Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet CONNECT (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Conceptually new synthetic membrane transporters constitute a key challenge for supramolecular chemistry and materials sciences. To date, the transport of hydrophilic bioactive substances across membranes has exploited the amphiphilic character of carriers and cargos such as in lipids or other cationic amphiphiles. However, amphiphilic molecules face limitations due to intrinsic features such as toxicity associated to their detergent-like behaviour and their tendency to aggregate. This year, it has been described that superchaotropic boron clusters can transport a range of hydrophilic chemical substances across lipid membranes and inside cells. This new concept supports that the chaotropic effect can guide the design of an entirely new class of membrane carriers. However, until now, boron clusters have only been used as non-covalent carriers of the cargo of interest. The main objective of this action is to investigate, for the first time, the covalent introduction of superchaotropic substituents into prototype peptide sequences and evaluate their potential to be self-transported across membranes. A selection of simple anionic, cationic and hydrophobic peptides will be equipped with boron clusters modified amino acids and screened in model membranes and in cell assays. Unknown concepts and revolutionary molecules could emerge from this initial study. For example, the introduction of anionic boron clusters into cationic short peptides could give rise to a new class of (strongly hydrophilic) zwitterionic self-transported biomolecular scaffolds. We also suspect that switching hydrophobic for anionic chaotropic residues will decrease aggregation propensity but increase membrane transport efficiency of amphiphilic bioactive peptides. This new application of chaotropic cluster will impact the field of membrane transport by using more controllable, non-aggregating and less toxic synthetic vehicles.

Mots clés : supramolecular chemistry, superchaotropic carriers, globular boron clusters, synthetic membrane carriers, vesicles transport experiments

Participants :
- Université de Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 165312.96 €
Projet RADMemCo (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

During the years following the nuclear accident of Fukushima Daiichi in Japan, a decontamination work was undertaken by Japanese authorities in the prefecture of Fukushima on a scale unprecedented even compared with the decontamination following the Chernobyl nuclear accident: around 16 000 workers removed more than 20 million m3 of radioactive soil, for a cost estimated at 24 bn €. My project RADMemCo aims to understand the genesis of this decontamination work, focusing on the collective memory of disasters. In their argumentation concerning the Fukushima crisis, the managers of the plant frequently use analogies with diverse earlier crises to explain and cope with this new type of disaster. They have compared the ongoing decontamination process, for example, with the techniques used in the past by Japanese peasants to remove the ashes of the soils after a volcanic eruption. The RADMemCo project asks: Did a particular Japanese way of dealing with disasters play a role in the choice of a large-scale radioactive decontamination in the affected areas of Fukushima? Conversely, did this decontamination work influence the perception and collective memory of the nuclear accident of Fukushima Daiichi? To answer these questions, I will engage in an ethnographic study of actors of this decontamination work in the village of Iitate, situated about 40 km northwest of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The evacuation order was lifted in 2017, but few inhabitants decided to return. Among them, two citizen groups are monitoring constantly the levels of radioactivity, and seek to develop various ways of coping with the situation. One group that I will follow in particular, composed of local peasants and agronomists of the University of Tokyo, experiments with and designs new techniques to remove the radioactivity from the fields. Doing so, they might remove the radionuclides not only from the soils, but also from the collective memory of this disaster.

Mots clés : nuclear accident, radioactivity, decontamination, nuclear waste management, collective memory, crisis management, fukushima, japan

Participants :
- Université Pompeu Fabra (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 165312.96 €
Projet CONVERSAS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The project CONVERSAS explores the cultural identities of Muslim and Jewish crypto-religious minorities within coerced mono-confessional pre-modern Crown of Aragon (c. 1400-1500). It will challenge traditional interpretations - based on male centred historical documents and largely ignored within gender blind research - by creating a novel concept of comparison, especially between socio-religious characteristics of these groups’ female members converted to Christianity: Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) and Judeo-Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) suspected of secret adherence to the religion of their ancestors. The project aims to develop an adaptable multi-dimensional comparative and intersectional model to provide cultural, historical and gender analysis of these religious groups. As a sample of multi-dimensional methodology applied to the underutilized archival data - most notably inquisitorial trial dossiers, Jewish and Muslim religious and legal texts, royal documents, local legislations, notarial, and cadastral documents - the applicant will write a research monograph, accompanied by a database of selected manuscripts integrated into the Host’s servers, and (co-)organize a workshop. The research will be conducted in a trans-disciplinary research group at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona (Spain) under the supervision of Professor Linda Gale Jones, an international authority of comparative Muslim and Christian gender studies. The applicant will bring philological, historical, and anthropological skills that will facilitate research in the group and the transfer of ideas. Since democratic managing of increasing cultural diversity represents one of the crucial challenges that Europe is facing today the knowledge acquired from Islamic and Judaic intangible cultural heritage will prevent ethnic disintegration and promote understanding and reconciliation toward creating a plural, tolerant and broadminded cohesive society.

Mots clés : religious conversion, religious encounters, crown of aragon, judeo conversas, moriscas, 

Participants :
- Université Pompeu Fabra (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 181152.96 €
Projet CLG-G3BioF (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Global warming is leading to serious climate consequences worrying the world. What’s worse, the global CO2 budget will be used up soon, likely before 2030. Therefore, actions for CO2 mitigation are urgently needed to meet the agreed climate targets. Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs) are possibly the only implementable option to tackle this problem in such short period. This project stands on a novel NETs technology called Chemical Looping Gasification (CLG) and aims at producing the 3rd-Generation BioFuels (G3BioF). CLG is an unmixed gasification using oxygen carrier to transfer oxygen for gasification, thus fuel and air never mix. In light of this unique feature, the gasification product is absent of N2 dilution (thus the CO2 capture is inherent), and in the ash-free air reactor heat-exchanger corrosion is less possible. Microalgae is biomass, a major source for G3BioF, but it has very high content of problematic ash impurities. However, CLG is hypothesized capable to handle this fuel, in addition to its negative CO2 emissions. This project will first select suitable oxygen carrier for microalgae-CLG, through intensive experiments in a batch fluidized-bed reactor and an 1.5 kW continuous pilot. The selected oxygen carrier will be used in a 50 kW dual fluidized-bed pilot for proof of concept and performance optimization. A process model with reaction kinetics details will be established and used to analyze the technology integration with downstream processes. Finally, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) will be applied to the process chain to evaluate the environmental impacts. This is expected to identify the most promising integration having the best economic and lowest environmental impact. Through the project, the applicant will progress as a scientist and gain at least skills of LCA, complex pilot operation, tar analysis. This project is ambitious for a much greener production of biofuels and the results are important to power a sustainable future.

Mots clés : chemical looping oxygen carriers redox reactions fluidized bed carbon capture nets beccs biofuels microalgae

Participants :
- Conseil supérieur de la recherche scientifique (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 181152.96 €
- Public University of Navarre (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet HIC-HP (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Perturbative QCD (pQCD) derived from first principles, is used to predict experimental observations involving large momentum transfer, such as high-energy jet productions in proton-proton collisions, and the strong interaction between the jet and the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) medium created in nucleus-nucleus collisions. Recent experimental observations have shown that stronger energy-loss mechanism is at play for jets with large transverse momentum, which current perturbative approaches failed to describe. Utilizing an incoherent approach, I will derive an improved energy-loss mechanism that can provide accurate description of the nuclear modification at large jet momentum, which can restore the predictive power of pQCD and allow us to extract the transport property of the hot nuclear medium. The theory of pQCD also anticipates a saturation phenomenon, whereby the density of gluons tends to arrive at equilibrium between the splitting and recombination of gluon quantum fluctuations as the momentum fraction becomes smaller. Recent theoretical development have mitigated the negativity and instability problem that appears in next-to-leading order calculations of forward jet productions under the Color Glass Condensate framework that takes into account the gluon saturation phenomenon. I will also develop a numerical program which incorporates this new approach to implement saturation effects in order to provide a reliable tool in search of saturation signal in current proton-nucleus collisions. The electromagnetic (EM) properties of the nucleus is also of great interest in ultra-peripheral collision (UPC) physics, where the EM form-factor of the nucleus under the GTMD prescription provides a 5-dimensional Wigner distribution of the nucleus. I will also construct a framework using GTMD approach and recent UPC experimental data to analyse the different quantum effects that appears as the EM background in a nucleus-nucleus collision.

