Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet NTSITIMEH (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : TERMINATED

Over geological times, the evolution of carbon isotope compositions of carbonates (δ13Ccarb) in sedimentary record highlights many positive isotopic excursions (CIEs), reflecting significant perturbations of the carbon cycle in Earth surface environments. Although generally interpreted as a consequence of an increase of organic carbon burial in sediments, the lack of high organic carbon content, as well as the strong spatial and temporal variability, observed in many sedimentary successions recording CIEs challenge this postulate. Among other alternative hypothesis involving regional or local control, the potential influence of methanogenesis, i.e. the biological process of anaerobic organic matter degradation producing methane (CH4), has been raised; its ability to generate similar isotopic signatures has been demonstrated in modern analogue. Although the processes behind CIEs are questioned, providing more information about methanogenesis impact is challenging based on traditional isotopic tool like δ13Ccarb, as its isotopic effect on is similar to that of organic carbon burial increase. Recently, stable isotope compositions of metals used as enzymatic cofactors of CH4-related processes were investigated to explore their potential as biomarkers of methanogenesis. During the last decade, significant advances have been made on using Ni isotopes as tracers of methanogenesis but important challenges remain to better constrains both their potential and limit. In order to improve our understanding of CH4 cycle and its impact on Earth’s surface environments through geological times, we will investigate further the potential of Ni isotopes and its potential couplings with traditional stable isotope in various modern settings and past environments to enhance our ability to track and discriminate the influence of CH4-related processes through Earth’s history.


Participants :
- Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 232000.56 €
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet ISDT (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Photovoltaic (PV) generators have been established as one of the most important renewable energy sources in the last years and they will have a main role in the energy transition that is envisaged for the coming years according to the European Union Recovery Plan and the Green Deal. However, PV panels may suffer early degradation and failures that affect the PV system reliability and considerably reduce the energy production, not only on a specific panel but in the entire string to which the panel is connected. Therefore, it is important to develop diagnostic tools to improve energy yield, extend the lifetime of the panels, and improve the effectiveness of maintenance activities. Hence, this project aims to develop an online monitoring and diagnostic system, for PV panels, that uses the impedance spectrum (IS) to detect failures while they are operating at their maximum power point (MPP). Therefore, there isn’t a reduction in the power produced by the generator and the measurements can be performed within short time frames to detect the failures as soon as possible. The proposed diagnostic tool will be formed by an electronic device and a failure classification algorithm running on an embedded system. Hence, the project begins with the design and implementation of the electronic device to generate the signals and implement the measurements required to obtain the IS. Then, the project continues with the development of a failure classification algorithm from the analysis of the PV generator dynamic model parameters (DMP), which are estimated using the ISs obtained with the proposed electronic device. Finally, the diagnostic tool will be experimentally validated with PV panels of different technologies and with real failures.

Mots clés : failure classification algorithm dynamic model parameters embedded system design hardware implementation experiments with different technologies

Participants :
- Université de Salerne (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 188590.08 €
- Université de Malaga (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet SMART (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : TERMINATED

SMART is at a novel intersection between cognitive developmental neuroscience, neuroeducation, mobile health promotion, human brain connectivity, and art appreciation & creation fields. The motivation behind SMART is, first, the increase in usage of smart devices/social media platforms (SM), paired with a reduction in the age of first exposure to these platforms; and second, the focus of neuroscientific research on negative effects of their overuse, despite the evidenced positive influences that SM hold (boosting social interaction, creativity, health promotion). Reported negative influences include alterations on executive functions, cognitive & emotional control, and an increased risk of developing depression and anxiety throughout adolescence/adulthood. Nevertheless, effects of overuse of SM during development are influenced by different factors, with the type of activities/interactions playing a crucial role. SMART’s main goal is to apply art-related interventions to transform the use of SM by adolescents, while seeking to overcome the negative implications linked to the excessive ‘passive’ use of these platforms, at brain, cognitive & mental health levels. Art-based interventions have previously proven to strengthen the same brain networks and functions most frequently impaired due to SM passive overuse. Our artistic interventions will engage participants in more stimulating/intellectual SM activities, reducing the passive overuse, and potentially promoting cultural practices that reduce overall use/dependency of SM. Novelty is granted by using a digital art creation approach (no classical art training), involving daily used devices & motivating environments, and the combination of multimethodological data to study the brain mechanisms behind potential cognitive & emotional changes induced by the interventions. Conclusions from SMART may promote artistic activities/professions, inspire education programs and policy, and be applied to improve academic outcomes.

