Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet GRECO (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The treatise "On Dialects" by Gregory Pardos, a twelfth-century archbishop of Corinth, is one of the most important witnesses to the study of the ancient Greek dialects in antiquity and the Middle Ages. The project aims to produce an edition of the text: the first edition since 1811, and the first altogether to be based on all the surviving manuscripts and to be informed by modern text-critical standards. The edition will be prefaced by an analysis of the relationship between the manuscripts; a study of Gregory's sources, his methods as a linguist and as a compiler of earlier linguistic scholarship, and his place in the intellectual context of twelfth-century Byzantium; and an exploration of the transmission and reception of the treatise through an investigation of the manuscripts which preserve it. The data on which the edition will be based – the readings of the manuscripts – will be made freely available in full in the form of an online multi-text edition accounting for the diversity of forms which the treatise takes in the various manuscripts. The project sits at the intersection of several fields: Classics, Byzantine studies, manuscript studies, editorial theory, digital humanities. Methodological advances in these disparate fields will come together in the service of this worthwhile, long-awaited aim. Once published, the edition will establish itself as the state-of-the-art; it will enable further research to be conducted on (among others) ancient dialectology, twelfth-century Byzantine intellectual networks, Classical reception, and debates about the Greek language; and it will serve as proof of concept for a large-scale online multi-text edition. The research will be supervised by Prof. Alexander Riehle, a scholar of Byzantine intellectual culture and editor of Byzantine texts, in Harvard, and Prof. Olga Tribulato, an expert in ancient Greek linguistics and the study of the Greek language in antiquity, in Venice.

Mots clés : byzantine studies manuscript studies ancient greek linguistics

Participants :
- Université Harvard (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Ca' Foscari de Venise (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 265099.2 €
Projet IMUCCA (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Social scientists have generally treated climate change (CC) vulnerability as homogeneous across social space, underestimating the serious social distortions and conflicts it produces. Previous research conducted by the Fellow suggests that CC impact is unevenly distributed, even within small social units such as Indian villages and Fijian islands. This project is guided by a hypothesis based on the Fellow's earlier work: economic and social relations (class, gender, ethnicity, religion, caste, etc.) have an overwhelming impact on CC vulnerability and adaptation practices. Examining one of the regions in the world where the impact of CC is most advanced – rural India – the proposed project aims to generate detailed empirical data for tracing the connections between CC and existing social hierarchies. Under the supervision of a leading expert in modelling, the result of empirical project will be turned into a generalisable model that can be used to understand and predict other agrarian societies’ experiences of CC, and their differential modes of adaptation. Drawing on debates in economic sociology, socioecology and environmental economics, the project's empirical research will take place in two villages in Maharashtra, India, where agriculture is in the midst of an ongoing crisis caused by biophysical processes. The Fellow will employ mixed methods, using structured quantitative household surveys and semi-structured qualitative interviews, which will be collected during two visits to India. The development of an evidence-based framework will be a pioneering contribution to our knowledge about the differing ways in which different members of a society are impacted by, and respond to, CC. As such, it addresses core EU objectives, such as “preparedness for the impact of climate change to protect lives and assets,” so helping confirm the EU as leading developer of knowledge solutions for the most pressing problems of humanity.

Mots clés : climate change, climate change adaptation, climate change vulnerability, agrarian societies, rural india, climate change perception

