Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet ECOPFAS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The group of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are thermally and chemically stable with strong hydrophobic and lipophobic properties, making them highly suitable for many applications. However, they are part of the emerging chemicals identified to be persistent and bioaccumulative. They are very stable, non-degradable, and present all around the world. More than 9000 distinct individual compounds make up the PFAS group, with a carbon chain backbone between 4 and 14 C atoms in length, and a charged functional moiety: sulfonate or carboxylate. The two principal representatives and studied PFAS (perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS)) are banned in many countries, leading the major global manufacturers to find alternatives having shorter carbon chains (< C8) or with replacement chemistry with multiple ether-oxygens inserted between the perfluorinated carbon backbones, allowing the formation of non-covalent hydrogen bonds with a water molecule, which makes them more labile to degradation. However, those new chemicals have been identified in various environmental matrices are now becoming global contaminants. But our understanding of the PFAS alternatives toxicity is lacking in aquatic organisms and, in the case of emerging replacements and by-products, even not unexplored. Studies assessing their potential genetic, developmental, cellular, and systemic toxicities have not yet been conducted in aquatic organisms. To that purpose, the ECOPFAS project will investigate the acute toxicity, developmental toxicity, genotoxicity and toxicity pathways for PFAS alternatives in three freshwater species. ECOPFAS project will build on the expertise of the researchers involved together with the acquired data to provide a basis for a better understanding of the influence of the effects on individual and population fitness to support a broader integration of these data into risk assessment frameworks.

Mots clés : pfas pfas alternatives ecotoxicity genotoxicity transcriptomics freshwater organisms

Participants :
- Luxembourg Institute of science and technology (Luxembourg) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 191760.0 €
Projet MEDLUNI (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The rise of universities during the Middle Ages represented a major shaping factor leading to a paramount intellectual and cultural shift at a European scale, changing the way to communicate, to learn, and to think. MEDLUNI’s purpose is to shed a light on how medieval universities shaped a European literary identity during their rise and growth between 1220 and 1399. This goal will be pursued by investigating representative case studies across France and Italy, where medieval universities became the core and the cradle of a new vernacular literary tradition, establishing innovative paradigms in writing and spreading texts and knowledge. The scope of the project will be, on the one hand, to analyse how authors, texts and manuscripts began moving – more frequently and further away – from one university to the other, leading to the creation of literary networks all around Europe. On the other hand, I will aim at outlining how vernacular literature had been influenced by a range of international literary markers related to universities: new topics, disciplines, and styles. A deep transformation had been occurring, that still needs to be examined thoroughly and systematically by romance philologists. In addition, MEDLUNI will propose a replicable analytical model that would be applicable to other literary traditions. Aiming at filling a scientific and disciplinary gap, MEDLUNI will also settle a new scientific network between Università Ca’ Foscari and University of Fribourg, that represent two hubs of excellence and methodological innovation in the field of Romance philology. While my previous international and scientific experience would allow me to lead MEDLUNI proficiently, the MSCA-Global Fellowship would give me the paramount chance to act – for the first time – as a Principal Investigator, which would represent a key feature and a leap forward to my professional path.

Mots clés : european identity medieval universities european literatures of the middle ages intellectual history medieval french literature medieval italian literature

Participants :
- Université de Fribourg (Suisse) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Ca' Foscari de Venise (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 297164.16 €
Projet PaleoNutrient (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Earth’s early oxygenation history played a pivotal role in the evolution of complex life. Phosphorus (P) is widely recognised as the ultimate limiting nutrient on geological time scales, and hence P exerted a fundamental role in regulating global marine primary productivity, organic carbon burial, and ultimately the oxygen flux to the ocean-atmosphere system throughout the Precambrian Era (~4.6–0.541 billion years ago). Several geochemical proxies have been developed to reconstruct the Precambrian marine P reservoir and links to Earth’s oxygenation history, but all have inherent limitations linked to uncertainty over key processes involved in P cycling. In particular, mineralogical controls on P cycling under anoxic ferruginous (Fe(II)-containing) conditions, which reflect the dominant redox state of the ocean throughout most of the Precambrian, are very poorly understood. One such process concerns the extent of P uptake to (meta)stable, mixed-valence green rust, which has emerged as a key mineral precipitating in Precambrian ferruginous oceans, and the subsequent behaviour of P upon ageing to magnetite and Fe-rich clay minerals. Therefore, the PaleoNutrient project will investigate these key processes by a series of carefully controlled experiments performed under Precambrian ferruginous ocean conditions. These experimental results will then be validated by geochemical and mineralogical investigation of select Precambrian marine rocks deposited under varying types of ferruginous oceanic conditions. The new insight gained from experiments and the evaluation of the rock record will then be used to update existing biogeochemical models, with an ultimate aim to revolutionise our understanding of bioavailable P, primary productivity, and hence Earth’s oxygenation history across critical intervals of the Precambrian Era that dictated the trajectory of Earth’s habitability.

Mots clés : phosphorus cycle, nutrient, precambrian ocean, green rust

Participants :
- Université de Cologne (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Leeds (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 260347.92 €
Projet RepEU-Mig (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Due to the demographic challenges faced by many non-metropolitan areas across Europe, several national, regional, and local governments are promoting policies to attract immigrants with ancestral ties to these places. RepEU-Mig’s main goal is to understand the role of these policies in defying the demographic decline. While their outcomes are sometimes assessed through the evolution of socioeconomic indicators in the places of implementation, little is known about how these policies operate transnationally and how beneficiaries perceive their integration into left-behind places. RepEU-Mig addresses these gaps by comparing recent initiatives in Spain and Italy through an innovative approach that combines multi-level policy and governance analysis with an ethnographic study of the integration experiences of descendants born in Argentina. The objectives are: 1) to analyze and compare the legal content and the narratives that justify contemporary initiatives to attract immigrants with ancestral ties to left-behind places; 2) to examine the process of transnational promotion and implementation of these policies, including the role of various intermediate actors in origin and destination; 3) to better understand individual motivations and their interaction with structural factors that either help or hinder these newcomers’ integration. RepEU-Mig addresses the Key Strategic Orientation D of the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2023-2025, "Creating a more resilient, inclusive and democratic European society". The major expected outcomes are: 1) to develop a framework for assessing and comparing national, regional and local policies to attract immigrants with ancestral ties to left-behind areas; 2) to better understand the factors that contribute to migrants’ integration and desire to stay in such areas; 3) to thereby provide evidence-based policy enhancements that contribute to the resilience of these areas and to migrants' well-being.

Mots clés : repopulation policies, left behind places, international roots migration

Participants :
- Université de Bologne (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Centro de Estudios Universitarios (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 209914.56 €
Projet REDI (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

REDI (Rethinking EDI Practice and Policy through Evolutionary Psychology) aims at revising how International Business (IB) views Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). EDI has come to be viewed as an essential tool in effective management, and Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) are uniquely placed to rise to the challenge of reducing inequality. Yet to date, interest in EDI within IB has been largely instrumental and mainly limited to pursuing performance gains or reducing losses at a firm level. Essentially, the approach taken to EDI within IB literature employs intricate but ultimately shallow categories of diversity. As a poorly fabricated concept susceptible to almost infinite variations in interpretation, it is hardly remarkable that the literature reports conflicted empirical relationships between diversity and firm outcomes. Consequently, EDI research in IB to date is not able to explain, for example, why resistance occurs within MNEs, nor the potential for management agency. This is a significant omission as top management exerts a pivotal influence on firms’ actions and outcomes especially regarding discretionary social initiatives. Therefore, REDI asks: 1) “How can MNEs create more equal and inclusive EDI practices?” Resolving this question increases conceptual clarity between “equality”, “diversity” and “inclusion”, directs attention towards managerial action, and decreases the need for finding ever more intricate categories of diversity. And 2) “How can policy level changes support more equal and inclusive EDI practices within and beyond the MNE?” Resolving this question increas directs attention to creating a climate where EDI policies can become successful beyond ticking the box. In answering these questions, REDI will draw on evolutionary psychology and the origins of human relations as revealed by archaeological evidence, claiming that the notion of EDI could only emerge because of the existence of artificial boundaries imposed upon human relations.

Mots clés : equality, diversity and inclusion mne management policy evolutionary psychology

Participants :
- Université de Leeds (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 138093.96 €
Projet ORIGIM (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

What is the origin of the organic molecules recently found on Mars? And the organics and dark rims of iron and phosphorus recently found by Perseverance? Could they have a biological origin? Are we closer to finding life beyond the Earth? These challenging questions form the basis of the ORganIc GenesIs on Mars (ORIGIM) project. Inspired by the exciting and recent discoveries of organic compounds and phosphorus on Mars and asteroids Benu and Ryugu, ORIGIM aims to constrain the geological and biological processes behind the different mineral and chemical signatures detected, which may hold the key to understanding the possibility of life beyond our planet.   The ORIGIM project is interdisciplinary research between the NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre (GSFC, USA) and the Centre for Astrobiology (CAB, Spain). Fieldwork, geochemical and cosmochemical simulations, and real-time monitoring of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and Mars2020 missions will involve leading biologists, geologists, chemists, physicists and engineers. ORIGIM aligns with the growing interest in detecting life beyond Earth, led by NASA and JAXA (Japan), and the upcoming ESA ExoMars and NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return (MSR) missions, which will position the European Union prominently in the space exploration arena. The ORIGIM project is timely and novel, as it will contribute to the challenging task of identifying biological vs non-biological signatures in extraterrestrial materials, ultimately addressing the long-standing question of whether life has ever existed beyond Earth. Dr. Cañadas will lead the project with a strong focus on international and interdisciplinary collaboration. The fellowship provides a unique opportunity for her to develop leadership skills in dynamic scientific environments, enhancing her geochemical expertise with new methodologies and personal growth. This will position her as a highly visible and independent EU scientist in the rapidly expanding field of Astrobiology

Mots clés : mars, life, carbon, phosphorus

Participants :
- Aurora technology (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Conseil supérieur de la recherche scientifique (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 473445.36 €
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Leeds (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet Identifications (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The enlargement of the European Union to include Central and Eastern Europe (2004, 2007) brought with it the rise of right-wing politics in Western Europe. Factors that contributed to the ensuing institutionalisation of right-wing parties include: the European debt crisis (2009-2018), the imposing of austerity measures, and the unprecedented influx of migrants from the Middle East and Africa during a period that has been termed the European migrant crisis (2015-2019). As living standards fell, far-right politicians blamed the decline on both internal and external immigrants and refugees by singling out incomers as a threat to economic and cultural stability. The right-wing populists began galvanising processes of identification among citizens through the use of discourses of intolerance. A newly-fortified cultural racism provided followers with a mechanism of legitimacy for their right-wing beliefs. This research project will study the intricate interplay of performance and race. It will investigate the ways in which both left-leaning civic performances (civil protests, speeches, policies) and artistic performances (theatre, dance, music) are capable of mobilising processes of identification that draw upon anti-racist discourses that permeate and sustain democratic institutions. Turning to discourse theory, and using a self-critical, Western European lens, the project will explore processes of identification that contest cultural racism.

Mots clés : performance studies, civic performance, artistic performance, politics, cultural racism, identification, discourse theory

Participants :
- Université de Warwick (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Ca' Foscari de Venise (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 172750.08 €
Projet LabEcoInt (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

This research, hosted by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in partnership with the Geneva Graduate Institute, investigates the making and unmaking of Europe’s historical industrial areas uncovering the intersections between labour and ecological transformations from an international perspective. It does so by deploying theories of extractivism to the case study of the major industrial cluster of Porto Marghera (Venice, Italy), using the production of phosphate-based fertilisers as an entry point. Porto Marghera’s “super-phosphate” plants were established in the 1920s, in the context of rising fascism. They integrated Porto Marghera with the “green factories” of expanding modern agriculture – downstream –, and with the “Phosphate Archipelago”, a network of extractive and industrial spaces on the two shores of the Mediterranean – upstream. Phosphates thus invisibly and contradictorily connected Porto Marghera’s labour mobilisations with North Africa’s anticolonial struggles. This link was also ecological, as shown by the noxious health and environmental effects of phosphates. The closure of Porto Marghera’s fertiliser plants in the 1990s was in fact accelerated by environmental campaigns against the dumping of phosphate waste into the Adriatic Sea. Meanwhile, restructuring in the extractive areas of Morocco and Tunisia (Khouribga and Gafsa respectively) turned them into important points of departure for working-class migration to Italy. While deindustrial studies focus on the history of industrial areas from a local or national perspective, less attention has been paid to the insertion of such industries in global hierarchies of labour and environmental degradation. By analysing Porto Marghera’s place in the Phosphate Archipelago, this research generates insights for today’s ecological transitions in mining, industry, and agriculture, at a time when fertilisers are once again in the spotlight due to concerns over sustainability and instability in food supply chains.

Mots clés : deindustrialisation, extractivism, environmental justice, decolonial studies, environmental labour studies

Participants :
- Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (Suisse) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Ca' Foscari de Venise (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 320924.16 €
Projet CEDAR (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Depression affects over 300 million people world-wide and is the single largest contributor to global disability, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Research has highlighted that individuals with depression have a two-to-four fold increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD). Notably, CVDs are the most common cause of death globally and are a huge economic burden to society. For example, in 2015 alone CVDs cost the EU over €210 billion (WHO). However, the mechanisms linking depression with increased risk of CVD are poorly understood, posing a challenge to the development of appropriate interventions to reduce this risk. CEDAR aims to elucidate the potential biological mechanisms linking depression with increased risk of CVD by adopting state-of-the-art techniques from exercise physiology and clinical psychology. Specifically, this interdisciplinary and timely project will be the first to examine the relationship between depression and energy dysregulation during stress, and will consider the role of gender and depression severity. CEDAR will also test an intervention for reducing the risk of CVD in individuals with depression. Applying knowledge from the social identity approach to health, a social cure intervention will be employed to examine if this has an influence on (i) physiological responses to stress, and (ii) if this influences stress responsivity in individuals with depression. The results of this project will not only elucidate the relationship between depression and CVD risk, but the advanced research skills learnt during this fellowship can be applied to future projects examining the link between stress responsivity and pathogenic disease risk; advancing methods in stress physiology research. The experiences garnered by this fellowship, including targeted training in communication, leadership, and project management skills, are key in developing the professional maturity and employability of the applicant.

Mots clés : depression stress cardiovascular reactivity stress responsivity social cure social identity approach to health energy regulation appraisal psychological well being social group memberships

Participants :
- Université Baylor (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Limerick (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 302331.36 €