Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet BMC-SVAR (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Economic Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The 2007 financial crisis and the 2009 European sovereign debt crisis highlighted how difficult it is to build models that capture the dynamics of the economic system. The project develops a model evaluation technique that allows a researcher to assess how much the economic models of interest to a researcher are supported by the data. The innovative technique set out in the project is developed in order to assist policy-makers address a wide variety of research questions, and to help them achieve their goals – for example, predicting the impact of interest rate changes on a country’s economy. Two applications to monetary policy by the European Central Bank are developed. The first application studies whether the data support a class of economic models used to assess monetary policy. The second application studies how successful monetary policy has been in counteracting deflationary pressures in the Euro Area. The fellowship will help me to pursue a career that applies an academic focus to policy-oriented research questions. Queen Mary is the ideal place to achieve this goal, because it is one of the best universities in the field of Applied Econometrics. Having already developed an academic approach to research during my PhD in Economics and having recently started working on policy questions as a postdoctoral fellow, I now aim to combine these two experiences. The fellowship will help me to gain the skills in Applied Econometrics that I need for the successful implementation of the project, and to begin a career that focuses on the application of Applied Econometrics to policy questions. I will achieve this goal by working with my supervisor Professor Haroon Mumtaz, who has developed significant knowledge at the intersection of academic and policy research through his experience at the Bank of England before he joined academia. Working with him, and with other scholars at Queen Mary University, will be a unique opportunity for the development of my career.

Mots clés : monetary policy, central banking, euro area, model evaluation, vector autoregressive models, bayesian econometrics

Participants :
- University of London (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 183454.8 €
Projet CLEAR-Doc (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Cofund Doctoral programme
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The 5-year CLEAR-Doc project aims at attracting PhD students (ESR) from around the world, in order to strengthen their research capacity and soft skills through high standards and fair selection. The trainees will benefit from a unique research environment of excellence thanks to 22 research labs focusing on Urban Research, so as to create the “City of tomorrow”. ESRs will contribute to address major societal challenges in climate-neutral, resource-efficient, resilient, safe and smart cities. The programme includes a choice among 6 interdisciplinary curricula in addition to a mandatory secondment among a comprehensive network of academic, non-academic and international partners of Université Gustave Eiffel, as a means to facilitate professional integration and international experience. In the context of booming urbanization, the richness of the research options offered is expected to meet the most demanding career plans of ESRs in terms of interdisciplinarity, intersectorality and international experience. The project strengths rely on unique excellent competences and experimental platforms available on each of the 7 university campuses as well as historical strong local cooperation with regional and private partners, with the support of European and international networks. The programme originality is to introduce interdisciplinarity and intersectorality from the start, promoting an approach through three cross-disciplinary challenges shared at international level. These challenges are as follows :1-Design and develop resource-efficient urban spaces; 2- Understand and manage ʺurban risks" for safe and resilient cities; 3-Develop the digital city and turn it into a catalyst for social, environmental and economic performance. The CLEAR Doc programme will also provide to the ESRs cohorts the opportunity to work together and within a scientific community and take full advantage of such environment.

Mots clés : doctoral programme, urban space, city of tomorrow, urban risks and resilience, digital city, sustainable cities, resource efficient city

Participants :
- Université Gustave Eiffel (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 2440800.0 €
Projet ABANDONMENT (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The ABANDONMENT project explores the pan-European phenomenon of settlement desertion and shrinkage, which occurred especially during the 14th and 17th centuries. Despite considerable attention being paid to this particularly rich aspect of archaeological records (within several disciplines), the process of abandonment still remains poorly understood. The project aims to explore how rural communities and the settlements they lived in responded to socio-economic and environmental stress. The specific objectives are: (a) to determine the processes of settlement shrinkage and abandonment across England; (b) to contextualise changes in settlement patterns within wider transformations of land-use within distinct regions in the longue durée perspective; (c) to explore the cultural and environmental context of settlement evolution (and extinction) across northern and central Europe to determine the impact of these factors on communities. This interdisciplinary research programme will bring together well-published and especially unpublished data from excavations and fieldworks. These will be supplemented by aerial photographs, LiDAR data, documentary evidence, historical maps, field-names and palaeoenvironmental data, with their collection and analysis via a GIS. This comparative, multi-scale research covers contrasting areas in the UK that were meaningful in the past in terms of their settlement pattern, geographical conditions and economy (the moors of the South West England, East Anglia, the claylands of the East Midlands and the North East of England), and tests the outcomes in broad geographical context through a comparison with Continental Europe. The fellowship in the University of Exeter, with the largest group of landscape archaeologists focusing on the historic period in the UK, enables the applicant to receive high-quality training. New gained skills and experience of the researcher will enhance his future interdisciplinary and international career perspectives.


Participants :
- University of Exeter (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 183454.8 €
Projet ANCHOR E3s (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The Anchor E3s project proposes to establish, for the first time, an efficient protocol for the discovery and characterisation of accessible binding sites at any patch of a protein surface, regardless of its involvement in biological function. One of the motivation of the research is to develop a general approach to discover new “anchor” ligands that can enable improved plug-and-play proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) as chemical degraders of any protein of interest. The project will build on results from the host lab who identified a series of low molecular-weight fragments addressing novel patches at the surface of Cullin RING E3 ubiquitin ligases (CRLs) with currently unknown functionality, demonstrating that accessible and “ligandable” binding sites can be found on CRL surfaces. A combination of structure-based computational techniques informed by biophysical experiments and X-ray crystallography will be used to reveal, characterise, and target new ligandable binding sites at CRL surfaces. Promising anchor fragments will then be identified and grown into suitable binders, and eventually linked to assemble novel PROTACs, which will be assessed in cellular assays. The ultimate goal of the research is to develop and establish the PROTAC approach as an efficient and universal chemical biology platform for target validation, regardless of the perceived “druggability” of the targeted protein.

Mots clés : protacs, protein degradation, fragment based drug design, cullin ring e3 ligases, anchor ligands, ubiquitin proteasome system, druggability

Participants :
- University of Dundee (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 183454.8 €
Projet BENGUP (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The Angola-Benguela Upwelling System located off the south-west African coasts sustains a very diversified marine ecosystem. This region undergoes the occasional manifestation of extreme interannual warm events known as Benguela Niño events that can devastate the ecosystem, deplete the fish stocks and therefore affect the economy of south-west African developing countries. To ensure the long-term sustainability of the living marine resources, there is an urgent need to provide reliable and useful seasonal predictions of the marine environment and ecosystems to local stakeholders and economic actors. Recently, studies of the applicant and the host institution have revealed the potential of prediction of those extreme Benguela events. The BENGUP project seeks to develop the first climate-based marine ecosystem predictions of these abrupt environmental events and outlooks of fish stock in this region. Model prediction skills and related uncertainties will be assessed for the key ocean drivers of interannual variability in the region using existing dynamical systems. Based on this knowledge, a new prediction system capturing the predictability of extreme events and their impact on the marine ecosystem will be developed. Given the strong socio-economic and ecological implications, the outputs of this action will not only be of high impact to the local communities and fisheries, but will be also of broad interest to a wide array of disciplines, including marine biologists, climate modellers, policymakers, and members of the informed public. Through the fellowship, I will transfer my knowledge in regional modelling of South-Eastern Atlantic Ocean variability to the host institutions while adding a new discipline (climate prediction) and cutting-edge statistical techniques to my expertise. This project will represent a huge step in my career as it will position me as a leader in the growing field of climate-based marine ecosystem predictions.

Mots clés : south eastern atlantic ocean, benguela ninos, seasonal predictions, earth system modelling, ocean variability

Participants :
- University of Bergen (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 202158.72 €
Projet LOWRISK (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The Anthropocene forces society to rethink the civil liability. Since it has been demonstrated that human activity to have a significant impact on the planet, and it has been responsible for the ever more destructive and frequently fires, droughts and heatwaves, the parties should no longer be exempted from their contractual obligations or duties due to alleged this extreme events. It is necessary a reform of civil liability, that forces contracting parties to face an increased risk at the individual level: a reform remarkably like the one that during the Modern Era allowed to contrast another anthropic risk, the fires. This parallelism has not yet been analysed by historiography: the project LOWRISK aims to fill this historiographic gap, demonstrating that during 18th and early 19th centuries the reform of civil liability, resulting in a progressive reduction of the circumstances that allowed considering a fire as a fortuitous case, played a determining role in the progressive reduction of fire risk. In this way, the action will allowed to show to society the important role that the civil liability reform can have in reducing the anthropogenic risks, and to highlight that historical memory can contribute to the social perception of risk, making society less vulnerable to hazards. To achieve its goals, LOWRISK will carry out an interdisciplinary and comparative research that will enclose the academic discourses of History and Law, using the categories and methodology of the Global History of Law. The research will be based on the historical judicial records produced by different judicial institutions, operating in European and American Spanish and Portuguese territories. LOWRISK will equip the fellow with enhanced knowledge in Legal History and new skills in the synchronic and diachronic comparison of the processes of normative translation thought legal practices and institutions between different cultural contexts, and it will open new career prospects in Europe.

Mots clés : iberian peninsula, spanish america, portuguese america, civil liability, fire risk, 18th and early 19th centuries

Participants :
- University of Navarra (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 172932.48 €
Projet FlocDOM (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The Arctic Ocean receives a vast amount of organic carbon via runoff from surrounding glaciers and thawing permafrost soils. This dissolved organic matter (DOM) comprises one of the world’s largest active carbon pools, i.e. can be respired to CO2 by heterotrophic organisms. Yet our understanding of how well this terrestrial carbon is degraded in the marine environment is poor. As recent climate warming accelerates the input of carbon to the coastal Ocean it becomes more urgent to study this matter as it may play a major part in determining whether the Arctic Ocean becomes a sink or a source of CO2 in the future. In the saltwater-freshwater interface of coastal environments, the salinity change causes the charge of the DOM molecules to change causing about 10-20% of this carbon pool to aggregate/flocculate into larger particles. Bacteria are the main degraders of DOM, however, with flocculation, a great proportion of the carbon becomes available to larger heterotrophic organisms, such as pelagic protists and benthic filter feeders. Via these flocs the carbon enters the food web at a higher level and escapes the microbial loop. This path is however rarely considered. The overall aim of this project is to improve the knowledge on the response of heterotrophic organisms to terrestrial organic carbon supply (both from glaciers and soils) with focus on the coastal ecosystems of Greenland. I will track the degradation paths of both DOM and flocculated DOM using a combination of controlled laboratory studies and field studies using radioisotope tracers. The project ‘FlocDOM’ proposes a much-needed effort for a holistic ecological approach to assess the effects of increased runoff in the Arctic and to quantify for the first time the salt-induced aggregation, subsequent mineralization and burial of various terrestrial DOM pools in the Arctic.

Mots clés : carbon cycle, coastal ecology, arctic marine ecosystems, runoff, flocculation, benthic pelagic coupling

Participants :
- Aarhus University (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 200194.8 €
Projet AIforUTracking (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The Artificial Intelligence methods for Underwater target Tracking (AIforUTracking) project will bring to the scientific community new tools for underwater target tracking by Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) using Reinforcement Learning (RL) techniques. Moving towards the envisioned applications of marine animal tracking by autonomous vehicles, this proposal is clearly at the forefront of research, and directly addresses some of the main challenges and needs of the last Marine Strategy Framework Directive of the European parliament and of the Council, in particular establishing a framework for community action in the field of marine environmental policy. This research project will directly contribute to maintain and improve the health of the ocean by establishing innovative and unique research collaborations, and by introducing novel concepts and original research strategies that could provoke breakthroughs in the field of marine animal behavioural studies by: a) Designing and developing optimisation algorithms that leverage new RL approaches, such as Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL). These Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools will increase the autonomy of the AUVs while improving the accuracy of the estimated target position. b) Demonstrating the effectiveness and application of the path optimisation technique using POMPD and MARL methods by conducting real tests in the ocean, i.e. different targets will be tracked using a single AUV or multiple AUVs, as a proof-of-concept. These innovative technologies, together with Range-Only and Single-Beacon (ROSB) and Area-Only Target Tracking (AOTT) methods, are more competitive and offers greater autonomy than the traditional Long BaseLine (LBL) arrays-based methods.

Mots clés : autonomous underwater vehicles, underwater target tracking, acoustic communications, biologging, acoustic tags

Participants :
- Spanish National Research Council (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 226801.76 €
- Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet BiGAr (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The BIGAr project aims to innovate archaeological research methodology developing a digital application to integrate representation software (Building Informative Model -BIM- and Geographical Information System -GIS-) to document the 4D nature of archaeological evidence as well as their traditional information (i.e. text or photography). This approach can be quicker and more complete than others currently used; it allows a higher degree of collaboration via Web as well as it provides a new frontier for spatial analysis and management of Cultural Landscape. So far, in archaeology, the use of BIM is only applied to architectural analysis and never integrated with GIS. Thus, I will use innovative geospatial environment, developing a new digital workflow of integration GIS and BIM, for managing archaeological data, collected in field works as excavations and surveys. To achieve this target I will develop a dedicated application based on an original programming script, using open source software. Such a research will be possible merging competences and laboratories of the 3 involved Organizations: the University of Michigan (outgoing phase, supervisor Prof. Nicola Terrenato), the University of Minho (secondment, supervisor Prof. Miguel Azenha), and the University of Bologna (return phase, supervisor Prof. Andrea Augenti). The field data will come from two projects active in the area around two ancient capitals, Rome (Gabii Project, University of Michigan) and Ravenna (Ravenna Landscape Archaeological Project, University of Bologna). As part of the MSCA-IF-2020-GF action at the Universities of Michigan and Minho, two world leading institutions in this field, I will receive the necessary high-quality training, which will allow the continuation of a successful career in the field of archaeology and the development at Bologna University of this technology, that will be transferable to any other archaeological project in EU and beyond.

Mots clés : digital archaeology

Participants :
- University of Bologna (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 269002.56 €
- University of Michigan–Ann Arbor (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet BVCGA (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Mathematics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The BRST (Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin) cohomology plays a very important role in facing the problem of quantizing non-abelian gauge theories via the path integral approach. Indeed, this quantization procedure fails when applied to gauge theories, due to the presence of local symmetries in the action. This problem is overcome by introducing extra (non-physical) fields, defining a so-called BRST cohomology complex. It is precisely this cohomology that allows the recovery of important information on the theory, such as its set of observables or its renormalizability. Despite of its relevance in the context of quantum fields theory, this cohomology still deserves to be fully understood from a mathematical/geometrical point of view. As I discovered in my PhD thesis, a very promising approach to reach this goal is to try to insert the BRST cohomology (constructed following the Batalin-Vilkovisky (BV) approach) in the framework given by Noncommutative Geometry (NCG). In this project I will continue along this line of research by focusing on the case of finite-dimensional gauge theories. Indeed, this context has shown to be surprisingly rich for the analysis of the BV formalism, due to the emergence of a peculiar phenomenon, not appearing in the infinite-dimensional case: the infinite ghosts-for-ghosts. Even though since the discovery of NCG it is known its strong connection with gauge theories, the idea of using NCG as a mathematical framework to formalize the BV construction and the BRST cohomology is still an unexplored territory. The credibility of this approach has been proved by some preliminary results I obtained for U(2)-gauge theories. Moreover, since NCG gives a common tool (the notion of spectral triple) to study both finite and infinite-dimensional gauge theories, the results obtained with this project will be a fundamental starting point for further research: they will point the way to investigate the BV construction also for gauge theories on a 4-dim spacetime.

Mots clés : batalin vilkovisky  bv  construction, gauge theory, noncommutative geometry  ncg, singularity theory, brst cohomology

Participants :
- Aarhus University (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 200194.8 €