Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet RECHARGE (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The Internet of Things promises billions of connected sensors and devices measuring and reporting information about the world around us. Due to the limited lifetime of batteries, this vision will not be realised without energy harvesting solutions providing power autonomy to sensors, a topic specifically prioritised in the 2016-2017 Work programme of Horizon 2020 (page 100). This project aims to develop and demonstrate high-efficiency and low-cost GaAs photovoltaic energy harvesters as power sources for wireless sensors, and equip the fellow with the entrepreneurial competencies required to commercialise the results. Prof. Tonio Buonassisi’s photovoltaic research lab at MIT (PVLab) is a global leader in optoelectronic modelling and testing of novel photovoltaic devices, and will train the candidate to determine the technical and economical viability of this new technology. The growth of these novel devices will be carried out with Mr. Brian Corbett in the III-V materials and devices group at the the Tyndall National Institute, Ireland. During the outgoing phase, as well as training in technical competencies, one-day a week will be dedicated to attending MIT’s Translational Fellows Programme, a specialist course for entrepreneurially-minded postdocs, teaching venture creation in-line with the candidate’s career goal to be an EU leader in science-based entrepreneurship in the clean energy sector. On return to the EU, a secondment at IQE plc., a III-V foundry, will allow the economic aspects of producing these devices in industry to be explored.

Mots clés : energy harvesting, wireless sensor, photovoltaics, gaas, silicon

Participants :
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- National University of Ireland (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 248063.4 €
Projet Mo-IoNT (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The Internet-of-Nano-Things (IoNT) paradigm has the potential to dramatically transform society and is recognised as one of the top 10 emerging technologies by the World Economic Forum. In order to connect nano-scale devices, this timely fellowship will focus on molecular signalling, which underpins multi-scale coordinated biological actions. Despite its prevalent nature, we do not yet understand the information carrying potential of molecular signals in complex and multi-scale fluids, nor do we know how to design credible communication protocols. Inspired by these challenges, the objectives of this fellowship are: (1) bridge fluid dynamic and communication theory knowledge by combining complex fluid dynamic experiments with molecular communication testing, and (2) design and test innovative capacity achieving communication protocols in complex diffusion-advection environments. The experienced applicant and the scientist-in-charge have the joint ambitious vision to achieve fundamental understanding of the underpinning science through the co-creation of inter-disciplinary knowledge. The project will provide career accelerating training and knowledge transfer and enable the applicant to become a world leader in molecular communications and create sustainable societal impact.

Mots clés : molecular communication, internet of nano things, pipeline, prototype, synchronisation

Participants :
- University of Warwick (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 195454.8 €
Projet JPEWP (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The Judy Project: A Critical and Historical Investigation of Women and Puppetry from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century (JPEWP) is the first transhistorical examination of the (re)presentation of gender and identity in Punch and Judy one of the most iconic English puppet traditions. Despite a growing interest in puppet theatre, scholarship does not typically delve into gender issues. The inclusion of women as practitioners and theoreticians, and critical analyses of female figures are scarce. My research, however, shows that women have been inserting themselves throughout its history in significant and under-examined ways. JPEWP will focus on women practitioners as invisible or concealed labour and innovators, and ways the female puppet figure reveals and conceals dominate ideology and anxiety about the female. This project investigates inscriptions and subversions of gender, tracing both its history and alternative, and feminist interpretations focusing on the female character Joan/Judy beginning with early Modern representations of the female figure to contemporary radical feminist re-imaginings. To manage the expansive time frame, I will use case studies from specific culturally volatile moments situated within a trans-historical framework that will be connected through the theoretical approach and common questions. The project will be an interdisciplinary investigation that goes beyond standard understandings of ‘text’ to offer innovative analyses of what is usually seen as archival ‘ephemera’ in order to detect the traces that remain of puppet theatre. As violence against women and female bodies increases and in light of renewed interest in institutionalized sexism, this research investigates: how the female body is presented in a popular performance form, by whom and why. Further, by questioning the narrative of a traditional form and its history, this work destabilizes orthodox notions of a singular male dominated history.

Mots clés : puppet theatre, women and performance, popular entertainment

Participants :
- University of Exeter (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 337400.64 €
Projet KDD-CHASER (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The KDD-CHASER project aims to develop a process model and software platform for collaborative knowledge discovery in data (KDD). Traditionally, KDD has been an expert-driven process, but more recently, special types of KDD processes have begun to emerge that involve non-expert individuals in various roles. With sufficiently intelligent software tools, it is even possible for such individuals to take charge of the process and use KDD to extract useful knowledge from their own personal data, but this possibility is not adequately covered by the established process model of KDD. The project addresses this problem by exploring the requirements of incorporating autonomous software and non-expert humans as actors in the KDD process and distilling these into a new process model, consisting of a data model and a workflow model, that satisfies the requirements. The data model aims to provide a representation of the fundamental concepts of the KDD process, most importantly knowledge itself. The model forms an essential part of the foundation of new, more autonomous KDD software tools that are capable of carrying out tasks that currently require a human expert. The workflow model represents the actors of the KDD process - experts, non-experts and software - and the interactions through which they collaborate in different incarnations of the process. Once the models have been validated against their requirements, they will in turn be used to define requirements for a collaborative KDD software platform that can be used by diverse actors to establish teams and design solutions to KDD problems. Finally, the software platform will be implemented and validated by executing a test scenario involving knowledge discovery from personal lifelogs.

Mots clés : knowledge discovery in data, process models, lifelogging, quantified self, knowledge representation

Participants :
- Dublin City University (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 175866.0 €
Projet PRESS-CHESS-KHS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The Kitaev model on a honeycomb lattice has caused an abiding fascination due to its quantum spin liquid ground state, which is relevant to register information in matter and specifically for topological quantum computation. Here, alpha-RuCl3 is believed to be the prime material to-date to harbor such a quantum spin liquid phase. Recent studies from 2016 showed that a magnetic field can induce the highly desired quantum spin liquid state. As a new route towards the realization of this state in alpha-RuCl3, this research project will concentrate on tuning the magnetic properties by the application of hydrostatic pressure and chemical substitution. Their influence on the Kitaev-like interaction, the magnetic ground state, and the field-induced quantum spin liquid state will be studied by magnetization and thermodynamic techniques. During the time of his PhD, the applicant acquired a strong knowledge on magnetism and experimental skills in high-pressure and low-temperature measurements. This makes the applicant perfectly adapted for this research project, which will be conducted under unique conditions at the host institution. At the IFW Dresden high-quality single crystals and world-class experimental facilities (such as a unique pressure cell) are available. Via the solid experience of the applicant in high-pressure physics, this pressure cell will be improved to an even higher accuracy in the research project. The applicant will follow trainings to study research integrity, develop his own leadership, construct this career development plan and learn German to obtain a clear visibility to continue an excellent career in academic research. He will disseminate his results among the scientific community through publications in high-ranking scientific journals, and participation in conferences. He will also communicate them to the public through a Science Night. In the future, the obtained results will eventually lead to the realization of quantum computing.

Mots clés : kitaev physics, ruthenates, quantum spin liquid

Participants :
- Leibniz Association (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 159460.8 €
Projet FORT2 (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The LHC will undergo a major upgrade in 2025 to increase its luminosity (Phase-II). The main challenges for the CMS experiment during the Phase-II are detector radiation damage and the pileup coming from the high instantaneous luminosity. Under these challenging conditions to maintain its excellent performance the CMS collaboration will perform an upgrade program of the detector. One of the main elements of this upgrade is the replacement of the endcap calorimeters with a new High Granularity Calorimeter (HGCal). The first critical step of the upgrade is the R&D status approval, to be completed by end 2017. I propose the development and construction of an innovative trigger system that will be integrated in the HGCal. The goal is to have a trigger system able to maintain the overall physics acceptance under the challenging Phase-II conditions but retaining an outstanding efficiency in selecting physics events, specially regarding rare signals. Thanks to the characteristics of the HGCal the trigger system will be able to use informations on the growth and angle of electromagnetic showers, and to apply the methods of particle flow to optimize the jet energy resolution, allowing a more efficient and accurate event selection. One of the physics channels that will profit from this new trigger system will be the measurement of the Higgs boson self-coupling in Vector-Boson-Fusion events. Such process is extremely rare in the Standard Model of particle physics, but it can be enhanced by the presence of Supersymmetric particles or New Physics phenomena. Thus, the Higgs boson self-coupling is a very sensitive observable, and it is of the utmost importance to measure it during the LHC Phase-II. To quantify the improvements in physics performances due to the new HGCal trigger system, I will present the first feasibility study of this channel and design the analysis strategy to perform the measurement. The algorithmic strategies for VBF will be tested on the 2016 CMS data taking

Mots clés : experimental high energy physics, higgs boson

Participants :
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 173076.0 €
Projet SEADOG (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The Last Glacial climate of the Northern Hemisphere was punctuated by abrupt millennial scale changes called Dansgaard-Oeschger (DO) events, clearly recorded by Greenland ice core temperature proxies. The underlying mechanism responsible for the recurring cycles of ~10°C rapid increase, followed by gradual cooling, remains uncertain. Many studies suggest that large changes in sea ice extent played a major role in their causation. Sea ice is closely linked to climate; changes in sea ice extent feedback positively on Arctic temperature—a phenomenon of great relevance to the future of Arctic sea ice in our changing climate. This project combines Greenland ice core chemistry records with atmospheric chemistry transport modeling in order to constrain Arctic sea ice variability across DO events. Records of sea salt (Na+), and methane sulphonic acid (MSA), from four ice cores will be analysed for spatial and temporal variability across DO events. The controls on marine aerosol deposition over the Greenland Ice Sheet will be investigated using a atmospheric chemistry transport model, Cambridge p-TOMCAT, which has been successfully deployed for the Antarctic. The relative influence of sea ice and other factors e.g., meteorology, on ice core chemistry variability will be assessed using sensitivity tests that will also provide an indication of the gross sea ice changes in required to reproduce the significant sea salt changes recorded in ice cores. Furthermore, an atmospheric chemistry transport model, that can be interfaced with fully coupled ocean-atmosphere climate model output, will be optimised according to our findings. This model will be run with palaeoclimatic boundary conditions to obtain scenarios of sea ice change consistent with the ice core chemistry data. Separate tests will constrain the magnitude of sea ice retreat at the onset of DO events and the temporal evolution of sea ice conditions as climate cools from warm interstadial to cool stadial conditions.


Participants :
- University of Cambridge (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 183454.8 €
Projet LRSL (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The Legal Recognition of Sign Languages project (LRSL) aims to interrogate whether legal recognition of Sign Languages (SLs) actually provides Deaf people and SL users with realisable and enforceable rights. Using a socio-legal approach, LRSL investigates both the laws and the experiences of SL recognition in three European jurisdictions: Finland; Ireland and the United Kingdom. Semi-structured interviews will be conducted with Deaf representatives from Deaf Organisations to investigate how legal recognition is actually impacting Deaf people and Deaf Communities. In combining legal research and qualitative research, LRSL will provide an understanding of the necessary steps for implementation of rights that are meaningful and effective for Deaf people and SL users. LRSL will provide valuable insight into effective and ineffective mechanisms used to give agency and rights to Deaf Communities over their languages and culture. The research will provide unique and vital analysis and understanding of best-practices for the implementation of legal recognition of SLs, or the amendment of pre-existing legal recognition. LRSL will provide a roadmap for future efforts to recognise SLs in law within other jurisdictions. This roadmap will be made available to Deaf people and Organisations, activist groups, policymakers and legislators to aid in the implementation or amendment of legal recognition for SLs.

Mots clés : deaf, sign language, language, minority rights, minority language, legal recognition

Participants :
- University of Birmingham (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 212933.76 €
Projet MAGPLANT (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The MAGPLANT project is intended to provide a major breakthrough towards the fabrication and application of bioresorbable Mg-alloy implants, which have the remarkable potential of accelerating bone healing while transferring the body’s mechanical load from the implant to the regenerating bone, as the Mg-alloy progressively degrades, thereby avoiding multiple surgical interventions. Moreover Mg is highly biocompatible as it is abundantly present in bone tissue and exhibits mechanical properties similar to those of bone. Although there is currently much research on biodegradable Mg implants, the fundamental aspect for achieving success is controlling the corrosion rate of Mg-alloys in biological media. Because the main form of corrosion on Mg is localized corrosion, a thorough study consisting of localized electrochemical measurements must be performed. In the literature the biodegradable Mg is persistently being addressed as suffering from homogeneous corrosion, which is incorrect and does not provide the information on the microscopic processes occurring as the alloy degrades in contact with biofluids and cellular structures. In the scope of MAGPLANT the corrosion of Mg-alloys will be investigated by using modern localized electrochemical techniques. Therefore the underlying Mg-alloy corrosion mechanisms will be understood from the macro to the microscale level, considering the biological environments of interest. This project fits well into the key societal challenges for H2020 and will contribute to improve Europe’s research position on bioresorbable implants. Such perspective is well supported by the excellence and strong dedication of the host institution in the target research field, along with the research experience of the candidate.

Mots clés : magnesium, localized corrosion, bioresorbable implants

Participants :
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 159460.8 €
Projet MAT-MED in Transit (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The MAT-MED in Transit project focuses on the circulation of scientific knowledge related to the medicinal virtues of 'simples' (mainly plants) in early modern Italy through archival records and an in-depth study of two vernacular textual genres, herbals and recipe books, produced both in manuscript and printed form between the 16th and the early 17th centuries. The project will reconstruct the use of plants/substances with the awareness that Italy represents a segment of the more global transit of medical matter between European countries and between Europe and the West and East Indies. MAT-MED in Transit aims to ascertain who were the consumers of the huge production of printed books and manuscripts of vernacular Materia Medica and the women's role in this process of appropriation; why and how, not only professionals but ordinary people, read books and penned manuscripts on local and exotic Materia Medica; how the circulation and use of Materia Medica affected their practices of healing and the underlying theoretical framework. Through a novel interdisciplinary approach that builds on the applicant’s dual expertise in History of Medicine and Book History, MAT-MED in Transit looks at the past Materia Medica with the ultimate aim of raising current awareness of the value of Nature as a resource for our everyday life. A close collaboration between the Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at Brown University, the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) and the new Ca’ Foscari’s Center for Digital Research in Humanities, will allow the creation of innovative digital tools that can be supplemented in the future by other European sources, with the goal of exploring new digital methods for historical research.

Mots clés : history of medicine, plants, herbals, pharmacopoeia, digital humanities

Participants :
- Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 251002.56 €
- Brown University (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet MOBILISE (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The MOBILISE project aims to critically investigate the COVID-19 emergency through the prism of (im)mobility and citizenship by scrutinising EU citizens’ actions, reactions and inaction. By scrutinising acts of compliance, resistance and contentious politics in Europe, this project will critically investigate not so much emerging disciplining and policing practices but who the European liberal-subject-during-emergency is. By scrutinising the level of (non-)conformity as well as the reasons for it, it will be possible to map not only how common EU citizens have experienced, and are still experiencing, the crisis, but most importantly, what kinds of subjects/citizens have emerged out of it. Who is the ‘citizen of emergency’? Or perhaps even better: what defines a good citizen during an emergency? Is it freedom? Is it democratic participation? Or is it responsibility? What does it mean to act as a responsible citizen? To what extent are the protests against and during the lockdown irresponsible acts? Which modalities of action make a citizen an irresponsible citizen? Is it the very act of contravening restrictions? Is it the non-compliance with health norms? In other words, should recent protests be investigated through the prism of citizenship and freedom, as traditionally done? Or should protests-during-emergencies be investigated through a different prism? These are some of the key questions that the MOBILISE project will investigate. By investigating citizen protests during and against governmental lockdowns, in Italy and in France, the MOBILISE project will uncover not only the modalities through which EU citizens are making their voices heard, but also the extent to which "a new push for European democracy” has emerged despite the many mobility restrictions.

Mots clés : subjectivity, citizenship, freedom, civic participation, mobility and resistance

Participants :
- Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 171473.28 €