Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet IDEAL (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The researcher Dr. Sergi Riera-Galindo apply for a fellowship to address effIcient anD stablE orgAnic photovoLtaics (IDEAL) by combinatorial screening. This fellowship will be carried out in the NANOPTO group of Institute of Material Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) under the supervision of Dr. Mariano Campoy-Quiles. Organic photovoltaics (OPV) are a promising emerging renewable energy technology due to several attractive traits, including the possibility to broadly tune colour and transparency, light weight, insensitivity to the angle of illumination, and very high efficiency under low and indoor illumination. Moreover, their amenability for solution processing at low thermal budgets enables the roll-to-roll (R2R) fabrication of OPV modules, ensuring cost-efficient production in terms of energy and economics. Nowadays, the most important challenge is to transfer the large potential of OPV from lab scale to industry and improving its stability. The overall objective of IDEAL is the development of highly efficient and stable OPV modules for diffuse light applications such as building integration and powering of internet of things (IoT) sensors. In this project we will use high throughput fabrication methodology using combinatorial screening to evaluate the performance of a material system much faster than the conventional methods. The big data produced will be analysed by machine learning algorithms to predict the full photocurrent versus composition curves from vary basic molecular descriptors and to determine which are the most important parameters that define the best compromise between efficiency and stability. The expertise of the researcher on fabrication organic electronic devices by solution processed techniques will be combined with the host group experience in combinatorial screening methodology and the use of machine learning in OPV. This project will be instrumental for the researcher to become a cutting-edge scientist and create his own group.

Mots clés : organic photovoltaics, printed electronics, building integrated photovoltaics, internet of things

Participants :
- Spanish National Research Council (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 160932.48 €
Projet SSHelectPhagy (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The researcher will address the contribution of sulfide to regulation of selective autophagy in plants through persulfidation. This fellowship will be carried out at Iowa State University under the supervision of Prof. Bassham. The researcher will return to the European host, the University of Seville for 12 months under the supervision of Dr.Gotor at the Institute of Plant Biochemistry and Photosynthesis (IBVF). This project aims at understanding of selective autophagy regulation by sulfide in plants. Autophagy has conserved functions in development, cellular homeostasis, and stress responses from yeast to plants and mammals. In plants, autophagy is critically important in many aspects of plant life, including seedling establishment, plant development, stress resistance, metabolism and reproduction. It contributes to intracellular homeostasis in cells by selectively degrading aggregated proteins, damaged mitochondria, ribosomes, toxic macromolecules, and pathogens to prevent toxicity. This selective autophagy is mediated by the binding of adaptor proteins, which links a cargo targeted for degradation to the autophagosome machinery. An increasing number of targets for selective autophagy under different stress conditions have emerged in recent years, but the underlying mechanisms of their regulation are still so far unknown. Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) acts as an inhibitor of autophagy induced by nutrient deprivation and its mechanism has been proposed to be through persulfidation of specific targets. Several autophagy (ATG)-related proteins have been identified as modified by persulfidation in previous studies. The overall aim of this project is to shed light to the role of sulfide in the regulation of selective autophagy, mainly of mitochondria and ER, through persulfidation, and to broaden the range of plant targets for mitophagy and reticulophagy that are signaled by sulfide.

Mots clés : posttranslational modifications, sulfide, persulfidation, autophagy

Participants :
- Universidad de Sevilla (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 175099.2 €
- Iowa State University (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet EURoWEB (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The researcher will carry out a EURoWEB to examine how the Europeanization of the Western Balkans (WB) manifests at insufficiently researched socio-spatial levels. By introducing an innovative TPSN (Territory, Place, Scale, Network) framework to the Europeanization studies, testing it in a WB region with the “gender lens” and developing a new methodological tool, the project will explore the way the territory, place, scale, and network interact to enable or to inhibit the Europeanization of WB. Starting from the critical and the horizontal conception of Europeanization, the Europeanization of WB will be analysed by focusing on the exchange, transfer, and mutations of EU urban policies, through inter-urban networks (IUN). The researcher will collect qualitative and quantitative data about the participation of urban actors from Zagreb (Croatia), Belgrade (Serbia), Pristina (Kosovo) in the selected European IUN and conduct a social network analysis (SNA) and qualitative network analysis (QNA) to grasp not only the networks impact but also their interplay with other socio-spatial dimensions in which they are embedded. This will allow her to sketch the contours and explain the underlying, invisible and undertheorized, but potent spatialities that underpin the dynamic process of Europeanization of WB. The fellowship will provide a unique opportunity for filling the significant gaps between socio-spatial theorising and Europeanization studies. Capitalizing from the fruitful exchange between researcher expertise in urban sociology and host institution and supervisor’s expertise in Southeastern European studies / Europeanization, the overall aim of the fellowship is to develop a new socio-spatial conception of Europeanization and a new method that can be used in the further Europeanization research, in and out the EU, as well as in the further empirical testing of the TPSN

Mots clés : europeanization, western balkans, tpsn framework, inter urban networks, cities

Participants :
- University of Graz (Autriche) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 186167.04 €
Projet ToEfDeCo (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The right to effective assistance of defence counsel (READC) is one of the fundamental features of fair trial. In the context of open borders and increasing number of trans-border criminal cases it is important that all EU Member States (MS) guarantee the READC to suspects and requested persons in European arrest warrant cases at least on a minimum level. The Strasbourg system is no designed to achieve this goal, so the EU has taken the initiative via the Directive 2013/48/EU on the right of access to a lawyer in criminal proceedings etc. (22 Oct 2013). Considering the imminent transposition date of 27 Nov 2016, this project aims at determining how the MS are progressing in implementing the Directive. As the Directive not only guarantees the READC, but also requires that in case of breach of the READC, the MS have to ensure effective remedies, the final goal of the project is to propose remedies for trans-border cases that could be common to all MS. The research activities will be performed in the international environment of the Maastricht University, a centre of expertise on research on the READC in Europe, and will consist of two parts. The first part of the research will be empirical; competent representatives of all MS will be interviewed about how the MS have implemented or are planning to implement the Directive, including any difficulties they are encountering. In addition, the representatives will be queried about the remedies provided currently or prospectively. The second part of the research will be normative; information received from MS will be compared to legislation of the EU, the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, the European Court of Justice, international tribunals, the International Criminal Court, and the Supreme Court of the US as well as the theoretical approach to the READC in the US. As a result common remedies for the violation of the READC in the EU with a special focus on trans-border criminal cases will be proposed.

Mots clés : right to effective assistance of counsel, defence rights in criminal proceedings, defence rights in trans border criminal cases, remedies for violation of the right to effective assistance of counsel

Participants :
- Maastricht University (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 177598.8 €
Projet HOLOMAT (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The science objective of the proposal is twofold: (1) to adapt the state of the art numerical techniques being used in the field of holography to tackle more complex systems in equilibrium than before; and (2) to augment these methods by adopting state of the art techniques in numerical relativity to tackle much more complicated dynamical systems out of equilibrium. Objective 1 will be achieved by using the spectral and relaxation methods, currently implemented by the host in their local computing cluster, to study the effects of periodic and random potentials as well as thermal perturbations and quenches on the transport properties of holographic strange metals. Objective 2 will be achieved by studying vortex dynamics and collisions in holographic superfluids implementing recent advancements in numerical relativity that have been used to revolutionize the simulation of black hole collisions. The proposal is relevant to the Work Program in several key aspects. By the nature of the topic of holography, this proposal will foster strong inter-disciplinary collaboration between the string theory and condensed matter communities as well as strong cooperation within the institutes in the Delta ITP (Amsterdam, Leiden, and Utrecht). It will also foster strong international cooperation, particularly within Europe, given the strong links of the experienced researcher with high-energy and condensed matter research groups particularly in Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. Finally, it will equip the experienced researcher with the ability to implement numerical methods on a large scale and on computing clusters, which is a skill that is readily transferable to any sector of quantitative work. This will ensure that the researcher leaves the program with an extremely competitive and compelling skillset to enter the job market, whether it be in academia, industry, finance, or any other quantitative field.

Mots clés : holography, cft correspondence, numerical relativity

Participants :
- Leiden University (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 175572.48 €
Projet ADVANCE (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Staff Exchanges
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The scientific objective of the ADVANCE project is to conceive new approaches to support the Verification and Validation (V&V) of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). It will explore techniques, methods, and tools applicable to different phases of the system lifecycle, but always with the final objective of improving the effectiveness and efficacy of the V&V process. In particular, ADVANCE will focus on two main aspects of V&V: i) techniques to collect V&V evidences for a CPS (focusing on system modeling, testing, fault forecast, and systematic processes like FMEA), and ii) techniques to manage and analyze data of the system under analysis (focusing on data analysis, requirements management, traceability). The strategic objective of the project is to build an international network of collaborations on the topic of V&V of CPSs. Besides allowing the consortium to reach the project’s scientific objectives, the established interactions would allow the training of students and professionals on the latest innovations in the V&V panorama, and have them work together towards a common goal. In fact, besides the technical challenges described above, an important factor hampering advancements in the V&V of CPSs is a worldwide lack of skilled professionals in V&V, software testing, and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in general. One of the outputs of the project will be a set of training material, both in the form of slides and video courses, on the topic of Verification & Validation of Cyber-Physical Systems. These objectives will be pursued by joining together V&V experts having different specialization and different backgrounds, and establishing a targeted transfer of knowledge and collaboration program, using two real case studies as reference throughout the project.

Mots clés : verification and validation, cyber physical systems, systems of systems, design, model driven engineering, development, management, analysis, model based testing

Participants :
- Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l'Informatica (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 133400.0 €
- Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hongrie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 138000.0 €
- University of Coimbra (Portugal) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 138000.0 €
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brésil) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- ResilTech (Italy) (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 27600.0 €
- Fundación Universitaria del Espinal (Colombie) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (Brésil) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet scNet (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Regulatory processes within living cells have long been the topic of research interest and the key to understanding various diseases. The decades of studies resulted in a large body of knowledge on molecular interactions and regulatory pathways in the cells of model organisms ranging from microorganisms to mammals. Nevertheless, accurately inferring gene network topology at the scale of a whole cell has remained an intractable task until recently, mostly due to the large amount of single-cell data needed for such inference. In the last few years, single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) technology enabled measuring transcriptome of high numbers of individual cells, which allowed observing a much grater share of the multidimensional parameter space of large gene networks and gave rise to multiple inference methods. However, none of the existing methods incorporates all relevant knowledge on biophysical constraints. This project aims to incorporate prior knowledge on the system; decomposition of measurement, extrinsic and intrinsic noise; and accurate representation of stochastic gene expression and its regulation into a Bayesian inference framework for identifying topology of a gene network and rate constants of its molecular interactions. The performance of the inference algorithm will be tested by evaluating its ability to predict the effects of transcription factor deletion perturbations. Enhancing gene network inference by accounting for the wealth of known biophysical constraints could provide insights into the gene regulatory processes that would enable advancement in developmental and evolutionary biology, biomedicine and bioengineering.

Mots clés : single cell rna sequencing, integrative analysis of heterogeneous data, noise decomposition, network inference, network perturbation analysis

Participants :
- Technical University of Darmstadt (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 174806.4 €
Projet REOPTIMIZE (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Remineralisation of the particulate matter that sinks from the surface to the deep ocean is a crucial component of the biological carbon pump, because it ultimately influences the Earth’s climate. Due to the difficulties to observe this process, however, little is known about the variability of mesopelagic (~200-1000 m) remineralisation. REOPTIMIZE aims to improve knowledge of mesopelagic remineralisation by exploiting – for the first time – time-series of optical proxies of particle size and oxygen consumption collected by autonomous robotic platforms (i.e., Bio-Argo floats). These new estimates of remineralisation, acquired at unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution, will improve our knowledge of the biological carbon pump and ultimately reduce uncertainties in current and future estimates of the ocean carbon budget. REOPTIMIZE will combine models and field measurements. Field data from the Atlantic Meridional Transect cruises will be firstly exploited to extend current relationships between optical proxies and particle size from the ocean surface to the mesopelagic zone. Then, spectral light backscattering data acquired by a fleet of Bio-Argo floats in under-sampled oceanic areas will be converted to size-revolved carbon biomasses. These biomass estimates will then be combined with simultaneous oxygen consumption rates and analysed, by means of simple models of particle dynamics, to derive particle disaggregation rates in the mesopelagic. These inter-disciplinary and innovative activities will establish a two-way exchange of knowledge between the Researcher’s and the host institution and to enhance their European and international network of collaborators. Outcomes of REOPTIMIZE will have an impact on the European strategy for global ocean observations.

Mots clés : remineralisation, carbon pump, carbon fluxes, mesopelagic, marine bio optics, light backscattering, particle size, bio argo floats, oxygen consumption, high spatio temporal resolution data

Participants :
- Plymouth Marine Laboratory (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 195454.8 €
Projet INIA (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : MSCA other
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Request of financial support to cover the additional costs that researchers/staff members with disabilities face due to the increased costs of their mobility and/or to ensure necessary assistance by third persons or for adapting their work environment.

Mots clés : ptsd, anxiety, disassociation disorder, gender identity disorder

Participants :
- Dublin City University (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 51168.75 €
Projet SEGVOC (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : TERMINATED

Research comparing human and non-human animal communication has made great strides over the past half-century, yet, aspects of vocal behavior remain unexplored. In non-human animal vocal behavior, the smallest unit of analysis is the syllable or breath group, where intakes of breath divide the acoustic stream. Humans, however, can utter full words, phrases, and even sentences between intervals of silence. If alien researchers used the breath group as the smallest domain of analysis in human vocal behavior, they would be confused as to how “five spiders” and “more than four spiders” elicits similar responses but “five spiders” and “five ciders” are treated completely differently. In humans, segments – units that build words and phrases and are divided by acoustic transitions rather than silent intervals – are central to our understanding of language and have clarified the extent and limits to cross-population variability, how humans categorize acoustic stimuli, how languages change over time, and how learning and biology interact to create culture. Because of the central role in understanding language, segment analyses can greatly enhance our understanding of animal vocal behavior, as well. Building on my PhD research, I will further develop tools, methods, and experimental protocols to study the production and perception of non-human vocal segments. While the experimental work will focus on the non-stereotyped vocalizations of budgerigars (a small parrot species), I will apply a segmental approach to the vocalizations of a range of species. Because these segments are more acoustically analogous, they provide better units of comparison across species.

Mots clés : bio acoustics

Participants :
- Austrian Academy of Sciences (Autriche) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 186167.04 €