Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet JeWit (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The comprehensive objective of JeWit is to provide the first historical reconstruction of Jewish women’s everyday life and material culture in medieval and early modern Italy based on medico-magical traditions related to procreation, childbirth and other matters associated with the female body. Despite recent advances in the study of Jewish magic, gender, and Jewish-Christian relations, integrated in-depth research on Jewish women through the lens of medico-magical texts and from a perspective which considers local, oral-aural, and cross-cultural dynamics of knowledge transmission has been mostly neglected. Using a sophisticated methodology which integrates for the first time in-depth analysis of different types of sources (i.e. Jewish and non-Jewish manuscripts, archival documents, material and artistic evidence), JeWit seeks to: a) make accessible for the first time in a commented edition a selection of the most relevant manuscript excerpts on Jewish childbirth techniques circulated in pre-modern Italy; b) detect patterns of continuity, rupture and change in the dissemination of Jewish medico-magical lore related to childbirth during the shift from late antiquity to the medieval era and in the transfer from the East to the West; c) assess the boundaries between Jewish magic and science in medieval and early modern Italy; d) unravel traces of the sense of childbirth as experienced by pre-modern Italian Jewish woman that occasionally survive encapsulated in the texts, thus contributing to a more inclusive intellectual and cultural history of Italian Jewry and fostering large-scale debates on women’s well-being, diversity and inclusion, religious and cultural identity. After prestigious postdoctoral positions in Israel, the U.S., and Europe, a MSCA-PF at EPHE in Paris under the guide of Nicolas Weill-Parot will allow me to establish my scholarly independence, remarkably expanding my career prospects toward a consolidated academic position.

Mots clés : jewish magic and medicine, italian jewry, jewish women, history of science, material culture, hebrew manuscripts, italian archival sources, jewish christian relations, medieval and roman inquisition

Participants :
- École pratique des hautes études (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 211754.88 €
Projet ASHIPUM (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The overarching goal of the project ASHIPUM is to understand how ancient Mesopotamian healers acted within their spatial, geographical and social contexts. To do this, I will conduct a practice-oriented study - still lacking in Assyriological scholarship - of the archives of the exorcists-healers from Late-Babylonian Uruk (end 5th century-beginning 2nd century BCE), integrating textual and archaeological data. This case study has not been comprehensively analysed from a medico-historical viewpoint. By focusing on its promising features, I will be able to overcome three problems related to the study of Mesopotamian medicine. ASHIPUM’s objectives are: 1) to determine what the exorcists-healers of Late-Babylonian Uruk knew, on the basis of their archives; 2) to integrate textual information with archaeological and material data relevant for a medico-historical study; 3) to reconstruct the daily practices and the know-how implied by healing-related activities in Uruk. As designed, the project will be best implemented at Paris 1 University Panthéon-Sorbonne under the supervision of Philippe Clancier in the light of his expertise in the archives of the exorcists-healers and their historical, material contextualisation. I will benefit from my integration into his team ArScAn-HAROC, specialized in material culture, and the trainings offered by my host institution in archaeology, anthropology, French language, digital skills, project management and career development. In turn, I will share my experience on Mesopotamian medicine and give impulse to this subject at ArScAn by networking with specialists across the region of Paris and beyond. The action includes dissemination activities through presentations, journal articles, a conference (with related proceedings) and online content for ArScAn’s projects. Communication will be ensured by online presence, participation at outreach events in the Parisian region, a citizen science program and a poster exhibition.

Mots clés : ancient near east, mesopotamia, mesopotamian medicine, materiality of medicine, material culture, history of medicine, history of ancient medicine

Participants :
- Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 195914.88 €
Projet 2DMEM (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

One of the most promising non-volatile memory devices and a building block of brain-inspired neuromorphic computing architectures is memristors. The advent of two-dimensional materials (2DMs) has opened a plethora of opportunities in realizing ultra-scaled device dimensions for future logic and memory applications. Despite different hypotheses proposed in the literature, mainly based on analytical models, significant debate is still ongoing, demonstrating the need for a systematic and atomic-scale study. 2DMEM aims to reveal the fundamental physics lying behind each step of device functionality, e.g., SET and RESET. 2DMEM builds on the complementarity of my strengths on investigating the electronic properties of 2DMs, and simulation expertise and infrastructure at the Host Institution, Tyndall, where access to a large interdisciplinary suite of experimental data on the fabricated 2DM memristors is uniquely available. 2DMEM’s specific objectives are to exploit the experimental data of 2DM properties, and to incorporate ‘realistic’ material and device features into crossbar structures by employing an advanced simulation platform. My career development will benefit from the supervision of Dr Lida Ansari, with the mentorship of Profs Paul Hurley, Stephen Fahy and Dr Farzan Gity, who are established research leaders at Tyndall and at Ireland’s materials research center (AMBER). Through this Fellowship, I will develop my scientific, transferable, and management and leadership skills. These skills are essential for achieving my primary career objective of developing into an independent research leader, and will increase my employability in the academic sector. This MSCA Fellowship also creates a unique starting point for me to directly interact with INTEL, who have expressed great interest in this project, through their R-in-R at Tyndall. This will open up additional possibility of leading impactful research projects and fostering industry-academia collaborations.

Mots clés : 2d materials, carrier transport mechanism, crossbar memristor, first principles simulations, locally strained film, tmds, vertical field induced vacancy and metal ion mobility

Participants :
- University College Cork (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 199694.4 €
Projet APTES (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The project “A Path Towards Ethical Spectatorship” will analyze ethical approaches to media consumption, developing a theory and a practice of individual ethical engagement with entertainment. Crucially, this will be addressed from the perspective of the audience member, rather than society at large, so displacing the traditional focus on the ethics of the author of the content. Grounded in 20th- and 21st-century philosophical and sociologic analyses of the ways in which meaning is constructed, found, and extracted from the materials we read, listen to, and consume, “A Path towards Ethical Spectatorship” will build upon the researcher’s decade-long work on Inheritance and Legacy in the cultural space. Adapting the framework of reception theory to the sphere of contemporary entertainment media, the project will create a new model for the critical discussion of ethical spectatorship for secondary schools that will be presented to two of the schools involved in the ACCESS UCC Plus programme. Upon analysis of the results of these activities, the model lesson plan on ethical spectatorship will be perfected and made available to schools beyond Cork, as well as to members of the general public in their lifelong learning. The goal is to provide terminology and conceptualization to help the audience make sense of instances of cancel culture, author denunciation, and cultural boycotts, and to understand whether these correspond to a responsibility of the individual audience member as they participate to the development of an inclusive and peaceful society.


Participants :
- University College Cork (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 215534.4 €
Projet PRECNIGHTS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

PRECNIGHTS is an ambitious anthropological project on labour migration and precarity, contributing with novel theory on differential inclusion of the essential, yet invisible women migrant nightworkers (WMN) in Ireland. Through an innovative interdisciplinary and ethnographic approach, the research will impact scholarly debates in migration, and will inform key Irish and European stakeholders on migrant workers’ rights. To reach these aims, PRECNIGHTS’ objectives are: 1) Unpack how are WMN expected to perform their gender in nightwork; 2) Explore factors that affect WMN’s responses to invisibility and precarity; 3) Examine how management practices and work culture impact WMN’s understanding and crafting of their self-presentations; and 4) Unpack the structural invisibilisation and precarisation of WMN. PRECNIGHTS aims to make visible WMN through intersectional methodology that not only examines precarity, migration, gender and nightwork, but also focuses on how each of these four dimensions magnifies the lived experiences of the others; and, further, through ground-breaking, digital, and nocturnal ethnography that captures night experiences. Together, these enable an inclusive analysis of the lack of ‘power and privilege’ and the forms of ‘oppression and inequality’ faced by WMN. PRECNIGHTS, thus, uniquely contributes to scholarly efforts and policy work dedicated to understanding the contemporary European labour migration regime, which produces conditions of marginality in urban settings, not just in Ireland, but also in other EU contexts. PRECNIGHTS will be hosted by ISS21, University College Cork and will progress under Dr Caitriona Ni Laoire’s vital supervision, as her background and expertise in qualitative multi-modal research and socio-spatial dynamics of inclusion/exclusion are at PRECNIGHTS’ core.

Mots clés : precarity, migrant, gender, night work, labour integration, night ethnography, ireland

Participants :
- University College Cork (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 215534.4 €
Projet CHAMPION (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

CHAMPION aims to develop a rapid, point-of-need (PON) diagnostic kit for the detection of Noroviruses (NoV), one of the leading causes of foodborne infectious disease outbreaks. The main motivations to perform this work is to provide an easy-to-use, economically convenient and standardized NoV diagnostic kit with high specificity and sensitivity Currently, the most effective protocol is the real time PCR (RT-PCR) for the detection of NoV from food matrices. However, RT-PCR assays are designed for use in well-equipped laboratories with sophisticated laboratory infrastructure and highly trained technicians, and are unsuitable for use in limited infrastructure of or in the field. The CHAMPION aims to facilitates and development of, rapid and non-enzymatic nucleic acid amplification system employing catalytic hairpin assembly (CHA) reaction coupled with a paper strip that can detect NoV from food matrices. Thus, the CHAMPION incorporates the pre-concentration, CHA signal amplification, specific detection and signal visualization in a single miniaturized device. Thus, it can be anticipated that the long-term outcomes of the proposed work will deliver a novel, accurate, rapid and reliable diagnostic assay for the detection of NoV.

Mots clés : point of care diagnostics, paper based diagnostic kit, dna amplification, noroviruses, food pathogen detection, , catalytic hairpin assembly, nanoparticles based detection, food borne virus diagnostic

Participants :
- International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (Portugal) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 172618.56 €
Projet EcoDisc (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Economic Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Do individuals consider economic discrimination rooted in statistical differences to be any fairer or more permissible than that rooted in dislike? Economists recognize two canonical types of discrimination: that based on distaste of some groups, taken as morally objectionable, and that based on statistical differences between groups, sometimes conjectured to be much more acceptable. Surprisingly, the literature stays silent on the types of discrimination that individuals actually hold to be morally correct (moral ideals) and says little about what they collectively recognize to be morally correct (social norms). A clear answer is important because ideals and norms have been shown to influence economic behavior and because it is a prerequisite for welfare analyses, policymaking, and proper societal debate. The possible application domains range from governmental policies on discriminatory practices in labor and residential markets to police search strategies and workplace training. EcoDisc will first develop a novel method using incentivized experiments to evaluate discriminatory behavior and underlying ideals and norms, for different types of ethnic and gender discrimination. Then, it will empirically estimate the distribution of such discrimination behavior, ideals, and norms using a countrywide representative sample of Denmark. The research is to be conducted at Aarhus University under the guidance of Professor Daniele Nosenzo, with a secondment at NHH Norwegian School of Economics FAIR under the guidance of FAIR director, Professor Bertil Tungodden.

Mots clés : experiment, moral ideals, social norms, discrimination, ethnicity, gender, justice, fairness, social preferences, laboratory experiment, online experiment

Participants :
- NHH Norwegian School of Economics (Norvège) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'Aarhus (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 214934.4 €
Projet SorCS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Type II diabetes (T2D), Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD) are common age-related diseases, which have reached endemic levels and become a burden for the global health. Lifestyle and environment are risk factors, but cannot explain all cases - genes also predispose for these diseases. Common for T2D, AD and PD is abnormal cell function associated with dysfunction of insulin receptor, AMPA receptor or NMDA receptor. The Vacuolar Protein Sorting 10 protein (VPS10P) family contain five neural type 1 transmembrane sorting receptors: sortilin, SorLA, SorCS1, SorCS2 and SorCS3, that play a central role in control of neuronal viability and function by sorting crucial proteins. SorCS1 and SorCS2 interact with and sort IR, AMPAR and NMDAR, and genetic deficiencies for SorCS1 and -2 are associated with accelerated onset of pathology, thus implicating these receptors as critical regulators for normal cell function. However, the molecular mechanisms of SorCS1 and SorCS2 mediated sorting of target receptors are not known, and with this proposal I want to determine structures and investigate interactions of SorCS1:IR, SorCS1:AMPAR and SorCS2:NMDAR complexes. Determining the structures of transmembrane SorCS1:IR, SorCS1:AMPAR and SorCS2:NMDAR complexes by cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) we will reveal molecular details about the interaction such as the role of interacting elements at cytoplasmic tails, transmembrane helices and exodomains, and how they define specificity (SorCS1 vs. SorCS2), function and regulation. The proposed project can define new positions and in translational research that aims for drug discovery for T2D, AD and PD.

Mots clés : cryo em, structure, complex, vps10p family, sorcs1, sorcs2, ir, nmdar, ampar, membrane protein, structure function relationship, regulation mechanism, c terminal tail

Participants :
- Université d'Aarhus (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 214934.4 €
Projet RE-NOURISH (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Declining soil fertility represents one of humanity’s major challenges in the 21st century. In the past, large vertebrate animals played a crucial role in transporting nutrients between ecosystems, supporting a more fertile planet. Today, however, species extinctions, diminished population abundances and constraints on animal movement have reduced animal-mediated nutrient transport by >90% compared to the late-Pleistocene. In contrast, anthropogenic use of certain nutrients (nitrogen [N], phosphorus [P] and potassium [K]) vastly exceeds planetary boundaries. Consequently, some areas of the world experience excessive nutrient pollution and others nutrient depletion. Agricultural abandonment trajectories provide opportunities for large-scale ecosystem restoration, including rewilding of large vertebrates. However, where humans have altered nutrient geographies, redistribution by wild animals may have unintended consequences for nearby ecosystems, including to plant productivity, carrying capacity, carbon storage and endemic competitive advantages. Consequently, changes to either anthropogenic nutrient loading or to animal dynamics during ecosystem restoration projects can have far-reaching implications.  RE-NOURISH will develop an agent-based modelling framework that quantifies the redistribution of multiple nutrients across landscapes by different guilds of large mammals. Crucially, this model will include the direct and indirect influences of predators – an essential, but often overlooked aspect of nutrient redistribution in terrestrial landscapes. The RE-NOURISH framework will then be applied to two restoration case studies in (i) nutrient-deficient and (ii) nutrient-polluted environments. This transformative approach will directly help conservation practitioners achieve goals of ecological integrity and contribution to climate stability. Results will be disseminated via published papers, interactive workshops, conference presentations and popular articles.

Mots clés : zoogeochemistry

Participants :
- Université de Zurich (Suisse) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'Aarhus (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 214934.4 €
Projet ML-SMBH (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Early Super Massive Black Holes (SMBH) continuously push our understanding of the formation of galaxies and structures in the Universe. SMBH accreting matter under the radio/jet mode produces powerful relativistic jets and emit beamed non-thermal radiation from radio up to very high energy gamma-rays. Those jets pointing directly to Earth create the so-called Blazar phenomena, where the source appears exceptionally bright due to relativistic magnification (beaming) effects. We can spot Blazars up to high redshifts, but they are rare (given the geometrical alignment constraints involved). To date, only a few distant blazars are known (e.g. QJ0906+6930 z=5.57 and PSO J030947+271757 z=6.1), and a direct search for new ones is impactful because each source at z > 5 implies the existence of thousands of similar misaligned objects. A systematic investigation at z > 5-6 will provide a robust lower limit for the density of Jetted SMBH close and within the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). This research proposal aims to apply Machine Learning (ML) techniques coupled with Multifrequency data to search for high redshift blazars candidates. We plan to select promising z~7 candidates based on the Damping Wing Pattern (DWP). The DWP manifests as the absorption of the observed wavelength λ < 970nm (<121nm, rest-frame) due to neutral gas in the intergalactic medium (IGM) at z > 7 and is very sensitive to the neutral fraction of the IGM. The DWP allows to probe well within the EoR phase and provide a remarkable view into the early Universe. This proposal will leverage fresh survey releases (as the CatWISE2020 in IR and eROSAT Q4-2022 in X-rays) and benefit from the leading role of Instituto de Astrofísica (IA) within ASKAP and MOONS projects (which will provide deep radio data and support for optical observations). This plan will apply ML to a complex Multifrequency data frame in search of high-redshift sources and contribute to establishing the fast-emerging branch of Astroinformatics.

Mots clés : active galactic nuclei agn blazars multifrequency data machine learning ml astroinformatics

Participants :
- Fciencias.id - associacao para a investigacao e desenvolvimento de ciencias (Portugal) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 172618.56 €