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

We are experimenting a novel cognitive revolution with the accumulation of evidence on the unexpected intelligence of key invertebrate species. Indeed, abstraction faculties, emotion-like behaviours, social imitation, or tool use, among other capacities, were long considered as the prerogative of large-brained vertebrates but now proven to be accessible to Invertebrates although to a limited extent. With this project, we wish to pursue this dynamic by offering an invertebrate perspective on the evolution of numerical cognition. In addition, our evolutionary distance with Invertebrate offers the best opportunity to compare numerical systems that evolved independently. Numerical cognition is indeed an ideal framework to explore the limit of what an invertebrate brain can perform with a comparative perspective thanks to historically well-defined and testable levels of complexity in processing quantities. Building from the established evidence of the impressive honeybees’ numerical skills and cephalopods’ general cognition, we propose to explore the limit of the cognitive levels accessible to Invertebrates by testing the possibility for bees and octopus to possess an abstract representation of numbers: are they capable of a symbolic and cross-modal representation of quantities? The proposed research program will thus offer timely decisive elements for a better understanding on the physiological and ecological constraints for numerical cognitive faculties to emerge.

Mots clés : invertebrate cognition sense of number bees and cephalopods numeric abilities symbolic representation

Participants :
- Université Monash (Australie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Caen Normandie (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 274974.72 €
Projet IFTAMED (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The East Asian mosquitoes species Aedes albopictus and Ae. koreicus are invading several European countries, posing an increasing threat to human and animal public health. The life cycle of mosquitoes is strongly driven by temperature, making feasible the implementation of mathematical models predicting their distribution, population dynamics, and arbovirus transmission risk to support mosquito and Mosquito-Borne Viral Diseases management and control actions. However, the model's forecast reliability and biological realism are limited by the quantity and quality of the life-history traits observations used to inform the population dynamic model. This information is collected throughout laboratory experiments trying to assess the influence of temperature on different life-history traits (e.g., temperature-dependent adult mortality rate). Nevertheless, the results have been so far highly variable, due to i) different experimental settings and ii) multiple geographic origin of the biological specimens. IFTAMED aims to review the current knowledge on the influence of temperature on the life-history traits of Ae. albopictus and Ae. koreicus, two invasive Aedes species of medical interest with established populations in North-East Italy, and implement it by designing targeted laboratory experiments under fluctuating temperature regimes, a laboratory setting that more accurately reflect variable environmental conditions in the field but not frequently applied in mosquito thermal biology experiments. The information collected from the review and the laboratory experiments will be disseminated in open-access databases and used to inform a population-dynamic mechanistic model, whose spatial and temporal forecasts will be integrated into an online early-warning system displaying information of practical interest (e.g, the estimated abundance of each life stage) for proactive mosquito control and management actions.

Mots clés : aedes albopictus, aedes koreicus, bionomics, life history traits, onehealth, physiology, population dynamic, risk modelling, temperature, thermal biology

Participants :
- Université de Trente (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Edmund Mach Foundation (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 188590.08 €
Projet PLACE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

International law is increasingly being called upon in response to climate change and environmental harm. International courts and tribunals have been asked by States to clarify State obligations in respect to climate change through advisory proceedings, and human rights treaty bodies and courts are seeing a dramatic proliferation of climate-related litigation and complaints. But how is the discipline of international law equipped to rise to the challenge of our current environmental crisis? This project suggests that an important answer lies in the concept of territory, and the matter of place, under international law. Whilst territory is a foundational concept under international law, it offers a rather sterile understanding of the diverse ways through which we relate to the environment around us. It is a legal abstraction which allows international law to carve up the world into neatly organised unites, and does not account for many of the interdependent relations that communities have to each other and non-human actors in place. This project hence proposes that international lawyers would benefit from the development of place as a conceptual frame in international law, operationalised alongside that of territory. It will trace how international law is engaging with a range of notions of place beyond what arguably is possible within the international law of territory, and how it might be shaping the discipline in unacknowledged ways. The importance of the project lies in its ability to theorise and articulate place as a conceptual frame in international law, and articulate how it can enable more precise and robust State obligations relating to climate change and environmental harm. It will contribute to the theoretical and doctrinal debates that international courts and tribunals are currently engaging by opening a set of new questions relating to how we understand the environment through and beyond the international law of territory.

