Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet SELECTFLOW (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Developing new pharmaceutically-active molecules for the treatment of diseases that compromise the health and well-being of society is an essential but tedious process with rising costs, partially due to the arduous chemical synthesis of complex drug candidates. Recently, innovations in organic chemistry have streamlined the access to vast libraries of drugs by applying novel methodologies such as Late-Stage Functionalization of C-H bonds. However, one of the major challenges of editing biologically-active chemical structures is the development of processes that are compatible with diverse functional groups and functionalize one single position "à la carte" in an efficient and predictable manner.  SELECTFLOW presents a multidisciplinary project that lies in the intersection of synthetic photoredox catalysis with microfluidic technologies, with the objective of delivering a selective, sustainable and predictable methodology for the modification of biologically-active molecules using light alkanes as raw materials. This will require the accomplishment of three specific objectives: 1) Development of a chemo- and regioselective synthetic methodology for the edition of nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocycles. 2) Translation of the developed photocatalytic system into a microflow-based setup, to enable the use of gaseous reagents in a milder and scalable fashion. 3) Understanding the mechanistic intricacies of the developed methodology in order to predict unexplored similar transformations. Overall, this proposal directly tackles one of the most important challenges for the pharmaceutical industry, the rapid and cost-effective production of innovative drugs, by delivering a sustainable valorisation of greenhouse gases, such as methane. It is expected that this innovative approach will be of high scientific, technological and societal impact, ultimately reinforcing the already European competitiveness in the production of life-saving drugs.

Mots clés : flow chemistry, late stage functionalization, c h activation, catalysis

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

Polymeric textile fibers, are one of the main sources of microplastics pollution in the open environment. The European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy acknowledges the need for increased R&D on biodegradable polymers. A key challenge of biodegradable plastics is that the biodegradation rate and material performance (e.g. mechanical and thermal) very often oppose each other. It is therefore difficult to develop products that meet the performance requirements that users expect, and still offer a substantial ecological advantage through fast biodegradation in the open environment. It is of importance to the future health of humanity and the natural world that a well-performing, scalable, and affordable biodegradable textile fiber will be developed. As this is intrinsically difficult, we need more fundamental understanding on how molecular design parameters (e.g. chain stiffness and chain interactions) and physiochemical properties (e.g. crystallization) influence biodegradation behavior on the one hand and fiber spinning and fiber performance on the other hand. The key outcome of the project is a clear understanding of how we can influence the biodegradation of a fiber, whilst having a good spinning process and fiber performance. It is likely that besides understanding, actual novel biosynthetic fibers will be developed in this project. The applicant Dr. Mohammadreza Naeimirad is an expert in melt-spinning of fibers and he is supervised by Bas Krins from Senbis Polymer Innovations B.V. as the host organization, and Prof. Gert-Jan M Gruter from University of Amsterdam (UvA) for the secondment. Senbis provides unique expertise and facilities on melt-spinning and evaluation whereas the UvA does so in the area of synthesis and biodegradation.

Mots clés : bioplastics, fiber melt spinning, polymer processing, biodegradation, environmental science

Participants :
- Senbis polymer innovations bv (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 203464.32 €
- Université d'Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet BookSHUK (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : TERMINATED

The encompassing objective of BookSHUK (“book” and “shuk,” in Hebrew “market”) is to provide the first historical and transnational analysis and digital visualization of the scholarly and trade networks related to the market of Jewish manuscripts and early printed books from the beginning of the twentieth century to the aftermath of WWII and the foundation of the State of Israel. Although the last decades have seen a rich harvest of studies on a multitude of aspects concerning the history of the Jewish book from the Middle Ages to the Holocaust, in-depth research on the market in the twentieth century has been largely neglected. BookSHUK aims to assess the international and interconnected nature of networks involving market actors (such as antiquarians, booksellers, private dealers, auction houses, collectors, scholars, librarians) between Europe, Mandatory Palestine (then Israel), and the United States also reflecting on the impact that major historical events such as WWI and WWII had on the trade. Through archival research on selected cases of study concerning sellers, customers, and objects across Europe, Israel, and the United States, the project intends to: a) identify the sellers and their business networks; b) unravel the role of auction houses in the international trade of Jewish manuscripts and early printed books; c) reconstruct the interests and taste that drove customers – both privates and librarians acting on behalf of libraries – to purchase specimens or collections for their private and/or institutional libraries; d) trace back relations among sellers and customers while providing geographical, chronological, and data visualizations of their connections thanks to digital tools, thus contributing to a more inclusive intellectual and cultural history. The three-year MSCA-GF will bring me to the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, and, during a secondment, to the University of Amsterdam.

Mots clés : book history, jewish history, digital humanities, libraries

Participants :
- Université de Pennsylvanie (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Modène et de Reggio Emilie (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 288859.2 €
- Université d'Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet CYDER (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Modal fixpoint logics, which express recursive notions, find several fundamental applications in computer science. As a key example, in formal verification recursively defined notions are needed to reason about iterations of programs. A second prominent example comes from knowledge representation, where common knowledge of groups of agents is formalised through recursion. Much as in basic modal logics, the semantics of modal fixpoint logics can be enriched with additional properties, called frame conditions, to capture specific attitudes. Frame conditions give rise to rich and expressive families of modal fixpoint logics. Proof theory is the discipline that studies proof systems, which are sets of axioms and rules used to check validity of a formula. Proof systems play a central role in the analysis of logical systems. Despite their wide range of applications, the proof theory of modal fixpoint logics is currently underdeveloped. More specifically, the proof theory of modal fixpoint logics with frame conditions is much less advanced than the proof theory of modal or intuitionistic logics. The key objective of CYDER is to define proof systems for modal fixpoint logics with frame conditions, providing a general proof-theoretical framework for these logics. Towards this challenging aim, CYDER will define two new kinds of proof systems: labelled and nested cyclic proofs. CYDER proof-theoretical methodology is inspired by labelled and nested sequents, which capture modal logics with frame conditions, and cyclic proofs, which are a powerful formalism to treat recursion. The project will define cyclic proof systems for several systems of modal fixpoint logics: epistemic logics with common knowledge, the alternation-free modal mu-calculus with frame conditions, intuitionistic modal logics with recursive modalities and dynamic epistemic logics.

Mots clés : proof theory, modal fixpoint logics, cyclic proofs

Participants :
- Université d'Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 203464.32 €
Projet ODEEN (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Working as an environmental education (EE) facilitator I can attest to the fact that a feeling of urgency, detachment, helplessness and lack of alternatives tends to be a common reaction when working with EE in the European context. This has led me to question the factors that influence the learning process within EE. Building on my past work on ideological and epistemological blockages to effective social change, this project will utilize the concept of ontology as a more encompassing term for social analysis. Based on analytical frameworks on secularism, religion and climate change developed within the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at Groningen University, together with transdisciplinary currents of thought such as political ontology and agroecology, in the proposed research I will study the role of ontological diversity in environmental education (EE) utilizing concepts and methods from the field of theology and religious studies (TRS). Framing the research within TRS will allow us to find a critical perspective on the dominant secular-scientific tradition behind EE policy and implementation, as well as the presumed secularity-based ontological homogeneity of EE in Western and Westernized contexts. In this research we will explore if the effectiveness of European environmental education is being hindered by lack of ontological diversity, together with ways in which TRS can contribute to fostering ontological diversity (OD) within EE. I will be focusing on EE in the contexts of Barcelona (Spain) and Havana (Cuba) using literature review, expert interviews, critical discourse analysis, grounded theory, good practice analysis and participatory action-research (PAR) in order to develop four scientific articles on OD in EE, a handbook for EE practitioners, a handbook for policy makers, and policy recommendations for EU GreenComp implementation.

Mots clés : ontological diversity environmental education greencomp participatory action research spain cuba

Participants :
- Université autonome de Barcelone (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Groningue (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 203464.32 €
Projet 2DBoroCat (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The proposal 2DBoroCat addresses synthesis, characterization and catalytic applications of “borophene” new wonder material that has attracted extensive attention from the scientific community due to its intriguing properties. Despite the attractive properties of borophene, lack of facile, low-cost and efficient production method restricted its industrial applications. Therefore, major focus have been given in developing a synthetic route to borophene, that outclasses the limitations of existing methods and modifies the present “state-of-the-art” synthesis. Further, it's use as catalyst in various industrially relevant transformations is suggested for the first time. Especially the proposal addresses one of the defining environmental, energy and societal challenges of 21st century: the conversion of CO2 to value added chemicals, especially LPG. Both thermal- as well as plasma- reactors will be used to accomplish the target of CO2 reduction. Plasma catalysis has the distinct advantage that the conversion can be achieved at a lower temperature and pressure compared to pure thermal catalysis. The proposal is highly novel and timely in the present context of global warming due to increasing anthropogenic CO2 emissions and diminishing fossil fuel reserves. In addition to this, other important reactions such as oxidative dehydrogenation (ODH) and ammonia-borane hydrolysis etc. will also be investigated. 2DBoroCat is expected to create huge scientific, economical and societal impact in terms of CO2 mitigation strategies.

Mots clés : borophene, co2 conversion, heterogeneous catalysis, 2d materials, oxidative dehydrogenation, single atom catalysis, ammonia borane, borophane, borophene oxide, hybrid materials

Participants :
- Université d'Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 203464.32 €
Projet DREAM-Film (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Today, only a small part of the analogue audiovisual collections has been digitised, and workflows and digitisation practices are carried out mainly in institutional centres at a national level. This situation leads to the question: Is online audiovisual content truly representative of European (and global) film history? The DREAM-Film (Democratising REsearch and restoration of Audiovisual Media and Film) project aims to develop alternative approaches to film digitisation, restoration, and quality assessment based on the experience of well-established institutional archives and smaller non-institutional centres to make those actions more democratic and inclusive by reducing restoration costs in time and resources. As a result, more accessible and adaptable digitisation practices and restoration software will be generated, promoting research and knowledge-exchange with strategical dissemination and communication actions. The main strength of this project is the interdisciplinarity and the mutual knowledge exchange between archives and research centres of humanistic and scientific faculties. The network involving those centres will be a base for developing more suitable practices and education plans to make film restoration practices available in institutions based in underrepresented countries and smaller non-institutional archives.

Mots clés : archives, audiovisual, movies, cinema, access, democracy, globalisation

Participants :
- Filmski centar sarajevo (Bosnie-Herzégovine) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- Stichting eye filmmuseum (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Milan (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 140718.24 €
Projet GREENQE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Economic Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 13 calls to "Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts" by 2030. This call to take action also reached central banks: A controversial debate of whether monetary policy shall target climate change mitigation is ongoing. This addresses also the use of titling the asset purchase programs towards green assets (green quantitative easing, green QE). GREENQE contributes to this discussion, by investigating how large of a carbon emission and temperature reduction could be achieved by tilting the corporate asset portfolio of central banks around the world towards green assets. Benefits from slowing down climate change are contrasted with costs from possible impediments to the monetary transmission channels. These costs and benefits are quantified using a rich integrated assessment model with incomplete markets and aggregate risk, featuring a green and brown sector of production, asset markets and fiscal and monetary authorities. This allows to evaluate the trade-offs of greening central banks' asset purchases (climate change mitigation vs. impeding monetary transmission mechanisms) as well as to investigate whether a monetary policy focused on the business cycle horizon can be used effectively to address a slow-moving climate change process.  The results of GREENQE are of interest to various stakeholders, including foremost central banks as well as governments. If green QE is found to be an effective and not-costly tool it might be used to complement green fiscal policies of national governments and supranationals like the EU commission.

Mots clés : climate change monetary policy green quantitative easing carbon taxation integrated assessment model

Participants :
- Université d'Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 187624.32 €
Projet ReCOLLECTED (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Approaching Greek graphic novels as a site for both artistic innovation and social critique, ReCOLLECTED sheds light on ways in which comics can inform our views on present-day cultural landscapes and engage with broader social issues pertaining to the role of popular culture and cultural heritage in shaping identity and redrawing the boundaries of national belonging. The aim of the project is two-fold. Firstly, it aims to assess what led to the boom of comics in the Greek cultural field over the past decade and identify any shared patterns and characteristics of these comics. Secondly, the project will then use this data to propose categories and conceptual tools that comics can offer for cultivating alternative visions for tackling contemporary problems. In order to reach these aims, ReCOLLECTED relies on an interdisciplinary methodology, combining tools and insights from comics studies with anthropology, cultural analysis, data visualization. The project will develop in close collaboration with comics artists themselves in order to integrate their own perspectives into the framework and in hope to spur debate in the field as well as new directions in comics practice as a result of this collaborative effort. Skills and training gained at UvA in advanced methods for combining ethnographic data and close-reading of cultural texts, conducting interviews and data visualization will ensure that the project contributes to cultural innovation within Greece as well as responds to the latest developments within the transnational field of comics studies.

Mots clés : comics and graphic novels, cultural analysis, greek crisis, popular culture

Participants :
- Université d'Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 187624.32 €
Projet MESE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed our shared vulnerability to isolation, serving as a reminder that relations of marginalization and exclusion constitute significant obstacles to the achievement of a society in which everyone can fully participate and stand in relations of equality with each other. Moreover, empirical research has shown that marginalised individuals are being disproportionately disadvantaged by the Coronavirus emergency in several ways: they are the target of stigmatization and discrimination. And, although they are more likely to experience mental health issues and are typically exposed to serious health risks, they are not provided access to the same degree of medical care as other members of society. The current socio-political state of affairs, then, vividly illustrates how persons' vulnerability to social exclusion is one of the most pressing social justice challenges that liberal democracies must face. Building on my previous research on the justification and the value of equality, in this project I will contribute to the Horizon Europe strategic plan towards "creating a more resilient, inclusive and democratic European society" by developing the first-ever comprehensive liberal egalitarian theory of vulnerability to social exclusion in analytical political philosophy. This theory will define the rights that marginalized individuals have to be fully included as equals in society and identify the social arrangements that the state ought to put in place in order to ameliorate their social condition. In our current pluralist and diverse societies the call for social equality is ubiquitous but its precise meaning is contested. By providing an account of what shape equality takes when applied to socially marginalized groups, this research will thus fill an important theoretical and normative gap when thinking about what a just society owes to its most vulnerable members if they are to be considered and treated as equals.

Mots clés : liberalism social equality social exclusion vulnerability public policy

Participants :
- Université d'Hambourg (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 173847.36 €