Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet MOTHERING (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Many depictions of motherhood in 20th-century European media fall under what Susan Maushart described as the “mask of motherhood” (3). With this expression, she refers to narratives that envision motherhood as healthy and unproblematic. However, since the last decade of the 20th century, this situation has changed, where maternity has become a controversial subject, and discussions over issues such as ambivalence towards the child, sterility, and maternal stress are conspicuous in different media. This is where the planned project, which regards motherhood as a central question in gender studies, picks up. Despite this increased visibility, many maternal experiences do not fall under the category of “normal” in normative societal discourses, and mothers affected by them are portrayed as ill or unfit. “Abnormal” motherhood encompasses practices that lie outside “... the limits of a norm previously established by hegemonic thinking; and, vice versa, normality is what remains after establishing the edges of the abnormality” (Huertas 26). Taking Spain as the main case of study, I analyze 20th and 21st-century films of mother-child relationships deemed “abnormal” and “sick,” characterized by sterility, poverty, and anxiety, in contrast to “normal” motherhood, imagined as fertile, healthy, and unproblematic.

Mots clés : motherhood, normative, spain, sickness

Participants :
- Université de Vienne (Autriche) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 199440.96 €
Projet HomoClassicisms (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Contemporary lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) movements actively engage with the past. Through archival selection and historiographical accounts, they construct, interpret, and preserve their collective identities. The proposed project, HomoClassicisms, focuses specifically on the cases of LGBTQ movements in Greece, the UK, and the US. Its research goal is to address, through the use of innovative qualitative methodologies from a Southern epistemological perspective, the position of classical antiquity in LGBTQ historiographies. The project aims to investigate whether the movements might become complicit with racialised narratives of identity formation in their articulation of particular pasts. Embracing a bottom-up approach, the project adopts an intersectional and interdisciplinary perspective to map, understand, and critically analyse longstanding omissions in LGBTQ historiographies. Indeed, this is a timely and urgent undertaking. In light of transnational migration and demographic dynamics currently challenging Western societies, investigating who is included and who is excluded within LGBTQ historiographies becomes a critical project. The project thus firmly aligns with the fourth key strategic orientation of Horizon Europe (HE): Creating a more resilient, inclusive and democratic European society. The project’s publication plan includes four peer-reviewed articles. Its extensive impact involves engaged modes of dissemination with international LGBTQ communities, archivists, policymakers, and the general public, following HE’s paradigm change from an activity-driven to an impact-driven approach. The fellow will acquire the necessary skills and research mentoring to analyse intersectional inequalities in relation to politicised uses of the past in a transnational context and to inform, enrich, and challenge theoretical debates originating from Global North over LGBTQ historiography, providing policy-relevant results.

Mots clés : classical antiquity, lgbtq movements, lgbtq historiography, epistemologies of the south

Participants :
- Université d'État de l'Ohio (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Coimbra (Portugal) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 257113.44 €
- London School of Economics and Political Science (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet OMHI (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

OMHI aims to complicate hegemonic and linear understandings of ‘modernisation’ in India’s 20th-century urban and architectural historiography by tapping into the experience of lesser studied and often marginalized actors who built India’s modern cities. Investigations of urban transformation as it occurred on the ground, rather than on the drawing table, will provide new insights into how building practice was (or was not) shaped by the interplay between local building traditions and aspirations, and (neo)colonial influences, as they intersected with the major social, economic, and political developments of high modernity, including India’s Independence in 1947. The project focuses on the city of Pune (1917-1992) and involves uncelebrated architects, building contractors, engineers, and construction workers (and their descendants) in a process of participatory knowledge making that examines two unusual datasets: photographs and oral recollections. The historiographical objective is to identify changes and continuities in construction work and their implications for architectural change. Methodologically, the project will advance the state of the art in construction historiography by testing novel participatory techniques for data collection and interpretation, both in digital and analogue form. Such methods are highly needed to reveal more plural histories that include perspectives ‘from below’. OMHI integrates research and training, while ensuring reciprocal knowledge transfers. It is shaped by interdisciplinary and intersectoral collaborations that will significantly expand my global network and train me in new, cutting-edge skills in the field of (post)colonial architectural history: digital humanities, visual analysis, and open science. Collected data will be digitally archived to stimulate long-term cooperation between South Asian and European scholars from different research fields related to the built environment, cultural studies, and postcolonial studies.

Mots clés : construction history, construction photography,  post colonial architecture,  british india, community archiving

Participants :
- Flame University (Inde) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Curating for culture (Inde) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 265694.4 €
Projet NANOBOOSTER (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The urgent need to reach EU independence from fossil fuel imports, decarbonization and circular economy encourages the development of sustainable technologies for the production of biofuels and high added-value products. Photobiorefineries are a promising platform to produce biofuels and high added-value products. However, the low algal biomass productivities typically limit their application. NANOBOOSTER will engineer a high-performance photobiorefinery based on the addition of nanoparticles (NPs) to boost Haematococcus pluvialis metabolism, resulting in a biomethane that meets the EN 16723 standard (CH4>95%, CO2<2%) along with enhanced astaxanthin productivities. NANOBOOSTER will address two key scientific challenges: the elucidation of the mechanisms of interaction between NPs and microalgae and the single-stage production of astaxanthin. Overcoming the first challenge will allow the synthesis of tailored NPs to boost H. pluvialis growth and astaxanthin content. Then, the optimal conditions of temperature, light, pH, NPs and NH4+ concentration will be determined at lab-scale. These conditions will be validated in an indoors single-stage continuous system using real centrate as a culture broth, which will be pretreated via selective NH3 membrane permeation to achieve optimal NH3 concentration for astaxanthin accumulation. The process will be optimized to reach an upgraded biomethane with CH4 >95% and CO2<2%, and astaxanthin contents of 10%. Finally, the process will be validated under outdoor conditions at demo scale to assess its techno-economic feasibility and draft a business roadmap. NANOBOOSTER will position photosynthetic biogas upgrading as a cost-effective process easy to implement in the biogas sector. The fellow, Dr. Vargas, will conduct this action at the Institute of Sustainable Processes of University of Valladolid under the supervision of Dr. Muñoz, with secondments at Calpech and the University of Almería under the supervision of Dr. Gabriel Acién.

Mots clés : pigment production photobiorefinery biomethane microalgae biogas upgrading

Participants :
- Calpech (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Valladolid (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 165312.96 €
- Université d'Almeria (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet T-REX (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The realm of topological photonics relies on extreme flexibility of optical media for sculpting Hamiltonians with arbitrary properties in real and synthetic dimensions. Topological effects in the optical domain can provide robust waveguiding and stable lasing, which is of extreme interest for integrated photonics. A powerful tool to imprint topological properties is periodic Floquet driving, which maps the energy bands onto a periodic quasienergy spectrum. Even richer physics was predicted to emerge if interactions are added into the system. However, the experimental studies of interacting Floquet matter remained scarce due to absence of suitable platforms. This project relies on a system of coupled fiber rings to realize a synthetic lattice for the study of interacting topological Floquet phases. This platform provides a unique combination of intrinsic Floquet nature due to periodicity of the light propagation in rings, full control over complex couplings, and tunable Kerr nonlinearities in the fibers, thus allowing to engineer many-body Floquet Hamiltonians and study topological physics inaccessible with other systems. Based on these unique features, the action aims at demonstration of novel topological Floquet phases and topological pumping in presence of interactions. This project stays at the cornerstone between topological physics, photonics, and nonlinear fiber optics, and perfectly fits the applicant’s experience for preparing him for a future career as an independent researcher.

