Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet EMISSR (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The aim of the EMISSR project is to create a novel multibody dynamics simulator for soft robotics. The originality of the project consists in a unified constraint based formulation that can couple rigid and flexible bodies in the same solver. The argument behind a simulator for soft robotics is the fact that traditional robots are not suitable for working in humans and their control has proven daunting especially for nonlinear underactuated systems. The new field of soft robotics is seeing great growth and investment around the globe and Europe needs to seize this economic opportunity. New dynamics simulations and control algorithms are needed for soft robots, that are made up of soft parts and biology inspired actuators. EMISSR wants to fill in this gap and aims to become a testbed for training control policies based on machine learning and other algorithms. In terms of performance and accuracy, EMISSR will be a high-fidelity interactive simulator, meaning that it will be extremely fast due to its multilevel solver and parallel implementation, while not sacrificing much of the accuracy needed for soft robotics applications. The frictional contact and deformable continua models will not make any unphysical approximations. The elements that will distinguish EMISSR from other existing projects are: two-way coupling of rigid and soft bodies, a fast multilevel iterative solver, stability for high mass ratios and transversal oscillations and robust contact information generation. These will be applied to making virtual replicas of soft robots (e.g. soft body parts, artificial muscles and tendons, pneumatic tubes), simulating their dynamics and testing machine learning based control policies for large numbers of degrees of freedom. At the same time, the training programme that UCPH offers matches my career development needs perfectly, allowing me to build upon my current competencies, not forgetting the opportunity to enhance my academic profile and teaching experience.

Mots clés : multibody dynamics simulation, two way coupling, rigid and flexible bodies, multilevel iterative solver, high mass ratios, high fidelity, performance, soft robotics, machine learning, control

Participants :
- University of Copenhagen (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 212194.8 €
Projet GASAC (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The aim of the project is to analyse the gender aspects of British and American screen adaptations of selected nineteenth century women’s novels. As the contemporary popular culture is increasingly reliant on adaptation and other derivative types of cultural texts such as sequels, retellings, and pastiche, it becomes vital to study the continued appeal of canonical literature. The project aims to study screen adaptations released between 1990 and 2010, which are internationally known and became parts of the shared collective cultural experience, influencing the popular perception of European nineteenth-century culture and the position of women within that culture. The project will consist of four components: (1) studying the adaptation authors’ (directors, screen writers etc.) stated motivations and perceptions of the original writers, revealed in interviews, DVD commentaries and other ancillary materials; (2) analysing the nature of “novel to film” changes, with special attention to the portrayal of female characters and the issues of women’s agency and empowerment; (3) studying the role of the visual elements, e.g. costumes, scenography, cinematography and editing in the portrayal of female characters (4) analysing the receptions of adaptations and studying the possible “film to novel” transmission. The proposed research project is highly interdisciplinary in nature, aiming to use in a complementary way the perspectives of adaptation studies, gender studies and reception studies and film studies. It is based on solid theoretical founations (understanding he nature of the transmedial shift), but also involves a case-study approach to the chosen novel-and-adaptations clusters. Its expected impact is to offer a comprehensive analysis of the issues of women’s agency and empowerment in the selected adaptations and to study the influence of these adaptations on the audiences' perception of the nineteenth-century culture.

Mots clés : adaptation studies, nineteenth century british literature, women s literature, screen adaptations

Participants :
- Linnaeus University (Suède) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 173857.2 €
Projet T.A.MA (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The proposed project will explore how religion, politics and heritage intersect in a deeply divided European society, by examining the Christian-Orthodox shrine of Apostle Andreas, in the Turkish-occupied Karpass peninsula (Cyprus). The shrine is mainly visited by Greek-Cypriots and to a lesser degree by Turkish-Cypriots, and it is currently being restored by both communities with the involvement of the EU. Using semi-structured interviews with pilgrims and officials involved in the shrine’s management and restoration, participant observation, and visual and archival research material, the study will look at (a) the attempts to restore the shrine, and (b) the revival of pilgrimages in conditions of ongoing division. The initial aim is to uncover symbolic, cultural, ethnic and political associations ascribed to the shrine and the pilgrimage by local and international actors. Examination of the shrine is also a powerful means through which to access past and present aspects of intercommunal relations. One original dimension of the proposed project is that it is one of the very few to study the institution of pilgrimage as a whole, looking at pilgrims, organizers, political actors and international organizations. This all-round perspective is appropriate to an analytical approach that, unusually, does not take religious motivation to be the default motivation for participation in the workings of a shrine, and it is necessary as a means of seeing whether and how different stakeholders articulate with each other in a situation of ongoing tension. This model of ‘articulation’ is intended to transcend simple dichotomies evident in the anthropological literature between ‘communitas’ (fellowship) and contestation in the operation of a shrine. Focusing on a pilgrimage site that is located in a divided country that is a member of the EU, the project has the potential to inform EU policy on heritage and conflict resolution, while benefiting the communities under study.

Mots clés : pilgrimage, ethnography, cyprus, religion, politics, heritage

Participants :
- University of Cyprus (Chypre) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 221446.8 €
- University of Toronto (Canada) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet MAStErS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Economic Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The proposed research assesses the price of skills mismatch of non-native employees, and the subsequent incidence of this mismatch on workers on different job- and task-complexity levels in the labour market. At the level of individuals, it investigates how earnings of foreign workers with education surplus alters once firm, sector, location characteristics and cultural distance between the home and host country of workers are taken into account. Subsequently, in Dutch and British labour markets, it comparatively assesses the aggregate displacement effect on natives of foreigners who work in occupations below their education level. The research informs policy-making with respect to a more detailed classification on which skilled people to admit and the channels of training for the newcomers. The analyses are based on proprietary micro-data sets that are tailored to make several unique contributions: The program explicitly incorporates the demand side, which is typically ignored, to uncover the heterogeneity of the skills mismatch effects according to firm characteristics, agglomeration economies and differences in job and task-complexity. It also distinguishes how urban density and agglomeration economies potentially mediate the impact of skills mismatch. Moreover, by including a measure of cultural and linguistic distance between the employee’s country of origin and the host country, the research identifies forms of state dependence and returns to country of origin specific skills. Particular emphasis is given to address the measurement error and ability bias through quasi-experimental research designs, fixed effects models and synthetic cohort analysis. The proposed program forms a bridge between education, welfare, and integration aspects of immigration with space and local characteristics of recipient economies. It adds to evidence-based immigration policy informed of the cost and mechanisms of mismatch impacting healthy labour market integration of newcomers.

Mots clés : skills mismatch, immigration, task complexity, urban areas, micro data, the netherlands

Participants :
- University of Birmingham (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 195454.8 €
Projet MigrWorkers (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The workings of globalization depend on international labor migration, a phenomenon that is hardly recent but that is, instead, embedded in histories of colonialism, decolonization and neocolonization, divergent conditions of democracy, totalitarianism, militarism and exploitation, as well as in persistent structures of economic disparity among the formal colonial powers and the decolonized world. Contemporary labor migration—the flows of people in search of labor crossing national boundaries, deeply impacts and transforms the social, economic, political, cognitive and affective landscapes of contemporary life. This project will consider these transformations by examining the transnational migrant labor of workers from Romania such as it unfolds at two central sites of global capitalism, London-U.K. and New York-U.S. The research will feature an historical analysis of the immigrant Romanian labor presence at these sites, while its time frame covers the interval starting in 1989 up to the present day. While labor migration has been a subject of interest for economists, political theorists, geographers, anthropologists and cultural theorists alike, its relevance to affective theory and neoliberal critiques have only recently been addressed. My project seeks to address an analytic gap that refers to the affective dimension of migrational labor by considering not only the economic, political, and historical contexts, but also the impact that immigrants’ transnational journeys in search for work and their landing in new spaces have on their intimate lives alongside co-nationals as well as alongside other dwellers in the global city. The research project will draw upon recent global changes, more precisely on the global economic crisis, the continued neoliberalization of economies and the pressures towards securitization that affect the cities of London and New York and thus implicitly impact on the lives of immigrant laborers.

Mots clés : work migration, gender, race, class, transnational, affect, social change, immigration justice, labor justice

Participants :
- London South Bank University (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 30575.8 €
- University of Strathclyde (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 152879.0 €
Projet MITOCHADAPT (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The world is undergoing rapid environmental change, and organisms are growing up in environments very different to those in which they evolved. Predicting how organisms will cope with this unprecedented scale of change is a key priority of biological research. The proposed work will be a significant advance to the field by measuring the evolutionary potential of developmental thermal physiology across natural populations, testing an underlying mechanism mediating adaptation to a warmer climate: namely the thermal sensitivity of mitochondrial efficiency (ATP/O). Outcomes will advance both basic biological knowledge, and applied climate change responses which are of importance to EU citizens, by testing individual- and population- level variation to predict species-level responses to climate change, and identifying a potentially general mechanism for thermal adaptation that can focus conservation efforts. I will use a combination of field work with laboratory measurements and techniques on natural populations of a widely distributed freshwater fish, and meta-analytical techniques, to target the following novel objectives: Objective 1) Test for divergence in mitochondrial efficiency (ATP/O) and developmental thermal physiology across locally adapted populations spanning a wide latitudinal gradient; Objective 2) Identify how developmental temperature affects ATP/O; Objective 3) Determine how selection and heritability of developmental thermal physiology varies across populations, and how ATP/O may mediate temperature-dependent selection; Objective 4) Summarise the generality of patterns between ATP/O and environment across species using meta-analysis. This project will draw from and expand upon the combined research track-records and strengths of my work in early-life history and quantitative genetics, with that of hosts Prof. Metcalfe (subcellular physiology) and Prof. Seebacher (whole-animal physiology) to achieve my future research career goals.

Mots clés : development, thermal physiology, metabolic rate, energy expenditure, countergradient variation, latitude

Participants :
- University of Glasgow (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 277940.16 €
- University of Sydney (Australie) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet GreenTRIBOS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Doctoral Networks - Joint Doctorates
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The world is warming and the weather is becoming increasingly unstable and extreme, and whether we like it or not, the overwhelming scientific consensus is that mankind’s use of fossil fuels is a key component in this climate change. Friction, wear and lubrication are major players in the consumption of energy, and so reducing friction and wear and using green lubrication is the most direct route to reducing energy consumption and pollution and so contributing to a better environment for us all. GreenTRIBOS takes up this very important challenge by developing innovative, but sustainable and green, technologies to decrease both friction and wear and improve lubrication. The 12 early-stage researchers (ESRs) will be working in three science-based work packages to develop integrative green concepts, their functional mechanisms, and lifecycle analyses to verify the sustainability, as well as quantifying the tribological performance to reduce energy consumption, resource depletion and polluting emissions. In the overarching integrative work package, the ESRs will assimilate these results into a coherent set of generic, green-tribology concepts and design rules – that will be made freely available to all – with a measurable impact on sustainability over the whole lifecycle of the system. All 12 ESRs will use complementary techniques, tools, models and approaches supported by their supervisors, research groups and non-academic mentors throughout their individual PhD-specific ESR project plans. By training the ESRs in scientific, technical and transferrable skills, they will become the next generation of high-potential scientists and engineers to instigate the step change that is required for a sustainable engineering future to serve the needs of a sustainable 21st century Europe.

Mots clés : green tribology, nanotribology, lubrication, additive, friction, wear, tribochemistry, tribofilm, surface, thin film, pollution, emissions, energy, resources, life cycle analysis, sustainability

Participants :
- University of Ljubljana (Slovénie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 719870.76 €
- Luleå University of Technology (Suède) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 845948.88 €
- University of Leeds (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 909517.68 €
- University of Coimbra (Portugal) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 713160.72 €
Projet CAPSYS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Doctoral Networks - Industrial Doctorates
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The worldwide in vitro diagnostic (IVD) is continually growing. At least 36% of the IVD market comprises point-of-care (POC) tests, which are performed by healthcare professional in various settings or by patients themselves. A large number of companies entered the POC testing market in the recent years while bringing significant technological improvements and novel concepts to this market. Yet, many important needs for immunodiagnostics are unmet: POC tests still require relatively large volumes of samples, cannot readily be multiplexed, are not always accurate, and often involve simple liquid displacement "from point A to point B" with minimal control over the distribution of reagents and kinetics of reactions. Here, we propose a synergistic project aiming at developing simple-to-use and high-performance microfluidic capillary systems ("CAPSYS") for POC testing. Each part of the project will correspond to a complete PhD work with specific skills, methodology, and know-how from the academic and industrial PIs. The common theme for both projects will be the use of capillary forces for the autonomous filling of microfluidics by samples and liquids and the integration of reagents and receptors for analyte detection inside the microfluidic chips. Those microfluidic chips will allow 1-step assays, i.e. assays wherein a non-technical user only needs to load a sample to the chip for performing a biological test. CAPSYS will lead to a new state of the art in terms of POC testing with significant relevance in medicine and diagnostics. CAPSYS will therefore be ideal for early stage researchers (ESRs) in terms of learning various disciplines in depth, creating numerous opportunities for publishing, and working on problem-oriented research that can have an impact in the "real world".

Mots clés : capillary driven microfluidics, 1 step immunoassays, immunodiagnostics, point of care, diagnostics

Participants :
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 235371.12 €
- IBM Research - Zurich (Suisse) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 279961.58 €
Projet Constructions (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The world’s languages differ in how they conceptualize events central to the human experience, such as motion and change of state, by means of constructions. This project investigates the expression of these meanings in four major European languages, English, German, Polish and Spanish. The aim is (i) to identify, through a fine-grained study of corpus data, the language-internal factors (semantic, morpho-syntactic, etc.) underlying cross-linguistic variation, including differences that can be observed in languages considered to be typologically related and (ii) to implement the findings in foreign language acquisition by developing a comprehensive pedagogical grammar of constructions. Consistently, this proposal involves three main phases. The first one consists of data collection and description. The second one is dedicated to data interpretation in the light of the theories concerned with verbal constructions and typological variation, namely Construction Grammar (Goldberg 1995) and Talmy’s (2000) typology of macro-events. In particular, it will be claimed that the typology of languages, as proposed by Talmy (2000), is in fact an epiphenomenon of a typology of constructions whose distribution in the world’s languages is constrained, among others, by the availability of grammatical devices, such as verb prefixes, verb particles, prepositions, etc. The third phase proceeds with translating the theoretical results into a user-friendly multi-lingual grammar of constructions, which permits to elucidate certain high-level morpho-syntactic generalizations, invisible in the prevailing verb-centred teaching materials. Therefore, the findings of this investigation would be an innovative contribution both to the theoretical debate on linguistic diversity and to the cross-linguistic communication in a broad sense, which seems to be especially relevant in the modern world characterized by close relationships between languages and cultures.

Mots clés : construction grammar, typology, macro events, verb framed, satellite framed, language pedagogy, comparative linguistics

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