Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet XReverb (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Extended Reality (XR) refers to the technology which creates a 3D immersive environment where a user can perceive and interact with virtual objects by means of a head mounted display. Even though XR is still an active research area, its European market has already reached an estimated worth of €34 million, employing up to 480,000 people. It is expected that a mature XR infrastructure will raise the standards for remote working by enabling functional virtual workspaces, which could stimulate the European economy by offering equal opportunities to workers regardless of geography, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions due to less commuting, which is in line with European goals. A key part of XR is spatial audio, or sound signals which the user perceives as if they come from specific locations in a 3D space. Realistic spatial audio can be computationally expensive, particularly when simulating reverberation, i.e. the interaction of a sound source and the environment. This project investigates how humans perceive spatial reverberation to build more efficient rendering methods which enable high-quality spatial audio on XR. To that end, a novel reverberation encoding technique is proposed, based on a variable order Ambisonics framework, and a model for sound localisation in reverberation will be developed, which is expected to be a significant advancement in the field of auditory perception. The project will take place at a leading multidisciplinary group specialised on real-time spatial audio processing and who can offer excellent international collaboration opportunities. The researcher will bring skills on evaluation of spatial reverberation and inter-sectoral experience from having worked at a world leading research group within the industry, which will facilitate the transfer of knowledge. The proposed work will expand the researcher’s experience, competencies and professional networks, potentiating the development of his career as an independent researcher.

Mots clés : spatial audio binaural audio auditory perception reverberation auditory modelling sound localisation

Participants :
- Université de Malaga (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 181152.96 €
Projet EveryAesthetic (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Understanding the nature of aesthetic value is important because it forms a big part of what makes our lives worth living. In the last 10-15 years, there has been an upsurge of interest in theories of aesthetic value. However, most of this work has focussed on understanding the value of artworks and artefacts, and this has created a blind spot in understanding the nature of aesthetic value: the realm of everyday aesthetic phenomena. EveryAesthetic addresses this lacuna by developing an innovative approach to aesthetic value that takes seriously the extent of its diversity and fullness in our lives. It has two research and innovation objectives. First, it aims to identify and elucidate the challenges that everyday aesthetic phenomena pose to prominent existing theories of aesthetic value. Second, it aims to develop answers to two key questions regarding the nature of everyday aesthetic phenomena; namely, how to demarcate these phenomena as aesthetic and how to explain what makes them valuable. EveryAesthetic makes a timely critical intervention in current debates about aesthetic value, and it offers a foundational contribution to literature on everyday aesthetics, bridging the gap between these two fields of research. The supervisor, Prof. Elisabeth Schellekens, is a world-renowned philosopher who specialises in questions concerning aesthetic value. The host institution, the Department of Philosophy at Uppsala University (UU), has an exceptionally strong research record in aesthetics. Both are ideally placed in Europe to facilitate EveryAesthetic by supporting me to gain the expertise I need to pursue its objectives and enhance my employability. Meanwhile, I will transfer knowledge I have spanning the disciplines of philosophy and art history to the Department at UU by undertaking a variety of knowledge-transfer and dissemination activities, including delivering a postgraduate course, delivering guest lectures, and participating in its programme of research events.

Mots clés : aesthetics, aesthetic value, everyday aesthetics, value theory

Participants :
- Université d'Uppsala (Suède) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 206887.68 €
Projet RECKON (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

RECKON will analyze how women politicians and grassroots activists shaped the postwar remaking of the key political fields of public health, labor, foreign affairs and culture in post-World War II Central and Eastern Europe, with a focus on Romania between 1944 and 1948. In Romania and across Central and Eastern Europe, the period between the end of World War II and the start of the Cold War was one of extraordinary experimentation in women’s politics, with significant effects on postwar reconstruction. The four years between Romania’s 1944 armistice with the Allies and the 1948 establishment of the Popular Republic of Romania saw a first cohort of communist and left-leaning women politicians in office in the country (including, in 1946–1947, 17 MPs and two ministers). It saw tens of thousands of women mobilized for social work and political agitation. Most research on reconstruction stresses postwar state expansion in Western Europe and emphasizes postwar disarray in Eastern Europe. Women’s historians have focused on women in Eastern European politics in the less ideologically eclectic post-1948 period. RECKON aims to show that the postwar process of state reinvention in Eastern Europe resembled developments in Western Europe yet was region-specific through the importance women had as reconstruction planners and envisioned reconstruction beneficiaries, in a context marked by upheaval and flare-ups of violence. Merging approaches from gender history and transnational history, RECKON will advance understanding of the role of women and gender in the forging of new social contracts in Europe. It will enable the recruited researcher to enhance her expertise and professional capacities through career development and mentorship programs accessible through her host institution. RECKON’s deliverables are two articles, one edited volume proposal, two open access syllabi, one podcast script and regular blogposts.

Mots clés : central and eastern europe, postwar reconstruction, women s organizations, grassroots activism, left wing women s politics

Participants :
- Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 202125.12 €
Projet ClimRes (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Climate change remains one of the most critical issues facing global biodiversity and has already had a widespread negative impact on substantial numbers of terrestrial species. Despite these negative impacts, not all species are expected to respond equally to a changing climate. Identifying species that are vulnerable to climate-induced population declines is therefore vital for conservation efforts. Life history and demographic differences between taxa are a key candidate for explaining differences in these responses, but we currently lack a clear empirical link between demography and climate vulnerability across species. The novel framework of demographic resilience provides a promising tool to predict how a species will respond to environmental change. However, there is a desperate need to apply the population-resilience framework to recently developed datasets gathering demographic data and population changes for thousands of species. In the current fellowship, using demographic and abundance data from vertebrates across the world’s ecosystems, I will develop quantitative tools to quantify which species are currently the most resilient to a changing climate. To achieve this, I will address the following three broad research topics: 1) Quantify species-specific population responses to the climate anomalies and species-specific demographic resilience across the terrestrial vertebrates, 2) Assess whether demographic resilience predicts population-level responses to climate change, and 3) Infer taxonomic groups that are most vulnerable to a changing climate and use this information to improve conservation assessments. This fellowship will bridge the gap between population demography and environmental change, improving our understanding of how human-induced climate change is reshaping the natural world.

Mots clés : climate change, population ecology, demography, life history

Participants :
- Université de Sheffield (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Conseil supérieur de la recherche scientifique (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 165312.96 €
Projet CSCS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Economic Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The project “The Credit Safety Net and the Costs of Credit Supply Shocks” (CSCS) examines the effects of lender-imposed credit supply dynamics on households’ ability to weather idiosyncratic income shocks that are unrelated to the business cycle. It relies on longitudinal household surveys and leverages unexpected and exogenous health shocks to identify individual-specific, random variations in exposure to credit supply shocks. Beyond the foregone satisfaction of current consumption, CSCS emphasizes welfare costs by examining not only changes in household consumption and savings but also other financial coping strategies. These include asset divestments, such as exiting homeownership, and behavioral changes related to income-generating activities, like working overtime or taking sick leave. These outcome variables are crucial for welfare considerations given their implications for health and life quality conditions, yet they are often overlooked when evaluating the costs of imperfect credit markets. The policy implications are immediate and relate to a potential need for social insurance mechanisms to provide effective insurance for households.

Mots clés : financial intermediation, credit safety net, credit supply shocks

Participants :
- Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 151593.84 €
Projet SocGlas (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The project SocGlass aims to model intersocietal interactions in the Lower Dniester region in the Classical period (broadly, 6th c. BCE to 5th c. CE) through the archaeometric compositional study of glass supply patterns, and an investigation of spatio-temporal distribution of glass artefacts modelled by social network analysis (SNA). The vast lowlands north of the Danube delta (Ukraine and Moldova) formed a natural contact zone between the Greco-Roman world and the indigenous peoples of the Pontic region. Glass and glass items were often traded across ethnic and societal boundaries. The diversity of origins of imported glass in the region will be clarified by compositional analysis of glass finds, primarily from the ancient city of Tyras, testing a model of long-term, stable, meaningful patterns of glass supply. The fellow will trace changes in glass composition over a millennium and match them to possible changes in trade patterns, compiling a new model of glass circulation at the LD frontier. The spatial patterns of glass distribution in Greco-Roman cities and sites of the indigenous groups will be quantified and modelled through directed weighted social networks. The latter will be interpreted from a historical perspective looking for evidence of meaningful patterns of intersocietal interactions. Thus, SocGlas will address the issue of social relationships between the Greco-Roman world and indigenous groups, combining archaeometry and SNA to gain unparalleled insight into intersocietal networks in the region of the study. This approach provides a meaningful framework for combining typo-chronological, historic and archaeometric lines of enquiry, but has only rarely been applied to Classical studies and never to an archaeological record of such notable temporal length.

