Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet ODICON-ASMA (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The proposed action aims to support a promising young researcher so that he can move to an internationally active group and develop various skills. The proposed research concerns distributed control and smart grids. Distributed control is a topic of intense research and the available results are focused on stabilization while optimization in this setting is inherently difficult. Smart grids are an emergent technology for the efficient and robust integration of distributed generation sources and controlled loads. The proposed research aims to produce both theoretical results in distributed control and concrete control techniques for smart grids. Major issues to be investigated are heterogeneity and uncertainty as in practice not all subsystems are identical and their characteristics are a priori unknown. Therefore the controllers should learn the system, adapt to changes and take into account any differences among the subsystems. A goal of the proposed research is to provide globally optimal solutions. The importance of coordinating units will be investigated. These questions are both important for theory and relevant to smart grids. The problem of uncertainty will be addressed using techniques from estimation theory and system identification. The objective of global optimization will be addressed using global search methods. Both the hosting team and the young researcher have prior work closely related to the proposed research. Suitable dissemination and public outreach activities have been planned. Appropriateness of environment and supervisor are clearly documented in this proposal as well as the bi-directional transfer of knowledge. Instrumental is a three months secondment in a company specializing in smart grid solutions, where the researcher will have the opportunity to apply the developed techniques. This action will establish him as a mature and independent researcher and will provide him excellent career perspectives in the European academic sector.

Mots clés : distributed control, smart grids, microgrids

Participants :
- Technische Universität Berlin (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 159460.8 €
Projet AMPLE (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Mathematics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The proposed project AMPLE allocates in the area of mathematical Logic, Model Theory. It aims to develop a full understanding of the notion of ampleness and establish new connections between Model Theory and core mathematics. Model Theory aims to study and classify mathematical structures according to their THEORIES, that is, the class of all first order logic sentences that are true within them. One of the most important conjectures within Model Theory is Zilber's Trichotomy Conjecture, which suggested a classification of so-called strongly minimal structures - the building bricks of large classes of first order structures. Even though having been refuted quickly after its formulation, this conjecture and its counter example by Hrushovski have shaped the research in model theory and ultimately led Hrushovski to his outstanding proofs of the Mordell-Lang Conjecture, originating in the area of Number Theory. The notion of AMPLENESS was developed in order to classify the geometries left out in the Trichotomy Conjecture. Even though studied by many after its introduction, there is a plethora of open questions around this notion, witnessing that a thorough understanding is still missing. Answers to these questions have the potential to reshape the view on the classification of first order structures. The ER managed in her PhD thesis to solve one of the main open problems in this area, by combining tools from the field of TITS BUILDINGS, which was developed to classify simple algebraic groups and groups of Lie type. Together with the project Supervisor, who is a leading expert in the area of ampleness, the ER will establish a full understanding of the notion of ampleness, using its close connections to the theory of Tits Buildings. This project promises new bonds between Model Theory and core mathematics as well as a high applicability to longstanding questions within Model Theory itself. It is thus of high visibility and importance to the community.

Mots clés : model theory, classification of first order structures, ampleness, tits buildings

Participants :
- Imperial College London (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 212933.76 €
Projet GoMyTri (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Staff Exchanges
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The proposed project aims at the intensification of cooperations between research infrastructure organisations in German, the Netherlands and Thailand that are recognised internationally as strongholds in mycological, biotechnological and microbiological research. The cooperation is intended to explore the mycological and microbiological biodiversity of Europe and Southeast Asia, in particular with regard to the search for the badly needed new antibiotics and other biologically active substances. The working plan includes activities such as the systematic exploration of fungal biodiversity by using modern molecular phylogenetic and chemotaxonomic techniques, as well as genome sequencing, in conjunction with classical microbiology. The focus of the research will be set on endophytes (in particular, Xylariaceae and Botryosphaeriaceae), invertebrate-associated ascomycetes (Cordycipitaceae), and marine fungi and fungal-like organisms, respectively. In addition, some basidiomycete cultures will also be studied. Between the participating partners already exist very good personal contacts and smaller research collaborations, which will be intensified in the context of the proposed project. Several staff exchanges and workshops are planned, which should allow the partners to further increase and optimise their interactions and to attain interdisciplinary skills. In the medium term the project is aimed at attaining an internationally visible strategic cooperation, including other departments of the institutions involved.

Mots clés : fungi, mycology, bioprospecting, biotechnology, natural product discovery, antibiotic, biocontrol, endophyte

Participants :
- National Science and Technology Development Agency (Thaïlande) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 225000.0 €
- Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 108000.0 €
Projet RESILIENCE (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The proposed project aims to define the molecular framework at the interface of plant immunity and temperature signaling pathways. To sense and respond to external environmental cues is critical for adaptation of plants to local environments. Temperature is a key seasonal variable controlling plant processes like developmental decisions as well as outcomes of plant-pathogen interactions. Elevated temperatures cause reduced resistance to pathogens resulting in enhanced susceptibility. Climate change, most importantly increasing global temperatures, poses a severe threat to agriculture and biodiversity. Though known for long, the phenomenon of temperature induced disease susceptibility is not sufficiently well understood at the molecular level. A unique Arabidopsis mutant resilient2 (res2) with temperature resilient defense response has been identified through a novel forward genetic screen. The res2 mutant also displays defective temperature sensing phenotypes suggesting that RES2 encodes a novel thermosensory molecule that modulate plant defense. I will systematically characterize the res2 mutant to define the molecular mechanism by which RES2 regulates temperature sensing and plant immunity. Findings of this study will answer the longstanding fundamental biology question of how environmental signals are integrated, especially the molecular basis for temperature induced defense breakdown. This will contribute to developing climate resilient crops in the wake of unprecedented increase in temperature as a result of global climate change.

Mots clés : plant pathogen interaction, temperature, resilient, defense, arabidopsis

Participants :
- UK Research and Innovation (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 195454.8 €
Projet PCPPP (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The proposed project aims to promote innovative, poverty-aware forms of parents' participation and family inclusion practices in child protection policy and practice. More specifically, it intends to strengthen the connection between three bodies of knowledge—poverty, child protection, and parent participation. Parent advocacy programmes, that are gradually developed to support family inclusion and parents' participation at the practice and policy levels, are demonstrating positive outcomes, both in terms of proximal and distal outcomes. Even though, current programmes are mainly based outside of Europe and tend to lack a firm theoretical and ethical base that informs practice in ways that address poverty, other social inequalities, and child protection practice. Given the increasing numbers of children living in socio-economic hardship in more than two thirds of the OECD countries, alongside rising numbers of children involved in the child protection and court systems in various EU countries, developing such practices is a necessity for promoting the well-being and rights of children and Therefore the study aims are:(1) To map, describe, and conceptualize the development and application of parent advocacy programmes in England. (2) To explore the experiences and perspectives of all stakeholders who participate in parent advocacy programmes (3) To examine and theorize the relevance of poverty-aware approaches to parent advocacy programmes. (4) To empirically enrich and further develop the complex relationship between poverty and maltreatment. The research project will employ a qualitative in-depth case study approach that will involve a preliminary survey of all existing advocacy initiatives in England and in-depth inquiry of 4-6 parent advocacy programs. The case studies will include various qualitative methods and the analysis of the data will include thematic analysis and participatory data analysis.

Mots clés : social work, poverty, child protection, child abuse and neglect, advocacy

Participants :
- University of London (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 224933.76 €
Projet INFRALIVES (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The proposed project focuses on mega-infrastructures in contemporary Kenya and provides an ethnographically-grounded theoretical account of social and political geographies of contemporary mega-infrastructures. It accomplishes this by theorising how semiotic and material forms of mega-infrastructures – which by their nature produce space – simultaneously function as technologies of governance that articulate contested imaginaries of "progress" and "development", and, at the level of everyday practice, shape (im)possibilities of liveable life across uneven landscapes of contemporary Kenya. Through this theorisation of mega-infrastructures, I explore how, in the current neoliberal conjecture of capitalist development in the Global South, infrastructure is a verb and not a noun. It is not a symbol of "development" that states use in their attempt to achieve national prosperity. Instead, in the contemporary context of mega-projects, to infrastructure is to expose populations to multi-faceted forms of semiotic and material subjugation to state and capital power. Therefore, infrastructure as a process cannot be understood as externally imposed on populations; instead, the process of infrastructuring is a socially and politically mediated transformation of the body in and through state-directed mega-projects that reduce human beings to abstractions – such as citizens, beneficiary groups, or infrastructure users – which renders infrastructure as fundamental to the material and semiotic violence of the capitalist state. Theoretically, the proposed project draws on critical social theory – including the work of Theodor Adorno, Judith Butler, Francis Fanon, and Achille Mbembe – in relation to geographical scholarship on infrastructure, and through these original theoretical explorations, the account of infrastructured lives provides a novel contribution to critical scholarship on political and social geographies of infrastructure.

Mots clés : mega infrastructure, africa, development, social theory, politics, globalisation

Participants :
- University of Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 175572.48 €
Projet PerformingArchive (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The proposed project investigates the ‘francisation’ of quotidian identity in New Orleans (United States) in the decade since Hurricane Katrina. More than 200 years after ending its colonial ties to France, New Orleans offers evidence of how ‘french’ identities are constructed through the repetition of behaviours linked to a place-specific history, a social performance that has intensified after the social trauma of Hurricane Katrina. Given the global challenges presented by large-scale migration (seen especially in Europe at the moment), analysing identity formation in relation to everyday life and post-colonial relations merits critical study. Working with data from an existing international initiative on francophone identities in New Orleans, the project will conduct experiments at the archive of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) in Lyon and The Historic New Orleans Collection (THNOC). This process will lead to the production of a site-specific performance series and interactive performance guide that critically engage the OIF archive in relation to contemporary quotidian life in New Orleans, as well as an international conference on New Orleans francophone identities. Four objectives guide the project: 1) analyse everyday ‘french’ New Orleans identities in relation to institutional and global perspectives on Francophonie; 2) use the infra-ordinaire as the basis for protocols in experimental archival research; 3) build creative dialogues between artefacts found in THNOC and OIF archives; and 4) use site site-specific performance to interrogate the archive and creatively present results.

Mots clés : performance, archive, site specific performance, quotidian, infra ordinaire, everyday life studies, french identity, new orleans, francophonie

Participants :
- Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 196707.84 €
Projet distraction (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The proposed research challenges and reassesses the historical development of ‘distraction’ in its philosophical and literary implications. The dominant Augustinian-Pascalian strain of Western thought has traditionally viewed distraction as an expression of human imperfection, which has therefore to be corrected in favour of concentration and logical thinking. My project reconstructs how the 17th and 18th cs. witness a different understanding of distraction in both the ethical and the aesthetic-cognitive spheres, paving the way to its revaluation as a productive resource, in literary and stylistic terms, between the 18th and 19th cs. By focusing on the French and Italian linguistic and cultural domains, characterised by a lively circulation of texts and by a relatively homogeneous cultural background, the Fellow will show how the genealogy of distraction intersects and mirrors the intellectual and cultural tensions between the Old Regime and the post-revolutionary decades. In particular, the proposed research will address the ways distraction tackles and reassesses the conflictual relationship between truth and falsehood, objectivity and subjectivity, theory and fiction, thereby blurring the borders between philosophical-theoretical and literary-fictional forms of writing. The project possesses both historical and theoretical implications. On the one hand, it reconstructs a fluid moment in Western cultural history, witnessing a profound reconfiguration of philosophical and rhetorical praxes, whose outcome may even be identified in literature as an attempt to recompose the original fracture between poetry and philosophy in which Western culture – according to Agamben – is rooted. On the other, it firmly relies on a strong philosophical framework that, through a constant dialogue with thinkers such as Bergson, Benjamin, and Rancière, understands distraction as a peculiar and intrinsic feature of intellectual modernity.

Mots clés : aesthetics, divertissement, digression, autobiography, stylistics, enlightenment, romanticism, libertinism, sensationalism, emancipation

Participants :
- University of Warwick (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 183454.8 €
Projet ILDS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Mathematics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The proposed research includes the following two main directions: (1) Using methods and tools of algebraic geometry and computational algebra, we study the integrability of the nonlinear dynamical systems. We focus on finding the varieties of integrability of dynamical systems with the emphasize on the higher dimensional systems. Our approaches are based on combining symbolic computations with methods of the theory of integrability of dynamical systems. We then study bifurcations of limit cycles and critical periods arising after perturbations of higher dimensional integrable systems of differential equation. Furthermore, we intend to study the problem of isochronicity (which is equivalent to the problem of linearization). (2) We propose to study the global topological linearization, linearization of integral manifold, smooth linearization with the emphasis on the study of the linearization of non-autonomous systems when the nonlinear term is unbounded or linear system does not possess exponential dichotomy (in critical state). Up to now there are few results concerning the linearization

Mots clés : bifurcation, linearization, stability

Participants :
- University of Maribor (Slovénie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 157287.6 €
Projet SPECTACLE (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The proposed research is a multidisciplinary investigation on the role of spectacle during the radical transformation of European politics and culture in the decades between 1780 and 1820. Its principal aim is to define the cultural meaning of ‘spectacle’ and ‘spectacularity’ in eighteenth-century France. This will be achieved via an exploration of key contributions of Italian artists from different backgrounds and expertise (the designer Ignazio Degotti, the fireworks technicians in the Ruggieri family, and the circus performer Antonio Franconi and his family) to French and a wider European spectacle broadly conceived (e.g. theatre settings, public and private performances, propaganda events). Historians have examined cultural phenomena including theatre, visual arts, music, and popular manifestations as part of a more refined understanding of the pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary process. However, the world of stage creation and popular festivals was inherently contingent, transient, and ephemeral. Due to this, artists and designers have not been given the same critical attention paid to musicians, dramatists, or visual artists. My research will cover this gap of knowledge in a growing body of scholarship which is only now beginning to address historical theatre production. Rather than reducing the purveyors of stage design to the ‘background’ of theatre and cultural history in their own ‘micro history,’ the novelty of my approach comes from integrating décor into cultural histories of seeing, experiencing, and remaking the world. By chronologically and biographically assembling visual and historical archival sources (sketches, wills, letters, contracts, private networks) scattered in diverse cultural institutions, the study will bring to the foreground material aspects of the spectacle-creative process and illuminate the interweaving lives of these artists, finally affording a deeper understanding of ‘spectacularity’ in European eighteenth-century culture.

Mots clés : eighteenth century, stage design, artistic networks, cultural history, theatre, performances, artistry, french revolution, napoleonic empire, italian artists, french artists, fireworks, circus

Participants :
- New York University (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 269002.56 €