Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet DOC-FAM (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Cofund Doctoral programme
Statut du projet : CLOSED

DOC-FAM is a COFUND Doctoral Programme with a duration of 60 months presented by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and coordinated through the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB). The main aim of the programme is the training of 22 early-stage researchers during 36 months each as the next-generation of scientists in the exciting field of Functional Advanced Materials, while at the same time offering a complete training experience to the recruited fellows. This doctoral programme builds up on the recent award obtained by ICMAB as one of the 22 “Severo Ochoa Centres of Excellence”, an award given by the Spanish Government that recognizes institutions from all areas of knowledge that perform cutting-edge research at world standards. The award as “Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence” to develop “Smart Functional Materials for Social Grand Challenges” (FUNMAT, 2016-2019) demonstrates the outstanding international scientific leadership of ICMAB in the field of Advanced Functional Materials and Nanomaterials. The aim of the research programme offered in DOC-FAM is to complement the training aspects of FUNMAT by offering the recruited fellows an excellence training programme in the bourgeoning field of Functional Advanced Materials through an interdisciplinary, intersectorial and international approach with the support of several partner organisations from the area, four of them contributing to the co-funding of the doctoral programme. The designed training programme combines different types of activities that will enhance their research and personal skills, providing them with new career perspectives.

Mots clés : advanced functional materials, training, complementary skills, excellence

Participants :
- CERCA Institution (Espagne) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Spanish National Research Council (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 1726560.0 €
- ALBA Synchrotron (Spain) (Espagne) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (Espagne) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet DOCC (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Cofund Doctoral programme
Statut du projet : SIGNED

DOCC is an interdisciplinary doctoral programme at the University of Innsbruck for 15 international early-stage researchers on modelling and simulation in physics, chemistry, atmospheric sciences, material and engineering sciences, mathematics and computer science. DOCC provides structured advanced training in both research-relevant and professional skills, by building expertise in the intersectorally seminal fields of computational material, fluid and gas dynamics, which procure multiple topical technological, societal and medical applications relevant to climate, energy, safety, or nano and life sciences. All of these areas require a capability for predictive modelling and in-depth understanding of structural and dynamical properties of matter and materials, which often show a high level of dynamic complexity. In our research focus on "Dynamics Of Complex Continua" (DOCC) we develop and apply novel methods for theoretical and numerical analysis in modelling and simulation of dynamical processes, such as stability, nonlinearity, transport and structure formation. In particular we consider meso- and macroscopic many-body and continuum systems of solids, soft matter, liquids, gases and plasmas, that are characterised by complex couplings between its constituents, its environment, or multi-scale dependence. DOCC prepares Europe's next top modellers to link simulations and the real world within a multi-disciplinary environment, by providing beyond essential technical expertise also the training in key abilities to communicate and transfer methods and results. Targeted education in communication and knowledge-transfer skills is therefore implemented as a central supplementary pillar within the DOCC programme. The fellows will be provided with possibilities and encouragement to assume secondments to renowned international and regional academic and intersectoral partner organisations.

Mots clés : interdisciplinary physics based modelling, numerical simulation, scientific computing, physics, engineering, material science, chemistry, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics

Participants :
- Universität Innsbruck (Autriche) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 1220400.0 €
Projet DSMM (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

DSMM proposes a two-year fellowship at the CNRS in Aix-en-Provence, France, with a six month secondment at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, UK. Europe faces one of the most significant security issues of recent years in the threats posed by Islamist terrorism. Prominent in this, and little researched, is the role of social media in this process. The project aims to fill this gap by applying cutting-edge research in a vital field for the future of Europe in assessing the effect of social media narratives on the (de) securitisation of Muslims in France and the UK. It does this through taking an original and interdisciplinary approach, incorporating quantitative and qualitative methods and concepts from sociology, political science and media studies. The key research objective is to create an analytical account of the means by which social media narratives work to construct and deconstruct Muslims in France and the UK as security threats. This account draws on data from a range of social media platforms, in addition to interviews of key actors in France and the UK. In terms of outputs, the project will generate 3 peer reviewed articles. In addition, the work will be presented at international conferences and will feature in blog posts and policy briefs.


Participants :
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 173076.0 €
Projet DUST-GLASS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

DUST-GLASS aims at improving global dust prediction and monitoring by optimizing an advanced data assimilation system (LETKF scheme) coupled with a sophisticated atmospheric-dust model (NMMB/BSC-Dust). For the accomplishment of these core scientific goals, a fine resolution (0.1o x 0.1o) global dust optical depth (DOD) database, suitable for data assimilation, will be developed via a synergy of state-of-the-art Level 2 satellite retrievals acquired by MODIS, MISR and OMI sensors (2007-2016). The impacts of assimilating this novel dataset (DOD) on model’s predictive skills, both at global and regional scale, will be assessed objectively. Global forecasts (5 days) will be carried out for different periods aiming at studying dust aerosols’ mobilization and transport from the major dust sources of the planet, while a global reanalysis (0.5o x 0.7o) dataset will be generated for long-term dust monitoring. In addition, regional short-term (84 hours) forecasts will be conducted for 20 Mediterranean dust outbreaks identified by a satellite algorithm in the framework of the MDRAF project (fellow’s previous MC-IEF). In the evaluation analysis, the model’s dust outputs will be compared versus measurements derived by ground networks (AERONET, MAN, ACTRIS) as well as against columnar/vertical satellite retrievals (MODIS, MISR, CALIOP). Moreover, temperature and radiation will be also considered since “corrections” on dust fields, thanks to data assimilation, are expected to be evident on both parameters due to dust-radiation interactions. The aforementioned variables will be compared against observations obtained by ground networks (ISB, RAOB, BSRN) and reanalysis/analysis products (ERA-Interim, FNL). Considering the multifaceted role of dust, the scientific outcomes of DUST-GLASS are expected to contribute effectively to interdisciplinary studies regarding dust aerosols as well as their associated impacts on health, anthropogenic activities, environment, weather and climate.

Mots clés : data assimilation, atmospheric dust modeling, satellite retrievals, ground measurements, dust aerosols, dust optical properties

Participants :
- National Observatory of Athens (Grèce) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 164653.2 €
Projet LyrA (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Dante’s worldwide reception and the construction of his figure as an Author (auctor&auctoritas, i.e., “creator” and “cultural authority”) have been traditionally explored from the point of view of his masterpiece, the Commedia, and of its commentaries, illustrations, and translations. And yet, Dante’s status results from a longue durée process in which his lyric poetry plays a major part in its own right. LyrA will explore the physical act of copying, editing, and printing Dante’s lyric poetry from the 14th to the early 16th century in Italy through the study of multi-text and multi-author volumes, both manuscripts and early printed editions. In the history of Dante’s poems’ circulation and reception, a field in itself of significant scholarly debate, the crucial function of editors and anthologists has been neglected. LyrA addresses this omission, expanding our knowledge of the cultural heritage bequeathed by Dante and in his name. It will explore the ways in which ‘national poets’ are born through editing and rewriting, and how major authors influence cultural development. The prints and manuscripts to be explored have mainly been treated as containers of texts in terms of textual transmission, rather than being examined as textual objects with an independent semantic value. Likewise, we lack entirely an analysis of the cultural interactions between different Italian regions in the canonization of Dante as lyric poet, and thus as an auctoritas, in particular the interaction between Tuscany and the Veneto. LyrA is notable for its interdisciplinary methodology, using material philology alongside textual criticism, literary history and criticism, codicology, and book history. Indeed, the analysis of the material features of books offers a fresh perspective from which to examine the main critical discourses emerging from Dante’s reception as a lyric writer: the advent of the Author as a distinct cultural figure, and the birth of the songbook as a literary genre.

Mots clés : dante alighieri, lyric poetry, italian literature and culture, material philology

Participants :
- University of Oxford (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 212933.76 €
Projet COINCOST (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Data centres, comprising tens of thousands connected servers, are the underlying technology empowering everything we do online. Driven by cloud computing and big data services, server-to-server traffic in data centres is increasing at an annual rate of 70%. This has motivated the development of 400G Ethernet, which is expected to scale to ≥1.6Tb/s in the future. This increase has resulted in both architectural and interconnection challenges. The first challenge is the scaling of the data centre network, which is expected to reach hundreds of thousands of servers. This trend has driven research in optical switching as an alternative to electronic switching for its fast switching in nanoseconds. The second challenge is the scaling of the data rate of the server-to-server interconnects. This makes coherent transceivers attractive as they offer higher spectral efficiency than current intensity-modulation direct-detection schemes. Future intra-data centre interconnects therefore require revolutionary technologies to address both challenges. But commercially available coherent transceivers, which are designed for long-haul, continuous data transmission, cannot meet the requirements for optically-switched data centre interconnects. Technical challenges include fast wavelength tuning, low-latency optical carrier recovery and equalisation. In COINCOST, I propose to develop coherent optically switched transceivers by designing and optimising frequency comb and injection locking techniques that address these technical challenges. These will be realised in photonic integrated circuits (PIC) in a cost- and power-efficient fashion and demonstrated in systems on the host’s unique platforms. COINCOST draws on interdisciplinary but complementary expertise from the host, industrial partners, and me, e.g., PIC, DSP, and clock-synchronised data centre networks. COINCOST will open new opportunities for me to lead research and benefit the photonics and communication industry in Europe.


Participants :
- University of London (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 224933.76 €
Projet SHEPHERD (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Data-intensive applications, such as search, social connectivity, and e-commerce, are increasingly relying on computer memory for storing and processing a large amount of data with low latency. Emerging disaggregated memory meets this growing demand by leveraging recent technology advances in high-density, byte-addressable non-volatile memory and low-latency interconnects to provide a large memory pool shared across micro-server compute nodes. With a larger memory density and capacity though, memory errors will become more frequent. Addressing such errors becomes paramount as they can cripple service availability and cause data loss. However, established hardware techniques for tolerating memory errors transparently to application software, originally developed for DRAM-based main-memory systems, become impractical at the scale of disaggregated memory due to increasing performance, energy and area overheads. This research will investigate and develop cross-layer memory resilience techniques where software and hardware work together cooperatively to prevent service unavailability and data loss due to memory errors in disaggregated memory with low overhead. It capitalizes on the existing strengths of the experienced researcher (ER) in the area of system software design for non-volatile memory and expertise of the host on memory fault tolerance and micro-server architectures. It will lead to several publications in top-quality venues and will inform forthcoming industrial efforts to develop resilient disaggregated memory micro-server architectures, thus contributing to the research output, visibility, and economy of Europe. Overall, the fellowship will give the ER the opportunity to reintegrate into a long-term academic position in Europe, after a long and fruitful research career in the academic and industrial sectors of the United States. The ER will emerge from the project with new skills and the capability to effectively lead his own research group.

Mots clés : rack scale architectures, non volatile memory, disaggregation, fault tolerance, hardware, software codesign

Participants :
- University of Cyprus (Chypre) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 145941.12 €
Projet DataMeDe (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

DataMeDe – Datafication, Media and Democracy is MSCA IF Proposal aimed at examining the journalism datafication, from a comprehensive and multilayered perspective. Objective of DataMeDe is to advance our knowledge about the role of audience datafication in transforming news-work. From one point of view, audience datafication leads to production of content that attracts audience, regardless of the informative, citizen value of news. From the other, it improves connection between journalist and audience, strengthening financial base of news-work. Existing scholarship is characterized by great conceptual divergence, conclusions mostly based on perceptions of journalists or editors, and largely unquestioned belief that audience datafication is closing the ‘news gap’ between journalists and news users. Borrowing from sociology of news, hierarchy-of-influences, and audience studies, DataMeDe will advance the concept of datafied journalism, by conducting research at four interrelated levels: 1) individual journalist 2) newsroom structures 3) inter-organizational 4) reception level. DataMeDe will use mixed methods approach, combining ethnographic observation and interviews at first three levels, and survey with audience. Such multilayered perspective will allow DataMeDe to: a) identify factors that influence differences in comprehension and utilization of audience data by journalists, editors, mangers, media-tech workers b) explore the gap between actual, and audience news preferences re-constructed by audience data. By shedding light on disconnections of journalism practice with executive decisions and audience preferences, DataMeDe will provide research-based evidence to inform policy debates about audience privacy and data-tracking, digital media literacy campaigns, media industry, journalism education development, while advocating for tools and practices that benefit public good and not just prosperity of media organizations.

