Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet WatTs (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The Writers and the Totalitarians (WatTs) analyzes dynamics of great relevance to our current era by exploring how totalitarian cultural diplomacy and soft power was exercised, received, and negotiated by writers and intellectuals in the Scandinavian democracies during the political polarization that marked “the European schism” of the interwar, Second World War, and early Cold War years. The political and ideological dividing lines that came to define European political life with ever-greater starkness from the early 1930s onwards could not but make a mark on Scandinavian intellectual life. WatTs examines how the national writers’ associations in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden as well as the Swedish-speaking writers’ association in Finland reacted to and interacted with the German National Socialist and Soviet Communist regimes from 1933 and into the immediate post-war period. Despite their importance as fora for shaping, legitimizing, and discussing the attitudes and actions of Scandinavian-speaking writers, historical research has paid little attention to the writers’ associations, and even less to their roles and reactions vis-á-vis the epochal political, ideological, and cultural developments taking place in the Nordic countries’ Southern and Eastern neighbor states in the interwar years and beyond. By utilizing several understudied archival collections located across the Nordic region, which have never been studied in conjunction, WatTs heeds the transnational turn in historical studies and explores how the leaders and memberships of the Scandinavian-speaking national writers’ associations reacted to, interacted with, and positioned themselves vis-á-vis the Third Reich and the Soviet Union and their respective cultural diplomatic efforts, and how, in doing so, they both acted according to and shaped the norms of an important but overlooked transnational Nordic literary-intellectual field.

Mots clés : literature and politics, national socialist germany, the soviet union, history of the nordic countries, scandinavia, cultural diplomacy, cultural sociology, soft power

Participants :
- Université du Danemark du Sud (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 263393.28 €
- Université de Bodø (Norvège) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet QM Modeling H-Bond (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Hydrogen bonds are everywhere in nature, and they are important in many fields of science. Well-known examples come from biology (helix structure, protein folding, enzyme docking), chemistry (solvation, structure and properties of water), and atmospheric science (nucleation and growth of aerosols). Today, the spectroscopic features of hydrogen bonds are relatively well understood, but much less is known about the associated ultrafast dynamics. The theoretical models that are used to understand and design present ultrafast experiments are often based on classical or semi-classical approximations to describe the movement of the nuclei. With the recent advances in both theory and ultrafast imaging techniques, we believe that the time is ripe for a full quantum mechanical picture of hydrogen-bond dissociation. A quantum mechanical picture of hydrogen bond dissociation will contribute to the basic understanding of chemical, biological, and atmospheric processes. In this project, I will perform a comprehensive quantum mechanical study of the hydrogen-bond dissociation dynamics of a small hydrogen-bound complex, pyrrole-H2O. The calculations will be performed in a reduced-dimensional framework, for which the central hypothesis is that certain vibrations dictate the dissociation process while other vibrations serve as spectators. The dissociation process will be initiated through an infrared excitation that provides just enough energy to dissociate the complex, but not enough energy to initiate other unwanted processes. We will establish how the reaction mechanisms for hydrogen-bond dissociation manifest themselves in the ongoing ultrafast dynamics experiments performed in the Controlled Molecule Imaging (CMI) group. The calculations will be tailored to design and simulate realistic experiments, and to facilitate the analysis of the experimental results.

Mots clés : computational chemistry

Participants :
- DESY (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 173847.36 €
Projet ConnectingResonances (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The proposed project intends to create a fertile entry point into the history, practice and aesthetics of sound media in South Asia as a key area of the Global South, aiming to understand the unique auditory cultures and sonic sensibility of this under-explored area in the light of the transcultural confluence between Global North and South. Such new knowledge fundamentally shifts the perspectives in sound studies and in a global media art history with a decolonial approach of co-listening and exploring medial reciprocity. Mentored by leading sound scholar and theorist Prof. Brandon LaBelle at the University of Bergen, and working with other institutional partners in Norway and internationally, the project re-examines a fundamental issue in the studies of modernity and globalisation concerned with media cultural encounters and technological transmissions between Global North and South as a two-way process of postcolonial confluence. The project is a first of its kind to research an ignored area of sound studies by putting South Asian sound and media scholars, artists and practitioners on the international platform, making their work exposed to the wider global audience for a much-needed critical engagement and equity in scholarship. The project benefits the large pool of practitioners active in South Asia, whose work has often been neglected in the Eurocentric field of critical media studies and media art history. The project makes a sustained attempt to assess their work toward a new decolonial theory of sound media in the form of a book and other outputs, aiming to address a number of critical issues in sound studies.

Mots clés : sound studies, musicology, media art history, decolonisation, global south, auditory culture, transcultural confluence, sound art

Participants :
- Université de Bergen (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 226751.04 €
Projet FAPbulous (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Bacterial resistance to antibiotics poses a critical global threat and is partly due to the formation of stable biofilms which shield bacterial cells from antibiotics. Cystic fibrosis in lugs and some hospital-acquired infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa are closely linked to the formation of biofilms and resistance mechanisms, which include the presence of amyloid fibrils. Amyloids are a class of proteins known for their ability to self-assemble into highly structured fibrils. Their pivotal role as major virulence factors in microbial pathogens makes them leading targets for developing novel antimicrobial treatments. However, our understanding of microbial amyloids is limited, especially in a physiological context. This gap is particularly pronounced for the Functional Amyloids in Pseudomonas (Faps). Detailed insights into their structures and how they interact within biofilms are still elusive, mostly due to the limits of imaging technologies. To address this knowledge gap, in the FAPbulous project, I will use a multidisciplinary approach by combining structural biology, biophysics and genetic engineering techniques to (1) determine the in vitro structures of Faps amyloid fibrils, (2) characterize their molecular mechanism within biofilms and (3) assess the effects of inhibitors known to prevent Faps fibrillation on biofilm formation and resilience. This highly innovative project will be achieved by using the recent advances in cryo-electron and super resolution fluorescence microscopies to gain unprecedented insights into the structural dynamics of Faps within medically relevant biofilms and unveil their detailed mechanism of action, paving the way for novel antimicrobial strategies. The interdisciplinarity of FAPbulous will massively improve my research profile, endowing me with the scientific and soft skills necessary to perform future multidisciplinary research at the interface of structural biology, host:pathogen interactions and protein aggregation.

Mots clés : functional amyloid in pseudomonas, bacterial biofilm, cryo electron microscopy tomography, sub tomogram averaging, correlative light and electron microscopy, super resolution fluorescence microscopy

Participants :
- DESY (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 202125.12 €
Projet LEAF (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

LEAF (New Farmers Leading Eco-friendly Agricultural Futures) is a research project that explores the motivations, challenges, and enabling factors driving young farmers to adopt agroecological practices. Focusing on Denmark, it aims to understand the barriers young farmers face in generational renewal and the adoption of sustainable farming methods. With only 12% of European farm managers under 40, and a significant gender imbalance, the project also seeks to identify how public policies, particularly the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), can better support this new generation of farmers, with attention to gender-specific needs.  LEAF is an interdisciplinary research project combining social science and ecology. It uses a Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach to engage directly with young Danish farmers. Through participatory interviews and workshops, the project aims to gather insights into their motivations and obstacles, such as technical knowledge gaps, financial constraints, and limited market access. The findings will be enriched through a review of relevant literature and an analysis of CAP policies.  The project will generate practical outputs, including guidelines for young farmers and policy recommendations to foster agroecology and support generational renewal. These insights will help shape more inclusive and effective European agricultural policies, ensuring that both male and female farmers are equipped to transition toward more sustainable, eco-friendly farming practices.  Through LEAF, a nuanced understanding of young farmers' socio-economic and policy challenges will emerge, providing valuable guidance for future agricultural strategies. This research has the potential to significantly impact the future of farming, promoting long-term sustainability and gender equity in the agricultural sector.

Mots clés : agroecology young farmers common agricultural policy cap socioeconomic development biodiversity protection climate change

Participants :
- Université de Roskilde (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 247553.28 €
- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet SKIN (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

SKIN: Social Kinships and Cooperative Care explores relatedness beyond biological links in European Copper and Bronze Age societies. SKIN will analyse the nature of different relationships between co-buried individuals in Iberia and Central Europe, c. 3000-1000 BC. It will adopt ethnographic, archaeological and bioarchaeological approaches, including aDNA and Sr-isotope analysis, to investigate to what extent kinship relations were based on genetic links, or instead, included constructs complementing and extending the nuclear family. Special attention will be paid to allomothering and cooperative care, two practices extensively documented cross-culturally, but rarely investigated in prehistory. SKIN will (a) contribute to developing an effective theoretical and rigorous methodological framework to investigate social kinship by reviewing bioarchaeological approaches currently in use, (b) promote an alternative focus in archaeology, moving from supra-regional and long-term genetic issues to studying individuals, especially women and children traditionally left behind (c) give new insights of kinship in prehistory based on both social and biological ties. The applicant’s new skills in human osteology, Sr- isotope and aDNA analyses acquired through high-quality training at the host institution ÖAI and during her MSCA-PF secondment will contribute to achieving these goals. Collaboration on the ECR-funded project The Value of Mothers to Society will create synergies exploring the gender dimension in Europe’s Later Prehistory. SKIN contributes to understanding kinship relations and the crucial role of cooperative care in the past, which are current themes of worldwide order.

Mots clés : funerary archaeology, bioarchaeology, kinship, archaeology of childhood, gender archaeology, copper age, bronze age, iberia

Participants :
- Académie autrichienne des sciences (Autriche) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 199440.96 €
Projet MAS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Musicality can be defined as the biological and cognitive abilities necessary to appreciate and create music, which makes song production a significant marker of the trait in the human species. In analogy, some acoustic behaviours of other species, whether birds, whales or primates, have also been traditionally termed “songs”. However, to date the relatively few studies of parallels between human and animal songs have focused mainly on bird songs. Broader cross-species comparison of animal songs would contribute to addressing the evolutionary origins of music, by disentangling the role of phylogeny and behavioural traits hypothesised to underlie musicality in humans. Two exemplary mammalian singers are humpback whales and gibbons. Their tonal and patterned vocal sequences are traditionally termed songs, but features of musicality have not yet been rigorously assessed. Such an observation would provide critical insights, as these two species possess proposed fundamental traits of musicality (they both have harmonically rich vocalisations, humpback whales are vocal learners and gibbons sing in duets), and they lie at very distinct branches of the mammalian phylogenetic tree. This research will thus test the existence of musical features in humpback whale and gibbon songs. Tests for the presence of overtone-based pitch selection (i.e. frequency intervals corresponding to small-integer proportions drawn from the harmonic series) and expressiveness (i.e. the oscillation between repetition and variation found in human music) have been successful in bird songs. Systematic measurements for these two features will be conducted in passive acoustic recordings of wild singing humpback whales and gibbons, for their songs to be compared with human music. This search will benefit from machine learning based vocalisation detection, classification and similarity measurements, as well as sub-unit segmentation, allowing a systematic analysis of musicality, robust against both signals

Mots clés : bioacoustics, biomusicology, musicality

Participants :
- Académie autrichienne des sciences (Autriche) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 214344.72 €
Projet OCEAN-MINeD (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Deep Sea Mining (DSM) is capturing significant attention across political, scientific, and societal domains. The deep sea is becoming a valuable source of capital, challenging its historical perception as "the last great wilderness". OCEAN-MINeD seeks to venture into these uncharted waters in order to investigate the implications that arise when mineral extraction shifts to an entirely distinct environmental realm, such as the ocean. Despite numerous social scientific studies investigating political, jurisdictional and environmental aspects of DSM, an evident gap remains in the exploration of the ocean's intricate material and discursive dimensions. The ocean transcends being merely a static body of water—it stands as an ever-present and dynamic force that continually shapes the facets of maritime extraction, the experiences of workers, and the crafting of “situational” knowledges and practices. Drawing inspiration from the innovative literature on the oceanic turn and the new interest in the three-dimensional and turbulent materiality of the sea, OCEAN-MINeD asks how mining “get(s) wet” and grapples with the ceaseless “oceanic presence”. OCEAN-MINeD examines these questions by conducting a multi-sited and ethnographic research across three distinct DSM hotspots in Norway: at the headquarters of Loke Marine Mineral to explore resource management processes, at the head office of Kongsberg Maritime to untangle DSM technology, and on board a DSM vessel to explore offshore operations. OCEAN-MINeD aims to develop a novel theoretical and ethnographic ocean-based approach designed specifically to investigate the role of the sea as a political and social actor in understanding the sociality, work and automation of DSM. The project will thus contribute to a broader understanding of the complex interplay between humanity, technology and the ocean within the realm of DSM, which is crucial for developing more sustainable policies on the use of marine resources.

Mots clés : anthropology of extraction, ethnography, oceanic turn, anthropology of the sea, deep sea mining, norway

Participants :
- Université de Bergen (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 210911.04 €
Projet RaCoCoLe (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Mathematics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Graph limit theory is a rapidly developing field of mathematics. Mészáros proposes to use ideas from graph limit theory to answer questions about random simplicial complexes. The motivation for investigating the cokernels of random integral matrices comes from the number theoretic conjectures of Cohen and Lenstra. Mészáros plans to make use of the fact that the questions arising studying the homology of random simplicial complexes are very similar to questions about the cokernels of random integral matrices. Thus, ideas can be transferred from one area to the other. Mészáros also proposes to investigate the expansion properties of random simplicial complexes. Many researchers at the Rényi Institute (the host institute) played a key role in developing graph limit theory and finding applications of this theory in several areas including ergodic theory, group theory, probability theory, statistical physics and computer science. Large part of Mészáros’s past and proposed projects relies on these techniques. Building on the research that he started during his three years at the University of Toronto as a postdoctoral fellow, Mészáros will bring new questions and areas where these techniques can be applied like stochastic topology. Mészáros’s work will not only provide new areas of applications, but hopefully will open new directions in graph limit theory. The arising new topics in graph limit theory can be of great interest to many members of the host institute. The fellowship would provide Mészáros an excellent opportunity for many fruitful collaborations to explore these topics further. He is also looking forward to improving his organization, management and communication skills to become a more well rounded researcher.

Mots clés : random simplicial complexes, graph limits, random matrices, cohen lenstra heuristics

Participants :
- Institut de recherches mathématiques Alfréd-Rényi (Hongrie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 182743.92 €
Projet RESDEM (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Democratic societies face a critical challenge: Addressing combined global pressures like climate change, economic instability, and disinformation while preserving democratic norms. As governments work to tackle these issues, the burden of change often disrupts citizens’ lives, leading to democratic erosion reflected in declining institutional trust, rising news avoidance, and growing intolerance. RESDEM addresses a key, yet poorly understood aspect of democracies’ ability to cope with global stressors: citizens’ democratic resilience. The project aims to develop a theoretical framework for understanding this resilience through the lens of public connection, offering a novel approach to resolving the tension between macro-level challenges and micro-level coping processes. Adopting a citizen-centric, practice approach, RESDEM examines democratic resilience as patterned adjustments in individuals’ engagement with public life when faced with disruptions. These manifest in shifting dynamics of attention to public affairs, information-seeking, political discussion, institutional trust, and political participation. RESDEM will conduct a comparative ethnographic study of onshore wind turbine projects in Norway and Germany, representing global issues materializing locally, often sparking grassroots mobilization that can challenge democratic norms. Norway and Germany, with strong institutions and high civic engagement, serve as “most likely” cases for democratic resilience. RESDEM aims to: 1) Identify key components of citizens’ democratic resilience, 2) Determine the interaction between individual resilience and local communication infrastructure, and 3) Identify factors fostering resilience through comparative analysis. The University of Bergen provides an ideal environment for this research, offering expertise in media studies, sustainable transformation and democratic theory.

Mots clés : democratic resilience public connection communication infrastructure political participation illiberal tendencies

Participants :
- Université de Bergen (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 251578.56 €