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

This research project presents the issues related to the Inquisition censorship over books, to cleanse them of danger and impurities during the 16th-18th centuries in Europe. It aims at answering the question of what was actually done, how and why; to assess the effectiveness and tell the history of early modern expurgation, or microcensorship, of the contents, and the connections between the tools used by the control system, the indexes of prohibition and expurgation; to edit the latter, printed in the 17th century. Given the vastness of the bibliographical field, the framework of the research focuses on two disciplines: Science and Humanities. The testing ground of the specific methodological introduction and rare books’ exploration produced objective results and certainties about its accuracy and efficiency. Microcensorship studies can be initiated as a critical contribution to the general history of censorship, with a large historical and geographical perspective. The IEF two year-training project is completed in a research centre in Barcelona. Spain was the dominant country in the early modern expurgation technology; this strategic city is located at the critical crossroads of censoring and correcting cultures using the same means. A systematic exploration of the local and national libraries and archives will provide information on an unprecedented scale. Moreover, censorship studies represent an important part of Spanish research. Thanks to its newness, this project can potentially intensify international cooperation, intra- and extra-European cooperation, to enrich doctoral training. The matter intrinsically interconnects disciplines, cultures and societies, and is related to non academic activities. Being a large-scale undertaking in early stages, the aims of this field of research are to be institutionalized, expanded and internationally adopted. CleanLib meets the demand for knowledge sharing and dissemination, and is relevant to the H2020 Program.

Mots clés : inquisition, print culture, correction, book market

Participants :
- Spanish National Research Council (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 170121.6 €
Projet UNMACRODYN (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Economic Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This research project studies the macroeconomic dynamics in response to uncertainty shocks. The focus is on dynamics of price inflation and how it might change according to the stance of the monetary policy. The project aims i) to fill a gap in the macroeconomic literature, by delivering a conclusive interpretation of uncertainty shocks as either inflationary or deflationary, and ii) to provide a reference for policy-makers in conducting the monetary policy and managing the macroeconomic effects of uncertainty shocks. The research question is preeminent for the case of the Euro Area, where despite a common monetary policy, economies face an idiosyncratic degree of uncertainty, that is affected by both country-specific developments and shocks hitting the major partners, like the US and the UK. The research question will be investigated in two distinct papers, namely Paper A and Paper B, that aim to be published in international peer-reviewed top-field journals. Paper A will provide a theoretical analysis, i.e. DSGE model-based analysis, about the inflation effects to uncertainty shocks under different specifications of the monetary policy. Paper B will consider different time-series models to focus the data-implied response of inflation to uncertainty shocks under different degrees of monetary policy smoothing. For both papers, I will consider the data of the U.S. economy -as the benchmark case- and of the major economies in the Euro Area. The comparison with the U.S. case will be instructive on how the combination of heterogenous uncertainty and common monetary policy affects the dynamics of Euro Area country-specific inflation.

Mots clés : uncertainty, inflation, monetary policy, bayesian estimation, euro area, stochastic volatility

Participants :
- University of London (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 224933.76 €
Projet NATIONAL-SUBJECTS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This research project will challenge classical assumptions of the formation of the nation, traditionally seen as inseparable from industrialisation and the rise of capitalism in the 18th century. This project will show that the nation had already become a source of legitimacy in the late medieval power struggles between sovereign and political society on the one hand, and between different factions in that society on the other. Thus, the medieval nation was a ‘fundamental political factor’ and cannot be reduced to a simple cultural or ethnic notion. But, in order to exist, a nation needs individuals to identify with it. The national project depended on popular involvement based on the ideology on the ‘common good’ and of a sense of community. This project intends therefore to consider both individual and collective factors in the making of the nation. It will use a transnational approach, comparing the Kingdom of Bohemia and the Duchy of Brabant between 1300 and 1450. Both entities shared, for a while, the same ruling family and belonged to the Holy Roman Empire. Both were characterised by a strong social group competing with the sovereign and by complex linguistic arrangements with social and political implications. They both developed a significant sense of the nation, albeit differently due to distinct socio-political balances and experiences. While the Czech nation, as a product of the Czech nobility, was associated with feudal and conservative values, that of Brabant was linked to the urban ideals of political representation and liberty. Instead of starting from a fixed definition of the nation, the project will stress its contingent nature through an ‘archaeology’ that retraces the different contexts that gave rise to it and its different uses. The enquiry will be based on a large corpus (chronicles, didactic and courtly literature, songs, hagiography, etc.) that reflects the different positionings within society leading to the making of national subjects.

Mots clés : nation, subjectivity, bohemia, brabant, political culture

Participants :
- Université Saint-Louis (Belgique) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 166320.0 €
Projet TECKNO (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

This research project will develop a theoretical framework for the composition and production of techno, a genre of electronic dance music (EDM). The research problem this project will address is the lack of research into the musical and production techniques that govern electronic popular music in general and techno specifically. Techno is consistently the highest selling EDM genre on Beatport and producing EDM is an activity pursued by millions of enthusiasts. The pandemic has increased the number of people writing their own electronic music at home using digital technology, but the techniques of advanced approaches to techno production remain the domain of a small number of professionals whose activities do not include to educate enthusiasts. Music theorists and musicologists have so far covered only a few isolated topics and explored fragmented specific examples of EDM production. The project consists of four principal objectives: identify a range of techniques, and map their hierarchical stratification, that professional artists use to produce techno tracks that are popular on the dancefloor and/or commercially successful; map the decision making process and creative strategies that can underlie the professional production of a techno track; organise the various musical aspects of techno production in a comprehensive theoretical framework; explore the affordances of spatialisation in techno production and performance. By employing musicological analysis, spectromorphological analysis, qualitative interviews and practice-led/based research to explore techno production praxis, this project will synthesise a theoretical framework that will make a significant contribution to the fields of record production, creative process studies, popular music studies and 21st century music practice. This theoretical framework will provide researchers and producers with powerful new understandings of popular music in general and techno production in particular.

Mots clés : electronic dance music, art of record production, popular music studies, songwriting, practice based research, practice led research, audio production, sound studies, techno, sound design

Participants :
- University of Huddersfield (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 319400.64 €
Projet R2D2-NET (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This research will employ a new concept called virtual conductor that has been introduced by the Fellow through his PhD research. The overriding objective of the project is to investigate virtual conductors as the Direct Current (DC) equivalent of Soft Normally Open Points (SNOP), using them for improving the reliability of DC electricity distribution networks through DC network reconfiguration. Many consumer electronic devices need direct current (DC) input. All these DC devices require conversion of the supplied AC power into DC, and that conversion typically uses inefficient rectifiers. While the concept of using DC power distribution to interface distributed energy sources and loads to the power grid seems appealing at first, several issues must be addressed before this can be implemented fully. Intelligent control methods are investigated worldwide, to manage Distributed Energy Resource (DER) dispatch. Intelligent control can be extended to help improve operational security and reliability of electricity networks by utilising flexible resources. This research will focus on: 1. Quantifying the benefits of a reconfigurable DC network with virtual conductors. 2. Measuring the impact of introducing a reconfigurable DC network on electricity supply reliability, through the changes in specific reliability indices. 3. Extending existing intelligent control code available by the supervisor, to design an intelligent control system which regulates the virtual conductors and implements their reconfiguration capabilities.

Mots clés : microgrid, direct current, virtual conductor, distributed control, multi agent systems

Participants :
- University of Sussex (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 195454.8 €
Projet DOMES (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This study focuses on the genesis of metamorphic domes and gives fundamental insights on the thermo-mechanical behavior of the deep crust and its relationship with the upper crust. This understanding is essential in order to decipher transfers of mass and heat within the crust and related economic issues and seismic hazards. This project is original as it establishes a strong multidisciplinary synergy between field studies, quantitative petrochronology and numerical modelling. The candidate will spend the outgoing phase at the School of Geosciences in Sydney (Australia) and the return phase at Géosciences Montpellier (GM), University of Montpellier (UM, France). Dr Cenki-Tok is associate professor, well versed into naturalistic approaches. Benefiting from an intensive training in numerical modelling by A/Prof P. Rey at U Sydney will allow her to gather a unique combination of competences both naturalistic and numerical. Sydney is internationally recognised for geodata synthesis assimilating the wealth of geological and geophysical big data into a 4D Earth model. The return phase and knowledge transfer to GM will be supervised by Dr. D. Arcay. The complementary skills acquired during this GF will make her an ideal candidate for a Professorship in Europe. A special attention will be paid to disseminate our results to a large audience, using the various means well established at UM. A scientific workshop will be organised in the Montagne Noire dome (France) in order to bring together a multidisciplinary group of geoscientists. This highlight will significantly contribute to the international recognition of UM. Finally, UM has a long-standing experience in the management of European projects, funded research and training grants. The assistance of the academic, technical and administrative staff of the host institutions will assure a complete support of the applicant to successfully carry out her training and research.


Participants :
- University of Sydney (Australie) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Montpellier (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 226323.0 €
Projet VegSciLif (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

This three-year research project aims to explore the emergence of a philosophy and science of plants in the century that goes from Cesalpino’s De plantis (1583) to Malpighi’s Anatome plantarum (1679), which influenced the development of a new science of life. Although understudied, a new approach to the study of plants and vegetation surfaces in this period, bridging the gulf between natural historical efforts to classify plants and natural philosophical investigations of vegetal bodies. By means of overlooked sources, the main objective of this project is to reconstruct these philosophical examinations through 4 sub-objectives: (1) the appropriation and reinterpretation of Aristotelian biology in botany; (2) the development of alchemical and mechanical frameworks to understand vegetal life; (3) the definition of plants as a crucial subject to reinterpret the physiology of living bodies; (4) the collecting attraction to plants diversity, and monstrosity, which preludes to the philosophical perception of interconnected systems of life, forestalling biodiversity. While new scholarly attention has been recently devoted to the philosophical study of plants in the early modern period, the result of this research project will be a broad investigation into the concept of vegetation and vegetal life that paved the way to eighteenth century morphologies and systems of nature. This project will result into several articles and a scholarly book for historians of knowledge. Dr Baldassarri has international experience in Germany, the Netherlands, Romania, and Israel, and has focused on the Cartesian understanding of plants and the mechanization of the vegetative soul. The development of this project will profoundly impact his career: training provided by Ca’ Foscari University in Venice and Bloomington Indiana University will help Baldassarri acquire new academic skills and boost his knowledge in connecting early modern science to contemporary biology and vegetal philosophy.

Mots clés : early modern natural philosophy, early modern science of plants, vegetative soul, early modern vegetal anatomy and physiology, plants  monstrosity, early modern biodiversity, life sciences, malpighi

Participants :
- Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 269002.56 €
- Indiana University (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet BEING (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Economic Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Three aspects of social interaction shall be combined, namely the diffusion of information in a social network, the formation of social networks, and behavioural (i.e. irrational) aspects in decision making. These three areas are crucially interdependent: 1) unwelcome information and irrational behaviour may lead to a change in a person’s circle of friends and thereby to a change in the social network; 2) the network itself and the (potentially irrational) processing of information influences the information diffusion in a society; 3) the decisions that have to be made with respect to network formation can be influenced by the disutility of unwelcome information rather than the utility of being correctly informed and thereby lead to irrational behaviour. This shall allow for an integrated approach in the analysis of social dynamics. While the three parts of this project already form an ambitious project that will provide considerable academic impact, they will also lead to interesting follow ups and spin-off research that is highly relevant in the upcoming years, such as the analysis of information diffusion in social networks prior to the European Election in 2019, and to applications outside academia, such as optimising product placement and advertisement in social networks, or the development of measures that prevent vigilantism in social networks. The combination of network formation, innovation diffusion, and behavioural economics is not only a novel approach to these rather young research areas with potential impact in economics, psychology, social sciences, and even computer sciences; it is also a highly relevant topic for modern societies where social media play a crucial role in daily communication and information aggregation. This project will therefore not only add to our understanding of social dynamics and thereby push the academic boundaries, it will also have clear practical implications that allow for a broad exploitation of the research results.

Mots clés : social networks, information diffusion, network formation, behavioural economics

Participants :
- Maastricht University (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 177598.8 €
Projet 3D-POWER (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Three-Dimensional Perovskite Oxides as Working ElectRochemical devices (3D-POWER) will focus on utilization of perovskite oxides in combination with functional metallic materials to address the specific demands of sustainable energy sector. The so formed 3D structures will serve as promising electrodes for the development of electrochemical devices such as solid oxide fuel cells, electrolyzers, batteries and supercapacitors. Specifically, within this project atomically layered perovskites including La1-xSrxCo1-yFeyO3 (LSCF) and La1-xSrxMnO3 (LSM) will be synthesized through pulsed laser deposition and/or molecular beam epitaxy on pre-designed 3D substrates of Copper or Iron depending on growth conditions of perovskites and eventual applications of the electrodes. These substrates will be uniquely fabricated by nanoscribe printing of metals to cast a 3D scaffold like support for the growth of perovskites and later will be chemically etched off. Further, the performance of these perovskite constructs will be enhanced by depositing highly functional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). This will serve as interconnects due to their excellent electrical, chemical and physical properties and overall enhance device’s catalytic activity. The custom designed formation of electrodes proposed in 3D-POWER will address the critical issues like reproducibility, low gravimetric density, and long range conduction. Innovative combination of perovskites in 3D scaffold architecture with the functional TMDs will propel new pathways for high performance electrochemical devices for energy storage and conversion. Through 3D-POWER I will utilize Imperial’s advanced cutting edge technology and develop relevant applications with Prof. Skinner’s multidisciplinary team that have an excellent track record for producing fundamental material science, knowledge transfer through training and interaction with relevant industrial partner as under planning with Ceres power.

Mots clés : pervoskite oxides, transition metal dichalcogenides, nanofabrication

Participants :
- Imperial College London (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 195454.8 €
Projet BioSMaLL (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Three-dimensional (3D) printing in biomedical science has recently advanced the development of tailor-made implants. Designing structural and functional 3D constructs mimetic of both tissues and organs offers a genuine route to personalised implants, improving the patients' quality of life and reducing healthcare costs. While engineers have significantly progressed 3D printing methods, the barriers to progress include the limited variety of printable materials as well as the need for alternative low-cost printing technologies. BioSMaLL aims to address this through combining Solution Mask Liquid Lithography (SMaLL), a recent technology developed at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), with the expertise of the applicant and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) in functional biopolymers and tissue engineering to develop bio-active scaffolds. The objectives of this global fellowship will be achieved by adaptation of BioSMaLL for newly designed biopolymers during the outgoing phase at UCSB . In a transfer of knowledge, BioSMaLL will then be established at RCSI and bespoke biocompatible scaffolds produced and validated during the incoming phase. The innovative approach will be facilitated by an interdisciplinary methodology at the interface of polymer chemistry, (bio)materials science, 3D printing and tissue engineering in two world-renowned groups. The career goal of the fellow to embark on a career in emerging biomedical technologies in a start-up company will be facilitated by a dedicated training programme across scientific methods as well as complementary training at UCSB and RCSI covering leadership, project management and commercialisation in addition to meetings with laboratory and management staff of the start-up company SurgaColl. The partners have a proven track record in training future leaders in materials science and healthcare aiming to make a difference and establish new technologies and innovative processes in Europe and beyond.

Mots clés : polymer synthesis, polypeptides, 3d printing, uv resin, biocompatibility, tissue engineering

Participants :
- Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 257561.28 €
- University of California System (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €