Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet DELTADev (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Economic Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This project has three core objectives: (1) It aims to place energy systems design within the context of broader sustainable development (SD). Many of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are known to be closely linked to energy. This project is the first to translate this nexus into a comprehensive multi-objective optimisation framework, which explicitly considers various SDG targets as objectives when planning energy systems. (2) It intends to integrate energy systems and supply chain optimisation in a common modelling environment. Motivated by inadequate conditions for economic development in low-income countries, this allows reaping synergies from energy-enabled productivity increases across agricultural and manufacturing supply chains. (3) Combining concepts (1) and (2), it aims to develop a bottom-up strategy for rural development, tailored to energy-deprived areas in Africa. It provides affordable and scalable electricity access to foster SD without relying on excessive amounts of external finance. A multi-objective optimisation model designs off-grid energy systems based on real-world examples by using the SDGs to define objective functions. Integrating electricity as an input for existing and new rural supply chains increases the value-add per kWh. This creates new revenue streams which, crucially, can cross-subsidise non-commercial electricity needs of SD to improve the quality of life for rural Africans while the system’s remains financial viability. The MSCA fellowship allows me to focus my interdisciplinary expertise on a core research theme of sustainable operations for development. It advances my profile by capitalising on the project's opportunities for transformative research and impact. Furthermore my research, implementation and managerial skills are advanced through a close integration into Prof. Grit Walther’s research group during the fellowship and a firm dedication to training, a secondment and independent project management.

Mots clés : sustainable development goals  sdgs, electricity access, sub saharan africa, integrated energy planning, sustainable operations management

Participants :
- RWTH Aachen University (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 174806.4 €
Projet PARADOXGREATLAKES (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This project identifies security-governance paradoxes resulting from the European Union’s (EU) security practices in the Great Lakes region. Although this region has been declared of strategic importance for the EU, several practices could undermine both the EU’s security and normative foreign policy goals. Firstly, military and security measures, to which the EU has contributed extensively, have militarised the region, creating new sources of violence. Secondly, the aim to support military and security self-regulation could imply that the EU is transferring the attainment of security goals to the target states, thus losing some control and autonomy. Thirdly, though the EU has aimed to balance security and normative goals, scholars have questioned the extent to which a military and security-driven agenda is effective and whether it represents an abandonment of the good-governance agenda. Three questions follow from here: Is the practice of supporting military and security capacity undermining the good governance agenda? What implications does this have for EU’s normative commitments? And, how effective is this practice for achieving EU’s security goals? The research addresses and connects these debates through two specific innovations. It advances the concept of the ‘military capable’ state, and it proposes an innovative practice-based methodology to explore the implications of this concept by linking it to patterns of security practices in processes of intervention. Highlighting these paradoxes will offer important insights into the interconnection of security and normative goals in policy and implementation.

Mots clés : security, liberal peace, good governance, military intervention, practice

Participants :
- CERCA Institution (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 158121.6 €
Projet RoCCAA (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

This project intends to analyze Roman monetary circulation in the kingdom of Armenia from the Ist century BCE to the fall of the kingdom in 428 CE. Because of Armenia’s strategic location, several attempts were made to gain control of it, particularly by the Roman and Parthian/Sassanid empires, whose coinage found its way into Armenia. This project will study the evolution, the purpose and the impact of Roman coinage on the Armenian Kingdom. This project breaks away from Armenian studies, hitherto based solely on Greek and Roman textual sources, at a geographical and chronological level, as it focusses on concrete data from the Armenian Kingdom itself. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the project will improve our general understanding of Armenian and Roman history, but also clarify the regional history in the light of specific Armenian events, thanks to a new approach in the field of Armenian studies. Likewise, it will add new evidence to our knowledge of Roman coinage in the East. The preliminary data – a comprehensive coin corpus – has already been collected and catalogued. To successfully complete this project, I will join the numismatic team at Oxford University. This host institution is no doubt the ideal choice. Its eminent numismatists have worked on the provincial circulation of Roman imperial coinage, it houses both Armenian and Numismatics departments, and the Ashmolean Museum’s numismatic holdings at Oxford are of prime importance. This project requires good prior knowledge of the historical situation in Armenia as well as of the history and ambitions of the Roman, Parthian and Sassanid Empires. Numismatics in Armenia also needs to be grasped in all its diversity. For these reasons, it is necessary to master languages from the region, to be aware of past and current research and the many factors bearing on Armenian studies, such as Soviet ideology or nationalist issues. All these conditions are met here allowing this ground-breaking project to thrive.

Mots clés : ancient armenia, numismatics, roman empire, parthian empire, imperial coinage, provincial, coinage, countermark

Participants :
- University of Oxford (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 212933.76 €
Projet STRATNARRA (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This project investigates the relationship between mass communication and influence in 21st Century international relations. It does so through a study of Russia’s official and media narratives about the West and their reception in Ukraine. Success in today’s information age is said to depend on ‘whose story wins’. Emerging powers such as Russia have developed various policies and instruments under the banner of ‘soft power’ to challenge Western hegemony in global media discourse. The projection of counter-hegemonic narratives has been documented extensively, yet we still understand little about their reception and the extent of their influence among target audiences. Anti-Western narratives have been a distinguishing feature of the Russian public sphere during Vladimir Putin’s third presidential term. The narratives of Russian politicians and state media characterize ‘the West’ as a destabilizing force which backs, even orchestrates, illegitimate regime change. Russian narratives are easily accessible among some audiences in Ukraine for reasons of language and overlapping media environments. This project employs a survey, focus groups and interviews to study the assimilation or otherwise of negative narratives about the West among Ukrainians. It concentrates on three groups as case studies: MPs, a regional business community and students from a regional university. The project’s principal goal is to identify factors which condition assimilation of anti-Western ideas from Russian strategic narratives, in order to explain when and why they are accepted or eschewed. A second goal is to advance research on power and communication in international affairs by applying the new conceptual framework of ‘strategic narrative’ in a detailed empirical study. Thirdly, the project aims to generate practical insights to help improve the effectiveness of EU engagement with Ukraine. A secondment to the UK Foreign Office is incorporated to facilitate knowledge exchange.

Mots clés : russia, ukraine, strategic narrative, media, audiences

Participants :
- National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy (Ukraine) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of London (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 243934.2 €
Projet CO2Rox (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This project is about computer modeling of the electrocatalytic CO2 reduction to oxalic acid in ionic liquids. My objectives are (1) defining the selectivity criteria, (2) developing original double-site model, and (3) significant improvement of the computational method. I will start with the computational method developed in the host group and then augment the approach basing on my vast experience in modeling ionic liquid at interfaces. I also propose an original double-site catalyst model to optimize electronic, geometric, and entropy factors against the defined criteria for higher catalytic activity. The model essentially represents a slit pore with two metal–nitrogen–carbon sites that, together with the ionic liquid, have a stabilizing effect on CO2⁻ intermediate and a catalytic effect on the C–C bond formation leading to the desired product. This fellowship will help me reach my short-term career goal – establishing a group (PI, 2 ER, and 4 PhD) and obtaining National funding to continue the research on CO2 reduction. I will complete the project within 1.5 years under the supervision of prof Rossmeisl at Copenhagen University. Rossmeisl's group is currently leading the computer modeling of electrocatalytic reactions, including CO2 reduction. Herewith, I have unique expertise, outside from electrocatalysis, needed to implement the project.


Participants :
- University of Copenhagen (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 164484.0 €
Projet EMPIREHURIGHTS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This project is about human rights in history. The concept and doctrine of human rights as such are a recent creation, only formulated and codified after World War II. The main purpose of this project is to seek early manifestations and perceptions of human rights, in the way they came into existence in the political and juridical culture of early modern Europe. The best way is to take as reference the process of construction of European overseas empires in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Because of its very nature, several issues were inherent to this process that are today considered in the scope of human rights, such as indigenous rights, slavery, religious differences and violence. How did European nations, which were themselves involved in a turmoil of conflicts about their own cultural and religious identity, dealt with these problems? How did governments, decision-makers, theologians, jurists, military, merchants and common people who settled overseas, thought and acted in this regard? And how did the peoples and rulers who watched the arrival of Europeans and suffered the violence of imperial and colonizing processes thought and acted? This research project is mostly focused on the period 1580-1640, when Portugal and Spain became united under the Catholic Monarchy, thus creating an Iberian empire of an almost-global dimension. This allows the analysis of a variety of cultural and geopolitical contexts (Brazil, Mexico, Mina, Sri Lanka, the Persian Gulf, India and the Philippines). It also allows seeking the roots of human rights problems and conceptions outside the frame of reference (Northern and Protestant Europe) that has been mostly considered by this scholarship. On the other hand, by historicizing the concept of human right, we hope to bring some new and different insights to the interdisciplinary approach to this topic, in addition to the perspectives currently offered by international relations, political science and international law.

Mots clés : human rights, iberian empires, catholic monarchy, sovereignty, colonization, council of state, imperial administration

Participants :
- University of Évora (Portugal) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 148635.6 €
Projet LACALAB4wine (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

This project is aimed at applying laccases enzymes from lactic acid bacteria (LAB) to eliminate undesirable substances in wines such as toxic compounds (biogenic amines-BA and ochratoxin A-OTA) and off-flavors (volatile phenols - VP) produced from yeasts, fungi and bacteria during the winemaking process. Wine has become a daily consuming-product and the EU is the world’s leading wine producer (60% of world production). To guarantee food quality and safety control for consumers, winemakers normally use physical and chemical methods to reduce toxins and off-flavours in wines, which will be replaced with LAB laccases to avoid environmental and health problems. The main objective of this project is to explore the structure, practical applications, and the activity of LAB laccases on BA, OTA and VP in wines and determine and quantify their degradation products in order to improve the wine quality. Specific objectives are to look for new LAB enzymes to eliminate aromatic defects and toxins in wine and determine their degrading products on BA, OTA and VP, to explore their structure and new applications, to discover chaperons that improve laccases expression and to evaluate the enzymatic activity on wine quality. In order to accomplish these objectives, four stages of the project have been established, which include the genome mining and laccases expression and purification, their activity evaluation in wine and the search of the protein structure. To achieve all these goals, it is required a large combination of technical and transversal skills that will greatly improve the potential of the candidate to become a leader in wine bacteria biotechnology given his background as Biochemical Engineer and his previous experience as researcher in the line of biochemical processes modelling and to enhance his employability opportunities. The knowledge and results generated from this project can be transferred to the wine/food industry with great benefits in quality and safety.

Mots clés : laccases wine, oenological microbiology, lactic acid bacteria, biogenic amines, ochratoxin a, protein structure, food quality, healthiness, gene cloninig, gene expression, protein purification

Participants :
- University of Valencia (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 160932.48 €
Projet GEOCRETE (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This project is aimed at long-term performance simulation of geopolymer concrete (GPC) under coupled chloride and carbonation transport. GPC has received extensive attention as an interesting alternative for ordinary cement-based concrete as a step forward to Eco-friendly construction and thus reducing the environmental impacts of conventional construction methods and materials. Geopolymer mortars are also of great interest to be used as a sustainable matrix for conservation and strengthening of existing structures. Geopolymer concrete made of fly ash and blast furnace slag binary system is the main focus of this proposal. The project objective will be achieved through advanced multi-scale modelling and limited experimental testing. A chemo-transport framework, in which the transport and degradation are coupled at different length scales, will be implemented for the first time to simulate the micro-structural development and degradation in GPC systems since early ages. The realization of the project will be a great step forward on the current knowledge on GPC materials and of interest for both academy and industry. The project main outputs will be the developed multi-scale framework, time-dependent chloride concentration levels at reinforcing bars' surfaces as the main indicator of durability in RC structures, and design and construction guidelines for durable GPCs. The project will also fill the current gaps in the knowledge of the fellow. After the project, the fellow is expected to become a leader in the field of GPC materials and multi-scale modelling. Advanced training on complementary skills will also be given to the fellow to prepare him for independent excellent research and finding a permanent academic position.

Mots clés : geopolymer concrete, long term performance, multi scale modeling, chemo transport modeling, degradation, coupled carbonation and chloride transport

Participants :
- Delft University of Technology (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 165598.8 €
Projet MULTIZONAL SCAFFOLD (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : TERMINATED

This project is an attempt to develop an effective bioactive wound dressing for the treatment of chronic non-healing wounds that until now depict a major challenge and financial burden to healthcare providers. We propose a zonal, multifunctional scaffold based on collagen (COL) and copper-doped mesoporous bioactive glass (Cu-MBG) serving as release system for vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF-BB). The degradable scaffold system is expected to accelerate the wound healing process due to synergy of angiogenetic, bioactivity, and antimicrobial characteristics. This will be the first attempt to create a zonal COL-MBG scaffold system with release of three functional molecules, of which PDGF-BB has not previously been incorporated to MBG. Zonal design enables designed consecutive release profiles, e.g. immediate PDGF-BB from the outer layer and delayed VEGF release from the inner layer of the scaffold. The structure of the scaffold as well as distribution of specific components and their functionality will be characterized using innovative in vitro models including cell culture tests. The experienced researcher Dr. Nganga defended her PhD-thesis 2013 at University of Turku, Finland and has authored six original research papers. She has profound experience in biomaterials research based on involvement in cutting edge research at Universities in Germany, Finland and Italy. The beneficiary the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Institute of Biomaterials at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg is a well-respected international player in biomaterials research with extensive experience of hosting foreign researchers, including MC fellows. Prof. A.R. Boccaccini is a highly recognised researcher in the biomaterials field with broad mentoring and research supervision experience. He has received numerous international awards and has recently been named a Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters.

Mots clés : new composite scaffold, organic inorganic hybrid, drug delivery system, wound dressing

Participants :
- University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 171460.8 €
Projet INTSYS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Mathematics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This project is concerned with integrable many-body systems of Calogero-Ruijsenaars type. It aims at finding new models, related algebraic structures, and connections to various field theories. The most important outcomes to be expected are the following: 1. Discovery of quantum and classical Lax pairs for hyperbolic, trigonometric, and elliptic relativistic models containing multiple couplings. 2. Solution of the classical and quantum dynamics of new compactified trigonometric relativistic systems. 3. Finding new and extending already existing links to quiver gauge theory and topological quantum field theory. Integrable models of Calogero-Ruijsenaars type describe the pairwise interaction of equal-mass particles moving on a line or circle. The strength of particle interaction is regulated by a (real) number, the coupling parameter. Setting this parameter to zero means no interaction, i.e. free particles, while non-zero parameter values result in a complicated motion. This is due to the non-linear pair potential, of which we distinguish four types, named rational, hyperbolic, trigonometric, and elliptic. The particles can be thought of as either non-relativistic bodies obeying the laws of Newtonian mechanics or relativistic point masses with an upper speed limit (given by the speed of light). Integrable quantum mechanical versions also exist. In addition, Calogero-Ruijsenaars type systems have several generalisations preserving integrability, such as models in external fields (involving multiple couplings) or particles with spin (internal degrees of freedom). This profusion of variants enhances the importance of these systems. In fact, Calogero-Ruijsenaars type models are intimately related to various integrable systems of seemingly different character. These include soliton equations (e.g. Korteweg-de Vries equation and sine-Gordon equation), lattice models (e.g. Toda model), solvable spin and vertex models (e.g. Heisenberg XYZ model and 8-vertex model).

Mots clés : integrable systems, calogero moser sutherland, ruijsenaars schneider, quantisation, lax representation, completed phase space, chern simons theory

Participants :
- University of Leeds (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 195454.8 €