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

Aromatic molecules are integral to every aspect of chemistry. In general, the preparation of these compounds is approached via the use of aromatic precursors that are progressively functionalized using reactivity like electrophilic/nucleophilic aromatic substitution. Derivatives equipped with electron withdrawing groups (ester, ketone...) are particularly used in synthesis but are often challenge to prepare. This is because aromatic chemistry has to follow some stringent selectivity rules that activate or deactivate specific positions. This means that installing a functionality on a deactivated position (e.g. meta in an electron rich aromatic) is very difficult and requires many steps.  This project seeks to address this challenge by developing an innovative approach to aromatic synthesis using simple Diels-Alder cycloadditions to construct a six-carbon cyclic framework followed by an unprecedented desaturation process. In particular, we will demonstrate the integration of three catalytic modes, photoredox + cobalt + HAT catalysis, as blueprint to progressively desaturate Diels-Alder cycloadduct to poly-functionliased aromatics. This reactivity will streamline the preparation of many high-value but difficult to make aromatic products, will be used in late-stage functionalizations and will substantially expand the fields of dual photoredox–cobalt catalysis and boryl radical chemistry.  This research capitalizes on recent developments of the Leonori group that has experience in the development of methodologies based on both desaturation and boryl radical reactivity. The completion of such an innovative and ambitious project at RWTH Aachen University will be facilitated by generating, transferring, sharing and disseminating knowledge, and will enhance my future career following the training plan envisioned.

Mots clés : aromatic synthesis, h atom transfer, boryl radicals, photoredox catalysis, desaturation

Participants :
- Université technique de Rhénanie-Westphalie à Aix-la-Chapelle (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 173847.36 €
Projet IPconnect (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Economic Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The recent rise of industrial policy (IP) worldwide is reshaping the role of the state in the economy. A key challenge for industrial policy is to involve industrial groups in policymaking and implementation without allowing them to dominate the process. The main objective of this project is to study whether corporate connections of bureaucrats are beneficial or detrimental to the design of IP with the specific objective to promote private capital transfer from one region to another. This project leverages one of the largest state-led investment programs in recent history, employing quasi-experimental methods to credibly estimate causal effects in combination with high quality administrative data. It studies the German Treuhand agency that sought to transform East Germany’s troubled state-owned enterprises suffering from low labour and energy productivity in the wake of the German reunification. The agency’s leaders, recruited from West Germany’s business elite, were tasked with attracting Western capital. However, their close connections to West German businesses raised concerns about potential conflicts of interest.  This project evaluates the effectiveness of the regional capital flow through connections, first, by assessing the performance of firms acquired by connected and unconnected investors. Second, drawing on detailed data on sales contracts, the project estimates the effect of connections on transaction outcomes. Third, it assess the impact on connections on the performance of corporate investors that participated in the large-scale investment program. The project's findings will be pertinent for the design of institutional policies around the avoidance of conflicts of interest in industrial policy.

Mots clés : industrial policy, bureaucracy, connections

Participants :
- Université de Maastricht (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 232916.16 €
Projet INTERSPECBORD (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Climate change, escalating geopolitical tensions, and domestic civil unrest have multiplied the claims made on Himalayan territories cohabited by animals and humans in the name of security, conservation, and development. Hence, the study of human-animal conflicts has become a major area of focus for International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs) like the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF). Despite their efforts, scholars point out that current approaches by INGOs discount the interconnected nature of historical, cultural, and political dimensions of human-animal interactions, which limits their ability to create sustainable and just solutions to the ongoing processes of political, ecological, and economic transitions for indigenous communities and their non-human cohabitants, both in the Himalaya, as well as across the globe.  INTERSPECBORD examines how interspecies politics historically shape the mobility and identities of human and animal bodies in South Asian Himalayan borderlands from the colonial period in the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Rather than approaching this subject from the perspective of the ‘global south’ or ‘global north,’ this project will emphasise the role of circulation and the ways that different assemblages of ideas, technologies, people, and animals move across space and how historical encounters between these assemblages both shape and are shaped by Himalayan borderland places and ecologies. Against this historical background, this project will investigate how human and non-human species co-produce new bordering practices, which includes hybrid identities, practices of social differentiation, and novel ways of establishing control over borderland spaces. Methodologically, INTERSPECBORD is an interdisciplinary project combining historical research inspired by postcolonial approaches with multispecies ethnography.

Mots clés : postocolonial studies animal studies himalayan studies critical border studies

Participants :
- Université de Maastricht (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 203464.32 €
Projet GoLingua (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

GoLingua contrasts the French language’s relative decline across post-Napoleonic Europe against its prominence as a “Global Lingua Franca” among new elites who came increasingly in contact with European space from 1800 through 1870. By focusing on the outward spread of the language from Paris to the country’s modest empire, researchers have lost sight of the female speakers and isolated elites from many areas who adopted French to connect with a globalizing world. My research recovers the stories of non-native French speakers from many regions in order to propose a new transnational framework for the study of the history of language. Recent histories of global French begin their accounts in the final third of the nineteenth century, when the French colonial empire expanded beyond Algeria. I challenge this consensus by showing how speakers outside French space learned the language in a much earlier period. Shared communications in French created a long-lasting form of social cohesion that stretched across national and imperial borders. The project will lead to two peer-reviewed articles on the ways that various groups used French in three locations: Haiti, Germany, and Russia. My grant will give me new skills in the Russian language and quantitative discourse analysis, which will be applied to conduct research in German, French, Luxembourgish, and American archives. A secondment in France will allow me to attend French cultural events in Paris before returning to Trier to meet Institut Français officials working in Frankfurt and Luxembourg. A writing project developed out of these meetings will communicate the global significance of my research. By uncovering the polyvocal origins of global francophonie, I demonstrate the importance of multilingualism for a cosmopolitan European identity today.

Mots clés : transnational french history global history history of germany, russia, and haiti french and francophone literature historical sociolinguistics

Participants :
- Sciences Po (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Trèves (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 189687.36 €
Projet Sus-Money (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The next generations will not need a money designed for infinite long-term economic growth, but a sustainable money designed for managing limited and fragile common pool resources and able to support sustainable development and environmental protection. Sustainability studies developed in many areas of research, while in the field of money research there are ongoing studies for the sustainable allocation of financial capitals but not for a sustainable money design, regulation, and functioning. Sus-Money research will cover this gap providing 1) a new framework for the study of the characteristics, regulation, and functioning of a sustainable money; 2) a classification of the sustainable dimensions of the European experiments of monetary innovation; 3) an empirical study on Chiemgauer complementary currency to assess whether this type of money can support a sustainability transition. Sus-Money is a novelty in the panorama of the sociology of money, economics, and sustainability studies because, for the first time, money is studied in the light of a general theory of sustainability (related to politics, economics, ecology, and culture) and with a mixed-method research design. The use of the social mechanisms approach is also a novelty in money studies. Results will provide knowledge useful for the replication of monetary experiments with sustainable aims in different contexts. Sus-Money will open a new field of research and offer also crucial information for the policy debate for a new sustainable money. The hosting institution is Trier University with the supervision of Prof. Andrea Maurer, an internationally renowned expert in the field of economic sociology and social mechanisms. The secondment will take place at the Max Planck Institute for Study of Societies in Cologne with the supervision of the director Prof. Jens Beckert, a prominent international scholar on the field of economic sociology and the study of money.

Mots clés : money, sustainability, complementary currency, local development, social economy

Participants :
- Société Max-Planck pour le développement des sciences (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Trèves (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 189687.36 €
Projet SusIsocyanide (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

SusIsocyanide is an ambitious project that aims for the sustainable synthesis of isocyanides by combining biobased feedstock, visible light and flow chemistry. The aim is to accomplish an economically viable and ecofriendly large scale synthesis of this fundamental and highly versatile building block that has already found widespread appreciation in academia, but suffers from underutilization in the pharma-, fine-chemicals and materials industry. In accordance to the European Green Deal, the devised methodologies will provide an expedient synthetic platform to achieve the automatic synthesis of isocyanides, without the need of toxic and hazardous reagents and avoiding substantial waste production. This will constitute a ground-breaking improvement far beyond the current state-of-the-art, especially considering that the traditionally employed synthetic procedures towards isocyanides have hindered large-scale preparation and therefore industrial utilization. In light of the main goal, SusIsocyanide will constitute a launching platform for the Fellow, since the interconnection between his expertise in photoredox catalysis and flow chemistry and the experience of the host group (Maastricht University) in isocyanide chemistry provides fertile soil for fruitful collaboration and success. Because of the close collaboration in this project with Brightland Chemelot Campus, the Fellow is trained in the industrial utilization of isocyanides in polymer synthesis and advance functional material applications. This highly complements his academic knowledge with industrial application of the developed ideas. Overall, SusIsocyanide will provide a sustainable alternative for the synthesis of isocyanides, taking into account further implementation through industrial applications. The use of simple green feedstock in combination with enabling technologies is the key element that makes the difference to achieve the overall aim and objectives presented.

Mots clés : isocyanide synthesis, photoflow chemistry, process intensification, polyisocyanides

Participants :
- University of Regensburg (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Maastricht (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 189142.32 €
Projet UNGENDERED VALUES (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Economic growth boosted by entrepreneurs and gender inclusivity is one of the major priorities of the European agenda, which calls for more entrepreneurs and empowers female entrepreneurship. The transfer of knowledge and technology generated in academic settings to the industry is essential for this growth. One condition for this transfer to happen is that researchers are willing to engage in research commercialization ventures or in relationships with industry actors. Previous research has shown, on the one hand, that scientists have intrinsic value-laden motivations to engage in these ventures or relationships other than pecuniary reasons; on the other hand, it has suggested that women scientists do not engage in innovation activities because, among other reasons, these activities are tied to notions of masculinity. UNGENDERED VALUES will consist of the 24-month project "Disrupting gendered stereotypes and disclosing neglected value-laden motivations of academic entrepreneurship" that will contribute to understanding researchers' innovation behavior in a time, in which other types of entrepreneurship are socially desired and expected, a new social moral of science is spreading, and more gender equality in society is being gained. UNGENDERED VALUES includes, on the one hand, an unprecedented interventional study that aims to disrupt gendered stereotypes of entrepreneurship among STEM scientists with the use of cinematography. On the other hand, it encompasses a multimethod study aimed to disclose the role that (un)gendered neglected pro-social and intrinsic values and other broader mix of causes play in triggering, maintaining, and dissuading STEM researchers' entrepreneurial initiatives over time. The empirical work will be carried out with women and men scientists in STEM fields.

Mots clés : researchers innovation behaviour, value laden motivations, gendered entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, 

Participants :
- Université d'Ottawa (Canada) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Stuttgart (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 189687.36 €
- Université de Valence (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet Janina Project (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum (1899-1942) was a philosopher working on inductive reasoning and the interpretation of probability. In spite of her impressive publication list and international recognition, she never managed to secure a university post; and the histories of analytic philosophy barely engage with her work. This project will contribute to our understanding of what led to her exclusion from the philosophical canon, and develop a thorough analysis of the full body of her work—establishing what her rightful position in the history of analytic philosophy actually is. The first objective of the project is to understand how the career of Hosiasson-Lindenbaum and the uptake of her ideas in the philosophy community were influenced by her social status and her academic biography. This will be done by analysing her academic and social environment in Warsaw, focusing on how it shaped her intellectual development and how it determined her chances and recognition as a professional philosopher. Then, I will look at the last period of her career: her unsuccessful efforts to secure funding as a refugee scholar during World War II. I will identify the causes that led to the rejection of her appeals. The working hypothesis here is that the factors identified in these two parts are relevant to the uptake of Janina Hosiasson’s ideas in the wider philosophical community. The second objective is to reconstruct Hosiasson-Lindenbaum’s position on the foundational questions in philosophy of probability and inductive logic and to evaluate its conceptual and historical importance. This will be achieved by a detailed study of her whole body of work, spanning over thirty published and unpublished items, and her correspondence with other philosophers. Based on this analysis, I will first reconstruct her own position on the nature of the concept of probability. Then, I will establish what was her role in the development of confirmation theory.

Mots clés : confirmation theory, history of analytic philosophy, women in analytic philosophy, interpretations of probability, inductive logic

Participants :
- Université de Vienne (Autriche) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 183600.96 €
Projet WELLCOH (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

WELLCOH seeks to explore the relationship between social cohesion (SC) and subjective well-being (SWB) in the case of immigrants in Vienna and Budapest. Its innovative approach is not simply the strong linkage of the two concepts, but rather the attempt to understand their two-way causal relationship within one research framework. The aim of the project is to answer the following questions. How do immigrant communities perceive social cohesion (social exclusion, perceived tensions, intergroup trust etc.) and subjective well-being (life satisfaction, happiness, eudaimonia) in comparison with the native-born population and the European statistics? Has immigrants' well-being improved linearly with their material gains, or has it failed to reach the expected level due to the immaterial factors? What role do social relationships play in this process and how does SWB influence their migration intentions (stay permanently, return to the country of origin, or leave for another country)? How do the group-specific SWB differences influence the strength of social cohesion in Vienna and Budapest, and what are the main differences between the two cities regarding the social cohesion-subjective well-being nexus? The project applies a mixed methods approach, including secondary analyses (literature review, statistical data, international and national surveys: EQLS, EU-SILC, VQLS and the Hungarian microcensus) and the combination of qualitative and quantitative methods: focus groups, interviews and two additional surveys in Vienna and Budapest. The empirical findings will contribute to improving the existing theoretical literature, and they are expected to facilitate more effective, evidence-based policies in both countries. The Challenge of Urban Futures Research Platform at the University of Vienna will host the project under the supervision of Prof. Yuri Kazepov, an internationally renowned expert in urban sociology.

Mots clés : migration social cohesion well being integration austria hungary

Participants :
- Université de Vienne (Autriche) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 199440.96 €
Projet FLIP (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The control of levitated mesoscopic objects has developed into a flourishing field promising significant advances in sensing technologies, stochastic and quantum thermodynamics as well as macroscopic quantum physics. While optical levitation has already reached operation in the quantum regime, internal heating by absorption is a major challenge. With FLIP (Feedback Levitation on an Inverted Potential) we propose an original solution: dark field optical detection plus active feedback control provides position stabilization (without additional confining potential) and cooling to a close-to-pure quantum state without absorption. FLIP goes beyond the state of the art in several ways. It provides access to quantum control of absorbing objects in high vacuum (e.g. spin mechanics with NV-centers). It opens the door to large quantum superpositions via free-fall experiments with internally cold particles. It enables sensing and information thermodynamics with unstable potentials in the quantum regime. Following the recent demonstration of quantum limited position readout, real-time state reconstruction and feedback cooling to the ground state, it is the ideal time to develop levitation in the dark optical field. A controllable inverted potential for levitated particles is available in the host group, such that the project can be implemented from day zero and expanded towards a 3D dark quantum trap. Close collaboration with the Aspelmeyer group (partner group) and Prof. Kugi (ACIN) who jointly achieved feedback based ground state cooling will facilitate the implementation of FLIP. My expertise in FPGA-based optical feedback control puts me in a perfect position to implement FLIP. At the host group, I will expand my background in optomechanics, and quantum optics. Finally, continuing my research in information thermodynamics using FLIP, the proposed research will, if successful, sharpen my unique research profile and open fruitful research directions for my future career.

Mots clés : optical levitation, information and thermodynamics, feedback control, quantum systems, sensing

Participants :
- Université de Vienne (Autriche) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 183600.96 €