Mots clés : datafied media, audience first journalists, audience datafication, public service, journalistic role conceptions

Participants :
- University of Bergen (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 214158.72 €
Projet IDENTIS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Debates in today's Europe are often centred on identity discourse, especially in the Mediterranean, intended as a fixed package of un-mutable elements to preserve and defend. From many sides in Europe is now urged to redefine identity in its complexity. Archaeology ought to have a proactive role in this mission, due to its capacity to see through the verticality of time, breaking the here-and-now boundaries. Through this IF, I will contribute to this endevour, by focusing on social relationships’ development through time in antiquity. I will investigate how, to answer questions asked by the necessity their contemporary world, ancient communities of Sardinia dealt with social relationships by interacting with the materiality of the past, of power, and of the surrounding landscape. For the purpose, a study of funerary contexts of AD 100-600 Sardinia provides ideal conditions. Through the work, I will develop my doctoral study on west-central Sardinia's necropolises by relating them to both their surrounding landscape and the practices of interaction with the materiality of the past (respresented by re-opening and manipulation of ancient graves). These multi-dimensional relations escape over-simplistic identifications of identity with specific objects or practices only. I will carry out the IF through the supervision of a landscape studies international authority, Sauro Gelichi, in Ca' Foscari Venice, and a secondment in the Museum of Broken Relationships, Zagreb, ending with an exhibition. I will carry out an archaeological survey of 4 rural necropolises, coordinate specialists' bone anlyses, and engage with a social interpretation of those data. Through them, I will provide new information on the so far unknown settlements feeding the necropolises, on how the Empire's productive strategy in the island changed both the agricultural land's organization and the social bonds at local level, and on what practices local communities adopted to overcome social breakages.

Mots clés : social archaeology, archaeological theory, material culture studies, past and present

Participants :
- Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 257209.92 €
Projet OceanModes (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Decadal climate predictions are a strong societal need for both EU and non-EU communities. However, mechanisms of low-frequency variability of the climate system remain unclear, preventing accurate prediction of decadal climate changes. Several mechanisms have been proposed so far and they can be sorted in three categories: ocean only, atmospheric only and coupled dynamics. My project falls in the first category, focussing on the intrinsic variability of the ocean forced by prescribed steady (or seasonally varying) atmospheric forcing. Because of the long memory of the ocean, recurrent patterns of oceanic variability, such as the oscillatory free basin modes, are the best candidates for decadal predictions of the ocean-atmosphere system. However, our current understanding of the dynamics behind basin modes is low and urgent action is needed to improve it. An important question is whether these patterns can emerge above the noise level of stochastic variability. One of my scientific hypotheses is that local baroclinic instability at high latitudes, in addition to wind-stress and surface buoyancy fluctuations, can excite robust global modes of oceanic variability. Objectives of my project consist in increasing our knowledge of oceanic basin modes and assessing their relevance to decadal climate predictions. In the first part of the project, the dependence of the global modes on external parameters, such as bathymetry, model resolution, coastlines and mean flow will be systematically studied in a step-by-step approach. In the second part, I will obtain the optimal forcing of the basin modes and its dependence on the external parameters cited above. In the third part, the basin modes will be calculated in a realistic setting of the world ocean and rationalized in the light of what have been learnt in the first two parts.


Participants :
- Université de Brest (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 264668.4 €
- University of California System (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €