Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet SECRETS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

This two-year EF will bring me at Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy), where I will be supervised by Prof. Marco Sgarbi. The overall aim of the project is to provide the first, complete historical-philosophical reconstruction of the Academia secretorum naturae, one of the earliest Societies in Europe, to explore in an innovative way the "secrets of nature", by performing experiments in the field of physico-chemical and mechanical sciences. The Academy was founded in Naples in 1560 by Giambattista Della Porta (1535-1615), one of the leading figures of the Italian Renaissance in natural philosophy, so much so, tha the echoes of his thought reached authors like Francis Bacon, Galileo, and Isaac Newton. The scientific activity of the Academy is able to be reconstructed by reading the "Magia Naturalis" by Della Porta. A study on the experimentalism promoted in Naples by the Academia secretorum naturae, which is at the core of the project, will significantly influence our understanding of the Italian Renaissance and its contribution to the so-called Scientific Revolution/rise of experimentalism. Research will aid in determining certain fundamental junctures between the shift from natural magic to the new science, clarifying the role of the peculiar empirical Aristotelianism, open to the instances of natural magic, mathematics, and practical knowledge, in vogue in the Naples of the 16th century; of the introduction of a clear codification of the experimental process of the secrets of nature, as of a readily identifiable scientific instrumentation introduced in Della Porta's Academy. The clarification of these two points will lead an understanding of how experimentalism, which developed in Italy during the Renaissance and spread throughout Europe thanks to the enormous popularity of "Magia naturalis", impacted the great European scientific academies of the 17th century.

Mots clés : aristotelianism, natural magic, secrets of nature, renaissance philosophy, history of science and technologies

Participants :
- Université Ca' Foscari de Venise (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 172750.08 €
Projet DesMEMO (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Computers and electronic devices are essential, but the emerging concepts such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI), demand substantial power. Thus, a significant shift in computer hardware is necessary. However, Moore's law, which has driven microelectronics by scaling complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS-) transistors, is reaching its limit. Therefore, encoding information in collective order parameters using innovative materials and architectures becomes crucial for future advancements. Among the proposed approaches, electric-field control of magnetism through multiferroics stands out as the most promising pathway. In 2019, Intel proposed magnetoelectric spin-orbit (MESO) devices aiming to create low-power and dimensionally-scalable transistors that address the limitations of CMOS-based technology. Limited by the rarity of room-temperature multiferroics, this architecture primarily relies on the ferroelectric/antiferromagnetic compound BiFeO3. However, when Intel with CIC nanoGUNE realized the first complete MESO device in 2024, the device exhibited non-deterministic behavior due to the weak magnetoelectricity of BiFeO3. This highlights the urgent need for replacing BiFeO3 and achieve reliable performance in MESO devices.  This research proposal aims to design bismuth-based double perovskites (Bi2BB’O6) as reliable alternatives to BiFeO3 for magnetoelectric memories. These materials uniquely combine room-temperature ferroelectricitywith ferro- or ferrimagnetism. The proposed compound will also simplify MESO memory structures. This experimental project will leverage advanced thin film growth facilities, including Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) and sputtering techniques to stabilize and engineer these materials. The approach combines scanning probe microscopy and synchrotron-based spectroscopy and imaging to optimize their magnetoelectric response, ultimately ensuring the successful realization of these devices.

Mots clés : multiferroics, magnetoelectric memories, doublel perovskites, epitaxy

Participants :
- Université de Leeds (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 260347.92 €
Projet HYB-KNOW (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Hybrid Knowledge Society (HYB-KNOW) is a two-year postdoctoral project situated at the intersection of philosophy, history, and cultural studies. The project’s overarching purpose is to overhaul the concept of the knowledge society in light of pressing contemporary concerns, such as the existential risks associated with the Anthropocene and the hybrid demands of the 21st-century knowledge ecosystem.  The knowledge society was supposed to have initiated a technology-driven, science-based, and expert-governed way of life, but recent developments indicate that massive technology corporations exert significant influence over the public sphere, scientific institutions are challenged by resurgent extremisms, and expert knowledge is devalued in favor of conspiracy discourse. Moreover, researchers have shown that anthropogenic activity has a significantly negative impact on the Earth system, with potentially devastating consequences for long-term human survival.  In these highly complex circumstances, the development of effective solutions will largely depend on the integration of the diverse, multiple elements that comprise the global knowledge ecosystem. Therefore, by drawing on the methodology of political-historical epistemology to design an innovative research framework that combines conceptual research with historical case studies, I will construct the concept of the hybrid knowledge society geared to integrate a wide range of disciplines and actors while avoiding the twin risks of neopositivism and postmodern relativism.  The HYB-KNOW project will open up new research avenues, address multiple existing research gaps, and generate change-oriented knowledge to facilitate inclusive knowledge-making practices. In addition, HYB-KNOW will provide me with an opportunity to boost my research profile, improve my scientific training, and consolidate my integration in international academic networks.

