Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet SYMBIOS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Our continued energy reliance on the depleting, and with a large climate footprint, fossil fuel reserves, as well as the increasing instability of the global supply chain network, threaten our energy security, one of the pillars of life-quality, societal, and economic growth. In 2016, 195 countries committed to the Paris Agreement to move towards climate-resilient development with lower greenhouse gas emissions for sustainable growth. The SYMBIOS project offers an innovative green solution by efficiently converting waste biomass into biofuels, promoting our transition toward renewable energy, circular carbon economy, energy security, and reduced environmental footprint. SYMBIOS proposes a ‘symbiotic’ approach between nanoparticulate catalysts and the catalytically active metal nodes of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), to engineer synergistic and high-efficiency active sites for converting low-energy-density biomass-derived alcohols into higher-energy-density biofuels. Moreover, MOFs crystallization will rely on the synthesis of tailored and functional organometallic building blocks which will stabilize the entrapped nanocatalysts, for their seamless integration. The new catalysts will leverage the unique properties of MOFs to lower energy input reaction requirements and maximize yield, selectivity, and recyclability. SYMBIOS aims to contribute towards the EU’s climate commitments by opening a new avenue for sustainable waste reforming and reducing the reliance on fossil fuels.

Mots clés : single atom catalysis waste reforming biofuels metal organic frameworks organometallics nanoparticles

Participants :
- Université de Cambridge (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Palacký (Rép. Tchèque) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 207758.16 €
Projet EMILIA (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

In recent years, following the first detection of Gravitational Waves (GWs), we have witnessed the birth of GW Astronomy. So far, there have been more than 50 events recorded, providing us with invaluable information about the nature of the merging binaries. An exceptional case is the event GW170817, a Neutron Star merger, which was observed with both gravitational and electromagnetic (EM) waves. From a single event alone, by combining both ways of observation, we were able to vastly improve our understanding of such cataclysmic events. In the near future, in particular, in the early 2030s, the ESA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is going to be launched. LISA is a space-borne Gravitational-Wave observatory that, in contrast to the present ground-based detectors, is going to be signal-dominated. The LISA data will give us the unique opportunity to observe the merger of supermassive black hole binary systems, which in combination with the EM observations will enable us to push our knowledge boundaries in astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology. With EMILIA, we aspire to enable multi-messenger astronomy with LISA, by developing a low-latency data analysis pipeline based on Machine Learning techniques. Our proposed methodology will take into account the source confusion problem of LISA, where monochromatic signals and noise artefacts are going to be classified as such and subtracted from the data. We will then apply a fast semi-analytical algorithm on the residual data, in order to swiftly estimate the sky position and time of coalescence of chirping signals. Such a scheme will enable the synergy of LISA and optical observatories on Earth and in space. A prime example is that of the LISA-Athena missions synergy, which would probe the existence of electromagnetic counterpart of massive black hole mergers and extreme mass ratio inspirals, or phenomena like X-ray flares, disk re-brightening, and relativistic jet formations.

Mots clés : lisa gravitational waves multimessenger astronomy data analysis machine learning

Participants :
- Université Aristote de Thessalonique (Grèce) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 169326.72 €
Projet REDTHERM (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

As per an EU estimate, the industrial sector accounts for 27% of the overall energy consumption and for the generation of 30% heat-related CO2 emissions. Industrial thermal processes account for 70 % of the energy demand, which translates to 20.8% of the entire EU energy demand. Waste heat recovery (WHR) is, thus, one of the next frontiers for energy-intensive industries. Thermal energy storage (TES) is a promising alternative to currently available WHR technologies, particularly for medium-high temperature settings. Latent heat storage, centred on the ability of a material, commonly referred to as the phase change material (PCM), to absorb/release heat isothermally during its transition from one state to another, faces several performance issues inherent to the material’s properties. Encapsulating PCMs in solid matrices, consisting of refractory materials, has been found to resolve most of these issues. These new materials can be used to store both sensible and latent heat (hybrid TES) potentially outperforming current TES systems. The properties of red mud (RM), a currently disregarded and potentially hazardous waste of the aluminium industry, make it an ideal candidate for PCM encapsulation. REDTHERM aims to scale up the recently discovered, by the researcher, red mud-molten salt material and demonstrate, for the first time, its performance in a novel medium-high temperature WHR layout using real industrial settings. In this way it can promote a novel and tangible business case of industrial symbiosis (circular economy) in which the waste product of the aluminium industry (RM) is valorised as a key component for medium-high temperature WHR systems to increase energy efficiency and decrease the carbon footprint of foundation industries with relevant interest (steel, cement, casting etc. This timely project can substantially contribute towards the EU’s 2050 sustainability agenda, while in parallel expanding the science of the promising field of hybrid-TES.


Participants :
- Université de Birmingham (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Aristote de Thessalonique (Grèce) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 155994.72 €
Projet AntiGenderInBiH (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The recent rise in anti-democratic discourses and politics in Europe has been linked with a rise in opposition to women’s and LGBTIQ* rights. I call this link the “anti-democratic/anti-gender nexus” and argue that we need to explain the exact nature of the link, to understand the rise of, and develop strategies to combat, de-democratization processes in Europe. The project AntiGenderInBiH focuses on how gender and sexuality are governed and framed in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). As a potential EU accession candidate, BiH has positively identified the need to promote diversity and equality within its population. Yet opposition to them, and particularly to LGBTIQ* rights, has been increasing. Working with Prof. Roman Kuhar at the University of Ljubljana, I will pursue two connected research objectives. Firstly: to analyse the “anti-democratic/anti-gender nexus” empirically in the BiH context. By applying a triangulation of methods, including Interpretative Policy Analysis and Critical Frame Analysis, I will analyse policies developed on the national and the level of the two entities Federation of BiH and Republic of Srpska relating to the governance of gender and sexuality issues as well as discourses on these issues mobilized by media and activists. Through this, I will identify potential anti-democratic/anti-gender frames, policies and networks, in BiH. Secondly: to conceptualize the “anti-democratic/anti-gender nexus” theoretically, combining my data with a critique of existing theoretical explanations. This will provide novel theoretical explanations that will allow myself and other scientists in the field to identify the links between anti-gender and anti-democratic discourses and politics and explain the rise of the “anti-democratic/anti-gender nexus”. The novel empirical insights and successful conceptualization can serve as a basis for policy- and decision-makers in BiH and the EU to tackle the problem of increasing attacks on democracy and human rights.

Mots clés : anti gender, de democratization, bosnia and herzegovina, women s and lgbtiq rights, gender and sexuality policies, framing of gender and sexuality

Participants :
- Université de Ljubljana (Slovénie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 171399.36 €
Projet Z-ION (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) are among the most promising electrochemical energy storage (EES) technologies that could meet the future demand for green and safe storage of electric power, which is vital for a low carbon and fossil-fuel independent civilization. However, the low cost, Earth-abundance and superior safety/stability of zinc (Zn) in comparison to lithium-ion batteries, comes with formidable challenges, such as slow zinc ion migration and dendrite growth, limiting their charging/discharging time and life-span. Recent advances have expanded the design toolbox of metal organic frameworks (MOFs) and of tailored graphene derivatives – the core expertise of the applicant and of the host institution, respectively– which could drive the developments towards the next generation of ZIBs. The Z-ION project comes to meet the fundamental need for decarbonisation enabling safe, sustainable and low-cost batteries via the exploration of 3D and 2D conductive MOFs (CMOFs) and hybrids thereof with tailored graphene derivatives as hosts for Zn, which have so far remained largely unexplored in ZIBs. The conductivity and open framework of these materials, in comparison to the present insulating and low porosity cathodes, can boost Zn ion migration. Functionalization of both materials with chemical groups suitable for Zn coordination can streamline a homogeneous and dendrite-free deposition of metallic Zn at the anode through directed nucleation in their frameworks and at coordination sites. Importantly, tailored graphene derivatives with dense out-of-plane functionalities can facilitate the formation of covalent hybrids with CMOFs, ascribing hierarchical porosity and conductive bridges between the CMOF particles or sheets. The Z-ION project will thus offer indispensable knowledge for the advancement of low-cost, sustainable, and safe ZIBs, which also offer one of the highest volumetric energy densities, necessary for storing a lot of energy in small-sized batteries.

Mots clés : metal organic frameworks, conductive, graphene, covalent hybrids, zinc ion batteries, sustainable

Participants :
- Pleione anonymi etairia kainotomonenergeiakon efarmogon (Grèce) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Palacký (Rép. Tchèque) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 166832.91 €
Projet VICR (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This action interrogates the social and cultural interpretations and narratives of viruses in Asia. It focuses specifically on how viruses have been historically narrated, interrogating the framings of viruses as routine versus viruses as crisis. To examine these framings, this action will interrogate the historical layering mobilized in Asian popular culture. By analyzing these reflections of viruses alongside how people respond to them, the action will query how historical parallels are used to narrativize the virus, making “the virus” a knowable entity. The overall goal of this action is to elicit the lessons learned from these social and cultural interpretations that can be compared to Europe and the world.

Mots clés : viruses, popular culture, asia, south korea, hong kong

Participants :
- Université Palacký (Rép. Tchèque) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 150438.72 €
Projet PH in Transition (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This project will investigate the transition of the public health system of the multinational Habsburg Empire in successor national states during and after the Empire’s collapse at the end of WWI. The project’s aim is to analyse how health institutions dealt with epidemic diseases and mental illnesses resulting from the war and geopolitical upheavals which reshaped the sense of self and created identity disorientation. As a case study, it will focus on the macro-area between the former imperial capital city Vienna, the main Slovenian urban centre Ljubljana, and the main Habsburg port-city Trieste. The fragmentation of this common space will be observed by comparing three models of transition of the common Habsburg public healthcare system in the three corresponding successor national states: the Austrian Republic, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (abbreviated to SHS-Kingdom), and the Italian Kingdom. Three models of adapting strategies will be examined simultaneously from a regional, a national and an international perspective. The research spans from the summer of 1918 until the middle of 1924 – that is, from the establishment of national councils in the different regions of the collapsing Monarchy until the final diplomatic adjustments between Italy and the SHS-Kingdom with the Treaty of Rome, which brought to an end the international crisis concerning the free city of Fiume/Rijeka and established the geopolitical shape of the whole North-Eastern Adriatic area. The project will be developed with the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana.

Mots clés : public health, post ww1 transition, central south europe, gender history, cultural diversity, international health organisations

Participants :
- Université de Trieste (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Vienne (Autriche) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Ljubljana (Slovénie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 155559.36 €
Projet RES2HEAT (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : TERMINATED

Coastal ecosystems, vital for global biodiversity and human well-being, face growing threats from climate change (CC), particularly marine heatwaves (MHWs), which are causing irreversible ecological changes. As a result, the enhancement of ecosystem resilience to disturbances has become a critical research and socio-political priority. Although there is substantial documentation of MHW-induced mass mortalities and thermal tolerance thresholds of key species, multifactorial mechanisms that help marine species and coastal ecosystems to resist and recover from MHWs are not well understood. RES2HEAT aims to fill this gap through a comparative, multidisciplinary approach, studying two contrasting Mediterranean habitats. We will investigate how various factors acting at different ecological levels affect the resilience, including both resistance and recovery capacity, of coastal ecosystems to MHWs. Specific objectives are: (1) evaluate differential resilience of communities and species to MHWs by analysing long-term changes in community and habitat complexity and developing a new index to quantify habitat complexity; (2) explore plasticity and heritable components of phenotypic variation of key species in response to thermal stress through common-garden and reciprocal transplant experiments with populations from varying thermal histories; and (3) characterize the genetic structure and connectivity among and within populations of key species to understand their ecology, including local dispersal, reproductive biology, and gene pool stability, using next-generation sequencing and demo-genetic methods. RES2HEAT integrates innovative and traditional methods, including long-term and regional data series, experiments, demographic sampling, novel underwater photogrammetry techniques, ecological indices, and genomics. The findings will be synthesized to provide key actionable recommendations for managing, conserving, and restoring coastal ecosystems in the context of CC.


Participants :
- Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation en Santé de l’Université de Porto (Portugal) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Conseil supérieur de la recherche scientifique (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 209914.56 €
Projet CARLY (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL) are a group of blood cancers characterized by the expansion of malignant B lymphocytes creating tumors throughout the body. The standard of care for patients with aggressive NHL is a combination of chemotherapy and immunotherapy. Even though it is well tolerated, ~40% of the patients respond poorly and eventually relapse. Novel personalized treatment options are now available for such individuals and engage patients’ own T cells genetically manipulated to express a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) capable to recognize and attack malignant cells. Thus far, CAR-T products recognizing and attacking cells expressing the protein CD19 have been approved by regulatory agencies across the planet. However, long-term follow-up studies show that more than half of these patients eventually succumb to relapse after CAR-T treatment. One of the causes for this is the loss of the CD19 protein on NHL cells. Therefore, finding other proteins beyond CD19 that could be targeted or co-targeted with CAR-T-cells is desired. Indeed, in the proposed project, I intend to develop and characterize a CAR-T therapy directed against a cell surface protein highly expressed in NHL (preliminary data). Herein, I plan to evaluate the levels of the new target protein in a large cohort of NHL patients using immunohistochemistry and to perform a thorough preclinical assessment of this novel CAR-T-cell approach using cutting-edge preclinical NHL models. To achieve these goals, I will exploit the experience of the hosting institution in generating NHL patient-derived xenografts and in the bench-to-bedside CAR-T development process, as well as the external collaborators who are experts in blood cancer treatment.  This fellowship will significantly expose me to world-class theoretical and hands-on preclinical research in hematooncology and adoptive cell therapy, thus boosting my career as an independent researcher.

Mots clés : immunotherapy, car t cells, adoptive cell therapy, non hodgkin lymphoma, 

Participants :
- Onechain immunotherapeutics s.l. (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Fundación Josep Carreras Contra la Leucemia (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 226441.2 €
Projet UrbaPort (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Under the Roman Imperial period, Mediterranean port cities were not only transit hubs - where ships, people and goods both departed and arrived - but also places of urban and cultural life developing away from the seafront. They formed a real urban landscape with enough characteristics of complete cities whose aesthetic and monumental features were widely emphasised in iconography. Although these highly codified images are not snapshots of reality, previous doctoral research assessed the documentary value of iconographic evidence for understanding Roman portscapes by inevitably confronting them with archaeological and textual data. UrbaPort (Exploring the Urbanism of Roman Mediterranean Ports: from iconographic data to 3D reconstruction) is an interdisciplinary project that aims to understand the urban and architectural morphology of Roman maritime port cities and to propose reliable virtual reconstructions of these environments. To achieve this goal, UrbaPort will propose an innovative reflection that will consider how iconographic evidence could be integrated to the digital tools for expanding the scientific value of historical restitutions in order to replace maritime activities in their architectural context. UrbaPort will bring together an unprecedented combination of advanced computational methods – 3D modelling and smart generative methods – developed by the CNRS/MC MAP-Aria laboratory (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Lyon) with the recent archaeological data conducted at Portus – the port of the Imperial Rome – by the Ecole française de Rome in the perspective of a virtual exhibition at the Archaeological Park of Ostia antica.

Mots clés : iconography, architecture, roman mediterranean, urbanism, 3d modelling, tools of mediation, roman art, roman ports, port cities, roman empire, thesaurus, port infrastructures

Participants :
- Parco archeologico di ostia antica (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- École française de Rome (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 235737.6 €
- École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Lyon (France) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
Projet QuM (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Proposed here is a thoroughgoing analysis of the second section of R. Simon b. Semah Duran’s polemical work Qeshet u-Magen. The academic literature has much to say about the first section of Qeshet u-Magen, which deals with Christianity; its treatment of the second section, however, which concerns Islam, is much reduced. To correct this lacuna, the proposed study will demonstrate that Duran knew Arabic and consulted Islamic sources, assess his command of these sources, investigate his use of Jewish and, possibly, Christian sources and Hebrew translations of Islamic sources in order to investigate the extent of his originality, and discuss the strategies and tactics that Duran brought to his polemic with Islam. This comprehensive research project will enhance our knowledge and understanding of Qeshet u-Magen, its author, and the Jewish–Muslim polemic tradition in the medieval era, and will elevate the polemic with Islam in Qeshet u-Magen to the place that it deserves in the academic literature.

Mots clés : jewish muslim polemic, qeshet u magen, duran

Participants :
- Conseil supérieur de la recherche scientifique (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 209914.56 €