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

This ambitious and timely project aims to produce the first study of South American “Living Well” epistemologies as an intellectual corpus. The wider objective is to expand modern conceptualisations of the future and produce new and original biocentric imaginations. The Andean and Amazonian notion of “Living Well” – Buen Vivir in Spanish; Sumak Kawsay in Quechua; Suma Qamaña in Aymara – is rooted in indigenous cosmovisions and is a community-centred and bio-centred approach to sustainable living. It was first formulated in the 1960s and has been co-opted by Latin American environmental and political movements over the last decade and a half. Existing studies have looked at it from a social science perspective rather than as an intellectual production. PAST-FUTURES will produce the first monograph on Buen Vivir within the history of modern thought. The corpus selected, which goes from the 1960s to the most recent eco-feminist interpretations, will be analysed as historically intertwined with euro-western frames of thought both linguistically and conceptually. To this end, the proposed study will employ methods from global intellectual history in order to allow for original connections and deeper intersections to be brought to light. This framework will be combined with decolonial theories and post-humanist approaches. Therefore, PAST-FUTURES firstly explores these works as an integral yet disregarded part of a broader intellectual history of the modern world and, secondly, treats them as an original conceptual repository for new ways to reimagine the future through notions of interdependence and relationality in order to foster inter-generational and inter-species responsibility. The project responds to pressing societal challenges about Health, Well-Being and Climate Action set by the European Green Deal and the UN 2030 Agenda and seeks to contribute ambitious imaginations about a long-time holistic vision of what it means to live well.

Mots clés : buen vivir, indigenous thought, latin america, global south, global intellectual history, post humanism, environmental humanities, sustainability

Participants :
- Freie Universität Berlin (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 162806.4 €
Projet MENTOR (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

This fellowship aims to train a talented early career researcher and to contribute to the EU scientific excellence by developing an innovative Multi-fidelity dEep neural Network uncerTainty quantificatiOn and Robust optimization design (MENTOR) framework in order to handle the high dimensionality (HD) uncertain problems in the advanced multistage turbomachinery design process. The applicant is a highly dedicated and motivated young researcher and has been stimulated to propose this novel idea. He has been successively honoured with several prestigious awards including the National Scholarship for PhD Candidate, Excellent PhD Graduates of Beijing, Excellent Doctoral Dissertations Award of Beijing and ASME Young Engineer Turbo Expo Travel Award attributed to his excellent research achievement in cost-efficient uncertainty quantification (UQ) studies. The traditional UQ methods can hardly control the computation cost for predicting the higher-order moments of multistage turbomachinery performance considering HD input uncertainties. The deep learning technology is a promising approximator in predicting the HD function. Integration of multi-fidelity (MF) methodology with deep neural network (DNN) can further combine their complementary merits. Thus, the novel MF-DNN method is proposed here and its effectiveness in handling a 60-dimensional test function has been preliminarily validated in the Incoming Researcher's recent work. Through this research fellowship, an affordable MENTOR framework will be finally established to investigate the multi-source uncertainty effects on multistage turbomachinery performance. This project has been carefully designed to match the applicant's profile with the strength of Imperial's UQ Lab, and thus will facilitate excellent two-way knowledge transfer and training activities. Successful completion of this fellowship will contribute to achieving the goal of the EU's "Green Deal" and will benefit the applicant's academic career prospect.

Mots clés : turbomachinery aerodynamics, multistage axial compressors, uncertainty quantification, robust optimization design, multi fidelity approach, deep neural networks

Participants :
- Imperial College London (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 212933.76 €
Projet LYP-RIG (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Mathematics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This fellowship builds on the success of the applicant’s PhD thesis, where he made breakthroughs in the study of the frequency of hyperbolic behavior, i.e. simplicity and non-vanishing of Lyapunov exponents in dynamical systems. The concept of Lyapunov exponent were introduced in the work of A. M. Lyapunov on the stability of the solutions of differential equations in 1892. The concept plays a central role in most areas of modern theory of dynamical systems, mathematical physics, differential geometry, among others. The problem of the frequency of hyperbolic behavior, in various settings, has been extensively investigated by many leading mathematicians. The main goal of this project is to study the Lyapunov exponents in the most general setting, and investigate its role in rigidity phenomena in dynamical systems. This project specifically aims at applying techniques from modern theories of complex analysis and complex geometry (field in which the supervisor is a world leading expert) to the study of Lyapunov exponents (the applicant’s area of expertise). This proposal has four main objectives: 1 - Explain the frequency of the simplicity of Lyapunov spectrum for symplectic cocycles; 2 - Establish positivity of Lyapunov exponents for the general structure group; 3 - Understand the frequency of hyperbolic behavior for infinite dimensional "symplectic" cocycles; 4 - Employ new techniques from Lyapunov exponents to the rigidity conjectures, in particular, Katok-Spatzier types conjectures.

Mots clés : dynamical systems, lyapunov exponents, spectral theory, rigidity phenomena, schr dinger operators

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

This fellowship will co-develop, implement and evaluate the I-Do service to increase the socio-cultural participation and empowerment of people living with mild to moderate stages of dementia (PLWD) through an interdisciplinary engaged research approach that combines service design and psychology with a co-design methodology. This user-friendly service will allow PLWD to plan, connect with and participate in tailored opportunities to realise themselves and contribute to society. The fellowship will use a co-design approach (Niedderer et al. 2019), working with PLWD, their relatives/familial carers as well as relevant stakeholders. It will develop the service model, i.e. the principles for format, content and delivery of the I-Do service, which it will implement and evaluate through a pilot in the area of Manchester, UK. The I-Do service addresses a key need of PLWD to be able to contribute and to be valued for it: Tournier et al 2017 found that PLWD are looking for more self-determination, to conduct activities on their own, to continue to learn new things and to be creative as well as to feel useful to others. This corroborates an investigation by Schölzel-Dorenbos et al. (2010) on this understudied topic, which shows that social contact, attachment, being useful/giving meaning to life, enjoyment of activities, and self-determination and freedom are key aspects of unmet needs for PLWD. I-Do will address these unmet needs through its novel interdisciplinary engaged community approach to develop the understanding of relevant and appropriate services for PLWD and to support the realisation of local and national policies regarding dementia friendly communities in the UK.

Mots clés : dementia, service design, social inclusion, empowerment

Participants :
- Manchester Metropolitan University (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 212933.76 €
Projet MorphGrad (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This fellowship will investigate the mechanisms by which small RNAs function as novel intercellular messengers that provide important developmental signals. By manipulating various small RNA gradient and target parameters, the proposed research seeks to understand how small RNA gradients are interpreted into sharp gene expression domains. The findings from the proposed experiments will provide important insight into the patterning properties of small RNA gradients, and their role in conferring robustness to developmental programs in both plants and animals. The approach taken is a multidisciplinary one that integrates mathematical modelling with qualitative experimental data, generated from a novel reporter system and state-of-the-art confocal imaging and image analysis. The outcome will be a new paradigm for how miRNAs function in development, which will provide important insight into the patterning properties of small RNA gradients.

Mots clés : small rna gradients, mathematical modelling, leaf development, adaxial abaxial polarity, mirna

Participants :
- University of Tübingen (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 159460.8 €
Projet AAT (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This fellowship will involve appraising and accelerating theoretical progress in memory modification research with Bayesian statistics, collaboration, and open science. I have proposed an ambitious and innovative research agenda that complements my existing knowledge and skillset (memory modification, meta-science, open science) with the expertise of my prospective supervisor (Bayesian statistics, open science, collaborative science). Theoretical progress in the field of memory modification has stalled due to problems with the credibility of the published literature. Issues include small sample sizes, a lack of transparency, and low theoretical diagnosticity. Additionally, the predominant use of frequentist statistics limits opportunities for informative statistical inferences, particularly quantifying evidence for the null hypothesis. The proposed research will involve a systematic appraisal of the memory modification field using Bayesian statistics and a consortium project based on open science principles to accelerate theoretical progress. The procedures developed could be usefully extended to other research areas through collaboration with domain experts. This research agenda will provide me with ample training opportunities to develop a strong repertoire of statistical, methodological, and transferable skills. I will be in an excellent position to enrich my unique research portfolio and publish research outputs in high quality open access outlets. The mobility and reintegration aspects of the fellowship will be especially beneficial in helping me to consolidate existing European collaborations and develop new professional relationships in the Netherlands’ burgeoning meta-science network. In sum, the fellowship will provide me with the training and opportunities I need to lay the foundations of my career as an independent scientist, eventually leading my own European research group at the intersection of experimental psychology and meta-research.

Mots clés : memory modification, memory updating, reconsolidation, bayesian statistics, open science, collaboration, meta science, theory, bias, replication, pre registration, open data

Participants :
- University of Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 175572.48 €
Projet Ring-STORM (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This interdisciplinary project focuses on the development of unprecedented autonomous novel photoactive nanoscopic molecular machines that “blink” for fluorescence microscopy imaging with a resolution higher than the light scattering limit. Its use in super-resolution imaging will represent a major innovation in imaging, both conceptually and practically, overcoming many inherent constraints associated with current techniques. By applying steady-state and time-resolved spectroscopies, photo-induced electron transfer will be used in these autonomous [2]rotaxanes to modulate fluorescence, and studies down to the single-molecule level (based on Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy) will be undertaken to achieve a new localization microscopy method ("Ring-STORM") adapted for living cells, without the need for overexpressing genetically encoded fluorescent proteins. The project will be developed at leading French research institutes, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires (ISM) and Institut d'Optique (LP2N-IOGS) both at the CNRS/Univ. Bordeaux. The fellow, a specialist in synthetic organic and supramolecular chemistry from Spain, will receive via the project training in molecular photochemistry/photophysics and super-resolution fluorescence imaging, providing him the necessary skills to design, develop and study novel tailored-made functional supramolecular architectures with enhanced spectroscopic properties. For this, the project is organized in synergistic work packages to assure efficient coordination and management, career development and training, science development, communication and technology transfer by patenting the new super-resolution imaging methodology that Ring-STORM expects to develop. This will give him independence and professional maturity towards an independent research career. The experience of the fellow, the expertise of the research groups, the infrastructure and equipment will assure the fulfilment of the project objectives.