Mots clés : knowledge society, anthropocene, knowledge ecosystem, political historical epistemology, conceptual research, historical case studies, hybrid knowledge making

Participants :
- Université Ca' Foscari de Venise (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 188590.08 €
Projet SEA-LIMITHS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Economic Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

There has been no evaluation of the economic and environmental impacts of coastal sea-level rise on the hotel industry utilising Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) to analyse the whole transmission channel. The SEA-LIMITHS project will contribute to the expanding but still limited body of information on climate change and tourism losses. Despite the importance of sand beaches to the hotel sector in the vast majority of Italian beaches, tragically few policymakers incorporate quantifiable risk assessments of sand beach loss due to climate change. This study investigates the impacts and economic consequences of sea level rise on sandy beaches and beach hospitality losses owing to beach erosion and flooding in two economically important Italian coastal areas, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna. Combining sandy beaches with a proposed rich dataset based on machine learning and artificial intelligence, user-generated data is matched to the land cover/land use map to separate the hospitality sectors (accommodation, food and drink, sports and leisure) in order to assess economic losses in the hospitality industry from 2050 to 2100 using representative concentration pathways (RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5). Taking into consideration no adaptation measures, the predicted cumulative damage costs per hospitality industry are analysed and contrasted to the investment cost of adopting alternative adaption solutions. Using an Italy-specific computable general equilibrium model, the estimated direct costs will be used in a macroeconomic assessment as input to determine how changes in hospitality activities effect regional value added. The fact that this proposal pertains to several disciplines of study is what gives it its creative interdisciplinarity. The combination of economic and environmental research, together with the developing and increasing methods of machine learning, will produce an outstanding piece of work and significantly advance the author's scientific career.

Mots clés : sea level rise, beach erosion, beach flooding, economic impacts, artificial intelligence, data mining, hospitality sector, general equilibrium model, coastal cities, italy

Participants :
- Université Ca' Foscari de Venise (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 188590.08 €
Projet SynFuMIR (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The project SynFuMIR investigates functionality in syntax by analyzing complex motion verb constructions in regional Italian. Functionality concerns various grammatical aspects of certain linguistic items that allow lexical units to be assembled together in more complex structures. Although it is a fundamental aspect of language, its nature has not been fully understood yet. Crucial questions to theoretical linguistics depend on our understanding of functionality. These questions will be tackled with new data from multilingual speakers. Syntactic functionality will be investigated by collecting new data via on-site fieldwork with speakers of Southern regional Italian, Sicilian, Calabrian, and Apulian (around 300 speakers in total). The considered constructions are restructuring, pseudo-coordination, and multiple agreement constructions. The main objective of the study is the development of a new theory of syntactic functionality based on the role of location as a syntactic element. My hypothesis is that location plays a crucial role in functionality and non-canonical argument structure. Other goals are language documentation and the investigation of language contact.  By focusing on language contact between two or more extremely closely related languages that contain slightly different but comparable constructions, the involved grammatical features will be investigated in a new way compared to previous studies on the topic. Our understanding of language contact (micro-contact) and multilingualism (bilectalism) will also benefit from this study. Besides its contribution to grammatical theory, this project has also a social and cultural impact on speakers communities because of the engagement of Italian speakers about their dialects and the acknowledgment of regional Italians as real languages. It also represents an example of fruitful collaboration between different fields of linguistics: theoretical syntax, experimental linguistics, and sociolinguistics.

Mots clés : syntax, theoretical linguistics, functionality, motion verbs, multilingualism, dialectology, romance linguistics, italian, cross linguistic variation

Participants :
- Université Ca' Foscari de Venise (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 172750.08 €
Projet AIESHM (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The aim of the present proposal is to develop an innovative Artificial Intelligence Enhanced Structural Health Monitoring (AIESHM) for evaluation of time-dependent structural performance of ageing railway bridges. This includes a sustainability and resilient-based asset management framework, which leads to significantly reducing the CO2 emission. The proposed AIESHM system, is used to identify the damages in order to prevent the failure or temporary closure, which could lead to loss of lives and additional costs namely construction of new bridge, slow down transportation rate and heavy traffic. This monitoring system will be (a) cost-effective, timely and accurate, (b) detectable for various types of damages, (c) reducing the CO2 emission (d) implemented to a new sustainability and resilient-based asset management framework. The combination of updating finite element model (FEM), which involves calibrating the FEM parameters using the measured responses of a bridge, data extraction of sensors and visual inspection integrated with machine learning (ML) will help us to get different damages in the best time. Then they are implemented in a new asset management framework which helps to select the best repair/maintenance strategy by an improved decision making process so that the green house gas emission reduces. The FEM updating technique employs optimization algorithms to minimize the difference between the predicted and measured responses, resulting to enhance the accuracy of SHM. By training ML algorithms on data, this model can capture the complex behavior of bridges and identify damage states. Furthermore, the new approach will be capable to predict the time-dependent residual capacity under railway and seismic loading in order to make the best decision to use or repair the bridge.

Mots clés : structural health monitoring, machine learning algorithms, digital image processing, vibration, finite element model, structural dynamics, sustainability and resilient based asset management

Participants :
- Université de Southampton (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 276187.92 €
Projet PEP-4-QPE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Quality physical education (PE) develops healthy, active, and engaged citizens who form the basis of sustainable development. However, quality PE provision is in decline globally. Suboptimal policies and policy implementation have been identified as key factors in that decline due to physical educators’ lack of preparation for policy engagement. In response, this fellowship will address the need to build PE stakeholders’ capacity to engage in policy efforts by: (a) identifying key facilitators, barriers, and content in the development of policy capacity; (b) translating complicated policy processes into practical policy lessons; and (c) developing a preparatory policy engagement programme for quality PE (PEP-4-QPE) that is evidence-based, internationally-applicable, and available as an Open Educational Resource. To do so, this research engages international PE stakeholders (i.e., teachers, teacher educators, policymakers, professional development providers, professional association directors) in co-design, co-creation, and co-assessment citizen science via the methods of a modified e-Delphi approach, participatory research, and case study. The potential scientific, economic, and societal impacts of the proposed research are aligned with contemporary European and global development agendas, including that of UNESCO, the European Commission, and the WHO, who have recently outlined that investment in quality PE is a ‘low-cost/high-impact action’ and that, at present, there is critical need to prioritize attention to, and action on, PE policy to improve quality provision. In addition to various advanced research and transferrable skills, this fellowship’s research and training components draw on and contribute to the disciplines of PE, education, and policy studies to enhance my multi-disciplinary and intersectoral career prospects and employability as a faculty member or policy leader in a European university or non-academic organization, respectively.

Mots clés : quality physical education physical education policy policy preparation open educational resources participatory delphi

Participants :
- Université de Limerick (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 215534.4 €
Projet DeNOVO (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Through photosynthesis, nature has mastered the process of harvesting solar energy and converting it into vital chemical products. Carefully constructed assemblies of light-absorbing molecules, such as chlorophylls, collect light energy from the sun to generate excited species (called excitons) that can spread out among different molecules. These extended excitons travel very efficiently to specific locations where they break into charges, driving photosynthesis. What secrets enable nature to carry out these tasks so efficiently, and how can we draw inspiration from them? Among the materials used for artificial solar energy conversion, organic solar cells made of carbon and hydrogen follow similar steps to natural photosystems and offer practical advantages: chemical tunability, flexibility, and transparency. These low-cost materials can make clean energy more widely accessible and help combat dangerous climate change. Yet, efficient molecular solar energy converters require better design strategies. DeNOVO applies state-of-the-art computation to understand and optimize the primary electronic steps in molecular photovoltaics, drawing insights from evolution's exquisite molecular design. In synergy with the host group, which offers training on advanced multiscale algorithms, I will develop a novel method to simulate the entire process, from light absorption to charge separation, in complex systems spanning a wide range of time scales. I will model energy conversion in both well-studied and new photosystems and will implement natural system features (e.g., well-controlled morphology, reduced interfacial volume) in simplified photovoltaic architectures. These design strategies should enhance morphological stability, boost charge separation driven by enhanced quantum delocalization, and reduce energy losses. The long-term goal is to develop scientific knowledge that can support decision-making in technology development and mainstreaming of new renewable energy sources.

