Projet EXPLORA (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Exploratory behaviour lies at the core of human essence. Being confronted with novel terrain, materials, tools, or artistic creations, humans instinctively explore the unknown in order to acquire information about it, to make sense of it, to act on it, and to appreciate what is in front of them. This quest for understanding involves dynamic engagement like walking, observing, handling objects, and manipulating them to witness changes in sight, touch, or sound. Active exploration is pivotal in shaping our sensory experiences of the world. Yet, the mutual relationships between perceptual experiences and the dynamic structures of the multisensorial information generated by active exploration are still not well understood. This presents a significant scientific challenge in itself and for comprehending the human mind's workings in natural settings. It also negatively impacts the development of multisensory interactive technologies and the innovative design of immersive systems, as well as the modelling of intelligent adaptive behaviour, thereby affecting nearly every facet of our life, including healthcare, education, mobility, AI, robotics and culture. EXPLORA aims to uncover the mutual interactions between perceptual impacts and active exploration systematically, quantitatively, and empirically. We propose a paradigm shift, approaching perception of materials, objects, and space as dynamic interactions with complex ecological systems. Through our innovative, cross-sectoral, multi-disciplinary, and sustainable research and training programme, we aim to catalyse this shift, creating impact through transfer between science, engineering, design, arts and industry and by connecting multiple levels of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) education from middle schools to doctoral education to enhance talent and knowledge circulation across the European R&I (Research and Innovation) landscape.

Mots clés : active exploration, multi sensory perception, material , object and space perception, ecological psychology, cognitive , social , and cultural aspects in perception, 

Participants :
- Université technique de Prague (Rép. Tchèque) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université technique du Moyen-Orient (Turquie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 237292.2 €
- Studio kasboek (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Birmingham (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 348738.12 €
- Université de Hokkaidō (Japon) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'Helsinki (Finlande) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 314524.8 €
- Institute of Information Theory and Automation (Rép. Tchèque) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 280022.76 €
- Zentrum für internationale lichtkunst e.v. (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Imachination projects (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Schlenk metallic pigments gmbh (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Bordeaux (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'Oxford (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 348738.12 €
- Université Justus-Liebig de Gießen (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 580544.64 €
- Université de Bologne (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 281755.08 €
- Qualisys ab (Suède) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Comité national français du CTIF (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 290272.32 €
- Université de technologie de Darmstadt (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 290272.32 €
- Ernst Schering Foundation (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Sighttex, s.r.o. (Rép. Tchèque) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 314669.16 €
- Université de technologie de Delft (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 610571.52 €
- Microsoft (Finland) (Finlande) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Waterloo (Canada) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 309327.84 €
- Université de Kyoto (Japon) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €