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

Forts of the South China Sea bordering countries built between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries are a notable remain of the long and complex history of encounters and exchanges with European powers. Practically forgotten by scholars and local administrations, it is time to enhance their value with a new discourse as a Shared Heritage between European and local communities. This project aims to: 1) show how the local practices in the South China Sea bordering countries mingled with the European theory of fortifications; 2) raise the value of the shared fort heritage to create joint forces to preserve it; 3) digitalize forts to make them publicly available as captured memory of current state. It is planned to begin with traditional methods of study, among which are: a historical analysis using archival documents and morphological analysis. Also, the TLS methods will be used for digitalization as it allows a continuous recording of objects with a high level of accuracy for further analysis and modeling. Then an entirely new interdisciplinary research methodology will be introduced, namely, the transcultural interpretation of shared heritage that involves HBIM, novel typomorphological analysis, finite element analysis (FEA), material analysis, and statistics. The main foreseen results are the change of societal views on colonial forts. The new shared view on the valuable structures and their digitalization for universal public access during centuries to come.

Mots clés : bastion forts, southeast asia, europe, shared heritage, transcultural view

Participants :
- E-capture research and developmentsl (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université nationale autonome du Mexique (Mexique) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Séville (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 226441.2 €
Projet REMEDY (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Aim: The REMEDY project will provide innovative interdisciplinary empirical research that explores the driver and health consequences of resistant behaviour against epidemic measures, leveraging social science insights, economic and statistical methods and data science techniques. Background: In the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, one pressing challenge for the public health response is the general resistance to legitimate public health policies driven by news media, influencers, extremist politicians, and rampant misinformation circulated on the internet – a potential information disorder due to an “infodemic”. There is, however, little understanding of the mechanism through which these potentially malicious messages propagate and how they, in turn, influence the behaviour of the population in opposing vaccine, mask-wearing, mobility restrictions, social distancing, and consequently leading to higher levels of morbidity and mortality. Methods: This project employs different quantitative and research methodologies to estimate the effects of behavioural resistance on the epidemic spread and excess mortality and whether online misinformation explains this resistance behaviour. First, we link real-world data on vaccine refusal, fines for non-compliance and the frequency and scale of anti-mask/vax/digital COVID-19 certificate protests to the local epidemic spread, hospitalisation and excess mortality rate over time. Second, after identifying the different types of online misinformation on COVID-19 and vaccines, we use geo-tagged digital records on search engines and social media to analyse the association between online sentiments towards public health measures and real-world resistance behaviour at a specific geographic unit. Impact: The project will not only provide hard evidence on the linkage between resistance behaviour and population health outcomes, but will also present the gravity of precariously allowing misinformation to flourish on the internet.

Mots clés : health economics, misinformation, population health, mortality, vaccine

Participants :
- Société Max-Planck pour le développement des sciences (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Institut national d'études démographiques (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 218371.92 €
Projet FRUMALIQ (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Carbon-free hydrogen represents one of the pillars of global energy transformation. However, higher efficiency within the hydrogen supply chain, including liquefaction, is the crucial prerequisite to reduce its cost and trigger its wider use. Magnetic refrigeration, which utilizes the magnetocaloric effect, promises to double the efficiency of hydrogen liquefaction compared to gas-compression cryocooling, but the technologies available at present mostly employ magnetocaloric materials containing strategically important rare-earth (RE) metals and expensive superconducting magnets. We propose to search for suitable RE-free materials within an emerging class of magnetocalorics based on frustrated magnets, which are especially suitable for cooling at cryogenic temperatures. According to theoretical predictions and pioneering studies, these materials offer high effectivity in permanent magnets, higher cooling rates, and a larger temperature span than non-frustrated systems. The RE-free frustrated magnetocalorics have been little prospected so far to achieve the limits of their efficiency. The project aims to (1) synthesize novel RE-free frustrated magnets with low-dimensional magnetic motifs and to enhance their magnetocaloric performance at cryogenic temperatures by suitable chemical modification, while (2) exploring correlations between the magnetocaloric effect, local atomic and magnetic structure, and magnetic fluctuations. The synthesis of novel compounds will be followed by magnetometry and calorimetry, while local information will be extracted from Mössbauer spectroscopy and neutron methods. Theoretical calculations will complement the experiment. The fellow and the host will combine their fields of expertise, the low-temperature physics and solid-state chemistry, to elucidate the phenomena behind the magnetocaloric effect in frustrated systems and ultimately to design efficient magnetocalorics that beat the present obstacles.

Mots clés : magnetocaloric effect rare earth free magnetocalorics geometrical frustration thermal and quantum fluctuations

Participants :
- Université Johannes-Gutenberg de Mayence (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 130385.52 €
Projet RESEALIENT (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Resilience is an essential attribute inherent to natural ecosystems that maintains the health and proper functioning of biological communities. However, major pressures including fishing and climate change are eroding ecosystem resilience, and many biological communities are approaching dangerous tipping points. Crossing such tipping points causes sudden and catastrophic functional phase shifts, in which productive and healthy communities become unhealthy and degraded. The occurrence of these functional phase shifts are especially problematic in marine fish communities, as the associated biodiversity loss generate immeasurable costs for ~500 million people worldwide in terms of food, economics, spirituality, and culture. Due to its importance, international agencies such as the Kunming-Montreal (GBF) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have incorporated the priority to avoid the occurrence of phase shifts keeping the resilience of the marine communities into their agendas. However, to date we lack methods to predict where and when these sudden functional changes may occur in an ecosystem. Such predictive tools are, however, crucial if ecosystems are to be prevented from crossing tipping points and, consequently, for maintaining the resilience and proper functioning of natural ecosystems. To overcome this conservation challenge, the aim of RESEALIENT is to investigate and forecast the occurrence of sudden and catastrophic functional phase shifts in marine fish communities. The novelty of our proposal lies in understanding the resilience of marine fish communities through the lens of functional redundancy. For that, we will employ a multidisciplinary approach that integrates theoretical resilience knowledge, empirical functional fish traits, current and future scenarios of fishing and climate change, and cutting-edge machine learning tools with open-source databases and software.

Mots clés : functional regime shifts fish community ecosystem functioning tipping points marine conservation

Participants :
- Université James Cook (Australie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 409867.5 €
- Descubre - fundacion andaluza para la divulgacion de la innovacion y el conocimiento (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Tasmanie (Australie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet ART.QM (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Topological band theory has revolutionized the understanding of electronic band structure in condensed matter and led to the discovery of novel material classes, such as topological semimetals, topological and magnetic topological insulators. The emerging field of altermagnetism combines the merits of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, which were until recently regarded as incompatible. Consequently, they exhibit phenomena unmatched by either of the two traditional magnetic phases. Combining topological protection with altermagnetically lifted spin-degeneracy promises unprecedented robustness and potential mediation of altermagnetic spin-transport properties of bulk to the surface. Understanding the fundamental mechanism of their formation promises far-reaching implications in the fields of spintronics, quantum and neuromorphic computing and superconductivity.

Mots clés : altermagnetism, topology, berry curvature, orbital angular momentum, photoemission

Participants :
- Université de Bohême de l'Ouest (Rép. Tchèque) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 207758.16 €
- Université Johannes-Gutenberg de Mayence (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet Japan PSBL (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

