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

Many writers across different literary traditions have been working as teachers, and thus school has often been not only a space of canon transmission, but also a source of literary inspiration. Yet, the relationship between writers and the teaching profession has not received the critical attention it deserves. WRICHERS aims at addressing this lacuna and developing an innovative theoretical framework to study the possible interactions between writers' and teachers’ careers from a literary perspective. In order to achieve such a goal, the project wants to build a digital archive that will allow to 1) explore, categorise, analyse and critically assess the specific functions of teaching experiences in the literary careers of 20th-century Italian writers; 2) prove the literary value of a number of texts produced by writers in school contexts and often downplayed as mere bureaucratic documents; 3) examine the ways in which Italian writers dealt with their involvement in school teaching while managing their public image as writers. WRICHERS will address a gap in the field of Italian studies, but the theoretical framework resulting from the research will be designed in a way that will make it applicable to other literary contexts. Specifically, the project will collect a large set of relevant data and hitherto invisible archival documents (the core of the archive will consist of teachers’ journals penned by writers that currently risk to stay inside dusty boxes, spread in different school archives all across Italy), and will make them freely available not only to scholars from different disciplines, but also to the wider public. Beyond academia, WRICHERS has the ambition to raise awareness of why school archives are sites of cultural heritage and how this heritage can be enhanced by local school communities. Finally, the project may also contribute to improving the attractiveness of the teaching profession by highlighting the role of teachers as important cultural actors.

Mots clés : writers teachers school work sociology literature italian discourse analysis history education school archives digital humanities digital archive cultural heritage public humanities

Participants :
- Institut national de documentation, éducation et recherche éducative - Agence Erasmus + (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- KU Leuven (Belgique) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 239700.0 €
Projet electorsDDADM (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Electric field-powered Micro/Nano motors (e-MNMs) are tiny devices that convert electric energy into mechanical movements. e-MNMs are the potential candidates for the range of applications from physics to biology. Most of the existing e-MNMs have been shown to propel in various fuel media, like H2O2, hydrazine, and hydroquinone, limiting their toxicity applications. The majority of their fabrication processes are expensive, time-consuming, and complicated, highlighting the need for a simple fabrication approach to devise eco-friendly e-MNMs. This proposal aims to develop a new strategy for fabricating electric field responsive asymmetric molecular microparticles using a simple fabrication technique and analyzing their motions in the presence of the electric field without an additional fuel medium. For the first time, we will employ the simple ‘reprecipitation technique’ to incorporate the gold nanoparticles into the asymmetric crystals of strongly zwitterionic diaminodicyanoanthroquinodimethane (DDADM) derivatives and employ them as micromotors under the electric field. The essential determinants for developing asymmetric morphologies will be a non-centrosymmetric assembly of dipolar molecules, non-equilibrium conditions, and local supersaturation during the reprecipitation technique; further examples will need to establish it conclusively. Molecular e-MNMs will be expected to exhibit high-speed motions (~ 30 to 100 times of the body length S-1) under a low electric field (50-180 V/cm). It will be proposed that the concentration gradient of the polar DDADM molecules and trapped gold nanoparticles across the asymmetric crystal can induce charge dielectrophoresis force in the presence of an electric field that could facilitate the mechanical motions of e-MNMs in the water. An empirical model will be developed for the mechanistic understanding of the actuation process and insight into the response of the DDADM molecules under the electric field.

Mots clés : aggregation induced emission, zwitterionic, colloids, asymmetric particles, molecular micromotors, electric field, 

Participants :
- Université des technologies de Brno (Rép. Tchèque) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 166278.72 €
Projet PYROADAPT (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The frequency and severity of wildfires in Europe are expected to increase as climate change intensifies, threatening essential ecosystem services provided by forests. Even regions historically not prone to wildfires, such as northern Europe, are now at risk. A critical knowledge gap exists regarding the ability of forests to adapt to wildfires (i.e., maintaining or adjusting their properties to preserve these services). Previous research has identified indicators to enhance forest adaptive capacity in Europe, but the focus on wildfires has been limited, increasing the risk of maladaptive practices. Given the ecological and socioeconomic dimensions intertwined in Europe’s forests, an integrated socio-ecological approach is essential. However, this approach has not been fully incorporated into the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change, the Green Deal, or the New Forest Strategy for 2030. TOADAPT is an interdisciplinary project aiming to assess Europe’s forest adaptive capacity to wildfires through a socio-ecological lens. The project will (1) identify key forest properties and indicators for wildfire adaptation; (2) build metrics to describe how these indicators enhance adaptive capacity; and (3) quantify adaptive capacity across Europe, identifying hotspots and coldspots for guiding wildfire prevention, conservation, and management. By conducting a systematic literature review, establishing adaptation criteria, a stakeholder questionnaire, and using publicly available EU data, TOADAPT will deliver the first pan-European spatial assessment of forest adaptive capacity to wildfires. This assessment will serve as a foundational model for addressing other disturbances, such as windthrows and bark beetle infestations, aiding practitioners and policymakers in identifying priority areas for sustainable forest management and conservation. Ultimately, TOADAPT will produce valuable scientific insights to inform national, European, and global strategic forestry actions.

Mots clés : social ecological systems, wildfires, forests

Participants :
- Université de Göttingen (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- CERCA Institution (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 209914.56 €
Projet CapaciTree (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Climate change threatens the future of forest functioning, compromises their productivity, increases the risk of fire or insect outbreaks, and ultimately causes tree mortality. Under drought, trees can experience catastrophic hydraulic failure due to xylem cavitation (i.e. the breakage of the water column), which is the main cause of tree mortality worldwide. Trees can partially avoid cavitation by mobilising water stored in their tissues into the xylem conduits to meet the atmospheric evaporative demand, a process known as hydraulic capacitance. Despite the relevance of capacitance for predicting transpiration and mortality risk under climate change, we still lack empirical evidence for the dynamics of storage-use and refilling of plant-water pools under drought, particularly for trees growing under natural conditions. Here, I propose to combine labelling experiments with isotopically enriched water with a new technique to selectively extract water from different woody tissues, to quantify and characterize hydraulic capacitance, specifically the refilling and storage-use dynamics, and its contribution to transpiration. I will: 1) characterize the dynamics of tree storage water in relation to tree size; 2) develop a novel methodology to quantify the contribution of capacitance to transpiration; 3) estimate the contribution of tree capacitance to transpiration in mature trees in a native Mediterranean forest subjected to severe drought; and 4) compare the proposed methodology with conventional techniques to assess capacitance in three coexisting Mediterranean tree species in response to drought. My expertise in plant ecophysiology will be key to undertake this project, which will also leverage my skillset for the study of forest resilience to drought. This project will serve to build more realistic models of forest responses to drought and to inform forest management policies to adapt forest ecosystems to climate change.

Mots clés : drought, hydraulic capacitance, plant ecophysiology, transpiration, water relations, water stable isotopes

Participants :
- CERCA Institution (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 209914.56 €
Projet MOIST (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Increasing droughts reduce the water stored in trees leading to widespread forest mortality and higher fire risk. To know where and when forests are endangered, it is crucial to regularly monitor their water status at large (plot to regional) scales. However, there is a large information scale gap between the current measures of water status at the tree level and the target larger scales. Remote sensing retrievals of vegetation optical depth (VOD) can bridge this gap. The VOD is a parameter retrieved using global navigation satellite systems transmissometry (at plot scale) and satellite radiometry (at up to global scale). Recent research shows how water information can be isolated from VOD, and points to the application of different microwave frequencies to sense water in different tree tissues. In MOIST, VOD at plot and regional scales will be compared to in situ leaf and stem ecophysiological data. The VOD will be used to estimate water content in leaves and stems. Then, ecosystem-scale pressure volume curves, a novel concept in plant ecophysiology, will be applied to retrieve water potential estimates at plot and regional scales for the first time. Results will be provided to fire and forestry administrations to enhance their assessment of drought risks on forests. MOIST will combine remote sensing and ecophysiology, involve an international network of researchers, and work with a supervisor and a research center who are world-leading experts in forest ecophysiology. MOIST will reach international publics and engage young generations in taking care of forests. The applicant, Dr. David Chaparro, has the ideal remote sensing skills and dissemination experience to undertake this project, which is also perfectly designed to expand his skills, leveraging his career. With novel approaches to monitor the forests’ water status at large scales, MOIST will bridge the water information scale gap and provide unprecedented tools to assess forest conditions and risks.

Mots clés : microwave remote sensing, vegetation optical depth, plant ecophysiology, water content, water potential, satellites, gnss transmissometry, forest mortality, fire risk

Participants :
- CERCA Institution (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 194074.56 €
Projet FONDACO (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

This two-year Fellowship will produce the first systematic study of an uncharted network of knowledge exchange connecting Christian and Islamicate states across the Mediterranean and Levant 1400-1700. This network had its humble origin in a public health initiative of the Republic of Venice, first uncovered by Pugliano thanks to a Wellcome Trust Fellowship in Medical History. Keen on protecting its commercial and political interests overseas, for three centuries Venice appointed physicians, surgeons and apothecaries to its colonies and outposts in the Mamluk Sultanate and the Ottoman Empire. Tasked with guarding the health of Venice’s diplomats and merchants, in fact these medical servants used their positions as springboards for rich intellectual explorations that brought them in contact with local populations and traditions. The proposed project aims to investigate how these diplomatic doctors turned into savants and, more ambitiously, how this network facilitated the development of key fields of scholarship in early modern Europe, notably natural history and antiquarianism, and how these were informed by the intellectual world of the Near East. In so doing, the project will overturn the image of intellectual stagnation traditionally attributed to the post-medieval Mediterranean world, and reshape our understanding of the connected history of the region. The project will significantly contribute to the development of the field of History of Science and Medicine in the host institution and European higher education. It will also considerably advance the career of Valentina Pugliano, an experienced researcher educated internationally in the UK, Germany and the US. The training provided by Ca’ Foscari and a secondment at Koç University, Istanbul, the international networks of these two institutions, and the project’s output, will cement Pugliano’s reputation as emerging scholar and increase her chances of securing an ERC grant and a position at a European university.

Mots clés : venice, mediterranean, mamluk and ottoman levant, cross cultural encounters, knowledge networks, natural history, antiquarianism, collecting, global early modern europe, public health

Participants :
- Université Ca' Foscari de Venise (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 188590.08 €
- Université Koç (Turquie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet HAMP (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Every year more than 60 million people live with Cardiovascular Disease (CVD), and more than 1.8 million people die as a result of CVD, accounting for 36% of all deaths. Among different types of CVD, heart attack and stroke are the leading cause of death in the EU. The recognized guidelines identify the first one hour after the onset of a heart attack as the golden hour to receive proper medical assistance and prevent death or damage to organs. Hence, there is a vital need for a compact and easy-to-use biosensing platform that can be used outside hospital settings by the patient or the ambulance staff for diagnosis of heart attack within the golden hour. NT-pro-BNP is a desirable biomarker due to its fast release kinetics, higher circulation levels and lower fluctuations. Although significant advances in NT-pro-BNP biosensors generations have been achieved, these face some serious limitations as most of them cannot be used outside hospital settings, requiring physical attendance of patients which leads to losing time (beyond the golden hour) and increased risk of death. In this project, I propose – for the first time – a wearable and wireless system for early and quick diagnosis of a heart attack outside the hospital setting. The Heart Attack Monitoring Patch (HAMP) that I propose here, is composed of an AC Electrokinetic (ACEK)-based fast-response label-free NT-pro-BNP biosensor, microneedles array for interstitial fluid sampling and data processing, and wireless communication circuits. Although the ACEK phenomenon is a well-established method for the design of rapid biosensors, this is for the first time that the ACEK effect is employed by a wearable biosensing system for high speed (less than a minute) and low LOD (below 1 pg/mL) detection. The HAMP has a compact and conformal structure that is easy to use and can be used when patients feel the first symptoms of a heart attack and results can be conveniently sent to the nearby hospitals within the golden hour.

Mots clés : ac electrokinetic, wearable, biosensor, wireless communication, 

Participants :
- Université Koç (Turquie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 148478.4 €
Projet DISEQ (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Increases in atmospheric CO2 have resulted in significant changes in global climate and ecosystem processes. It is well known that the terrestrial biosphere fixes large quantities of carbon from the atmosphere. Still, less certain is whether soil and terrestrial vegetation can mediate the increase in CO2 and for how long. Carbon storage largely depends on water constraints, and climate models predict drier future conditions, particularly in the Mediterranean. Although droughts are associated with reductions in photosynthetic rates, their effect on the role of forests in climate change mitigation is still unclear. The Drought Impact on the Climate Benefit of Carbon Sequestration project aims to advance understanding of the impact of soil moisture on forests-avoided warming and for how long it occurs by achieving three objectives: i) simulate the effect of drought on the global terrestrial biosphere C cycle under global warming scenarios, ii) develop a mechanistic model based on experimental observations to represent the carbon cycle dynamics under drought conditions in a Mediterranean forest, and iii) compare the warming produced by CO2 emissions and that avoided by Mediterranean forests under drought scenarios. These objectives will permit answering whether the climate benefit of C sequestration is sensitive to drought conditions on a global and local (Mediterranean) scale and whether Mediterranean forests mantain their offset CO2 emissions under these conditions. The above will be carried out by linking photosynthesis, storage and respiration processes through the combination of Transit Time, Carbon Sequestration, and the Climate Benefit of Sequestration concepts with measurements from a unique long-term drought experiment, the compartmental system approach and global carbon cycle models. This project will result in relevant scientific contributions and a valuable and comprehensible tool to enhance policy-oriented discussion on nature-based climate mitigation.

Mots clés : carbon sequestration, transit time, drought, long term experiment, mediterranean forest ecosystem, global warming scenarios, climate change mitigation, forest management

Participants :
- Société Max-Planck pour le développement des sciences (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- CERCA Institution (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 165312.96 €
Projet REXHALODYN (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Mathematics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

REXHALODYN aims at understanding some of the regular and exotic features of Hamiltonian systems, circle maps, and generalized interval exchange transformations, or GIETs. Hamiltonians provide a powerful description of classical mechanics phenomena. Circle maps and GIETs are archetypal examples that illustrate fundamental concepts and phenomena within dynamical systems. Moreover, the latter two offer simplified models that capture essential features of more complex systems; e.g., they appear naturally as Poincaré maps of (locally) Hamiltonian flows on compact surfaces, and thus are closely related to Hamiltonians in this context. Within this framework, the words regular and exotic do not have a precise mathematical meaning; however, we use them here to stand for features in each system that are either well-behaved (regular), such as the existence of stable quasi-periodic motions in Hamiltonian, and rigidity phenomena in circle maps and GIETs; and for features that are ill-behaved (exotic), such as sensitive dependence to initial conditions in Hamiltonians or existence of singular invariant measures in circle maps and GIETs. Understanding these complementary features deepens our understanding of the systems, their properties, and the underlying mathematical structures that give rise to a rich spectrum of behaviors.  The main objectives of this project are:  -Prove the existence of lower-dimensional invariant tori, associated with a resonant torus with any number of resonances, for general classes (e.g., convex) of near-integrable Hamiltonians. -Obtain precise estimates for the Hausdorff dimension of the unique invariant probability measure of multicritical circle maps with irrational rotation number of bounded type. -Obtain rigidity results for multicritical circle maps with irrational rotation number.  The research is planned for two years and takes as a basis many of the results and methods developed by the applicant in his previous works.

Mots clés : dynamical systems, hamiltonian dynamics, circle maps, interval exchange transformations, kam theory, renormalization

Participants :
- CERCA Institution (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 165312.96 €
Projet FHEOAG (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Ferroelectric high entropy oxides (FHEOs) are a novel type of ferroelectric material with the simultaneous existence of configurational entropy and internal ferroelectric polarisation. These effects combined with intrinsic lattice distortion and uneven electron-cloud distribution of high entropy oxides can lead to the generation of multiple active sites with improved separation of charge carriers, significantly impacting different photocatalytic reactions, such as pollutants degradation and water splitting. Furthermore, the visible-light-driven photocatalytic activity of FHEOs can be secured by the decoration with plasmonic metal nanoparticles (MNPs), efficiently harvesting visible light due to their localised surface plasmon resonance (LSPR). Thus, our strategy is to synthesize an entirely new FHEO and decorate it with plasmonic MNPs to produce a novel material with improved charge separation and visible light absorption, which will contribute to a major step forward in the catalysis field. The produced materials will be fully characterised and the photocatalytic efficiency will be evaluated over the degradation of pollutants present in wastewater and in the water splitting process.

Mots clés : high entropy materials, nanostructures, photocatalysts, ferroelectric materials, plasmonic metal nanoparticles

Participants :
- Institut Jožef Stefan (Slovénie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 155559.36 €