Mots clés : large scale excited state dynamics, multi scale approaches, machine learning, organic photovoltaics, photosystems, exciton transport, charge separation, transient delocalization

Participants :
- Université de Pise (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 172750.08 €
Projet PhotoMaKEASIA (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The history of photography shares a profound connection with the history of the modern scientific disciplines, including art history, anthropology, and archaeology, as well as modern medicine, biology, and the natural sciences. With the visual turn in the humanities, an increasing number of historians have analyzed visual materials from a new perspective, conceiving images as central rather than peripheral objects of historical analysis. Images ranging from early X-ray photographs to drawings of distant cultures contributed in different ways to the production of knowledge. All provided viewers with an impression that they were seeing something that would otherwise be invisible to them, whether inside the human body or geographically and ideologically distant. The PhotoMaKEASIA project addresses the following questions: How did European scholars and scientists use photography to construct knowledge about Asia? To what degree did the photographic medium itself influence or affect the results of their studies? Do contemporary photographs of Asia continue to shape scholarly and popular understandings? Departing from studies that focus on photography and the “colonial gaze,” this project concentrates instead on how photographs shaped knowledge in response to pragmatic concerns and scholarly interest in Asia. The project develops four case studies: 1.) photographs of 1850s European expeditions to China to study silkworm cultivation; 2.) images created to document archaeological expeditions by the ISMEO (Rome); 3.) photographic reproductions of artworks used in art historical studies; 4.) and contemporary documentary photography. Based on these four studies, the project will trace the history of photographic images in the construction of European knowledge about Asia in order to rethink photographs’ role in both the past and the present.

Mots clés : history of photography, photography in asia, photography as a method, chinese art history, china, asia

Participants :
- Université Ca' Foscari de Venise (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 188590.08 €
Projet PACK-COP (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Protein secretion is an essential cellular process that delivers many diverse proteins to the extracellular environment or cell surface. This process contributes to many aspects of cellular function, including nutrient uptake, cellular communication and tissue integrity. Secretion starts with secretory protein biogenesis and folding in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) followed by their export from the ER and transport to the Golgi apparatus via COPII-coated vesicles, to finally reach their final destinations. These vesicles play a pivotal role in quality control of secretion by selectively packaging cargo proteins that are fully folded and transport competent. Defects in this process can lead to diseases such as cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. However, the molecular mechanisms governing selectivity in vesicular trafficking remain poorly understood.  PACK-COP will reveal how a specific family of cargo receptors, Erv14/CNIH, drives the selectivity of secretion across a diverse range of clients. The molecular mechanism underlying this selectivity into nascent vesicles will be dissected using a combination of yeast and human model systems. In yeast, PACK-COP will use mutagenesis and specific cross-linking approaches to discover protein-protein interaction interfaces that drive multiple known cargo proteins into COPII vesicles. These insights will be directly applied to human cells to map the client landscape that uses CNIH1 for ER export, and test specific functional domains based on the yeast discoveries. The innovative combination of both models, coupled with cutting-edge techniques, will enable PACK-COP to map Erv14 specific amino acids required for the ER export of critical cell-surface proteins. This knowledge could enable screening for inhibitors that block these interactions, potentially reducing the release of specific proteins to the cell surface, a strategy with significant therapeutic potential for disease associated to defects in secretion pathways.

Mots clés : copii vesicles, membrane traffic, protein secretion, er export, cargo packaging

Participants :
- Université de Dundee (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 260347.92 €