By investigating the development of services provided by women to cater the emotional and sexual needs of women in contemporary Japan, this project addresses the relationship and the tension between the possibility for self-expression, the role of intimacy, and its intersection with the neoliberal market from a feminist perspective. This project stands at the nexus between Japanese Studies and Gender Studies and it investigates to what extent the market for female/female commodified intimacy provides women with the chance to explore alternative ways to perform femininity outside a heteronormative frame. My contention is that occupations where female-born individuals provide emotional and/or sexual satisfaction to other women allow space for expressions of intimacy and gender performativity outside the binary male/female division for both clients and providers. When dating, meeting, or loving another woman within the frame of paid intimacy, both subjects escape the pressure generated by heteronormativity. Commodified forms of intimacy, I argue, allow women to challenge societal expectations about femininity, to obtain increased emotional satisfaction and freedom. By tackling these dimensions, I discuss the dissatisfaction of Japanese women with the dominant relational models (e.g. marriage) and provide a new understanding of the development of alternative relational models to the detriment of the traditional heteronormative family, framing these choices as a form of long-term resistance. The project fills a gap as the investigation of contexts where women are, at the same time, both clients and providers of commodified intimacy is still largely unexplored. In addition, instead of essentializing this phenomenon as a feature of Japan, this project – situated at the juncture of postindustrial consumerism and globalizing neoliberal reformation – and its findings can be applied to contemporary societies witnessing the ramifications of love on-demand.

Mots clés : japanese studies crossdressing commodificationof intimacy emotional labour

Participants :
- Université de Bologne (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 266318.4 €
- KU Leuven (Belgique) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Hōsei (Japon) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet FascLit (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

FascLit investigates the relationship between literature and totalitarianism by focusing on three literary prizes which took place in the 1930s in Fascist Italy: “Poeti del tempo di Mussolini”, “Cervia” and “Viareggio”. While Mussolini never imposed predefined aesthetic criteria on art, he thought a new literature would rise spontaneously from living in a truly Fascist country. What is common to the three prizes analysed is that they were controlled, directly or indirectly, by Galeazzo Ciano, Minister of Press and Propaganda from 1935 and from 1936 Minister of Foreign Affairs. Thus, they represent a prominent and concrete case study for exploring how Fascist politicians tried to shape Italian culture and how artistic and personal ambitions sought to contribute to the creation of the Fascist civilisation Mussolini called for. The aim of FascLit is indeed twofold: to reconstruct the history and dynamics of the three prizes and the networks of intellectuals involved based on archival work; to analyse the prize-winning works by combining the traditional tools of literary analysis with the cutting-edge tools of digital textometry to understand what “Fascist literature” meant for the Fascists. Thanks to a multi-disciplinary approach at the intersection of history, sociology of culture and literature, this project aims to systematically analyse the three prizes, bringing together the political and institutional aspects and the cultural and literary dimension. It will result in the publication of three peer-reviewed articles and in the creation of an online publicly and freely accessible portal on literary prizes during Fascism. As such, FascLit will not only offer the first scientific study of an as yet little explored historical and literary product. By analysing the concrete relationships between literature and politics in Fascist Italy, it will also pave the way for a broader understanding and further exploration of the interrelation between culture and totalitarianism.

Mots clés : fascism italy literary prizes literature poetry sociology of literature fascist intellectuals galeazzo ciano

Participants :
- Université pour étrangers de sienne (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 188590.08 €
Projet ATOM (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Particle physics has amassed a century of evidence pointing to the existence of massive, non-luminous Dark Matter (DM) distinct from the familiar particles of the Standard Model. We have only observed DM through its gravitational effects, leaving its microscopic properties largely unknown. Various viable models for the identity of DM particles exist and predict different properties. These uncertainties require a variety of detection strategies, relying on different technologies, each designed for a particular DM candidate. An understanding of the full implications of a specific model, as well as the broad set of possible technologies that may detect it are therefore both crucial if we wish to optimize our search for DM. This proposal utilizes my unique combined expertise in metrology and DM phenomenology, pushing forward new methods to search for DM of Ultralight masses. The rising interest in ultralight DM across the field of DM research makes this proposal extremely timely to the broader particle physics community. This work is divided into three main parts, to be pursued simultaneously. I plan to implement a novel dual-magnetometer I invented, that is able to distinguish magnetic noise from DM-induced signal at a broad set of frequencies. I also plan to continue and advance the SNIPE-Hunt collaboration, which utilizes magnetometers across the earth to search for the coherent effect of DM, both through performing new searches, and proposing future prospects. Finally, I plan to continue investigating subtle effects of DM, such as the interplay of its different interactions, as well as find new experiments that would be able to probe previously inaccessible DM parameter space using quantum magnetometry techniques.

Mots clés : dark matter, quantum technology, magnetometry, phenomenology, direct detection, hot vapors, spins

Participants :
- Université Johannes-Gutenberg de Mayence (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 202125.12 €
Projet SorghEau (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : TERMINATED

Sorghum is a drought tolerant cereal crop, grown extensively by smallholder farmers in West Africa. It is expected to become increasingly important to crop production in the Sahel, and grow as part of Europe’s grain portfolio as incidences of drought become more frequent. Identifying drought tolerant varieties and what traits confer drought tolerance in sorghum is of great importance to food security both in the Sahel and across the world. The SorghEau project will investigate drought tolerance in sorghum, to uncover the mechanistic basis for this trait, the role of adaptive plasticity in the drought response, and the genetic control of traits relating to drought tolerance. The main focus of this will be investigating vascular anatomy, particularly the metaxylem and its effect on physiology and water use. Using diversity populations in West Africa and Europe will capture data on the vast majority of global genetic diversity, as well as highly agronomically relevant elite lines. This will facilitate gene discovery, and by investigating a highly drought tolerant crop with a known diversity for this feature, we expect significant findings. I will use this data to identify a vascular trait with a role in drought tolerance, and select lines of interest and parental candidates for mapping populations contrasting in this trait. I will investigate plasticity through controlled drought experiments to characterize the role of vascular traits in the drought response. I will then use this data to identify a candidate trait, and conduct genetic analysis to identify associated QTLs, and use gene expression analysis to uncover the molecular mechanism for regulation of this trait. This work will develop my skills in conducting field trials, anatomical analysis, and plant physiological phenotyping, and I will learn new skills in synchrotron scanning, transpiration phenotyping and lysimetry, gene expression and genetic analysis.

Mots clés : crop drought tolerance, plant root biology

Participants :
- Institut de recherche pour le développement (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 195914.88 €
Projet BRIDGE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

BRIDGE (Breast Radiography Image Dimension Generation and Enhancement) is an innovative research project aimed at revolutionising breast cancer screening in low-resource settings. Despite being the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women worldwide, with alarming mortality rates, access to advanced 3D imaging technologies remains limited in many regions. BRIDGE proposes to bridge this gap by developing a novel artificial intelligence (AI) framework to generate synthetic 3D mammography images and/or magnetic resonance images (MRI) from standard 2D mammograms. Further, it aims to detect the presence of anomalies in the segmented 3D images.  Leveraging state-of-the-art deep learning techniques, including Swin Transformers and Generative Adversarial Networks, BRIDGE will create a robust system capable of producing clinically actionable 3D breast images. This approach will enhance diagnostic capabilities in resource-limited settings without the need for expensive 3D imaging equipment, potentially improving early detection rates and patient outcomes. Additionally, the GAN method is utilized to detect anomalies in 3D images.  The project's interdisciplinary methodology integrates expertise from AI, medical imaging, clinical practice, and ethics. It focuses on four key areas: cross-modality synthesis, clinical applicability, resource optimisation, and ethical AI development. By collaborating with radiologists and oncologists of low-income countries, BRIDGE ensures that the generated images not only are visually accurate but also enhance clinical decision-making.  BRIDGE aims to validate its approach through rigorous clinical trials and cost-effectiveness analyses. The project's success could significantly narrow the global disparity in breast cancer diagnostics, contributing to improved healthcare equity worldwide. Moreover, this research will advance the field of synthetic medical imaging, potentially opening new avenues for AI applications in healthcare.

Mots clés : generative artificial intelligence, synthetic images, medical imaging, low resources, low income countries

Participants :
- Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (Tanzanie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Fundacio institut d'investigació i innovació parc tauli (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Barcelone (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 194074.56 €
- Université Ain Shams (Égypte) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €