Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet TRAMP (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This Action addresses one of the societal challenges addressed by the EU’s H2020 strategy, “Europe in a changing world—inclusive, innovative and reflective societies,” by focusing attention on the breakdown of the postwar liberal consensus between Europe and the United States—visible in the resurgence of right-wing populisms and hegemonic nationalisms in the last decade—by means of interdisciplinary research in in the fields of literature, cultural studies, and politics. By applying a transatlantic approach to the analysis of contemporary American and European literary texts, the research component of the Action aims to renew and actualize the modes of interpretation in the field of transatlantic literary studies, to produce critically-informed readings of contemporary fiction that is responding to the crisis of transatlanticism (understood as a shared belief system), and thus to offer insight into systems of representation, the articulation of structures of power and knowledge, and how these can be re-imagined through literary fiction. The Action will be undertaken by Dr. Resano at Dartmouth College (United States) and UCD (Ireland) under the supervision of Prof. Donald Pease and Prof. Liam Kennedy, two leading experts in the fields of American Studies, literary theory, and cultural studies. It is designed to contribute to the Fellow’s career development and employability through the acquisition of core research and transferable skills, to strengthen the existing collaboration between two leading research centers in Europe and the US—thus contributing to the H2020 strategy of spreading excellence and strengthening Europe’s competitiveness—and to inform public opinion and wield influence in the debates around the rise of populisms in Europe and the US in the last decade, offering a renewed and innovative perspective on some of the priorities identified in the EU’s H2020 framework, thus contributing to Europe's ability to address societal challenges in the future.

Mots clés : american studies

Participants :
- National University of Ireland (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 257561.28 €
- Dartmouth College (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet FINDER (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Doctoral Networks - Industrial Doctorates
Panel : Economic Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This European Industrial Doctorate partnership entitled “Fostering Innovation Networks in a Digital Era” (FINDER) will prepare a new generation of business and entrepreneurship researchers who will contribute to the development of innovative ecosystems in a digital era, leveraging the academic and industry expertise of both organisations, and developing their research capabilities to trigger innovative aptitude that transcend beyond the boundaries of the financial services to other - currently less digitally savvy sectors and less affluent stakeholders – as example of inclusive innovation. The proposal addresses the way that networks of entrepreneurship can be fostered through activities and initiatives driven by large organisations in a manner that engages small FinTech start-ups as drivers of future innovation. To achieve this goal the early stage researchers (ESRs) in FINDER will be trained by prominent specialists (academic and non-academic) in the relevant fields within FINDER, with Radboud University, the Netherlands, as prime academic research institution, and Atos, a leading European information technology company, as prime business partner. Both institutions operate at the forefront of collaborative and innovative research and practice, as well as training and inspiring the next generation of business and entrepreneurship researchers and entrepreneurs in the domain of inclusive innovation. They are joined by three Fintech Start-ups from Europe, Canada and the USA, respectively: NGDATA, Voleo Inc. and Moven.

Mots clés : social networks, digital transformation

Participants :
- Moven inc (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Ngdata europe bvba (Belgique) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Atos (Spain) (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Voleo, inc. (Canada) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Radboud University Nijmegen (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 1328099.4 €
Projet CO-CREATE-CHANGE (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

This Fellowship aims to enhance and expand the career potential of the applicant over the course of 36 months of finely-tuned support and advanced skills training from the University of Sheffield, under the guidance of Professor Peter Jackson. The goal is to enable the researcher to move into a phase of professional stability and academic independence, to become fully established as leading researcher and innovator in the inter-disciplinary field of agri-food studies, as well as maturing, in the longer-term, to become an international thought-leader within Human Geography and Feminist Political Ecology. This Fellowship will position the researcher competitively in terms of securing a permanent faculty position at a leading University within the next four years, as well as supporting her to secure longer-term research funding within the next 3-7 years. Based at The Institute for Sustainable Food, the researcher will build upon previous project experiences in the Caribbean, the UK, Zimbabwe and Tanzania, to consolidate her skills and international expertise as a social scientist across the interconnected domains of agri-food systems, diverse economies, sustainability and local innovation processes. Key questions that guide this proposal are: “How does transformation towards more sustainable food systems take place, across different scales from the individual, to the community, to the regional, to the international?” “What are the socio-ecological, economic, political and institutional factors that enable the co-creation of change towards more sustainable food systems?” “How can researchers and policy-makers support the co-creation of change processes, across different scales, to allow more sustainable food systems to emerge?” In asking these questions, this research and career agenda engages with inter-disciplinary, cross-sectoral concerns and furthermore, aims to work in support of 11 of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Mots clés : sustainability, food, transformation, transition, political ecology, policy, communities of practice

Participants :
- University of Sheffield (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 337400.64 €
Projet CEN (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

This Innovative Training Network (ITN) brings together leading European research labs for the interdisciplinary study of cerebellar contributions to survival circuits and emotional behaviour. The ITN will provide structured training of highly skilled early stage researchers (ESRs) as a European Training Network (ETN), involving seven beneficiaries (based in five European counties), and nine non-academic partners providing complementary training in the healthcare, charity and industrial sectors. The ETN will develop a testable framework to understand cerebellar contributions to emotional behaviour in both health and disease. This framework will convey the fundamental principles and basic functionality of cerebellar contributions and will be firmly rooted in neurobiology - defining the neural circuit processes that occur in the cerebellum and across the key brain areas that support emotional responses. A broad range of skills and technologies are needed to achieve this goal. Our ETN will be unique worldwide in bringing together internationally-recognised research groups with complementary skills spanning computational, cellular, whole animal systems and clinical expertise to train a new generation of ESRs to address this challenge. To foster translation from bench to bedside, we will use comparable paradigms and data analysis pipelines in all our ESR projects. A key aim of our consortium is to share and combine knowledge in the field of cerebellar research and in the field of anxiety disorders. The information gained will inform the development of new therapeutic strategies for individuals suffering from emotional disorders.

Mots clés : cerebellar, neuro networks, emotional behaviour

Participants :
- École normale supérieure PSL (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 549604.08 €
- University of Edinburgh (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 606345.12 €
- University of Bristol (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 606345.12 €
- University Hospital Würzburg (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 505576.8 €
- Essen University Hospital (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 505576.8 €
- University of Pavia (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 784499.04 €
- Karolinska Institutet (Suède) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 281982.96 €
- Uppsala University (Suède) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 281982.96 €
Projet HerbivoreAssociatedOrganisms (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowship will allow a talented young researcher to pursue multidisciplinary research with an outstanding and internationally recognised group investigating plant-insect interactions. The Fellow will gain skills in a range of cutting-edge techniques for studying plant defences against herbivore attack whereas the Host group will benefit from the Fellows’ expertise in methods of behavioural assays not currently utilized in the group. The Fellow and the Host will address together the complexity of plant-insect interactions using a very innovative approach based on the hidden role played by Herbivore-Associated-Organisms (HAOs). In fact, insect herbivores often consist of a community themselves including bacteria, fungi, parasitic worms, parasitic wasps and viruses which may play an important role in the expression of the herbivore’s phenotype and consequently on interactions of the herbivore with its food plant. However, up to date, most of the studies investigating plant defences have considered insect herbivores as individual organisms, thus neglecting the role of HAOs. The Fellow and the Host propose to experimentally manipulate the HAO composition to evaluate the effects on induced plant defences from plant gene expression to wider community consequences. This project is expected to advance the state-of-the-art of plant-insect interactions putting Europe research in the forefront of the research topic. This fellowships is also ideal for reaching the researcher’s scientific and professional maturity, to build up long lasting collaborations and finally to establish his own group afterwards.

Mots clés : plant defence, herbivore associated organism  hao, herbivory, insect plant interactions, parasitoid

Participants :
- Wageningen University & Research (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 165598.8 €
Projet SOT-2DvdW (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This Marie-Curie proposal aims to study the mechanisms governing spin-orbit torque in 2D ferromagnetic materials attached to topological insulators. It also proposes a new method to detect the magnetization dynamics of the 2D ferromagnet by using photoluminescence. This is done by measuring the valley splitting induced by exchange proximity effect on a transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductor monolayer deposited, or grown, on top of the 2D ferromagnet. I propose first to study the different heterostructures involved, namely 2D ferromagnet/TMD monolayer and 2D ferromagnet/topological insulator, using density functional theory (DFT) in order to get some insight on the electronic structures at the interface between these materials and the different physical phenomena that may take place at these interfaces. This DFT calculations will also help to detect those pairs 2D ferromagnet/TMD monolayer leading to a higher valley splitting which translates into a stronger optical response and clearer peak splitting in the photoluminescence spectra. Second, I propose to use Hamiltonians based on these DFT calculations and non-equilibrium Green’s function formalism to study the torques induced in the 2D ferromagnet after charge injection into the topological insulator. For this, I plan to implement the calculation of field-like and damping-like torques within a previously developed NEGF code. With this proposal, I expect to provide society and researchers with a new methodology which will help to develop new storage devices using 2D materials and other van der Waals materials, which are at the forefront of next generation nano-devices.

Mots clés : 2d materials, spin obitronics, non equilibrium transport, topological insulators

Participants :
- Radboud University Nijmegen (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 177598.8 €
Projet MONGOL-GNP (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This anthropological project investigates how sacred sites and connected ritual activities reflect gender narratives and political hierarchy among the Mongols in the People’s Republic of China. To put it another way, what can a monastery or a shamanic grave tell us about the evolution of gender roles and political legitimacy within a local community? For centuries, people have constructed religious sites to benefit from the magical power they are believed to provide. In the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, local people also build and worship at sacred monuments to ensure the fertility of their herds and the well-being of their community. Besides their accredited ritual power, religious sites also offer an accurate overview of the way local societies have been shaping the different social and political norms regulating their everyday lives. By taking religious sites as the starting point, the project explores two intertwined issues. The first analyzes the way gender practices have been narrated and performed throughout the 20th century in order to shed light on changing indigenous interpretations of sex difference and complementarity. The second examines how memorable characters and other mythical ancestors have redefined the political landscape of Inner Mongolia. More precisely, this focuses on how power holders gather and demonstrate authority, respect or allegiance to the administrative political powers. Sitting astride anthropology, gender studies and religious studies, the project combines ethnographic fieldwork with oral and written sources to provide a comprehensive framework of the changing social organization of the Mongols of China in terms of gender and politics. Taking Mongolian societies of China as a case study, this project will also echo contemporary issues topical in other parts of the world: the place of minority groups, relationships between the central state and local societies and gender equality.

Mots clés : anthropology, mongols, gender, politics, religion, sacred sites

Participants :
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 184707.84 €
Projet TRR (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This comparative research into tribal radio representation identifies and analyses indigenous communication strategies in American Indian community radio to explore how community radio practices and structures can facilitate meaningful self-representation in contexts where indigenous groups are marginalised. Through this analysis, this research seeks to update understanding of ways in which indigenous radio stations avail of and deploy emergent material developments, including podcasting and streaming technologies alongside ‘low power’ broadcasting. Drawing on the inclusive principles of Participatory Action Research (Tacchi et al 2003), research findings will be discussed on-site with tribal communities to share examples of good practice. This collaborative approach will enable tribal members to avail of findings and to provide input into research outcomes in a reciprocal process. Proposed research outputs will span academic, public, and indigenous media contexts in order to widen the benefits of this research for media and sociology scholars, indigenous practitioners, and policymakers. The research focus on indigenous communication strategies is of direct value for EU cultural and social contexts, in which established indigenous communities continue to be significantly under-represented in much of Europe’s mainstream media.

Mots clés : indigenous, radio, community, cultural production, production practice, inclusivity

Participants :
- The University of Texas System (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Leicester (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 189099.84 €
Projet AbQuantumSpec (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Mathematics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

This cross-disciplinary project lies at the interface of geometry, mathematical physics, perturbation theory, and integrable systems, combining techniques from algebraic topology, cluster algebras, ordinary differential equations, and asymptotic analysis. The main goal is to advance our understanding of the geometry of character varieties and their quantisation. This project -- carried out by Nikita Nikolaev under the supervision of Marta Mazzocco at the University of Birmingham -- is expected to result in a fundamental innovation in geometry and have important implications for quantum field theory. It will open a vast new scientific arena and will serve to establish Nikolaev amongst research leaders in this highly active research area. Character varieties are geometric spaces which are ubiquitous in mathematics and physics, where they capture important topological and quantum invariants. These spaces parameterise singular complex ordinary differential equations (such as the Airy and Bessel equations, or even time-independent Schrödinger equations), as well as their generalisations: meromorphic connections on vector bundles over a Riemann surface. However, character varieties are usually complicated singular spaces, so the valuable information they encode is not easy to access. This project will develop a new method to describe character varieties called abelianisation. Ideas behind abelianisation stem from the WKB method in quantum mechanics and have recently resurfaced in the context of quantum field theory and string theory. Abelianisation will allow to construct special coordinate systems on character varieties (called spectral coordinates) which naturally capture crucially important geometric structure of character varieties (most prominently the symplectic and cluster structures). In other words, spectral coordinates will be a geometric gadget to decrypt mathematical and physical information encrypted in character varieties.

Mots clés : connections, vector bundles, character varieties, moduli spaces, cluster algebras, higgs bundles, poisson geometry, symplectic geometry, integrable systems, isomonodromy, quantum groups, odes

Participants :
- University of Birmingham (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 224933.76 €
Projet INTERSECTIONS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : European Researchers' Night
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This edition of European Researcher's Night, run independently of all other NIGHTs, will provide a platform from which researchers and publics across Europe can participate to create a truly pan-national series of events showcasing the international and intersectional nature of research as well as the relevance of, and contribution to research that the public can make. INTERSECTIONS is developed from past success in international delivery of a group of seven NIGHTs across Europe. This experience has shown international delivery can be meaningful and rewarding, and demonstrated the barriers and drivers to a successful international and intersectional delivery. We propose now to expand on this and provide dedicated support for a pan-European delivery. In 2021 INTERSECTIONS will run a modest group of activities that we are confident are able to run on an international basis with significant impact and meaningful outcomes for all stakeholders from researchers to audiences. This truly pan-European research showcase event, connecting researchers, audiences, and NIGHTs, will showcase research and its relevance to all European citizens.

Mots clés : science communication, public engagement, intersectionality

Participants :
- University of St Andrews (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 67189.0 €
- Bristol Natural History Consortium (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Autres, subvention : 36626.0 €