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

CLAReTÉ will develop new p-type transparent conductive materials (TCMs) for use as contact layers in high-efficiency solar cells. State-of-the-art solar cell fabrication will be combined with high-throughput material development for an integrated experimental approach. This project bridges the typical gap between device fabrication and material science, thus allowing real-world performance to guide development of new functional materials. Computational insight into electronic structure of p-type semiconductors will drive material selection, based on the prediction that certain chemistries lead to disperse valence bands and inherently high hole mobility, thus relaxing the requirement for degenerate doping for sufficient p-type conductivity. Material development will be coupled to rapid-feedback testing in state-of-the-art silicon heterojunction (SHJ) and perovskite solar cells (PSC). In both technologies, multi-layer front contacts currently provide several functions, e.g. electrical passivation, carrier selectivity, and conductivity. These multi-layer designs increase fabrication complexity and production cost, and for PSCs, these designs also fail to guard against degradation of the hybrid organic absorber layer by thermal, chemical, or UV stress. CLAReTÉ will replace these multi-layer contacts with a single, p-type TCM, thus drastically simplifying fabrication for SHJ cells and increasing lifetime of PSCs. Through this project, the fellow will gain training in cutting edge solar cell fabrication, characterization, and analysis, which will round out her expertise in high-throughput material development. Further, CLAReTÉ will give her the opportunity to exercise her scientific creativity and innovative problem-solving skills by applying them to a technological problem with a materials science-based solution. Ultimately, the MSCA fellowship will elevate the international visibility of A. Fioretti’s career and will significantly expand her future career opportunities.

Mots clés : transparent conductive materials, valence band engineering, p type, electrodes, contacts, passivation

Participants :
- Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (Suisse) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 187419.6 €
Projet MathInParis2020 (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Cofund Doctoral programme
Statut du projet : SIGNED

COFUND MathInParis2020 programme creates and scales up excellence networks to attract to Paris promising Doctoral students, under solid selection and mentoring practice, and ensure high-level Doctoral training and successful professional insertion. FSMP has a long-standing experience for project management and the present programme aims at significantly scaling up its present COFUND MathInParis programme which has initiated a growing success. MathInParis2020, as an internationally visible portal to Paris mathematics research, promotes the increase and dissemination of a new generation of international mathematicians trained in Paris, creating a new network of young innovating Doctors integrated in European Union who will develop novel key areas of expertise and act as scientific ambassadors worldwide. Ambition, mobility and curiosity, awareness of the impact of mathematics in economy, taste for risk taking, innovation and entrepreneurship are as many qualities that our laureates will acquire. MathInParis2020 creates exceptional follow-up and mentoring conditions thanks to dedicated personnel and development of the scope and modes of provision in Doctoral education, offering training in mathematics and helping to catch the many academic and intersectoral opportunities. We develop new mechanisms for transition of doctoral students to the widely increasing number of new emerging careers and promote public-private mobility by specific actions, in particular with intense intersectoral exposure. MathInParis2020 bridges academics and private sector partners, companies, banks, with the major objective of leading its laureates to successful careers. MathInParis2020 builds up innovation and new knowledge for the future in European Union.

Mots clés : mathematics, applied mathematics, interactions, theoretical computer science

Participants :
- Fondation sciences mathématiques de Paris (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 3254400.0 €
Projet COMETBMP (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

COMET (Coherent Muon-to-Electron Transition) is an experiment with major European involvement which will search for mu-e conversion, improving the sensitivity by 10,000 times compared to previous searches. In the Standard Model of Particle Physics (SM), muons simply cannot spontaneously turn into electrons, but tiny deviations of reality from the SM can cause this, perhaps at the level of a few muons in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000. Any observation would be a seminal discovery that redefines our understanding of the Universe, and complements other searches for breakthroughs in particle physics, such as at high-energy colliders. The quality of the novel intense muon beam is key to the ultimate sensitivity of COMET, and therefore the Beam Measurement Programme (BMP) once the beam is completed in 2022 will be a defining factor. I have been deeply involved in the design and construction of the detectors for COMET since 2012, as an MSc student. The ideas for the BMP grew from this work, but currently only a conceptual plan for it exists. In this research, I will develop the BMP beam and detector configurations, using modern methods to optimise the configurations to be used and analyse the data. The optimisation of the design of the Beam Blocker, a BMP component which actively moderates the beam to allow high-intensity measurements, is particularly crucial. Imperial College HEP has world-class expertise in areas such as Machine Learning and Bayesian Optimisation, and is the ideal group to train and work with. Computational methods alone will not suffice for full BMP optimisation, so I will conduct a beam experiment at PSI in Switzerland, to test prototypes and validate and provide input to the calculations. London is also the perfect place to practise physics outreach in English. This research will produce a clear and optimised BMP plan for COMET, allowing it to maximise its discovery potential, and the novel methods employed will contribute to the scientific community.