Mots clés : super resolution imaging, fluorescence, molecular machines

Participants :
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 173076.0 €
Projet EcoLandscapes (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

This interdisciplinary project identifies the genre of landscape as offering rich material for an ecocritical study of art. Ecocriticism emphasizes issues of environmental interrelation, sustainability, and justice in cultural interpretation. Having first emerged in literary studies, over the last two decades environmental and ecocritical enquires flourished in many fields of the humanities. Art history is yet to take an active part in these debates, but this project seeks to demonstrate that art history has a distinct and unique role in formulating a cultural response to one of the most urgent global priorities, identified in The UN Sustainable Development Goals as Goal 13: Climate Action. In this, the aim of the project is to establish a theoretical and aesthetic meeting point for art historical study and the burgeoning concentration of research in ecocriticism and environmental humanities. The objectives of this project are both historical and theoretical. The overall historical aim is to produce a study of the developments in the genre of landscape in the contemporary period (since the 1980s), in the representative case studies drawn from the corpus of European contemporary art. The distinctive feature of this project is to consider new imaging technologies (photography, digital, animation) as not just material supports of landscape pictures, but as active participants in the evolution of the genre. The main theoretical aim of the project is to develop new tools for the study of landscape in an ecocritical perspective, so as to appraise the fundamental shifts in the paradigmatic conceptions of nature and human, and epistemic ramifications of such changes. This project leads to several well-defined outcomes, disseminated to both academic and non-expert audiences.

Mots clés : landscape, nature, ecocriticism, sublime

Participants :
- University of Vienna (Autriche) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 186167.04 €
Projet CODE (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

This media-historical project examines crisis communication from the Cold War up to the subsequent War on Terror and beyond. The goal is to investigate how the interaction of the factual and fictitious crisis communication triggered fear and deterrence concepts--and vice versa. Media studies lack an analysis of how media participate in a political actor network. The proposed project is the first contribution that examines the chain of operations in politics in detail and discusses how media become political. First, the researcher seeks to show how both factual and fictitious channels of communication characterize the Cold War as a conflict that is not only determined by actual events and political concepts, but also by fictions of nuclear war. The mutual analysis of the fictitious Red Telephone and of the existing hotline between Washington and Moscow should unfold the interwoven history of Cold War crisis communication. It is proposed that both facts and fictions affect deterrence concepts and fear. Second, the researcher examines the ambivalent function of third parties who intervened in the bipolar structured channel between the USA and the USSR. The objective is to show that disruptive third parties provoke societal self-reflections: While British and French hotlines to the USSR paradoxically strengthened the USA-USSR-channel, fictitious actors such as computers questioned rational actors within the military chain of command and excluded human actors to secure peace or trigger a nuclear war. Third, the researcher investigates the media break after the Cold War and the simultaneous emergence of networked crisis communication and the War on Terror. In fiction, the networked hotline must protect itself from attacks by hackers. In real life, digital diplomacy emerges along with the establishment of new media, such as Twitter. The inherent danger of social media (e.g.,Tweets from D.Trump) is that they could constitute a hyperreality that loses connections to reality.

Mots clés : media theory, cultural techniques, discourse analysis, actor network theory, popular cultures

Participants :
- University of Southern Denmark (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 219312.0 €
Projet CeramCom (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This multidisciplinary industrially oriented research proposal brings together very timely and highly original fundamental research with a commercial potential for aerospace applications, aimed at improving the lifetime and reliability of ceramics performing in extreme conditions. The use of a new type of additives, such as rare-earth (RE) oxides with a small ionic radius of RE3+, combined with the use of new processing routes (new coating technique), opens up the possibility of developing new generation ultra-high temperature ceramic matrix composites (UHTCMCs). The project will push the boundaries of knowledge forward towards understanding the influence of RE additives on the properties of UHTCMCs by performing a systematic study using RE elements with different RE3+. Besides the new style of additives (RE), the project proposes new and innovative coating technique to develop new compositions of RE-ultra-high temperature ceramics (RE-UHTC) coatings for ceramic matrix composites (CMC). In this way, the final RE-UHTCMCs will be developed. The ultimate aim of the project is to develop novel RE-reinforced UHTCMC materials with significantly improved ultra-high temperature properties (above 2200°C) and long-term (up to several hours) thermo-chemical resistance. This will significantly improve the current state of the art. The application of these materials as thermal protection systems for hypersonic vehicles, and other areas of aerospace industry, is foreseen through the knowledge transfer to the industrial partner, Central R&T Airbus Defence and Space GmbH. This innovative scientific programme will provide an advanced training for the Fellow. Due to the involvement of one of the global leaders in aerospace industry (Airbus Defence and Space) into this proposal, the project will generate patents, industrial property rights, and high quality publications. This all will contribute to further personal development and international scientific recognition of the Fellow.

Mots clés : ultra high temperature ceramics, ceramic matrix composites, rare earth elements, aerospace applications, oxidation and ablation resistance

Participants :
- Slovak Academy of Sciences (Slovaquie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 153381.6 €