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

To this day, and even in Europe, gender balance in decision-making remains a goal to be achieved. This condition has historical roots, and the power of informal leadership still remains to be investigated further. The predominantly male European republics of the modern age were careful to mark gender boundaries, excluding women from the direct exercising of power. In republican contexts, unlike queens, princesses, and duchesses, the consorts of the men in power did not have the privilege of providing the heir to the throne, so traditional historiography has generally considered their role to be very marginal, if not entirely irrelevant. The aim of the project is to challenge this established idea, using new sources and an innovative interdisciplinary methodological approach. Considering, from a comparative perspective, two Italian republics that maintained their independence until the end of the 18th century (Venice, Genoa), the investigation will examine the prominence of the Doges' wives and female relatives, the creation and use of gendered spaces, the purchase and placement of furnishings in public and private apartments, and the display strategies pursued. Particular attention will be given to clothing, jewellery and objects in contact with the body. Alongside written sources, iconographic sources and objects preserved in museums will be analysed, taking into account the sensory dimension and the three-dimensionality of things. The aim is to go beyond the limits of written sources and traditional historiography, focusing on material culture, in order to re-evaluate the identity and role of women in republican political contexts, to define their sphere of influence and agency, to grasp their attempts to negotiate power and their strategies to promote private and public interests, and to bring to light their contribution to the - still open - path towards gender equality.

Mots clés : early modern europe european republics, dogi, dogaresse, palazzo ducale, material culture, gender and politics, objects

Participants :
- Fondazione musei civici di venezia (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Chicago (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Vérone (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 288859.2 €
Projet RE-RIGHTING (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The scene of the trial has always been at the core of feminist theories and practices of law, since it has often been identified as the space in which women’s voices and bodies could break into the legal scene in order to claim for justice. The project aims to broaden our gaze of the legal scene adopting a new perspective: those of women who, even if they are not the main legal actors (judges, lawyers, plaintiffs), engage with the language of rights in order to re-tell, re-write or re-stage a trial from their situated position. Their voices do not limit to narrate the event of the trial, but actually perform a retrial with the dual aim of highlighting the failure of the legal language in doing justice, and offering alternative possibilities to regenerate and re-signify it. From Arendt’s pioneering “report” on the Eichmann trial to the experiences of Women’s Courts, these both critical and creative practices are disseminated in the feminist field, but they have never been studied together. Through the newly defined concept of Legal Narra(c)tors, this ambitious and timely project aims to produce the first study of these narrative and performative practices of retrial, which have the merit of promoting a critical but not “fatalistic” approach to justice using as starting point of the reasoning – in line with the feminist situated knowledge – the story of a case rather than a theoretical abstraction. The main objective of the project is threefold: (1) empirically, to build an archive of feminist narrative and performative practices of retrial; (2) conceptually, to provide a definition and a theoretical framework for the new expression “Legal Narra(c)tors”; (3) normatively, to explore how main legal categories such as equality, difference, recognition, gender, subject (of rights), victim, witness, truth (and truth-seeking), and reparation are re-signified by these practices.

Mots clés : feminist justice counter narratives politics of resignification political trial law and narrative law and performativity legal storytelling women s tribunals

Participants :
- Université de Vérone (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 172750.08 €
Projet TaQC (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Quantum processes hold tremendous potential for the development of novel technologies, as epitomized by the recent proliferation of commercially available quantum devices. To date, most research and innovation in the field has focused on spatial quantum effects – most prominently entanglement -- leaving quantum effects in time an as-of-yet untapped resource. Progress in understanding such effects has been hindered by the inherent complexity of quantum memory and the lack of an adequate conceptual framework. This, in turn, has prevented the development of tools to probe, predict and compress general quantum processes. This action aims to overcome these hurdles and answer the following fundamental questions: What kinds of quantum memory effects are physically possible? How can they be efficiently probed? How can predictive models for quantum processes be constructed? Answers to these questions will be obtained by combining a novel, fully-general approach to the dynamics of open quantum systems, with a proven, systematic construction of memory-minimal models of classical phenomena. The ensuing framework and tools will engender bounds on the strength and distribution of quantum memory, enable the construction of predictive models for complex quantum processes, and render their characterization experimentally tractable. These crucial innovations will pave the way to a reconceptualization of quantum information processing that provides the means to harness the full potential of quantum processes, both in space and time. As a result, the outcomes of the action are expected to find long-term application in a wide array of fields, ranging from quantum information to complexity theory and bio-chemical processes.  The research will be carried out at Trinity College Dublin, in the perfectly suited group of Felix Binder, who is a leading expert working at the interface of quantum thermodynamics, classical complexity theory and quantum information theory.

Mots clés : entanglement in time, quantum complexity, efficient tomography

Participants :
- Trinity College (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 199694.4 €
Projet RASS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The appropriate management of major industrial risks requires the employment of advanced safety systems that can ensure an acceptable protection level for the workers, the surrounding population and the environment. Such an employment is practically an entire process that follows the lifecycle of those systems to ensure not only their ability to perform their intended functions but also to reduce the side effects of their integration into the system, which can be serious on many levels including safety itself. The main objectives of this project are: 1. Develop an adequate framework to handle the uncertainty involved in the quantification of the main measures in the reliability assessment of safety systems, with the proposition of a practical implementation tool that facilitates its application by the associated engineers. 2. Specify the nature of the systematic failures and their relationships with random failures and extract the contribution of the human and organizational factors, with an analysis of the possible differences between the different involved characteristics. 3. Propose and validate quantitative systematic safety integrity indicators that can be used in parallel and in consistency with those classical random-side measures to allocate the safety requirements and to assess the performance of the safety systems in a balanced manner. 4. Propose a coherent sub-phase in the overall safety lifecycle, which concerns the quantitative analysis aspects using a combination of the results of those treated points in addition to some other currently accepted practices in reliability assessments of safety systems. The main results and their places in the existing lifecycle models and safety management frameworks will be arranged as a sub-phase of the safety lifecycle, in particular those associated with the quantitative treatment of uncertainty and systematic failures aiming to contribute in enhancing assessment of the reliability of safety systems.

Mots clés : quantitative risk assessment, expert elicitation, bayesian learning, functional safety

Participants :
- Trinity College (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 199694.4 €
Projet M3LBM (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SUSPENDED

Despite being a promising clean energy alternative to fossil fuels, proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) suffer from significant energy losses as waste heat. Furthermore, the electrochemical reaction in the fuel cell produce water, which can accumulate in the microporous layer and gas diffusion layer (MPL-GDL). Inadequate heat and water management can lead to severe performance issues in PEMFCs, including membrane dehydration, ohmic losses, material degradation, and electrode flooding.  Existing research often treats water transport and heat transfer separately, neglecting the complex interplay between these factors. Moreover, the gas flow within the porous MPL-GDL approaches the slip regime, where gas rarefaction effects become significant and traditional assumptions about velocity at the solid boundary no longer hold. This has a substantial impact on the multiphase thermal flow phenomena within the MPL-GDL.  To gain a deeper understanding of these phenomena and develop strategies for improved PEMFC performance, this study proposes a comprehensive numerical investigation using the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). LBM’s kinetic and particle-based approach has proven effective for modeling a wide range of complex fluid flows, including multiphase, nanofluid, magnetohydrodynamic, and complex flows at mesoscopic levels. By incorporating both flow and heat transfer, along with the consideration of gas rarefaction effects, this research aims to provide valuable insights into the behavior of the porous MPL-GDL and inform the design of enhanced materials and structures.

Mots clés : lattice boltzmann method, multi phase flow, micro scale flow and heat transfer

Participants :
- Trinity College (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 268568.64 €
Projet FORESIGHT (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Floods are among the most devastating natural disasters, causing widespread destruction and economic losses globally. Despite advancements in flood early warning systems, they remain limited in their ability to mitigate such losses, primarily due to a lack of accurate real-time flood inundation maps (FIMs) forecasting and reliable uncertainty quantification. The overall goal of the FORESIGHT project is to develop a framework to address this critical gap by leveraging cutting-edge Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) techniques to forecast real-time FIMs with high resolution (30 meter/6hr) up to 5 days ahead. The proposed approach offers multiple advantages: it enables fast generation of FIMs by employing GenAI and omitting the time-consuming physical hydraulic model component of traditional approaches. It ensures accuracy by modifying dynamic river networks and improving precipitation forecast uncertainties. Physical consistency is maintained by training GenAI with data output from physical models. Crucially, it provides reliable uncertainty quantification for the generated forecasts. This innovative approach will be applied across four diverse large river basins - the Rhine, Indus, Niger, and Severn - to ensure broad applicability. Additionally, I will test the approach in ungauged basins to assess its potential applicability in data-scarce regions. By utilizing only satellite earth observation data and open-source global coverage data, the project aims to pave the way for the development of global operational flood forecasting systems.

Mots clés : flood inundation, generative ai, hydrological model, hydraulic model

Participants :
- Centre Européen pour les Prévisions Météorologiques à Moyen Terme (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'Oxford (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Reading (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 276187.92 €
Projet UPDRAFT (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Developments in numerical weather forecasting have been of great benefit to many sectors of society. However, state-of-the-art weather forecasting and climate models still struggle to predict the onset and development of convective storms over land. Such storms are associated with many destructive weather events including floods, hail, and lightning, and thus, any improvement in addressing these events remains keenly sought after. UPDRAFT will develop a new method for the representation of convective storm clouds in forecasting models, building a completely new theoretical framework that can overcome many of the problems with the current modelling approach. Recent studies by the ER have shown that some key physical mechanisms responsible for the initiation of convective storms are neglected by current models, which might explain the large biases associated with the prediction of these storms. In the new model to be developed during the fellowship, these missing mechanisms will be represented in a more physically-based picture for the development of convective clouds. The main objective of the project is to produce concrete evidence that the new framework can lead to much-improved forecasts of storms. Besides the immediate potential impact for weather prediction, the outcome of the fellowship will also help in improving our understanding of storms and their response to climate change. Convective clouds play an important role in the Earth’s radiative and hydrological budgets, so the project might help in improving climate models as well, supporting decision-making on adapting to climate change and mitigating the risks associated with many severe weather events.

Mots clés : convection, clouds, storms, weather forecasting, climate modelling

Participants :
- Université de Reading (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 276187.92 €
Projet mC-EVOLVE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

In this project, mC-EVOLVE, I aim to decipher the evolutionary principles governing crop plant methylation diversity. This newfound knowledge will unlock investigations into an underexplored source of functional variation. The project employs a multidisciplinary approach that encompasses mathematical modeling, population genetics, and epigenetics. It is structured around three main objectives:  Objective 1 - Separation of Evolutionary and Environmental Forces on Methylomes: I will develop an innovative inference tool to disentangle neutral, selective, and environmental influences on methylation variants. This will be achieved by inferring the genealogy along the methylome and evaluating the local correlations between genetic and methylation variants.  Objective 2 - Assessment of Transgenerational Stability of Methylation Alleles following Genomic Shock: Given that introgressive hybridization is a recurring phenomenon in crop plant enhancement, resulting in genomic shock and subsequent methylome remodeling, I will analyze introgression lines derived from crosses between wild and domesticated sunflowers to identify methylation patterns stable across multiple generations.  Objective 3 - Inference of Evolutionary Parameters in Crop Plants with Varied Methylation Patterns: I will analyze publicly accessible datasets containing genomes and methylomes from nine crop plants and their wild relatives to quantify the evolutionary forces affecting plant DNA methylation. This analysis aims to determine the variation in methylation rates across the phylogeny, facilitated by comparisons to the model plant Arabidopsis.  Through the development of a pioneering evolutionary inference approach for methylomes, the identification of the optimal marker class of crop plant methylation analysis, and the analysis of multiple open access crop plant methylomes, mC-EVOLVE is dedicated to advancing our comprehension of the evolutionary dynamics underlying crop plant DNA methylation.

Mots clés : methyatlion diversity plant science evolutionary simulations selection demographic inference genomic shock sunflowers introgression transgenerational stability coalescence hybridization

Participants :
- Université technique de Munich (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 280751.52 €
- Université de la Colombie-Britannique (Canada) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet CovidCrimes (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Economic Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Hundreds of million people live in areas that are controlled by criminal organized groups (OCGs), suffer from their violent actions, and receive governance from both state and criminal actors. The recent COVID-19 pandemic required governance such as the enforcement of containment restrictions to combat its spread. Notably, during the pandemic, apart from national governments, OCGs engaged in emergency response activities, e.g. delivered aid to people in need or enforced curfews in their controlled territory. The role of criminal governance, particularly in emergencies, is however still largely unknown. CovidCrimes fills this research gap and studies the role of OCGs in emergency response during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico. Combining geographical information on the location of OCGs before COVID-19 with performance measures concerning COVID-19 containment policies (excess mortality and COVID-related death rates), CovidCrimes estimates the causal effect of the presence of OCGs on the emergency response performance in a monthly panel of Mexican municipalities using a fixed effects model in combination with several instrumental variable approaches that account for differences in COVID-19 exposure and endogeneity concerns related to the location of OCGs. By gathering novel digital information on criminal and state governance activities at the local level and analyzing their interrelation and effectiveness, CovidCrimes will shed light on the mechanisms how OCGs influence emergency response. Additionally, CovidCrimes will assess the societal consequences of criminal governance by quantifying to what extent OCGs gained power and local support with their emergency response activities. Understanding whether and how OCGs act in emergencies and influence emergency response and its consequences is crucial for the design of effective policies to manage crises and for the stability of political institutions, a core element of a functioning society that is in any case challenged

Mots clés : organized crime, criminal and state governance, emergency response, covid 19, applied spatial econometrics

Participants :
- Université libre de Bolzano (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 172750.08 €
Projet SF-SF (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

When speculation becomes the dominant modality of contemporary capitalism, what happens to speculative fiction? What kind of worldbuilding does speculative finance do, and, once we acknowledge its narrative features, how might we use the tools of speculative fiction to intervene in this process? Can speculative fiction help us recognise the ways in which speculative finance takes effect and, from that vantage point, reveal the contradictions of financial speculation and the possibilities that lie hidden within the present? Through close analyses of novels and films, SF-SF explores the degree to which speculative finance and speculative fiction operate according to similar narrative and imaginative strategies, and how they remain distinct. Its purpose is twofold: firstly, it explores how the logic of financialisation relies on fictions whose representations materialise the worlds it envisions. Secondly, it explores a better understanding of how speculative fiction can make legible finance’s fictions and reveal its underlying contradictions. By employing critical literary analysis and symptomatology as methods, SF-SF will thus result in a better understanding of how speculative finance seeks to narrow and constrain the possibilities for the future, and how speculative fiction challenges speculative finance’s ongoing attempt to configure all aspects of political and social life in economic terms.

Mots clés : speculative fiction, speculative finance, political economy, critical literary analysis, cinema

Participants :
- Université de Roskilde (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 214934.4 €