Mots clés : high energy physics, muon beam, machine learning, deep neural network, bayesian optimisation, geometry optimisation

Participants :
- Imperial College London (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 224933.76 €
Projet CONEX-Plus (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Cofund Postdoctoral programme
Statut du projet : SIGNED

CONEX-Plus is a training and mobility program that aims to accelerate the career development of a cohort of Experienced Researchers at UC3M in Spain. CONEX-Plus will offer 30 fellowships of 36 months each, for incoming mobility to UC3M. Building on the excellence of UC3M, the program will develop the next generation of research leaders in the strategic research areas that are identified in the Research and Innovation Strategy for Smart Specialisation (RIS3) strategy of the Madrid Autonomous Region, underpinned by Social Sciences and Humanities. The principles of the Charter and Code are applied throughout the program. Applicants will submit proposals on research topics freely chosen by them. There will be two calls where fellows will be selected following an open, transparent, merit-based, impartial and equitable selection procedure, based on international peer review and interviews. Training is received through the implementation of an individual interdisciplinary research project under guidance of a supervisor. Secondments are compulsory and will be supported by 12 non-academic and 2 academic entities. All fellows will participate in the CONEX-Plus training program, with dedicated modules on relevant transferable skills and Industry Training Blocks. The career development of all fellows will be supported by the use of a Career Development Plan and through regular supervision meetings. The interdisciplinary research program will provide fellows with excellent scientific and relevant transferable skills to communicate across and between research disciplines. Fellows will also learn how to work in and between different sectors. Both are requisites for achieving most future relevant scientific and industrial results. CONEX-Plus equips researchers with skills and expertise in research areas that are of strategic importance to UC3M, the Madrid region and Europe who will contribute to address future challenges for the benefit of European citizens and society.

Mots clés : experienced researcher, training, career development, scientific excellence

Participants :
- Carlos III University of Madrid (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 3186000.0 €
Projet CRESP (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

CRESP explores the eclectic discourses of nascent Creative Writing (CW) research, for the first time bringing together its practitioners from across language borders. This will serve to decolonialize a discipline currently dominated by the English language and introduce CW into the field of artistic research, in which it has been absent due to its monolingual orientation. My involvement in artistic research since 2010, my skills in ten languages as well as data collection, on-site networking and a multilingual video conference to be held during the fellowship will establish an international CW research network. Likewise, the project will help to push the world leading research of Lancaster’s Creative-Critical Writing (CCW) group beyond its current English-language orientation. Benefitting from the above cutting-edge expertise, I will research an amalgamated epistemic-aesthetic kind of writing that I term ‘creatical. My aim is to gain a better understanding of its discursive-stylistic workings, its manifestations in (un)controlled narration, its likely connections to second-language writing and its capacity to challenge existing orders. To this end, I will combine methods of 1) literary exegesis, 2) qualitative research and 3) literary practice in stages of hermeneutical progression. The resulting discourses – 1) metatextual writing, 2) polyphonic character speech and 3) stream of consciousness – will be merged into one creatical narrative. Knowledge-endowing insights emerging during its revisions will be displayed in a poetological cartography. Securing the expertise gained through the proposed research is particularly urgent since Creative Writing is now a fully recognized form of research in the UK, whose participation in European funding programs is uncertain as of 2021. Overall, the fellowship will strengthen Europe’s role as innovation leader by giving future Creative Writing researchers a head-start in a linguistically pluralistic culture of creatical writing.

Mots clés : creative critical writing, creative writing, literary arts, literary writing, practice based literary research, practice led literary research

Participants :
- Lancaster University (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 319400.64 €
Projet PHAGECOM (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

CRISPR-Cas is one of several distinct bacterial defence mechanisms that provide immunity against viruses (phages) and other mobile genetic elements (MGEs; e.g. plasmids). My research aims at understanding how CRISPR-Cas-mediated immunity is affected by the complexity of MGE communities. Using evolution assays and deep sequencing techniques I aim to study (i) the evolution of CRISPR-Cas-mediated immunity in a complex MGE community (i.e. multiple phages and plasmids), and (ii) determine the associated co-evolutionary dynamics. The proposed research is highly multidisciplinary and will perfectly complement my background in biochemistry and molecular biology. It also allows me to establish collaborations with academic and industrial partners to realize applications in dairy industry and phage therapy. The project will be pivotal for my personal development to become an independent researcher and offers me the unique opportunity to work in one of the most prominent microbial ecology and evolution laboratories worldwide, based at the Biosciences Department at the University of Exeter. Biosciences is a leading institute in evolutionary biology, microbiology and ecology that provides excellent opportunities for academic training and personal career development. I will be exposed to novel ideas and input from renowned researchers belonging to scientific disciplines unrelated to my own background, offering exciting opportunities for knowledge exchange and will have a strong impact on my personal and scientific development. Furthermore, I aim to establish a series of lectures for the general public throughout 2015 (the Year of the Phage) to emphasize the importance of phage research for many aspects of our society, including industry and medicine.

Mots clés : phage, mobile genetic elements, pseudomonas, crispr cas, resistance, parasite community, choosiness, bacteria, plasmids

Participants :
- University of Exeter (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 183454.8 €
Projet AMORPREBIO (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Calcium carbonate (CaCO3) is a widely studied inorganic compound very abundant in nature as a mineral and a biomineral. It is an important building block of biological bodies, making up the structure of invertebrate organisms. CaCO3 is also a key compound for CO2 sequestration strategies. Recent investigations have reported a so-called non-classical pathway for CaCO3 formation, which involves the formation of an amorphous precursor: amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC), which acts as an intermediate in the formation of the final CaCO3 crystalline polymorphs (calcite and aragonite). This has been reported for biominerals such as the sea urchin spicules, which are made of calcite and the shells of Haliotis tuberculata made of aragonite. However, despite these advances on the characterization of the amorphous precursor, little is known about the polymorph selection mechanism. Amorphous carbonates have also been discovered in several strains of cyanobacteria some of these cyanobacteria mineralize CaCO3 internally even in solutions that are under-saturated with respect to all CaCO3 polymorphs. These cyanobacteria have the ability of concentrating elements from the culture medium in the amorphous carbonates. They have also shown chemical selectivity, and interesting core-shell chemical distributions of some ions such as Ba2+, Ca2+ and Sr2+. These carbonates may serve as a storage reservoir of Ca and inorganic C for the cells if they can be stable on one hand under certain conditions but easily remobilizable as well on the other hand. However, the structural characteristics of these carbonate formations inclusions and their impact on the crystallization pathway are poorly known. Therefore, the goal of this project is to shed light into the role of the AAC in the (bio)mineralization process. This aim will be tackled under two approaches abiotic and biogenic induced conditions, which correspond to the two different parts proposed for the development of this project.

Mots clés : amorphous calcium carbonate, polyamorphism, cyanobacteria, biomineralization process

Participants :
- Université Grenoble Alpes (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 173076.0 €
Projet PYANO (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Campylobacter jejuni and Salmonella serovars are the major foodborne pathogen burden of Europe, imposing economic costs and challenging treatment of human infections due to increasing antimicrobial resistance. Hence, the EU commission stresses an urgent need to develop new effective antimicrobials. Exploiting natural predators of bacteria (phages) or phage-derived products may be a source of such novel antimicrobials. But lack of genetic approaches to investigate phage binding mediated by receptor binding proteins (RBPs) hampers progress of phage therapeutics targeting C. jejuni and Salmonella. Thus, goals are to i) discover RBPs of phages infecting C. jejuni and Salmonella serovars using pyocins as a novel advanced tool, and ii) develop novel phage-derived therapeutics with high bactericidal activity targeted to C. jejuni and the most prevalent Salmonella serovars. Putative RBPs will be identified from phage sequences by exploring knowledge of phage receptors and similarity of RBPs among phages binding identical receptors. By creating RBP fused-pyocins, potent killing activity of retargeted pyocins will be used to demonstrate binding specificities of RBPs to C. jejuni and Salmonella. Mutational analysis will identify key amino acids responsible for RBP binding, which also will be modified to modulate the specificity of the retargeted pyocins, developing an arsenal of novel antimicrobials targeting distinct or diverse C. jejuni and Salmonella serovars. On completion of this fellowship, I will complement my veterinary-microbiology background with bioinformatics and molecular skills including cloning, expression, purification, and structural analysis of proteins, allowing me to develop novel interdisciplinary projects exploring phage-derived proteins for human benefit. I will improve my teaching, supervision and complementary skills in project management, grant writing, and establish an international network needed to cement myself as an independent researcher.

Mots clés : bacteriophages, salmonella, campylobacter jejuni, receptor binding proteins, fusion pyocins, phage host interactions

Participants :
- University of Copenhagen (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 200194.8 €
Projet HubCities (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Can cities plan their cultural diversity? What role do cultural and higher education policies play in promoting diverse cities? The HubCities project will analyse how cities use of universities and cultural institutions as instruments in the governance of cultural diversity, to target and attract transnational publics, construct discursive frameworks that promote diversity and create third spaces where people of different cultural backgrounds come together and interact. Changing migration patterns have led to the rise of an urban migrant population that is transnationally connected and socio-economically differentiated. This context renders traditional models of governance of cultural diversity obsolete and requires new approaches. As nation-states are being increasingly challenged on this issue, there has been a mounting push towards the urban scale to reflect on new strategies. HubCities aims to address this challenge with a focus on cultural and higher education policies as these play an important role in managing urban diversity yet are rarely envisaged as diversity policies. The project intends to investigate non-Western globalizing cities where this issue has been less studied. It focuses on two highly-diverse cities: Doha and Singapore. Using mixed research methods, the project will analyse these policies, drawing on Peggy Levitt’s notion of “diversity management regime” that designates the different “strategies, labels, and power relations underlying how difference gets talked about, measured, and negotiated”. The HubCities project will also use video as a methodological tool, to investigate the new spaces for culture and higher education planned in Doha and Singapore, and to contribute to the reflection on the role of such educational and cultural infrastructures in constructing civic spaces and stimulating interactions across diverse communities.

Mots clés : cultural diversity, cultural policy, higher education, urban policy, video based research

Participants :
- European University Institute (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 281382.24 €
- National University of Singapore (Singapour) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet BUSWEL (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Can differences in the attitudes and organization of business interests explain differences in the politics of social redistribution across countries? Since the 1970s, Europe and the United States have diverged in terms of how taxation and welfare policies ameliorate income inequality: In the United States, far-reaching policy changes have produced a substantial rise in income inequality, while income inequality in many European countries has increased to a much lesser extent. BUSWEL analyzes how the strategies and activities of business interest groups have contributed to these diverging outcomes. The project compares policy positions and strategies of business interest groups in five countries: Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Austria, and the United States. These five countries have been selected because of their different policies of redistribution and different levels of inequality. The project focuses on three policy issues that are assumed to have an effect on social redistribution: corporate tax cuts, payroll tax cuts and deregulation of employment protection. The project aims to document differences in policy positions of business interest groups in these fields across countries and to identify the impact of these differences on the differing trajectories of policy change across countries. The project bridges theoretical perspectives from sociology, political science, and history. The insights gained from this project on the political goals and strategies of business interest groups will be useful for national and European policy-makers confronting demands by business representatives. The project will be carried out at the Center for Welfare State Research at the University of Southern Denmark, a major center for research and expertise on welfare state politics and political economy. (1554 characters)

Mots clés : welfare state institutions, business and politics, comparative political economy, social policy, tax policy, labor market policy

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