Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet GNR CONDUCTANCE (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

I will explore intrinsic charge conductance characterization of electrically decoupled individual graphene nanoribbon (GNR) in the lateral planar configuration by using two-tip scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) approach. For this purpose, on-surface synthesized GNRs of width ~1-2 nm and length <20-100 nm on metallic Au (111) surface will be considered. A unique two-tip STM microscope, which has been standardized at the host’s lab (in CEMES-CNRS), will be used for its excellent vertical (z) stability (Δz <2 pm) of piezo scanners to control the tip-to-GNR contacts. With ultimate precision, the proposed approach reserves atomic cleanliness under ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) starting from on-surface GNR synthesis on metallic Au(111) surface till the end of two-tip STM conductance characterization. We will use intermediate atomic thin layers of insulating gap sodium chloride (NaCl) to electrically decouple GNR from the Au(111) surface during charge conductance measurements with electrically disconnected substrate (floating substrate potential). We focus on the fundamental challenges associated with the two-tip charge conductance measurements of GNR, notably, establishment of stable STM tip point contacts to the GNR. Indeed, different types of contact configurations are expected depending on the tip-to-GNR distance, such as tunneling, van der Waals, chemical and mechanical, which can be monitored by recording the jump-to-contact characteristics (tunneling current vs tip height (I-z) spectra). Conductance characteristics of GNR are investigated in tip-to-tip configuration through planar GNR, which include current-voltage (I-V), voltage dependent resistance R(V), conductance G = I/V, differential conductance (dI/dV), current decay with tip-to-GNR distance (dI/dz), etc. Overall, we are determined to provide an atomic clean approach to explore the conductance characteristics of molecular GNR (width ~1-2 nm and length <20-100 nm).

Mots clés : graphene nanoribbons, molecular graphene, on surface synthesis, conductance, 2 probe measurements, 4 probe stm, scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy

Participants :
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 196707.84 €
Projet I2-ICIQ Impulsion (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Cofund Postdoctoral programme
Statut du projet : SIGNED

I2: ICIQ Impulsion will impulse the professional career of 12 highly talented international fellows through the development of an innovative research programme based on interdisciplinarity, internationality and intersectoriality. This research programme will include a mandatory secondment (from two to six months) in a different research entity (academic and/or non-academic). I2: ICIQ Impulsion offers 19 research groups led by internationally renowned senior and tenure track researchers that develop excellent interdisciplinary chemical research in different areas of the chemical sciences. - Catalytic activation of chemical feedstock - Renewable energies from sunlight - CO2 capture and valorisation I2: ICIQ Impulsion fellows will have the freedom to - define an innovative research project within one of these areas of research - choose the Group Leader they would like to work with - choose a partner organisation to develop a secondment Being part of the I2: ICIQ Impulsion community will allow fellows to have: - Close supervision and mentoring by internationally renowned Group Leaders - Access to state-of-the-art scientific equipment and facilities - A personalised Career Development Plan - A tailored Training Programme - Secondments in international institutions - Networking opportunities - Dissemination and public engagement activities - Outstanding working conditions I2: ICIQ Impulsion is a very attractive programme for highly talented postdoctoral researchers looking for further opportunities in research. It has been designed to enable the maximum impact on immediate and long-term career prospects for the fellows, both in academia and in the private sector. I2: ICIQ Impulsion will also contribute to improve the attractiveness of Catalonia, Spain and Europe as a leading destination for research and innovation, boost the international visibility of ICIQ and further increase the quality of research and innovation developed in the European Research Area (ERA)

Mots clés : postdoctoral training, chemistry

Participants :
- Institut Català d'Investigació Química (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 849600.0 €
Projet IDEAL (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Cofund Postdoctoral programme
Statut du projet : SIGNED

IDEAL is a new fellowship programme promoted by Fundación IMDEA Nanociencia that over 5 years aims to attract 12 talented postdoctoral researchers to undertake excellent research in any of the scientific areas of research at the Institute: (i) Organic Nanosystems for light harvesting and energy conversion, (ii) Fundamental properties of 2D materials, (iii) Nanomedicine against cancer and infection; (iv) Nanomagnetism and critical raw materials and (v) Solid state Quantum devices for information technologies and the (iv) Technology Transfer Platform. Key objectives: • Offer fellows a well-balanced research independence and mentoring from experienced researchers with access to an excellent infrastructure of the highest level for the pursuit of projects in nanoscience and nanotechnology. • Provide a full research training and career development programme, with a series of training and career development activities and opportunities. • Provide a dynamic research community and a lively international atmosphere focused on interdisciplinary research. Candidates will carry out projects of 30 months choosing a Partner Organization (PO) to develop a secondment (between 2 and 6 months). The candidates have the freedom to choose a PO best suited to their training needs from IMDEA’s broad spectrum of collaborators. The intersectoral, international POs (17 have provided letters of support), the majority of which are non-academic, will offer the fellows a chance to build their curriculum, offering experience outside of an academic environment. IMDEA Nano is a non-profit Foundation created in 2006 jointly by the regional government of Madrid and the government of Spain to shorten the distance between research and society; providing new capacity for research, technological development and innovation in the field of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. IMDEA Nano holds the Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence Award -the highest national recognition of scientific excellence.

Mots clés : nanoscience, nanotechnology, innovation, interdisciplinary, intersectoral

Participants :
- Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 1103400.0 €
Projet IDEM (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

IDEM analyses the didactic strategies of the medical establishment in Germany, the UK and North America in educating the public about the benefits of experimental medicine. The period of focus is from 1870 to 1914: the key expansion phase for experimental medicine in physiology, toxicology, surgery and immunology. Educational strategies were important for ensuring the on-going freedom of medical research in the face of opposition from the lay public on ethical, moral and aesthetic grounds. Potential legal checks on medical practice motivated doctors to change anti-scientific opinion through informal educational strategies, involving the dissemination of knowledge, the disparagement of opponents of experimentation, and influence over popular emotional reactions to medical science. IDEM probes the internal politics of the medical establishments of each area and the ways in which they learnt from each other through networks of exchange and experience. IDEM’s objectives are: 1. To explore the pedagogical techniques and strategies of the medical establishment in their efforts to “sell” experimental medicine to the lay public, in England, Germany and North America, c. 1870-1914. 2. To reveal the ways in which these techniques and strategies involved transnational networks and exchanges among these countries that worked to represent an orthodoxy of medical endeavour. 3. To interpret how far medical didacticism in this period depended upon affective appeals, either instead of or embedded into the dissemination of medical knowledge, and the extent to which such appeals were gendered. 4. To analyse the extent to which the defence of medical experimentation transformed both medical institutions and medical personalities into a) political agents and b) public bodies. 5. To assess the extent to which affective didacticism sought to change the emotional responses of both the public and of medical practitioners to the sights, practices and results of experimental medicine.

Mots clés : social history of medicine and medical humanities, history of emotions, transnational history

Participants :
- Freie Universität Berlin (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 243352.8 €
- McGill University (Canada) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet ILLITTERATAE (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

ILLITTERATAE explores religious radicalisation in later medieval Europe. It deals in particular with the role of women in the process of conversion to alternative religious movements in the late-thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Without priestly office or formal Latin education, ‘illiterate’ women have been characterised as keen followers and caregivers, but their intellectual role in these movements has been considered marginal or nonexistent. ILLITTERATAE interrogates their impact on the transmission of religious ideas and devotional knowledge in the western Mediterranean region by focusing on conversion from mainstream Christianity and redefining the metrics of religious radicalisation. ILLITTERATAE will concentrate on communities that came to be known as 'beguines/beguins', building and cataloguing an extensive corpus of archival and textual sources connected to the development of a ‘beguin’ identity across the Mediterranean. It will also map the local, regional, and transnational levels of this movement, deemed to be ‘heretic’ by the papacy in the early fourteenth century, through the combined application of Social Network Analysis and Geographic Information Systems. Finally, an Open Access web-based application will make the digital output of the project accessible to the scientific community and the wider public, including the source catalogue, digital editions of relevant texts, historical and geographical maps, network graphs, statistical diagrams, and references to modern scholarship. These will combine to allow users to augment the original sources by juxtaposing them with different layers of information. ILLITTERATAE will develop a relational model for thinking about religious change that crosses traditional national boundaries, thus reinforcing the agenda of Horizon 2020 by including women in religious leadership narratives, taking into account the dialectic between repression and dissent and the connection between violence and extremism.

Mots clés : church history, radicalisation, heresy, conversion

Participants :
- University of London (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 224933.76 €
Projet INPACT (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

INPACT aims to investigate how the relationship between local communities and their environment changed as rural areas became industrialized, by analysing material evidence from archaeological and environmental perspectives. The project will question the concept of ‘modernity’ as a one-way passage from ‘traditional’ to ‘modern’ societies, in which rural landscapes and societies are seen as passive subjects rather than active agents of change. The project’s basic hypothesis is that the process of industrialization entailed a complex process of transformation of the rural communities involved, with a far-reaching local and material dimension that has thus far been undervalued, but played a key role in creating and reproducing social and gender inequalities and in the transformation of the landscape. This hypothesis will be tested by applying the theoretical background and research strategies of the Archaeology of Environmental Resources and Archaeology of Architecture, joined through the perspective of Social Archaeology. INPACT will carry out an interdisciplinary analysis which takes as its case study the village of Casaio, Galicia (NW Spain), where three specific areas (a set of common lands; a deserted neighbourhood; and a wolfram mine) will be studied. The project comprises five phases (documentary analyses; extra-site and intra-site fieldwork; ethnographic reconstruction; laboratory analyses, including pollen analyses; and data processing and interpretation). The project will allow to analyse how the process of construction of the local community’s cultural heritage today, and thus offering new tools to enhance their material and immaterial memory. INPACT will be carried out by Dr. Carlos Tejerizo at the Laboratory of Environmental Archaeology and History (LASA), at the Università degli Studi in Genoa (UniGe). The supervisor will be LASA’s director, Prof Anna Maria Stagno, and proposes a two month secondment at Karlstad University supervised by Prof Eva Svensson

Mots clés : industrialization, social and gender inequalities, environmental resources archaeology, archaeology of architecture, rural archaeology, rural heritage

Participants :
- University of Genoa (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 171473.28 €
Projet INSPIRE (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Cofund Postdoctoral programme
Statut du projet : SIGNED

INSPIRE aims to cultivate the next generation of scientific leaders who are adaptable, systems thinkers at the forefront of leading microbiome research. Co-created with APC's industry and policy partners, ENSPIRE aims to support experienced researchers to take the next step in their careers by providing the opportunity to design intersectoral microbiome research projects in the interconnected areas of food systems or health that address pressing global challenges that align with APCs research expertise and tackling societal challenges outlined in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ranging from Anti-microbial Resistance (AMR), Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) to Food Systems. A particular strength of the APC is its significant intersectoral and interdisciplinary partnerships with global industry, non-profits, regulators, policy decision makers and SMEs. Credible scientific solutions are increasingly needed for global challenges. INSPIRE aims to forge cross-sectoral partnerships by exposing researchers to practitioners, international networking, career development and leadership training. Research projects are ground up and fellows can freely select the research project, supervisor, and Irish academic host institution. Fellows will benefit from access to excellent researcher supervisors, cutting-edge infrastructure and robust bespoke coaching / mentoring. INSPIRE aims to develop human capital and future proof fellows careers. INSPIRE will provide fellows with personalised professional career development, mentoring and support to facilitate fellows to future proof careers and allow some of the brighest minds to achieve their career aspirations.

Mots clés : microbiome, sustainable development, trans disciplinary, career advancement, innovation, industry, academia interface, intersectoral, mobility, societal impact, strategic, ncds, sdgs

Participants :
- National University of Ireland (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 1471200.0 €
Projet RENASCENT (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Retinitis pigmentosa is one of the main causes of irreversible blindness worldwide, yet the only intraocular approved treatment, Luxturna®, is suitable for less than 1% of patients. A promising way to tackle this disease is by targeting protein aggregation, a process involved in all forms of retinitis pigmentosa and other brain-related disorders. Most potential treatments are still in early stages, so repurposing existing drugs with known safety records can speed up the development of effective therapies. Tideglusib, a drug initially approved for the treatment of progressive supranuclear palsy, has shown promise in reducing protein aggregation, thereby offering protection against neurodegeneration. However, it needs to reach the retina, its therapeutical target, to be effective. The RENASCENT project aims to create a new treatment for all retinitis pigmentosa patients by developing a cutting-edge formulation to deliver tideglusib to the retina via subconjunctival injection, bypassing the challenges of current intraocular treatments that are poorly tolerated. This MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship will be conducted over two years at the University of Parma in Italy, under the guidance of Prof. Silvia Pescina, a leading expert in eye drug delivery. The project also includes a collaboration with the University of Alicante (Spain) and a visit to the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (France) to explore the physical properties and neuroscience aspects of the designed formulation. Alongside the scientific work, there will be communication activities to engage the public and share the findings also to an academic audience, providing valuable experience in Ophthalmology and Pharmaceutical Technology for Dr. Marco Brugnera. This project is a significant opportunity for his career, bridging academic research and industry innovation, and has the potential to make a meaningful impact on the treatment of retinitis pigmentosa.

Mots clés : ocular drug delivery, ophthalmic formulations, lipid nanocarriers

Participants :
- Université de Parme (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 193643.28 €
- Université d'Alicante (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet SynTDP (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is an adult-onset disorder characterized by progressive neuronal loss and synaptic dysfunction, leading to severe cognitive decline. Nuclear loss and pathological inclusions of TDP-43 protein have been identified in 20-50% of AD patients, which associate with higher odds of cognitive decline, and faster brain atrophy rates. TDP-43 regulates RNA metabolism, and many of its RNA targets converge at synaptic function. Studies from me and others identified TDP-43 dependent mis-splicing in AD patients with TDP-43 pathology, strongly suggesting that TDP-43 loss-of-function is an important, yet understudied, pathway in AD. Here, I hypothesize that TDP-43 loss-of-function in AD leads to defects in its synaptic RNA targets, which in turn contribute to synaptic dysfunction and thus cognitive defects. I will use post-mortem tissue, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and mouse models to characterize the impact of TDP-43 loss in synaptic function and composition, and matched these with RNA alterations resulting from TDP-43 loss-of-function. This will uncover novel synaptic signatures of TDP-43 dysfunction in AD, and offer new insights into neurodegeneration in AD. I will leverage my PhD training in synapse physiology and postdoctoral expertise in TDP-43 proteinopathy while working under the guidance of Dr. Ana Luísa Carvalho, a leading expert in synapse biology of disease. Dr. Carvalho is a dedicated mentor, and her lab at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC) in Portugal is part of a top-tier research center with state-of-the-art facilities and a vibrant academic environment. This experience will be crucial for developing the scientific and transferable skills needed to achieve my goal of becoming an independent researcher within 2-3 years. I am enthusiastic about this opportunity and believe the MSCA postdoctoral fellowship would be transformative for my career and personal development.

Mots clés : synaptic transmission, tdp 43, neurodegeneration, rna splicing, synaptic proteome, alzheimer s disease

Participants :
- Université de Coimbra (Portugal) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 207183.12 €
Projet DISPLACING-UNIS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Displacing Universities – Refugee Voices for Higher Education in Europe (DISPLACING-UNIS) is a critical ethnographic study into university initiatives for displaced people. The project interrogates differing approaches to refugee higher education (HE) amongst students, alumni, teachers, and admin staff across multiple scales in a historically-sensitive manner, embedding the analysis relationally to changes in HE, civil society/activist practices, and European and local policies. The research will be undertaken with the hope of improving the workings of refugee education initiatives (e.g. in their focus, scope, aims, pedagogies, intersectional awareness), university practices more broadly (e.g. in recognition of prior learning for admissions, trauma informed teaching) and HE’s wider response to displacement and learning (e.g. with education as a means of mobility and social justice for marginalised learners). Aside from scholarly and public-facing outputs (i.e. articles, a book proposal, audio documentaries, podcasts), the project will include specific recommendations for existing initiatives and produce an EU-level policy paper on the role of initiatives for displaced learners' access and success in HE. This will be reworked into locally specific toolkits for HE practitioners and policy makers. Data will be gathered on both a global level, via a collaborative podcasting-as-research method, and through three case studies in Dublin, Budapest and Barcelona, including via participant observation, interviews, curriculum analysis and participatory audio documentary production. I am an anthropologist and refugee education practitioner, and will use the fellowship to build on my experience to develop expertise in both refugee and higher education studies, as well as know-how in cutting edge participatory methods and effective policy intervention.

Mots clés : refugee higher education initiatives

Participants :
- Université de la ville de Dublin (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 215534.4 €