Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet GREENCHAIN (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Economic Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

GREENCHAIN will establish a robust and innovative foundation for advancing our understanding of supply chain sustainability, by 1) developing an interdisciplinary theoretical framework that integrates perspectives from economics, management, finance, operations management, and industrial engineering and 2) establishing empirical frameworks that leverage cutting-edge econometric approaches, novel data sources, and real-world contexts from Europe and Japan. The project will investigate the reasons, mechanisms, and conditions under which firms pressure their suppliers to reduce environmental impacts, identify key characteristics that make firms more proactive in these actions, and assess the broader implications for customers, suppliers, the environment, and the economy. GREENCHAIN's interdisciplinary approach will provide policymakers and businesses with critical insights into the drivers and dynamics of sustainable supply chain practices while equipping them with tools to evaluate the financial and environmental returns of these initiatives. Hosted by the globally renowned IESE Business School and supported by its Sustainability initiatives, I will enhance my abilities in project management, theoretical development, advanced quantitative data analysis, and the communication of research findings – skills essential to establish myself as a leading expert in corporate sustainability management and contribute to both academic discourse and European policy on sustainable supply chains.

Mots clés : supply chain sustainability, corporate sustainability management, environmental policies, natural disasters, climate change, firm to firm networks, green innovation

Participants :
- Université de Navarre (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 209914.56 €
Projet DALE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Economic Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

DALE addresses an urgent need to advance research on consumer behavior, namely consumers’ responses to the timing of mobile data scarcity messages and data breach announcements, using a multi-method approach composed of theoretical models and large-scale randomized experiments (RME). DALE builds upon research from information systems, behavioral economics, operations, and marketing to build more effective tools to improve consumption efficiency and mitigate the repercussions of cyberattacks. First, DALE builds a theoretical framework of how behavioral nudges in a resource scarce setting improves consumption efficiency and shows that in contrary to conventional wisdom sending warnings as early as possible may lead to higher chances of data shortages, a finding that highlights the importance of an under-investigated aspect, namely the timing of alerts. Based on the above, the project complements the study with a RME in partnership with a leading telecommunication provider. Interlinked with the ever-increasing data consumption needs, is the problem that the very same data we leave behind may be breached. The second phase investigates how consumers react to data-breach announcements. I build a theoretical framework of how consumer shopping behavior may change in response to such breaches and test these predictions with a four-year granular dataset provided by a multi-channel grocery partner. DALE will provide practical cross-sectional, interdisciplinary interventions for use by academia, policymakers, and business. My training, supervised at IESE Business School, will allow me to hone new academic and non-academic skills and fulfill my career ambitions: a) Become a renowned researcher with top-level, influential connections to industry and public entities; b) Position me as an interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral expert on consumer behavior in the digital world, poised for achieving tenure track goals and decision-influencing leadership in non-academic settings.

Mots clés : consumer behaviour, large scale randomized experiments, causal inference, theoretical modelling, e commerce, grocery, telecommunication, offline online markets

Participants :
- Université de Navarre (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 181152.96 €
Projet WEQUALITY (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Economic Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

WEQUALITY will reveal new knowledge on the effects professional social media platforms have on women’s career advancement in the workplace. It will analyze to what extent professional social media contributes to increasing women’s self-promotion and networking opportunities and/or mitigates the discrimination women face when they self-promote or network. WEQUALITY will also assess interventions that women and other stakeholders (mentors, leaders, coworkers) can implement to promote the use of professional social media to advance gender equality. Integrating robust open science methodologies for studying gender in the workplace that includes both field and experimental designs with ≈3,525 participants, WEQUALITY will provide new, scalable, evidence-based findings for use by academia, policymakers, and business. Its interdisciplinary nature ensures that the project will impact research in management, applied psychology, communications, and technology literatures and have implications both inside and outside academia. Coming at a time when research at the intersection of virtuality in the workplace and gender inequality is in its infancy, WEQUALITY helps situate Europe at the vanguard of scientific work exploring (1) the dynamics of the “push out” and “opt-out” sides of the problem, and (2) the complexities involved in the career-influencing usage of virtual platforms by women. My career development training, supervised by Dr. Marta Elvira (who has successfully mentored past MSCAs recipients) at the world-renowned IESE Business School, will catapult me to the forefront of research on management and the career-based use of virtual platforms by women. It will also enable me to capitalize on a wide range of emerging academic and non-academic opportunities, particularly in consultancy and policy advice.

Mots clés : virtual work, gender equality, future of work, professional social media platforms, women s career equality

Participants :
- Université de Navarre (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 181152.96 €
Projet PhotoActive (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

In the last years, there has been an outstanding growing interest in active matter. In these complex systems, a number of interacting agents consume and convert energy into mechanical motion, representing nice examples of out-of-equilibrium behavior. Such systems are important because they can be found in nature ranging from the microscopic to the macroscopic scale, e.g. molecular motors, cells, bird flocks, or human crowds. Interestingly, and despite the obvious differences among the agents that compose these systems, common behavioral patterns have been identified such as collective motion, anomalous diffusion, segregation, or clogging in the flow through constrictions. Aiming for a better understanding of these complex active systems a reductionist strategy is necessary, and this is why the study of active granular matter (very simple self-propelled agents that interact uniquely by contacts) is widely acknowledged. Within active grains, we can distinguish between internally excited ones (such as Hexbugs) or externally forced ones. Certainly, the former have the advantage to closely resemble real active matter but, to date, also have the drawback of not allowing testing their response to external stimulus. My proposal, PhotoActive, aims to fill this gap by designing novel macroscopic self-propelled agents that are internally excited but can be driven by an external stimulus as it occurs with all natural systems. The idea is to develop and implement Hexbug-like particles whose source of energy comes from a photovoltaic cell. The great advantage of these novel agents concerns the versatility that provides using a fully controllable illumination panel with which we can impose spatial intensity gradients or temporally evolving patterns. In this way, and applying an interdisciplinary approach involving experiments, numerical modeling, and simulations, we ambition boosting the existing understanding of active matter systems.

Mots clés : active matter, macroscopic active particles, granular matter, interacting robots, self propel, out of equilibrium, collective behavior, collective motion, light, excitation, experiment, dem simulation

Participants :
- Université Heinrich Heine de Düsseldorf (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Navarre (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 165312.96 €
Projet MEMOCELL (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

MEMOCELL: Mechanobiological Exploration of Memory Origin in CELLular Dynamics  Cell migration is a fundamental process in development, tissue repair, and disease progression. Despite advances in understanding cellular dynamics, the role of cellular "footprints"—residual cues left by migrating cells—remains poorly understood. The goal of this proposal is to fill this knowledge gap by investigating how cellular footprints contribute to the memory effects in cell dynamics and their impact on cell behavior within the extracellular matrix (ECM). Addressing this gap is crucial, as it could redefine our understanding of cell migration and lead to innovative therapeutic strategies for diseases where cell migration is key, such as cancer. This aligns with the EU’s Beating Cancer Plan, making this research of significant societal relevance. Recent advancements in mechanobiology and cell biology now make it possible to precisely study these recently reported cellular memory phenomena. I believe in my ability to lead this project, given my multidisciplinary background in materials science, chemistry, and cell biology, and my established collaborations with leading experts in the field. This fellowship will also be a fundamental step in my career, providing me with the expertise in advanced cell biology needed to establish myself as an independent researcher and leader in the emerging field of mechanobiology. Through this project, I aim to contribute to scientific excellence and societal well-being, while achieving my long-term goal of leading innovative, interdisciplinary research at the intersection of biology, physics and materials science.

Mots clés : footprint, cellular memory, extracellular matrix, cell dynamics, biomaterials

Participants :
- Université Friedrich-Alexander d'Erlangen-Nuremberg (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 202125.12 €
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet TRANSPEPTID (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a major threat to human health around the world. The AMR crisis has emerged as one of the leading public health threats of the 21st century. This global crisis is due to the fact that bacteria share and increasingly develop new resistance mechanisms as a consequence of the misuse of antibiotics, as well as a lack of new drug development. To combat this crisis, we need new classes of antibiotics, and most importantly, against new targets. It is therefore crucial to identify new molecular processes that can be targeted. Ideally, these should be: i) conserved among all pathogenic ESKAPE bacteria; ii) indispensable to bacterial survival or at least its fitness; iii) sufficiently variable that different species can be distinguished from each other; iv) absent in eukaryotes; v) not targeted by current antibiotics; vi) unrelated to existing AMR mechanisms; and finally, vii) reproducible in non- hazardous in vitro experiments. In this quest, trans-translation appears to be a perfect candidate. Development of new antibiotics that target trans-translation from multidrug resistant ESKAPE pathogens will be addressed in this project (TRANSPEPTID). We will use engineer antimicrobial peptides based on the C- terminal tails of SmpB proteins from ESPAKE pathogens with the propose to compete with endogenous SmpB, and in turn to inhibit trans-translation. The project is organized in three main objectives that will constitute three major breakthroughs in the field: (OB1) Optimization and characterization of designed peptides in ESKAPE pathogens, (OB2) Biophysical analysis of selected peptides in target ESKAPE pathogens, and (OB3) Determination of the high- resolution structures of the complexes between the peptides and their molecular targets by cryo-EM. Since TRANSPEPTID is a multidisciplinay project that embraces both fundamental and applied science, it will contribute significantly to strength the research and training profile of the researcher

Mots clés : trans translation, eskape pathogens, antibiotic resistance, drug design

Participants :
- Université de Rennes (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 211754.88 €
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet BUGI (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Autonomous UAV swarms emerge as a disruptive technology with impact on many areas of our life, from monitoring key ecosystems and hazardous environments to enabling advanced data insights. However, creating large, decentralized UAV swarms with synchronized flocking behavior and autonomous collision avoidance is a challenge. This project aims to develop a holistic framework for supporting the design of UAV swarms based on generic information-theoretic principles - empowerment and relevant information - complemented with the bio-inspired influential neighbourhood principle. The key objectives are to design locally optimized control mechanisms guiding the collective motion and to provide theoretical measures for real-time characterization of swarm cohesion. The influential neighborhoods theory provides an efficient strategy for maintaining group cohesion in the coordinated motion of animal groups. It allows agents to limit their attention to a small subset of their neighbors, reducing information processing and cognitive load and offers explicit and concise models that can be implemented directly. Empowerment models agent’s behaviour with the principle of keeping one’s options open, assuming that, maximizing the future potential outcome of one’s actions is a survivability driver in nature. Relevant information provides a measure, quantifying the minimal amount of information an agent needs to process in order to achieve a certain level of utility. Identifying influential neighbourhoods dynamically will serve as a base for maximizing agent’s empowerment which will guide the UAV swarm self-organized collective motion. The integration of relevant information, influential neighbourhood identification and empowerment maximization into a novel principled framework for optimizing agent’s decision-making will provide enablers for the future adaptive and scalable UAV swarms, maintaining swarm cohesion while manoeuvring in uncertain and complex dynamic environments.

Mots clés : swarm robotics, uav swarm, information theoretic, bio inspired, drone, flocking, collective motion

Participants :
- École nationale de l'aviation civile de Toulouse (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 211754.88 €
Projet ECO-INTENS-HORT (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Biodiversity is a vital resource for humanity, providing essential ecosystem services for food production. Agriculture is a main driver of biodiversity loss, thus jeopardising the biodiversity-based ecosystem functions and services agriculture itself depends upon. The demand for agricultural products is rising, so alternatives to conventional intensification are urgently needed. Ecological intensification strengthens natural processes through regulating and supporting ecosystem services instead of using human-produced inputs. Current research on temperate and tropical crops indicates that many crop systems experience pollination deficits, limiting crop production. Effective pollinators have been identified for some crops, but we lack a mechanistic understanding of how functional biodiversity translates to gene flow across plantations, and thus crop yield and quality. How floral traits of different crop genotypes affect gene flow has also received little to no attention. This interdisciplinary project is designed to create species-specific data showing how pollinator species move pollen, and which genotype(s) of pollen they carry, as this determines yield and nutritional quality. Further, this project is dedicated to assessing whether mixed cropping of genotypes can affect pollination services by measuring genotype-specific floral traits and associating traits with variation in pollinator visitations. This will create a mechanistic understanding of pollinator movement, necessary to develop ecological intensification strategies that use genotypes with specific flower traits to strategically attract and retain the most efficient pollinators. The outcome of this research has scientific, economic, and societal impact, by delivering strategies to make food systems more productive while maintaining biodiversity and environmental sustainability, in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goal Zero Hunger, instead of succumbing to the rising demands on agriculture.

Mots clés : ecosystem services, crop production, horticulture, pollination, gene flow, genotypes, floral traits

Participants :
- Université de Göttingen (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 195152.23 €
Projet PHOTO-LINK (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Splitting of water molecules by Photosystem II (PSII) in oxygenic photosynthetic organisms sustains oxygen evolution on Earth, making this complex central for life on this planet. Sunlight is arguably the most variable source of energy in natural environments, with variations in quantity and quality occurring in the range of seconds to hours, and photosynthetic organisms evolved an ensemble of photosynthetic mechanisms to thrive in every ecosystem. Consequently, the ecological success of photosynthesis relies on the interaction of a conserved PSII catalytic core with a plethora of interacting proteins - its interactome - to optimize light harvesting and drive the disassemble/repair cycle of excess light-damaged PSII. The structural association of PSII with its interactome is inevitably transient and therefore recalcitrant to classic approaches for structural determination. PHOTO-LINK will employ a novel multidisciplinary approach that combines structural proteomics, spectroscopy and cryo-electron microscopy (EM) to provide a complete picture of how photosynthetic organisms adapt their PSII interactome to ever-changing environmental conditions. The methodological approach will be developed initially using two ecologically divergent model organisms, the vascular plant Arabidopsis thaliana (At) and marine phytoplanktonic diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum (Pt). The subsequent structural elucidation of the photoprotective mechanisms in the organism of choice will provide cutting-edge scientific knowledge, along with valuable directions for biotechnological improvement of light-use-efficiency in globally relevant crops to increase their productivity (thanks to data acquired in At) and/or to optimise CO2 sequestration and transformation in marine phytoplankton (thanks to data acquired in Pt).

Mots clés : photosynthesis, photosystem ii, cross linking mass spectrometry, top down mass spectrometry, photoprotection, spectroscopy, interactome, protein protein interactions

Participants :
- Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 211754.88 €
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet LongEmergency (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The Railway Strike of 1974, the last general strike on the Indian railways involved over two million workers and brought the national economy to a standstill. At once, the strike became a visible and powerful symbol of India in crisis. In June 1975, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of the Congress Party declared the state of Emergency, marking a turning point in India's postcolonial history. Yet the two events have not been placed in one historical frame. The historical processes that congealed to produce a profound break in Indian politics — from democracy to authoritarianism remain largely unexamined. Through a 'long' history of the Emergency, with a central focus on railway labour, this MSCA project will unfold one of the multiple crises of the postcolonial state of which the Emergency was symptomatic — that of nation-building vis-a-vis the labour question. In doing so, it clarifies the place of labour in postcolonial politics, at the same time, as illuminating the character of the developmentalist state in India as a historical formation. More broadly, it includes a comparative perspective and thus illuminates the dynamics of the expansion of postcolonial states’ ambit towards labour welfarism, as well as its recourse to open authoritarianism. The project stands at the interface between – Modern South Asian History, Global Labour History, and the history of crisis and dictatorship in the Third World.

Mots clés : labour history, history of modern south asia, indian history, colonial history, social history, history of postcolonial states, contemporary history

Participants :
- Université Columbia (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Göttingen (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 134007.34 €