Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet e_WARM (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Ongoing climate change represents a major threat to biodiversity, and scientists now face pressing concerns to forecast how ecological communities will respond to global warming in the medium- to long-term. However, the current framework to study heat tolerance rely on critical thermal limits (CTmax), which comprises a coarse metric that has been shown to be unrealistic. Not only results from CTmax are ludicrous, they do not allow for temporal forecast. Unfortunately, this is what overwhelming majority of research groups are now measuring, at an enormous waste of time and human effort. The e_WARM project proposes the ambitious umbrella objective of stablishing a unified predictive framework for the study of heat tolerance in terrestrial and aquatic ectothermic animals. For this purpose, the candidate will develop a novel comprehensive analytical toolbox to anticipate heat mortality with a unprecedented accuracy and reliability. This approach translates high-resolution temperature records from the field into realistic mortality rates of species. Importantly, the analytical routines proposed can be expanded to include the interplay of warming with other factors, such as heat waves, phenotypic plasticity or hypoxic stress. As a proof of concept, the candidate will study Drosophila species as model organisms from terrestrial, and Daphnia species (invertebrate) and Galaxias maculatus (fish) as model organisms from aquatic ecosystems, The subject of the e_WARM project is both timely and important, as more reliable predictions of the impact of global warming on populations’ resilience are urgently needed. Repercussions of this research will be immediately transmitted to the society, and they will have a big scientific, political, economic and health impact.

Mots clés : climate vulnerability, heat tolerance, oxygen limitation, thermal biology, global warming, biogeography, critical thermal limits, drosophila, daphnia, population growth rate, 

Participants :
- Université de Grenade (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 221390.88 €
- Université Deakin (Australie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université pontificale catholique du Chili (Chili) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet Procuradores (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The proposal aims at conducting a historical investigation of human mobility in local and global contexts through the case study of religious agents (the procuradores) that moved across the Atlantic from the ecclesiastic province of Lima to the Holy See to represent their communities’ political and religious interests. Atop of a growing body of secondary sources and thanks to a multinational and multi-archival investigation (Chile, Peru, Spain, Vatican, Rome), the research brings together several disciplines – history, geography, social sciences, and law studies, in dialogue with Atlantic studies and the network analysis, in order to develop three original aims. First, it will offer a new understanding of the relationship among the Spanish Crown, the Holy See and the Viceroyalty of Peru. The research will investigate who the procuradores of the cathedrals were. The proposal aims at identifying both the secular and religious procuradores who crossed the Atlantic, traveling from the dioceses to Rome. It will identify their social, institutional, political and, eventually, religious belonging and affiliation. I will study the type of information the procuradores transmitted to the Holy See and how it was used to build the networks of political and religious relations with the Spanish Monarchy. Once the procuradores have been identified, it will be possible to analyse the information that reached Rome from the Viceroy of Peru (and those that did not), its processing in the Curia, its use in the government of the Church, and its use in political and diplomatic relations with the Spanish Monarchy. I will study how the procuradores interacted with the city of Rome. The project will be implemented in 3 different institutions: Pontificia Universidad Cattolica de Chile (outgoing phase), Universidad de Barcelona (5-month secondment) and Ca'Foscari Venice (incoming phase).

Mots clés : early modern latin america spanish crown global papacy circulation of information mobility city of rome

Participants :
- Université Ca' Foscari de Venise (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 225109.44 €
- Université de Barcelone (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université pontificale catholique du Chili (Chili) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet IMWVR (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

This research explores the behavior of immigrant and refugee Muslim women in Europe within immersive social virtual reality (VR) environments. As a significant demographic among global migrants, these women encounter unique challenges in integration, which often lead to social exclusion. Immersive VR platforms offer opportunities for social inclusion, intercultural communication, and identity exploration among diverse marginalized groups, including refugees. However, they also have the potential to perpetuate existing marginalization. Understanding the experiences of these communities is crucial. The research utilizes a comprehensive theoretical framework that combines cyberfeminist theory, Social Identity Theory, and Berry's Acculturation Theory. The primary aim is to comprehend how immigrant Muslim women construct and negotiate their identities in immersive social VR settings, particularly focusing on the interplay of culture, religion, and gender. The study uses netnographic methodology, conducting in-depth interviews and focus groups with a group of immigrant and refugee Afghan and Iranian women residing in Italy. The participants are recruited through interpersonal networks and local community organizations. This research contributes to both cyberfeminist theory and digital identity studies, as well as immigrant studies. Furthermore, the findings of this study are expected to inform the development of more inclusive virtual spaces and guide European Union policies on digital inclusion, ultimately fostering social cohesion.

Mots clés : netnography, cyberfeminism, muslim women, european context, virtual ethnography, virtual reality, immersive technology, cultural adaptation, online communities, digital identity, immigrant women

Participants :
- Université de Parme (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 193643.28 €
Projet THEDUKE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

This proposal aims to study the genesis of the unpublished drama The Duke of Parma, a Shakespearean-inspired five-act play written in 16th-century English by one of the most renowned authors of the XX century: Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). By interpreting the creative process behind the composition of the drama, THEDUKE will challenge the established idea of a literary text as a static product and will bring to the public’s attention the last hidden gem in Fernando Pessoa’s archive. Using palaeographic techniques, together with the help of an AI-powered tool for Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR), a material analysis of the manuscripts will be performed to determine their textual context and identify the textual variants. A further investigation of the author's archive and private library will be conducted to analyze the influences of external literary sources on the drama's genesis. To reach its objectives, THEDUKE requires an interdisciplinary approach and draws on the collective knowledge of Portuguese Literature, English Literature, History of Theatre, and Textual Criticism. The results of THEDUKE will be hosted on an open digital database, which will display images of the manuscripts, provide transcriptions, and offer insight into the compositional process. This project will hold substantial implications for Lusophone Literature, Modernist Literature, and the History of Theatre since it will shed light on a fundamental piece of Pessoa’s dramatic piece, and it will generate new critical perspectives in the realm of European literature. At UNIPR, I will collaborate with experts in Renaissance English Literature and Digital Humanities to combine my specialized knowledge of the genesis of Pessoa's work with theirs to ensure the project's success. My prior research experience, along with the new competencies I will acquire will allow me to become a recognized specialist in Pessoa's work and bolster my position as an expert researcher in Portuguese Literature and Text

Mots clés : fernando pessoa duke of parma textual criticism genetic criticism dramatic literature comparative literature modernism textual variants digital archive shakespearean vogue

Participants :
- Université de Parme (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 193643.28 €
Projet MagGraphZyme (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

MagGraphZyme aims at the development of a new hybrid multiplatform capable of triggering the intracellular production of reactive oxygen/nitrogen species (ROS/RNS) for inducing cell death in cancer cells. The proposed hybrid nanosystem, based on the combination of magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs), nitrogen doped graphene oxide (N-GO) and a polymer (PLGA) shell, will improve ROS/RNS production due to the synergistic effects of all components regarding their catalytic activity as peroxidase-mimetic nanozymes. The control of this catalytic activity will be performed by heating the intracellular level via the activation of the constituent MNPs through a remotely applied magnetic field. Thus, a novel approach for intracellular ROS/RNS production and quantification will be implemented. Furthermore, with the aim of understanding the different cells’ pathways involved in the toxicity and the final death of the cells, these hybrid system will be evaluated to investigate pathway-specific ROS/RNS induction of apoptosis and ROS-response mechanisms. Thus, I will study signaling pathways which are known to be influenced by the production of these species. To this end, I propose detailed physical and chemical studies, down to the atomic level, of the MNPs@N-GO-PLGA systems for identifying the relationships between catalytic efficacy and active atomic sites within the structures. These works will be developed by a motivated researcher with a strong background in MNPs, who will enhance and diversify his skills in advanced microscopy techniques and will acquire competences in bio-medicine. This multidisciplinary and innovative proposal will strengthen the collaboration between the hosting institutions, will enable the European hosting institution to reinforce crucial competences in the understanding & production of multifunctional materials and will contribute to improving oncological applications, which is one of the most important scientific challenges with a high social impact.

Mots clés : magnetic nanoparticles, nanozymes, electron microscopy

Participants :
- Université de New York (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Saragosse (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 261380.64 €
Projet MARCO (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The high prevalence of childhood obesity in several parts of the world indicates a worrying future health scenario, making prevention a high priority. This prevention should focus on diet and physical activity. Regarding food, the beginning of establishing eating habits and preferences occurs in childhood, being necessary that this prevention and treatment is individualized. In this context, precision nutrition offers a new paradigm for health, where the focus is to prevention and treatment strategies based on an individual's unique characteristics. Metabolomics (which is in the omics group - transcriptomics, genomics and proteomics) is being considered an important aspect in precision nutrition, reflecting more realistically effect of food on health and disease. Therefore, the aim of this project is to identify, the metabolomic profile in children aged 3-6 years, and through a longitudinal intervention, if eating behaviour and physical inactivity modify the profile of metabolites that can lead to obesity. The data for this proposal will be derived from a multicenter, parallel, randomized and controlled clinical trial that will be carried out with a cohort of children, followed initially by one year of intervention, with the intention of 10 years in total. The intervention will be based on healthy eating and physical activity. Metabolomics data, anthropometric, dietary, socioeconomic, behavioural, metabolic, biochemical and food environment variables will be collected. Similar studies to this are not available in the literature, and have the potential to increase knowledge about nutritional metabolomics, especially in early childhood and serve as a database for other studies with this population. This can reduce childhood obesity, minimize nutritional and metabolic risks in childhood and reduce the economic, environmental and social impact this disease.

Mots clés : early childhood precision nutrition

Participants :
- Université de Saragosse (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 113220.6 €
Projet AGENDEER (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The Late Quaternary Extinction event led to a major loss of biodiversity with the global disappearance of several terrestrial large mammals. Ancient DNA studies of extinct lineages dated before the Late Pleistocene/Holocene boundary suggests that this event may have been a result of repetitive climatic shifts that fragmented large mammal populations making them more vulnerable to increasing human activities. Current climate change and human impacts on ecosystems may lead to similar scenarios of extinction. The red deer (Cervus elaphus) represents one of the few taxa that survived the Quaternary megafauna extinction, with the fossil record suggesting that its lineage has been continuously present for almost 1 Ma in the Iberian Peninsula which acted as a refugium during intense glacials. The aim of AGENDEER is to provide data on the genetic structure and niche occupation of Southern European fossil red deer populations before and after the Late Quaternary Extinction event. Through palaeogenetic and dietary behaviours analyses, as well as a pilot palaeoproteomic study, AGENDEER will investigate which winning (palaeobiological and palaeoecological) strategies that allowed Cervus elaphus to not disappear as other megafauna populations. Results will be essential to understand the survival capacity and adaptation of one of the most important species of the European natural heritage providing new information for the proper management of the species. The European Researcher will receive advanced training on state-of-the-art molecular analyses which combined with classical palaeoecological methods will greatly enhance her competence and allow her to develop her research career and leadership

Mots clés : paleogenetics, paleoecology, molecular paleontology, ancient dna, dental mesowear, dental microwear

Participants :
- Université de Saragosse (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 165312.96 €
Projet LandVoICE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Advances uncovering the links between language and cognition, along with recent research in ecolinguistics, have revealed that speech communities may conceptualise landscape features and spatial coordinates in different ways based on culture-specific categories, beliefs, and customs. Core lexical items for landscape elements, also embedded in place names, may reflect diverging mental images, worldviews, and knowledge systems. LandVoICE compares and contrasts landscape vocabulary in selected languages of the Iranian branch of the Indo-European family and neighbouring non-Iranian languages spoken in two distinct regions of Iran: the Zagros mountains and the Southern desert/semi-desert. The project combines approaches in Iranian philology and lexicology with analytic methods inspired by ethnophysiography, an interdisciplinary framework for studying culture-bound human cognition of the world we inhabit. LandVoICE supplements data assembled from existing databases and published literature with fresh materials collected through collaborative research with local communities. Among its key objectives is the development of culturally appropriate technological tools (mapping systems, ontology-based GIS) to visualise research findings and account for local landscape-related knowledge, engage communities in ecosystem conservation, and support the preservation of the intangible heritage associated with landscapes. Qualified supervision of Prof. Ela Filippone (Tuscia University, Viterbo, Italy: beneficiary), Prof. Erik Anonby (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada: outgoing host) and Prof. Matteo De Chiara (INALCO, Paris, France: secondment host), in synergy with research partners and training providers at host institutions, will allow the researcher to develop core scientific and technical skills in open science and digital cartography. The MSCA experience will prepare the fellow to compete for a tenure-track position and expand her career prospects within and beyond academia.

Mots clés : iranian languages, areal linguistics, lexicology, landscape lexicon, toponymy, cognitive onomasiology, ethnophysiography, ethnoecology

Participants :
- Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Tuscia (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 341683.08 €
- Université Carleton (Canada) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet NEUROWORD (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The power of words is not a metaphor. The word-and-brain entwinement, part of the mind-and-body relationship, has long been the focus of religious, philosophical, and scientific debates, e.g., on the nature of prayer and meditation. Modern-day psychology and neuroscience are also fascinated by how verbal suggestion affects neuroplasticity and healing. NEUROWORD will present an interdisciplinary and comprehensive historical study of reflections on the impact of eloquent speech on the human body. In the early modern critical scientific context, when the seat of consciousness was transferred from the soul to the brain, I will examine the full spectrum of views on the relationship between the word and the brain across the disciplines concerned with experiences of soul, mind, and body: rhetoric, musicology, preaching, theological anthropology, philosophy, medical psychology, logopedics, and neurophysiology. I will examine not how rhetoric was used in scientific discourse but how it was deemed able to affect the brain. The psycho- and neurophysiology of persuasion can be best explored through the lens of rhetoric, as it was less prone to the mind-body dualism professed by much of the natural philosophy. These matters have not been studied, but by filling this gap, we can gain valuable insights into the entangled history of conceptualization of the mind-and-body relationship. This project is critical at a time when our mediated environments make rhetoric ambiguous with respect to truth and ethics, which demands a historical perspective on the neuroscience of eloquence for an educated approach to scientific communication. At the Warburg Institute, a leading centre for the history of rhetoric and part of the University of London with its range of prominent neuroscience programs, I will be a member of a stimulating interdisciplinary community and will do ground-breaking research in the history of scientific communication.

Mots clés : rhetoric, eloquence, persuasion, soul, body, brain, nerves, animal spirits, humours, emotions, passions religious anthropology, natural philosophy, psychology, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology

Participants :
- Université de Londres (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 260347.92 €
Projet PACKENUM (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : TERMINATED

Algorithms play crucial roles in many aspects of the lives of billions of people worldwide. Many of the problems we wish to solve, in industry and academia, are NP-hard and it is expected that no polynomial-time algorithm exists to obtain an optimal solution for them. Nevertheless, they are solved millions of times on a daily basis. Solving them would be unfeasible without the use of preprocessing techniques, which significantly reduce running times and are often necessary to solve a problem. Explaining why these methods work in practice and designing new ones that come with performance guarantees is a great challenge in Theoretical Computer Science. In the framework of Parameterized Complexity, they are modeled through kernelization, which uses an additional measurement of the problem's structure (the parameter) to output a small equivalent instance that can be quickly solved. However, there will usually exist several optimal solutions, regardless of the optimality criterion, and drawing conclusions from a single one may be misleading. Knowing more about the set of optimal solutions is thus necessary in many scenarios and can be formalized through enumeration problems. Unlike decision problems, very little is known about preprocessing for enumeration problems. In the recently defined enumeration kernel, solutions to the reduced instance are used to partition and efficiently list the solution set of the input. Through this project, the researcher will design and implement novel parameterized algorithms and kernels for enumeration problems, and build the lower-bound theory required to separate problems between those that admit polynomial enumeration kernels and those that do not. The designed kernels will be some of the earliest enumeration kernels, while the lower-bound theory will be a fundamental part of Parameterized Complexity, allowing researcher's to identify problems that do not admit efficient preprocessing and focus their efforts on problems that do.

Mots clés : parameterized complexity kernelization enumeration preprocessing

Participants :
- Université de Montpellier (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 140797.44 €