Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet OPTOCHARGE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Organic electronics offers huge potential for fabrication of large-area, low-cost, and efficient devices. Solution processing and availability of a vast library of organic semiconductors enables to exquisitely tailor properties to each application, while minimising waste of materials and maintaining low temperatures during processing thus reducing energy use. Although organic electronic devices have reached the market in large and flexible displays, their real potential in biomedical applications, sensing, and sustainable electronics remains unrealised. Crucial fundamental building blocks, such as organic field-effect transistors, are still hindered by limited charge mobility and unpredictable outcomes with new material recipes. Organic semiconductor performance is significantly reduced by formation of charge traps, which are local defects in the material or interfaces that remove charge carriers from the device conduction channels and obstruct transport. Accurate control of charge traps is critical to boost device performance, but they are notoriously difficult to identify, characterise and rationally engineer. OPTOCHARGE adopts a novel approach to optically stimulate traps with high spatial, temporal, and energy resolution, and reveal the key parameters for charge trap optimisation. The project systematically explores crystallinity, morphology, material blends, dopants and electrolyte gating to dissect the origin of traps and offer effective strategies to boost device performance. The proposal leverages unique interdisciplinary synergies between applicant and host, and provides an outstanding research setting to fulfil the full potential of the applicant and launch his academic career.

Mots clés : organic semiconductors, organic electronics, organic field effect transistors, charge transport, thin films, light matter interaction

Participants :
- Conseil supérieur de la recherche scientifique (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 181152.96 €
Projet MXNASB (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Electric vehicles (EVs) are a cornerstone of the European Commission's climate strategy, aiming to reduce emissions and transition to a low-carbon economy across Europe. This project focuses on developing high-performance sodium-sulfur batteries (NaSBs) for EVs using advanced MXene-modified electrodes. The key innovation is the eradication of hydrofluoric acid etching by HF-free direct synthesis of Ti₃C2Tₓ MXene-modified cathode material, allowing precise control over morphology and sulfur (-S) incorporation at the termination. This approach mitigates the polysulfide shuttle effect, enhances energy storage capacity, and targets a capacity exceeding 400 mAh/g with a cycle life of over 500 cycles. On the anode side, the project strategically addresses the critical issue of dendrite formation in Na metal anodes modified by utilizing Ti2CTₓ MXene, which improves safety and longevity. The project will employ half-cell and full-cell testing to optimize the electrochemical performance, while in-situ electrochemical analysis will monitor real-time behavior of the anode and cathode during cycling. This will provide crucial insights into how MXene modifications enhance energy density, cycling stability, and overall battery life. The project will be carried out in collaboration with leading research groups in Ireland and Sweden, providing access to cutting-edge facilities and expertise. This fellowship offers the opportunity to work with prominent experts in battery technology, fostering international collaboration and personal development as an independent researcher. The ultimate goal is to deliver a scalable, high-performance NaSB solution that can significantly impact the future of EV battery technology.

Mots clés : sodium sulfur batteries mxenes synthesis

Participants :
- Analog Devices (Ireland) (Irlande) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Limerick (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 335710.8 €
- Université d'Uppsala (Suède) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet NANOWAVE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The remarkable electrical and mechanical properties of heterogeneous nano waveguides make it a promising material for nano-electromechanical devices such as resonators constructed by nanotube and graphene. The investigation of heterogeneous nano waveguides can advance the development of the existing energy and wave controlling systems, thereby contributing significantly to the exertion of device performance and the reduction of energy consumption. However, the integration of nano waveguides into functional architectures requires the development of advanced manufacturing approaches, which leads to a significant increase of research costs. Here, we present a novel perspective on dynamic analysis of heterogeneous nano-electromechanical waveguides through a computational multi-physics framework, which is based on the homogenization approach equipped with second strain gradient theory. This research project will extend the homogenization techniques used in simple waveguides to the heterogeneous nano waveguides and provide a way to considerably reduce the computational effort. On the other hand, this research project will give new insights on the size-dependent characteristics and enrich the explorations of dynamic properties for nano-electromechanical waveguides. This project will be carried out by a talented and dedicated researcher who worked during his Ph.D. thesis on wave computational simulation method of heterogeneous nano waveguides through second strain gradient theory. The researcher will collaborate with a supervisor who has a very strong background in homogenization approach and in correspondences between second strain gradient theory and programming languages. Working in Sweden, where homogenization of nano waveguides is a subject of intense research by many experts in the field, the researcher will benefit from his experiences in France and Italy, which have strong communities on second strain gradient theory and wave computational simulation method.

Mots clés : numerical simulation, dynamic properties, nano materials, electromechanical waveguides

Participants :
- Université d'Uppsala (Suède) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 206887.68 €
Projet AnthroFront (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The AnthroFront project analyzes the relationship between climate science and colonial violence from the perspective of the Russian Empire’s Siberian and Central Asian frontiers in the earlier nineteenth century. Scholars have shown how climate science developed on the scale of Europe’s late overseas and land empires in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Far less is known about the knowledge produced by earlier processes of conquest and the expropriation of Indigenous land. This project studies a cohort of Baltic-German scientists dispatched to Russian frontiers to understand how borderland encounters generated knowledge about climate change. The first comprehensive study of colonial climate sciences in the Russian Empire, this project develops a new framework for understanding interdisciplinary and intercultural exchanges of climate knowledge. The project gives historical context to contemporary policy debates and provides a pedagogical model for teaching climate history in public schools. Research integrates German and Estonian archives with digitized sources and focuses on three core themes: (1) the role of instructions in organizing colonial travel, (2) the dynamics of encounter between settler, Indigenous, and expeditionary groups, and (3) the circulation of knowledge from central Europe to Central Asia and back. The project will be carried out over twenty-four months in the Department of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University under the supervision of Dr. Linda Andersson Burnett, Senior Researcher in the history of colonial travel and indigeneity. The fellowship is also enriched by collaboration with Dr. Jennifer Keating at University College Dublin, a leading environmental historian of Imperial Russia. While advancing the MSCA Green Charter through public outreach, the project will produce two research articles and a special journal issue based on an interdisciplinary conference, laying the groundwork for a subsequent monograph.

Mots clés : climate science environmental history german science imperial russia nineteenth century settler colonialism

Participants :
- Université d'Uppsala (Suède) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 222727.68 €
Projet LEARNGENAI (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Recent advancements in AI, specifically Generative AI (GenAI), have started to significantly impact how teaching and learning occur and how the respective institutions operate. GenAI will have to function in learning spaces and contexts alongside other activities. Therefore, it is expected that instruction and GenAI will complement each other and stand by each other. Yet, there is a limited understanding of how teachers/learners and AI interact, understand, respect, and learn from each other. The purpose of LEARNGENAI is to examine how GenAI is used and under which circumstances it has the potential to improve teaching and learning. The aim is to identify the critical success factors in a range of contexts, and use these findings to promote research and practice. Following an interdisciplinary approach that bridges the domains of computer science, pedagogy and educational sciences, teacher education, learning analytics, and learning theory, along with recent advances in technological tools and AI-based methods, the present project will explore how GenAI is effectively leveraged in education and attempt to isolate key success factors. Therefore, the main focus of the project will be to identify various strategies for implementing GenAI in learning and the success factors to support hybrid learning, understand how information sources, technological infrastructure and human skills and knowledge are ethically coalesced to achieve desired ends, and develop GenAI prototype applications and assess their impact in learning. By empirically investigating these issues and developing a framework of best practices, the ultimate goal is to guide educational institutions in their transition into the artificial intelligence era and enable them to enhance student experiences through personalized learning opportunities.

Mots clés : learning technology, learning analytics, ai in education, learning design

Participants :
- Université norvégienne de sciences et de technologie (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 251578.56 €
- Kahoot! as (Norvège) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
Projet GEOSYM (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Symmetry structures are key to organizing the complexity of physical systems. In systems described by quantum field theories (QFTs) symmetries group observables, classify phases, determine selection rules and give insight into strongly coupled dynamics. They are irreplaceable in the study of phenomena such as confinement or duality. Recently, the notion of ‘symmetry’ in quantum field theories was understood to admit a substantial generalization to higher categorical structures such as n-groups and non-invertible symmetries. These realize further non-perturbative data yielding new handles in the study of QFTs. The goal of this project is to analyze such symmetry structures in geometrically engineered QFTs. We initially focus on theories in 4d parametrized by spectral curves and/or special holonomy spaces and aim to geometrize the symmetry representations and fusion structures related to their higher symmetries, building on both past work of the researcher and supervisor. This approach, unlike recent field theoretic developments, does not rely on a Lagrangian description of the QFT and therefore offers insight into confining properties and phase structures of strongly coupled systems. The foremost research objective of this proposal lies in charting these structures for increasingly less supersymmetric theories, including theories with no supersymmetry. All current evidence suggests that such symmetry structures only depend on topological data of the spectral curves and special holonomy space which we aim to trace through supersymmetry breaking deformations. Further research objectives include the study of analogous symmetry structures for superconformal theories in 5d and 6d. Such theories are intrinsically strongly coupled and the geometric methods developed in 4d, guided by field theory, come into their own as there are now no weak-coupling limits to extrapolate from.

Mots clés : quantum field theory, higher symmetries, geometric engineering, spectral curves, confinement, strongly coupled physics, non lagrangian physics

Participants :
- Université d'Uppsala (Suède) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 206887.68 €
Projet FamousSPNP (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : SIGNED

According to the European Commission, in 2050, functional foods will constitute a substantial part of foods on the EU market, which will largely rely on the innovation in improved additives. Nanoemulsions are under investigation as a mechanism for the delivery of bioactives to food systems, and are found to have benefits such as improving the taste and bioavailability of numerous ingredients. Recently, protein-polysaccharide complexes and conjugates are being developed for use in the creation of nanoemulsions. However, poor functionality and low production efficiency greatly limit their industrialisation. Therefore, this study proposes to introduce ultrasound technology to complexes/conjugates preparation, aiming at obtaining innovative nanoscale additives with strengthened efficiency and properties. This project will be carried out during a 2-year period at Teagasc with a 3-month secondment in Trinity College Dublin. Soy protein isolate (SPI) and pectin are selected as wall materials for nanoemulsion preparation. Firstly, they will be modified to generate simpler segments for electrostatic or Maillard reaction and the optimum structures for different reactions will be determined (WP1). Then, ultrasound will be applied respectively to electrostatic and Maillard reaction; its free radical and mechanical effects will be studied (WP2). Finally, the delivery properties of ultrasound-prepared SPI-pectin complexes/conjugates will be investigated with β-carotene as a core material, and the effect of the formation mechanisms of nanoemulsions on their functionalities will be analysed (WP3). Results of this study will contribute to the industrial applications of ultrasound in food additive production, thus promoting the development of high-tech functional foods in the EU, and advancing the goal of “sustainable production of food” proposed in Horizon 2020.

Mots clés : ultrasound, soy protein isolate, pectin, nanoemulsion, electrostatic interaction, maillard reaction, structural modification, structure, functional property, delivery property

Participants :
- Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 196590.72 €
Projet AUTOBarge (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

According to the European Commission, passenger transport is projected to increase 42% by 2050, and freight transport up to 60%. Needless to say, this puts an enormous burden on transport networks and our environment. Compared to other modes of transport – which often face congestion and capacity problems – inland waterway transport is characterised by reliability, energy efficiency and a capacity for increased use. More than 37,000 km of waterways connect hundreds of cities and industrial regions in Europe. In the EU, 13 countries share an interconnected waterway network, highlighting the potential for increasing the modal share of inland waterway transport. This will not happen unless we can make inland waterways economically competitive. However, with crew costs accounting for 60% of the total cost, autonomous inland vessels represent an exciting disruptive technology. AUTOBarge is about seizing an opportunity. Europe’s waterways are a vital resource that we have underused for most of the last century. Now, with the possibility for mass autonomous shipping, these canals and rivers offer a network that we can exploit without damaging the environment to the extent of new roads and aircraft runways. But to be able to do this we need new people with new skills. These innovators must be experts in remote control, monitoring, smart logistics, regulatory aspects, and many more areas associated with the complexity of inland shipping. The 15 early-stage researchers recruited to AUTObarge will begin this transport revolution.

Mots clés : autonomous vessels, inland waterways, sense understand decide act

Participants :
- Delft University of Technology (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 265619.88 €
- Chalmers University of Technology (Suède) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 845948.88 €
- Kongsberg Gruppen (Norway) (Norvège) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 292342.32 €
- Universität Hamburg (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 252788.4 €
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norvège) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 584684.64 €
- Nord University (Norvège) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 292342.32 €
- KU Leuven (Belgique) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 768960.0 €
- University of Antwerp (Belgique) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 256320.0 €
- Periskal (Belgique) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 256320.0 €
- Institut droit international transports (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Autres, subvention : 274802.04 €
Projet BIOnanoPDT (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : SIGNED

According to the World Health Organization cancer was responsible for approximated 9.6 million deaths in 2018 what is the reason of being one of the biggest civilizational health problem, just behind the heart diseases. The global objective of interdisciplinary BIOnanoPDT project is to develop novel biodegradable phthalocyanine (Pc)-polymeric nanoparticles (NPs) which enhance cancer photodynamic therapy (PDT). Up to now, there is no ideal therapy for cancer treatment but among the others PDT presents several advantages, e.g. it is a selective treatment with less secondary effects than other therapies. This promising therapy combines three components: photosensitizer (PS), light and oxygen. 20 years ago PDT was approved by Food and Drug Admnistration as a clinical protocol for cancer treatment but it still have limitations to use it in all types of cancer. The development of new powerful PSs, which specifically target cancer cells, and can more deeply penetrate tissue allowing to treat large tumors is still a challenge. Phthalocyanines (Pcs) are one of the most promising second generation PSs and meet many requirements for being ideal PSs. Unfortunately, very often Pcs are hydrophobic species and undergo self-aggregation in aqueous solutions, which drastically reduces their photosensitizing efficiency. In BIOnanoPDT project the limitations of Pcs will be overcame by tailoring their properties in terms of singlet oxygen generation and by incorporating them with polymer NPs which could improve their photophysical properties, selectivity for targeted tissues by surface modification, eliminate aggregation of the PSs and their low water solubility. Additionally, it can enhance the treatment by increasing the blood circulation and selective accumulation in tumor cells. The BIOnanoPDT project will bring many innovations to the current cancer research by novel Pc-polymer NP hybrids for cancer PDT which will be an attractive alternative for conventional drugs.

Mots clés : polymeric nanoparticles, phthalocyanines, breast cancer, photodynamic therapy

Participants :
- Polish Academy of Sciences (Pologne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 149625.6 €
Projet germcells (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

According to the World Health Organization, infertility is a medical condition that affects up to 14% of couples under reproductive age. The increase in infertility has led to the exponential rise in the use of assisted reproduction as a route for conceiving a baby, currently representing 1.5% of children born in Europe. Although multiple factors may contribute to infertility, the limited availability of human gametes for its study restricts the capacity of researchers in establishing the causes of this decline. To address this limitation, a talented Fellow with background in physiology of reproduction will join a leading laboratory in developmental biology to conduct multidisciplinary research aimed at developing a platform for the generation of human gametes in the laboratory. A combination of state-of-the-art tools in genomics and cell biology will be used to gain new understanding of how gamete precursors form in vivo, and this knowledge will be used to develop culture systems to generate gametes in vitro. These approaches will equip the Fellow with comprehensive new skills essential for fulfilling these objectives. The transfer of knowledge builds on the host’s expertise in animal biotechnology, the provision of interdisciplinary training in human stem cell differentiation by collaborators, and on the Fellow’s knowledge of reproductive biology. The output of the project will address key societal challenges for the EU in the areas of Health, demographic change and well-being and will contribute to the expansion of the network of experts in biotechnology.

Mots clés : germ cells differentiation

Participants :
- University of Nottingham (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 183454.8 €