Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet SMARTHEP (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

SMARTHEP is a consortium formed by academic and industrial partners on scientific, technological, and entrepreneurship aspects of real-time analysis. The focus of SMARTHEP is a central question in a data-rich environment: how to make the most of the available data to take decisions fast and efficiently, making the most of the available data. The main purpose of SMARTHEP is to train a new generation of inter-sector researchers and give them the tools to tackle this challenge, by processing large datasets in real- time, aided by Machine Learning and hybrid computing architectures. The results of SMARTHEP will benefit the HEP community in providing cutting edge technology and algorithms for the area of data selection (triggering) and particle detection, leading to precise measurement of the fundamental constituents of matter and enabling the discovery of new physics processes. The results of SMARTHEP include concrete commercial deliverables for industry in the fields of transport, finance and industrial decision-making processes. The training aspect of this work is crucial to SMARTHEP. The young investigators working within SMARTHEP will also be prepared as professionals in the upcoming and highly demanded area of Data Science. They will have the chance to gather work experiences and training in industry during their PhD degree and establish connections to companies, as well as acquire the skills that are necessary to a career in either industry or academia.

Mots clés : real time analysis, heterogeneous computing architectures, trigger, machine learning

Participants :
- Heidelberg University (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 252788.4 €
- Lund University (Suède) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 281982.96 €
- Cie ibm france (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 274802.04 €
- Verizon connect italy spa (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 261499.68 €
- Kkt srl (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Geneva (Suisse) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 281276.64 €
- University of Helsinki (Finlande) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 280805.76 €
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (Suisse) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 281276.64 €
- University of Manchester (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 274800.66 €
- TU Dortmund University (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 505576.8 €
- Sorbonne Université (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 274802.04 €
- Dutch Research Council (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 265619.88 €
Projet SOON (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

SOON is a career development scientific project aimed at offering an experience researcher (Dr. Oscar Andrés Loaiza) high quality research training in the field of Sustainable Biosensors for Food Safety monitoring, linking the knowledge of multidisciplinary fields of the bioelectroanalytical chemistry and advanced manufacturing technologies. Combining the researcher’s previous experience in analytical chemistry, nanomaterial fabrication and biosensors based on screen-printing technologies, and the hosting institution (BIOLAN Microbiosensores S.L.) proven expertise in developing electrochemical biosensors for food industry, in the framework of SOON we will research on the design and development of a future new generation of sustainable single-use biosensors for nitrite monitoring applied to food safety. Along with these scientific objectives, the project also focuses on developing the researcher’s transferable skills by strengthening communication, scientific writing, supervision and international mobility, preparing him to become an independent well-established scientist. SOON will link both basic research and industry thanks to the scientific excellence and industrial environment of the hosting organization (BIOLAN) and of the technological research centre during the secondment institution (NAITEC). In this sense, the researcher will be given a promising opportunity to transfer knowledge and results between academia and industry. After all, SOON aims at providing excellent working conditions to an ambitious international scientific talent in a high-level industrial and research environment, helping him to build his research career in Europe.

Mots clés : food safety, food additives, nitrite, paper based biosensor, sustainable, eco friendly, portable, water based inks

Participants :
- Biolan microbiosensores sl (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 172932.48 €
Projet SOUNDEPTH (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

SOUNDEPTH is a research project on early modern conceptions of ore generation within the broader theoretical and practical contexts of natural philosophy, Earth sciences, and human-environment interactions. In carrying out an interdisciplinary study of these subjects, the project aims to disclose new insights into our understanding of geological phenomena and natural resources, thus giving a significant contribution to the history of science, environmental history, and to the ongoing environmental debate. These goals will be achieved through the acquisition of new scientific knowledge and skills, the strengthening of the existing ones, and the implementation of an interdisciplinary work that will combine 1) an in-depth analysis of the sources that influenced the early modern debate on mineral generation and 2) a confrontation with the existing secondary literature on the subject, with 3) the replication in laboratory of significant alchemical and mineral processes and the comparative exploration of historical mining sites in Europe. The outgoing phase at Johns Hopkins University (USA, month 1-24) will focus mainly on the analysis of sources and studies, on the acquisition of new scientific knowledge (geochemistry, geobiology, alchemy, experimental history of science), and on laboratory replications. The secondment period at Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands, month 25-27) and the incoming phase at Ca’ Foscari Venice (Italy, month 28-36) will be especially devoted to refining my existing expertise (history and philosophy of early modern science, Earth sciences, environmental history, ecology, digital humanities, textual criticism) and to the exploration of historical mining sites. Research outputs (conference presentations; open access, peer-reviewed publications; open data repositories; outreach and communication activities; publications aimed to students and the general public) will be produced across the entire duration of the project.

Mots clés : history of science, natural philosophy, earth sciences history, early modern period, environmental, studies, natural resource management, mining, human environment relations, interdisciplinary

Participants :
- Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 251002.56 €
- Johns Hopkins University (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet SPEME (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Staff Exchanges
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

SPEME will develop a joint program of exchanges between academic researchers - working on memory, trauma and heritage - and non-academic professionals - working in the fields of memory museums and sites of memory - between Italy, The Netherlands, Argentina and Colombia. The fundamental aim of the project is to devise new forms of transmission of traumatic memories linking them to the present, on the assumption that memory, to be effective, has to invent creative ways of becoming relevant to the present. In order to do so, the project will take as its specific object of investigation a various array of spaces of memory, such as museums, former detention camps and sites of commemoration, to investigate how various traumatic pasts can be preserved and transmitted through space, and which kind of innovative actions might both improve knowledge of the past and serve as an opening to actual issues and new social subjects. The international and intersectoral network developed by the project will make possible transfers of knowledge, both between difficult past heritages in different historical and geographical contexts (Europe and Latin America) and between academic researchers and museum curators. The different and complementary competences of these institutions will promote something more than a simple knowledge transfer but will fuel powerful knowledge exchanges at the theoretical, methodological and practical levels, which has few or no precedents in the field of memory and museum studies. Through a rich combination of staff meetings, theoretical seminars, training workshops, fieldworks and conferences, this project will increase competences and skills of both academic and non academic partners, as well as facilitate the development of innovative and creative actions involving new social actors (civil society, new generations, minority groups, refugees, and others) and addressing actual questions, from Human Rights to post-conflict reconciliation.

Mots clés : memory, museum, human rights, reconciliation, gender

Participants :
- Fondazione recupero e valorizzazione della memoria storica del campo di fossoli (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Autres, subvention : 36000.0 €
- Stichting herengracht 401 (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Autres, subvention : 31500.0 €
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Colombie) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Bologna (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 310500.0 €
- University of Buenos Aires (Argentine) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Museo de sitio esma - ex centro clandestino de detención, tortura y exterminio (Argentine) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 175500.0 €
Projet STRAITSECURITY (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

STRAITSECURITY investigates policy and legal challenges in the maritime sector posed by the rapid spread of technology and growing threats to cybersecurity. The project will focus on some of the world’s busiest commercial shipping lanes as case studies (the Straits of Singapore and Malacca, the Sunda Strait and the Lombok Strait – all of which are partially or wholly within the jurisdiction of the Republic of Indonesia). These shipping lanes are of vital importance to European trade to Asia and a blockage would affect all corners of the globe. The rise of autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, robotics and the internet of things raises a number of vulnerabilities and challenges to maritime security. The anonymous, borderless nature of cyberspace presents unique opportunities for hackers, terrorists and cybercriminals, as well as unprecedented challenges for policy makers and law enforcers. The burgeoning and ubiquitous reliance on technology, coupled with continued piratical and terrorist activity in the region, poses a severe security risk to shipping. In recent years, the concept of cyber-terrorism has gained widespread awareness. This multidisciplinary, original and innovative research aims to significantly advance our theoretical and empirical understanding of the intersections between physical and cyber threats to the maritime domain, by considering the real possibility of hybrid threats to maritime security, such as ‘cyber-piracy’ and ‘cyber-terrorism’. It also aims to address a number of conceptual problems that these raise and the respective implications in maritime security policy for the international community in general and the EU in particular. The research will deploy mixed qualitative and quantitative research methods and collect primary data by consulting with experts in law, policy, technology, maritime security and cyber security in the UK and SE Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore) to inform its conclusions and recommendations.

Mots clés : maritime security, cyber security, hybrid threats, southeast asia, indonesia, shipping, technology, piracy, terrorism

Participants :
- Coventry University (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 224933.76 €
Projet SUccESS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

SUccESS aims at identifying transformation pathways towards sustainability that are both safe, in terms of being within the ecological boundaries of a place, and just, in terms of being socially just. To achieve this at regional level, ecological boundaries and social foundations will be assessed, and these variables will be related to: 1) social foundations that need to be secured to avoid human deprivation; and 2) stakeholder's mental models of change, for chosen cases from Kenya. Based on these relationships, the initiative will explore pathways using a systems dynamic approach to ensure a safe and just operating space (SJOS) for transformation to sustainability. This integrative approach provides an innovative way to address the sustainability of social-ecological systems (SES) and their transformation options in a globalized context. This will also help to develop methodology aimed at defining boundaries for sustainable development that can be applied to identify tipping points, limits to growth and limits to adaptation across the world.

Mots clés : sustainable development, safe and just operating space, social ecological system, system dynamic modelling

Participants :
- University of Bern (Suisse) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 187419.6 €
Projet SAV-EO (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Savannahs are important ecosystems that are found on almost half of the African continent. Unfortunately, they undergo massive conversions and are affected by land degradation processes leading to a decline in the ecosystem services they provide to some of the continent’s poorest and most vulnerable human populations. Reductions in the productivity of dryland savannahs have major social and political implications, and the United Nations (UN) has labelled the accurate quantification of savannah degradation as of high priority. Monitoring the woody component of savannah land cover is, therefore, needed to enhance the understanding of broad-scale changes in savannahs & their relationship with ecosystem degradation. Over large scales, this can only be achieved in a cost-effective manner using Earth Observation (EO) technologies. The development of SAV-EO is, therefore, proposed which will employ novel remote sensing methodologies, based on thousands of freely-available optical & radar satellite data for the mapping & monitoring of fractional woody cover over the entire southern African savannah region (1,500,000km2). A monitoring tool that identifies underlying land degradation processes, such as bush encroachment & deforestation, will also be devised based on a dense time-series analysis approach using all available data from the 45-year long Landsat archive. Another objective of SAV-EO is to provide an advancement in the design of operational indicators for the assessment & monitoring of land degradation, within the Land Degradation Neutrality framework suggested by the UN, in order to achieve the target of the Sustainable Development Goals to combat desertification by the 2030. The innovative algorithms, data & outputs will be made available open-access via a bespoke web-GIS platform & numerous dissemination & communication activities, thus providing an invaluable resource for scientists & policy makers alike.

Mots clés : savannah fractional woody vegetation cover, landsat, compositing, pre processing, image classification, unccd, deep learning, ccdc, land degradation neutrality, google earth, web gis, open access

Participants :
- Manchester Metropolitan University (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 224933.76 €
Projet BUFFS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Scattering amplitudes and form factors are fundamentally important quantities in quantum field theories, directly related to physical observables such as probabilities of particle interactions measured in collider experiments. Over the last decades, studies of these objects have revealed beautiful physical and mathematical structures, which have inspired powerful computational methods making accessible previously impossible calculations. The goal of this project is to further uncover such hidden structures, by exploiting a surprising interplay of fundamental principles. One focus will be on recently discovered infrared and ultraviolet principles, their possible duality, and how they can be used to construct scattering amplitudes in new ways that expose unitarity as an emergent property. Next, the project will explore the expression of unitarity as a geometry of positive constraints, which was conjectured to fully define string theory amplitudes. The final main goal is the application of such on-shell principles and the color-kinematic duality to form factors, off-shell generalisations of scattering amplitudes of great phenomenological importance. The project also encompasses a comprehensive program for the dissemination and communication of its results. The former will be based on publications in high impact journals and talks at major conferences, while the latter involves diverse outreach activities targeted at a wide range of audiences. The researcher will benefit from a bespoke training program, including courses in career management, public engagement, teaching activities, and participation in scientific workshops. The balanced distribution of these complementary activities is designed to optimise the benefit for the researcher, to increase his visibility and independence, to enhance his skills portfolio and, hence, to prepare him for a permanent academic position in the future.


Participants :
- University of London (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 224933.76 €
Projet SZFunc (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Schizophrenia is a devastating disease with high societal costs. However, little is known about the biological mechanisms behind the disorder, a knowledge gap that has stalled the development of new treatments. We recently discovered that truncating mutations in RBM12, an RNA binding protein, are associated with schizophrenia. This finding provides a novel entry point to understanding the disease, but fully exploiting the discovery requires further examination of the function of RBM12. Here I propose to begin that effort by using the zebrafish model system to first, determine the role of RBM12 in brain development; second, discover the role of RBM12 in brain function as assessed by functional connectivity and behavioural assays; and third, identify RBM12’s direct and indirect targets using RNA-seq and iCLIP (individual-nucleotide resolution cross-linking and immunoprecipitation). These studies will aid in illuminating the biological basis of schizophrenia and, ultimately, lead to novel treatments.


Participants :
- University of London (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 269857.8 €
- University of California System (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet SPIN-MA (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness with a huge burden on society. Consideration for multi-disciplinary and psychological treatments is raising, but a comprehensive evidence base on their efficacy is lacking from the literature. Taking advantage of my background in psychology and mental health research, I will apply an innovative statistical methodology to compare all existing psychological interventions for schizophrenia, called network meta-analysis. I will produce research evidence on the comparative efficacy of treatments even where a direct comparison has never been made, providing practitioners and policy makers with valuable knowledge for making decisions according to an evidence based medicine approach. This addresses several EU programs’ aims. I will be hosted at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of Klinikum rechts der Isar der Technischen Universität München, under the supervision of Professor Stefan Leucht, who has outstanding expertise both in the field of schizophrenia treatment and in the methodology of NMA. A partner organization for highly specialized data analysis will be involved, with a secondment at University of Bern Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, where I will work with Professor Georgia Salanti learning how to analyse collected data. Throughout all the project a transfer of knowledge perspective will be used, producing outputs to be delivered to policy makers (including World Health Organization, with whom I have an established collaboration) and other organizations involved in guideline production, as well as available to the community of European citizens with public outreach activities (the database will be made publicly available on the project’s website). As a result, novel evidence will be produced on this challenging topic. I will gain new skills and I will substantially increase my experience in research project management, networking and teaching, preparing for an independent position in academia.

Mots clés : network meta analysis, schizophrenia

Participants :
- Technical University of Munich (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 159460.8 €