Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet AWWO (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The proposed project aims at investigating the metaphysics of indeterminacy in ancient philosophy. By relying on the aid of contemporary metaphysics (in particular, Van Inwagen's materialism and Merricks', and Stage-theory of material objects), the project will show that the metaphysics of indeterminacy was an important, yet neglected, part of ancient metaphysics, from the time of Democritus to that of Aenesidemus. The project will deal with a variety of Greek philosophers, traditionally understood as subjectivists (this very general label as meant to include relativists, sceptics, infallibilists and nihilists). These are the following ones: Democritus, Protagoras and Gorgias, Heraclitus, the Socratic schools of the Cyrenaics (including later exponents of the school, such as Theodorus the Godless) and the Megarians (Euclides, Eubulides, Diodorus Cronus, Stilpo), Pyrrho and neo-pyrrhonism (Aenesidemus). The project will demonstrate that, although in different ways, all the philosophers just mentioned adhered to a view of the world according to which either 1) objects of perception are indeterminate with regard to their properties or 2) objects in themselves are best understood as indeterminate items (in particular, on this latter view, objects as stable and unitary items are denied to be existing). The project is both historical and philosophical, in so far as not only does it attempt to reconstruct the details of ancient conceptions of metaphysical indeterminacy, but it will also try to demonstrate the philosophical viability of those conceptions by drawing close parallelisms with current theories of metaphysical indeterminacy. To appreciate the pervasiveness of metaphysical indeterminacy in ancient Greek philosophy is tantamount to providing a revolutionary insight in the history of ancient metaphysics (and of metaphysics tout court) by challenging the standard view that sees it dominated by Plato’s and Aristotle’s different, yet cognate, essentialisms.

Mots clés : metaphysical indeterminacy, democritus, protagoras, gorgias, the cyrenaics, the megarians, pyrrho, aenesidemus, peter van inwagen, trenton merricks, stage theory

Participants :
- Durham University (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 195454.8 €
Projet MAIRWEN (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The proposed project involves a critical examination of the concept of subject and subject properties in Old Irish and Old and Middle Welsh. The project has three objectives: 1) to determine subject properties in Old Irish and Old and Middle Welsh, 2) to investigate the applicability of subject tests proposed in the literature for the early Indo-European languages, modern Indo-European languages, and, specifically, Modern Irish and Modern Welsh to Old Irish and Old and Middle Welsh, and 3) to develop subject tests specifically for Old Irish and Old and Middle Welsh. The approach is rooted in the methodology and theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics and construction grammar, as well as in comparative and philological methodologies. Applying the tools of cognitive linguistics and construction grammar to Early Irish and Welsh, while remaining faithful to the comparative and philological framework, allows for the generation of the relevant knowledge of the grammar of Early Irish and Welsh that is needed to decipher and model subject behaviour in these languages. Working at Aberystwyth University will enable me to improve and deepen my skills and competencies in Early Welsh, Modern Welsh and Modern Irish. Expanding my current work, which has been focussed Medieval Irish, both laterally into medieval Welsh and vertically into the modern languages will significantly improve and increase my career opportunities. By the end of this project, I will have at least four articles and a monograph submitted for publication, demonstrating my capacity to carry out high-quality, independent research in Early Welsh as well as in Early Irish and theoretical linguistics, in addition to being able to speak and teach both Modern Irish and Modern Welsh at an advanced level, providing me with a strong chance to obtain a permanent academic position in Celtic linguistics.

Mots clés : celtic, old irish, middle welsh, subjecthood, subject properties, argument structure

Participants :
- Aberystwyth University (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 212933.76 €
Projet IPUSS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The proposed project is a crossroad of noble gas cosmochemistry, geochemical modelling and astrophysics. We will obtain a best estimate of the initial 244 Plutonium content of the Solar System at the time when the first condensed mineral assemblages formed in the hot solar nebula. We will apply this value to model the volatile depletion history of the silicate Earth and to produce the first self-consistent estimate on the timing of the last addition of matter produced in rapid neutron capture processes (r process) to the Solar System. 244 Pu is an r-process- only short lived radionuclide that goes through spontaneous fission to produce Xenon isotopes and in principle the 244 Pu-Xe system can be used as chronometer to date early volatile loss events in Solar System solids. We propose a comprehensive experimental approach to study noble gases in combination with Nd (similarly volatile to Pu) and U (more volatile than Pu) abundances on a complementary set of samples that is adequate to explain the possible variation in the initial Pu/U ratio in different meteorites and early condensed mineral assemblages and to evaluate the applicability of the chronometer. While the Experienced Researcher is an expert in noble gas geochemistry and has experience in geochemical modelling, she will gain the knowledge on cosmochemistry and stellar nucleosynthesis required to interpret and discuss the new results produced in this project. The individual fellowship will help her start her early career as a postdoc and provide a crucial mobility to build a network in Europe and do research with high impact.

Mots clés : noble gas cosmochemistry, chronometry, volatile depletion

Participants :
- Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hongrie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 146239.2 €
Projet MinimalSelf (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The proposed project is a philosophical and interdisciplinary study of the most fundamental sense of self. It will take, as its starting point, the concept of “minimal self”, as recently employed by philosophers such as Gallagher and Zahavi. The aim of the project is to develop a clearer, more elaborate, and substantially revised conception of minimal self. First of all, I will engage in depth with relevant phenomenological scholarship, focusing on the work of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty. I will then use the results of this engagement to critically discuss, elaborate and revise current conceptions of minimal self. Finally, I will examine applications of the concept of “minimal self” in psychiatry and psychopathology, for instance by Parnas et al. and Sass. The project will be structured around three guiding questions, to which others have given conflicting or insufficiently clear answers: 1. Is the minimal self given in experience, or is it a formal abstraction from experience? 2. Is the minimal self prior to intersubjectivity, or is it inextricably intertwined with intersubjectivity? 3. In what sense is the minimal self 'embodied', and how does this relate to the issue of intersubjectivity? I will argue that the minimal self is integral to experience rather than an abstraction from it. Furthermore, it is inextricable from interpersonal experience, to an extent that others, such as Zahavi (2014), have not sufficiently acknowledged. I will also make clear how the intersubjective structure of minimal self relates to its bodily nature. This view will be supported through a detailed study of the phenomenology of self-disturbances such as schizophrenia, and I will show how the revised concept of minimal self has significant implications for our understanding of psychopathological disturbances.

Mots clés : self, intersubjectivity, embodiment, phenomenology, psychiatry, psychopathology, schizophrenia, experience, cognition, cognitive science

Participants :
- University of Vienna (Autriche) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 166156.8 €
Projet High Risk Leadership (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The proposed project is about women’s resistance to violence(s) in high risk settings in Latin America. In contexts of high violence, we might expect women – often portrayed as weaker or more vulnerable members of society – to shy away from activities that augment their exposure to risk. Dr Zulver’s previous research shows, however, that against all odds, women do engage in high-risk collective action. These women transgress traditional gender barriers and thus expose themselves to the additional risks of high violence. Not only are such women resisting violence, Zulver’s work shows that their activism focuses on the pursuit of gender justice. The project has two specific objectives: (1) to further document and explain women’s high risk mobilisation in the region (particularly in Mexico) and (2) to comparatively study women’s leadership in high risk social movements in the region. The project will serve the triple purpose of contributing to social movements literature on leadership, expanding understandings of High Risk Feminism, and advancing scholarship on women’s empowerment more broadly. In this setting, complex, robust information about leaders and women’s organisations who mobilise in spite of and because of the quotidian violence to which they are exposed is crucial. The project’s outputs include three peer-reviewed articles, a book manuscript (about women’s high risk leadership), op-eds in newspapers, a workshop for leaders of women’s organisations, seminar and conference presentations at international conferences, gender sensitivity training sessions for PhD students and early career researchers, and a database on women leaders in the region. The key goal of the Fellowship is to establish Dr Zulver at the forefront of her field as an expert on women’s mobilisation in violent contexts. It will directly benefit her career prospects by equipping her with specialised knowledge and personalised training.

Mots clés : gender justice, south america, mexico, leadership

Participants :
- University of Oxford (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 234254.4 €
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexique) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet MagniFiCor (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The proposed research program will focus on characterisation of electrochemical behaviour of structural materials with emphasis on phenomena of aqueous corrosion in the presence of cyclic temperature changes, strong magnetic field and flowing electrolytes. The topic is of paramount importance for chemical, nuclear and power industries, where the extension of lifetime and ever-increasing safety standards force the use of new solutions eliminating the risks of failure or premature closure of the installation. The influence of the magnetic field on the process of corrosion and electrochemical surface modification is an unusual variable, with relatively limited data in the literature, important from a fundamental and technological point of view. The researcher will participate in a collaborative activity, involving the host organization, National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ – Poland), Technical Research Center of Finland (VTT – Finland) and the Institut des NanoSciences de Paris (INSP - France). The researcher will be integrated into a newly established Centre of Excellence (CoE) – NOMATEN in Poland, which is devoted to develop advanced multifunctional materials for industrial and medical applications. The program will be built on the basis of in-house capability to synthesize and characterize new materials. The methodology for characterization of materials properties includes in situ observation by means of newly constructed MagniFiCor test rig, which is an integral part of the project and by “post-mortem” analysis of exposed samples to various environmental conditions. In parallel, multiscale computational modelling of the interaction between magnetic fields, electrochemical behavior and physico-chemical properties of the material will be developed in collaboration with scientific partners. The researcher will hold a position of a Research Group Leader (RGL) of the CoE, providing an excellent opportunity for career development.

Mots clés : ion beam analysis, electrochemistry, surface analysis, plasma, ion beam technology

Participants :
- National Centre for Nuclear Research (Pologne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 149625.6 €
Projet DACIP (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The proposed research project "Developing Action Competence for Insect Preservation" (DACIP) approaches the current problem of insect decline from an educational perspective using methods of Educational Design Research (EDR). The research project aims to (i) improve theoretical understanding of citizens’ readiness to take action against insect decline and (ii) to design and investigate options to raise citizens' abilities to preserve insects. To achieve these aims, a novel theoretical framework - Action Competence for Insect Preservation (ACIP) - will be developed in a first step. In a second step, this framework is used for developing novel quantitative and qualitative research instruments to investigate citizens' abilities to preserve insects and for designing innovative educational interventions to raise citizens’ ACIP. These interventions will include wildlife gardening and citizen science as core elements. In a third step, the effectiveness of these interventions will be assessed: For this assessment, the designed interventions will be implemented at compulsory schools in Karlstad (grade 7). The change of ACIP will be assessed in a pre-post-design with 500 students, comparing the intervention group with a control group using the new quantitative and qualitative instruments. Consequently, the proposed research project provides three important benefits: a) The new framework (ACIP) builds a foundation for the development of conservation initiatives addressing citizens effectively b) The new instruments make it possible to investigate citizens' abilities in preserving insects: This can be used to assess the effectiveness of initiatives focusing on insect preservation, which can boost the effectiveness of such iniatives by enabling targeted improvements. c) The designed interventions to foster citizens' ACIP will be made available on a large scale. Therefore, the project can contribute significantly to achieve global biodiversity and sustainability goals.

Mots clés : environmental education, insect decline, insect preservation, educational design research, action competence, citizen science, wildlife gardening

Participants :
- Karlstad University (Suède) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 191852.16 €
Projet Fixers and Stringers (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The proposed research project seeks to understand links among the least visible actors and aspects of conflict reporting. It explores forms of precarity experienced and emotional labour performed by local newsworkers who work for foreign news crews or foreign media on the spot (fixers and stringers) and the multidirectional power relationships of the journalism ecosystem in two conflict zones, Israel and Ukraine. Based on thirty in-depth interviews with fixers, stringers, and foreign correspondents, and on their autoethnographies, the research addresses the following questions: What emotional labour do fixers and stringers in Israel and Ukraine perform? What forms of precarity do fixers and stringers in Israel and Ukraine experience? How does power circulate among fixers, stringers, and various other actors within the particular conflict newsmaking ecologies? The research interweaves three flourishing research streams and trends in journalism studies: it adds to knowledge on the diverse precarity of newswork, deepens understanding of newsworkers’ emotional labour, and helps to further de-Westernize journalism studies. The research findings will be communicated not only through academic publications, but also using a variety of creative methods that will help to reach the community of media professionals in the European Union and beyond. By raising awareness of fixers’ and stringers’ emotional labour and forms of precarity, the research project seeks to contribute to more ethical global journalism. The fellowship will stregthen my expertise in crisis reporting, newsworkers’ emotional labour, participatory and creative methods; it will also help me to build a network of potential partners of my future applied research projects and improve my employability inside and outside academia. As such, the fellowship will significantly enhance my future career prospects.

Mots clés : fixers, stringers, crisis reporting, journalism studies

Participants :
- University of Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 175572.48 €
Projet FaGEng (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The proposed research project ‘Fashioning Georgian Englishness: Race, National Identity, and Codes of Proper Behaviour’ examines the interconnectedness of nationality, race, and conduct within an eighteenth-century colonial perspective. The interdisciplinary project argues that race played a vital but ambiguous role in the construction of the nascent English national identity in the Georgian era (1714–1830); however, since race was a fluid and heterogeneous concept, the racial and/or national status of English subjects was constructed through the vocabulary and practices of decency, propriety, refinement, and good conduct. Articulations and practices of class- and gender-based ‘proper behaviour’ were thus used to create a naturalised English national character that had a racial foundation. The project employs an interdisciplinary methodology that combines cultural and intellectual historical methods with constructionist and postcolonial perspectives; through this approach, it examines race and national character as deeply performative, fictive constructions, created through internalising discursive knowledge. The project makes a significant and novel contribution to the history of eighteenth-century English nationalism, which has thus far ignored the importance of race for the construction of a national identity. Moreover, the questions and themes the research addresses also offer a highly fruitful point of comparison to recent processes of cultural interaction and exchange, and the structures of racism and nationalism in present-day Europe.

Mots clés : eighteenth century britain, identity, nationality, ethnicity, race, intersectionalism, performativity

Participants :
- University of London (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 195454.8 €
Projet LDMRD (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Mathematics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The proposition aims to develop new tools in ergodic theory and dynamical systems, and explore applications to problems related to mathematical physics, geometry and arithmetics. The first general objective is to advance large deviation theory for non-compact dynamical systems. We plan to deduce new subexponential large deviation bounds for Gibbs measures on the countable Markov shift and explore how these results are linked to applications such as Pomeau-Manneville dynamics describing intermittence in the theory of turbulent flows, dynamical properties of the Gauss map, which is deeply connected to Diophantine approximation, and homogeneous dynamics such as the Teichmüller flow on translation surfaces. The second general objective is to investigate Host-type measure rigidity theory for toral automorphisms and homogeneous dynamics. This topic relates to currently ongoing research on measure classification theorems, which have been influential in several applications such Diophantine approximation and quantum ergodicity.

Mots clés : large deviations, countable markov shift, pomeau manneville dynamics, homogeneous dynamics, measure rigidity, scenery flow, toral automorphisms

Participants :
- University of Bristol (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 183454.8 €