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

Nature-based solutions (NBS) have gained traction over the past decades as a urban design philosophy that reduces pressures of climate change by creating sustainable and resilient urban spaces. With an investment of over €240 million, EU proves that NBS is “essential component” in its sustainable development strategy. However, the use of blue-green infrastructure, a core component of NBS is often too technical, excluding a primary user and beneficiary, general public, from giving input into NBS planning. This further leads to the lack of public acceptance of NBS projects and poor socially-responsible design. Hence, there is a need for better tools and processes to facilitate co-creation of NBS projects between public and planning professionals. The aim of Public pArticipatory Co-creation Tools for NBS (PACT-NBS) project is to create a framework for facilitation of urban NBS co-design by using public value frameworks integrated within serious games to aid decision making. This will be achieved by: (1) using systematic approach to establish public values metrics relevant to diverse European communities; (2) developing and testing serious gaming tool integrated with environmental and social objectives for urban design; and (3) providing holistic co-creation framework for serious game application in NBS planning, based on the results of public and professionals testing across Europe. PACT-NBS goes beyond the state-of-the-art by addressing critical gaps in NBS public planning, but also captures EU's policy objectives and sustainability agendas through European Green Deal and SDGs 6 and 11. Utilising researchers extensive background on NBS development and social engineering, together with cross-European collaboration and professional networks through hosting institution and non-academic placement, the project will not only deliver the highest benefits to research, industry and general public, but form international network to advance EU's climate and social resilience.

Mots clés : nature based solutions green blue serious gaming co creation participation green deal urban modeling

Participants :
- Istrazivacko-razvojni institut za vestacku inteligenciju srbije (Serbie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 175234.8 €
- Vodena doo kragujevac (Serbie) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
Projet Power and the Past (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

This project compares the archaeological research that scholars from Austria(-Hungary), Italy, France, and Germany conducted in the Balkan countries of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, Albania, and Kosovo between the 1860s and 1941. During this period, the researchers' countries/empires were interested in the Balkans for various, and respectively specific, political, geostrategic, economic, financial, imperial, and colonial reasons. The project combines this transnational and global history with the history of archaeology in the Balkans as an often-neglected region and the so-called "European Orient". Principal research questions are (1) how archaeological interest in the Balkans emerged and developed in the four countries/empires, (2) how that archaeological interest was influenced by the respective government’s interests and policies in the region, and (3) how archaeologists viewed, and cooperated with, local researchers and inhabitants. The project will be hosted by the Institute of Culture Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and, through a secondment, the Department of Archaeology of the University of Ljubljana. Sources are archaeological publications as well as archival materials of individual researchers and scientific and governmental institutions. Their interpretation will be supported by visualisations of the analysed research in maps. Findings are disseminated through, among other things, an international conference and a student workshop as well as, to non-academic audiences, a public exhibition. As a result, the project will contribute, among other things, to developing the history of archaeology into an autonomous, interdisciplinary, reflexive field, and to heightening the public's awareness that archaeology does not operate in a vacuum, but is always conditioned by its historical context, and that archaeological finds cannot be made without the knowledge and support of local inhabitants and cooperation partners.

Mots clés : balkans, austria hungary, italy, germany, france, scientific imperialism, scientific colonialism, orientalism, archaeological workforces, history from below

Participants :
- Université de Ljubljana (Slovénie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Académie autrichienne des sciences (Autriche) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 199440.96 €
Projet DE-STRESS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Stress influences health and wellbeing throughout the human life course, from prenatal to final stages. However, there are multiple methodological challenges to assessing past occurrences of stress. In studies of living populations, typical measures of stress only reflect recent experience. In archaeological populations, stress markers in skeletons are often challenging to interpret as they are non-specific and indirect measures of stress.  Cortisol is a glucocorticoid hormone produced in response to stressors, stimulating changes in multiple bodily systems. Therefore, cortisol acts as a primary channel through which external stressors become internalised within the body. Although cortisol is commonly assessed in blood, saliva and hair from living humans and animals as a sensitive indicator of recent stress experience, new research has successfully detected cortisol in teeth from living and archaeological populations. Teeth begin development in-utero, providing a record of early life experience, and also preserve well archaeologically, overcoming some of the difficulties in retrospective analyses of stress. Further research is now needed to correlate variation in dental cortisol concentrations with stress experience.  Using 200 early-forming teeth from archaeological and living populations, the aims of this project are 1) to validate the current methods for assessing dental cortisol; 2) to assess potential sex-based differences in cortisol in primary teeth; and 3) compare dental cortisol data with known episodes of stress in living individuals and plague-related mass graves in the St. Pölten-Domplatz cemetery. The emphasis on exploring cortisol embedded in teeth during prenatal and early life stages is due to the dramatic and enduring effects of maternal and early-life stress on health and wellbeing throughout the life course. This research has the potential to provide new ways to understand the skeletal embodiment of stress in past, present and future populations.

Mots clés : bioarchaeology, palaeopathology, stress, pregnancy, childhood, motherhood, early life adversity, maternal stress, black death

Participants :
- Université Purdue (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Académie autrichienne des sciences (Autriche) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 199440.96 €
Projet CODRA (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

In recent years, neutral atoms in tweezer arrays have gained prominence as scalable platforms for a variety of quantum technology applications, primarily due to the powerful collective dynamics offered by the Rydberg blockade mechanism. As the platform’s size continues to grow, there is an increasing theoretical emphasis on devising protocols that predominantly utilize global atom driving, given the persistent challenges associated with individual atom addressing. In this research proposal, the Applicant will deepen the understanding of the complex collective dynamics inherent to Rydberg arrays, with the objective of formulating innovative, scalable protocols that minimize the reliance on local controls. He will investigate a brand new set of dynamics, made accessible via the strategic inclusion of proper arrangement of atoms – superatoms and Rydberg gadgets – for quantum computation and optimization purposes, leveraging the Host’s deep expertise in the field.

Mots clés : rydberg physics, neutral atoms, quantum optimization, quantum computation, quantum optimal control

Participants :
- Académie autrichienne des sciences (Autriche) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 183600.96 €
Projet MALAYMATRIMONEY (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

This project is an anthropological investigation into the division of matrimonial assets in the Malaysian Islamic family law (IFL) from a socio-legal and gendered perspective. The concept of matrimonial assets is not officially recognized in classical Islamic law; rather, it is an adat (customary) tradition long practiced in the Malay Archipelago, where the dominant bilateral system of gender relations accords both spouses mutual access to, and ownership of, the resources jointly acquired during the marriage. This project will first examine the juridical processes and justifications enabling the incorporation of this provision into the IFL, thereby codifying as “Islamic” what actually originated from Malay adat. Second, it will analyze how this provision was translated into practice in the Malaysian Shari’ah judiciary, to understand how it fulfills adat’s original intention to preserve and enhance women’s economic security in precarious marriages such as polygyny. To pursue these lines of inquiry, I will conduct ethnographic and archival fieldwork in a Shari'ah court situated in the Kuala Lumpur metropolitan region. The project will include interviews of Malay couples in the process of dividing their matrimonial assets, and archival research into past polygyny applications. The ultimate aim of this research project is to assess whether the Malaysian Shari’ah system is equipped to protect the economic rights of Malay women who earn, own, and add to the acquisition of assets and circulation of resources as an equally important key economic contributor in the marriage.

Mots clés : malaysia, islamic law, polygyny, marriage, matrimonial wealth, malays, adat

Participants :
- Université de Bergen (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 226751.04 €
Projet OPTIFILT (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Efficient exploitation of solar energy is regarded as an effective solution to the problems induced by fossil fuel combustion. In the proposed work, a novel nanofilm spectral splitter (NSF) will be deployed in a hybrid CPV/T collector acting highly efficient solar energy conversion system contributing European Green Deal and UN Sustainable Development Goals. This collector will benefit from a step-change improvement in electrical efficiency via the optical filtering of spectral wavelengths that are inefficiently utilised by the PV cells in the form of heat, enabling the delivery of high-temperature heat and enhancing the life of the PV cells. This research aims to break entirely from conventional design principles and develop ‘PV mirror’ assisted solar thermal power systems, improving their annual efficiency by 15-20%. A novel concept of integrating NSF and PV cells for developing efficient ‘PV mirrors’ will be breakthrough research in the field of hybrid solar thermal power generation. The OPTIFILT project is highly interdisciplinary and covers diverse disciplines such as material science (nanofilm), physics (PV), energy engineering (solar collector development), mechanical and chemical engineering (thermal power generation). The host supervisor is a world-leading researcher who will provide expert training and support for design and development of the innovative hybrid PV/T concept. The researcher, a leading Indian researcher will bring his knowledge on the novel application of nanotechnology in solar spectral beam splitting to the host. Also, design of concentrating collectors will support OPTIFILT through planned short visits and secondment. The high-quality two-way transfer of knowledge required for this project will ensure that research goals are achieved, whilst also presenting a great opportunity to accelerate the academic career of the researcher. The completion of OPTIFILT will lead to significant economic and societal impacts within the EU and global

Mots clés : hybrid concentrating photovoltaic thermal cpv t collector, nanofilm, optical filter, pv mirror, heat recovery, european green deal

Participants :
- Imperial College London (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Rennes (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 211754.88 €
Projet TopAspOfGDST (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Mathematics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

My project lies at the intersection of set-theoretic topology and generalized descriptive set theory (GDST) on uncountable cardinals. Since the 1950s, topology has extensively studied metric spaces and their generalizations, but as foundational questions were largely resolved, research shifted toward new areas. In contrast, GDST is a relatively recent field that has gained considerable interest over the past two decades. Both fields share a common interest in studying (subsets of) the generalized Baire space, but they typically use distinct tools and tackle different questions.  Recently, efforts have been made to bridge these two areas, by introducing appropriate classes of "Polish-like" spaces in GDST, allowing the application of established topological tools in GDST while also opening new perspectives in topology. This synergy promises exciting opportunities for innovative research and greater insight in both fields and generates new applications of GDST beyond the well-established ones. However, these efforts have been scattered, with different classes of spaces being used, and they are still in their early stages, leaving much to be explored.  My project aims to strengthen this connection by systematically studying and comparing the various approaches used to incorporate topology into GDST, to establish a unified topological foundation for GDST. In the process, I will also tackle several open questions in topology that have arisen from recent GDST applications.  The project has two primary research goals. The first focuses on extending notions equivalent to metrizability to uncountable cardinals, including concepts like Nagata-Smirnov or Bing bases, uniform spaces, and regular bases derived from Arhangel'skii's Metrization Theorem. The second goal addresses completeness notions for topological spaces without a metric, such as (long) Choquet games, Čech-completeness, and the completeness of uniformities.

Mots clés : generalized descriptive set theory, set theoretic topology, bing nagata smirnov metrization theorem, paracompactness, choquet games, uniform spaces

Participants :
- Institut de recherches mathématiques Alfréd-Rényi (Hongrie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 166903.92 €
Projet COOLBattery (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The present project (COOLBATTERY) proposes a game-changing thermal management method for high-energy batteries, especially the Li-ion class which has captured the majority of the rechargeable battery market. This system is proposed to fill the main scientific and technological gap of high-energy batteries, i.e. optimal thermal management, to give them a new competitive edge for more significant impact and market share for a variety of energy storage applications in different sectors. The proposed innovation is an inter-layer thermal management sheet of high-performance materials to facilitate a strong yet uniform thermal flow between the cells while the temperature is within the safe range and to act as a thermal shield when a cell suddenly goes to high temperatures, preventing battery explosion or thermal runaway. COOLBattery pushes the state-of-the-art via i) establishing the theoretical foundation for calculation of performance and thermal stability degradation for Li-ion batteries in different states of charge and conditions, b) developing the most optimal design of the thermal management sheet, c) finding the optimal configuration of the battery when integrated with the cooling sheets, and d) techno-economic and environmental evaluation of the technology. The project will develop the fundamental theories and methods to design, optimize, and test this breakthrough technology. The outcome is a highly efficient Li-ion battery that will be a competitive candidate for efficient energy storage and management for a wide range of applications. The developed thermal sheet may also be further developed for lower and higher temperature ranges (and thus other critical thermal management processes) through future research building upon the cultivated knowledge in COOLBattery. The project will contribute to SDG-7 on clean and affordable energy; SDG-9 on industry innovation & infrastructure; and SDG-13 on climate action.

Mots clés : high energy batteries battery cooling battery thermal management techno economic environmental analysis

Participants :
- Université technique du Danemark (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 263393.28 €
- Université Nationale Technique d'Athènes (Grèce) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet ExpeCO2SolTrap (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Atmospheric CO2 contributes to 2/3 of the Earth’s global warming by greenhouse effect. Storing CO2 in deep geological formations is the main mitigation measure currently available. ExpeCO2SolTrap addresses solubility trapping (ST), a trapping mechanism of CO2 in dissolved form within the resident brine of the subsurface porous medium, which allows storing CO2 perennially by gravity. ST has been studied extensively in the last 10 years. But numerical studies cannot account for the pore scale heterogeneity of the flow, while most experiments cannot provide a full measurement of the system’ evolution (in particular its dissolution flux). Recent ground-breaking experiments by the host group and secondmend group of ExpeCO2SolTrap have shown that the growth of the instability is orders of magnitude faster than that predicted by a Darcy scale numerical simulation of the experimental process, due to coupling beween the gravitatitional instability and the heterogeneity of pore scale flow. This effect has been hitherto ignored in the literature. Furthermore, the impact of Darcy scale heterogeneity has hardly been studied, in particular not experimentally. ExpeCO2SolTrap proposes to (i) extend the experiments developed in the host group and secondment group to allow for pore scale measurement of fluid velocities three-dimensional (3D) granular porous media, in order to fully understand the aforementioned coupling, and (ii) to study the impact of Darcy scale (e.g., permeability/porosity) heterogeneity of the medium experimentally in granular porous media as well as in 3D-printed porous media of controlled heterogeneity. Two experiments, both relying on refractive index matching of the flowing liquid to the solid phase, but using respectively analogue fluids and dissolved CO2, will be used in parallel. Pore scale concentration fields will be measured by laser-induced fluorescence and scanning by laser sheets, while fluid velocities will be measured by stereo-PIV.

Mots clés : carbon dioxide sequestration, gravitational instabilities, solubility trapping, rayleigh taylor instabilities, convective transport

Participants :
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Rennes (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 195914.88 €
Projet LIBRA (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

LIBRA aims to develop a comprehensive analytical framework to evaluate lignin as a sustainable alternative to bitumen in asphalt pavements. Asphalt, a mixture of mineral aggregates and bitumen, is the most commonly used material in road construction but faces economic and ecological challenges due to its reliance on crude oil. To address this, renewable biomaterials like lignin are being explored. As one of the main components of trees, lignin is highly abundant and produced industrially as a by-product of the paper and pulp industry. Due to the large quantities available, its underutilisation, and chemical similarities to bitumen, it has great potential as an alternative binding material in road applications. However, the chemistry of lignin is very heterogeneous and depends on the biomass source and the processing method, which affects compatibility and durability of asphalt mixtures. To optimise the use of diverse lignin feedstocks, LIBRA will investigate how these chemical variations influence the performance of lignin-modified binders (LMB). In addition, the project will assess the recyclability and the emission of volatile and water-soluble pollutants to determine the direct environmental impact of LMBs. Combining expertise from pavement engineering, biomaterials chemistry, environmental sciences and analytical chemistry, LIBRA will correlate mechanical and chemical properties, examine fundamental (molecular) processes and predict performance and applicability of the LMBs. Techniques such as dynamic shear rheometry, dynamic mechanical analysis, multidimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and high-resolution mass spectrometry will be employed. The resulting framework will facilitate a sustainable transition to lignin-based asphalt, contributing to more eco-friendly road infrastructure, supporting the EU’s leadership in sustainable construction and addressing global priorities for greener materials and reduced carbon emissions.

Mots clés : bio modified binder, asphalt, lignin, bitumen, emission monitoring, mass spectrometry

Participants :
- Universität für Bodenkultur. Vienne (Autriche) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Rostock (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Nottingham (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 260347.92 €
- Institut Mines-Télécom (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €