Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet Syn2Value (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

There is an urgent need to foster the transition to renewable energies, decarbonize the EU economy, and consolidate a circular economy. This requires the development of alternative and sustainable routes for producing fuels, chemicals, and intermediates. Biorefineries are a promising solution for producing a wide range of energy and marketable products while addressing another global environmental problem: organic waste management. Globally, > 9400 Mt of agricultural lignocellulosic waste could be used for biorefinery purposes. Syn2Value will engineer and validate a novel integrative biorefinery platform capable of converting lignocellulosic waste-derived syngas (H2:CO:CO2) into value-added liquid fuels and medium-chain carboxylates (MCC). Syn2Value will address two critical scientific challenges of syngas fermentation and chain elongation, namely the poor mass transport of gas substrates and the low metabolic selectivity, which limit its full-scale implementation. Syn2Value approach is based, first, on the bioprospection and assessment of thermophilic (45-55 °C) and acidophilic (pH: 4.5-5.5) microbes capable of a high-performance conversion of syngas into MCC. Second, the development of a groundbreaking single-stage syngas-to-MCC platform based on an innovative high mass transfer gas-lift bioreactor with in-situ product extraction. Third, ad-hoc mathematical models, techno-economic analysis and business planning will set the ground for a mid-term full deployment of a new generation of cost-effective and sustainable biotechnologies that will contribute to comply the Green Deal objective of making Europe the first climate-neutral region by 2050 while keeping the economic competitiveness of its world-leading chemical industry. The fellow, Dr. Rodolfo Palomo, will conduct this action at the Institute of Sustainable Processes of the University of Valladolid under the supervision of Dr. Raúl Muñoz, with secondments at Wageningen University & Research and the SME Greene.

Mots clés : anaerobic metabolism caproate caprylate carboxylates chain elongation circular economy environmental biotechnology high mass transfer bioreactor syngas syngas fermentation

Participants :
- Wageningen University & Research (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Greene enterprise, s.l. (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Valladolid (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 181152.96 €
Projet GroupConciseness (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Mathematics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The notion of conciseness of words in groups was introduced by Phillip Hall at the beginning of the second half of the past century. Hall conjectured that every word is concise in the class of all groups, but this was proved to be false in 1989 by Ivanov in its general form. However, the question whether every word is concise in the class of residually finite groups, raised by Andrei Jaikin-Zapirain, is still open, and is currently the main conjecture in the topic. In recent years, the notion of strong conciseness in profinite groups has also been introduced, and in this context, an analogous conjecture has been proposed, namely, that every word is strongly concise in the class of all profinite groups. This proposal is thus devoted to the study of conciseness and strong conciseness of words, as well as some related notions, in residually finite and profinite groups. For the purpose of getting closer to the proofs of the aforementioned conjectures, we suggest a multidisciplinary approach by combining group theoretical, topological, and measure theoretical methods. For instance, we propose studying conciseness and strong conciseness of words in certain classes of pro-p groups, such as p-adic analytic pro-p groups; or introducing the notion of Hausdorff conciseness by relating the Hausdorff dimension of the set of word values with the Hausdorff dimension of the verbal subgroup. This project proposal is a natural continuation of the applicant’s research career, who has already worked in several word-related problems, and will highly contribute to strengthening the candidate’s research skills, as well as to bringing novel and interesting ideas to the host organisations.

Mots clés : group theory, residually finite groups, profinite groups, pro p groups, word problems, conciseness of words, hausdorff dimension

Participants :
- Université du Pays basque (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 239922.72 €
- Université de Brasilia (Brésil) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet PERFoRM (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

PERFoRM will unveil how in-service environmental conditions influence the stability of the passive layer on steel rebar embedded in concretes based on low-carbon cementitious materials (i.e. near-neutral salt activated slag materials (NnSAS)), when exposed to environmental threats. NnSAS offer high carbon emission savings, compared to other construction materials, however their long-term performance is largely unknown. PERFoRM will implement non-destructive techniques (NDTs) for the in-situ diagnosis of steel reinforced concretes, and in-situ tracing of aggressive ions; along with cutting-edge electrochemical techniques to determining corrosion rates closely resembling in-service concrete structures. Advanced characterisation of the passive layer using environmental XPS, and the steel-concrete interface using u-CT will also be carried out. The main scientific focus areas of PERFoRM will be: • Developing novel durability wireless embedded (D-WirE) sensors for in-situ tracing of aggressive ions (e.g., chlorides) and monitoring of internal factors (e.g. relative humidity, pH) in concrete • Ground-breaking work monitoring chemical and physical changes induced by carbonation/chloride penetration in NnSAS mainly using NDTs • Advanced characterisation of the passive layer growth, breakdown, and failure rates of steel rebars embedded in NnSAS • Creation of service-life models by incorporation of in-situ carbonation and chloride penetration regression models PERFoRM will bring unique insight about all potential aspects influencing corrosion mechanism and stability of the passive layer forming in steel embedded in NnSAS. This will enable performance-based materials design, and selection of remediation strategies to ensure the safety of in-service novel self-sensing and low-carbon NnSAS. PERFoRM will be integrated with collaborative programmes coordinated by RILEM and EFC, providing a direct route to international awareness and utilisation of the fellowship outcomes.

Mots clés : corrosion, non destructive techniques, sensors, electrochemical properties, steel concrete interface, alkali activated materials

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

PLEC is the first to examine how the ‘Energy Commons’ wish to regulate themselves, where national private law poses unnecessary obstacles to these wishes, and how such obstacles could be removed. The Energy Commons are self-governing projects set up by local communities to jointly produce renewable energy. They are vital to the energy transition in the EU, providing urgently needed renewable energy. As current research shows, national private law may conflict with the wishes of the Energy Commons, deterring their contribution to the energy transition. PLEC will use an innovative empirically-based approach to uncover how the Energy Commons wish to regulate themselves. Through interviews in two German and two Italian Energy Commons, PLEC will determine the decisions taken by Energy Commons. Doctrinal legal research will show which decisions are subject to their national private law. A questionnaire will show how the Energy Commons wish to regulate those decisions. Doctrinal legal research will uncover where German or Italian private law conflicts with the rules made by the Energy Commons and, to determine whether such obstacles are unnecessary, whether a deviation from conflicting private law according to the needs of the Energy Commons would contravene public interests pursued by that private law. Comparative legal research will show whether solutions from the other country may help remove unnecessary obstacles from, respectively, German or Italian law, and provide a legal toolkit for other countries. At Turin University, the researcher, with broad experience in private law and empirical research, will benefit from extensive expertise on Commons and empirical methods and the gE.CO (H2020-SC6_CSA)-project’s comprehensive network and the supervision by its Coordinator. PLEC will be essential to law-makers, legal practitioners, and representatives of Energy Commons for insights on how private law reform can facilitate the energy transition.

Mots clés : private law, comparative law, empirical legal studies, commons, energy law, renewable energy communities

Participants :
- University of Turin (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 171473.28 €
Projet POLREG (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

POLREG, hosted by Sciences Po’s Centre d’études européennes et de politique compare, provides a comparative analysis on the processes of, and the conditions for, the evolution of independent regulators designed to “depoliticise” public policy issues. While the creation of such bodies has raised the question of their compatibility with democratic politics, little is known about to what extent and how these institutions withstand the pressure to “politicise” the issues after their creation. POLREG address this gap by examining how and under what conditions independent regulators are likely to prove stable. It focuses on rationing, i.e. the restriction of public service provision, a crucial test for the durability of regulators facing political pressures. POLREG develops a theoretical framework for the political struggles over the maintenance of regulatory institutions; it assesses the utility of the framework through a cross-sectoral, cross-national comparative research design, by examining the evolution of rationing regulation in the healthcare, housing, and energy sectors in England, France and Japan in the past three decades. Combining the original datasets of the politicisation of regulation and policy responses with qualitative data such as documents and interviews, it provides a fine-grained analysis of regulatory trajectories. Through the analysis POLREG seeks to advance a more nuanced understanding of the implication of independent regulators for democratic politics. Challenging the prevailing notion that assume a linear trajectory of depoliticised regulators, it seeks to highlight how sectoral and national contexts shape the divergent pathways of regulatory politics. The project’s outputs are presented as three journal article manuscripts, a book proposal, international conference presentations, and the organisation of international workshops involving both academics and policy-makers.


Participants :
- Fondation nationale des sciences politiques (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 184707.84 €
Projet POLYTE (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Doctoral Networks - Industrial Doctorates
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

POLYTE-EID European Industrial Doctorate will offer excellent training opportunities to 3 Early Stage Researchers in the area of Polymers for Electrochemical Energy Storage. POLYTE-EID puts together the expertise in batteries for automotive of Toyota Motor Europe (TME) with the academic excellence in polymers of the University of the Basque Country (POLYMAT). The final objective is to train scientists who may face some of the upcoming European energy and transportation challenges. The project proposal is a well-balanced combination of fundamental material&polymer science with applied research in electrochemical energy storage technologies. The project will search the development of new polymeric materials to increase the performance and security of actual and future batteries.

Mots clés : polymers for energy, polymer electrolytes, lithium batteries, electrochemical energy storage, electric vehicle, batteries for transportation

Participants :
- Toyota Motor Corporation (Belgium) (Belgique) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- University of the Basque Country (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 743618.88 €
Projet PROBIST (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Cofund Postdoctoral programme
Statut du projet : SIGNED

PROBIST is an ambitious programme offering 61 three-year fellowships to foster excellence in multidisciplinary postdoctoral research at BIST´s constituent research centres and associated partner institutions (hospitals, private companies, technology centres, and other academic institutions), which will provide opportunities for collaborations and secondments, training, networking activities and other actions to complement the research activities and professional development of the fellows. The PROBIST proposal is presented by the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) as beneficiary. BIST, a private non-profit foundation, was created in 2015 as an initiative of the Catalan government to bring together six Excellent Flagship Catalan research centres that already had a track record of working together: the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), the Institute for High Energy Physics (IFAE) and the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona). The COFUND Postdoctoral Programme goals are: 1. To contribute towards improving conditions for carrying out high-quality research at the research centers and to increase its international visibility. 2. To offer coordinated postgraduate programs of excellence with international impact. 3. To build a critical mass to multiply the capacity of the research centers in different fields, such as knowledge transfer, scientific and technological platforms and talent attraction. 4. To cooperate with scientific institutions, companies, individuals and public or private entities to fulfill these aims.

Mots clés : postdoctoral training, biosciences, nanotechnology, physics, chemistry, photonics

Participants :
- Barcelona Institute for Science and Technology (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 6478200.0 €
- Institute for High Energy Physics (Espagne) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Institute of Photonic Sciences (Espagne) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Institut Català d'Investigació Química (Espagne) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (Espagne) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Institute for Research in Biomedicine (Espagne) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet PROMPT (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

PROMPT will develop a new generation of photosensitizers targeting mitochondria in cancer cells, to be used in photodynamic therapy (PDT). The innovative approach of PROMPT is based on the design and synthesis of porphyrinoids functionalized with aromatic heterocyclic groups containing C-S bonds. These molecules are expected to localize specifically in mitochondria of cancer cells and to efficiently generate singlet oxygen, leading to apoptosis induction and cell death. Loading of the photosensitizers into liposomes ad hoc functionalized to target mitochondria is also envisaged in case of need. The innovative photodynamic treatment will thus show high selectivity, lower dose of treatment and reduced side effects with respect to the presently used phototherapy approaches. Moreover, the new molecules are expected to show significant two-photon absorption properties, due to the extended conjugation of the porphyrinoid core introduced by the aromatic side groups. They will thus represent a groundbreaking class of mitochondria-targeted photosensitizers for both one- and two-photon PDT. The multidisciplinarity of PROMPT, together with the proposed work plan in a forefront area of bio-medical research, will widen the scientific skills and technological know-how of the Experienced Researcher, significantly improving his career opportunities both in the academic and private sectors.

Mots clés : porphyrinoids, mitochondria, photodynamic therapy, two photon absorption, organic synthesis

Participants :
- National Research Council (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 168277.2 €
Projet PS-IRAQ (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

PS-IRAQ’s objectives: 1) study the relationship between knowledge production and political engineering in state and nation-building of occupied Iraq (2003-6); and 2) analyze how scientific knowledge of the state acted as a constituent element of political agency. This project also seeks to 3) develop detailed analysis of 2 sites of state and nation-building in Iraq (2003-6). The cases are the occupation’s and US efforts in: 1) restoring electrical supply and rebuilding the national electrical grid; and 2) the introduction of new Iraqi representative bodies. This project is interdisciplinary, drawing on comparative politics, the anthropology of state and economy, political geography, and social studies of science and technology. It examines how scholars from history, political science, political economy, anthropology and social theory have understood Iraq prior to and after the invasion, and how they engaged in the making and the transfer of ideas about the state. Data-collection relies on archival, library-based research, and interviews. The project generates conceptual and empirical insights relevant to European external action in Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries, especially crisis response and state-building. European excellence and innovation is promoted by developing a reflexive understanding of the relationship between social science knowledge and state-building practice and policy. Lessons from the US experience enhance the mutual understanding of US policy formation and social scientific knowledge formation processes. This will enhance potential for European international cooperation on state-building.

Mots clés : state building, iraq, science and technology studies, electrification, democratization, expert knowledge, occupation, sectariansim, consociationalism

Participants :
- Ghent University (Belgique) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 172800.0 €
Projet PAEDOMORPHOSIS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Paedomorphosis is a poorly understood phenomenon in evolutionary biology in which juvenile traits of an organism are retained into adulthood. The evolutionary origins of, and driving forces behind, various cases of paedomorphosis in animals remain unknown. Exploring cases of paedomorphosis across the entire animal kingdom is a desired but overwhelming task, but beetles, a mega-diverse insect order with numerous paedomorphic lineages, is the best proxy to study this phenomenon within a manageable project and with high potential for broad extrapolations. With this project, I propose to (1) document the morphological changes in paedomorphic lineages across beetles to (2) test hypotheses of morphological homology for paedomorphic characters in a phylogenetic framework using genomics and to (3) identify evolutionary causes behind the repeated development of paedomorphosis. I expect the results to be scalable and thus instrumental in generating an inclusive theory of the repeated origin of paedomorphosis across the entire animal kingdom. Through my past research I developed a unique systematic knowledge of the elateroid beetles where paedomorphosis occurs with high frequency. The implementation of this project will raise me from a domain-restricted entomologist to an independent successful evolutionary biologist and thus maximize my chances for a tenure track position in a world-class research institution in Europe. Dr. Alexey Solodovnikov, my host at Copenhagen University, works with current integrative methods in systematic entomology, fundamental to the successful development of my ideas on paedomorphosis.

Mots clés : neoteny, progenesis, heterochrony, pedomorphosis, paedomorphosis, homology hypotheses

Participants :
- University of Copenhagen (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 219312.0 €