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

By going back to Anna Julia Cooper — an important though understudied figure of the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries —, the present project draws on my doctoral research in critical phenomenology of lived oppression and applies it to the analysis of the transatlantic constitution of Black existentialism. The importance of issues related to intersectionality within existing feminist movements led me to question the history and conditions of emergence of these issues; it made a decentering necessary in order to illuminate the present from another geographic space (the United States) and according to a longer history. By tracing the genealogy of intersectional thought, I wish to make feminist thought more complex from its margins, and from a philosophical perspective (Black existentialism) in which women's figures are still under-represented.

Mots clés : feminist philosophy philosophy of race black feminism african american history oppression subjectivity oppression

Participants :
- Université catholique de Louvain (Belgique) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 191760.0 €
Projet MacHete (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Economic Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

MacHete investigates how macroeconomic changes -such as shifts in inflation or employment- affect different groups within society, and how these diverse impacts shape the broader economy. The project aims to provide fresh insights into how the economy functions and how it can better meet the needs of all social segments. Traditional macroeconomic models often overlook key differences in income, wealth, and behavior, but MacHete integrates these variations by combining micro-level data with macroeconomic aggregates, offering a unique perspective on the dynamics of the broader economy.  The fellowship will take place at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) at UCLouvain, in collaboration with Professor Francesca Monti. MacHete blends macroeconomic theory with advanced statistical methods and machine learning, employing techniques such as Functional Structural Vector Autoregressions (FSVARs) to model the interactions between macroeconomic shocks and distributional changes. This approach provides deeper insights into how policies and economic fluctuations impact different social groups.  Results from MacHete will be disseminated at international conferences. A key project outcome will be a series of papers examining how agents' expectations—particularly regarding inflation and income—evolve in response to aggregate shocks. By studying the distribution of these expectations, the project will uncover how varying beliefs shape individual decision-making and broader macroeconomic outcomes. These findings will equip policymakers with the tools to design interventions that are both effective and equitable, ensuring that policies address diverse expectations and vulnerabilities.  Through its innovative methods and focus on heterogeneity, MacHete will produce impactful research that contributes meaningfully to both academic scholarship and policymaking, helping policymakers make informed decisions that promote fairness and efficiency in economic outcomes.

Mots clés : macroeconomics, micro level data, distributions, heterogeneity, big data, expectations, inflation, functional svar, data science, dimensionality reduction

Participants :
- Université catholique de Louvain (Belgique) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 216240.0 €
Projet HRMSCA (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The main greenhouse gases in our atmosphere are water and carbon dioxide. Much attention is given to the study of the physicochemical properties of these molecules. However, there are no studies aimed at studying the formation of carbonic acid from these molecules in the atmosphere. The objective of this project is to analyze the development of carbonic acid (H2CO3) and its possible formation from CO2 and H2O in the gas phase. It is anticipated that the aggregation and large vibrational excitation will favor the conversion of the CO2-H2O complex into H2CO3. To test this theoretical prediction, our project will employ a distinctive combination of supersonic expansion, mass spectrometry, intracavity infrared excitation, and microwave sensing.

Mots clés : high resolution molecular spectroscopy cavity ring down spectroscopy chirp pulse microwave spectroscopy supersonic expansion van der waals complexes carbonic acid

Participants :
- Université catholique de Louvain (Belgique) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 191760.0 €
Projet REPaMS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Radically Embodied Performance as Musical Structure (REPaMS) is an Artistic Research project that seeks to describe, analyse and explore performer's creativity in particular relation to complex and experimental guitar music and performing practices within Western Art Music. This project is centrally advocated on recent compositional practices evidencing a performative transformation of musical material, in which sound-producing actions are immanent layers of the music – as if the composer is bypassing the performer as a person and scoring directly for her body – challenging the performer's role as a creative agent. Based on the premise that performers do not reproduce but create musical structures, REPaMS rethinks performer's creativity as the radically embodied creation of musical structures. The action is structured around three main case-studies as seen through three different epistemological/ methodological lens. By examining recent notational/performing practices as both products and processes, REPaMS pursues an artistic research methodology in which the interaction between notations, artistic practices and further non-musical elements emerging as process, satisfying standards of rigor, replicability and transmissibility, while still remaining flexible to the emerging possibilities and constraints that these notations imply. REPaMS will contribute to build analogical bridges between analytical and embodied perspectives, exerting an impact upon artistic and research practices, formats of presentation for artistic research outputs and performance pedagogy. The action will enhance the ER’s skills and future employability prospects, opening new training opportunities both as an academic and an artist-researcher, furthering his ability to plan, organise, develop his dissemination and public outreach competencies, and reinforcing his professional networks.

Mots clés : artistic research, contemporary music performance, music ontology, contemporary philosophy, performance studies in music, music analysis, musicological research

Participants :
- Université de Huddersfield (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Orpheus Institute (Belgique) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 191760.0 €
Projet TAXFAIR (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Economic Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Tax evasion represents a pervasive phenomenon and a substantial portion can be attributable to income held abroad. The general consensus at global level is that cross-border tax evasion can be fought effectively by further increasing information exchange between countries. Anecdotal evidence suggests that introducing a system for the automatic exchange of information (AEOI) is extremely costly. Yet, we lack a direct assessment of the related benefits. TAXFAIR aims to analyze the effectiveness of the AEOI system to mobilize tax revenues and to determine the characteristics of an AEOI system that maximizes tax revenue extraction. Specifically, 1. I will create a high-quality novel dataset based on administrative data on Norwegian residents and a dataset containing institutional information on locally implemented AEOI systems; 2. I will apply state-of-the-art regression models to the administrative dataset to quantify the tax revenue recovered from the introduction of a AEOI system; 3. By combining the institutional information dataset and the administrative dataset, I will empirically analyze the traits that maximize the tax revenues recovered from the local AEOI systems. Overall, TAXFAIR will provide a knowledge based framework for governments and policymakers which will allow them to increase the monetary resources highly needed for financing the recovery from the massive negative economic shock induced by the COVID19 pandemic. While working on the action, I will develop new methodological skills (especially on machine learning), cross-sectorial skills (through the research stay at the IMF), stronger communication skills (by presenting at international conferences and via video clips), and further teaching and organizational skills (especially by organizing a case study competition joint with the industry). Overall, the MSCA fellowship will undoubtedly jump-start my career allowing me to emerge as an independent researcher with multiple attractive career pathways.

Mots clés : tax evasion, administrative cooperation, automatic exchange of information, fatca, crs, financial accounts

Participants :
- International monetary fund (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- NHH Norwegian School of Economics (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 226751.04 €
Projet PROHIBLUX (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Many share the intuition that the luxury emissions of the global top 1% are morally wrong, given the current state of the climate crisis. Yet, the subsistence/luxury distinction has been used so far to justify a right to subsistence emissions, rather than a ban on luxury and extravagant emissions. PROHIBLUX aims to develop a carbon-limits theory of emission-permits distribution, i.e. an ethical theory that clearly identifies luxury emissions, indipendently of subsistence emissions, and justifies their proibition. PROHIBLUX research is developed in three stages. First, the candidate will analyse three possible ethical arguments that can support the carbon-limits claim: the axiological argument, the image-externality argument, and the moral-corruption argument. Each argument will be tested against two main objections: the offsetting objection and the coercion objection. Second, the candidate will provide identification criteria for carbon limits, based on the ethical arguments that pass the objections test, and he will address any mismatch by devising an integrated grid of identification criteria. Third, the candidate will lead an ethics-and-policy analysis of different implementation policies of carbon limits, taking also into account the risk of luxury carbon leakage: a ban, a luxury carbon tax and a no-trade individual cap. Through the training program, the candidate will qualify as a researcher at the intersection of ethics and climate policies and acquire new skills related to income and funding generation, project management, student supervision and scientific communication. PROHIBLUX will contribute to the philosophical debate on climate change, proposing a new critique of carbon inequality as an alternative to egalitarian, utilitarian and subsistence-based arguments. PROHIBLUX will contribute to a fair and inclusive transition by developing policy-ready guidelines for the just implementation of carbon limits.

Mots clés : luxury emissions carbon pricing fair limits climate mitigation carbon inequality

Participants :
- Université catholique de Louvain (Belgique) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 191760.0 €
Projet DE-PERSONAlisation (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The proposed research project focuses on second-person address forms (e.g., ‘tu/vous’ in French) and non-personal strategies that avoid any reference to the addressee (e.g., impersonal constructions) in three contiguous standard languages: European Portuguese, Peninsular Spanish, and French from France and from Belgium. Address forms provide information about a number of features related to the interlocutors (age, sociocultural level, gender, etc.), the type of relationship they share (e.g., close friends vs. distant acquaintances), and their relative social roles (e.g., boss vs. employee). Therefore, analysing these forms may reveal social differences in terms of hierarchy or distance that show inequalities. In spite of the existence of relatively similar forms, due to their common Latin origin, the use of the address forms differs across the three languages. Indeed, the literature has not yet provided a full picture of the use of these forms because of their variability in speech and the many factors that influence which form is chosen. DE-PERSONAlisation aims to fill this void with an empirical approach based on a triangulation of methods and a combination of natural and elicited data from five different sources. The project seeks to establish for each language a sociolinguistic correlation (quantitative analysis) between the use of each form of address (including non-personal strategies) and the contextual and sociolinguistic variables of speakers and addressees, focusing on their gender, since little attention has been paid to this variable in research on these languages. Furthermore, concerning the non-personal strategies, an innovative pragmalinguistics study is carried out of which types are used (qualitative analysis) in relation with these variables. Finally, the project includes a multi-contrastive analysis between the three languages to show common and different patterns of use, focusing on the importance of the participants’ gender variable.

Mots clés : corpus linguistics and communication

Participants :
- Université catholique de Louvain (Belgique) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 175920.0 €
Projet DevSocMH (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Mental health problems affect approximately 12% of children and have dramatic consequences at the individual and societal level. This mental health crisis is rapidly worsening as a consequence of the pandemic. Understanding mechanisms contributing to mental health outcomes is critical to identify children at risk of unfavorable mental health outcomes and to devise targeted and effective interventions. Since precursors of mental health problems manifest in childhood as altered social behavior, my research project aims to uncover developmental pathways to altered socio-emotional behavior in preschool children. First, I aim to identify cognitive processes underlying socio-emotional behavior that can be directly targeted in interventions. To this end, I propose to study the relationship between social cognition and socioemotional behavior in preschool children. Even though the relationship has been established in older children and adolescents, we lack research focusing on infancy and early childhood. Evidence of this relationship earlier in life promises to have important implications for clinical interventions. Second, I aim to help identify a neural marker of altered behavior that can be leveraged for early detection of at-risk individuals. To this end, I propose to use neuroimaging (functional magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI) to measure the brain network underlying social cognition and examine its association with socioemotional behavior. A critical novel aspect of my work is that I will validate the use of a portable neuroimaging technique (functional near infrared spectroscopy or fNIRS), which can be more easily deployed in clinical practice for early detection strategies.

Mots clés : fnirs, mri, fmri, socio emotional development, social cognition, preschool children, mental health

Participants :
- Hôpital universitaire de la Charité de Berlin (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 173847.36 €
Projet CYNAMIS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Chemotherapy can cause significant damage to healthy tissues, especially in the hematopoietic system. As a result, cancer survivors may experience bone marrow damage manifested as cytopenias, which increase the risk of infections and bleeding. Despite this, there has not been a thorough examination of these events, including the clonal dynamics of hematopoiesis after chemotherapy exposure, due to a lack of methodologies to perform lineage tracing in humans in vivo. To address this, I will study the effects of chemotherapy on the clonal dynamics of hematopoiesis, mitochondrial dysfunction and genetic integrity in young cancer survivors. I will analyze samples obtained before, during, and after treatment using emerging single-cell multi-omic approaches to effectively capture mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genetic variation for inferences of clonal dynamics and studies of mtDNA damage. By combining mtDNA-based clonal inferences with whole-genome sequencing (WGS)-based detection of somatic nuclear DNA mutations, I will provide deep phylogenies with scalable single-cell resolved clonal measurements of perturbed hematopoiesis following chemotherapy. Moreover, orthogonal analysis of DNA methylation and chromatin accessibility data will yield new molecular insights into chemotherapy-induced accelerated aging and mitochondrial dysfunction (a hallmark of aging). This project sets out to gain quantitative and fundamental insights into the long-term molecular defects of chemotherapy in young cancer survivors, potentially paving the way for new interventions to improve the quality of life of this emergent population.

Mots clés : hematopoiesis, clonal dynamics, chemotherapy, mitochondrial genetics, genomics

Participants :
- Hôpital universitaire de la Charité de Berlin (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 189687.36 €
Projet MEMORYREIMAGINED (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

In the context of the Colombian peace process, this project undertakes an ethnographic exploration of a communitarian museum developed in cooperation between the Colombian National Museum and an organization of transgender activists in a marginalized neighbourhood of Bogotá. Drawing lessons from this innovative collaboration, MEMORYREIMAGINED investigates the inclusion of gender and intersectionality in participatory initiatives of memory configuration. In the outgoing phase of this fellowship, the ethnographic examination of this process of configuring participatory memory will explore the intersection of different forms of violence (armed, structural, gendered, and postcolonial violence) and will delve into the practices of resistance developed by this project. In the return phase to the host institution, the applicability of the methodology examined in this project in an armed conflict-affected context will be explored in contexts of urban social conflict where intersectional violence and social stigmatization affect the everyday of marginalized populations. Through the co-production of knowledge with participants in the project and the development of knowledge exchange with relevant stakeholders, MEMORYREIMAGINED is a form of applied ethnography that foregrounds marginalized memories and contributes to policy and practitioner knowledge of social engagement in memory institutions. It further highlights the potential of memory initiatives to transform social inequality and reduce the continuation of entangled forms of violence. This project advances the fields of feminist anthropology, peace and conflict studies and museum studies, nurturing the interdisciplinary field of memory studies. The outcomes of this three-year project will serve as both precedent and toolkit for participatory approaches to memory configuration, bringing to European institutions and civil society innovative mechanisms for social inclusion and for the promotion of a culture of peace.

Mots clés : memory, gender, lgtbiq, violence, peacebuilding, museum studies, anthropology

Participants :
- Université de Grenade (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 219074.4 €
- Fundación Universitaria del Espinal (Colombie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet MulHazardRes (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The prosperity and sustained economic growth of societies depend on the safe and continuous operation of infrastructures, which can be challenged by the impact of catastrophic hazards (e.g., earthquakes, fire, tsunami, etc.). The best solution is to ensure infrastructures have adequate resilience against potential multi-hazards on a scientific knowledge base. The proposed MulHazardRes project will develop a performance-based methodology for evaluating and improving the resilience of fire-protected steel building structures against earthquake hazards and post-earthquake fire hazards that is raising major international scientific and industrial interest. This methodology will be sophisticated and practical. First, collaborative research efforts will be made to assess the vulnerability of fire-protected steel building structures under various earthquake and post-earthquake fire scenarios through both experimental and numerical investigations. Second, resilience enhancement technologies will be developed by reducing the damage of spray-applied fire-resistive materials, plastic damage of steel components, structural residual deformations, and combined damage of steel materials because of strong earthquakes and post-earthquake fires. Finally, design criteria, design methods, and life-cycle risk-based estimation approach will be developed within the performance-based methodology to enhance the resilience of fire-protected steel frames against earthquake and post-earthquake fire hazards. The research outcomes of the proposed MulHazardRes project hold the potential to significantly advance the state of the art in better safeguarding the infrastructure systems against multi-hazards.

Mots clés : resilience, multi hazards, earthquake, post earthquake fire, fire protected steel structures, performance based engineering, structural engineering, life cycle risk based estimation

Participants :
- Université de Patras (Grèce) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 169326.72 €