Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet TRASDEJ (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The research “TRASDEJ- Transatlantic alliances betweenThe research “TRASDEJ- Transatlantic alliances between sexual dissidents for environmental justice” focuses on explore, analyze, and create horizontal bridges between the multiple political spaces of struggle for environmental justice from the indigenous sexual-dissidents in the south of Mexico and dynamic spaces of queer struggles, Berlin and rural communities against coal mines, in Germany. It addresses the question: Which socio-environmental strategies can be observed among indigenous sex-gender dissidents from southern Mexico for the defense of their territories and European queer activists for environmental justice? Following this question and using a critical ethnography methodology, TRASDEJ focuses on concrete and local life experience from sex-gender diverse actors for environmental justice across the Atlantic Ocean. The research deploys a mixed methods approach: narrative interviews; auto-ethnography; focus groups as well as Knowledge Exchange Workshops (KEW) with a combined format mixing face-to-face and digital encounters. The proposal makes use of post-colonial, intersectional and non-binary gender approaches to analyze and make visible the strategies from sex-gender dissidents inside the socio-environmental struggles in Germany and southern Mexico. TRASDEJ aims at providing face-to-face and digital platforms for exchange experience of resistance, vulnerabilities, and social struggles between indigenous sexual dissidents in the south of Mexico and queer European activists. It will also create spaces for exchange of experiences and identify the differences, similarities and potential bridges for the study of sexualities and international collaborations between subaltern groups for environmental justice.

Mots clés : environmental climate crisis, sex gender dissidents, contemporary mayans, queer ecology, post colonialisms

Participants :
- Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 214441.44 €
- Conseil National pour la Science et la Technologie (Mexique) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet Expertise (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

My research explores the educational networks of Albania during the Cold War. Using several archives from Albania, China, Italy, and East Germany, as well as conducting interviews, the research investigates in what ways educational exchanges impacted Albania’s economic policies and the formation of an adequate specialised workforce from 1955 to 1978 when hundreds of students were sent abroad to pursue university studies. Albania’s communist past has been little studied. This project proposal contends that studying educational networks and expertise circulation would provide a complete understanding of the communist regime of Albania during the 1960The overall research objective of this proposal is to understand the impact of the educational networks and expertise circulation in Albania’s economic policies from 1955 to 1978. The project is expected to have a major impact in the field of East European transnational networks during the Cold War, and Albania’s communist history as it will explore for the first time the importance of access to foreign expertise and technology, as well as the education of specialized workforce in the building of economic and social institutions in Albania. Historical studies may contribute to the European Union’s adopting adequate policies towards the Balkans – an important task in light of recent events in Eastern Europe with the war in Ukraine. In the meanwhile, the new scientific skills in reading and processing political documents as well as learning didactics in the European Union, together with research methodologies acquired through the two-years’ training at the Department of East and Southeast European History (GOSE), Ludwig Maximilien University (LMU), under the supervision of Prof. Mari-Janine Calic, will allow me to foster my academic profile as a regional expert in East and Southeast European studies, thus increasing my chances to continue my career in academia by becoming a research leader in the field of Cold War in Europe.

Mots clés : communist albania, cold war, transnational networks

Participants :
- Université Louis-et-Maximilien de Munich (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 173847.36 €
Projet SEMINAL (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Design thinking today is talked about as a ‘new democratic and liberating form of creativity’, transforming social and economic life and revolutionizing problem-solving. Design-driven living labs as creative, collaborative, and experimental spaces have become the go-to model for cities in fostering innovation and exploring solutions to complex social and environmental challenges, such as energy transition, climate adaptation and urban inequality. The number of living labs registered in the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) has increased from 20 living labs in 2006 to 188 in 2010 and to more than 475 labs in 2020. While being successful in creating new technologies, insights and solutions, the effectiveness of the applied models is proven to be limited in innovating strategic and foresight activities that are set to deliver evidence-based future-proof solutions. Urban planning, concerned with long-tern management of spatial activities in cities, is one of such processes that is extremely influential in shaping future of cities, and yet hard to innovate. Addressing the lack of conceptual clarity on what creative thinking and innovation means for foresight activities and urban policy making is a crucial step in bridging this seemingly unbridgeable gap between experimental design-oriented ways of thinking and delivering future-proof foresight strategies. SEMINAL aims to develop state-of-art information system, to facilitate and accommodate for creative thinking as part of spatial decision-making processes. To do so, SEMINAL uses design science research as its main overarching methodological strategy and will bridge the works on collaborative decision making and creativity in the fields of urban planning, social cognitive psychology and design. The project is expected to have a major impact in the field of urban planning and design as it will deliver a toolkit for creative spatial strategic thinking.

Mots clés : spatial planning, planning support systems, decision support systems, 

Participants :
- Université de Twente (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 187624.32 €
- Université Louis-et-Maximilien de Munich (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet STUMAT (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The substantial global food waste linked to plastic-based packaging highlights the urgent need for sustainable alternatives. Polyhydroxybutyrate-co-hydroxyvalerate (PHBV) is a promising eco-friendly option, but its use in the food industry is limited due to inadequate mechanical properties. Attempts to improve PHBV materials with existing additives have encountered issues like biodegradation challenges, poor dispersion, and undesired crystallization. However, novel bio-based ferulic acid derivatives are predicted to solve this problem by tuning PHBV’s properties through enhancing free volume between polymer chains while maintaining physical interactions. Additionally, transforming PHBV into smart materials for food contact applications remains unexplored. Encapsulation of Spirulina platensis extract (C-PS) could be a way forward due to its advantageous natural chemical composition (known for pH-responsive color-changing properties). However, conventional encapsulation methods often result in unstable microbeads. To overcome this, droplet millifluidics can be employed to achieve stable encapsulation of C-PS in alginate microbeads, enabling PHBV to become smart for the first time. The current project aims to create new additives to improve the mechanical properties of PHBV through green chemistry and modeling approaches, to encapsulate C-PS in alginate microbeads using droplet millifluidics during a secondment to produce smart materials through green manufacturing and test them for spoilage detection. Aligned with the EU’s "farm to fork" priority, STUMAT will allow me to combine interdisciplinary skills gained from both the host and secondment on the additive synthesis and microencapsulation respectively to integrate a new generation of bio-based additives and microencapsulated C-PS into PHBV to unlock its full potential which will act as a blueprint for future smart material development, positioning me as an independent researcher to establish my research group.

Mots clés : food packaging food contact materials microencapsulation millifluidics bio based additives phbv molecular modelling

Participants :
- Association pour le développement de l'enseignement du perfectionnement et de la recherche à l'Institut national agronomique Paris-Grignon (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 242260.56 €
- Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (France) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet MUSEOMIC (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Global biodiversity is being decimated by human activities, including agriculture, deforestation and land use change. This is causing unprecedented population declines and pushing species to extinction, especially in tropical ecosystems. Genetic health is an important measure of population viability, and to help identify populations at risk, this is now being included in conservation programs however, incorporating this level of information on genetic diversity can be challenging. Additionally, because standing levels of variation differ between species this makes assessing whether a population has “low” or “high” genetic diversity can be very difficult. In response, MUSEOMIC, will harness new ancient genetic and museomics techniques (sequencing of museum specimens), to measure changes in genetic diversity in three extremely vulnerable mammals (anoa, babirusa and Sulawesi warty pig) in the biodiversity hotspot of Wallacea. As an isolated tropical archipelago in Indonesia, Wallacea is the perfect natural laboratory for understanding how ancient and anthropogenic disturbances have impacted the genetic erosion of the three flagship mammals and is contributing to their decline. By tracking changes in genetic health through time and space, MUSEOMIC will gain insights into the extinction risk these unique taxa face and will directly benefit population management and long-term survival by identifying unique genetic diversity, designating conservation units, and making captive breeding recommendations. Hosted by Prof. L. Frantz at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (LMU), through MUSEOMIC, Dr Rosie Drinkwater will gain new skills in bioinformatics and population genetics, grow her research network, and succeed as a future leader in conservation biology.

Mots clés : mammals, wallacea, southeast asia, genomic erosion, palaeogenetics, deforestation, extinction risk

Participants :
- Université Louis-et-Maximilien de Munich (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 173847.36 €
Projet MeReMath (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

“Foundations of mathematics” labels the centuries-old interdisciplinary vision to secure the logical basis for mathematics and its applications. Gödel's celebrated completeness theorem for first-order logic, identifying semantic truth with syntactic deduction, is a key result heralding the formal phase of that vision. Yet, this and other foundational results have not been fully characterised regarding their logical strength and computational content, limiting their understanding and applicability.  The MeReMath project aims at closing this gap by systematically employing computer mechanisation to the programme of reverse mathematics, the ongoing effort to identify the exact logical principles underlying completeness and other results. For this analysis, the project will use the calculus of inductive constructions (CIC) as a logical base system, embodying an agnostic intuitionistic base system unveiling fine logical structure, and the Coq proof assistant, an interactive software tool for modelling logical reasoning and its computational content.  Specifically, continuing previous research of the experienced researcher (ER) and the supervisor, the MeReMath project will contribute the first comprehensive constructive and computational analysis of the completeness theorem, taking into account all dimensions relevant to its logical strength and implementing modularly mechanised proofs as executable Coq code. By further accommodating a similar analysis of the related Löwenheim-Skolem theorems and other results in the canon, the main outcome of the MeReMath project will be a well-designed, collaboratively developed Coq library for (constructive) reverse mathematics, with novel logical observations and mechanisation techniques developed on the way.  Hosted at the IRIF lab in Paris, the project will be developed in the centre of the original creation of CIC and Coq, providing a world-class environment for the project’s aims and the ER’s academic career prospects.

Mots clés : mechanised mathematics, constructive logic, reverse mathematics, intuitionistic type theory, coq, completeness theorem

Participants :
- Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 195914.88 €
Projet 2DValley (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The emerging field of opto-valleytronics based on two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) has the potential to revolutionize quantum information processing by enabling all-optical quantum photonic circuits with nonlinear and non-reciprocal devices, such as optical switches and isolators. Such devices are inherently difficult to realize because photons generally do not interact and flow in both directions due to time-reversal symmetry. In this action, I propose to develop novel optical microcavities with embedded TMD heterostructures to achieve photon-photon interaction and directional light propagation. A small twist angle between TMD heterobilayers gives rise to hybrid moiré excitons exhibiting a permanent dipole moment in addition to increased lifetimes and oscillator strengths. Strongly coupled to a microcavity, moiré polaritons emerge with valley-contrasting dipolar optical selection rules. Moiré polaritons exhibit optical nonlinearities induced by the moiré potential. Based on all this, the overriding research objective of the project 2DValley is to develop and investigate novel opto-valleytronic devices utilizing valley-polarized moiré polaritons. To achieve this goal, I will first develop gate-tunable moiré polaritons by studying hybrid moiré excitons in cryogenic optical spectroscopy and then embedding them into optical microcavities. I propose to lift the valley degeneracy of moiré polaritons with an external magnetic field, providing control over the valley degree of freedom. Finally, I propose to replace the external magnetic field by an internal built-in magnetic field via 2D ferromagnets, which enables unprecedented intrinsic control of the valley degree of freedom by lifting valley degeneracy via magnetic proximity exchange interaction. Such nonlinear and non-reciprocal opto-valleytronic devices would have potential technological and societal impact by increasing information processing speed, volume, and security.

Mots clés : opto valleytronics, moir polaritons, moir excitons, transition metal dichalcogenides, 2d magnets, valley polarization

Participants :
- Université Louis-et-Maximilien de Munich (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 173847.36 €
Projet MicroTRIAS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

A major challenge for mankind in the age of climate change is to feed the increasing human population in a sustainable manner. Currently, more than one third of crop yields are lost due to abiotic and biotic stresses, such as drought, salinity, pests and diseases. To minimize this yield gap and to simultaneously reduce the environmental impact of current agricultural practices, future crop production needs to be achieved with reduced input of fertilizers and pesticides. These challenges have increased the awareness of plant microbiomes bearing a hidden untapped potential for crop productivity and resilience that we must learn to use. Recently, more and more microbial products are tested in agriculture but often they are based on one or a few bacteria inoculants. However, the performance and efficacy of these products can be affected by many factors such as, soil type, temperature, humidity and the composition of the native microbiomes. The aim of the microTRIAS project is to unfold the potential of microbiomes by steering the native soil microbial communities towards plant-growth promoting and (a)biotic stress alleviating functions. To achieve this goal, I propose an innovative and ambitious multi-disciplinary approach based on the hypothesis that we can stimulate and train functional and taxonomic shifts in microbiomes on demand to remodel and improve existing communities, rather than introducing new elements in a native ecosystem. Additionally, by monitoring the microbiome changes, using beyond the state of art (multi)omics technologies, I will be able to identify microbes and functions fundamental to desirable microbiome traits. This study will suppose the first proof of concept of this novel integrative approach, opening new avenues for microbiome applications in agricultural settings. The findings of this study will be beneficial for improving agriculture sustainability but also will raise societal climate change awareness on the local and global scale.

Mots clés : plant microbe interaction, sustainable agriculture, microbiomes, multiomics

Participants :
- Université de Malaga (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 181152.96 €
Projet HisGesRecitative (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The secco recitative: those moments of sung speech where virtually all of an opera's dialogue and drama occurs and only occasional bass notes are written as accompaniment. Currently, these recitatives are often sped through or eliminated altogether. This research project will bring back the dramatic and artistic importance of the secco recitative genre in operas from a relatively neglected period in operatic performance practice research: 1740 to1840. It proposes a thorough investigation of the historically appropriate acting, declamatory, and gestural techniques which were specific to the genre and much appreciated by audiences of the period. Furthermore, it includes practice-led experimentation where the singer/actors can adopt these techniques and interact with different historically informed continuo-playing instruments and their harmonic improvisations. Previous researchers have investigated historical acting and gesture in baroque opera (Andrew Laurence King, Sigrid T’Hooft, Vincent Dumestre, Drottningholms Slottstheater) but they did not specifically focus on the recitative genre, nor did they deal with opera from later periods. Other researchers have investigated the role of harmonic improvisation in recitative accompaniment by cellists in earlier times (Walden, Whittaker, Bacciagaluppi, Suckling, Metzger) but they did not explore how these improvisations influenced and were influenced by the gestural and acting techniques employed on stage.  We are convinced that such historically informed, artistic experimentation will result in new, compelling recitative practice. Such highly improvised and interactive interpretations would vary significantly from performance to performance and would draw in the public through their dramatic novelty and variety. This will not only change the public’s appreciation of the recitative, but also alter their understanding of the aria that follows, enhancing modern appreciation of late classical and early romantic opera.

Mots clés : recitative, opera, acting, gesture, declamation, hip, continuo instruments

Participants :
- Université de Newcastle upon Tyne (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 260347.92 €
- Guildhall School of Music and Drama (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €