Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet MicroChMag (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Magnetocaloric materials are energy efficient and have zero global-warming potential. We will build a high-efficiency magnetocaloric cooling device with aligned, triangular-microchannel, active magnetic regenerators (AMRs). The relatively low practical efficiencies of state-of-the-art MCDs result from multi-scale energy transfer barriers, which involve large irreversibilities throughout different boundaries regarding magnetic materials, AMR geometries, hydraulic system, and magnetic circuits. This work will characterize and optimize the cross-sectorial parameters covering MCM properties, microchannel structures, AMR housing dimensions, control logic, as well as integration and economic aspects of the whole device. The experimental tests, multi-physics and thermal-economic models will be closely integrated such that the data from initial experiments with benchmark MCMs are used as the basis for the model development. The models will then be applied for optimal design of AMR microchannels, transition temperature arrangement and housing configurations for the high-efficiency MCD. Abundant experimental tests will be performed to promote the control strategy synergizing the parallel microchannel AMRs. The project will be carried out in collaboration with German academia and industry. The collaboration helps to ensure the potential of the project results, and that the findings of the project may be transferred to industry for further adaptation. The research outcomes of the project will present significant benefits to both academia and industry. Moreover, by contributing to the design of more efficient magnetocaloric heat pump systems with the optimized AMR geometries and control strategies, and thus helping to attain socioeconomic and environmental targets in the context of the Danish 2050 targets and the EU 2030 targets focused on 32.5% improvement in energy efficiency.

Mots clés : refrigeration, efficiency, f gas regulation, green cooling, multi scale simulation, magnetocaloric, magnetic phase transitions, heat pumps

Participants :
- Université de technologie de Darmstadt (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Vacuumschmelze (Germany) (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Magnotherm solutions gmbh (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 189687.36 €
Projet RECOS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

RECOS proposes a comprehensive and innovative way of understanding key factors contributing to urban resilience of coworking spaces (CWS) under the impact of external shocks. However, dynamic perspective and supply-related aspects of CWS aspects are not fully understood. Therefore, RECOS aims at addressing knowledge gaps regarding the lack of longitudinal, spatial perspective on the resilience of CWSs on the intra-urban level and the dynamics of the coworking location and shifting location factors as well as knowledge gap regarding the underrepresentation of the demand perspective, namely hybrid-workers, with regard to urban location strategies. RESOS foresees to address these objectives and gaps by a) creating CWS resilience assessment framework; b) mapping location patterns and location factors of CWS; c) designing a prototype online platform that exploits spatial syntax for optimising individual work location strategies. Training programme implemented at TUDelft and supervised by prof. dr. Hilde Remøy, associate professor with 15 years of experience in research on adaptive reuse of real estate, will allow me to diversify my individual competences. RECOS will enhance my career and leadership capabilities in project management through interdisciplinary research, improve implementation of experimental design techniques, and improve academic writing for publication purposes. A two-way transfer of knowledge is guaranteed since RECOS combines my expertise in policy and demand factors of CWS’s resilience with the host’s expertise in urban design and supply factors of CWS’s resilience. Impacts include empowering individuals in informed life-work choices, knowledge on remote work, commuting, improved CWS profitability and occupancy. Therefore, RECOS will contribute to Europe’s knowledge-based economy and society by providing valuable knowledge on EU Missions regarding resilience of regions and communities and climate neutral and smart cities.

Mots clés : coworking spaces, location, resilience, metropolitan, comparative studies, spatial syntax, conjunct analysis

Participants :
- Université de technologie de Delft (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 203464.32 €
Projet RE-Cy-DWC (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The RE-Cy-DWC project aims to develop a novel, energy-efficient, and sustainable distillation process by integrating cyclic distillation (Cy-Dist) and dividing wall column (DWC) technologies with process electrification. Distillation is a key process in the chemical industry, but it is highly energy-intensive and relies heavily on fossil fuels. This project addresses the challenge of reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions in distillation processes by combining process intensification (PI) and power-to-heat (PtH) solutions. The primary objectives of the project are to: (i) develop mathematical models for the RE-Cy-DWC process that optimize its energy use and carbon efficiency; (ii) design and implement advanced control systems to maintain operational stability and product quality, even under dynamic conditions; (iii) integrate electrification technologies, such as heat pumps, to further enhance energy savings and reduce CO2 emissions. The project’s approach will lead to a 20% improvement in energy efficiency and a 30% reduction in CO2 emissions compared to conventional distillation processes. The results of the project will directly contribute to the European Union’s goals for industrial decarbonization and net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, aligning with the EU’s Work Programme on climate action and sustainable industries. By advancing low-carbon distillation technologies, the project will provide tangible benefits to industries such as chemicals and energy, enabling a transition towards more sustainable production methods. The knowledge generated will be disseminated through open-access platforms, workshops, and publications, ensuring its broad impact across both academia and industry.

Mots clés : distillation decarbonization electrification process design and optimization dynamics and control

Participants :
- Université de technologie de Delft (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 232916.16 €
Projet VALIDATE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The emergence of memory-safe programming languages like Rust, Go, and Swift has significantly enhanced security by mitigating common memory-related vulnerabilities with minimal performance loss. Traditionally, memory safety was enforced through run-time support (e.g., Java), which executes bytecode but incurs significant performance overhead. In contrast, Rust, Go, Swift, and similar languages provide memory safety without heavy run-time support, delivering fast, secure machine code instead of virtual bytecode assessed at run-time. The core idea is to let the compiler vet about the security of a program by rejecting insecure code and by injecting certain checks in the produced machine code. However, the lack of run-time protection introduces a new attack vector. Specifically, developers themselves can become attackers by subtly manipulating binaries compiled with memory-safe languages, introducing deliberate vulnerabilities. These compromised binaries, disguised as secure, can bypass app store screening processes and become malicious post-installation through remote exploitation. This underscores the need for a robust validation mechanism to complement existing screening processes. To address this, we introduce VALIDATE (VALIDATing SEcurity Safeguards in Binaries Compiled with Memory-Safe Languages Pre-Execution), a validation mechanism ensuring that binaries compiled with memory-safe languages retain their intended security properties before execution. VALIDATE operates at the final executable level, where no further code alterations can occur, providing accurate end-to-end security guarantees. By advancing static and dynamic analysis techniques beyond the state-of-the-art, VALIDATE ensures that security guarantees enforced at compile-time remain intact at load-time. Integrating VALIDATE with app store screening processes enhances cybersecurity and maintains user trust by ensuring that memory-safe advertised software is indeed safe before execution.

Mots clés : computer security, systems security, binary analysis

Participants :
- Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de technologie de Delft (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 217076.16 €
Projet Soft-Scout (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Access to confined spaces is highly crucial, whether for repairing hard-to-reach aircraft engine parts, performing minimally invasive surgeries, or inspecting infrastructure after severe weather events. The Soft-Scout (Controlling Soft Robots for Advanced Adaptivity and Versatility in Confined Spaces) project addresses these challenges by enabling a soft-bodied robot to autonomously navigate and accurately conduct tasks within confined areas, which leads to reduced human effort in these demanding environments and improved quality of inspection and maintenance. To address the complexity of a soft robotic system, the overarching objective of Soft-Scout is the development and deployment of the control and learning frameworks for a soft robot that provide guarantees for the robot’s precision and reliability, while equipping it with the autonomy and robustness to navigate unknown confined areas. Maja Trumic will carry out the Soft-Scout project under the supervision of Dr. Cosimo Della Santina at the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. The project is aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the European objectives (European Strategic Agenda and Horizon Europe Mission). Compared to state-of-the-art solutions, the elasticity of a soft robot’s body allows safe navigation through confined areas, while the proposed framework enables robust and dexterous operation with guaranteed precision and reliability margins. The Soft-Scout’s vision will be accomplished through three specific objectives: 1) an advanced shape control framework will enable a soft robot to perform various tasks; 2) the twofold learning strategy for autonomous navigation and robustness in confined space will endow a soft robot with the capability to deal with uncertainties in the real-world settings; and 3) the overall control and learning framework will be experimentally validated on a tentacle-shaped soft robot, collecting and integrating user feedback as well.

Mots clés : nonlinear control theory, soft robotics

Participants :
- Université de technologie de Delft (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 217076.16 €
Projet TextMetamater (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Owing to rapid urbanization, millions of people are suffering noise, especially the noise in a low-frequency regime (<500 Hz). Conventional acoustic absorbers (e.g., glass fiber and polyester fiber) have been applied to control the noise by absorbing incident acoustic energy. While the sound absorption in the low-frequency regime using such absorbers is impractical because their dimensions are usually comparable to the large wavelengths of low-frequency sound waves. In recent years, acoustic metamaterials have exhibited excellent low-frequency sound absorption performance. However, these metamaterials usually produce only one narrowband absorption peak. Furthermore, the practical application of most of the acoustic metamaterials is hindered due to the high-cost manufacturing techniques (i.e., 3D printing) and low production efficiency. This project proposes a new classification of metamaterials which is composed of textiles. The textile manufacturing techniques are highly efficient. Textile fabrics can form different resonant elements (e.g., cavity structure, gradient index structure and membrane structure) employing textile technologies and manifold assemblies. Moreover, the different textile resonant elements can combine together to fabricate integrated broadband low-frequency sound absorbers. The knowledge and technologies from acoustic and textile disciplines will be integrated to achieve the aim. One of the most important aims of this project is to develop the metamaterials made by textiles to overcome the shortcomings of currently known metamaterials. This project provides a new possibility to solve the noise problem to increase life quality of the public. Another essential objective is to acquire new knowledge and skills from the host to improve the career competencies and professional experience of the applicant. This objective and sharing the skills with the host will be fulfilled through two-way transfer approaches (e.g., training, presentations, etc.).

Mots clés : noise control textile acoustics metamaterial sound absorption

Participants :
- Université technique de Munich (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 189687.36 €
Projet PoTA-LEC (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Light-emitting electrochemical cells (LECs) are getting much attention as single-layered, cost-effective (air-stable electrodes, spray deposition, tolerance to 3D substrates), and moderate performing devices. To date, the best emitters are conjugated polymers (CP) or anionic transition metal complex (iTMC), however, they still encounter serious hitches with respect to self-stability and sustainability. Hence, the LEC community exercised to find new rainbow emitters. Among them, SMs are considered the next generation due to the recent major achievements in NIR and white LECs. To advance this emerging field, PoTA-LEC aims at developing a full-fledged phosphorescent and TADF SM (possibilities of harvesting both 25% of singlet excitons and 75% triplet excitons) design to achieve highly performing rainbow LECs. Based on the SM-LEC and organic light emitting diode (OLED) prior arts, this project will focus on two action lines i) ionic/neutral phosphorescent SMs with peripheral bulky groups and covalently linked host moieties to enhance PLQYs and device efficiency, and ii) ionic/neutral rainbow TADF emitters used as single emitters or hosts. Optimized monochromatic LECs will be targeted, and the best SMs will be used in white LECs.

Mots clés : organic small molecules, photophysics and optical spectroscopy, dual emission, phosphorescence, thermally activated delayed fluorescence, electrochemistry, liquid electrochemical cell, and fabrication

Participants :
- Université technique de Munich (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 189687.36 €
Projet TIRI (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Viral infections are a major threat to public health worldwide. The innate immune response acts as the first line of defense during viral infections by recognizing pathogen-associated molecular patterns such as double-stranded RNA (dsRNA). Impaired innate immune signaling sensitizes patients to viral infections, while aberrant innate immune activation is associated with autoimmune diseases. Recently, the host laboratory identified the protein kinase TAOK2 as a novel co-factor for viral dsRNA sensing. TAOK2 binds and is activated by dsRNA, and its depletion leads to an impaired immune response to viral infection. Notably, a mutation in TAOK2 causes immunodeficiency in human patients. These findings suggest a previously unappreciated role for TAOK2 in innate immunity, but the molecular details remain unclear.  I will use synergistic biochemical, systems biology and in vivo approaches to comprehensively define the role of TAOK2 in innate immunity. First, I will use state-of-the-art biochemical and structural approaches to define the mechanism of dsRNA recognition by TAOK2 and discern the molecular basis for the disease-causing point mutation. Second, I will perform a multi-level systems biology analysis to integrate TAOK2 into a dynamic signaling network in response to viral infection. Third, I will assess the consequences of complete loss of TAOK2 and the clinically relevant TAOK2 point mutation in vivo using mouse models. This highly interdisciplinary and collaborative project will combine my existing expertise in biochemistry and in vivo approaches with the systems biology competencies of the host laboratory. Thereby, I will gain novel insight into the signaling network that governs the innate immune responses to viral dsRNA. The training during this project will increase my scientific and transferable skills, reintegrate me into the European research community, and thereby help me achieve professional maturity and academic independence.


Participants :
- Université technique de Munich (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 189687.36 €
Projet Heat-BLED (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The main objective of Heat-BLED is the development of new biophosphors able to either stand high photon flux excitations without generating heat or to smartly use the heat in dual functional devices. Heat-BLED will provide experimental insight into the interaction of polymer-fluorescence protein matrix with light and most importantly, provide a solid experimental basis to determine optimum composition of the matrix to effectively reduce heat generation. This will be accomplished by establishing a protocol to quantify the dielectric loss heating under device operating conditions. Moreover, the second approach will be applied to design an innovative family of color down-converting coatings for Bio-hybrid light emitting diodes (Bio-HLED) that repurposes the heat generated under operando conditions. To this end, two strategies will be used. Firstly, the fluorescent protein will be covalently linked to a nanothermometer. Second, a multi-layered biophosphor coating will be fabricated using a transparent thermoelectric generator to convert heat into an electricity.

Mots clés : biophosphor, dielectric loss spectroscopy, bio hybrid light emitting diodes, thermoelectric, thermal management

Participants :
- Université technique de Munich (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 189687.36 €
Projet COLFRESA (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Smallholder farming plays a crucial role in the food security and socio-economic stability of rural communities. However, their success is highly dependent on the profitability of crops, compelling farmers to intensify farming practices and widen profit margins. In the smallholder farming community of Sibate, Colombia, strawberry production has greatly increased over the past 2 decades. However, this crop is sensitive to infection by fungal pathogens, such as grey mould (Botrytis cinerea) and red stele disease (Phytophthora fragariae), of which outbreaks can decimate harvests. The intensive application of costly chemicals and expansion of cultivated lands to mitigate losses has led to the pollution of arable lands and threatens the endangered, highly biodiverse paramo ecosystem. I aim to provide the fundamental knowledge needed to develop sustainable management strategies and provide accessible information to promote its implementation. My first objective is to develop a causal model to predict disease outbreaks in the strawberry production system, with the aim of reducing the use of agrochemicals and optimizing irrigation practices. My second objective is to provide an alternative pathogen management strategy by making use of plant volatile organic compounds (VOCs). VOCs emitted by infected plants can be detected by healthy plants and invoke a pre-emptive immune response. I aim to explore whether VOC-induced immune responses can be used as a “green vaccine” in strawberries under the Sibate environmental conditions. My third objective is to develop a web-application that predicts disease outbreaks, in collaboration with the farmers, so that cost-effective and pesticide-reduction management will be implemented. Together, this project aims to become a showcase to develop sustainable agricultural practices together with small-holder farmers that will help conserve the unique paramo region, and help develop sustainable strawberry cultivation practices around the world.

Mots clés : plant plant signaling, phytopathology, green vaccine, sustainable agricultural practice, smallholder farming, strawberry production, colombia

Participants :
- Université nationale de Colombie (Colombie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 202582.8 €