Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet MIRMINT (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The project 'Medieval Irish and Medieval Icelandic Texts in Nineteenth-Century Translation' (MIRMINT) is a comparative study of translations of medieval Irish and Icelandic texts published by antiquarians in Ireland, Iceland, and Denmark in the nineteenth century. This period saw both scholars and cultural and political nationalists in several countries reflect on their respective national medieval pasts and what relevance it could have to the contemporary political situation. This, in turn, led to the adoption of so-called 'Golden Ages' - a point in time which was deemed to embody all of the characteristics which the envisaged national ideal held. Key to the adoption and perpetuation of the golden age were the translations of medieval texts from this designated period which made these works accessible to a larger audience. The project will answer the following three questions: What texts were translated? What does the choice of these texts tell us? What are the links between the texts and cultural nationalism? This will be achieved by compiling a database with a list of publications which will be crossreferenced against another list of medieval texts known to antiquarians in the nineteenth century, and by researching antiquarian correspondence and nationalist periodicals. This study will centre and promote the role of the small nation in the nineteenth-century context of empire, exploring how the past was used to argue for cultural and linguistic distinction, which, it was hoped, would lead to greater political autonomy. It will also investigate how the dominating countries, in this case, Britain and Denmark, also shared an interest in the Irish and Icelandic past, though they had different motivations for engagement with antiquarian research. The research is highly topical at a time when white nationalists associated with the Alt-Right have centred the middle ages to further their arguments, frequently focusing on the imagined Irish and Nordic pasts.

Mots clés : antiquarianism, nineteenth century, ireland, iceland, denmark, medieval literature, translation, empire, cultural nationalism, nationalism, historiography

Participants :
- University of Iceland (Islande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 184239.36 €
Projet REMAp (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The project AIMS AT developing and validating a novel approach to neuromotor rehabilitation of persons with Multiple Sclerosis (PwMS), rooted in the physiological mechanisms of recovery and based on Body-Machine Interfaces (BoMI). This project is INNOVATIVE in that it explicitly takes subjects’ impairments into account, first characterizing it and then inherently adapting and individualizing the rehabilitative interventions. The project is based on the IDEA that after a neurologic disease or during a rehabilitative training all the nervous system (from the periphery to the brain) go through a reorganization and knowing these changes can be exploited to design more effective and tailored intervention. Muscle synergies in combination with kinematic synergies will be used to develop a MS- specific tool for a complete functional evaluation, to monitor progress of the disease and effects of treatments, and they will be use to design a BoMI that will exploit the residual mobility with patient-specific exercises helping PwMS to reach their full functional potential. Because of their adaptive nature, BoMIs will benefit PwMS with different degrees of impairment adapting to their changing conditions (worsening due to the disease progress or improving due to therapy). The project will evaluate BoMI training-induced reorganization in the brain and spinal cord with innovative imaging techniques. This will allow building solid foundations for a comprehensive understanding of use-dependent plasticity of the sensorimotor cortex and sensorimotor tracts in healthy subject and in PwMS. The expected outcome will be a novel method and a class of highly adaptive, personalized devices that not only maximize the restoration of functional performance, but also promote the functional reorganization of body abilities.

Mots clés : multiple sclerosis, rehabilitation, motor recovery, motor learning

Participants :
- University of Genoa (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 171473.28 €
Projet BRISDOM (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The project Bridging East and West: Wisdom Literature in Cuneiform and Greek Traditions (BRISDOM) explores similarities and differences in wisdom and its usages in Mesopotamian and Greek traditions. BRISDOM represents the first ever attempt to provide a comprehensive study of wisdom in Mesopotamia and Greece. Wisdom reflects on some of the most fundamental questions of mankind, such as the meaning of life, mortality, and relations with the divine. Wisdom literature had an enormous circulation in both Mesopotamia and Greece and includes very different text types such as sayings, proverbs, fables, books of instructions, diatribes and dialogues. The project has three main objectives: (A) the definition of the corpus of wisdom literature in Mesopotamian and Greek traditions; (B) the definition of the conceptualization of wisdom in Mesopotamian and Greek traditions; (C) the comprehension of similarities and differences of wisdom literary motifs in Mesopotamian and Greek traditions. In order to achieve these objectives BRISDOM will developed a different methodology from previous studies on literary and cultural relations between the East and the West. Rather than focusing on historical connections, BRISDOM will compare the socio-cultural context of wisdom in Mesopotamia and Greece.

Mots clés : assyriology, sumerian and akkadian literature, classics, wisdom

Participants :
- University of Turin (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 244269.0 €
- University of California System (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet GLONEXACO (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The project GLONEXACO is coordinated by the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), an inter-university institute of Barcelona’s public universities (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat Barcelona and Universitat Pompeu Fabra), and will be conducted in collaboration with the Program on Order, Conflict and Violence (OCV) at Yale University. By merging methods of Economic Geography and Conflict Studies, it scrutinises the relationship between local armed conflicts and global market dynamics in the case of natural resource trade. The objective of this research project is to study this illicit trade and to suggest policy options that help to ensure a safe supply of raw materials for Europe’s industry. It brings together two different research fields in an innovative and multidisciplinary analytical framework, called the “Global-Local Nexus of Armed Conflicts” (GLONEXACO). On the one hand, GLONEXACO will incorporate the concept of Global Production Networks (GPN) from the field of Economic Geography to map international trade streams and the role of the involved state and non-state actors. On the other hand GLONEXACO will use elements of conflict studies and look on the microdynamics of civil wars to look on the local dynamics of this trade. In practical terms, the project will use GLONEXACO for the assessment of two case studies (DR Congo and Central African Republic) with the aim of contributing specific policy recommendations both for the EU and other actors about how to curb this trade. The framework potential is not limited to its use with conflict resources, but it will also be applicable to other cases in which global economic dynamics meet local conflicts.

Mots clés : eu external policy, natural resources, armed conflicts, civil wars

Participants :
- CERCA Institution (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 257191.2 €
- Yale University (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet INSPIRE (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The project INSPIRE (multilINgual Sentence Processing In Real-timE) will investigate two potential factors that influence multilingual sentence processing, cross-linguistic influence and language dominance, to shed light on the ongoing debate about how the language systems in a multilingual speaker's mind/brain interact. We will employ two time-sensitive methods, eye-tracking and mouse-tracking, to investigate how German native speakers living in Norway and non-native speakers of German whose native language is Norwegian process German case marking in different sentence structures (transitive structures, ditransitive structures); the findings will be compared to those obtained from a group of German native speakers in Germany. The language combination was chosen because it enables us to test whether the groups differ in how they use morphological case and word order to identify who did what to whom in a sentence. Unlike German, Norwegian has no morphological case on full noun phrases, but mostly relies on word order for sentence interpretation. Our experimental design not only enables us to investigate whether non-native speakers are affected by cross-linguistic influence from their first language (Norwegian) when processing German (and rely more on word order than case), but also how a change in language dominance affects sentence processing in German native speakers, i.e., whether they show a processing pattern that is more similar to that of the non-native group after longer exposure to and usage of Norwegian. Thus, unlike previous studies, INSPIRE will reveal whether cross-linguistic influence is bidirectional. The project will fill a gap in current research on language attrition by investigating real-time processing and will inform us how the lack of input and use can affect the processing of the first language. INSPIRE addresses aspects that are relevant for all who have to deal with multilingualism in their daily life (e.g., language therapists and teachers).

Mots clés : multilingualism, cross linguistic influence, language processing, prediction

Participants :
- UiT The Arctic University of Norway (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 202158.72 €
Projet IMEX (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The project Images in Exile (IMEX) addresses the current refugee crisis and its implications for Syrian Kurdish women in Europe. It challenges images about Muslim women, who are often the subject of debates on the supposed dichotomy between an imagined secular progressive West and religious backwards East. Kurdish women disrupt this dichotomy through an alternative portrayal in global media. Whereas Kurds were previously often pictured as terrorists, backward, and conservative, they are now presented as courageous fighters against, and victims of, Islamic terrorism; and as progressive forces that include women in their ranks. Ideas about progressive, feminist and secular forms of governance are strongly developed in Kurdish political thought, and central in local self-representations. However, media representations and political ideology often differ from social realities on the ground. Going beyond these representations, this study will investigate Kurdish women’s experiences in a rapidly changing socio-political context. It aims at developing better insights into migrant women’s integration and participation in European societies. IMEX thus directly responds to an important policy priority of the H2020 work programme, and targets a better gender and equality balance. Building on extensive research experience in the Middle East and Europe, and the knowledge of Kurdish, IMEX will carry out field research among refugees and migrant organizations in Norway. Methods include narrative interviews with 40 women, focus group interviews, and action research through the set-up of a photo exhibition. The host organization is the Centre for Gender Research at Oslo University, a leading Gender institute in the Nordic region. Dissemination is directed towards high academic quality and policy development. IMEX strongly contributes to the researcher’s career prospects and to the broadening of the Centre’s research agenda, and responds to an urgent societal concern.

Mots clés : gender, migration, representation, kurds, syria, middle east, norway, refugees, politics, religion, citizenship, participation, integration

Participants :
- University of Oslo (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 196400.4 €
Projet QuoMoDys (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The project aims as developing novel thermodynamic concepts to understand quantum many-body systems when they are driven out of thermal equilibrium via the coupling to external reservoirs. In particular, we will clarify the specific resources, for thermodynamic protocols, contained in many-body quantum superpositions, which could be stabilized in these systems via the interplay of intrinsic dynamics, external driving and dissipation. Our special focus will be on exciton-polaritons systems, which realize "quantum fluids of light" due to the strong coupling of light to electronic excitations confined in semi-conducting micro-cavity. Considering lattices of coupled such microcavities -- realizing the analog of electronic band structures, with hybrid light-matter quasi-particles playing the role of electrons in ordinary metals and insulators -- we shall develop a novel theoretical approach to capture quantum-correlation effects in these quantum fluids. As a specific situation of fundamental interest, which can be realized in the aforementioned exciton-polariton lattices, we will investigate a quantum phase transition where dissipation plays a key role, stabilizing novel states of quantum matter with analogs neither in classical systems out of equilibrium, nor in quantum systems at thermal equilibrium. On the conceptual side, we will extend existing notions of quantum thermodynamics to a many-body realm. On the technical side, we shall develop a new semi-classical theory to describe quantum entanglement in these driven-dissipative quantum systems. This fundamental research, done in collaboration with theoreticians at the forefront of research in quantum thermodynamics, and world-class experimental groups for polaritonics, will open new perspectives for the application of driven-dissipative quantum many-body systems in quantum technologies.

Mots clés : quantum thermodynamics, driven dissipative systems, quantum entanglement, semi classical methods

Participants :
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 196707.84 €
Projet PLANAGE (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The project aims at defining, conceptualizing and historicizing the paradigm of planning in order to analyze public policies in Western Europe at the national, transnational and supranational level between 1945 and the late 1960s. The fields of public policies covered by the project are economic planning, social planning, urban/spatial planning. The project will start with a comparative analysis of four national cases (France, Great Britain, Federal Republic of Germany, Italy), of the approach to planning policies displayed by their respective governments, with a special attention to the differing or converging patterns during phases of left-wing/right-wing alternation. For each case, the project will observe planning institutes and policies as they learned and borrowed from respective national traditions or other experiments by European countries with a longer tradition in the field (not just restricted to the four project countries). The research will also take into consideration the influence exerted by the US example, especially Roosevelt’s “New Deal”; and the Western debate at the time on the possibility of technical convergence with specific features and institutes of the “Real Existing Socialism” model, despite insuperable differences of political regime. The project will also deal with the transnational circulation of knowledge, technical know-how and ‘experts’; with the process of inspiration that specific institutes and policies exerted among the four national cases; and lastly with the relevance or otherwise of planning in bringing about long-term convergence among these countries. Finally, the project will turn to the supranational dimension to gauge how the different national traditions and experiments in planning policies were transferred to the European cooperation/integration level from the outset of the OEEC and the ECSC to the late 1960s.

