Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet RESCUE (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Cofund Doctoral programme
Statut du projet : SIGNED

With an aging population, a growing burden of chronic conditions, and rising healthcare costs in Europe, the need for organs, tissues, and personalized strategies for decision making in therapeutic choices has never been greater. Recent developments herald the promise of regenerative medicine and stem cell (RMSC) technology. However, for RMSC to fully capture its potential, a synergistic and multidisciplinary effort remains necessary to achieve essential scientific breakthroughs. There is thus a high demand for an excellent graduate program that trains a new brand of researcher who will successfully bring RMSC technology from bench to bedside and back. Such a researcher understands the needs and demands that exist in the clinic, the strengths and limitations of RMSC technology and its ethical and regulatory aspects, and has the entrepreneurial spirit to push their discoveries towards new applications. Therefore, the University Medical Centre Utrecht (UMCU) has initiated the RMSC-dedicated doctoral training programme RESCUE. RESCUE features an international, interdisciplinary and inter sectoral approach to train 29 highly skilled Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) to become the future leaders in RMSC research and implementation of RMSC technology. RESCUE brings together 31 principal investigators that are renowned experts in their fields, have ample experience with supervising PhD students and leading successful research groups. RESCUE is tightly connected with multiple international academic and private partner organisations, each providing complementary research or training. RESCUE enables UMCU to develop best practices in high quality training and research. The long-term ambition of RESCUE is to establish a strong and coherent network that connects highly skilled young researchers as well as established scientists, who will continue to inspire each other to excel in making discoveries in RMSC far beyond the funding period.

Mots clés : regenerative medicine, stem cells, translational research, doctoral training

Participants :
- University Medical Center Utrecht (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 3034560.0 €
Projet StaGraM (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

With less than 1 percent of drinkable water on Earth and growing pollution the demand for drinking water can only be met through the advanced separation and purification technology. Membrane-based filtration technologies are standard separation processes and are widely used in water treatment; however their performance is still severely limited due to their underperformance in terms of flux, selectivity, porosity, cleaning ability, and stability. Recent advancement in nanostructured membranes based on layered graphene construct enables a paradigm shift in the membrane development due to its almost zero resistance for water molecules and 100% rejection of other components. Recent reports suggest that an ideal membrane could be realized using graphene because of its atomic thickness, high mechanical strength, and chemical inertness. Although the graphene based membranes showed excellent separation performance; unfortunately their durability and stability is the biggest obstacle in realization of its full potential. We propose to develop suitably cross-linked ultrathin graphene oxide membranes with improved mechanical property and durability. Our approach is to combine the innovative membrane fabrication technologies and the science of graphene materials to realize high-permeable and durable graphene membranes for water treatment purposes. This project will develop cross-linked graphene membranes by covalent crosslinking to obtain: I) high stability and durability, II) retained or minimally affected water flux and rejection and III) last but not least, adding new properties such as anti(bio-)fouling in the membranes. Such novel crosslinking will be achieved by using low molecular weight functional molecules, oligomers, polymers and mussel inspired chemistry. By the research of this project, a set of new crosslinking methodologies and knowledge of preparing graphene oxide membranes and their real applications will be developed.

Mots clés : graphene, membranes, crosslinking, water filtration, separation, materials chemistry, 2d materials

Participants :
- University of Manchester (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 195454.8 €
Projet STiMUL (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

With the advent of ultrashort light pulses of picosecond/femtosecond durations, numerous novel applications and potential capabilities have emerged. However, ultrashort fiber laser must operate in a nonlinear propagation regime with a complex balance among gain, spectral filtering, dispersion and nonlinear broadening. Furthermore, all current families of ultrafast lasers are based on single mode fibers (SMFs) and these have now reached limits in their application domains because of their inherent limited peak power handling capability. In order to overcome the aforementioned barrier for ultrafast fiber lasers, and enhance their operational range, I suggest to replace single mode fibers by multimode fibers. The main goal of this proposed MSCA Individual Fellowship is therefore to develop new ideas for the mode locking of lasers based on multimode gain fiber by controlling their spatio-temporal complex dynamics, and then to demonstrate generation of ultrashort light pulses with high average power and high peak power. The nonlinear coupling among the fiber modes can self-maintain a high degree of spatial coherence while permitting a high degree of temporal coherence with the locking of the modes on a common group delay. I propose to explore multimode space-time soliton propagation and beam nonlinear “self-cleaning” in amplifying rare-earth-doped multimode fiber and in multimode fiber laser. I believe that this could lead to the new building blocks of high power picosecond or femtosecond fiber lasers. XLIM is an interdisciplinary institute, hosting various fields of research. It is recognised as one of the top institutions in photonics and micro-electronics, and since 2011 has been considered as a “Laboratoire d’Excellence” by the French government. XLIM can therefore provide for an excellent environment in which I can conduct the proposed research while also achieving the required training, communication and dissemination objectives of the MSCA Fellowship.

Mots clés : optical fibers, fiber lasers, multimode optical fibers, ultrafast fiber lasers

Participants :
- Université de Limoges (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 185076.0 €
Projet ADCLICH (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

With the consensus that human activities are leading to dangerous interference in Earth’s climate, there has been growing policy pressure for clear quantification and attribution of the resulting biological impacts. For this reason, there is an urgent need to understand the effect of ecological and evolutionary processes caused by past climate change on range dynamics. In fact, adaptation of plant populations in fitness-related traits to different local climate condition might enable species to take on future climate change. In general, species performance (genetics, physiology, morphology and demography) is predicted to decline gradually from population growing in the climatic optimum (central population) to population growing in harsh climate conditions (peripheral populations). However, studies aimed to analyse differences between central and peripheral populations relate this differences with only one or two possible causal factors (i.e., historical, ecological or biogeographic factor), without distinguishing between geographical, environmental and historical isolation. For this reason, the goal of our project is to evaluate whether the environmental (ecological niche), historical (biogeographical processes) and geographical barriers may explain difference in both gene diversity and fitness-related floral traits between central and peripheral populations in Lilium pomponium, a species potentially prone to extinction risk because of range loss induced by climate change and spanning across Mediterranean to Alpine climate. The originality and interdisciplinarity of this research programme lies into integrate ecological niche characteristics together with current and past range structure to investigate evolutionary processes that have affected spatial patterns of genetic and demographic variation across species ranges combining different research fields in evolutionary biology as reproductive biology, ecology, phylogeography and population genetics.

Mots clés : climate change, adaptation, reproductive biology, fitness, population genetics, evolutionary processes

Participants :
- Aix-Marseille Université (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 185076.0 €
Projet NORNS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

With the conversion to Christianity, literary production in medieval Scandinavia became intertwined with the textual culture of continental Europe. This set in motion a process of interaction that continues to shape and be shaped by the evolution of European identities today. Intellectual responses to the relationship between northern Germany and Scandinavia, in particular, have been defined by rival national perspectives that turn to the medieval period to assert their legitimacy. My project questions this practice by advocating an integrative literary history of the region in the Middle Ages. By applying narrative theory to representative works of romance and historiography in the vernacular from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century, I will reveal the role played by narrative poetics in defining the cultural space around the Baltic. The project will examine the texts as a group for the first time, and thus contribute significantly to changing views of European literary history, in which intertwined regional narratives are replacing the spent force of national ones. Contemporary as it may be, I will show that the origins of this conceptual shift are to be found in a far more distant past. The project will be hosted by the Centre for Medieval Literature (CML) at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) in Odense. My motivation is to add a new European relevance to my specialism in Medieval German Studies. This would not be possible to the same degree anywhere else. The Centre’s location, its rethinking of medieval European literature outside the national philologies, and the expertise of its members are all perfectly suited to enabling a dialogue between German and Scandinavian Studies. I will be supervised by the Centre’s leader, have direct access to its resources, and be trained in essential skills for my career in academia and engaging with audiences outside it – as at the exhibition in the Royal Library in Copenhagen in which the project will culminate.

Mots clés : germany, scandinavia, middle high german, middle low german, old norse, medieval literature, history, historiography, narrative theory, middle ages

Participants :
- University of Southern Denmark (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 212194.8 €
Projet RISE (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

With the development of smart terminals and emerging new applications, current mobile infrastructure cannot gradually meet ever-increasing user requirements. A new generation of mobile networks is needed in near future. Wireless caching is one of the promising techniques. The main idea of wireless caching is to pre-store popular user data near end terminals. Thus, the request can be satisfied locally, rather than from remote servers. Then, the network throughput is improved and the response latency is reduced, especially for the multimedia transmission. Despite of great benefits, the applications of wireless caching to mobile networks still face many challenges, e.g., unreliable channels and caching nodes, complexity topology and security. In this project, we plan to study the coding techniques to address the challenges in wireless caching. In short, we will study coding techniques to improve reliability of transmission , node repairing, file consistent and security. Except the theoretical modeling and analysis, we will also implement codes in testbed. The detailed objectives are as follows. (1) performance limits and code design of consistent wireless caching networks.(2)coding for reliable data delivery and repairing with transmission errors.(3) performance limits and codes design for information security. The researcher has solid background in coding techniques while the host is strong in information theory, system design and performance analysis in wireless networks. The proposed topic is somehow the combination of these techniques. One of the most important outputs is the scientific dissemination, which will be achieved through the publications of our contributions in high-impact journals in the area of information theory, coding theory, and wireless networking. The researcher will also develop FPGA or SDR implementation for designed codecs and integrate them into KTH testbed. A two-month secondment to Ericsson Research is also planed for engineering training.

Mots clés : wireless caching, information theory limits, coding, security

Participants :
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Suède) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 185857.2 €
Projet HOMERICS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

With the first direct detections of merging black holes, the gravitational-wave (GW) era has begun, but the mechanisms that trigger the formation and coalescence of compact-object binaries are still unknown. The aim of the HOMERICS project is to shed light on the history of merging compact-objects binaires by means of N-body + stellar evolution simulations with up-to-date input physics. The goal is to break the degeneracy between primordial and dynamically-formed binaries in order to interpret present and forthcoming gravitational-wave detections. The first objective is to make predictions on the formation of GW sources in the field, by means of up-to-date population synthesis simulations. The second objective is to study the effects of the joint contribution of up-to-date stellar evolution and dynamics on the formation of GW sources in dense stellar environments. The codes developed and used for the HOMERICS project will be designed to run on different parallel computing accelerators by means of the OpenCL programming directives, and the new Intel Advanced Vector Extensions. The codes and the HOMERICS simulation data will be made public through the GitLab platform and an open research data archive, respectively. The open access archive will be the first of its kind and it will contain a huge amount of raw data that users can exploit to investigate a plethora of astrophysical phenomena, not necessarily related to the HOMERICS research area. The HOMERICS project will also set a new state-of-the-art for direct N-body + stellar evolution simulations and it will significantly extend our knowledge of GW sources. At the same time, the experienced researcher will acquire many new competences by following an effective training-through-research path, laying the ground for leading his own research group after the end of the fellowship.

Mots clés : star cluster dynamics, n body and population synthesis codes, stellar black holes

Participants :
- Northeastern University (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Padua (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 244269.0 €
Projet TESCOM (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

With the increasing demand for energy saving and emission reduction in the transportation industry, the study on lightweight sandwich composites (LSCs) has attracted much attention during the past two decades. However, current LSCs were strongly limited by the properties of lightweight core materials. In this context, a two-step process was designed to prepare fibre reinforced foaming unsaturated polyester composite (FR-FUP) as a novel lightweight core of sandwich composites. The pre-foaming sheet is prepared as the basic component of FUP composites, which make it possible to form the foam core material in situ when preparing the sandwich composites. In this project, aiming at solving some key scientific problems of FR-FUP composite and providing theorical base to the development of new generation LSCs. Based on the targeted molecular design and synthesis of UP polymer matrix, and the modified pre-foaming sheets, the fellow will focus on the advanced FR-FUP composites with high mechanical properties, high flame retardant performance and good designability. The main objectives include: (1) to find an optimal polymer matrix for the two-step molding process of FR-FUP composites by click polymerization; (2) to establish structure-property relationship between tailored UP resin and FR-FUP composites; (3) to prepare multifunctional lightweight composite and expand its application in transportation industry. This proposal presents an interdisciplinary and innovative approach with great significance. The original ideas will bring us bran-new to design and prepare LSCs.

Mots clés : sandwich composites, lightweight

Participants :
- Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 172932.48 €
Projet NOMTGCS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

With the increasingly serious energy and environmental problems caused by the combustion of fossil fuels, the development of efficient solar light driven photocatalysts for green chemical synthesis is an urgent task at present. In this project, the synthesis and solar light driven green catalytic applications of noble metal (Au, Pd, or Au-Pd) loaded oxygen deficient mesoporous tungsten trioxide are proposed. The objectives of this research proposal are to use the as-prepared photocatalysts for the high selective synthesis of hydrogen peroxide from water and molecular oxygen without the usage of hydrogen gas, and to use the in-situ formed hydrogen peroxide for directly oxidation of alcohols and primary carbon-hydrogen bonds in toluene with high selectivity under solar light. A series of mesoporous tungsten trioxide can be facilely prepared by a hard template replicating method using mesoporous silica as template and phosphotungstic acid as a precursor. Oxygen deficient mesoporous tungsten trioxide will be prepared by hydrogenation treatment under different temperature. The interconnected mesopores in tungsten trioxide are beneficial for the adsorption of noble metal precursors. Noble metal nanocrystals would be formed by in-situ reduction on the oxygen deficient mesoporous tungsten trioxide under solar light irradiation. The special heterojunction of noble metal nanoparticles and oxygen deficient mesoporous tungsten trioxide semiconductor will result in high-performance, stable novel photocatalysts for green catalysis under solar light. The new catalytic concepts by the utilization of solar light for highly efficient green chemical synthesis proposed in this project will provide great benefits for both the whole chemical industry and our environment.

Mots clés : photocatalytic oxygen reduction, hydrogen peroxide generation, solar light conversion

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

With the proposed project, I will compare Philip Melanchthon’s and Giordano Bruno’s philosophy of language and doctrine of the soul to clarify (1) the reception of Melanchthon’s works on rhetoric, dialectic, and psychology in Bruno’s works published or composed during his stay in Wittenberg (1586-1588), and (2) Bruno’s reconsideration of his opinion about the Lutheran Reform during his stay in Germany. These two aspects of the research question will be investigated through a textual analysis of Melanchthon’s and Bruno’s works, and in a historical reconstruction of the social and intellectual environments which Bruno joined during his stay in Wittenberg. This project, informed by the approaches of gender studies, will profit from engaging with the role of women in shaping Bruno’s experience of the Reformation. From an historical perspective this will be achieved through a focus on how the reformed women in Wittenberg contributed to the production and dissemination of knowledge, and from the perspective of textual analysis through paying special attention to the gendered dimension of the notion of soul in Bruno’s works. The Faculty of Theology at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) is the perfect choice of host institution for this project. UCPH boasts a unique interdisciplinary research environment comprised of renowned researchers, whose expertise will be a great help in realizing the objectives of LEUKOS: namely expertise in Reformation history including studies of the leading Reformers, history of rhetoric, university history, Renaissance philosophy, gender studies, and Giordano Bruno. The required literary sources are readily available for scholars at UCPH via The Royal Danish Library. The training for the fellow has been planned to enhance (1) my profile as an interdisciplinary scholar (philosophy and theology), and (2) as project manager at a cultural institution, (3) opening career paths for me also in the Nordic countries.

Mots clés : reformation, renaissance, language, soul, university, liberal arts, rhetoric, dialectic, mnemonics, philosophy, theology, metaphor, metaphorology, women, gendered concepts, wittenberg, leucorea

Participants :
- University of Copenhagen (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 310968.0 €