Mots clés : brain connectivity adolescents cognition emotion neuroprotection social media artistic trainings music intervention visual arts intervention cognitive control mental health transfer effects

Participants :
- Université de New York (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université complutense de Madrid (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 302708.88 €
- Société Max-Planck pour le développement des sciences (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Adhera health slu (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
Projet CoFis (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Despite their crucial role, Small-Scale Fisheries (SSF) in the Mediterranean face numerous challenges with lack of quality data, decline in their numbers and growing competition with other maritime activities among others. In an attempt to solve these problems and secure SSF, several international policy initiatives and research focus has been paid in the last decades. Currently, there are multiple methodologies to gain knowledge on them by assessing their status and simulating scenarios of change. However, the involvement of stakeholders in their construction and the integration of the social dimension remains highly poor. CoFis aims to enhance North-West Mediterranean SSF status by co-constructing fishery indicators and socio-bio-economic models together with fishery stakeholders. To carry out this research, the fellow relies on her background and the extraordinary resources provided by host expertise on fishery science, indicators and ecosystem models. This project will enable Dr. Cánovas-Molina to broaden her expertise on fishery science, to learn new methodologies for SSF improvement of status as well as to meet future challenges on stakeholder engagement in fishery science and management. This combination of expertise is unique, multidisciplinary and multisector, and thus will be a milestone in Dr. Cánovas-Molina career towards an independent scientist of high international visibility.

Mots clés : small scale fisheries stakeholder engagement fishery indicators bio economic models mediterranean

Participants :
- Institut de recherche pour le développement (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 242260.56 €
Projet ROBIN-HOOD (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

While climate change is the emerging threat, overfishing has been the primary driver of biodiversity loss in the oceans over the past decade and remains so today. Our current understanding is biased towards the most commercially significant species, which are usually well-studied and managed. The lack of data hinders effective conservation and management of marine resources, exacerbating the biodiversity crisis and threatening food security and income in many countries in the Global South. The goal of my project is to elucidate how exploited and threatened species, whether rich or poor in data, respond to the cumulative effects of environmental changes and human activities (primarily fishing) to promote sustainable management of natural resources, especially in the Global South countries that depend on them. My research project will focus mainly on sharks and rays distributed in the tropical Atlantic zone—westward, from the Caribbean to Brazil, and eastward, in the Gulf of Guinea (from Senegal to Gabon)—and will be based on the "Robin Hood" approach. This approach, integrating fundamental ecological concepts, will allow "borrowing" information from data-rich species to improve the estimation of population trajectories for all species, especially those lacking data. This new simultaneous understanding of life histories and demographic processes will be the first step toward understanding the mechanisms determining equilibrium population size, estimating historical and future population sizes, species extinction risk, and fisheries management points. My research project aligns with the major European research initiatives (EU Biodiversity 2030) and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, particularly SDG 14 of the 2030 Agenda on the conservation and sustainable use of oceans. It supports the transition from traditional single-species fisheries management to a community and ecosystem-based approach, including bycatch species.

Mots clés : spatiotemporal population dynamic community data limited integrated approach sharks and rays life history traits fisheries management conservation

Participants :
- Institut de recherche pour le développement (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 226420.56 €
Projet IsotopAmor (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Past environmental conditions (e.g., temperature) cannot be directly measured. However, they are recorded in a measurable way in paleoclimate proxies, which are physical, chemical and biological materials preserved within the geological record in paleoenvironmental archives, and that can be analyzed and correlated with environmental parameters. Carbonates are one of the most important paleoenvironmental archives as they record the formation environmental conditions in their chemical and isotopic composition. However, to use them as paleoenvironmental proxies is essential that the original signatures are preserved. It has been reported that the formation of many carbonates from different geological settings involves the precipitation of amorphous precursors (non-classical nucleation pathways) and their subsequent transformation into crystalline phases. This formation pathway could modify the original signatures restricting the use of carbonates as paleoenvironmental proxies. Yet, the effects on the isotopic composition of carbonate minerals due to phase transitions from amorphous precursors have been largely overlooked compared to the modifications due to diagenetic or depositional processes. Then, the main goal of the project is understanding how different pathways and transformation mechanisms of amorphous precursors control the isotopic composition of the final crystalline polymorph. This aim will be tackled under two approaches abiotic and biogenic conditions and combining mineralogical, microbiological and geochemical tools. The results could generate new guidelines for optimizing paleoclimate reconstructions using ancient carbonate minerals. This project, its impact and outcome, as well as the training in cutting-edge techniques I will get in the host and secondment host laboratories, complementary to my expertise and transferable skills, will transform me in an independent, highly competitive researcher helping me to obtain a stable scientific position.

Mots clés : amorphous calcium carbonate, isotope chemistry, biomineralization

Participants :
- Sorbonne Université (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Grenade (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 165312.96 €
- Université technique de Graz (Autriche) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
Projet MAP (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Recent research highlights a need of deeper understanding of the nature of language competence and the development of this competence under heritage language bi- and multilingualism. Heritage speakers (HSs) is a population highly diverse in terms of their linguistic competence and its development. Multilingual Acquisition and Processing (MAP): Heritage Russian in Spain will provide an examination of Russian Heritage Language (HL) grammar in a previously unstudied socio-linguistic context focusing in particular on the patterns of cross-linguistic interaction at early and most unstable stages of multilingual language development. The overall research objective is to discover the patterns of language acquisition and language processing in order to find out how multilingual minds deploy their developing grammatical knowledge and how they detect and access the linguistic (morpho-syntactic) mechanisms from their two co-existing languages in real-time. The proposed empirical study will investigate the effects of linguistic proximity, individual experiential factors and the developmental patterns of cross-linguistic influence in child bilingualism. Heritage Russian in Spain will be studied with a focus on 3-7-year-old children in order to examine developmental trajectories in both languages. On the theoretical level, MAP will significantly contribute to the development of a model of heritage language grammar and add to a sub-field of multilingualism studies, Heritage Language Acquisition, by showing the patterns of cross-linguistic interaction at early stages of multilingual Russian-Spanish development. On a societal and education level, project findings will be relevant for policy makers, teachers, school principals and HSs communities in European countries. To date, most heritage language studies have focused exclusively on the minority language, MAP will fill an important gap by focusing on both languages.

Mots clés : multilingualism, heritage language acquisition, cross linguistic influence, comprehension, production, online processing, russian, spanish

Participants :
- Université de Tromsø (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 210911.04 €
- Nebrija University (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet SOLUTION (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Among several advanced oxidation techniques, photoelectrochemical oxidation (PEC) by bismuth vanadate (BiVO4) processes where both electrical (electrochemical oxidation) and light (photocatalysis) energy are synergistically harnessed to degrade organic contaminants has received major attention due to its excellent resistance to photocatalytic corrosion, narrow band structure, and low cost. However, high charge recombination, caused by nanoporous BiVO4 photoanodes weakens the charge transport, and this could be improved by introducing surface modification using quaternary ammonium compounds (QACs). The proposed Fellowship–Sustainable Options for Liquidwaste Utilization Through Innovative OxidatioN (SOLUTION) offers a novel photoanode material and fabrication technique in a peroxymonosulfate (PMS) system using surface-modified BiVO4 (Q-BiVO4) to remove emerging contaminants such as poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs), pharmaceuticals, including antibiotics from WATCH list and antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) in secondary treated wastewater (sewage) effluent. SOLUTION also meets SDG 6 set by United Nations. Modelling of the PEC system and subsequent lifecycle analysis will facilitate EU industries to produce water for safe use through an eco-friendly and sustainable route, thus preserving the environment’s biodiversity. The Fellowship will also train the researcher in a broad range of techniques that will expand his research portfolio by undergoing intensive training on material characterization, electrode fabrication, modelling, and life cycle analysis at TU Delft, Netherlands. This training, combined with his strong background in analytical environmental chemistry, and wastewater treatment, will significantly expand his skill set, generating a highly valued researcher in the promising European wastewater treatment sector. The project will also enable long-term collaborations between the Fellow’s previous institutes and the EU.

Mots clés : emerging contaminants, photoelectrochemical oxidation, ppcp, pfas, surface modified bivo4

Participants :
- Université de technologie de Delft (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 234530.4 €
- Stichting waternet (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet SUMOCell (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Post-translational modifications by SUMO (Small Ubiquitin-like MOdifier) modulate protein activity through regulation of subcellular localization, protein activity and stability, and protein-protein interactions. In plants, SUMO is essential during seed development, modulates hormone signaling, and biotic/abiotic stress responses. Several studies point to a nuclear enrichment of SUMO conjugation machinery, which is consistent with a preferential nuclear localization of the SUMO targets. Nonetheless, non–nuclear targets exist and the molecular mechanisms that mediate their modification remain elusive. Dr Lois’s group has uncovered a novel regulatory mechanism consisting of the processing of the C-terminus of the SUMO E1-activating enzyme large subunit, SAE2. Processed SAE2 partially localize to the cytosol and the processing activity is prominent at the transition between embryo growth and seed maturation. Accumulation of SAE2 in the cytosol promotes cytosolic SUMOylation and behave as a signal for growth arrest, suggesting that SAE2 processing could contribute to finalising embryogenesis. SUMOCell aims to uncover the signals that trigger SAE2 cytosolic localization and the cellular responses activated by cytosolic SUMOylation. First, with Duke University partner, we will study SAE2 subcellular dynamics using super-resolution microscopy, under hormone treatments and stress challenges. Second, we will study the physiological processes regulated by SAE2 localization to the cytosol. For that, we will perform single-cell RNAseq studies from cells enriched in cytosolic SAE2. Bioinformatics analysis will be carried out by a placement at Sequentia SL. Finally, we will analyse physiological parameters related to seed quality. Data obtained from cell studies, transcriptomics and seed performance will be integrated in a signalling model to understand the role of cytosolic SUMO conjugation in seed development, providing a multidisciplinar training program.

Mots clés : sumo, arabidopsis, nucleocytosolic partitioning, super resolution imaging

Participants :
- Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Autres, subvention : 330428.88 €
- Université Duke (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Sequentia biotech sl (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €