Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet S-TEAM (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : European Researchers' Night
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The scientific and technological development has a great influence in how our societies make progress, together with other social factors such as politics or economics. However, in recent years a lack of interest in research careers related with science and technology has been reported in several countries around the world, including Spain. The reasons behind this are still not fully elucidated, but current findings point out to a lack of understanding between the scientific and the non-scientific communities. Within this framework, the “NIGHT Spanish Team (S-TEAM)” emerges as an initiative to bring the public at large (children, teenagers, adults, as both parents and professionals and the elderly) in close contact with researchers in an informal context which includes pleasant, enjoyable, attractive and innovative activities. The S-TEAM is planned as a promotional effort in line with the objectives of the work programme of the call H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2020. S-TEAM comprises a wide range of activities to disseminate local research which will be held at 12 different locations, covering a large part of the Spanish territory. S-TEAM is coordinated by the University of Oviedo and includes seven more Spanish universities as partners. The main aim of S-TEAM is to promote public awareness and understanding of research in science and technology. In order to achieve this, we will encourage researchers to share their work with the public at large, especially those who have benefited from EU support. A critical framework will be established as a forum for discussion with experts from partner’s institutions, about solutions that are being proposed in relation to specific problems of general interest. We do hope to demystify and humanise research, reveal what researchers do, and stimulate young people to embark on research careers.


Participants :
- Universidad de Zaragoza (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 14750.0 €
- University of Oviedo (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 28750.0 €
- Universidad Publica de Navarra (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 14750.0 €
- Universitat de les Illes Balears (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 14750.0 €
- University of the Basque Country (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 14750.0 €
- Universidad de Cantabria (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 14750.0 €
- University of Castilla-La Mancha (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 14750.0 €
- University of Extremadura (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 16750.0 €
Projet KETOCYAN (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The scientific goal of KETOCYAN is to renew classical nitrogen-containing polymethine dyes, so-called cyanines, and transform them into suitable tools for tackling the modern challenges of photoredox chemistry. The flagships for the proposed molecular patterns are unusual “non-Kelulé” diradicaloids. In principle their exotic topology must result in remarkable properties, including near-IR absorption, redox activity, enhanced photo-stability, etc. However, the unusual structures have also long been regarded as non-viable synthetic targets. This traditional belief has been challenged by recent reports and preliminary results of the host team. The project intend to capitalize on this paradigm shift, to develop synthetic methodologies, to study the novel organic functionalities, up to the design of original families of diradicaloid redox-active organic dyes. The fellow, Eder Tomas-Mendivil, is a seasoned synthetic chemist with solid track record and expertise in organometallic and organic chemistry, including the design and synthesis of unusual and/or reactive compounds. The host laboratory, the academic environment and the infrastructures at Université Grenoble Alpes will provide complementary training and experience, including in electrochemistry, photophysics, DFT calculation or study of radicals, but also in research management and communication. Overall this action will provide the fellow for outstanding career development opportunities, with a focus on academia.


Participants :
- Université Grenoble Alpes (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 184707.84 €
Projet FUNGLASS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Staff Exchanges
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The scientific objective of the project FUNGLASS- FUNctional GLASS integration in photonic devices and components- addresses one of the most crucial challenges in research and innovation which lies in the design and manufacturing of optical components and systems. Among the materials used in photonic devices, glasses play a central role: they are used as laser sources, lenses, smart screen, optical fibers and specialty fibers to name a few. FUNGLASS breakthrough relies on the control of nano/micro processing and 3D printing of glass by laser writing or poling, offering extraordinary opportunities for fabrication of elementary building-blocks such as multimaterial optical fibers with unique topology, morphology and novel properties for the design of integrated multifunctional components and devices. FUNGLASS proposes interdisciplinary European scale staff exchange programme with unique positioning on laser/field 3D nano/micro patterning and functionalizing of novel photonic glass materials allowing fabrication of sophisticated components and systems on their own. The involvement of large international centers with state of the art facilities for developing photonics components will enable provision of the required skills for developing a career in the private sector, as an entrepreneur, a CEO, a chief of R&D department etc. The involvement of international experienced and recognized professors, ER, involved in the project will also ensure that ESRs are prepared for a career in research excellence. Moreover, the strong lasting links between those centers allow the popup for an unpreceded international network in photonics and material. This proposal will contribute to sustain this network by the creation of joint unit laboratory between participants.