Mots clés : glass supply, pontic region, greek colonisation, roman limes, intercultural relations, directed social networks

Participants :
- KU Leuven (Belgique) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Bureau de contrôle et de gestion de la recherche et de l'innovation ( Cyprus Institute) (Chypre) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 164328.0 €
Projet PredicGenX (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Environmental factors are crucial to physical and mental health—they impact even the expression of our DNA. The study of epigenetics provides better understanding of gene-environment interaction. Environmental influence can come from outside and inside the organism but one environmental factor that is typically overlooked is people’s knowledge production and beliefs. PredicGenX responds to the scientific worry that predictions about genes are likely to be reflexive i.e., they impact the eventual outcome. Scholars have raised concerns that beliefs about genetic information affects genetic risk to match that information—a so-called self-fulfilling prophecy not unlike the placebo and nocebo effects. Studies showed that receiving one’s genetic risk profile can change physiology independent of actual genetic risk. Moreover, the current trend to focus on risk, biomarkers, and early diagnostics produces 'knowledge' which is inevitably based on undetermined information, given that gene expression is not fixed. Asserting genetic information as determined when the assertion itself has potential impact on genetic expression is especially alarming considering the popularity of direct-to-consumer genetic testing and precision medicine. Understanding the direct impact of genetic predictions on gene-expression, its vulnerability to feedback loops, and their moral implications is crucial, urgent, yet currently lacking. With this project, I aim to fill that knowledge gap. Through qualitative fieldwork and philosophical analysis, I will theorise the different ways in which reflexive (epi)genetic prediction manifests and—while detailing a descriptive account of the different models—offer an analysis of the epistemic and ethical implications of their reflexivity on research and practice, and the meaning for therapeutic intervention.


Participants :
- Université d'Anvers (Belgique) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 175920.0 €
Projet CONVISE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

In the attention economy, consumer attention is considered a finite, diminishing quantity acting as a currency where brands compete to attract and maintain. Attention-Based Marketing is a relevant emerging subdiscipline of Marketing that studies consumer attention to understand and improve (visual) marketing stimuli, marketing effectiveness, and consumer behaviour by uncovering the fundamental interconnections between attention and action. Three main challenges in this area include how to: a) efficiently measure consumer attention in fast-paced environments (e.g., in electronic marketing), b) optimise marketing stimuli for attracting consumer attention and c) democratise consumer attention data (e.g., eye-sensing data/facial expressions) for improving the experience of individual consumers, while respecting their privacy at the same time. In-line with the above-mentioned challenges, the CONVISE project will integrate insights from the Marketing and Computer Vision disciplines to design methods for sensing, predicting, and exploiting consumer visual attention that can be used to optimise marketing effort and enhance consumer well-being, in social media advertising settings. First, it will design video-based sensing technology for extracting reliable, market-relevant consumer visual attention maps, minimising the necessary human sensor (pre)-processing effort. Next, it will design tools for predicting consumer attention maps from the visual advertising content, without using any sensors, to produce objective advertisement evaluation metrics that can be employed during the visual advertising content design phase. Finally, it will experimentally evaluate the developed consumer attention prediction technology from a consumer behaviour standpoint and will develop sensing data de-identification technology, balancing between consumer privacy protection, perceived ad relevance and ad intrusiveness.

Mots clés : attention based marketing, consumer visual attention, privacy protection, deep learning

Participants :
- Université d'Anvers (Belgique) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 191760.0 €
Projet RuralDispossession (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

RuralDispossession investigates Ottoman privately-owned landed estates (çiftliks) in the late 18th and late 19th century. These estates were crucial to the Ottoman (and post-Ottoman) transition from a pre-modern economy to an industrial one. While debates on the nature and function of these estates constitute one of the fundamental historiographical issues for Ottomanists, they have remained dormant in past decades. More importantly, historians remain in the dark regarding the phenomenon's complexity and regional differentiation.The project traces the history of the Balkan çiftlik in relation to the transformation of rural society, peasant dispossession, labor regimes, and the textiles sector. It focuses on the district of Manastır (modern North Macedonia), a region crucial to the çiftlik phenomenon, characterized by a complex network of relations between the estates, villages, and centers of textile production. It wıll analyze the patterns of population change to determine the extent of labor mobility between settlements -especially instances of movement from villages into çiftliks and rural textile centers- to identify short- and long-term labor migration patterns. The overall project objective is to investigate the relationship between peasant dispossession, çiftlik formation, and textile production. Archival sources include Ottoman tax and property registers, population surveys, and court registers, will be combined and analyzed via GIS tools to make it possible to investigate the rural history of the district, establish a comparative framework with other regions, and contribute to the literature on the dynamics of the economic history of the Ottoman as well as post-Ottoman Balkan world. These methods will shed new light upon the çiftlik debate, given that Ottoman tax and property surveys have been under-utilized in historiography, and contain a wealth of information that promises much richer and more detailed understanding of the significance of the phenomenon.

Mots clés : ottoman history, balkan history, rural history, peasant studies, labor history, labor mobility, migration, dispossession, landed estates

Participants :
- Université Panteion de sciences sociales et politiques (Grèce) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 169326.72 €
Projet TransethnicSocialism (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

TransethnicSocialism explores the activities of minority socialists and their participation in the labor movements in Modern Turkey from 1923 to present-day. Despite the burgeoning literature on the socio-political history of the Republic of Turkey, a major lacuna is the participation of ethnic minorities in political processes. While the socialist and labor movements constitute a unique field to study this question due to the increased participation of non-ethnic Turks, it has hitherto escaped academic attention and study. To what extent have their ethnic backgrounds influenced their political choices? How have they been othered by the Turkish state, but also their ethno-religious communities due to their political choices? What markers of difference (e.g. gender, class, age, religion) other than their ethnic background intersected to shape their experience? Focusing on Jewish, Armenian and Greek socialists, the project breaks new ground in three ways: (a) it combines sources in the languages of these communities with Turkish ones, creating a unique dialogue of historical evidence reflecting the experience of these individuals; (b) it traces the overlap between the communal, the national, and the international in the political, social, and intellectual composition of their historical experience; and (c) it sheds light upon a little-known subject, namely the contribution of ethnic minorities to socialism in Turkey.

Mots clés : ottoman history, history of modern turkey, balkan history, ethnicity, class, socialism, diversity, community

Participants :
- Université Panteion de sciences sociales et politiques (Grèce) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 181423.68 €
Projet BiovalCO2red (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Using CO2 as a raw material for the production of fuels and chemicals plays a crucial role in achieving an environmentally friendly and circular economy. The objective of this project is to create a (photo-)electrochemical process that converts CO2 into methanol at the (photo-)cathode while simultaneously utilizing biomass for the anode reaction. Methanol is one of the top five chemicals produced in large quantities, historically relying on fossil fuel-derived feedstocks. Its well-established supply chain makes storage and transportation convenient. Traditionally, water oxidation has been the primary anode reaction, but its slow reaction kinetics and the low-value product (oxygen) make it less economically attractive. As an alternative, we propose replacing water oxidation with the oxidation of hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF). HMF oxidation offers a range of valuable products and more favorable reaction kinetics. This project encompasses various aspects, including material development, catalytic testing, optimization of reactor parameters, and advanced characterization techniques to establish the photophysics and reaction mechanisms involved. This comprehensive approach enables the rational design of photoelectrocatalytic systems and advances our understanding of how to harness light and electricity for catalytic processes, ultimately contributing to a greener industry and sustainable development.


Participants :
- Université d'Uppsala (Suède) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 236340.0 €