Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet BEPQCiN (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This research proposal concerns the theoretical study of quantum correlations in networks. Given the current wide availability of the preparation and distribution of two-party entangled states, we propose to develop theoretical tools that enable the construction of multipartite quantum correlated networks using two-party states as building blocks. Such interconnected quantum networks would then allow for the implementation of sophisticated and secure quantum information protocols. The project is divided in three work packages (WP) with different questions and goals. The first one focuses on the generation of entanglement. It will tackle the problem of manipulating bipartite quantum states in quantum networks in order to generate genuinely multipartite entangled states. Our goals are to characterise the sets of states that can be generated in a given network, define entanglement measures that are appropriate for network scenarios, and bound the amount of entanglement a network can produce. The second WP concerns the certification of entanglement in partly trusted star networks. Our goal is to develop a complete framework for entanglement certification with a semi-device-independent approach that is particular to networks, employing techniques from quantum steering. The final WP focuses on the problem of the equivalence between entanglement and Bell nonlocality. Our objective is to investigate whether any bipartite entangled state can lead to nonlocality in a network setting. The investigation of this fundamental, long-standing question will allow us to determine which bipartite states are and are not useful to quantum networks with the highest level of security. This research project shall be undertaken by the applicant, Dr. Jessica Bavaresco, under the mentorship of Prof. Nicolas Brunner at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, during the outgoing phase, and Dr. Cyril Branciard at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, France, during the return phase.

Mots clés : quantum networks, quantum internet, quantum communication, quantum correlations, entanglement, steering, bell nonlocality, causal structures, causal networks, multipartite systems

Participants :
- Université de Genève (Suisse) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 308746.56 €
Projet CORPORA (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

IoT and embedded systems are powered by increasingly sophisticated software components, employing machine learning to create devices that perform activities once exclusively carried out by humans. Since these activities may involve significant risks and responsibilities, ensuring the correctness and safety of involved software components is crucial. Probabilistic Programs (PPs) are often employed in AI-powered software, particularly to exploit Bayesian inference, and to model randomized algorithms. Thus, studying verification of PPs can enable verification techniques for ensuring safety and correctness of AI-powered programs. PPs are computer programs that, besides ordinary programming constructs, may contain random choices, and variable assignments according to a random distribution. The CORPORA (COntext-free model checking for Recursive PrObabilistic pRogrAms) project aims at developing new techniques for the verification of Recursive Probabilistic Programs, one of the most expressive classes of PPs. Recursive PPs may contain recursive procedures. Since procedures are governed by a stack, they exhibit a context-free behavior in execution traces: verification of procedural programs has motivated the study of model checking pushdown formalisms. The need for specifying properties concerning the stack’s contents has led to the introduction of ad-hoc specification formalisms, including temporal logics featuring context-free-aware modalities, such as CaRet, NWTL and POTL, the latter being introduced by the applicant during his Ph.D. The CORPORA project will extend the context-free model checking framework to recursive PPs, and its research objectives will encompass the theoretical and practical study of model checking thereof. The project’s expected results include a model checker for context-free properties of recursive PPs, which will enable the practical evaluation of the techniques developed in the project.

Mots clés : model checking, probabilistic programming, software verification

Participants :
- Université technique de Vienne (Autriche) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 183600.96 €
Projet MAGIC (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Concrete is of fundamental importance to construction, a sector that provides 18 million jobs and makes up to 9% of EU’s GDP. It is thus not surprising that European countries invest billions of euros each year in maintaining and repairing concrete infrastructure. A major reason for concrete repair is the development of cracks, which lead to poor durability of concrete or its reinforcement. Many concrete structures are partly or fully embedded in the ground (e.g. foundations, tunnels, sheet pile walls). Detecting or repairing cracks in structures embedded in the ground is difficult; therefore, developing concretes that can self-heal/repair when cracks form is very useful for geotechnical infrastructure applications. MAGIC is an interdisciplinary project that aims to realise self-healing concrete structures for ground engineering applications, using novel biobased processes. The techniques developed in MAGIC will be tested both in the laboratory and in the field and will be evaluated in terms of sustainability. The proposed research addresses the environmental impact and costs of infrastructure maintenance, in line with the European Green Deal and EU priorities for decarbonisation, green and resilient civil infrastructure, resource efficiency and waste minimisation.

Mots clés : biocements bioconcrete ground engineering self healing

Participants :
- Soletanche bachy entreprise (France) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de South Bank de Londres (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 276187.92 €
Projet MUSICVIM (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

At a time when electronic and digital musical instruments are increasingly replacing acoustic musical instruments, this project will show that acoustic instruments are complex objects that have historically appealed to multiple senses beyond hearing, suggesting that they cannot easily be excluded from performance. The case of Ancient Near Eastern lutes will be used to explore this idea. While modern long-necked lutes have a resonator covered with rawhide, the cuneiform texts from the 'Craft Archive' in the Mesopotamian city of Isin during the second millennium BCE specifically describe the use of black-dyed leather to make the cover for the resonator of a tigidla ('lute' in Sumerian). This project will explore the acoustic and socio-cultural implications of this particular fabrication by combining ANE Philological & Material Studies, Ethnomusicology, Experimental Archaeology, and Acoustics, and by bringing together academic and non-academic expertise (tanners, dyers, and instrument makers). Four tigidla replicas with covers of rawhide, black-dyed rawhide, undyed leather, black-dyed leather will be made using the extant ANE evidence. The sound of these replicas will be analysed by considering different textures, playing techniques, and recording spaces. The information from these recordings will be finally used to shed new light on many aspects of musical traditions and societies in the ANE region and beyond. This project will scientifically impact the fields of Musicology, most notably Sound Archaeology, and ANE Studies on economy, society, music, and colour. The value of traditional tanning, dyeing, and instrument-making will also be highlighted. They currently lack guaranteed generational handover but can contribute to the climate emergency, since they use eco-friendly products. Under the guidance of leading sound archaeology expert Rupert Till, the experienced researcher will be trained in tanning, dyeing, instrument making, and sound recording and analysis.

Mots clés : musical instruments visual messages ancient near east lutes colours

Participants :
- Université de Huddersfield (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 260347.92 €
Projet PAID (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic pain syndrome characterized by widespread pain, multiple tender points, fatigue, and impaired mental functioning. Best practice interventions for chronic pain typically include effortful exercise and long-term treatment – i.e., short-term costs (effort) with delayed benefit (improved pain and function). Problematically, adherence to these treatments is often low, suggesting that people with chronic pain may have altered decision-making related to delayed and effortful rewards. Understanding if long-term pain influences decision-making, what aspects of long-term pain contribute most to decision-making (e.g., emotional versus physical), and the neural underpinnings, are essential given clear relevance of altered decision-making to the adherence to evidence-based management strategies. The PAInful Decisions (PAID) project will address these critical aspects by evaluating delay and effort attitudes in those experiencing FM and in a group of matched pain-free controls. Additionally, I will investigate the unique role of emotions and bodily sensation perception as potential contributing factors to altered decision-making involving delayed and effortful gratification. PAID is a highly innovative and interdisciplinary project, integrating approaches from experimental psychology, behavioural economics, clinical practice, psychophysiology, and neuroimaging. This way, I will be able to comprehensively investigate the role of body-brain interactions in the context of chronic pain. Such a systematic, selective, and interdisciplinary approach to study decision-making in chronic pain is a considerable research challenge, yet the results have an essential meaning for patients’ life and clinical practice, offering to move basic and applied science forward.

Mots clés : fibromyalgia decision making brain body interactions fmri emotions

Participants :
- Instytut Biologii Doświadczalnej im. Marcelego Nenckiego (Pologne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 158485.44 €
- Université d'Australie-Méridionale (Australie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet Embodied Perception (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, embodied intelligence has shown tremendous potential in fields such as home robotics, medical robots, and industrial design. This research focuses on open-world embodied perception and intelligent interaction methods driven by multimodal large models, aiming to develop advanced models that achieve accurate 3D visual grounding and intelligent reasoning, thereby enhancing the perceptual and interactive capabilities of robots in complex environments. The study will explore how to utilize multimodal large models to process and integrate various sensory inputs, enabling robots to accurately perceive 3D environments, understand context, and make intelligent decisions. Additionally, this research will strive to improve robots' natural interaction capabilities with humans and the environment, including language understanding and situational adaptation. This research not only holds significant academic value and profound implications for advancing artificial intelligence and robotics technologies, but also provides innovative solutions to challenges in practical applications, contributing importantly to improving production efficiency, enhancing medical services, and elevating quality of life.

Mots clés : embodied intelligence multimodal learning spatial perception 3d visual grounding intelligent reasoning

Participants :
- University College de Londres (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 260347.92 €
Projet BEEware (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Increasing evidence has linked agrochemical exposure to significant declines in pollinator populations, prompting heightened concerns and legislative actions. However, recent studies demonstrate that even legally-applied pesticides continue to adversely affect social bees. A critical challenge in addressing this issue is the co-exposure of pollinators to multiple agrochemicals. In agricultural environments, pollinators are typically exposed to complex mixtures of agrochemicals, rather than the single products upon which risk assessment has been based. This is a problem because recent work has highlighted that agrochemicals often interact synergistically, such that their combined effects are significantly greater than anticipated, and that such synergistic interactions are both larger and more common than expected. Finding a means to identify synergy during the licensing process is difficult because synergistic interactions are hard to predict based on biochemical properties, and because the number of potential mixtures that may be encountered in the real world is too large to allow for untargeted testing of mixtures. I propose a means to overcome this barrier, through transcriptomic profiling of exposure to single products to detect key indicators of synergy for social bees. Gene expression can detect key overriding impacts of individual agrochemicals on bee physiology, and comparison of profiles could potentially predict synergistic partners. Building upon my background in insect transcriptomics and the expertise in agrochemical stress within my proposed research group, I will combine large-scale transcriptomic resources with a comprehensive pre-existing database of synergistic agrochemical pairs to explore the key general shared features of synergistic pairs, such as shared metabolic targets. In doing so, I will identify potential biomarker genes to provide a more sensitive, short-term experimental method for bioassays in pesticide environmental risk assessment.

Mots clés : pollinator conservation, anthropogenic stressors, social bees, agrochemicals

Participants :
- University College de Londres (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 260347.92 €
Projet MyCyclop (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Cyclopropane rings are a key structural motif that may be found in a wide range of natural products, chemicals, fragrances and pharmaceuticals. Current methods for the manufacturing of cyclopropane-containing molecules show significant limitations in terms of safety, environmental impact and green metrics. Only a few biocatalytic methodologies for the asymmetric synthesis of cyclopropanes have been developed so far, and they rely on repurposed or artificial heme enzymes (P450, myoglobin). However, these approaches suffer from significant limitations in terms of "green chemistry" and industrial application since they require stoichiometric amounts of hazardous diazo-compound reagents as co-substrates. Overcoming these limitations is a critical challenge that underscores the need for further research and development in 'green chemistry' and industrial application of biocatalysis. Mycolic Acid Cyclopropane Synthases (MACSs) are pivotal cyclopropane synthase enzymes found in mycobacteria, such as M. tuberculosis. They are a group of homologous enzymes in the mycolic acid biosynthesis pathway, and they are crucial in catalysing the cyclopropanation of double bonds. Since MACSs use S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM) as a methylene donor rather than diazo-carbene co-substrates, they present a viable option for creating mild and sustainable cyclopropanation biocatalysts. Furthermore, with their ability to catalytic cyclopropanate short- to long-chain unsaturated fatty acids and their ease of bioengineering, these enzymes present a novel and exciting opportunity for future biocatalyst development. This project focuses on the characterization and development of MACSs as cyclopropanating biocatalysts through enzyme engineering approaches.

Mots clés : biocatalysis

Participants :
- University College de Londres (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 276187.92 €
Projet VASPRINT (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Cancer is a global challenge. Addressing this, the EU Mission on Cancer aims to improve the lives of >3 million people by 2030. To achieve this goal requires not only new treatments, but also new in vitro platforms to study how their efficacy can be maximised. Cancer immunotherapy has been a promising treatment for certain haematological cancers, but is encountering tremendous challenges when used for solid cancers. One of the main reasons is that tumours are often protected by an immunosuppressive microenvironment that impedes the delivery and infiltration of immune cells, such as T cells. Specifically, the tumour vasculature is both structurally and functionally abnormal, which interrupts the transport of therapeutic T cells to tumour sites. This project (VASPRINT) will fabricate tumour models containing different vascular architectures. To this end, VASPRINT will combine top-down bioprinting with bottom-up self-assembly methods to create hierarchical vascular networks. VASPRINT will employ analytical tools from graph theory and fractal geometry to gain a quantitative understanding of the vascular structures. The engineered tissue model will be used to address a key question: how does tumour vascular geometry influence T cell trafficking? Despite advancements, the specific effects of vascular geometry on T cell trafficking remain poorly understood. This proposal includes learning bioprinting from the Associated Partner (Harvard University), as well as fractal analysis and modelling from the Beneficiary (University College London). In return, the Researcher will contribute his expertise in the algorithmic design of biomaterial structures (outgoing phase) and developing advanced tumour models for T cell therapy research (return phase). This project aims to advance the scientific understanding of tumour vasculature in the context of immuno-oncology, generating useful insights for therapy development, ultimately contributing to the EU Mission on Cancer.

Mots clés : bioinspired engineering bioprinting algorithmic design fractals graph theory tumour microenvironment

Participants :
- Université Harvard (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- University College de Londres (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 430343.4 €
Projet FAITHBALL (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The FAITHBALL project explores the intersection of football, politics, and culture in Spain and Argentina from 1939 to 1976, focusing on the Franco and Perón regimes. Football, often seen merely as a sport, was harnessed as a tool of propaganda and diplomacy during this period, shaping national identities and international relations. The project aims to bridge the gap in existing research by providing a comparative analysis of how football was used to reinforce political narratives and enhance diplomatic ties between these countries. In addition to examining legislative and media portrayals, major football events, and their impact on national and regional identities, the FAITHBALL project will delve into the social and cultural dimensions of football through the study of rituals, myths, and narratives. Football in both Spain and Argentina was not just a game but a powerful cultural phenomenon, woven into the social fabric through specific rituals and myths that reflected and reinforced the political and cultural climate of the time. By analyzing how football rituals and collective myths were constructed and propagated, the project will uncover how these elements contributed to the shaping of national and regional identities and influenced societal values and collective memory. Through an interdisciplinary approach, combining historical, sociological, and digital humanities perspectives, it will develop a comprehensive framework to understand football's role in political and cultural dynamics. Throughout the project, the following deliverables will be produced: a monograph, several academic articles, a podcast, an open-access database and an interactive digital map designed to facilitate further research and provide new insights into the role of football in shaping national and international relations.

Mots clés : football history national identities spanish history latin american history

Participants :
- Université de Modène et de Reggio Emilie (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 272351.16 €
- Université de Bristol (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Institut technologique de Buenos Aires (Argentine) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €