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

This project focuses on the gender roles in the Iron Age societies of Spain, a tradition that epitomises the challenges in gender equality on a global basis. The Iron Age has been a crucial period that has influenced the construction of national identities across Europe, prioritising activities assumed carried out by men (war, metalwork, cattle raising), relegating women and alternative gender identities to a secondary stance. This emphasis on male-dominated interpretations have taken women’s agency away and led us to understand that history happens to women while men make it happen. This project addresses, therefore, an urgent key issue of the contemporary world: gender equality. This research will incorporate traditional archaeological analysis of sources and material culture with cutting-edge Digital Humanities techniques combining Corpus Linguistics and Geographical Information Sciences. The first part of the research will assess the criteria behind the interpretations of gender, examine how archaeologists have reached these conclusions and evaluate the strength of their argumentation. A second stage will produce gender-disaggregated data and a novel narrative for the Iron Age that will potentially transform how the discipline understands the role of gender in the past. In this way, this project will produce a transferable methodology capable of unveiling and visualising the conceptual models that underpin the main argumentative pillars to construct gender-related discourses, interpretations and stereotypes. At the same time, this research will bring hidden and overlooked data about gender to the forefront, break current harmful gender stereotypes and bridge the gender data gap. Finally, to ensure that the paradigm shift goes beyond academia, this research has an ambitious dissemination programme for non-academic audiences. Therefore, this field-defining project will make a broad impact on Archaeology and beyond.

Mots clés : iron age archaeology, protohistory, gender, gender stereotypes, spain, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, argumentation analysis, conceptual models, geographical text analysis

Participants :
- Conseil supérieur de la recherche scientifique (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 181152.96 €
- Université de Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Grenade (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet PADLOCK (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most diagnosed cancer and the fifth leading cause of cancer-related deaths among men worldwide in 2022. However, current clinical practice often remains inadequate with limited individualization, leading to overdiagnosis, overtreatment, and undertreatment. A spatiotemporal biomechanistic model informed by multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging offers a powerful tool to address these challenges. Isogeometric analysis (IGA) and local h-adaptivity further contribute to accurately represent the complex biostructures and capture tumor dynamics. Hence, this technology enables personalized forecasting of PCa growth following its first diagnosis, leading to improved clinical and therapeutic decision-making. However, the existing models of PCa growth present fundamental limitations in predictive accuracy and computational efficiency. In this project, we will address three issues underlying those limitations: a suboptimal adaptive scheme for IGA, susceptibility to numerical locking due to the near-incompressible mechanical behavior of biostructures, and the assumption of linear elasticity. Towards this end, this project will follow a multifaceted approach that includes the integration of truncated hierarchical B-splines to enhance the adaptive IGA scheme, the use of mixed formulations to circumvent the adverse effects of volumetric locking while modeling near-incompressible biological tissues, and the incorporation of geometric and material nonlinearities to improve the accuracy of displacement and stress fields. Through these transformative strategies, the proposed model will represent a substantial step forward in the development of clinically viable predictive digital twins for PCa growth. This project aligns closely with the objectives of the European Commission’s cancer mission and could positively impact individuals with PCa. My expertise in IGA, locking, and biomechanics, uniquely equips me to achieve the project's objectives.

Mots clés : prostate cancer, computational oncology, biomechanics, isogeometric analysis, adaptivity, numerical locking, non linear mechanics

Participants :
- Université de Pavie (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 209483.28 €
- Université de Florence (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de La Corogne (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
Projet EEDDMA (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is a worldwide priority and one of the Horizon Europe Missions. Smart cities, e-banking, industrial automation, and the Internet of Things (IoT) – together with other multiple services enabled by mobile communications – contributed to reduce around 2,135 million tonnes of GHG emissions in 2018, giving raise to the so-called enabling effect of mobile technologies. 5G and 6G are expected to even increase this effect by delivering an unprecedented fabric of massive connectivity to millions of users and interconnected devices. Paradoxically, despite being more efficient in terms of transmitted bits per joule, a 5G cell could consume up to 140% more energy than a 4G one for covering the same area, mainly due to the use of massive antenna arrays, higher frequency bands and high base station (BS) density. With 73% of the total energy consumed in the radio access network, designing more efficient BS hardware and an energy-aware network design arise as mandatory directions. In this project, an energy efficient design of 5G and 6G networks will be addressed. First, the use of the recently proposed dynamic metasurface antennas (DMAs) will be explored as alternative to conventional arrays, characterising the energy savings provided by these structures. Second, intra-cell (turning off parts of the DMA at the BS) and inter-cell (switching off entire BSs) sleep modes algorithms will be designed for low load periods of time, accounting for the interaction between them while meeting quality of service constraints. Finally, the proposed solutions will be validated, and the benefits with respect to conventional and state-of-the-art approaches.

Mots clés : energy efficiency, 5g, 6g, metasurface antennas, sleep modes, network optimization

Participants :
- Université de Malaga (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 165312.96 €
Projet COSTREAM (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The rising trends in terrestrial dissolved organic matter (DOM) concentrations in streams have become a serious environmental issue in many catchments of the northern hemisphere. Indeed, DOM impairs water quality and affects the biogeochemical and ecological functioning of aquatic ecosystems. Knowledge gaps in drivers controlling seasonal and interannual variations of stream DOM limit our ability to provide measures that may be implemented by decision makers in order to mitigate the continuing trends. In rural landscapes, agricultural practices interact with climatic drivers to affect biogeochemical cycles, however these interactions and their impacts on stream DOM dynamics over different timescales have not been considered so far. The ambition of COSTREAM is to provide a better understanding of the linkages between management actions and stream DOM variability both spatially and temporally in order to enhance science-based management and restoration solutions. The project will combine field and experimental studies in a well-equipped agricultural catchment with data mining of long-term records collected in the French Brittany region. The main objectives are 1) to investigate the impact of nitrogen mineral fertilizer on the production of terrestrial DOM at the seasonal scale, and 2) to determine how land use management plans during the last decades have interacted with shifts in climatic drivers to regulate stream DOM patterns at the regional scale. The COSTREAM project has potentially strong impacts on both scientific and societal perspectives. Thanks to this project, the experienced researcher will receive a unique multidisciplinary scientific training by INRAE that will reinforce significantly his expertise for future research activities and open new perspectives for both academic and non-academic careers.

Mots clés : dissolved organic matter long term trends headwater catchments transfer seasonality

Participants :
- Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 211754.88 €
Projet FRAME (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

With current projections of fungal diversity estimated at 2.2 to 3.8 million species, only 3-5% of those species are currently accepted. Within this group, lichen-forming fungi comprise c. 17% of known fungal diversity, playing fundamental roles in the world ecosystems. However, considering that lichens are poorly studied, compared for example to angiosperms, global lichen diversity is widely underestimated, and this is further confounded by the fact that genetic material is sometimes the only way to uncover diversity hidden beneath their simple morphological structures. As researchers race to uncover such cryptic diversity, one resource ripe for exploitation is existing natural history museums, where thousands of lichen specimens have been preserved ranging from recent to centuries-old collections. FRAME seeks to use such existing resources to address this issue with the use of museomics, a novel approach to generate informative genomic sequences from historical collections, providing a cost-effective, efficient, and laborsaving technique to integrate essential organisms into our global biodiversity inventory. This project will not only determine the efficacy of using museomics on fungal collections, but will also provide novel insights into the evolutionary history of a charismatic lineage of lobarioid lichens whose diversity has been continually reclassified in the past decade primarily due to standard genetic analyses. While this project will involve an extensive and robust reclassification of lobarioid lichens as a whole, it will also use New Caledonia as a case study to determine both the efficacy of combining museomics with targeted fieldwork to provide biodiversity estimates, while also elucidating the factors that have led to insular lichen diversification. Thus, through FRAME, a novel and cutting-edge integration of relevant museum collections with modern bioinformatic techniques will be generated, providing an adaptable framework for use in other taxa.

Mots clés : lichens, fungi, ascomycetes, biodiversity, museum, herbarium, evolution, natural history, genomics

Participants :
- Université d'Oslo (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 210911.04 €
- Institut de recherche pour le développement (France) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet InterPsy (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

How could knowledge make an impact in the world and on people’s lives? This project investigates this question by studying the case of criminal interrogations and forensic psychology in Germany, France and the Netherlands between 1880 and 1940. Obtaining confessions, often crucial to convince judges or juries of a suspect's guilt, was a prime concern for many interrogators in 19th- and 20th-century continental Europe. Yet many suspects did not spontaneously confess. As a result, interrogators developed specific knowledge and techniques to obtain confessions, sometimes inspired by psychological insights. The goal of this project is therefore to assess to what extent, why and how scientific innovations in psychology (particularly in experimental psychology and psychoanalysis) made an impact on criminal interrogations. I will undertake three actions to this end. The first action is to study how knowledge about interrogation circulated among and between scientists and practitioners and within and between countries. The second action is to study how different actors evaluated different forms of knowledge and how epistemic hierarchies were produced. The third action is to study how formal, published knowledge about criminal interrogation related to actual interrogation practices in criminal investigations. The project thus adds a phenomenological perspective to the history of knowledge, studying how knowledge interacted with the bodies, feelings, spaces and objects. Taken together, these three actions will provide a case study that shows how – under what conditions and by what means – knowledge could make an impact in the world, through its circulation, evaluation and application.

Mots clés : criminal interrogation, criminal justice, forensic psychology, experimental psychology, psychoanalysis, germany, france, the netherlands, circulation of knowledge, history of science

Participants :
- Université d'Utrecht (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 203464.32 €
- Stichting ntr (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet Voicescape (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Hannah Arendt noted in the 1950s that human rights are dependent on the ‘right to have rights’. Gaps continue to exist in provisions of (inter)national frameworks of rights and in how borders are experienced. It is in these ‘grey’ spaces created by such gaps that displaced and stateless persons inhabit—spaces referred to as borderscapes. By exploring borderscapes, we gain a view of Kathmandu's cityscape through the voices of displaced and stateless women, witnessing their intersectional resistances as they claim their rights. This approach decenters from legal status as a primary mode of analysis and uncovers underexplored imaginaries of rights and pathways for social change.  Voicescape offers an avenue to reimagine rights by those in the borderscape. It aims to reshape rights-framed research and community-led change models for these women, contributing to Law and Development (L&D) by connecting with critical theories from border studies, gender studies, and beyond. This transdisciplinary perspective, grounded in epistemologies from the margins and critical-participatory research methodologies, shifts the focus from traditional legal frameworks to a bottom-up view of legal status. Voicescape hypothesises that these women establish counter-territorial epistemologies that reshape the relationship between the individual and the state.  As a participatory action research project, it will facilitate inclusive dialogues between women and NGOs, leveraging targeted dissemination efforts. A collaborative research and communications plan will produce joint outputs, enhancing the visibility and impact of women’s voices in broader socio-political contexts. A subsequent placement period will further influence practice with community-driven solutions. Voicescape aims to conceptual and practical contributions—advocating for inclusive, locally-led approaches to addressing the gendered violences of borders in Nepal and influencing global practices in law and development.

Mots clés : law and development studies, borders, voice, statelessness, forced migration

Participants :
- Université d'Anvers (Belgique) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 270300.0 €
- Stichting institute on statelessness and inclusion (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet SWEETBARRELS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Since the beginning of food industrialization, consumers have expected products that could bring balance to the delicate relationship between flavour and nutritional requirements. In the case of sugar and sweeteners, the necessity of a low-calories sweetener capable of providing an equivalent sweet flavour without the high caloric intake inherent to sugar-sweetened drinks stimulated the food industry to develop novel artificial molecules. Sadly, consumers who wanted to “keep tabs” on their weight have faced unexpected health-related controversy, first with Cyclamate and its carcinogenic potential, later with the ups and downs on Saccharin-associated risks, and nowadays with the on-going debate about Aspartame and related substances. Besides the proposed role of Aspartame in some neurodegenerative disorders, there are questions about the impact that this, and others amino acid-based sweeteners, may have in the gut microbiome. Since the gut microbiome can affect brain health throw the gut-brain axis, understanding self-assembly can give a clearer panorama about the role of Aspartame, and structurally related non-nutritional sweeteners as Neotame, and Advantame, on neurocognitive processes. The SWEETBARRELS project focuses on understanding the self-assembly process of these molecules, since supramolecular aggregates have been proposed as one the main causes of cytotoxicity for these substances. I will use this knowledge, and previously reports of assembly modulation of amyloid structures, to design a pioneering inhibition strategy based on the synthesis of new molecules rationally designed to interfere in the aggregation process, altering the formation of potentially cytotoxic supramolecular species.

Mots clés : amyloids super resolution microscopy sted flim crystallization amyloidogenic pathway

Participants :
- University of Nebraska Medical Center (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Grenade (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 209914.56 €
Projet BONSAI (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Mathematics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The BONSAI (Bounds On Numerical Syzygies And Invariants) project is aimed at investigating relations among generators and invariants of numerical semigroups and the rings associated to them, through theoretical and computational means. We consider a set of problems involving bounds for the Betti numbers of numerical semigroup rings, focusing on the first and last Betti numbers, which can be deduced from combinatorial data of the numerical semigroup.

Mots clés : numerical semigroups commutative algebra syzygies betti numbers

Participants :
- Université de Grenade (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 194074.56 €
Projet NetDEAL (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

In response to climate change, the landmark Paris Agreement established a set of goals to achieve climate neutrality and limit global warming. To help investors and companies contribute to these goals, the EU adopted a taxonomy for sustainable activities, and in line with it, investments must not cause significant harm, as indicated by the Recovery and Resilience Facility Regulation. Since its inception, the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) procedure has aimed to minimize the impacts of projects that could significantly damage the environment. Certainly, there are recognized weaknesses in the EIA, but its fitness to address complex environmental challenges such as climate change is unmatched. Considering the EIA importance in ensuring the scaling up of sustainable energy-related investments, NetDEAL focuses on providing innovative and easy-to-use methods to improve EIA worldwide and combines policy analysis and EIA assessment data into complex networks. First, I will analyze models of impact assessment (IA) legislation that can make recommendations about how IA can change to fit the global effort to tackle the energy and resource crises. Second, I will expose best practice models and investigate, through network-related statistical analyses, the collaboration links established in each EIA stage, which are behind successful projects from the perspective of productivity, circular economy, adaptation to climate change and reaching the goal of zero net emissions. Third, using Exponential Random Graph Models, I will explore the dynamic interaction between EIA stakeholders to diagnose the organizational structures and factors that strongly influence these projects. Lastly, I will create an integrated multilayer framework to improve the EIA's effectiveness. The findings will be translated into the economic sector and provide new instruments to facilitate a streamlined EIA procedure that facilitates the adoption of urgent measures to mitigate the current energy crisis.

Mots clés : environmental impact assessment, green deal, eu taxonomy, climate change, adaptation, mitigation, network analysis, complex networks

Participants :
- Université de Grenade (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 165312.96 €