Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet RomChords (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The phrase “Romani chords” (RC) encapsulates the distinctively lush harmonic language of Romani musicians in Slovakia. This musical feature is key to impressing non-Roma audiences and something Roma consider a root of their entire musical culture. RC are not merely a sonic phenomenon, though. They reflect long-established economic practices in Romani professional music-making, skills in creatively re-interpreting music of the surrounding non-Romani majorities, and a particular form of musical learning whereby folk knowledge passes from generation to generation. RomChords is the first project that tackles this phenomenon in its anthropological and ethnomusicological complexity. The project is an interdisciplinary investigation approaching RC as three types of data: a) sonic, b) visual, and c) ethnographic. The main ambition is to challenge the primacy of Western theories of harmony and to reconsider RC from the Romani perspective, unearthing how Roma themselves perceive, conceptualise and theorise their chords. The project aims to answer the following key questions: What role do RC play in the performance of Romani ethnicity? What is the significance of RC for Romani professional musicianship? How do Roma learn RC, and how do they innovate them? And what is the role of vision in learning and teaching RC? Action to address these questions is shaped by three specific objectives, which will be pursued through international and intersectoral cooperation between three participating institutions: I) Data collection concerning RC among Romani musicians in Slovakia (Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology, Slovak Academy of Sciences); II) Trans-disciplinary analysis of the data, employing methods of qualitative social sciences and computational (ethno-)musicology (Institute of Ethnomusicology – Center for Studies in Music and Dance, Portugal); III) Integration of knowledge about RC into a museum exhibition (The Museum of Romani Culture, Czech Republic).

Mots clés : romani studies, ethnomusicology

Participants :
- Museum of Romani Culture (Rép. Tchèque) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Ustav etnologie a socialnej antropologie slovenskej akademie vied, verejna vyskumna institucia (Slovaquie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 186524.4 €
- Université nouvelle de Lisbonne (Portugal) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet NanoEXOS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : SIGNED

In recent decades, considerable progress has been made in bio-nano research towards a growing understanding of the interaction mechanisms between nanoparticles (NPs) and living systems. Yet, the impact that cell-internalised NPs have on exosome secretion remains largely unknown. Exosomes are ubiquitous cell-released vesicles seemingly involved in numerous biological processes, including regulation of cell-cell communication and disease progression. This enigmatic functional complexity is under the spotlight of a large scientific community in the fields of chemistry, biology and nanomedicine. Only recently, it has been reported that in vitro cellular uptake of platinum and iron oxide NP clusters (~ 100 nm in size) significantly increases the release of exosomes and alters their composition. However, it is unclear whether this evidence reflects a general behaviour or depends on the design of the NPs. A strong need thus arises to explore the mechanistic details of this interaction. Inspired by this challenge, NanoEXOS aims to develop a novel framework to obtain a better and more general understanding of how engineered NPs interfere with the regulatory processes of exosome formation and release. NP-cell studies will be undertaken in vitro to focus on the effects that NPs have on cell-specific exosome samples. Importantly, NanoEXOS will systematically investigate how this interaction depends on the properties of NPs (e.g. well-defined size, shape, surface modification), their biomolecular interactions and their cellular entry mechanism. Overall, NanoEXOS will contribute to expanding our knowledge of how exogenous NPs are processed by living systems. A thorough comprehension of how NPs access and alter key cellular machineries, such as exosome secretion, plays a pivotal role in the biological evaluation of these nanomaterials. This research question is crucial to establish safe and robust biological control over advanced NP-assisted diagnostic and therapeutic strategies.

Mots clés : nanoparticles, cell cultures, nanoparticle cell studies, intracellular nanoparticle trafficking, cell imaging, endosomal pathway, exosome biogenesis, exosome analysis, nanosafety, nanomedicine

Participants :
- University College Dublin (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 199694.4 €
Projet TECHSTILE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Responsive and smart textiles are a next frontier of research to add new, useful functionality to commodities we already use in our day-to-day lives. By allowing us to replace energy-consuming electronic sensors for detecting or responding to stresses and harmful conditions, they can contribute to a safer, greener, and more sustainable world. The jump from concept to product, however, has been fraught with issues: how can we incorporate novel materials of interest, such as liquid crystals or colloidal suspensions with a liquid armor functionality into fibers that we can then incorporate into textiles? In this project, I will use a microfluidic wet spinning technique I developed to incorporate functionality into fibers made from textile-grade polymers smart, yet comfortably wearable garments. I will focus on two functionalities: responsiveness to volatile organic compounds, enabled by liquid crystals, and responsiveness to ballistic impacts, provided by liquid armor. I will assess the performance of these fibers to the applied stresses as well as incorporate them, using embroidery and weaving, into fabrics and evaluate their performance in prototype wearable garments.

Mots clés : fibers, spinning, liquid crystals, liquid armor, microfluidics, wet spinning, polymers, sensing

Participants :
- Université du Luxembourg (Luxembourg) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 175920.0 €
- Sensawear (Suisse) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université nouvelle de Lisbonne (Portugal) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet SIMARIS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Economic Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Global warming and consequent increase in frequencies of extreme weather events (flooding, drought, landslides, etc.) have become major threats to livelihoods across many river basins. Additionally, increasing scarcity of energy, water, land and nutrients threaten food, health and environmental security and require more efficient uses of resources. Yet, most prevention policies aim at only short-term measures of protection or recovery and most basin-scale hydro-economic assessment models do not consider long-term causes, consequences and economic effects of such changes and related policies. Focusing mostly on water, land or energy use efficiency enhancement, water-energy-economic modeling research do not adequately address circular economy options of improving resources use efficiency and reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions. This research therefore investigates long-term investments required for climate change mitigation, adaptation and resource recovery innovations at river basin scale. This will be achieved through applying a novel approach of integrating intertemporal macroeconomic growth model with process-based hydro-energy-economic model. Offering demanded policy-relevant solutions to river basin managers and enriching water management research with novel methods, this study greatly enhance the scientific career of the author.

Mots clés : hydro economic model, intertemporal dynamics, water energy food nexus, circular economy, climate change

Participants :
- Université Ca' Foscari de Venise (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 172750.08 €
Projet NIRECAS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Nitrate pollution remains a significant concern for water quality. Since the 90s, Europe has been actively working to reduce nitrate levels and improve water quality. Yet, restoring water quality is a slow process as nitrates may remain for decades within aquifers as a legacy. While imperative, assessing Nitrate Recovery Capacity (NRC) faces challenges due to strong variabilities in nitrate transfer times and percentages removed by bacterial consumption within anoxic zones, often requiring intricate models. Here, we propose to leverage an innovative regional-scale assessment method to investigate the correlation between NRC and a readily accessible catchment attribute: lithology. Comparing nitrate concentrations with proxies of conservatively transferred element, NIRECAS determines the nitrate reactivity and legacy of a region. Within consistent geological contexts, the method analyzes the correlation between these factors and lithology while providing uncertainties of the correlation estimates. Our objectives are to (i) investigate the control of lithology on nitrate reactivity and legacy using 200 pilot sites in the Armorican Massif (France) taken as a first experimental region and (ii) extend and generalize the methodology to other European regions. Our deliverables include (1) a methodology for regional scale NRC mapping using available lithology databases, (2) maps of NRC for one to several European regions where lithology is found to be the primary controlling factor, (3) a user-friendly interface to a priori assess the percentage and transfer time of nitrate removed. This should provide key information on the ability of vulnerable regions to restore water quality while catching the legacy of past agricultural practices at the relevant resolution. Besides, NIRECAS should serve as a valuable predictive tool to assess the impact of current agricultural strategies on future generations and support the transition of practices over the medium and long term.

Mots clés : denitrification, hydrogeological modeling, lithological control, shallow aquifers, up scaling

Participants :
- Université de Rennes (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 255870.48 €
- Conseil régional de Bretagne (France) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
Projet TiR (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The proposed research explores the day-to-day relationships that have developed between South African researchers and social movements from the last years of Apartheid (1980-) to the present, in order to understand how these relationships have given rise to distinctive forms of collaboration, based on shared knowledge production and plural understanding of societal problems, which have underpinned pioneering action-research projects, and which are still at the hearth of South African transformative research praxis. Drawing on extensive archival research, narrative interviews and participant observation, TiR will provide an in-depth ethnographic and historical analysis of the debates, relational modes and research methods that shaped the collaboration between researchers and movements in Nelson Mandela Bay (NMB), South Africa, and will create an original Repository of Transformative Research Practices. Based on collected data, and using elicitation and performative techniques, South African researchers and members of social movements will be involved in a self-reflective practice focused on their personal and collective experience. This practice will be the starting point of a process of collective writing that will translate the salient elements of South African transformative research praxis into ethical and methodological guidelines. By sharing and discussing these guidelines with Italian academic community and social movements, TiR aims to foster a dialogue on research-movement collaboration in order to innovate transformative research praxis in Europe and beyond. The ER will learn-through-research and strengthen the theoretical and methodological knowledge on participatory and performative action research at Nelson Mandela University, NMB (South Africa) and UNITO, Turin (Italy), and will receive training in visual methods and in participatory video making through a secondment to the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester (UK).

Mots clés : participatory action research par , south africa, engaged scholarship

Participants :
- Université métropolitaine Nelson Mandela (Afrique du Sud) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Turin (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 207796.8 €
- Université de Manchester (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet WaterScapes (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

WaterScapes is an interdisciplinary project that examines the relationship between environmental changes, natural constraints and potentialities and past societies settled in and around Venice Lagoon from the Roman to Medieval periods. WaterScapes has 3 core objectives. First, it will explore the high-resolution potential of paleo-archives, which have been undervalued by traditional archaeological research and text-based narratives. This will be achieved through geophysical surveys and coring missions in various sites (Venice, Torcello, Altinum, Lio Piccolo, Aquileia, Grado), laboratory research (geochemistry, bio-sedimentology, etc.) and contextual analysis of the settlements through literature reviews. Second, it will examine waterscapes as a human-made environment in Venice Lagoon in order to determine the historical roots and mechanisms responsible for the Holocene-Anthropocene transition. The research will be centred on multi-period waterscape archaeology to see how former cultures shaped themselves to the surrounding environments and developed different waterscapes through water management practices. WaterScapes will qualitatively and quantitatively analyse the degree and consequences of human interventions vs natural dynamics using multivariate statistical analysis based on bio-geoarchaeological proxies from the investigated sites. Third, WaterScapes will emphasise the social aspect of the materiality of the past, simultaneously measuring its legacy in the present. Establishing the relation between variations in past climatic conditions and coastal changes enables to contribute to the understanding and modelling of the ongoing processes, thereby providing tools for the policies of territory management. WaterScapes integrates perfectly in the principles of European Framework for Action on Cultural Heritage, and in two areas of continued actions: a resilient Europe-safeguarding endangered heritage and an innovative Europe-mobilising knowledge and research.

Mots clés : geoarchaeology, palaeo environment, interdisciplinary, roman archaeology, medieval archaeology, ancient harbours, multi proxy, landscape archaeology, cultural heritage, venice, anthropocene

Participants :
- Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement de géosciences de l'environnement (France) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Ca' Foscari de Venise (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 172750.08 €
Projet PlateCAV-3D (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD) is an increasing global health burden. Once symptomatic and untreated, CAVD confers a 2-year mortality rate of ~50%. Crucially, costly and highly specialised valve replacement surgery remains the only treatment. Additionally, while male and female patients present with calcific or fibrotic tissue degeneration, respectively, experimental studies mostly use male models. The rising disease burden, lack of understanding of differential pathophysiological mechanisms underlying CAVD onset and progression, and inequality in accessing surgical intervention impose the need to uncover novel therapeutic targets to delay disease development. Haemostatic alterations, including platelet activation, are implicated in CAVD, and may particularly compromise patients with bicuspid vs. tricuspid valves. Endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition of valvular endothelial cells is a hallmark of CAVD onset and potently induced by platelet-derived mediators such as TGF-β, suggesting the direct involvement of activated platelets. The differential platelet-mediated mechanisms underlying both the valve morphology- and sex-specific disease pathophysiology remain elusive. We will perform unbiased global proteomics to identify novel platelet-derived mediators in the onset of CAVD. These mediators will be used to induce CAVD in a biologically relevant, sex-specific 3D bioprinted in vitro model. By combining histopathology, imaging, proteomics, and bioinformatics, PlateCAV-3D will characterise the contribution of platelets to the onset of CAVD and infer valve morphology- and sex-specific disease trajectories to uncover novel therapeutic targets. Identification of patient-specific therapeutic target candidates provides the opportunity to design clinical trials to decelerate disease onset/progression and ultimately diminish the need for surgical intervention, globally decreasing health care costs, and eradicating the inequality in access to interventional therapies.

Mots clés : calcific aortic valve disease platelets 3d bioprinting endothelial to mesenchymal transition

Participants :
- Mass General Brigham (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- University College Dublin (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 426533.76 €
Projet HyRes (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Hydrogen has emerged as the primary energy source for European countries to pursue net zero. However, due to the lower heat value compared with natural gas, the integration of hydrogen can substantially reduce the flexibility of the energy system, rendering it more vulnerable to extreme operating conditions. With various prospective hydrogen integration pathways adopted by different countries, this project aims to answer two key questions: Will hydrogen integration make the energy system less resilient? And if so, how to mitigate these side effects? Hence, the project will be conducted in five essential steps: physical-informed extreme scenario identification, flexibility quantification, resilience mapping, resilience enhancement, and real-time validation. Multidisciplinary knowledge, including electrical, mechanical, environmental, and civil engineering, will work collaboratively to ensure comprehensive research outcomes. Various open science practices, dissemination activities, and training initiatives will be implemented to increase the impact and refine the scientific and transferable skills of the researcher. The expected results of this project will firstly address the resilience issues of hydrogen-integrated energy systems, contribute to a reliable energy transition in Europe, and solidify Europe’s leading position in the global hydrogen industry.

Mots clés : power system, integrated energy systems, resilience, hydrogen

Participants :
- University College Dublin (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 199694.4 €
Projet WOOL (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The story of European prehistory is written in durable materials – stone, bronze and iron define the major archaeological periods and are taken to have shaped corresponding societies. Perishable materials, such as wool, have comparatively little impact on our understandings. However, wool production is highly demanding on societal and economic organisation and produces its own embodied experiences through seasonal production cycles. The earliest domesticated sheep had a hairy fleece, unsuitable for spinning into yarn, so the arrival of wool-bearing sheep fundamentally reorganised pastoral life: requiring novel husbandry practices (plucking/gathering shed wool, castration to increase quality, etc.) and huge investment in yarn/textile production. Its adoption in Bronze Age Europe has even been termed a ‘revolution’ (Sabatini & Bergerbrant 2020), bringing a new material with unique insulating properties, new ways of expressing identities, and new forms of human/animal interaction. Critically, the timing of this process appears to be uneven. The earliest evidence for wool in Britain is the Rylstone textile, dated to 840–590 BC, while Danish examples, for instance, occur from 1700 BC. This is curious given a known rise in sheep numbers in Southern England throughout the second millennium BC. Could wool really be absent from Britain while revolutionising Europe? ‘The Wool Age’ will define the emergence and growth of the prehistoric wool economy in Britain for the first time and characterise the societal consequences. This will be achieved through a novel triangulation of available evidence (animal bone reports, textile tools, and landscape organisation) which avoids waiting for the chance survival of delicate textiles. Thus, a critical issue to our understanding of societal organisation and European interconnection can be revealed.

Mots clés : human animal relations, textiles, bronze age europe, wool, sheep

Participants :
- University College Dublin (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 199694.4 €