Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet LIMES (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Cofund Doctoral programme
Statut du projet : SIGNED

LIMES is a doctoral programme for 13 talented PhD candidates in the domain of the humanities and social sciences, centred on the theme of ‘The Hardening and Softening of Borders: Europe in a Globalising World’. The dynamics of ‘softening’ and ‘hardening’ borders have become key issues in social and political transformations. Conducting research within this framework means working on the frontline of societal and scientific innovation, and is therefore particularly attractive for a new generation of interdisciplinary researchers. Moreover, Maastricht – located in the heart of the transnational Meuse- Rhine Euroregion – offers excellent opportunities to function as springboard for the mobility of ESRs. The programme ensures that its graduates are well-equipped for the job market, within and outside academia. A rich training programme and tailor-made secondments at one of the external partners are geared towards extending the employability of LIMES graduates far beyond traditional options.

Mots clés : social sciences, humanities, cross border, interdisciplinarity, transnational mobility, international, intersectoral, employability, secondments, doctoral training

Participants :
- Maastricht University (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 1410240.0 €
Projet LIKE (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

LIdar Knowledge Europe (LIKE) fosters training and education of young researchers on emerging laser-based wind measurement technologies and its translation into industrial applications. Doppler Lidars (light detection and ranging) that measured the wind in the atmosphere remotely have reduced in price and increased reliability over the last decade mainly driven by European universities and companies serving the growing wind energy industry. This opens the possibility for new applications in many areas. LIKE improves, tests and refines the technology thus expanding these areas of application. LIKE promotes wind energy applications such as wind resource mapping using scanning lidars and control of individual wind turbines or entire wind farms in order to increase energy production and reduce mechanical loads. LIKE maps unusual atmospheric flow patterns over airports in real-time and thus improves the safety of landing aircrafts. LIKE explores wind and turbulence under extreme conditions at the sites of future European bridges paving the road for optimal bridge design. LIKE trains 15 ESRs to an outstanding level at world-leading European academic institutions and industrial companies, thus forming strong interdisciplinary relations between industry and technical sciences. These relations are implemented through employment of the ESRs at academia as well as industry, and through inter-sectoral secondments. Finally, translation of technology into specific applications is emphasised through the implementation of an entrepreneurship training course involving all ESRs and LIKE partners, particularly industry.

Mots clés : wind energy, atmospheric turbulence, scanner lidar, remote sening

Participants :
- Flensburg University of Applied Sciences (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 252788.4 €
- Technical University of Denmark (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 1487610.0 €
- University of Porto (Portugal) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 237720.24 €
- University of Bergen (Norvège) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 584684.64 €
- University of Stuttgart (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 252788.4 €
- Politecnico di Milano (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 261499.68 €
- Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 252788.4 €
- Ul international gmbh (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 252788.4 €
- Fraunhofer Society (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 252788.4 €
- University of Stavanger (Norvège) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 292342.32 €
Projet LNETN (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

LNETN responds to MSCA ETN objectives and addresses the urgent need for new legitimation perspectives, theories, approaches and methods to learn and know how best to interpret and respond to newness, committing to and ensuring a positive social impact. It is the first ETN that combines newness, legitimation and theory building to address the need for training of a new generation of ESRs with quadruple-i (inter-disciplinary, inter-sectoral, inter-technology and international) and transferable knowledge, skills and broad vision. LNETN timely sets up a unique, innovative quadruple-i research and training network within social sciences and economics, with applications in science, engineering, technology, health and humanities to provide a high quality quadruple-i research platform for the training of 15 ESRs in legitimation of newness and theory building focusing on interpretation and understanding of complex phenomena in ways which will transform effective decision making and policy implementation and contribute to economic development. The overall objective and main objectives are fulfilled by the following specific research objectives: link the dimensions of sustainability to the discussion of tomorrow’s leadership and organisation, connected to a discussion of qualitative and ethical organization; generalise into a widely applicable theory/policy/practice and provide high quality research data on how new industries and ventures gain legitimation; evaluate innovative structural and operational organisational typologies and identify best practices; create a substantial, path-breaking direction for studying newness in seemingly opposing social and ethical settings. LNETN will be implemented by strong international consortium of 4 universities from Europe, 1 from US, an NGO, 4 innovative, high-technology companies and 3 innovation hubs. LNETN consortium provides for quadruple-i mobility pathways, coupled with development of research-related and transferable competences.

Mots clés : legitimation, newness, theory building, new institutions, new policies, new industries, new forms of organizing, new technologies, radical innovation, sustainability, ecosystems, modern and traditional

Participants :
- Halmstad University (Suède) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 1127931.84 €
- Aalborg University (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 1190088.0 €
- University of Oulu (Finlande) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 1123223.04 €
- University of Glasgow (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 909517.68 €
Projet LOBFRAM (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

LOBFRAM aims to advance our understanding of lobbying and framing in foreign policy in the European Union’s (EU) system of multi-level governance. While lobbying in the EU has received a lot of attention in recent years, lobbying in foreign policy remains a largely under-researched topic. Therefore, this project will explore the activities of non-state actors (NSAs), such as business groups, NGOs and solidarity movements, in EU foreign policy, investigating the networks that are established at different levels (EU and member states) and framing processes. The main contribution of LOBFRAM will be to investigate networks as transmitters of ideas. In turn, this will help us to analyse how frames are created, get codified and become collective frames influencing foreign policy at both the EU and member state levels, as well as what mechanisms of mutual interaction exist between EU and national foreign policy positions. LOBFRAM will be based on an interdisciplinary approach building on international relations, EU studies, sociology and organizational studies and will rely on a mixed-methods approach. It will focus on the case study of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is one of the most important policy issues on the EU and member states’ agenda, also in light of the strong commercial links with Israel, the crucial role as donors for the Palestinians and historical legacies. The project will zoom-in on three big member states, namely the United Kingdom, Germany and France, and identify similarities and differences among these member states as well as between them and the EU level when it comes to lobbying and framing activities. The findings of this project will be published in a monograph and two journal articles and widely publicized to a non-specialised audience via outreach activities (e.g. a dedicated website, one policy brief and activities for students).

Mots clés : lobbying, framing, non state actors, foreign policy, european union, europeanization

Participants :
- Fondation nationale des sciences politiques (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 173076.0 €
Projet LOVE (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

LOVE will enable the experienced researcher, Dr. Alison Garden (AG) to undertake a 24-month fellowship at Queen’s University Belfast QUB) to deliver a project on ‘Love across the Divide’ in Northern Irish literary and cultural texts from 1968 onwards, under the supervision of Professor Fran Brearton (FB). This period of mobility will see AG learn new research-specific skills through working closely with academic experts at QUB; continue her professional development by attending courses offered by the QUB ‘Staff Training and Development Unit’ (STDU); conduct outreach activities with local schools through a partnership with international storytelling organisation, Narrative4 (N4); and gain research-relevant inter-sectoral experience through prestigious secondments at the Seamus Heaney HomePlace (SHH; (from months [M]7-9) and the British Broadcasting Corporation Northern Ireland (BBC NI; M13-16). Combining critical and practice-based methods will generate pioneering research, which will be innovatively disseminated for diverse audiences within and beyond the academy. LOVE will augment and advance AG’s international reputation as a leading scholar of interdisciplinary literary research.

Mots clés : northern ireland, ireland, britain, twentieth century culture, partition, love

Participants :
- Queen's University Belfast (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 183454.8 €
Projet LabAniTrans (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

LabAniTrans will detail the emergence and enactment of standard care practices for laboratory-housed animals since WWII. In doing so, it will construct the first comprehensive account of animal transportation care insofar as it relates to biomedical conduct. The project will synthesize two hitherto separate arenas of intellectual inquiry: historical investigation into the practice and development of inter-species care practices, and historical concern with the spatial dynamics of scientific objects of investigation. Whilst both of these themes have found prominence in the emerging field of animal studies, there is as yet little explicit appreciation of how they might productively intersect and/or diverge. In demonstrating ways in which notions of human-animal care alter spatial dynamics and vice versa, LabAniTrans will help set a new agenda within animal studies. This agenda will supplement existing conceptions of scientific infrastructures as co-constituted by objects of science alongside scientists, institutions, and wider economies. Drawing on on archival and published empirical data relating to laboratory animal transportation, LabAniTrans will examine two mid-late twentieth-century trends in laboratory animal science: a) the emergence of laboratory animal science as a key prompt for the articulation and standardization of live animal transportation care practices, and b) the emergence within biomedical science of systematic recognition that shipping conditions and their effects can alter experimental results. These trends will be explored through comparative analysis of state-funded laboratories, infrastructural practices and regional administrative norms in North America and Europe, with a particular focus on three state institutions (in Britain, West Germany, and Iowa (US)) in which they initially emerged. LabAniTrans will thereby begin to unpack the 'black box' of contemporary animal care infrastructures.

Mots clés : history of animals  history of care practices  animal studies  history of biomedicine  history of laboratories  historical circulation of scientific materials  history of scientific infrastructures

Participants :
- Maastricht University (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 175572.48 €
Projet I.am.a.LAD (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Lamina-associated domains (LADs) are large chromatin domains anchored to a protein meshwork coating the inner nuclear envelope, the nuclear lamina (NL). They cover 40% of the human genome and hold thousands of transcriptionally repressed genes. While some LADs can be locally detached from the NL upon gene activation, others are constitutively at the NL. This implies that LAD recognition and anchoring to the NL has to be tightly regulated to ensure acute gene expression. However, little is known about mechanisms governing LAD recognition and targeting to the NL. LADs are known to be A and T nucleotide-rich, but other sequence determinants have remained poorly characterized so far. In this project I will (1) investigate whether LAD recognition is directly linked to their high A/T content and (2) develop a novel tool to search for additional sequence determinants. First, I will insert in the mouse genome long DNA stretches of varying A/T percentages and determine whether A/T-rich sequences preferentially associate with the NL. Second, I will develop an approach to randomly scramble a LAD sequence organization. This method relies on the recombination between LoxP sites randomly inserted by local "hopping" of a transposable element. After determining the effects of the resulting rearrangements on NL association and expression of the surrounding genes, I will identify sequences that drive LAD formation. Besides, the cohesin complex partitions the genome into topologically associated domains and hence has a major impact in genome 3D folding. At last, I will investigate cohesin’s role in LAD formation and remodeling after recombination. Altogether, this project will result in an unprecedented characterization of LAD biology, a deeper understanding of cohesin’s role in genome folding and set up a novel genome-scrambling technique with large applications in genome biology.

Mots clés : genome organization, lamina associated domains, nuclear lamina, genome scrambling, chromatin, transcription

Participants :
- Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 175572.48 €
Projet LangRev (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Language endangerment has become a global crisis. According to estimates only 600 of the 6,000 or so languages in the world are ‘safe’ from the threat of extinction. In Europe we have an increasing amount of expertise in language revitalisation for endangered languages. These are skills and knowledge that are transferable to other language revitalisation movements worldwide giving Europe the potential to be a leader in the field. However, as we develop revitalisation techniques and as they become more nuanced, sociolinguistic analysis shows those working in the field that while there have been some successes, several endangered revitalisation efforts are either failing or at least only stemming the rate of decline in speaker numbers. The proposed research will address this last issue and using both case studies and a thematic approach examine various language revitalisation efforts so as to measure their success (or otherwise) in increasing both speaker numbers and everyday users. In short it will seek to establish what is working in endangered language revitalisation, where and how, and, in an area renowned for being poorly resourced, what is not working.

Mots clés : language revitalisation  endangered languages  regional or minority languages  linguistic diversity language planning and policy  language rights  linguistic landscape

Participants :
- University of Edinburgh (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 195454.8 €
Projet VIAWORD (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Language is a uniquely human and complex cognitive process that is vital for our successful everyday interactions in the world. I propose to investigate neurophysiological mechanisms associated with orthographic, phonological and semantic processes of word recognition and how they are modulated by print (visual) and spoken (auditory) inputs (phase 1), and by healthy aging (phase 2). In phase 3, I will develop a biologically-plausible computational model of word recognition that will incorporate findings from phases 1 and 2. To achieve this, I will use an original multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach combining: psycholinguistics, cognitive neuroscience, cognitive psychology of aging, and computational modelling. My main predictions include that: (1) differences in neurocognitive mechanisms associated with orthography, phonology and semantics arise due to the temporally-extended (auditory) vs. all at once (visual) presentation of word; (2) decline in sensory acuity during aging affect subsequent neurocognitive mechanisms of word recognition causing greater reliance on later semantic processes than on earlier orthographic and phonological processes. Ultimately, my project can provide us with a much needed integrated account of normal neurocognitive processes during word recognition and can help us understand what declines and what is preserved in healthy aging. In turn, such understanding can help future research delineate bio-markers of early language deterioration and simulate remedial treatments.

Mots clés : word recognition, cognitive neuroscience, event related potentials

Participants :
- Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 170121.6 €
Projet MultiPic (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Language, gesture, and affect are the three musketeers of parent-child interaction. Although affect, our experience with emotions, plays a key role in communication, its developmental trajectory in the beginning of life remains unclear. How do infants develop affect recognition that corresponds to their native environment? How do they perceive affect from non-native cultures? How does language interact with affect perception, and how does infants’ (multi-) linguistic and cultural experience play a role? To further our understanding toward these questions, I propose to experimentally examine infants’ affectual development and its interaction with language in the first year after birth, and specifically, adopting a preferential looking paradigm where infants will watch videos of happy/angry expressions from various cultures along with languages that match or mismatch with the correspondent culture. This exciting project bridges psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic approaches. It discusses three main topics: infant culture-specific affectual development, language-affect interface, and the effect of multilingualism on affectual perception. In this project, I will also investigate the influence of social and linguistic factors on affectual perception, examining whether multilingual heightened sensitivity would extend to the affectual domain. Europe is changing more than ever towards a complex social environment, with interactions between languages and cultures. I hope to enhance European scientific excellence by contributing to a better understanding of infant culture-specific affectual development in various linguistic contexts. As a direct consequence, the outcome of the project may change parental attitude towards a diverse linguistic and cultural environment.

Mots clés : bilingualism, language, affect, infant, development

Participants :
- University of Oslo (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 196400.4 €
Projet Demeco (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Languages always change, and existing words are constantly combined into novel combinations such as ‘trout pout’ or ‘bucket list’. Surprisingly, little is known about the actual processes and resources humans use to understand these novel combinations. This project will investigate a central question in the field of linguistics, namely the extent to which people rely on inherent meanings of words in combination (lexical semantics), compared with the extent to which they infer meaning from context (pragmatics). The interdisciplinary nature of the project is strong. It will use a combination of psycholinguistic techniques, with big data from corpus linguistics to empirically test hypotheses derived from state-of-the-art accounts in theoretical linguistics. Firstly, a questionnaire study will establish the extent to which people vary in their interpretation of different noun-noun combinations, and what determines the degree of variation. The study will innovatively use a large semantically annotated dataset to generate representative experimental items. Secondly, advanced eye-tracking technology will be used to investigate how these combinations fare when presented in contexts that either support or do not support a dominant interpretation. Together, the results of the two studies will shed light on the balance of word meaning and context in the interpretation of new combinations and either confirm or refute the underlying assumptions of competing semantic theories. The results will be of benefit in applications such as the automatic processing and translation of human language, and the assessment of misleading language usage, e.g. in advertising. They will also benefit theoretical linguists and psycholinguists, by showing how insights from each area can fruitfully be applied to the other. For the researcher, the project offers an invaluable opportunity to train in cutting-edge empirical techniques and gain skills in public engagement and research communication.

Mots clés : compound interpretation, english

Participants :
- Anglia Ruskin University (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 97727.4 €