Mots clés : planning, public policy, comparative history, transnational history, post war europe, european integration process

Participants :
- European University Institute (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 180277.2 €
Projet FIT-UTI (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The project aims at developing a low-cost and reliable microfluidic disposable chip and the corresponding plug-and-play operating system for fast point-of-care diagnosis of UTI (Urinary Tract Infection) disease. This project will make the best of the competences of the ER (Experienced Researcher)'s strong background in mechanical/electrical engineering, microfluidics as well as in cell biology and Elvesys expertise in the Elvesys proprietary FASTGENE technology, the world fastest qPCR (qualitative Polymerase Chain Reaction) technique which has already been tested on Anthrax and Ebola simulating agents. We will integrate bacteria lysis, DNA extraction and PCR module into a single plastic chip. In the scope of the project, the prototype will be tested in simple situations. Once satisfactory results are obtained, it will be made ready for tests in real-case situations (urine sample) through existing collaborations between Elvesys and hospitals. The prototype will be expected to provide a reliable diagnosis from the sample input to fluorescence readout in less than 30 minutes. This technology can be extended to other disease diagnostics as well thus contributing to solving the current EU needs for fast point-of-care diagnostic technologies. Through the present project, the ER will reach a level of maturity on technological aspects but also on managerial and industrial aspects that will provide her new career perspectives. Besides enriching professional knowledge, The ER will benefit from specific SME environment to develop her entrepreneurship, including market research, product valorization, finance management and leadership. Following this new experience, the ER will be one step closer to act as a leader or manager of a research team in the industrial field.

Mots clés : microfluidics, lab on a chip, point of care, pcr chip, microfabrication

Participants :
- Bforcure (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 92787.08 €
- Elvesys (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 92288.92 €
Projet INTOM (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The project aims to advance knowledge of the development of Theory of Mind - the ability to reason about other’s beliefs. Specifically, the project will combine brain imaging techniques with adaptations to typical Theory of Mind tasks that will allow major theoretical advances in the understanding of infant social cognition. The use of brain imaging techniques to study the development of Theory of Mind is an upcoming research strategy made possible by recent advances in lower-cost infant appropriate techniques such as function Near Infrared Spectroscopy and places this project at the cutting edge of the field. Previously the experienced researcher has sought to evaluate the mechanisms underpinning corvid’s and children’s social behaviours and the Supervisor has independently sought to evaluate the mechanisms underpinning responses to complex social stimuli. The current project uses their joint backgrounds to facilitate the development of innovative behavioural paradigms that, in combination with the use of imaging techniques pioneered by a collaborating research lab, will allow the team to address key questions in infant Theory of Mind research. In addition to the research aspects of the proposal the project will allow the experienced researcher to learn to use imaging techniques on infants and will involve the dissemination of research through publications and conference talks. Furthermore, both the experienced researcher and Supervisor will continue their commitment to undertaking public engagement programs and are excited about exploring the new opportunities for exploiting their research that the project ensues.

Mots clés : theory of mind, developmental psychology

Participants :
- University of Trento (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Rijeka (Croatie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 170010.0 €
Projet CAMP-BIVALENCE (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The project aims to analyse the role of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Roma, Gypsies and Travellers’ (RGTs) in/exclusion in European urban camps. Triangulating individual semi-structured interviews, oral histories, archival research, and interpretative policy analysis, the interdisciplinary project combines Sociological, Socio-Anthropological and Socio-Historical approaches, contemplating two UK and two Italian superdiverse urban contexts as case studies. It contributes to three research streams: housing exclusion; RGT policy, and camps as socio-spatial configurations, and inaugurates a new interdisciplinary research field on Urban Camps. Dr Sigona, who will act as the Supervisor, is a leading scholar in migration and Roma research in Europe; his expertise is particularly complementary with Dr Picker research skills and knowledge coming from ten years of Sociological field-based research on Roma spatial segregation in five European countries. Due to the excellent quality of infrastructure, scholarly research and staff, the School of Social Policy and the Institute for Research into Superdiversity at the University of Birmingham are the most appropriate academic environment for Dr Picker to become, after the Fellowship, a leading social science scholar in the European Research Area.

Mots clés : roma, gypsies and travellers, social exclusion, cities, camps, social policy, superdiversity, oral history

Participants :
- University of Birmingham (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 195454.8 €