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

Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) represent a multifaceted technology with utility across a broad spectrum of industries. However, their constrained operational time, primarily due to energy limitations, poses a formidable obstacle. Attempts to bolster energy storage capacity through advancements such as batteries and fuel cells have hit snags in practical implementation. An innovative workaround is the deployment of thermoelectric conversion, capable of capturing and utilizing waste heat and solar energy, yet this avenue is currently hampered by the limitations of available materials. Ionic Thermogalvanic Cells have emerged as a beacon of hope, thanks to their superior Seebeck coefficients, but their incorporation into MAVs necessitates materials of high thermoelectric efficacy and tailored compatibility. The TEnergy initiative is geared towards augmenting the thermoelectric capabilities of ionic thermoelectric materials and refining device architecture for optimized energy conversion. The conceptualization of the double-layer thermoelectric-concentration battery marks a groundbreaking fusion of thermoelectric and battery technologies, promising elevated open-circuit voltage and conversion efficiency. The crux of the TEnergy research lies in its potential to engineer an ultra-compact, highly efficient passive power source for MAVs, harnessing waste and environmental thermal energies. Additionally, the TEnergy endeavor is set on achieving quantifiable milestones, including an open-circuit voltage surpassing 0.25 V for the fundamental unit, a consistent open-circuit voltage of 12 volts and an output power of 100 mW for the amalgamated system, alongside a thermoelectric conversion efficiency rating above 5%. Supported by the MSCA Fellowships, I am committed to pursuing this ambitious research program and the TEnergy research is expected to drive advancements in thermoelectric technology, contributing to the development of sustainable and efficient energy systems for MAVs.

Mots clés : ionic thermoelectric, thermogalvanic, heat energy, harvesting, mavs

Participants :
- Université du Hertfordshire (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 276187.92 €
Projet LAWS-TEENS-SEX (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Statutory rape laws are designed to protect children from the manipulation of adults into having sexual intercourse. However, in Malaysia, statutory rape laws are applied even on male adolescents who are close in age with their female partners. This is problematic because applying these laws into male children will criminalize their normative sexual behaviors which has long-lasting damaging effects. In addition, the perception of the criminal justice personnel on sexual behaviors of children also cements the blanket applications of statutory rape laws onto every case involving female children. To reform the use of statutory rape laws in Malaysia, data on the sexual relations between close-in-age partners and adult-child partners are needed. This study has three research objectives. First, I aim to explore the perception of the criminal justice system personnel (i.e., prosecutors, police officers and probation officers) towards the implementation of statutory rape laws on adolescents in Malaysia. Second, I would like to investigate the psychosocial characteristics (sexual and antisocial dimensions) of sexual relations involving two close-in-age children in comparison with sexual relations involving adults and children. Lastly, I aim to explore the psychosocial-cultural motivations behind the pursuance of sexual relationships among Asian adolescents. The design of the proposed study will be a mixed design, employing both quantitative (to achieve research objective 2) and qualitative (to achieve research objective 1 and 3). For the quantitative part of the study, a hypothesis will be tested which is: Close-in-age sexual partners differ in terms of psychosocial characteristics compared to adult-child sexual partners. This will be tested using a binary logistic regression. Then, I will employ a thematic analysis to find out the patterns from the responses. The findings of this project will be disseminated through two journal articles and a conference attendance.

Mots clés : statutory rape laws underage partners sexual behaviours psychosocial characteristics, criminal justice system sexual motives

Participants :
- Université de Trás-os-Montes et Alto Douro (Portugal) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 156778.56 €
Projet RIVER-SCAPES (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : TERMINATED

The politics of mobility is one of the EU's primary challenges. The right of its citizens to free movement, the 2015 European migrant crisis in the Mediterranean, and the recent Ukrainian refugee crisis underscore the varied and complex access to mobility—referred to as regimes of mobility—and highlight the intricacies of mobility politics. But how was mobility managed before the advent of the liberal state? What were the mobility regimes in European colonial borderlands? RIVER-SCAPES examines the regimes and politics of mobility in two late-eighteenth-century rivers claimed by the Spanish and Portuguese empires. Considering the long-term impacts of these systems on their landscapes, this project explores the politics of mobility in the Mississippi and Zambezi rivers, focusing on: 1) the diversity of mobility experiences in colonial river regions and the role of power dynamics associated with them; and 2) the processes by which politics of mobility were produced, shaped, and negotiated by various institutions and actors. Through an interdisciplinary approach, which includes history, mobility studies and blue humanities, RIVER-SACPES addresses three pertinent issues for the European agenda: the differentiated experiences of movement, the significance of rivers, and the impact of European colonial heritage on global mobility politics. By historicising the politics of mobility in the Mississippi and Zambezi rivers, this project aims to foster a debate on the connections between the Global North and Global South, mobility, and riverscapes.

Mots clés : mobility, rivers, iberian empires, colonial latin american and african history

Participants :
- Université nouvelle de Lisbonne (Portugal) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 207183.12 €
Projet SalinePHA (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : TERMINATED

Plastic waste is a significant global environmental challenge due to its environmental persistence and the threat that microplastic poses on living organism. Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are biopolymers produced by prokaryotes under availability of excess carbon but unfavorable growth conditions. Interestingly, certain types of stress conditions have been proven to increase PHA production in axenic cultures such as oxidative stress or osmotic upshock. PHA stands as one of the main alternatives to traditional plastics as they are biodegradable under a wide range of conditions, but high production cost hampers its wide adoption. Current technologies are based on the use of mixed microbial cultures (MMCs) in open bioreactors feed with industrial by-products to reduce the production cost. However, the PHA productivity using these approaches is low compared to axenic cultures growing on defined media. SalinePHA aims to enhance PHA productivity in bioreactors by using halophilic MMCs. Availability of metagenomic and transcriptomic techniques provides a great opportunity to study the genetic regulation of the PHA synthesis/depolymerization and potential shifts of the metabolism in complex microbial communities under different types of stress. To achieve this, i) halophilic PHA-accumulating MMCs will be obtained by growing environmental inocula under selective pressure and, characterized (performance parameters and shotgun metagenomic sequencing); ii) RNA-seq, RT-PCR, 2D-DIGE experiments will be performed on the best PHA-accumulating MMC under various stress conditions to understand the PHA metabolic regulation. A deeper understanding of the PHA accumulation dynamics will allow for the design of operational parameters by using stress conditions as elicitors to induce high PHA-accumulation in the bioreactor to obtain increased PHA productivity, reducing the cost of its production, allowing the valorization of organic saline waste streams and reducing the use of fresh water.

Mots clés : pha, microbial mixed cultures, halophile, saline waste stream valorization

Participants :
- Université nouvelle de Lisbonne (Portugal) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 191343.12 €
Projet AQUAFRAME (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The world stands on the brink of a major water crisis. The distributed capture of water from the atmosphere through sustainable materials is an innovative approach that holds great promise for the mitigation of water insecurity. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), with their unprecedented porosity and chemical tunability, have recently proved to be ideal candidates for real-world atmospheric water harvesting. However, current MOF water harvesters have serious drawbacks, including high energy consumption and low water productivity in non-temperate climates. The AQUAFRAME project aims to develop and thoroughly characterize MOFs with random and correlated disorder (“quasiperiodic MOFs”) to improve the efficiency of the atmospheric water harvesting process. The objectives of the interdisciplinary proposed research are to merge quasiperiodic MOF (a) synthesis, (b) synchrotron X-ray characterization and (c) computational modelling to gain molecular-level insights into the ways disorder influences MOF water uptake, paving the way for the design of next-generation water harvester systems that break current performance records. The project will have scientific, economic and social impact as it is designed to transform the established view of water harvesting MOFs as perfectly ordered materials, and to provide a novel solution to the global challenges related to water scarcity. It will be supervised by eminent scientists including Prof. Omar Yaghi of the University of California at Berkeley, the inventor of MOFs and foremost developer of MOF water harvesting systems. It will incisively contribute to the researcher’s career development by allowing him to acquire interdisciplinary research and transferable skills at Sapienza University of Rome, UC Berkeley, and during a secondment at Columbia University. The project will produce research methods in a cutting-edge field, articles intended to deliver scientific breakthroughs, and dissemination and outreach to key target audiences.

Mots clés : mof mofs metal organic frameworks reticular chemistry atmospheric water harvesting computational chemistry x ray spectroscopy x ray absorption spectroscopy xas pair distribution function pdf

Participants :
- University of California System (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Columbia (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Rome « La Sapienza » (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 420751.08 €
Projet TRAVELS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The TRAVELS project addresses a critical gap in Zoroastrian studies by reconstructing the history of the Zoroastrian community in Iran from 1773 to 1854. While research has typically focused on Antiquity or the Contemporary Age, the Middle and Modern Ages remain underexplored due to a lack of sources, and this period is particularly obscure as Iranian Zoroastrians ceased official contact with their Indian brethren and faced persecution. However, this era coincides with heightened European interest in the Middle East. Consequently, dozens of European travellers meticulously documented their journeys through Iran, providing crucial insights into the Zoroastrian community. Through an innovative multidisciplinary approach - integrating history, religious studies, gender studies, anthropology, and both Iranian and European studies - TRAVELS seeks to bridge this gap by analysing 52 diaries to uncover crucial details about community’s geography, traditions, and interactions, as well as European perceptions of this minority. To balance the Eurocentric standpoint, TRAVELS will consider Parsi records and the scant Zoroastrian Iranian literature of the time. Indeed, despite the halt in official ties, Iranian Zoroastrians initiated a new wave of migration abroad due to oppression, a trend that continues today with Zoroastrians moving to Western countries. TRAVELS also aims to link the Modern Age with the contemporary world, by incorporating narratives of today’s Canadian and British Zoroastrian communities into the historical discourse through interviews and archival research. The immediate outcome will be a reconstruction of the history of Zoroastrians in Iran, attentive to internal diversity, such as gender and social disparities, and placing this history within a global context. From a long-term perspective, by leveraging European sources and a multidisciplinary approach, TRAVELS aims to introduce innovative methodologies and research lines into Zoroastrian studies.

Mots clés : zoroastrianism european travel literature religious minority iran modern age zoroastrianism 19th century

Participants :
- Université de Londres (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Toronto (Canada) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Rome « La Sapienza » (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 341683.08 €
Projet IhaNeT (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Discourses surrounding “enemies within”, traitors, and “fifth columns” are prevalent in public discourse, creating negative archetypes that can be stigmatized based on political stances, cultural behaviors, or belonging to a particular religious or ethnic group in every society. Concurrently, these narratives reinforce boundaries of collective identities, delineating us/them, majority/minority, and hero/traitor dichotomies. While hate speech has been repeatedly addressed by the EU commission, the mechanism that guide the construction of negative dehumanized stereotypes are still not adequately analyzed. IhaNeT is an interdisciplinary project that aims to improve the understanding of the concept of treason (ihanet in Turkish), in its collective dimension, in Türkiye. This country represents a compelling case study due to the pervasiveness of the concept of treason in public discourse, media, and memory throughout history. Covering the period from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire (1918) to the failed military coup of 2016, IhaNeT aims to elucidate the evolution of treason in its legal, discursive, and subjective dimensions, thereby contributing to the understanding of the concept of political authority. To achieve this overall objective, I will adopt a strongly interdisciplinary approach, drawing on history, cultural studies, media studies and discourse studies. Accordingly, I will use methods such as archival research, content analysis and discourse analysis to examine a corpus of legal, media and autobiographical sources. I will be supervised by three top-rank scholars, Fabio Grassi (Sapienza University of Rome, Beneficiary), Serena Tolino (Universitait Bern, Outgoing) and Ayhan Aktar (Hrant Dink Foundation, Secondment) who will offer me optimal research environment and training opportunities. The activities conducted within IhaNeT will allow me to establish myself as an internationally recognized and independent scholar with developed project management skills.

Mots clés : turkey, treason, public discourse

Participants :
- Hrant dink vakfi (Turquie) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Berne (Suisse) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Rome « La Sapienza » (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 412700.52 €
Projet PlANET (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

PlANET project aims to reconsider the role of ten plant species in Mesopotamia during the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods (10th–6th cent. BCE) in religious, ideological, scholarly, gender, and economic spheres. It aims also to prove cases of human overexploitation of plant resources causing ecological traps, whose long-term effects are still experienced today. The project is the first full-scale study permitting us to dramatically increase our knowledge of Mesopotamian human-plant relations, by producing an innovative transdisciplinary non-anthropocentric paradigm, involving the methods of historical-philological and anthropological research, the archaeobotanical literature and the tools of Digital Humanities. It will set up an open-access database offering a systematic integration of textual data and archaeobotanical information to establish links between plant emic names, identifications, and activities described in textual sources. Such data variety will be analyzed in the light of Ecological Anthropology and Environmental Humanities. This holistic approach will make the outcomes relevant to a broad academic community since the addressed questions and methodologies can be used in other research fields, regions, and periods. The Dep. SARAS (Sapienza) and NELC (Penn) are the perfect places to acquire new multidisciplinary skills (study of cuneiform economic texts, Digital Humanities, and archaeobotany) and to open significant future academic career paths. SARAS has an anthropological section, while NELC collaborates with the Penn Museum, crucial to the successful implementation of the project. The results will be disseminated and communicated through various channels and audiences (online database, scientific works, statement for Iraqi Ministry of Environment, conference, popular science articles, social media, exhibition, and children’s book). The communication strategy contributes to a greater awareness of the important role of plants in human life.

Mots clés : assyriology ancient near east ancient mesopotamia assyria babylonia cuneiform studies plant symbolism ancient human plant interaction environmental humanities

Participants :
- Université de Pennsylvanie (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Rome « La Sapienza » (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 288859.2 €
Projet UnderText (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Carefully transmitted by some and deliberately erased by others, at times remembered through the centuries, at others completely forgotten and vanished into the unseen, the Book of Jubilees is a second-century BCE apocryphal Jewish text that retells the legendary foundational stories of the Books of Genesis and Exodus with the addition of otherwise unknown details. "UnderText: UNDERstanding the TEXTual development and the literary fortune of the Book of Jubilees through ages, languages and across geographic regions" will shed new light on the development and fortune of such an important text focusing on a literally invisible version, a Latin translation preserved in the undertext of a fifth-century palimpsest (i.e. not only a manuscript whose ink has been scraped off but a completely new written artefact (re)fashioned through complex production processes) stored at the Ambrosian Library in Milan. This Latin translation has been particularly neglected by scholars but can shed precious light in relation to the Hebrew original and the Ge'ez (the classical language of Ethiopia and Eritrea) translation of the Book of Jubilees. Through palaeographic and codicological analysis and by comparing different translations into multiple languages, the fortunes of the Book of Jubilees in Europe and the history and fate of this Latin palimpsest manuscript will be interwoven throughout the course of the research, and UnderText will shed light on how divergent religious and cultural contexts have reflected variously on common texts and themes. UnderText will also have social and public implications, triggering reflection on the extremely timely ideas of cancel cultures and will highlight the importance of the traditions of the Jewish minority within the European roots and their interactions with Latin language traditions.

Mots clés : jewish studies, jewish non canonical literature, ethiopian studies, jewish texts and traditions in christian transmission, late antiquity, early middle ages, early medieval latin language

Participants :
- Université de Zurich (Suisse) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- université catholique du Sacré-Cœur (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Rome « La Sapienza » (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 297164.16 €