Mots clés : quark gluon plasma, jet tomography, gluon saturation, heavy ion collisions, ultra peripheral collisions

Participants :
- Université de Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 209914.56 €
Projet PostGroWellBeing (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

As the world faces escalating environmental crises driven by human economic activity, research on planetary boundaries highlights critical ecological limits necessary to sustain human life. High-income countries primarily drive the overshoot of these boundaries, yet conventional economic models continue to promote perpetual growth, hindering key ecological goals like reducing resource use and achieving rapid decarbonization. Ecological economics suggests shifting from growth-centric approaches to post-growth strategies that prioritize reducing unnecessary production and consumption. While concerns exist about potential social consequences to post-growth pathways, evidence in post-growth literature indicates that both social and ecological objectives can be met simultaneously.  This project aims to advance this research by modeling the relationship between resource use and human wellbeing, identify optimal conditions for decent living within planetary boundaries across diverse contexts, quantify the probability of achieving wellbeing under different policy scenarios, and influence policy debates around degrowth. The model will utilize Bayesian probabilistic methods due to their ability to integrate both qualitative and quantitative data, to capture complex interdependencies among the social and biophysical indicators of wellbeing, make causal inferences, and ultimately provide insights for decisionmakers. Meeting the project objectives will involve developing a comprehensive Bayesian Belief Network (BBN) model as a framework to quantify the likelihood of achieving decent living standards under various scenarios while accounting for uncertainties and diverse regional contexts. This research will take an interdisciplinary approach to gain new insights that will inform policy decisions that prioritize human wellbeing, supporting post-growth economies that align environmental and social objectives globally.

Mots clés : degrowth, indicators, ecological economics, bayesian probabilistic methods

Participants :
- Université autonome de Barcelone (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 194074.56 €
Projet DEPWAT (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Coloniality is known as the “darker side” of modernity. It operates as a pattern of power implanted during the historical processes of colonization, although still in force through mechanisms and relations of domination and dependency, such as: center-periphery or non-cultural/civilized. Women from the Global South stand on the margins of modern-colonial standards of being, abbreviated in a state of primitivism. This proposal approaches the audiovisual training of subaltern women in Mexico, Ecuador, and Guatemala, to offer a decolonial pedagogical model that builds paths for inclusive education and adds to the sustainability of the Latin American audiovisual sectors. It applies a qualitative methodology through the notion of situated-knowledge, by retrieving the training experiences of indigeoenous and Afro-descendant community filmmakers and audiovisual media students; likewise, with the purpose of identifying the modern-colonial-gender factors that intervene in their education and further integration into the industry. Thereby, it contributes to theoretical and methodological gaps from an intercultural/transmodern standpoint.

Mots clés : decoloniality, global south, audiovisual media, subalternity, indigenous and afro descendant communities, women and gender, decolonial feminism, decolonial pedagogy, latin american studies, film

Participants :
- Université autonome de Barcelone (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 181152.96 €
Projet PostReNex (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) suggest a useful framework; however, they lack well-defined indicators, failing to account for resource interlinkages. Resource nexus thinking has gained traction recently since it targets synergies and helps avoid competition of resources. Additionally, decoupling economic growth from emissions and resource use has been sought after, and attempted through 'sustainable growth' and 'green growth' within the SDGs. This is a paradox since growth and climate mitigation are not compatible; growth has significant environmental and social costs. Consequently, critics of green growth (and subsequently the SDGs) are gravitating towards degrowth (which is not mentioned in the SDGs), whose goal is to reduce economic activity, reaching a level that is ecologically sustainable. Although degrowth has the virtue of recognising the concrete limits of global growth, it is still under development and has faced criticism, since it rarely presents implementable actions, with most research concentrating on conceptual essays. This project will integrate the postgrowth and resource nexus literatures to construct an analytical framework of indicators, to improve on existing SDG indicators (regarding water, energy, land, and materials), in a move away from green growth and decoupling principles, and towards principles of equity and sufficiency. The framework will consist of critical indicators accounting for embodied resource use to help towards an equitable downscaling of resource throughput. The extent of North and South’s “unequal exchange” will be quantified, critical resources and degrowth potential for different countries will be identified, while the limits to growth will be tested. Finally, this project will inform a meaningful discussion around green growth/postgrowth within the SDGs and elaborate specific and practical policy recommendations for the improvement of SDG indicators for both 2030 and beyond.