Mots clés : topological photonics, floquet driving, topological pumping, many body hamiltonians, nonlinear fiber optics

Participants :
- Université de Lille (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 211754.88 €
Projet SCI-PHIL (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

SCI-PHIL provides an in-depth historical and theoretical account of the rise and fall of the ideal of ‘scientific philosophy’ (SP) in Europe from the mid 19th century, when the notion emerged, to the 1930s, with the first international congresses on SP, and WW II, which put an end to the project. It focuses primarily on five geographical areas: France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, England and Italy, with a foray into the Russian context.It is original in two senses: (1) It accounts for a neglected chapter in the history of European philosophy in all its transnational and transcultural scope, as part of a multi-faceted process of articulation of a European intellectual space at times characterized by the conflicting pulls of political nationalism and scientific internationalization and tragically punctuated by two world wars; (2) It focuses on a decisive historical moment wherein the problem of relations between philosophy and the sciences emerged in its current configuration and constituted a burning issue that concerned the very scope and vocation of philosophy itself. Indeed, from the 1930s onwards, with Nazi-fascism and WWII, a sharp fracture between philosophy and science occurred, worsened by the Cold War years. Today, in our age of specialist fragmentation, the stakes in bridging this rift have never been higher. Can philosophy contribute to mending the fragmentation of knowledge or is it destined to merely be one discipline amongst others? More than a century ago, scientific philosophers were asking exactly this kind of question. In fact, SP is not merely an antiquated locution to indicate what we now mean by ‘epistemology’ or ‘philosophy of science’, which are specialized fields in the current academic division of labour. On the contrary, it denoted the high hopes of thinkers who, overcoming the two cultures divide, intended to take seriously the revolutionary scientific breakthroughs and set up a new beginning for philosophy, reshaping its scope and methods.

Mots clés : scientific philosophy, neo kantianism, french epistemology, phenomenology, logical positivism, twentieth century european philosophy

Participants :
- Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Ca' Foscari de Venise (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 256442.88 €
- Université de Vienne (Autriche) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet T-PROTECT (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Temporary Protection Regimes in the European Union, the Unites States of America, Mexico and South Africa: The Lived Realities of Liminal Legality, Chronic Exile and Sustainable Alternatives (T-PROTECT) is an interdisciplinary study of the turn towards temporality and eventual return of refugees in the global migration and asylum regime. Temporary protection (TP) has been increasingly adopted across multiple countries either to displace the refugee status determination process defined under the 1951 Convention and 1976 Protocol for the large-scale arrivals or as an alternative for who may not qualify for asylum but are nonetheless fleeing potentially dangerous situations. Taking on the challenge of analysing the underlying motivations behind states’ turn towards temporary protection measures to govern migration and asylum, T-PROTECT examines how living under temporary protection regimes is shaping the life of third country nationals in USA, Mexico and SA, focusing on their access to rights and services, and the broader impact of these processes on their well-being. Furthermore T-PROTECT aims to reveal the sustainable alternatives to temporary protection that include and go beyond effective pathways for asylum applications, regularisation and socio-economic inclusion, analysing their potential for transferability to the European context. Despite widespread use over the past years, a comprehensive understanding of TP regimes remains under-researched. This project will challenge the dual narrative that TP either undermines asylum rights or provides practical solutions through an innovative theoretical framework. Under the guidance of esteemed scholars like Prof. Olga Jubany (UB), Prof. Megan Bradley (McGill), and Prof. Fatima Khan (UCT), the fellowship will support my career goal of securing a tenure-track position in social anthropology at the University of Barcelona, or another leading university in Europe.

Mots clés : temporary protection asylum and migration policies liminality legal precarity differential participation lived realities european union united states south africa

Participants :
- Université McGill (Canada) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Barcelone (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 341898.72 €
- Université du Cap (Afrique du Sud) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet SMIIWA (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

This study examines the role of female fashion influencers in Cameroon. Although the fashion industry in Africa is amongst the fastest growing globally, most studies of social media influencers not only overlook Africa but also understand economic value solely in financial terms. Yet, unlike Western influencers, young Cameroonian women seeking to create influencer positions and build their brands must engage in distribution offline – of advice, images, garments, money – to reward followers for their work of advertising their styles. As such they are constructing a unique influencer economy that differs radically from the Western models on which the existing literature is disproportionately focused. This study thus asks what counts as economic and other value for social media influencers in the Cameroonian influencer economy and how these values, and thus the economy, is created and sustained. Through participant observation, semi-structured interviews and netnography, this project investigates the redistributive practices of young Cameroonian female social media influencers building networks of followers, sharing images, and building brands. As the first fully-fledged study of fashion influencer economies in/from West Africa the project examines models of valuation underpinning influencer economies based on redistirbution in view of fostering new areas of interdisciplinary and decolonial research on alternatives to the formal digital economy. I shall carry out the fellowship at the University of Cape Town (UCT), under the supervision of Prof. Divine Fuh, and University College London (UCL), under the supervision of Prof. Daniel Miller.

Mots clés : women, work, redistribution, social media influencer economies, digital economy, cameroon, west africa

Participants :
- University College de Londres (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 301142.76 €
- Université du Cap (Afrique du Sud) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet RISESWCS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : TERMINATED

The essential role of digital technologies in modern society together with the profound changes introduced are reflected in the second “Digital Agenda for Europe: 2020-2030” which is focused on radically improving digital infrastructure and providing ubiquitous public services by 2030 through gigabit connectivity in a low cost manner. This project considers low cost reconfigurable intelligent surfaces based energy harvesting sustainable wireless communication system (RISESWCS) for substantially improving the physical layer and medium access layer performance of the future wireless communication systems. Moreover, this project will provide a practical feasibility study for employing low cost RISs as a radio access network technology for a large scale wireless powered communication network with wideband transmissions. The project will systematically begin with the analysis, optimization of the RISESWCS at the physical layer and provide the performance analysis and optimization techniques for improving the data rate, coverage and energy efficiency at the physical layer. In this step, the practical aspect of the project will be ensured by carrying out the analysis and optimization by incorporating the realistic scenario into the system model which include imperfection in the channel state information, centralized overhead information unavailability and dependence of the reflecting angles in RIS elements on impinging frequencies. Then, the research will be extended to incorporate the medium access layer (MAC) for providing a holistic view for the large RISESWCS. In particular, MAC layer techniques, in terms of resource block allocations, scheduling and routing mechanisms, will be developed while considering the requirements of 6G wireless networks in terms of different fundamental performance metrics of MAC layer such as collision probability, packet loss and delay. Finally, the project will summarize the feasibility conditions for deploying RISESWCS in a real scenario.

Mots clés : reconfigurable intelligent surface, radio frequency energy harvesting, wireless communication systems

Participants :
- Université de Tampere (Finlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 215534.4 €
- Université de Vigo (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet OverTheWaters (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The Roman conquest, occupation and dominion over a large part of current Europe and beyond marked a strong change in social, cultural and economic patterns in the area. Two of the most important and lasting changes were the establishment of a new transport network and the large-scale development of cities. Connectivity continues to be seen as an essential factor in the analysis of the spread of urbanisation, migration, the ancient economy, and the transmission of ideas. In Antiquity connectivity could only be achieved via movement by land, river and sea, and had to rely on the available transport network. While roads have been extensively investigated and they have been reconstructed in detail in provinces such as Hispania, Galia and Britannia, to date, no analysis of Roman movement and communication has incorporated navigable rivers, lakes, canals and sea transport. Orbis, the only open geospatial tool for the analysis of Roman transport, only incorporates a few major rivers and a very simple network of sea routes, which pales in comparison with the number of sea and river quays, harbours and ports archaeologically documented. Both epigraphy and classical reliefs and texts indicate Romans developed, maintained and extended the network of inland waterways. Water transport was the preferred mode of transport for goods in bulk whenever possible as it was much cheaper than road transport and constituted the basis of international commerce. OverTheWaters will reconstruct waterways and sea routes of the Western Roman Empire using big data and advanced computational methods in order to understand the importance of water movement, transport and shipbuilding technology and how it influenced the development of urban centres acting as commercial hubs and consumption and redistribution foci.

Mots clés : roman, transport, waterways, network analysis, gis, computational archaeology

Participants :
- Université polytechnique de Catalogne (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 165312.96 €