Participants :
- Université Ca' Foscari de Venise (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 172750.08 €
Projet SOAT-NG (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Colourless optical transmitters provide compact and economic designs to develop optical front-haul network technologies for future mobile and general wireless networks. Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (SOAs) have great potential in realising efficient colourless transmitters as they can simultaneously provide amplification and modulation capabilities. This project will exploit Reflective SOA (RSOA) based colourless transmitter designs to integrate efficient and cost-effective Radio over Fiber (RoF) systems. The RSOAs feasibility to integrate developed technologies like Wavelength Division Multiplexing-Passive Optical Network (WDM-PON) for next generation access networks will be addressed. The project will carry out RSOA/system modelling and experimental evaluation of several designs focusing on multi Gigabit/per second data transmission through the use of advanced modulation formats in particular as 16-level Pulse Amplitude Modulation (16-PAM). The designed systems will employ and compare two seeding schemes to optically feed RSOA; external light seeding with coherent light source and broadband seeding. Transmission system performance will be evaluated particularly in terms of received signal constellation properties and Bit Error Rate (BER). The impact of RSOAs in such systems will be studied in detail to decide the optimal RSOA operating parameters such as its bias and modulation currents and input optical power. The work will address challenges that impact SOA performance in WDM-PONs, such as the influence of SOA non-linearities and noise. The proposed research will aid the design of novel RoF systems that can support future 5/6G infrastructure. The project will be implemented in a leading multi-disciplinary research group and the researcher will bring modelling and advanced experimental hands-on experiences that will facilitate research in the group

Mots clés : semiconductor optical amplifier, reflective semiconductor optical amplifier, radio over fiber, wdm pon, mobile front haul, 5 6g infrastructure

Participants :
- Université de Limerick (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 199694.4 €
Projet SURE IDEAs (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

This project will develop novel uncertainty-oriented regularization methods for inverse multi-task envelope designs of aerospace structures in the presence of uncertainty and subjected to multi-type loadings to meet strict space environment. An intelligent inverse design concept of a non-probabilistic regularization-based mathematical and computational (RBMC) framework will be proposed and developed for integrated load-structure design (ILSD). This framework can be defined as: Structural Uncertainty-oriented REgularization Framework (SURE) for Inverse Design of Engineering Applications (IDEAs). The applicant will create new knowledge and develop internationally recognized technology in cooperation with the team at the University of Southampton (UoS), UK. The main original contributions of this project are: (a) An adaptive uncertainty-based condensation model will be established for accurately capturing the dynamic performances of the complete nominal structure while fully retaining the information of uncertainty of the original structure. (b) A systematic methodology of non-probabilistic regularization framework will be established for robust regularization parameter selection to tackle ill-posedness. (c) An efficient reliability-oriented force control and safety-oriented maintenance framework for ILSD will be established. Dr. Yang has a strong record of high-quality publications in leading journals. He will be supervised by Prof. Daniil Yurchenko. Dr. Yang will have access to abundant computing and experimental facilities provided by UoS. His professional development will be underpinned by targeted training activities. The exploitation and dissemination will be planned and main contributions lie in the innovative technological development and breakthrough in ILSD. The tasks of this project are set up based on available resources to deliver the defined WPs.

Mots clés : inverse dynamic analysis ill posedness uncertainty oriented regularization reliability oriented control safety oriented maintenance

Participants :
- Université de Southampton (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 260347.92 €
Projet UCinEU (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The aim of this project is to write a cultural history of the different ways in which the American construct of the ‘underclass’ was exported to different European national contexts in the twenty years following the Maastricht Treaty. Through a web of transatlantic relations, the concept was modified and adapted to those segments of the population that were hit the hardest by the ongoing processes of deindustrialisation, thus impacting the way in which Europeans problematized poverty and marginalisation. Academic writing, journalism and politicians’ speeches became the vectors of a gradual change that involved public policy at all levels, as well as national common sense. The project aims at verifying the hypothesis that the importation and adaptation of the concept of ‘underclass’ was functional to the differentiated implementation of neoliberal policies in different but interrelated contexts. It focuses such exploration on Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom. The choice of making it as cultural history is based on the premise that the magnitude of this shift in policy and mentality can only be gauged through an interdisciplinary methodology integrating analytic tools from history, sociology and cultural studies. Thus, as a scholar of literature and culture, I have chosen as my prospective supervisors two sociologists. Should my application be successful, I would be working with Professor Fabio Perocco at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, who has long worked on the comparative sociology of inequality, and with Professor Loïc Wacquant at the University of California, Berkeley, whose symbolic-sociological analysis of various aspects of neoliberalism has informed much of the theoretical frame of this project, and who has done extensive work on the history of the concept of ‘underclass’ in the United States.

