Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet IonFlowElast (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Microfluidic devices consist of microscopic channels designed for precise fluid control. Their small size ensures laminar fluid flow, enabling the controlled transport of dissolved substances with applications in energy harvesting, desalination or even novel computing paradigms. However, the typical rigid network of channels greatly restricts their adaptability, and consequently, there is growing interest in developing time-evolving microfluidic systems, that can function as pumps, valves and mixing units. This requires a deeper understanding of fluid flows in dynamic environments and the development of stimuli-responsive materials for microfluidic walls. A highly promising approach involves the use of Liquid Crystal Elastomers (LCEs), which can change shape when stimulated. By incorporating LCEs into the walls of microfluidic devices, these systems can become responsive. The shape morphing can then be applied in microfluidic pumps and valves, two components required to achieve a fully integrated lab on a chip. I propose to pioneer the use of LCEs in responsive microfluidics and to deepen our understanding of the intricate non-linear dynamics between channel shape and conductivity. I will perform numerical simulations of the capabilities of LCEs in shape morphing microfluidic channels. I will then take the shape morphing channels and use the Lattice Boltzmann Method to simulate the transport of fluid and dissolved ions inside shape morphing channels. This will allow me to understand how to use LCEs in a microfluidic channel that, when stimulated, exhibits peristaltic motion or blocks the fluid flow. The project enables bidirectional knowledge transfer: the host’s expertise in liquid crystals will be instrumental for modeling LCEs, while my expertise in fluid dynamics will contribute to understanding transport in shape-morphing channels. This collaborative effort is crucial for advancing new bottom-up approaches in nanotechnology, aligning with European priorities.

Mots clés : liquid crystals, elastomers, microfluidics, transport phenomena, phase transitions, responsive materials, coarse graining

Participants :
- Université d'Utrecht (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 217076.16 €
Projet TranslingWOL (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

TranslingWOL investigates the literary production of Italian women writers involved in long-lasting mobility abroad who express themselves in languages other than Italian, between the 19th and 21st centuries. From a transnational perspective, using an interdisciplinary set of methodological tools (literary theory and criticism, multilingual studies, women’s studies, sociology of literature, archival research, and digital humanities), it provides the first extensive academic study dedicated to Italian translingual women’s literature, which has been excluded from canonisation processes in both Italian and foreign literary histories, and largely overlooked by scholars, on account of its heterodox nature as compared to the traditional identity between language, literature, and nation. Through close-readings of representative case studies, the project shows the existence of common traits within this panorama – at the textual level (motives and forms) and the contextual level (publication and reception) – and leads to the creation of an interpretative framework useful for the study of such production, an alternative to post- and inter- colonial paradigms to which this and analogous translinguistic phenomena are not merely assimilable. Through a distant reading of the overall panorama, all bio-bibliographical traces of each writer are collected and inserted in a specifically designed database, in order to consolidate the importance of the corpus, geo-map the areas of distribution of texts, and highlight the networks between authors. The goal is not only to rediscover a neglected female literary corpus, but also to provide an innovative gendered and multilingual perspective to interrogate literature. In step with EU policies promoting gender equality and multilingualism, TranslingWOL offers a strategic rethinking of the models we generally use to investigate our cultural heritage, which are based on male as well as monolingual schemes, and proposes a complementary reading.

Mots clés : literary multilingualism archival research women s literature cosmopolitan identities diaspora studies transnational literature italian heterolingualism self translation studies

Participants :
- Université Grenoble Alpes (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 413379.72 €
- Université d'Udine (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université George-Washington (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet CTRL-ALT-DEV (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Vast research efforts have been made to understand how executive control (i.e., the domain-general processes needed to flexibly plan and monitor goal-oriented behavior) evolves in children to help them focus on a task (e.g., studying) while resisting interferences (e.g., phone notifications), ensuring an optimal cognitive development and future success in life. Still, no study has examined age-related changes in (domain-specific) semantic control, namely the processes needed to focus on non-dominant aspects of knowledge based on the current goal and context demands, rather than automatically retrieving the dominant ones (e.g., during symbolic play, the non-dominant shape of a banana is used to make it a phone, ignoring its dominant edibility). Semantic control is intrinsically related to the development of memory for concepts meaning and, in turn, the typology of a given language, but these aspects are unexplored. Moreover, its development is naturally paralleled by cortical maturation, but their interplay remains a hot topic of debate. This project aims to address these issues by studying for the first time the development of executive and semantic control and their relation at three levels: behavior, models, and brain. I will build a battery of control tasks using a gamification method for online assessment of English and Italian children at different ages. High-density electroencephalography will also be recorded to assess their task-related brain activity and organization. I will use state-of-the-art analytical approaches to assess the development of control processes (O1), their relation (O2), and language-dependence (O3) and functional brain bases (O4). Results will provide a new brain-behavior theoretical model of cognitive control acquisition embedding semantic control, opening new research agendas in cognitive neurosciences and education and paving the way to build trainings in control functions for children with typical and atypical development.

Mots clés : cognitive development, gamification, semantic memory, semantic control, executive functions, controlled semantic cognition, eeg, neural underpinnings, structural equation modeling, ersp, language

Participants :
- Université de Padoue (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 288859.2 €
- Harrisburg University of Science and Technology (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet GAPREP (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The party-voter representative linkage is central to modern democracies. Because political parties, once in office, steer fiscal and social policies, the social groups they claim to represent in their group appeals matter for distributing tangible public goods and specially the equitable treatment of minority groups by the government. While many party politics studies are devoted to parties’ policy appeals and their role in political representation, group appeals have received little attention thus far, leaving a theoretical and empirical gap. Recent studies begin to address this oversight but these works are still few and limited in scope, using either longitudinal, single-country data, or cross-national, time-limited data. Combining insights from political, communication, and computational linguistics, GAPREP will build a new software library (SL) for the computational analysis of political texts (R package). The SL will then be used to analyse group appeals in more than 950 election manifestos in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the UK between 1949-2022, building a new and publicly available dataset. Together with cross-national historical survey data on voters’ demographics and party preferences from the 1980s onwards (given available data), advanced statistical modelling will reveal how representative of social groups parties have been over the past 40 years. Pushing scholarship on the party-voter linkage still further, the project will also use a unique vignette survey experiment to study the underlying mechanism of this linkage by examining voters’ reactions to parties’ group appeals. Combining these efforts, findings will illuminate social groups' access to power, and social and political equality. Offering a new perspective on the party-voter linkage, the project aims to positively contribute to voters’ contemporary low levels of political trust, which is central to the healthy functioning of modern liberal democracies.

Mots clés : party politics, political representation, group appeals, text as data, computational text analysis

Participants :
- Université libre d'Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 187624.32 €
Projet ECOdig (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Economic Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Digitalization of industry, such as smart industry solutions, promises society sustainability and prosperity. To reduce resource consumption and increase operations’ reliability, organizations deploy digital technologies to monitor, control, optimize, and automate existing physical operations (e.g. sensors in factories for efficient production, maintenance, and IoT services). This often requires organizations to build or join industry-spanning business ecosystems, where the data-layer of the digital-physical offerings acts as “portal” connecting organizations across different industries (hardware/engineering, software/IT). Yet, we know little about how digital data enable these connections and how this shapes competitive dynamics. Furthermore, organizations have different origins, sizes, and structures, which fuels innovation but also confers unequal opportunities. This poses challenges to policymaking, because the emergence of industry-spanning ecosystems redistributes market dominance, so that powerful incumbents may block initiatives to remain dominant. To avoid a build-up of power by a few tech-platforms (e.g. Google, Amazon), we need to understand how different types of organizations use digital data and how differences shape ecosystem emergence and management. This is important, because competition based on digital data likely takes different forms than “traditional” strategies. Building on strategy, information systems, and organizational theory, this project develops an inductive framework to explain how digital data allow organizations to devise digital-physical offerings that straddle multiple industries. Based on interviews, observations, and archival materials in two digitalizing ecosystems that tackle this twin digital/green transition, this research answers the question: how does the digital data layer of digital-physical offerings allow organizations to enter and traverse industries, and what are the organizational and strategic implications?

Mots clés : digital platforms, qualitative research, business ecosystems, digital data, information systems, layered modular architecture, digital disruption, digital transformation, digital strategy

Participants :
- Université libre d'Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 187624.32 €
Projet REALISE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

European and global Research and Innovation Ecosystems (RIEs) are at risk. Planetary tensions have exposed EU vulnerabilities and elevated technology sovereignty to the top of policy agendas. Open RIEs are now contested spaces increasingly being viewed through the lens of protectionism, jeopardizing science as a universal and public good essential for addressing global challenges. Achieving a sound balance between security and openness (S&O) is imperative. To date, however, the lack of scientific evidence prevents us from holistically addressing how technological sovereignty is affecting both the operations of RIEs and the geography of innovation, while the research community struggles with adoption and implementation of fragmented and often impractical guidance. Using the semiconductor industry as a testbed, the Fellowship combines deep theoretical grounding with a strong applied focus. Based on an interdisciplinary multi-methodological approach, the Overall Objective is to pRoducE Actionable poLicy Insights that enable a sound balance between Security and opEnness (REALISE) in EU RIEs. REALISE’s tridimensional impact is intertwined with the pursuit of a holistic approach that advances world-class knowledge and develops governance mechanisms for balancing S&O in RIEs. This approach, developed with contributions from relevant stakeholders – including the private sector – aims to be responsive to real needs, turning RIEs from existing pockets of excellence into thriving ecosystems. Training at prestigious academic institutions in the US and EU, along with the placement at INSIDE (a leading Industry Association focused on Intelligent Digital Systems), will equip the researcher with amplified and cross-cutting skills to become a hybrid investigator to both steer scientific research in academia and support STI domains of policy-making for industrial organizations and institutional settings, while facilitating the dialogue between different actors of the EU RIEs.

Mots clés : research and innovation ecosystems, research security, tech war, semiconductors, new economic statecraft, sovereignty, globalisation, economics of innovation

Participants :
- Université de Macerata (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 429264.96 €
- Inside (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of California System (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université libre d'Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet SAYcrifice (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Romantic relationships are essential for health and well-being. In fact, a poor-quality relationship is a more powerful predictor of increased mortality than smoking. Yet, divorce rates have more than doubled among the 27 EU countries in the last five decades. One reason why relationships are hard to maintain is because couples face difficulties navigating challenging interactions, such as when one partner sacrifices their preferences for the other. Sacrifice occurs regularly and can fuel resentment, thus putting relationships at risk. Yet, sacrifice also may convey that the sacrificer cares about the recipient, and thus has the potential to strengthen relationships. Given the profound impact of relationships on health and well-being, it is crucial to identify how couples can reduce the costs and reap the benefits of sacrifice to maintain satisfying relationships.  Existing research examining the impact of sacrifice has focused on individuals’ internal feelings and motivations. Prior work, however, overlooks how individuals express their feelings and thoughts about the sacrifice, and neglects the dyadic interaction between the sacrificer and recipient. SAYcrifice aims to address these critical gaps by examining (1) how both partners communicate about sacrifice and (2) how sacrifice communication styles shape personal and relationship outcomes. SAYcrifice will integrate across different fields (relationship science, communication, social cognition) and combine state-of-the-art methods (dyadic, observational, diary, and longitudinal methods; implicit and explicit measures) to provide the first comprehensive investigation of couples’ sacrifice communication in close relationships. The findings will reveal effective ways for couples to communicate about sacrifice, which can be used to develop interventions to promote satisfying relationships. Transforming sacrifice into a catalyst for building happier relationships will in turn improve societal health and well-being.

Mots clés : close relationships, sacrifice, communication, emotions, implicit attitudes, relationship satisfaction, personal well being, dyadic, observational, diary, longitudinal

Participants :
- Université libre d'Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 203464.32 €
Projet ConTension (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Conceptual disagreements are ubiquitous in social and political debates: What kind of act counts as terrorism? When is someone a refugee or an economic migrant? Are trans women women? Managing such disagreements is both urgent and practically impactful. Yet, they pose important epistemological and practical challenges. Unlike factual disagreements, we cannot simply appeal to empirical evidence to settle these questions. Instead, conceptual disagreements often involve networks of commitments, beliefs, and principles regarding the role of conceptualizations, what purposes they should serve, and who has the authority to decide what they should be. This makes it particularly difficult to exchange reasons when much of the common ground is lacking, which is often the case for politically charged concepts. The overall aim of the ConTension project is to provide a unified, practically-oriented and empirically-grounded framework that helps us understand and manage real-life conceptual disagreements. It pursues three key objectives: (1) Identifying the object and nature of conceptual disagreement, by building a model of commitment networks (beliefs, default inferences, evaluation principles, interests) inspired by inferentialism; (2) Determining the structure and hierarchy of norms in conceptual evaluation, by transposing the model of commitment networks into a network of reasons; (3) Assessing the legitimate and illegitimate role played by competing group interests in disagreement over politically charged concepts, and providing solutions for managing them when consensus is unattainable. ConTension is both a response to the recent surge of interest in questions of conceptual choice and conceptual revision within philosophy, and an innovative take on the conceptual nature of some of today’s most urgent debates and societal challenges. The outcomes of the project are intended to be relevant to philosophers, scientists, policymakers, and citizens alike.

Mots clés : conceptual disagreement, argumentation, gender, pragmatism, inferentialism, deliberation

Participants :
- Université libre d'Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 217076.16 €
Projet PBhI (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The primary goal of this project is to integrate advanced techniques for the generation of Permeable β-hairpin-derived Inhibitors (PβhdI) of intracellular targets. Specifically, the approach will combine site recognition and epitope discovery from de novo design with enhanced affinity achieved through phage-display maturation. Additionally, it will improve stability and permeability via interstrand crosslinking (e.g., using bis-electrophiles or disulfides), which will also facilitate phage library diversification. By using these techniques synergistically, the project aims to significantly advance the design of intracellular drugs, potentially broadening the range of available therapeutic options and enhancing the efficacy of targeted treatments. The methodology focuses on the large-scale design and characterization of cell-PβhdI that target multiple binding sites on an intracellular therapeutic target, such as β-catenin. β-Catenin, a key component of the Wnt signaling pathway, is an attractive intracellular target due to its role in various cancers driven by aberrant Wnt signaling. The heterovalent nature of β-catenin, which possesses four distinct binding sites and well-characterized crystal structures, provides an ideal framework for assessing the effectiveness of multiple site-specific binders. Those, combined with the host institution's expertise in studying this oncogene, makes β-catenin an ideal candidate for applying and refining this new methodology.

Mots clés : hairpin, intracellular targets, de novo design, high throughput, crosslinking

Participants :
- Université libre d'Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 232916.16 €