Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet HOTSPOT (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Guiding molecules/nanomaterials to the right place in plasmonic nanoantennas is a key problem to be solved in order to benefit from the high electromagnetic field localization offered by these materials. Accessing these nanoscale-regions remains a significant challenge in plasmonics and is the main goal of this project. The novel approach introduced here is based on the field-enhancement properties of the nanoantennas, thus spatially selective to the hot-spots. This easy, fast and cheap strategy can allow selective and large-scale positioning of any kind of molecules and/or nanomaterials in a variety of plasmonic-nanoantenna hot-spots, independently of their shape and resonance position. This strategy can solve the big challenge of hot-spot modification in plasmonic nanoantennas thus opening new doors to many real applications ranging from biosensing to energy conversion.

Mots clés : plasmonic nanoantennas, hot spots, self assembled monolayers, hot electrons

Participants :
- Imperial College London (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 183454.8 €
Projet HEAVEN (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

HEAVEN’s key objective is to conceptualize the right to primary health care (PHC) for irregular migrants—a right that is relevant to law and policy at different levels of governance. To do this, HEAVEN uses Venezuelan migration in Colombia as a case study, applying sociolegal tools to expand human rights law methodologies and catalyse the synergies between human rights and public health standards to promote healthier communities. It will focus in particular on creating new knowledge on state and non-state actors’ complementary roles in implementing legal obligations regarding the right to health of vulnerable migrants that are consistent with a PHC approach. In order to generate this global challenge-responsive knowledge, the researcher will—for the first time—deploy his full skillset, which spans legal practice, NGO volunteer work, and academic research and communication skills. In combination, he will expand that skillset through HEAVEN’s affiliation with two leading human rights law schools in two different world regions: Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) and Universidad del Rosario (UR). His home at QUB will be the Health & Human Rights Unit, the first such unit in a top 20 UK law school; at UR, he will be integrated into the law school’s Human Rights Research Group, which is a centre of excellence for research on gender and migration certified by the Colombian Ministry of Science and Innovation. Both groups and the broader hosting environments will support the researcher’s skills acquisition and training plan, and provide pathways for the project’s impact and diverse outputs. In line with the goal of IFs, HEAVEN will facilitate the researcher’s international mobility, enabling him to develop new networks for skills development, establish himself on a fast track to a leadership position spanning scholarly and policy communities, and contribute to the challenge of managing mass migration in a way that secures public health and respects human rights.

Mots clés : irregular migration, venezuelan diaspora, vulnerability, non discrimination, equality, core obligations, development cooperation, public health, primary health care, development

Participants :
- Queen's University Belfast (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 211794.24 €
- Colegio mayor de nuestra senora delrosario corporacion sin animo de lucro (Colombie) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet HOLAHERIS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

HOLAHERIS proposes a holistic structural analysis method for cultural heritage structures (CHSs) conservation, introducing an original multidisciplinary framework that will make the safeguard and protection of CHSs less expensive, faster and more reliable than existing approaches. These features will allow to apply smart management to a wider range of CHSs. Scientific novelties will be introduced through 4 objectives: (1) innovative integration of 3D documentation data for rapid numerical model generation of CHSs, (2) innovative integration of structural health monitoring (SHM) and numerical modelling for decision-making in CHSs conservation, (3) sub-modelling-based stochastic dynamic analysis for seismic assessment of CHSs, (4) modelling environmental deterioration in historic building materials and composite strengthening systems. The HOLAHERIS activities will require a multidisciplinary approach, that will be achievable by merging the expertise of the 3 institutions involved: Princeton University (18-month outgoing phase, supervisor Prof Glisic and co-advisor Prof Finkelstein, experts in SHM and computer graphics), University of Minho (6-month secondment, supervisor Prof Lourenço, expert in historical structures), University of Bologna (12-month return phase, supervisor Prof de Miranda and co-advisor Dr Sassoni, experts in computational mechanics and materials science). Dr D’Altri will receive excellent training in the 3 institutions, expanding his knowledge. This new knowledge, combined with the publication of research results in top journals, will allow him to boost his career development and become a structural mechanics-expert tenured researcher in EU academia. The project will be organized in 8 work packages (WPs). The first 4 WPs will consider the 4 objectives, and WP5 will integrate them in a unique method to holistically treat the structural analysis of CHSs. WP6, WP7 and WP8 will deal with training, exploitation/dissemination, and project management.

Mots clés : masonry, brickwork, brick, mortar, stone, buildings, monuments, structures, dynamics, earthquakes, degradation, damage, simulation, monitoring, modelling, analysis, documentation, conservation

Participants :
- University of Bologna (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 269002.56 €
- Princeton University (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet HYBOCOMIX (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

HYBOCOMIX is focused on a combined theoretical and experimental study of the phase behavior of a blend of an AB diblock copolymer with homopolymer A. where polymer A repeat units can form hydrogen bonds with each other. A completely new self-consistent field theory (SCFT) model will be developed to describe the influence (in such block copolymer systems) of hydrogen bond formation on the block copolymer self-assembly of ordered phases. This model will be exploited to study, both theoretically and experimentally, the phase behavior of an exemplar system; a mixture of polyacrylamide-b-polystyrene (PAM-b-PS) with polyacrylamide (PAM), where polyacrylamide is the hydrogen bonding polymer. The key feature of this interdisciplinary project is in close connection between experiment and theory which will; (i) allow the study of a system that is completely new both from experimental and theoretical points of view and (ii) access model parameters directly from experiment in the framework of a project to provide unequivocal quality for the verification of the new HYBOCOMIX theory. Potential applications of block copolymers with hydrogen bonds are really abundant and include drug delivery applications, self-healing materials, nanolithography and patterning for microelectronics. The success of this project will open the room for future application developments and research of more complex block copolymer systems with hydrogen bonds providing a new widely applicable theoretical method to predict the structure of block copolymers with hydrogen bonds.

Mots clés : block copolymers, microphase separation, hydrogen bonds, blends of block copolymers, self consistent field theory

Participants :
- Aston University (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 195454.8 €
Projet RESEARCH RIDE (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : European Researchers' Night
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Hamburg has been the place of four successful European Researchers’ Nights from 2009 to 2012 with around 30.000 visitors and more than four million people reached by the awareness campaign each year. Learning from our past events, we want to broaden our reach with a unique and attractive concept, for 2018 and 2019. RESEARCH RIDE will combine science and fun to raise awareness to the impact of research in our FUTURE LIFE, to enhance researchers’ public recognition and to stimulate interest in research careers. RESEARCH RIDE is a special train, operating between Hamburg’s main stations on the Hamburg metropolitan network on Friday night between 5 p.m. and 11 p.m reaching 70,000 people. Inside the waggons different event-formats will be presented, such as presentations, insta-photo booth, exhibitions, elevator-pitches, speed dating with experts, TED talks etc. Direct interaction between the public and MSC researchers and project coordinators of many trendy and entertaining EU funded projects on the train, will be provided in an exciting atmosphere for young people between 14 and 25 years. Additionally, side-events taking place in seven metro stations on the line of the RESEARCH RIDE will be promoted directing the visitors to many research associated locations. With the help of the Young European Federalists of Hamburg, in order to create a better understanding of the EU and promote European networking, the EU waggon during the event will visualize the spirit and role of the EU in general with a particular focus on its predominant part in research. To maximize the outreach outcome of the European Researchers’ Night, essential pre-events will take place during the Hamburg Climate Week. A trendy cultural (i.e. open-air movie-screenings) and educational programme (workshops with school children inside the Climate Planet preparing material presented during the RESEARCH RIDE) will advertise the proposed RESEARCH RIDE. So let’s take a walk on the RESEARCH RIDE!

Mots clés : hands on activities with researchers and scientists in trains of the metropolitan system of hamburg, key note  future life, pre events during hamburg climate week

Participants :
- German Climate Computing Centre (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 27000.0 €
- Aldebaran Marine Research and Broadcast (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 56000.0 €
- Hamburger klimaschutz-fonds ev (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Autres, subvention : 169000.0 €
- Dr offe julia katharina (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 38000.0 €
Projet BIREHAB (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Hand loss is a highly disabling event that markedly affects the quality of life. To achieve a close to natural replacement for the lost hand, the user should be provided with the rich sensations that are naturally perceive when grasping or manipulating an object. Ideal bidirectional hand prostheses should involve both a reliable decoding of the user’s intentions and the delivery of nearly “natural” sensory feedback through remnant afferent pathways, simultaneously and in real time. As such, much effort in the last decade has been directed towards the achievement of both the robust performance necessary for natural prosthesis control and the sensory feedback integration. Despite this however, researchers have struggled so far to translate their findings to clinical and commercial applications, as it is necessary first to develop robust multifunctional myoelectric control algorithms and to characterize the neurophysiological responses elicited by artificial sensory feedback. The first aim of BIREHAB is to characterize the cortical activity evoked by neuromorphic electrical stimulations of the median and ulnar nerve in amputees and compare it with healthy subjects’s undergoing the same protocl. The second aim is to develop a new blind source separation algorithm (Independent Component Analysis) for the robust extraction of muscle synergies and Motor Unit Action Potentials from high density surface electromyogram. ICA will also be useful to overcome the current issues that impair the efficacy of myoelectric prostheses control, such as electrodes cross talk and volume conduction. The implementation of BIREHAB has the potential to aid in the personalization of post-stroke rehabilitation protocols, and to improve the long term efficacy, quality and neural integration of hand prostheses. These results may enable, in the near future, near-natural replacement of missing hands and will help devise new upper limb rehabilitation strategies.

Mots clés : electroencephalography, electromyography, semg, muscle synergies, independent component analysis, myoelectric control, source localization, blind source separation

Participants :
- Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (Suisse) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 175419.6 €
Projet MARTINET (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Handwritten correspondence was a vital means of communication during the 18th Century. Through their letters, people kept in touch with family and friends, exchanged information, sought patronage, and did business. Musicians’ correspondence bears witness to every aspects of musical life, as well as to socio-economic issues related to music production and consumption. The overarching-project objective is to create a representation of 18th-century European musical environment through the reconstruction and analysis of the correspondence and epistolary network that Franciscan friar Giambattista Martini (1706-1784) entertained with musicians, music lovers, scholars and editors, men and women, from across Italy and from Europe’s most important courts and musical centers. Until now, research has been restricted only to the 6,000 letters received from some 970 correspondents collected in Martini's library. No serious attempt has been carried out to gather the huge number of letters that he sent to his correspondents, hosted in many libraries, archives and private collections on a global scale. Moreover, the methodologies followed have reduced epistolary content to a static dataset, not considering that it is the output of dynamic social network, requiring a philological, historical, and sociological approach within the epistemological framework provided by digital humanities. The research will focus on an extensive archival investigation on a global scale and a detailed indexation to identify the key themes of the correspondence. Finally, specific topics of the correspondence will be categorised applying the Social Network Analysis tools. Under the supervision of internationally renowned specialists of modern history of music and culture, the MSCA-GF will be implemented by a fellow with skills in 18th century musicians’ correspondence analysis, and provide him outstanding training in digital humanities and social network analysis to develop an excellent research profile.

Mots clés : giambattista martini, music history, musicology, 18th century music, republic of letters, musicians, correspondence, epistolary network, digital humanities, social network analysis

Participants :
- University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 269002.56 €
- Harvard University (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet VascColl (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Having recently returned to the EU following Graduate (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Postdoctoral Training (Harvard University) in the USA, I hope to work as a MSCA Reintegration Fellow to tackle a devastating element of the escalating epidemic of diabetes. Specifically, the lack of synchronicity in diabetic wound-healing can lead to chronic diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs), with limb amputation being the devastating consequence in many cases. Thus, the scientific goal of this proposal is to integrate my tools for temporally-controlled drug delivery with the existing collagen-based scaffold developed in Prof. Fergal O’Brien’s group at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). The proposed novel scaffold will be used to deliver vascular bioagents to DFUs, with ultrasound used as a trigger to delay the delivery of a vascular maturation bioagent. The target is to improve healing by stimulating vascularisation. The additional positive effects the bioagents may have on macrophage polarisation will be explored during a planned secondment. The training objective of this grant is to attain the requisite scientific and complementary skills so that I am fully prepared to run a research lab and teach in a top academic institution. This will be achieved through the expert supervision and input of Prof. O’Brien – and during a planned secondment – and will be backed up by colleagues in the lab and RCSI’s staff training activities. In addition, by managing the project, I will further develop skills relating to project planning and reporting, financial management, dissemination, patent filing and commercialisation. I will also continue to avail of opportunities to teach and to recruit and supervise students on this project or related works. If successful, this grant will help me establish an independent research niche in active and emerging research fields, while equipping me with the requisite skillsets to successfully work as an independent faculty member.

Mots clés : tissue engineering, drug delivery, temporally controlled deliver, diabetes, wound healing, vascularisation, collagen, scaffold, matrix, nanoparticles

Participants :
- Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 187866.0 €
Projet INVeST (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Health authorities in the EU have started to investigate the benefits of personalised health risk assessments and interventions in many diseases including cardiovascular disease (CVD), a worldwide leading cause of disability and mortality. Personalised health care aims at better diagnoses and earlier interventions, more efficient drug development and more effective therapies, thus providing better tools for clinical decision making and disease prevention. The INVeST project will produce for the first time a method that creates an individual vascular signature that is sensitive enough to aid early prediction and personalised intervention in CVD as well as treatments follow-up. INVeST will be able to provide the above through the following steps: (1) by participating in a short non-invasive eye test, any person can be provided with their own INVeST report, based on which lifestyle advice can be provided by a trained healthcare provider to improve their health and (2) if risk or CVD pathology is detected and intervention is applied, INVeST can help provide a progress report on the personalised intervention effectiveness and health improvements. The Fellow will (1) develop a mathematical model that describes each individual’s real-time retinal microvascular dynamic response to provocation, (2) identify and apply novel classifiers capable of accurately distinguishing between variation of healthy responses and pathological cases, (3) develop the mathematical apparatus, which based on the individual retinal vessel profile predicts the (individual) risk of developing CVD. INVeST brings together a talented young Fellow with background in computer science with three well-known groups in vascular imaging, computer science and health informatics. Following INVeST, with a portfolio encompassing personalised medicine, statistical model building, classification and CVD risk prediction, the Fellow will be an invaluable asset to the European multidisiplinary research community.

Mots clés : personalised medicine

Participants :
- Aston University (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 183454.8 €
Projet MultiSeaSpace (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Healthy ecosystems are productive and resilient to climate change. However, their conservation through ecosystem based management remains a challenging task. This is due to a lack of understanding of both the many complex interactions among all the components within the ecosystem and the impact of management action on their health. Hence, successful conservation relies on studies that use suitable data collection methods and appropriate statistical modelling approaches that reflect this complexity and help predict the impact of different management actions. Collecting data on species in marine ecosystems is particularly challenging as the marine environment is largely inaccessible and species are mostly invisible to researchers. Surveys can typically only collect information on some aspects of the distribution of individuals in space, mainly in dependence on the behaviour of a specific species within space and practical limitations. As a result, different sampling methods have been used, resulting in different data structures (e.g. point-process data, line transect data, telemetry data, fishery acoustic data, point-pattern data). Separate statistical modelling approaches along with different software packages have been developed for each of the different survey data structures. MultiSeaSpace seeks to develop an integrated general spatial modelling strategy that allow us to integrate different sampling methods in a unified modelling framework that include trophic interactions. This unification provides a huge advantage since it: (a) allows us to operate within the same framework, avoiding the use of different software packages, facilitating comparison; (b) allows the pooling of information across different surveys, even if these resulted in different data structures; (c) avoids considering single species in isolation. To do so, we will use the recently developed software package inlabru, which is based on integrated nested Laplace aproximation (INLA).


Participants :
- University of St Andrews (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 224933.76 €