Mots clés : underclass deindustrialisation european union germany united kingdom italy neoliberalism poverty marginality

Participants :
- University of California System (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Ca' Foscari de Venise (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 384484.02 €
Projet E-AH-MMEAC (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Architecturally heterogeneous multi-material multi-principal element alloy (MPEA) composites represent a unique class of heterostructured materials with great potential to evade the strength–ductility trade-off dilemma. However, most conventional processing routes involving high temperatures (e.g., casting, additive manufacturing, and powder metallurgy) suffer from various metallurgical issues such as excessive elemental diffusion, segregation, hard intermetallic phase formation, cracking, and poor densification. To mitigate these challenges, the project suggests prefabricating various MPEA powders into billets using cold spraying (CS) and then employing solid-state friction stir processing (FSP) to achieve microstructural densification. This approach will initiate various dynamic recrystallizations in different compositional domains, allowing us to engineer architecturally heterogeneous multi-material MPEA composites. In general, this project will be implemented in phases, including optimizing process, controlling the heterostructure, evaluating mechanical performances from ambient to cryogenic temperatures, and elucidating deformation mechanisms. The results can be expected to build up the “processing–microstructure–mechanical behavior” correlations of the newly developed multi-material MPEA composites in a quantitative manner. This will facilitate the design and fabrication of similar heterostructured composites, thereby impacting a wide range of industrial sectors, e.g., transport, defense, nuclear, and manufacturing.

Mots clés : multi metal composite multi principal element alloy cold spraying friction stir processing microstructure evolution mechanical properties

Participants :
- Université de Southampton (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 276187.92 €
Projet Sam-4-Bio (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The concept of bioisosteric replacement of arene pharmacophores in drug candidates has garnered increasing attention as a powerful tool to circumvent the production of toxic metabolites through detrimental metabolic modifications of the arene backbone. Replacement of the arene core in drug candidates with rigid, C(sp3)-rich bioisosteric scaffold improves their metabolic stability, potency, lipophilicity, and solubility. Crucially, cage-like structures with defined exit vectors renders them bioisosteres with superior ability to dock in the chiral binding pocket of the target receptor. Therefore, the demand for C(sp3)-rich bioisosteric replacements is skyrocketing and recent endeavors have provided a variety of decorated saturated systems mimicking substituted arenes. While initial studies were mostly directed towards bioisosteres of mono- and para-substituted arenes, recent efforts have focussed more on bioisosteres for ortho- and meta-substituted aromatic rings. Despite the significant development of synthetic strategies for preparing already proven bioisosteres, the lack of synthetic methods to access many unexplored analogues, such as bicyclo[2.2.1]heptanes (BCHeps), renders their potential undetermined to date. Consequently, developing general, catalytic, sustainable methods for rapidly accessing 1,2-BCHeps is an urgent necessity. Recent breakthroughs from the Procter group have set a new benchmark by applying radical relay catalysis using SmI2 for accessing bioisosteric scaffolds. Sam-4-Bio will integrate this novel concept with the group’s recent finding of enhancing catalytic efficiency of SmI2 by photoactivation, to develop a catalytic platform for accessing unexplored bioisosteres of ortho-arenes like 1,2-BCHeps. Challenging insertion of alkene into the bridgehead bond of strained housane ketones under SmI2-catalysis will deliver key intermediates for downstream manipulation en route to new saturated analogues of validated drugs with superior bioactivity.

