Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet S.A.L.V.A. (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The fellowship will be carried out in the Archaeology Area of the Department of Geography, History and Philosophy of the Pablo de Olavide University of Seville, with the supervision of Prof. Hidalgo Prieto. The project aims at analyzing and reconstructing the original lighting asset and the illumination design process of the outstanding architectural complex of Villa Adriana in Tivoli, Italy. Built under Hadrian’s reign, it counts more than 30 major building complexes. Given its importance and its good state of preservation the site has been studied in all aspects but the theme of light has remained neglected. Thanks to my background skills, new technologies for surveying, georeferencing, 3D reconstruction, virtual light reproduction, and thanks to the synergy among archaeologists, architects, IT experts, historians of science, lighting engineers, I will be able to approach this topic in a systematic way, addressing the technical and stylistic aspects of the lighting design praxis in its whole. The project will focus on three case-studies selected for their different features, functions and requirements: the triclinia halls, the Baths buildings, and the Praetorium complex. Their archeological remains will be surveyed with cutting edge technologies to gather accurate data, examined in relation to their context and imagined in their elevations through digital reconstructive models to investigate and reconstruct their original luminous ambiences. Though a secondment at the School of Specialization in Archaeological Heritage of Sapienza University of Rome and at Biblioteca Hertziana Visualizing Science in Media Revolution Research I will address the aspects related to lighting engineering and history of science. To verify, perfect and communicate the results achieved I will conduct a non-academic placement of 6 month at KatatexiLux, a firm highly specialized in virtual reconstructions and IT assisted research in the field of history of roman architecture and archeology.

Mots clés : lighting engineering cultural heritage, cultural memory computational modelling and digitisation in the cultural sphere roman history

Participants :
- Université de Rome « La Sapienza » (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Katatexilux sas di raffaele carlani (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- Société Max-Planck pour le développement des sciences (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Pablo de Olavide (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 206641.2 €
Projet TYPIC (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Terrestrial carbon and water cycles are strongly coupled. Rising atmospheric CO2 and climate change have accelerated terrestrial water cycle, causing reduced soil moisture, and more frequent and severe droughts. Such environmental changes have modified vegetation functions, endangering the stability of terrestrial carbon budget. Human activities, such as deforestation and intensive water use, have further influenced carbon-water coupling by exacerbating external perturbations. A weakening of the terrestrial carbon sink induced by progressive water stress conditions could further destabilize the climate system with potential dramatic consequences for human societies. Despite its importance, the sensitivities of terrestrial carbon-water dynamics to socio-environmental changes remain elusive. The complexity of the topic, its interdisciplinarity, together with knowledge and methodological gaps in observing, understanding, and predicting carbon-water coupling, have hampered so far substantial progresses. TYPIC aims to respond to such emerging global challenge by addressing two key questions: How does terrestrial carbon-water coupling respond to socio-environmental changes? How have socio-environmental trade-offs and synergies influenced the trajectories of terrestrial carbon-water dynamics over the last decades? Here, I propose to investigate the subject with a novel approach that builds on the integration of Earth observations with big-data technologies. Satellite retrievals will be used in combination with advanced statistical tools to quantify spatial and temporal variations in terrestrial carbon-water coupling at the global scale. The underlying socio-environmental mechanisms will be disentangled through causal inference methods. Hotspot areas subject to amplification or compensatory effects between environmental and human factors will be finally identified to assist the development of land-based mitigation actions and the long-term sustainability of water resources.

Mots clés : terrestrial carbon and water cycles land atmosphere interactions ecosystem water use efficiency human activity biophysical and biogeochemical processes climate change

Participants :
- Université de Florence (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 188590.08 €
Projet RECHARGE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Mediterranean “analogue” environments across the world have seen increased frequencies of droughts, with repercussions such as reduced availability of soil water for the vegetation. This situation forces plants to shift from soil water to groundwater for photosynthesis. Climatic adaptation plans have shown that sustainable management of groundwater resources cannot ignore areas with vegetation groundwater uptake and needs to account for the quantification of recharge to the groundwater and evapotranspiration, which are linked through processes happening in the critical zone. Dr Simone Gelsinari was inspired by the approach adopted for managing water resources by Australian regulatory agencies and formulated the project “Recharge and Evapotranspiration Characterizations through Holistic Assessment for Responsible Groundwater manaEment – RECHARGE”, with a core field observational part to be performed at the University of Florence and a secondment at the CNR for the modeling component and the possibility to interact with policymakers. RECHARGE will promote the recognition of vegetation adaptation characteristics to non-stationary climates and the need for regulators to account for these characteristics in climate adaptation plans. RECHARGE will be the continuation of the Fellow’s interdisciplinary background given the mixed experience in modelling and field data instrumentation and collection that he maturated in the last 6 years spent in a semi-arid Mediterranean environment since both PhD and Postdoc were based in Mediterranean-like climatic areas in Australia. RECHARGE will be the opportunity to bring back and apply to the EU his experience developed through extensive exposure to Australian climate adaptation approaches. The Fellow’s goal is to be positioned at the interface of the field and modelling communities, within the broad area of hydrology and climate sciences, and he maximizes both experiences at the host and secondment institutions to reach this goal.

Mots clés : recharge to groundwater, evapotranspiration, 

Participants :
- Conseil national de la recherche (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Florence (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 188590.08 €
Projet Salmon Time (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

This is the first history of the decline of wild Atlantic Salmon. Wild salmon world-wide are in jeopardy, their existence threatened by a host of factors, from dams blocking their migratory patterns, to ocean warming caused by climate change, to diseases spread by farmed salmon. Atlantic salmon in particular are in freefall, their population fell by more than half between the 1980s and the 2010s. The lives of salmon are intricately bound up with those of humans and other land and sea creatures. Their loss fundamentally impacts wider ecologies, societies, cultures and economies. There is a substantial body of scientific literature devoted to the decline of Atlantic salmon. However, the humanities, and history in particular have neglected this totemic species. The objective of this research is therefore to trace the ecological, social, and cultural impacts of the decline of wild Atlantic Salmon, through case studies of three rivers in Ireland; the Lee, the Erne and the Corrib. An historical approach offers a novel understanding of this crisis, providing a holistic notion of historical harm that encompasses often overlooked connections between social, cultural and ecological change. This project will start earlier than most scientific studies, in order to contextualise the longer human-salmon relationship. Crucially, I offer a new approach to historical time, that centres salmon rather than human temporalities. This will be achieved through the development of a new interdisciplinary methodology for studying ecological loss and decline, which combines traditional archival research with fieldwork and oral history. The project will result in three journal articles, a book proposal, three public history events and a website. The fellowship will provide an opportunity to enhance my research skills under the expert mentorship of Dr Kevin O’Sullivan, expand my international profile, develop my pedagogical practice, and secure an academic position at a European university.

Mots clés : environmental history, animal history, eco feminism, oral history, environmental humanities, landscapes, time, temporalities, climate change, sustainability, geography, anthropology, archives, ireland

Participants :
- Université nationale d'Irlande à Galway (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 252728.64 €
Projet SUNRISE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Silicon-based technologies offer tantalizing prospects for low-cost mass production of high-performance optoelectronic circuits by leveraging the maturity of complementary-metal-oxide semiconductor facilities. However, the processing and generation of high-quality radiofrequency signals using optoelectronic oscillators is still hampered by the spectral response of Si filters, which are unable to provide a rejection band on the order of MHz. Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) has been at the core of recent stunning demonstrations of key on-chip functionalities for microwave photonics, exhibiting several properties that are ideally suited to overcome the limitation of Si photonic filters. SBS interactions can be orders of magnitude stronger in suspended Si waveguides compared to conventional optical fibers, but approaches demonstrated so far are mainly limited by trade-off between phonon lifetime and photon-phonon overlap. This project will address a completely new route to overcome the trade-off between long phonon lifetimes and large photon-phonon overlap in conventional Si optomechanical waveguides. The original idea is to exploit the unique degrees of freedom released by subwavelength Si nanostructuration to achieve flexible control of the shape and dispersion of optical and mechanical modes in order to maximize optomechanical coupling and Brillouin gain. This approach will be used to demonstrate a Si optoelectronic oscillator that exploits the intrinsic narrow linewidth of the Brillouin effect to achieve three orders of magnitude phase-noise reduction compared to the state of the art. The SUNRISE technology will open a whole new research domain in integrated optomechanics with great opportunities for fundamental and applied research. The unique expertise combination of the experienced researcher, the host institution and the two teams hosting secondments offers all the ingredients to significantly contribute to the next generation of microwave photonic systems

Mots clés : silicon photonics, subwavelength nanostructuration, microwave photonics

Participants :
- Université Paris-Saclay (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Thales group (France) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 195914.88 €
- Université de Florence (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet HUMA (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The evolution of Homo sapiens has always benefited from its ability to adapt to the most diverse environments. The subject of the adaptation of human groups to the environment has been of interest to scholars, whose attention is often turned to cases of adaptation to environments with extreme conditions and to the so-called ecological niches. However, little attention has been given to the choice of human groups to occupy extremely different environments (high mountains, higher than 2000 meter asl vs lowlands) and how high altitude settlements relate to the lowland sites in the framework of the land management. This is particularly the case of the Finale Pleistocene to Mid-Holocene period in the Horn of Africa. HUMA will be the first project to fully explore the contribution of a multidisciplinary and integrated approach to the understanding of human adaptation to the different environments in the Later Stone Age of the Horn of Africa. This will be achieved by integrating the most up-to-date approaches in lithic techno-functional analysis with organic and inorganic residues analysis on lithic artefacts and dental calculus analysis. Focusing on archaeological sites from Ethiopian highlands (Beefa Cave, a site discovered in 2019) and Somali highlands and plains, Huma will investigate the role played by the climate played in the development of the cultural traits and how environmental factors may have fostered specific adaptations to different ecological niches and encouraged seasonal use of them. Lithic techno-functional analysis, Residues analysis, Archaeobotany, Experimental Archaeology, Dental Calculus analysis, and aDNA analysis will be applied in order to answer the research questions. Both the University of Florence and the University of Connecticut are the ideal environments for undertaking the proposed cross-disciplinary research, as they will contribute with their theoretical, methodological, and professional resources to reaching the project's goals.

Mots clés : lsa, horn of africa, lithic artefacts, residues analysis, dental calculus

Participants :
- University of Connecticut (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Florence (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 288859.2 €
Projet PaSS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Solid-state batteries can surpass the current Li-ion technology in terms of energy density, battery safety, specific power, as well as fast-charging capability. According to the “Recommendations on energy storage” of the European Commission, the development of next-generation batteries is a high priority. In this context, this project proposes novel cross-disciplinary approaches empowered by digital technologies that can accelerate research on the next generations of safe and high-performing batteries. The project presents three main goals: (a) train the young researcher Dr. Cristian Mendes-Felipe, in the design, development and optimisation of UV-curable materials with tailored made properties, including self-healing capabilities to develop solid-state electrolytes (SSEs); (b) assemble those SSEs in a battery, and (c) understand the role of materials and interfaces (hybrid materials interfaces and solid electrolyte/electrode interfaces) in the ionic transport in order to unravel a possible kinetic mechanism in solid-state batteries. The combination of photopolymerization technique of different materials containing ionic conductors with the in-situ analysis of the ongoing battery state envisage not only improve the cutting-edge technology of solid-state energy storage obtain a fundamental understanding of the SSEs structures. During his short research career, the fellow has gained expertise in the fabrication of nanostructured and composite photocurable materials, acquiring hands-on experience with both structural and electronic characterization techniques. Nonetheless, to further boost his career, the fellow needs to broaden his knowledge in the field of energy-storage at BCMaterials, to complement the already known characterization techniques with new ones and with computer simulations and modelling. This project will also increase his supervision experience, project and intellectual property management expertise, and research funding and proposal writing skills.

Mots clés : photopolymerization, solid state batteries, self healing property, sustainable polymers

Participants :
- CeNTI (Portugal) (Portugal) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 165312.96 €
- Tecnalia (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet SISSVid (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The ever increasing demand for video surveillance for security and video analytics has exponentially raised the magnitude of video data, resulting in substantial challenges in the storage and retrieval of needed information. Moreover, because of escalating security threats to individuals' identities, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) focuses on ensuring lawful and transparent processing of human data by adopting Data Protection-by-Design (Article 25, 47) and data minimisation (Article 5). The project "SISSVid" proposes a GDPR enabled solution considering both video storage and retrieval perspectives to ensure the safety of human recordings. SISSVid includes the reversible anonymization of personal data for secure storage and retrieval by following the GDPR’s principle of data minimisation. The project implementation will significantly improve the storage and post-event text-to-video retrieval of existing systems. The project will focus on digital rights and human rights in the recorded closed circuit television (CCTV) data, with applications in sustainable cities and communities thus aligned with UN sustainable development goals (SDGs); SDG 9, SDG 11, and SGD 16. This project is interdisciplinary and also multidisciplinary that includes artificial intelligence, image/video processing, security and privacy, and law (GDPR). Dr. Mamoona Asghar (former MSCA Career-Fit research fellow) is an appropriate supervisor, as she possesses immense experience in the implementation of technological solutions for the privacy of visual data. Besides, the University of Galway places a strong focus on providing a supportive environment for researchers. This project will advance the career of the fellow by providing multidisciplinary training and industry collaborations in Ireland. Additionally, this project promotes the main objective of MSCA i.e. establishing a long-term collaboration network between the researcher and European institutions, bringing excellence together.

Mots clés : cctv, privacy, secure storage systems, intelligent video retrieval, video surveillance, gdpr

Participants :
- Komply privacy limited (Irlande) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université nationale d'Irlande à Galway (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 199694.4 €
Projet SHAPE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Project SHAPE (Solar Harnessing for Advanced energy Production and Emission capture) will develop a novel solar cell system involving two major innovations: an advanced power production cell and an integrated carbon dioxide (CO2) capture cell. The system will utilize third-generation photovoltaic technology, specifically a dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC), with a common cathode, which will simultaneously serve as the CO2 conversion cell anode. This innovative design will allow the integrated system to achieve unassisted CO2 reduction to CO under solar irradiation, whist the power production element will achieve greater efficiency than current technologies, along with enhanced sustainability and safety. SHAPE is focused on the ambitious objective of a dual-purpose device, delivering simultaneously solar-driven carbon dioxide conversion and sustainable energy generation and storage, offering a novel technology capable of contributing towards the goal to achieve a climate-neutral Europe by 2050.

Mots clés : perovskite solar cell, natural dyes sensitized solar cell, carbon capture, deep eutectic solvents

Participants :
- Université de Birmingham (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 260347.92 €