Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet DECODMI (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

This project lies at the intersection of the disciplines of music, technology and education. It focuses on digital musical instruments, investigating current approaches for teaching the design of new musical interfaces in professional and higher education contexts. The research will identify, compare, and critically assess teaching practices by engaging music technology educators and organisations through surveys, interviews and fieldworks. The fellowship will produce a first broad and systematic analysis of instrument design education, across academic and non-academic sectors. In addition, the project will advance art-technology disciplines by providing practical accounts and accessible resources on best educational practices, combining technology innovation with socio-cultural awareness, diversity and inclusion. DECODMI aims to examine art-technology education to better understand the modalities through which cultural values are being transmitted within different communities of practices, allowing us to ask what alternatives might exist, and develop resources that could facilitate the circulation of knowledge, methods and tools across disciplines, sectors and cultural contexts. The project will be hosted at InfoMus (University of Genoa): a research centre specialised in the development of interactive multimodal systems for the arts and wellbeing; under the supervision of Prof. Antonio Camurri, a leading scholar in the fields of affective and creative computing, with extensive experience in music technology education. The fellow, Dr. Giacomo Lepri, is a prominent musician with an extensive interdisciplinary academic record merging composition and performance, human-computer interaction, and technology studies, whose research focuses on the socio-cultural implications of instrument design. The fellowship will also feature a placement at CHAIR, a German company conducting research on haptics and audio interaction design.

Mots clés : digital musical instruments, art technology education, science and technology studies, music anthropology music performance and composition

Participants :
- Max neupert und clemens wegener gbr (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Gênes (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 235737.6 €
Projet REGALIA (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Qualitative type systems are a widespread technique exploited in the study of programming languages. Types allow to obtain relevant information on the behaviours of programs, such as termination of the evaluation. Quantitative type systems are used to achieve additional information on complexity and resource consumption. While these two families of type systems have been deeply studied, their interaction is still far to be properly understood. Given a program typed in a qualitative way, can we extract quantitative information from it in a compositional manner? This very natural and fundamental question has not received any appropriate answer yet. REGALIA aims to answer the question, deepening our understanding of the relationship between these two kinds of type systems. In order to do so, REGALIA will further develop the theory of resource approximation, by extending Girard's approximation theorems to proofs with cuts and by establishing a translation algorithm between qualitative systems and quantitative ones. I shall then exploit these results to define modular methods to study programming languages, alternative to Tait-Girard reducibility, that will offer quantitative interpretation of relevant qualitative systems in the context of both pure and effectful computation.

Mots clés : programming language theory, type systems, resource approximation, quantitative bounds

Participants :
- Université de Bologne (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 172750.08 €
Projet SOMULTIMATE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Despite the strong evidence on common occurrence of physical health conditions and their profound negative impact on survival in people with mental disorders, existing research has focused predominantly on the presence of single, distinct physical health conditions in these people. Somatic multimorbidity, denoting the coexistence of two or more chronic physical health conditions, remains incompletely described and understood in people with mental disorders. Furthermore, while it is known that the staggeringly lower life expectancy in people with mental disorders is explained by natural causes of death, the precise contributions of somatic multimorbidity to premature mortality have not been studied systematically. A major impediment in furthering knowledge is the prevailing methodology, consisting of solely counting of the number of physical health conditions, which is inherently unable to reveal the complex nature of somatic multimorbidity. The focus of SOMULTIMATE is to apply novel metrics on Danish national, register-based data that will allow to better capture the true burden of somatic multimorbidity in people with mental disorders. By considering the entire spectrum of mental disorders, SOMULTIMATE will provide the most comprehensive estimates (i) of the extent and patterns of somatic multimorbidity and (ii) of the impact of somatic multimorbidity on mortality in these conditions. This would facilitate the identification of the most common somatic multimorbidity, including in a wide array of so far overlooked mental disorders, and potentially inform screening targets for physical health conditions in various settings. Unravelling the precise contributions of somatic multimorbidity to premature mortality would then provide actionable targets to reduce the life expectancy gap. In addition, the methodological advances introduced by SOMULTIMATE would be directly applicable in diverse areas of medical research.

Mots clés : epidemiology psychiatry physical health conditions mental physical health interface multimorbidity mortality life expectancy gap life years lost health metrics national registers

Participants :
- Université d'Aarhus (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 247553.28 €
Projet VirGIL (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The VirGIL (Virgil’s “Georgics” in Italian Literature) project aims to investigate the legacy of Virgil’s “Georgics” in Italy between the 15th and the 19th centuries, and its impact on agricultural and livestock breeding practices of that period, through an analysis of translations of Virgil’s poem and agronomical treatises. Indeed, until the Modern Age, the “Georgics” continued to be interpreted not only as a poem but also as a work capable of conveying precise notions for farmers and breeders. Although the first translations appeared at the end of the 15th century, it is primarily from the 18th century that they multiplied, revealing a renewed interest in the scientific themes of the poem. There are still no specific systematic studies on this topic: further research is therefore needed that integrates a philological approach with a translational and linguistic perspective. This project firstly proposes a transcription and in-depth analysis of verse translations of the “Georgics” in the period under consideration, to define the authors’ culture and understand how they translated Latin hexameters into Italian metric forms. Secondly, it involves an analysis of Italian poems directly inspired by the “Georgics” to highlight similar passages and determine the extent of their influence. Finally, by focusing on some key terms such as names of plants, agricultural tools and techniques, the project aims to identify points of contact between the corpus of translations and major agronomical treatises, to determine whether there are mutual influences or not. The expected result–understanding the relationship between the agronomical and naturalistic culture conveyed by Virgil’s “Georgics” and its reception in Italian culture, as well as how various metric forms deal with hexameters–will open up innovative perspectives both on Translation Studies and the History of science in the Early Modern period.

Mots clés : virgil, georgics, translation studies, history of italian language, history of science

Participants :
- Université Ca' Foscari de Venise (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 376768.9 €
- Université de Bâle (Suisse) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Bologne (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet PNut (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The ongoing radical decline in sea-ice cover and the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) melt is causing the oceans in the Arctic to freshen. In the western North Atlantic decreasing salinity again results in changes in ocean stratification and a shift in the nutrient distribution between Atlantic- and Pacific-sourced waters. Stratification and nutrient flux strongly impact surface productivity and phytoplankton community structures, but the collective influence of these mechanisms is not yet known and might regionally vary. The aim of pNut is to study the effects of sea-ice loss, GIS melting and water-mass re-distribution of nutrients during previous warming phases of the deglacial and Holocene. To achieve this, I will investigate the effects of past climate change on nutrient distribution and utilization by phytoplankton off Greenland. For a high spatial and regional evaluation, the study is based on five available sediment cores, one from the East Greenland shelf, and five cores along a North-South transect from Baffin Bay to the West Greenland shelf. In a novel approach, I will differentiate between silicic acid utilization based on silicon isotope compositions of sea ice and spring/summer bloom diatoms. Silicic acid concentrations will be evaluated based on silicon isotope compositions of sponge spicules. The net productivity, nitrate utilisation and stratification will be investigated based on bulk sedimentary nitrogen isotope analyses. The new results will be combined with records of sea surface temperature, diatom abundance, primary productivity, water-mass mixture, stratification, and sea-ice extent to synthesise a synoptic understanding of the influence of further future warming on the Arctic marine nutrient cycle and the biological pump.

Mots clés : paleoceanography, nutrient concentration and utilization, silicon isotopes, nitrogen isotopes, diatoms, sponges, bulk sediment, holocene, arctic, west greenland, baffin bay

Participants :
- Université d'Aarhus (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 214934.4 €
Projet LiqproofHouses (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Soil liquefaction during earthquakes has been a problem of great concern in earthquake engineering for more than half a century. Yet, many small-scale structures, such as low-rise houses, are still designed without consideration of the effect of liquefaction and have thus suffered extensive damage in several recent earthquakes. Liquefaction mitigation measures involving pile foundations or extensive ground improvement are expensive solutions for residential properties underlain by deep liquefiable deposits. Such structures can be more efficiently designed with partial-depth ground improvement, i.e. allowing limited extent of liquefaction at larger depths. This idea is less costly and more sensible for residential buildings, but it requires reliable assessment of the liquefaction response to ensure that any induced deformations can be well-tolerated by the structure. Also, this assessment should consider the entire range of earthquake loads occurring during the life of the structure. The proposed project aims to provide the means for such a holistic assessment of the liquefaction performance of low-rise buildings. Specific emphasis will be placed on quantification of ejecta-induced damage resulting from a discharge of liquefied soils at the ground surface. This quantification will be based on an integration of insights and data from nonlinear dynamic analyses, seismic centrifuge tests, and case-history observations. A procedure for estimating ejecta-induced settlement will be developed and used alongside existing shear-induced settlement models within a novel framework for holistic evaluation of the liquefaction performance. The key objective of this framework is to guide the design process by providing an in-depth understanding of the characteristics of the liquefaction-building system response and the effect of ground improvement for different levels of shaking. The proposed project will contribute to improved physical and societal resilience to earthquakes.

Mots clés : soil liquefaction earthquake engineering geotechnical engineering geotechnical centrifuge performance based design settlement

Participants :
- Université de Pavie (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 193643.28 €
- European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Istituto Sperimentale Modelli E Strutture (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
Projet IDEATE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

IDEATE aims to develop a ground-breaking class of high energy radiation direct detectors based on perovskite (PVK) and organic (OS) thin films. The target is to define and implement gender-specific medical protocols during cancer radiotherapy treatments, thanks to a beam monitoring and real-time measurement of the dose delivered to the patient. This ambitious and revolutionary result will be attained by four intermediate goals: 1) model the mechanisms of interaction between ionizing radiation and PVK and OS thin films, 2) design and fabrication of PVK/OS single pixel detectors with different device architectures, 3) validation of each material/device architecture single pixel under X-Rays and proton beams to identify the best combinations which fulfil the target specifications, 4) realization of two DEMOs formed by a 3x3 pixels matrix onto flexible substrates, of a dedicated portable read-out electronics and validation of the integrated system under relevant irradiation conditions in medical radiation therapy facilities. The final DEMOs will represent the starting prototypes to be industrialized and commercialized by a start-up that I’m going to set up at the end of the fellowship. The interdisciplinarity and intersectoral approach adopted by IDEATE will be the result of the merge of different competences offered by University of Bologna (12-months return phase, supervisor Prof. Fraboni, expert in ionizing radiation detectors and semiconductor defect states characterization), by Columbia University (23-months outgoing phase, supervisor Prof. Kymissis, expert in electronic devices based on unconventional materials) and Kairos Sensors LLC Company (1 month internship, expert in industrialization and commercialization of innovative radiation sensing technologies). I will receive excellent training during the entire action enforcing my scientific skills but also ability in communication, dissemination, technology transfer, sustainable development, and female leadership.

Mots clés : ionizing radiation detectors, organic semiconductors, perovskites, flexible electronics

Participants :
- Université Columbia (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Bologne (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 265099.2 €
Projet REPROBATIO (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Environmental pollution has emerged as a key contributor to the decline in male fertility, a significant health issue in Western countries. This decline is driven by contaminants of emerging concern that disrupt steroidogenesis and gut microbiota, leading to altered sex hormone levels and nutrient availability. Additionally, these pollutants act as epigenotoxic agents, impacting male germline epigenetics and posing risks to embryo development when such epimutations are inherited by the zygote. In this context, there is an urgent need not only to reduce pollutant emissions but also to develop innovative strategies to mitigate their health impacts, particularly on reproductive disorders and their transgenerational effects. The REPROBATIO project addresses this challenge by focusing on probiotics and postbiotics as a potential solution, leveraging their ability to restore gut microbiota diversity and enhance reproductive health, respectively, thus counteracting the effects of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs). The project pursues three main objectives: (O1) Conducting high-throughput screening to evaluate EDCs' impact on gut microbiota biodiversity and host-microbe interactions; (O2) Assessing probiotics' efficacy in mitigating EDC-induced gut dysbiosis; and (O3) Investigating probiotics and postbiotics as tools to alleviate EDC-induced reproductive disruptions in steroidogenesis and gametogenesis. Using advanced multi-omics approaches, alongside in vitro 3D (gut and testicular) and in vivo models, the project aims to provide a comprehensive map of how EDCs influence gut microbial biodiversity and hormonal regulation in the host. The outcomes of this research could revolutionize reproductive toxicology by offering novel microbiota-based strategies to combat EDC toxicity, improving overall health and reducing healthcare costs associated with exposome-derived male subfertility.

Mots clés : endocrine disruptors, male fertility, gut microbiota, probiotics, postbiotics, reproductive toxicology, testicular organoids

Participants :
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgique) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université polytechnique des Marches (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 209483.28 €
Projet MicroAlgae 4.0 (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

MicroAlgae 4.0 will allow the researcher to improve his knowledge and skills in the application of Circular Economy, digitalisation, water-energy-food-ecosystems Nexus, and the zero-pollution ambition to the water treatment sector. This project will be carried out at the Polytechnic University of Marche (UNIVPM) (Italy) under the supervision of Prof. Francesco Fatone. UNIVPM appears as an ideal Host to coordinate this project due to their vast experience in developing EU-funded projects, including DWC (www.digital-water.city), FIT4REUSE (https://fit4reuse.org), and PROMISCES, which are in line with some of the activities developed in MicroAlgae 4.0. As part of this project, the researcher will develop a Secondment at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) (Spain) and a short visit in SIMAM S.p.A. (Italy). MicroAlgae 4.0 combines aspects related to environmental science, chemical engineering, microalgae biology, human health, computer science, legislation and social aspects, with the goal to develop a Water Resource and Recovery Facility (WRRF) scheme based on microalgae cultivation biotechnology to maximise reclaimed water production and nutrient recovery from wastewater and to minimise environmental pollution. To this aim, MicroAlgae 4.0 will focus on overcoming the barriers that hinder the wide implementation of microalgae-based systems by improving the performance and reliability of the process, developing innovative digital tools that monitor and automate the system, and assuring the safety of the by-products obtained. MicroAlgae 4.0 will also allow improving researcher´s skills such as teamwork, leadership, digital skills, communication, innovative thinking, proposal writing and development of products and processes. This will make him a proficient researcher by the end of the project. Considering the challenges faced in MicroAlgae 4.0, its innovation and the alignment with European policies, MicroAlgae 4.0 is considered a highly ambitious proposal

Mots clés : microalgae nutrient recovery photobioreactor reclaimed water wastewater

Participants :
- Université polytechnique de Valence (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université polytechnique des Marches (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 172750.08 €