Mots clés : radical catalysis, samarium, bioisosteres

Participants :
- Université de Manchester (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 276187.92 €
Projet SCOPES (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Future wireless networks will be the cornerstone of smart cities, providing ubiquitous connectivity to countless devices capable of communicating, sensing, and processing vast amounts of environmental data. These capabilities will enhance urban life by improving safety and sustainability by monitoring energy use, natural hazards, and public health factors while coordinating traffic via precise localization and tracking. While 5G faces challenges with inconsistent connectivity and limited sensing, 6G is poised to overcome these limitations through Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC). Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) networks, which eliminate fixed cellular architecture, offer scalable orchestration of access points, significantly enhancing connectivity and sensing capabilities. Yet, the research in network protocols enabling ISAC within CF-mMIMO networks is still in its early stages, requiring a sophisticated approach to harmonize physical layer signal processing with higher-layer access and resource management. SCOPES, leveraging the expertise of the University of Pisa in communication and Chalmers University of Technology in sensing, aims to fill this gap by designing sustainable cross-layer protocols. The project will focus on three key areas: investigating Medium Access Control functions to integrate sensing as a 6G feature; developing energy-efficient resource allocation for ISAC CF-mMIMO networks, and designing a cross-layer protocol to minimise energy consumption while meeting both sensing and communication performance requirements. The outcomes will be validated using open-source simulation tools, supporting future research and driving innovation in sustainable wireless technologies. SCOPES will position the researcher as a pioneer in protocol design and generate interest from the telecom industry for pre-standardisation activities and potential investment in cell-free architecture.

Mots clés : cell free massive mimo, integrated sensing and communication, protocol design, resource allocation

Participants :
- École polytechnique Chalmers (Suède) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Pise (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 193643.28 €
Projet SustainFuture (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The world faces an environmental and climate crisis and a global transformation towards sustainable resource use is urgently needed. Cooperation is crucial for addressing this crisis and overcoming short-term self-interests for long-term collective benefits. While sustainable behaviour has been widely examined in adults, studies on children’s sustainable behaviour are still scarce. Understanding how children’s sustainable and cooperative behaviour develops and what factors foster or impede it, is urgently needed. Today’s children will be uniquely affected by the escalating environmental crises and will also grow into the future citizens who will have to take responsible actions to mitigate them. The aim of this project is to investigate children’s cooperative and sustainable behaviours when their actions affect others in the future, using an experimental, game-based approach (resource dilemma games). And, as the current challenges are global in nature, it is essential that we study how children’s cooperation develops in different parts of the world. To this end, this project will include 5-to-8-year-old children from Pune (India) and Plymouth (United Kingdom). The project integrates insights from developmental and cognitive psychology, behavioural sciences, experimental economics, and environmental sciences. It will make an important contribution to diversifying the evidence base of the psychological and behavioural sciences, advance our understanding of sustainable behaviour and cooperation in childhood and open avenues for future research with diverse communities. Insights derived from my game-based, experimental approach will be uniquely suited for translation into applied settings and of interest to educators and policymakers, helping to prepare children to act responsibly in an uncertain future.

Mots clés : resource dilemmas, cooperation, sustainable behaviour, environment, social development, early childhood, cross cultural perspective

Participants :
- Université de Plymouth (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 260347.92 €
Projet VandPW (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Traditionally scholars have considered the Nicomachean Ethics (NE) as the unique vehicle for Aristotle’s ethical views. Over the last decades, however, his lesser-known Eudemian Ethics (EE) has increasingly become widely read and treated as equally authoritative. The relationship between these two treatises is complicated by the fact that they share three books in common: books V, VI, and VII of the NE have been handed down to us also as books IV, V, and VI of the EE; scholars disagree about their origin and where they should be read. In Virtue and Practical Wisdom (VandPW) I set out to give a comprehensive account of Aristotle's account of character virtue in the EE together with two of the so-called common books. Character virtue is accounted for in general terms in EE II. This general account is then applied to the individual virtues of character (courage, temperance, mildness, etc.) in EE III and then to justice in EE IV (=NE V). Finally, in EE V (=NE VI) Aristotle argues that character virtue requires what he calls practical wisdom. Thus a comprehensive account of character virtue in the EE requires us to connect EE II and III to two of the so-called common books, viz. EE IV (=NE V) and EE V (=NE VI). VandPW aims at examining this whole line of investigation. This endeavour will bring out several specificities of the EE vis-à-vis the NE as well as of the common books.

Mots clés : ancient philosophy, aristotle, ethics, virtue ethics, practical wisdom

Participants :
- Université Louis-et-Maximilien de Munich (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Ca' Foscari de Venise (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 209483.28 €