Mots clés : glass, femtosecond laser processing, direct laser writing, fiber development, specialty fiber, hybrid materials for optic, optical sensors, mid ir technology

Participants :
- Université de Bordeaux (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 644000.0 €
- University of Aveiro (Portugal) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 165600.0 €
- Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 55200.0 €
- Université Laval (Canada) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Universidade Paulista (Brésil) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet AutoCheMo (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Doctoral Networks - Industrial Doctorates
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The scientific software company SCM, the Center for Molecular Modeling at Ghent University, and the Leonhard group at RWTH Aachen University, who share established collaborations in method development and software implementation as well as in the training of PhD students, propose to develop new concepts and tools to advance the field of complex reaction systems modelling. The automatic derivation of complex chemical models from molecular simulations has the potential to become a very cost-effective tool in the design of industrial chemical reactors. This has driven the enormous progress in the field over the past decades but the exploration of complex reaction networks currently still requires an extensive (and sometimes unfeasible) amount of manual labor. We will surmount these manual bottlenecks by extending established methodologies (ChemTraYzer, ReaxFF and transition state theory) and by addressing their main limitations (scaling towards extended systems, overall reliability and the quantum-mechanical description of anharmonic modes, respectively) with new theoretical models and their corresponding implementations in user-friendly simulation software. The project contains four well-aimed research-oriented work packages, with one ESR taking the lead in each topic but with plenty opportunities to collaborate and exchange results. Each topic touches upon the expertise of all beneficiaries, yet they all have their own commercial or academic perspective on the project. Research actions are organized in conjunction with local and network-wide training, including academic and industrial specialist courses, transferable skills training, (international) workshops and training-through-research. The training events are dispersed throughout the timeline of the project, which will be an ideal platform for the ESRs to flourish and become future leaders in academic or industrial research.

Mots clés : reactive force fields, molecular dynamics, chemical models, complex reaction networks, bayesian inference, reaxff, automated force field parameterization

Participants :
- Scientific Computing & Modelling (Netherlands) (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 413186.48 €
- Ghent University (Belgique) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 313280.0 €
- RWTH Aachen University (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 308963.6 €
Projet M2EX (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Doctoral Networks - Joint Doctorates
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The vision for the M2EX EJD Network (EXploiting Metal-Microbe applications to EXpand the circular economy) is to bring together an interdisciplinary team of world-leading European researchers to tackle a highly ambitious scientific project, focusing on the chemical, molecular and biogeochemical mechanisms of microbially-mediated processes underpinned by metals, which will deliver the doctoral training of 15 early-stage researchers (ESRs) and a range of clearly-defined, high impact scientific outputs to advance the state-of-the-art around the management of metals in Europe’s 21st-century bioeconomy. The complementary research skills and training expertise within this inter-sectoral Network will ensure that the ESRs trained will be at the front of Europe’s next generation of innovative research leaders. The research topics revolve around the role, and potential, of metals in anaerobic biotechnologies for (i) metal recovery, (ii) bioremediation of waste streams containing high metal content or (iii) low metal content for biological applications. Thus, the focus of the research is on topics extended from the field of anaerobic bioprocesses. High-end analytical techniques and novel experimental approaches will be tested, and used, to provide training and an exceptional research environment in tackling the chemical, microbiological and biotechnological aspects of managing the ‘Metal Bioeconomy’. These areas will be explored along with modelling of the distribution and interactions of metals at the scale of elemental speciation (the ‘chemosphere’); cells and genomes (the ‘micro-scale’ and the “T-Elementome”); biofilms (at the scale of microbial communities and assemblages); and in anaerobic biotechnologies (the ‘technosphere’). Engaging projects have also been designed for the M2EX ESRs to investigate the fate, the role and the impact of metals on environmental quality and processes, to understand the potential of the circular bioeconomy.

Mots clés : anaerobic digestion, metal dynamics

Participants :
- National University of Ireland (Irlande) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 602779.48 €
- University of Naples Federico II (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 784499.04 €
- Spanish National Research Council (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 752714.64 €
- Université de Limoges (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 824406.12 €
- University of Porto (Portugal) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 713160.72 €
Projet Absent Presences (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This research project focuses on the absent presences of people affected by leprosy in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) making of a leprosy-free world. In 2000, WHO announced the achievement of the global elimination of leprosy as a public health problem (defined by a prevalence rate of less than one case per 10,000 persons). Since the introduction of multidrug therapy (MDT) in the 1980s, the number of cases registered globally has decreased from over 5 million to about 200,000 cases. However, many scholars have suggested that such an extraordinary decrease is not due to a drop in transmission rates, but rather to an increase in misdiagnosed cases. They argue that the announcement of the global elimination of leprosy has caused the closing down of active surveillance campaigns as well as a progressive loss of expertise in diagnosis and treatment of leprosy. According to some estimates, between the years 2000 and 2020 as many as 4 million cases will be overlooked worldwide. This process has given rise to new challenges such as the increase of foreign-born cases in countries in the Global North. Drawing on literature from Science and Technology Studies (STS), medical anthropology and critical studies of global health, I propose to conduct a multi-sited ethnography focused on the uncounted lives of people affected by leprosy across borders in Latin America, examining WHO’s ongoing leprosy-free world project in specific settings. I argue that, in order to understand a possible drop in new cases and/or increase in under- and misdiagnosis, it is necessary to examine both local heterogenous elements and modifications in WHO’s global leprosy program. In particular, I will explore the modes of production of statistical data, central to evidence-making processes in the global epidemiological reality of leprosy.

Mots clés : feminist studies of science, science and technology studies, ethnography, critical studies of global health, medical anthropology, evidence making practices, ontological turn, metrics

Participants :
- Freie Universität Berlin (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 174806.4 €
Projet PoliticalPrisoners (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This research project is a transnational historical investigation which examines the international role and representations of Italian political prisoners during the 19th century. Its goal is to investigate how and to what extent political prisoners were key figures not only in the construction of an Italian nationalist discourse, but equally in the foreign understanding of and commitment for the Italian Risorgimento. Moreover it will delineate how humanitarian debates operated in the commitment towards a national political cause. The project will place political detainees beyond legal and political history, and insert them in the context of the new questions raised by transnational and cultural history, and by the history of humanitarianism. I argue that political prisoners acted as political and patriotic agents at home as well as abroad. Not only did the experience of imprisonment influence the detainees’ political activities and identities, and help to create a sense of national community; but it influenced the representation of the Italian national movement abroad. The project will offer a new approach in studying political imprisonment emphasising its international and humanitarian dimension and will challenge the current state-of-the-art, highlighting how political prisoners were an international concern already in the 19th century. Finally the research will help to understand the historical evolution of a European sensitivity and a commitment towards political detainees, refugees and people persecuted for political opinions and the evolution of international protection and humanitarian discourses. There is a running thread between these historical issues and questions concerning political prisoners in the world today and the international awareness and concern about them. The research project is a multi-lingual and multi-archival study that will employ an interdisciplinary and a transnational approach.

Mots clés : political prisoners, transnational history, 19th century, europe, repression, nationalism, solidarity, humanitarianism

Participants :
- Columbia University (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 251002.56 €
Projet GENDEMOTION (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This research project surveys and theorises the politics of shame in the contemporary Irish context. It identifies the deployment and manipulation of emotions in public discourses, particularly with regard to historically marginalised groups, since the onset of the economic crisis, and teases out the gendered and classed operation of the politics of shame. The project establishes the role shame plays in the contemporary political setting post-2008 with the introduction of austerity as a policy-response to the economic crisis. Building on theoretical work highlighting the increased shame-proneness of traditionally disadvantaged groups, the project examines the linkage between gender and shame. Although shame has been understood to be entangled with patriarchal norms concerning women’s bodies and sexuality it has, so far, not been theorised with regard to gender and material disadvantage and poverty. There is some empirical evidence that shame, does, in fact, manifest itself in impoverished populations, and that this may be amplified or at least complicated by gender. The project forms the first political theoretical treatment of the economic crisis and the policy-response to same, and focuses, uniquely, on gender and class. It will does so, again uniquely, through a framing in terms of affect and the politics of emotion. The project seeks to capture just how those experiencing austerity most immediately, conceptualise their disproportionate disadvantaging, and whether they themselves engage a politics of shame. The training and career development provisions of the project aim to enhance the researcher's profile as a specialist in gender, who is equally adept at engaging social science and humanities research methods, and facilitate a deeper probing of a complex empirical context as it relates to gender, shame, and economic disadvantage.

Mots clés : feminist theory, affect, social policy, austerity, shame theory

Participants :
- National University of Ireland (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 187866.0 €
Projet LadinoProverbs (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This research project will constitute the first peremiological study of the Sephardic tradition from Serbia and Bosnia. Whereas other forms of the Ladino oral tradition from these countries such as ballads, songs or folktales have all been analysed, the proverb tradition remains largely unstudied. Thus my project seeks to fill a serious void in this field. I intend to edit and examine five manuscripts containing proverbs from these countries. All five manuscripts are postHolocaust. Three are exclusively in Ladino, whereas two are bilingual (Ladino/Serbian). The study will entail an analysis of the literary genre of the proverb from an interdisciplinary approach that will include contributions from biblical studies, medieval Iberian cultural studies, modern Balkan history, sociological criticism, linguistics, and folklore paremiology and narrative. The study will also include a cross-cultural analysis of the proverbs using a comparative method. The ultimate goal of this project is a monograph intended to preserve, revitalise and disseminate the endangered Ladino language and culture. Prof. Paloma Díaz-Mas, who works in the Instituto de Lengua, Literatura and Antroplogía (ILLA) of the Centre for Human and Social Sciencies (CSIC, Spain) is the ideal person to supervise my work. She leads a research group that focuses on the culture of post-diaspora of Hispanic Jews (Sephardim) and has an extensive and prominent list of works on the topic published either independetly or in collaboration with other members of the project. By joining her group I would be given the opportunity to [the] acquire new skills (transliteration of Ladino texts written in Hebrew script[s]; edition of texts) and disseminate my work among both academic and non-academic audience through a number of activities (international conferences, workshops and seminars; radio and television programmes; participation in Science weeks and fairs,organisation of exhibitions and promotional talks).

Mots clés : sephardim, sephardic jews, ladino, judeo spanish, proverbs, paremiology, folklore, etnography, endangered material, cultural heritage, memory, identity, serbia, bosnia, post holocaust

Participants :
- Spanish National Research Council (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 158121.6 €