signal is created which is then used for learning. While these theories have grown immensely influential in recent years, we still know little about the prediction-based mechanism that underpins them. We have limited evidence connecting linguistic predictions to language learning, and almost no direct knowledge of how a prediction-based language acquisition mechanism might operate. As a result, and despite the popularity of error-based theories of language acquisition, prediction’s actual role in language acquisition remains unclear. This project will significantly expand our current knowledge of how a prediction-based learning mechanism functions. It will do so by combining a newly-developed behavioural paradigm with neuroscientific methods (EEG and MEG) across three experimental studies. This will not only shed further light on prediction’s role in language acquisition, but will also establish a methodological approach that can form the basis of future research into these questions.

Mots clés : language development prediction error based learning psychology of language

Participants :
- Université Radboud de Nimègue (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 203464.32 €
Projet COLOUR (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Whether doing sports or driving through city traffic, our visual system constantly builds expectations to predict and quickly react to upcoming events. However, despite the great importance of expectations, their form and neural implementation remain a mystery. It is completely unknown whether expectations encode a clear picture of the anticipated visual input or just a rough sketch. This gap in knowledge is vital, since only things encoded in our expectations are expected to enter conscious awareness faster. Given the high value of colour signals to guide attention in everyday life (e.g., traffic signs), this project asks where and when in the brain colour expectations are formed and if they are in full colour or just comprised of few basic hues. To track cortical colour expectations with high spatiotemporal precision, electro- and magnetoencephalography will be combined with anatomical brain scans and cutting-edge computational decoding in a new, integrative approach. First, a decoding model will be built that reconstructs colour from brain responses. Applying this new model to brain activity of participants anticipating colours will elucidate when and where in the brain colour expectations are formed. Combined behavioural and electromagnetic measures will then determine the influence of these expectations on our perception. Finally, combining the decoding model with colour similarity levels and individual colour categorizations will clarify the resolution of colour expectations. This project will be the first to unravel the neural mechanism, influence and limits of colour expectations. Together with the decoding model as future tool, this will open new perspectives on predictive processing, perception and imagery, but will also have widespread societal implications: designing of better recognizable colour traffic signals, improving colouring schemes in school books to more effectively guide attention, and even for decoding brain responses of locked-in patients.

Mots clés : cognitive neuroscience, visual cortex, expectations, vision, eeg, meg, attention, perception

Participants :
- Université Radboud de Nimègue (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 215165.76 €
Projet LOISE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in Europe and worldwide with more than 463/100 000/year. Activated B cell (ABC)-DLBCL represents the more aggressive and chemo-resistant subtype to the frontline therapy Rituximab (R)-CHOP (doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone, mechlorethamine) with 40% of patients experiencing no response or relapse. Therefore, new treatments are needed to improve the clinical outcome of ABC-DLBCLs. A newly defined characteristic feature of the ABC-DLBCL subtype is the concurrent constitutive activation of B cell receptor (BCR) and Toll-like receptor (TLR) pathways that result in the upregulation of the NF-ĸB through cooperative signaling. In ABC-DLBCLs the NF-ĸB signal is mediated from the downstream regulator Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma translocation protein 1(MALT1) paracaspase that is upregulated in 70% of these tumors.. For this reason, MALT1 paracaspase has become an attractive therapeutic target and MALT1 inhibitors have been developed.. However, previous studies indicate that approximately 63% of patients respond to BCR pathway inhibitors, and therefore understanding factors such as the intricate survival signals imparted by the lymph node tumor microenvironment (LymphTME) in ABC-DLBCL is critical for clinical translation of MALT1 inhibitors. Two key elements of the LymphTME are the infiltration of T helper cell (Th) and the activation of ECM mediated pathways. The Aim of LOISE project is to establish an ex vivo organoids that will mimic the T immunological synapse and ECM features with the purpose to elucidate their role on ABC-DLBCL survival and signaling response to BCR pathway inhibitors. These organoids will be used to designed a combinatorial targeted therapy for ABC-DLBCL.

Mots clés : lymphoid organoids, diffuse large b cell lymphoma, biomaterials, hydrogel, ecm, malt inhibitors, live imaging

Participants :
- Georgia Institute of Technology (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Eberhard Karl de Tübingen (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 265647.84 €
Projet IDandTFP (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

ID&TFP examines Turkey’s foreign policy reorientation during the 2010s and contributes to academic debates on foreign policy transformation and foreign policy's role in domestic politics. During the Justice and Development Party (AKP)’s first decade in power, it prioritised Turkey’s European Union (EU) membership and sought to increase Turkey’s influence through soft power instruments. However, soon after the Arab Spring protests broke out in 2011, the AKP began asserting its ambition to shape the Middle East in its vision by supporting political actors affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Libya and Syria. It has been portraying Turkey as the leader of the Muslim world, championing the Palestinian cause, building an international coalition to combat Islamophobia, and calling for the reform of the international order. ID&TFP seeks to understand (a) why a reorientation was perceived as necessary and possible by the Turkish decision-makers and (b) the role it has been playing in the AKP governments’ efforts to change the domestic order in its attempt to extend its religious-nationalist hegemony over Turkish politics. It connects foreign policy and domestic politics through a focus on identity, and offers to study a wide range of primary sources to understand the articulation of Turkish identity in the foreign policy discourse and to explain how identity has been instrumentalised in domestic politics. Through the case study, ID&TFP explores why and how foreign policies transform and how foreign policy is used to establish and stabilise a domestic political order, which are issues central to foreign policy analysis. ID&TFP also contributes to the literature on discursive policy analysis by providing a critical explanation of why particular policy discourses become dominant, how they contest the dominant orders, and understanding of how support for or compliance with certain policies is generated.

Mots clés : foreign policy analysis foreign policy reorientation turkey poststructuralism discourse analysis identity

Participants :
- Université Eberhard Karl de Tübingen (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 173847.36 €
Projet PATTER (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

PATTER: nanoPlastic Ageing, Tracing, Tracking and aquatic Environmental Removal addresses the critical environmental challenge posed by micro- and nanoplastics, which are pervasive and persist in the environment, with their impact remaining largely unknown. This fellowship aims to employ an interdisciplinary, and advanced methodological combination of analytical and characterisation techniques to investigate what effect ageing has on nanoplastic behaviour, and then use this knowledge to develop remediation approaches that tackle both pristine and aged nanoplastics. The work will develop methods to generate environmentally relevant, easily detectable nanoplastics, allowing for their tracking in environmental samples. This is crucial, as current methods struggle to distinguish nanoplastics from organic backgrounds in environmental matrices. Furthermore, multi-method characterisation of nanoplastics at various stages of ageing, using advanced techniques will be conducted. These studies will provide quantifiable data on physicochemical changes, enhancing our understanding of nanoplastics' long-term behaviour in different aquatic environments. This addresses the knowledge gap in nanoplastic ageing, which influences their environmental fate and the effectiveness of remediation strategies. Finally, sorbent materials will be investigated for removing nanoplastics from water. The aim is to develop materials capable of capturing particles smaller than 1000 nm, significantly improving the efficiency of current remediation technologies. This research is highly relevant to the European Green Deal and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly those focused on water quality, waste reduction, and pollution control. By addressing these aspects, PATTER will contribute to more robust environmental protection measures and advance scientific knowledge in the field of plastic pollution.

Mots clés : nanoplastics ageing characterisation remediation

Participants :
- Université de Nottingham (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 345234.9 €
- Kelp industries ltd (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
Projet MEDiME (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

"We should not be seeing this number of people dying in 2021 from floods. It just should not be happening." Hydrologist H. Cloke’s words echoed the widespread shock following the death of 243 people in some of the wealthiest and most technologically advanced countries in the world during the European 2021 floods. Extreme weather events such as floods and heat waves are expected to increase in frequency and intensity in the future (IPCC). As communities grow more exposed to hazard risks, in addition to state preparedness and urban resilience, it is urgent to address public involvement in disaster preparedness (DP) measures to promote individual preventive behaviour (SFDRR 2015-2030). Despite EU advances in Disaster Maps (DM) tools and disaster management procedures of community professionalisation, DM are used mostly by expert stakeholders but are seldom user-friendly for citizens, and current DP initiatives suffer from limited public motivation and engagement. People do not exist in a vacuum and social and cultural dynamics play a crucial role in defining risk and motivation to engage in DP. Thus, DP strategies should include a systematic assessment of the impact of socio-cultural and spatial factors on peoples’ motivation and engagement in DP to inform better disaster training. The Motivation and Engagement in Disaster Mapping in Europe (MEDiME) project proposes a theoretical framework of motivation and engagement and a new disaster training based on interactive HM to investigate motivation and engagement in DP and the use of DM for foreign residents. An original socio-cultural and spatial model to understand people’s motivation to participate in DP initiatives based on the Japanese DP research and measures will be implemented, for Japan has always been at the forefront of DP for high levels of community engagement and mainstreamed DM. Project results will increase the impact of EU DP strategies, and inform useful DM uses for the broader public.

Mots clés : disaster preparedness and resilience, social vulnerabilities, disaster mapping, japan

Participants :
- Stichting international red cross red crescent centre on climate change and disaster preparedness (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Twente (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 234530.4 €
Projet Flyflic (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Plastic pollution is considered one of the most challenging environmental risks globally, and rivers have been identified as a dominant pathway for the accumulation of plastic in the oceans. The Flyflic (FLYing companion for Floating LItter Collection) project addresses this global challenge by deploying a first-of-its-kind robotic platform composed of multiple unmanned aerial robots to effectively collect litter from rivers and canals, thus preventing such litter from reaching our oceans. Chiara Gabellieri will carry out the Flyflic project under the supervision of Prof. Antonio Franchi at the University of Twente (UT), The Netherlands. The project contributes to European strategic priorities (Horizon Europe Mission on healthy oceans, seas, coastal and inland waters) and global strategic priorities (United Nations Sustainable Development Goals). Compared to state-of-the-art solutions, which are boat-like robots or fixed trapping mechanisms, a flying platform can target desired spots, can easily discharge the collected litter, is low cost, and is not hindered by non-navigable spots such as dams and low bridges. The general vision of the Flyflic project will be accomplished through four specific objectives: a novel prototype composed of two physically connected aerial robots and a net to be dragged in the water to collect the litter will be assembled; the dynamic model of the complex manipulation aerial system embedding the water-related disturbances will be computed and a model-based control law designed accordingly; all the components for autonomous functioning will be integrated, especially the control law and state-of-the-art algorithms for object recognition and trajectory generation; finally, a user interface will be created to let a human monitor the task execution and possibly select actions, and the cooperative human-robot discharge of the litter will be made possible through the design of an advanced physical interaction control algorithm.

Mots clés : aerial robotics, aerial manipulation, multi robot systems

Participants :
- Université de Twente (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 187624.32 €