Mots clés : resource nexus, water energy land materials nexus, postgrowth, degrowth, ecological economics, indicators, sdgs, global south, global north, unequal exchange

Participants :
- Université autonome de Barcelone (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 165312.96 €
Projet NEST-Care (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

People with mental illness may suffer a deterioration of their condition and develop a severe mental disorder, alongside other collateral factors such as eating disorders, sleep disturbance, risky sexual behaviours, but also lack of care and support from family and friends, disability employment and financial deficiency. When it comes to creating positive change, relevant health care services should call for better coordinated action. Collaborative care settings imply the coordination of health service providers in creating a holistic plan of care that promotes healthy choices and develop a well-connected support system that incorporate patients’ social and environmental contexts. However, creating synergies towards healthcare integrated solutions among different set of players in healthcare is complex. Community health centres, pro bono clinics, private foundations, not-for-profit organisations, etc., have different needs, capabilities, and priorities that non necessarily converge. Is it possible to predict and facilitate the emergence of partnerships among different mental health services? Which factors nurture trustworthy relationships and sustain collaboration? How their networking performance and collective action can be evaluated? These questions have been insufficiently examined because, the analysis of multilevel collaborative processes (i.e., referrals, resource sharing, joint interventions and campaigns, as well as trust relationships and affiliations between public and private service providers and key personnel) has yet to be undertaken. Using the Catalonia’s example as case study of co-governance approach for mental health, and rooted in network science and multilevel network analysis, this project seeks to understand and map health providers’ partnerships and networking initiatives for integrated mental healthcare, as a way to better tackle health inequalities by promoting mental wellbeing and community-based solutions.

Mots clés : social networks, governance networks, community development networks, integrated health care, mental health

Participants :
- Université autonome de Barcelone (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 165312.96 €
Projet PACHAMAMA (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Paleodietary analyses of the first Andean cities: high-resolution assessment to macronutrients using a multiproxy approach. The socio-ecological circumstances that underpinned the rise of the earliest urban centers in the Americas are some of the most intriguing and unclear aspects of New World archaeology. In particular, the emergence of Andean cities 5000 years ago has been the subject of contentious debates. On one hand, the Maritime Foundations of Andean Civilization have challenged the conventional assumption that agriculture was a pre-condition for early city development, and on the other, recent archaeological investigations have reenergized these debates by demonstrating that plant management and agriculture were developed in the region before the rise of complex societies and urban centers. Uncertainties remain regarding the proportional contributions of plants, fish and terrestrial animals to individual diet, and their potential roles in sustaining early sedentary and stratified urban populations engaged in monumental architecture. PACHAMAMA will employ a suite of molecular techniques to unlock the relationship between diet and processes of social complexity among early urban groups in coastal Peru. Using a multiproxy approach that integrates stable isotopes of bone collagen (bulk and single amino acids), Bayesian mixing models, and palaeoproteomic analyses of dental calculus, the fellow will address the role of marine resources and plant production systems in Formative period (3000 - 1 BC) populations on the North-Central coast of the Central Andes, a region known as "the crucible of Andean Civilization." This novel integrative approach will advance the state-of-the-art on social complexity and urban development in hyper-arid regions of the ancient world.

Mots clés : bioarchaeology, paleodiet, history of agriculture, trajectories to civilization, andean civilization, formative period, history of urbanization, americas first cities

Participants :
- Université autonome de Barcelone (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 181152.96 €