Mots clés : critical approaches to international law posthumanism and international law third world approaches to international law critical environmental law critical legal geography public international law

Participants :
- Institut universitaire européen de Florence (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 185843.28 €
Projet DETAIL-Interact (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The DETAIL-Interact project, short for Dynamic Engagement and Tailored Interactive Learning for Advanced Robotic Systems, aims to demonstrate how robots master human-like interactive and forceful manipulation skills. Current research on robot manipulation primarily focuses on motion planning for contactless tasks. However, the more challenging domain of contact-rich interactive manipulation tasks has not been thoroughly investigated. Three aspects are crucial: interactive skills representation, robust generalizability, and online adaptation during the interaction. DETAIL-Interact seeks to surpass the state-of-the-art in interactive and forceful manipulation by enabling robots to learn from human demonstrations and exploration strategies. This goal will be achieved using Deep Generative Models (DGMs) for offline imitation learning, which will learn interactive motion priors and the representation of interactive skills. These models will handle high-dimensional demonstration data, including visual inputs, multi-channel force feedback, and robot states among others, essential for mastering forceful interactions. Subsequently, Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) will be innovatively integrated into the receding horizon control framework, utilized for the iterative refinement of online movement through learning and adaptation. This method will optimize movement trajectories and applied forces based on feedback from each interaction and the learned interactive skills. Through this iterative process, the robot will be able to adapt to various interaction environments with differing stiffness levels. The iterative learning process will enhance the robots' performance in precision-oriented tasks, such as selective plant pruning, fruit peeling and cutting, and precise chemical powder grinding. Overall, the DETAIL-Interact project aims to enhance robotic capabilities in interactive and forceful manipulation tasks and is expected to push this topic forward to a higher level.

Mots clés : robot interactive manipulation human to robot skill transfer dynamic interactive learning adaptive control deep generative models monte carlo tree search

Participants :
- Italian Institute of Technology (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Antobot ltd. (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Liverpool (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 260347.92 €
Projet WinIFES (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Integration with wave energy convertors (WECs) has been a promising solution to lowering the levelized cost of energy of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) by sharing the platform and mooring systems. The synergy effects of wind-wave integrated floating energy systems (IFES) can be achieved to improve the power performance and motion stability, which requires a proper combination of FOWT and WECs. This project aims to construct an optimization design framework for cost-effective, high-efficiency and stabilized wind-wave IFES based on artificial intelligence (AI) techniques by: i) developing a fully coupled modelling methodology for considering the aero-hydro-servo-elastic effects; ii) developing a real-time hybrid testing method overcoming the conflicts between different scaling laws to validate the numerical model; iii) understanding the interaction mechanism between WECs and FOWT under different environmental loads and operating states; iv) developing a novel machine learning model to efficiently predict dynamic responses of IFES by introducing signal processing algorithms into convolutional neural network and bidirectional long-short term memory model with attention mechanism; v) determining Pareto solution sets using improved non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm. The outcome of this research will help to facilitate the development of offshore wind and wave energy resources in deep sea areas. This project will benefit offshore engineering industry by providing a novel machine learning model for dynamic response prediction based on limited wind and wave data input. The research will also promote the multi-disciplinary integration by covering a wide range knowledge areas including aerodynamics, intelligent control, hydrodynamics, structural dynamics, and computer science. The interdisciplinary knowledge and innovative research skills of the postdoctoral fellowship will be significantly improved after carrying out this challenging and meaningful project.

Mots clés : floating offshore wind turbines wave energy convertors hybrid energy system fully coupled modelling hybrid testing simulation tool development multi objective optimization

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

This MSCA-PF action in analysis of partial differential equations will establish instability, existence of dimension-breaking solutions, and necessary and sufficient conditions for highest waves in nonlocal and fully dispersive two-dimensional surface water wave equations. The objectives of this project will be achieved by implementing three interconnected work packages, each addressing key mathematical challenges related to water wave models: (in)stability, existence, and highest waves. Through these work packages, the project aims to establish instability theories of 2D surfaces, explore the existence of two-dimensional surface waves, and investigate the formation of highest singular waves in nonlocal water wave models.  The project is based at the Department of Mathematical Sciences (IMF), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, with a three-month secondment at the University of Franche-Comté (UFC) in Besançon, France. We will also collaborate with external partners, who bring in expertise in spectral analysis, bifurcation theory, and the Nash–Moser method in water waves. The collaborations support the successful achievement of the project’s objectives and enhance the PI’s career development as an independent researcher. This proposal aligns with the Horizon Europe Work Programme by addressing challenges in the mathematical theory of water waves, advancing the state-of-the-art of nonlinear waves. In addition to the research outcomes, the project includes lecturing and supervising activities, dissemination of the results in conferences, and participation in outreach activities organised by the NTNU. The research will be carried out within the research group "Differential Equations and Numerical Analysis", at the same department, whose head is the supervisor of the fellowship, Mats Ehrnström.

Mots clés : mathematical theory of water waves, water wave equations, existence of traveling waves, surface waves, highest waves, transverse instability, 

Participants :
- Université norvégienne de sciences et de technologie (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 251578.56 €
- Université de Franche-Comté (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet BioRISC (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The intertidal zone (seashore) is a critical environment at the interface of marine and terrestrial habitats, where inter-linked environmental and anthropogenic stressors occur. In polar regions, especially in the Southern Ocean, biological communities living in the intertidal zone remain largely underexplored. Understanding the diversity and biogeographic relationships existing among intertidal communities would prove central for deciphering their origin and evolution. It is also crucial to assess their vulnerability to global changes as the Southern Ocean is currently facing fast pace environmental changes. BioRISC aims to evaluate the biodiversity, biogeography, and resilience of intertidal communities at an unprecedented spatial scale across the Antarctic and the sub-Antarctic. By using an integrative, community-based approach, the project will address fundamental ecological questions involving the assessment of biogeographic regions, the importance of environmental heterogeneities and the evaluation of community resilience to climate change scenarios. The work will combine standardized in situ protocol with thorough taxonomic identification, and genetic methods (DNA barcoding and metabarcoding of several genes) to produce an unprecedented dataset for community structure analyses. In addition, BioRISC has a strong conservation component, including the monitoring of non-native species. The results will fit the needs of nature managers at both the regional (Crozet, Falkland, Kerguelen Islands) and global scales (Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources - CCAMLR). Altogether, BioRISC will therefore provide a critical assessment of the uniqueness of these communities and test how their composition and distribution are likely to shift in the future based on IPCC-derived scenarios of climate change.

Mots clés : seashore, antarctica, sub antarctic, taxonomy, barcoding, metabarcoding, community structure analysis, non native species, monitoring

Participants :
- Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Bourgogne (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Franche-Comté (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 210038.88 €
Projet IN-SIGHT (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

IN-SIGHT will contribute to the new generation of electronic travel aids (ETA) for visually impaired people by proposing the first augmented reality wearable electromagnetic haptic interface. The interface will be designed entirely on a flexible substrate and integrated inside a glove, replacing the actual generation of rigid bulky sensors. It will include a radar, an array of reconfigurable super-directive flexible antennas conformal to the body and a network of haptic actuators. The super-directive antennas together with ad-hoc designed super-resolution algorithm (i.e. overcoming the radar sensor resolution) will be proposed for an accurate sensing of the environment, aimed at improving the navigation ability of visually impaired people. The system will also allow to remotely feel the surrounding environment and objects’ shape. The haptic actuators located inside the glove will be used to convey a contactless tactile sensation to the user. A solid phantom of the human hand will be used to experimentally test the exposure and device performance for multiple conditions and realistic scenarios. This proposal is perfectly in line with the research priorities of the EU, since it aims to boost the innovation in digital technologies and wearable electronics, while facilitating the integration of visually impaired people in the society and significantly improving their independence. IN-SIGHT is an intrinsically interdisciplinary and intersectoral project, involving antenna design, radar signal processing, bioelectromagnetics, and haptics. This fellowship will be carried out at Université de Rennes 1/IETR (FR) thanks to the unique available know how in flexible antennas, microelectronics, and bioelectromagnetics, under supervision of Prof. R. Sauleau. A secondment (4 months) is also planned in the Rogers research group, Northwestern University (USA), under supervision of Professor J. A. Rogers, worldwide expert in wearable and flexible biosensors.

Mots clés : superdirective sensing antennas, wearable radar and electromagnetic haptic interface, electronic travel aids for visually impaired people

Participants :
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 140071.44 €
- Université de Rennes (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Northwestern (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet NEMOCON (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Spontaneous brain activity as assessed with resting-state fMRI (rsfMRI) is increasingly used as an index of interregional brain communication and functional connectivity in health and disease. However, the physiological underpinnings of brain-wide rsfMRI coupling, and the neural effectors of its dynamic reconfiguration, remain undetermined. Recent investigations, including my own work, have crucially shown that rsfMRI large-scale activity in the mammalian brain is critically shaped by a limited set of recurrent wave-like spatiotemporal patterns. Further investigations by us and others point at a putative link between global patterns of brain activity and fluctuations in internal states linked to arousal. These observations suggest that the dynamics and specific spatial topography of rsfMRI network dynamics could be critically shaped by the intrinsic activity of ascending neuromodulatory systems like Acetylcholine (ACh) or Noradrenaline (NA). This project aims to formally test this hypothesis via a first-of-its-kind multiscale, multimodal investigation of whole-brain rsfMRI activity and intrinsic neurotransmitter function as assessed with mesoscopic imaging of genetically-encoded ACh and NA fluorescent sensors in the awake mouse brain. To causally link these two phenomena, I will systematically modulate general arousal levels, and probe neurotransmitter specificity via pharmacological and chemogenetic manipulations. Importantly, dual-color mesoscale calcium and ACh or NE imaging will be coupled to rsfMRI mapping to disentangle the tripartite relationship between local and global neuromodulatory tone, neural activity, and network dynamics. These studies will shed light on the neural drivers and functional significance of rsfMRI signal, with important implications for the use of this method to map functional connectivity in health and disease.

Mots clés : neuromodulation brain connectivity network dynamics resting state fmri wide field mesoscopic imaging chemogenetics arousal

Participants :
- Italian Institute of Technology (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 288859.2 €
- Université Yale (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €