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

TRANEX contends that in Late Antiquity (c. 300-500 AD) both the figure of Christ and those of Pythagoras and Socrates underwent a parallel process of metamorphosis facilitated not least through an intellectual exchange between Christian theologians and Neoplatonists, that is, pagan philosophers who drew on Plato’s thought to build a new philosophical and religious system. Rather than perceiving pagan Neoplatonism and Christianity as separate and detached entities, TRANEX emphasizes the need to understand them as dynamically intertwined and mutually influential realms. From Iamblichus onwards (c. 245-325 AD), Neoplatonists reinterpreted figures like Pythagoras and Socrates as ‘pure souls’ sent to earth to save humankind. These saviour figures bear striking resemblances to Christologies that portray Christ as a subordinate divine mediator. I understand these parallels as the outcome of an interreligious exchange, which I intend to explore by focusing on the concept of the ‘soul’. The intermediate nature of the soul, positioned between humanity and divinity, holds a paramount significance as a converging point for Neoplatonic and Christian worldviews, fueling profound discussion on the intricate relationships between humanity and divinity. Within this conceptual framework, I will study the most influential thinkers of the late third to the first half of the fifth century. By juxtaposing subordinationist Christologies with the Neoplatonic doctrine of pure souls, I aim to demonstrate that a comprehensive understanding of late antique Christological debates requires an appreciation of the broader Neoplatonic discourse surrounding figures like Pythagoras and Socrates, and vice versa. I will specifically examine three key aspects that are equally central to both subordinationist Christologies and Neoplatonic conceptions of ‘pure souls’: (1) ‘mediation’ towards humanity, (2) ‘similarity’, rather than ‘identity’, to God(s), and, consequently, (3) ‘subordination’ to God(s).

Mots clés : late antiquity neoplatonism patristics iamblichus, proclus, hermias eusebius of caesarea, athanasius, cappadocian fathers, cyril doctrine of the soul christology plato s reception

Participants :
- Université de Leyde (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 203464.32 €
- Université de Göttingen (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet CRITTER (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The rapidly increasing green technology transition efforts of the European Union to combat climate change resulted in an unprecedented demand for critical raw materials like rare earth elements, cobalt, nickel and even base metals. These materials are core components of wind turbines and electric cars. However, to fulfil these needs, the EU heavily relies on countries with a high risk of supply chain disruption due to political instability. Therefore, the exploration efforts to find new deposits within the EU borders are crucial to securing economic independence and realising a CO2-free society. The Swedish part of the Fennoscandian Shield has serious potential to discover new deposits. For instance, it hosts the largest rare earth element reserve in the EU. The areal extension of the Fennoscandian Shield is over 1 million km2 and composed of complex magmatic, metamorphic and metasedimentary rocks dating back to Archean. Over time, due to multiple orogenic events, critical raw material deposits formed and re-mobilized in diverse ways. Understanding the formation mechanisms is crucial to locating them. My project, “CRITTER: Strengthening the Critical Raw Material Independence of the EU through thermochronology" will be the first study to reconstruct the thermal history of the Fennoscandian Shield from a critical raw material perspective. It will be achieved by the interdisciplinary combination of novel high-temperature mica in-situ Rb-Sr dating at the Dept. of Earth Sciences, Gothenburg and by low-temperature zircon, rutile in-situ U-Pb-He double dating at the Geoscience Center, Göttingen. These are world-class laboratories in their respective field. The research will target five key critical raw material deposits in the Bergslagen ore province of southwestern Sweden. The findings will fill a decisive knowledge gap in identifying the nature and timeline of "re-heating" and subsequent ore re-mobilization and re-deposition events from Proterozoic to Present times.

Mots clés : critical raw materials, ore geology, geochronology, thermochronology, optical and scanning electron microscopy, zircon, rutile, mica, rb sr dating, u pb he double dating, fennoscandian shield, sweden

Participants :
- Université de Göteborg (Suède) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 222727.68 €
- Université de Göttingen (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet WASTEtoSAFETY (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Food safety and food waste management remain two major challenges in Europe, with enormous effects on the economy, the environment and public health. Each year 23 million cases of foodborne illness and 5000 deaths are reported in Europe. At the same time, one third of food produced for human consumption is wasted because it is considered unfit for consumption, which amounts to approximately 1.3 billion tons each year. Therefore, the development of innovative measures to reduce food waste presents a viable alternative in a situation where new solutions are desperately required. In this sense, the development of circular economies that revalorize byproducts and residues of food industries as products that can be reused is a promising research avenue. WASTEtoSAFETY will confront this challenge by developing the scientific basis to implement a circular economy that uses waste from the citrus industry to extend the shelf life of fresh produce from the Mediterranean area. Namely, it will optimize two “green” methods (microwave & ultrasound) for the extraction of essential oils (EO) from orange peel. The EO will be used as the basis for two food preservation technologies: a washing solution and an active packaging. The project will also evaluate their potential impact on the food chain, through a quantitative microbiological risk assessment (QMRA), a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) combined with a Material Flow Analysis. WASTEtoSAFETY will thus provide tangible advances to the field of Food Science, developing a noticeable solution for the revalorization and utilization of citrus waste. It will also open new research avenues related to the upscaling of these technologies to an industrial level.

Mots clés : natural antimicrobials essential oils active packaging bacterial decontamination food safety food waste

Participants :
- Université polytechnique de Carthagène (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 165312.96 €
Projet SNABS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The global issue of aging populations (by 2050, a 60% increase in the proportion of persons aged above 65 is projected) places great strain on healthcare systems while simultaneously leading to a decrease in the active labor pool. Social robots have the potential to mitigate the problem by assisting and relieving workers in their basic tasks, such as delivering items or guiding people. To allow this, robots need human-aware navigation to move safely among humans, join, follow, or guide them. However, a major research challenge is the adaptability of the navigation behavior to quickly changing social contexts and environments, such as between areas where more safety space should be given than in others (e.g. hospitals compared to offices). For this purpose, SNABS (Social Navigation with Adaptive Behavior Sets) investigates a machine learning framework (Adaptive Behavior Sets for Transfer Reinforcement Learning) that promises quick adaptations by learning an extensive library of potential behaviors. Being in a new context, it selects the best behavior among them. However, the existing framework suffers from problems hindering its use for real-world applications. This includes the prediction of its behaviors’ outcomes in complex navigation scenarios with human trajectories and the identification of the best behavior in real-time. SNABS aims to overcome these problems by investigating new generative AI models for predicting future outcomes and by introducing new selection strategies for the behaviors. The project further researches how to successfully use the framework to train an adaptive social navigation controller for social robots. The controller will be evaluated in realistic healthcare scenarios. During a final placement at a European robotics manufacturer, the controller will be transferred to their robotic platforms and publicly shared to be directly applicable in the envisioned target scenarios in health and elderly care.

Mots clés : reinforcement learning, transfer learning, deep learning, social robotics, human aware navigation, healthcare

Participants :
- Université Grenoble Alpes (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Pal robotics slu (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Kyoto (Japon) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 390916.86 €
- Université de l'Alberta (Canada) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet MicroLight (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The presented proposal concerns the theoretical investigation, experimental realization, characterization and optimization of a novel compact ultrafast fiber microlaser (EDPPF-m) for Microwave Photonics (MWP) applications. The EDPPF-m is a nonlinear Fabry-Perot (F-P) resonator based on a novel technological platform consisting in an erbium doped periodically poled fiber (EDPPF) which combines in a single device the second and third order nonlinearities of a periodically poled fiber with the optical gain of an erbium doped fiber to generate very stable and high-power active cavity soliton pulses (and their related frequency combs). The EDPPF-m will be used as a MWP source, capable to generate electronic signals with repetition rates typical of microwaves (1 - 300 GHz) through a technique called remote heterodyning detection (RHD). The EDPPF-m will allow to overcome the drawbacks of existing MWP sources, such as fluctuations of spectral linewidth and intensity (mode-locked lasers) or low nonlinear conversion efficiency and low power handling capacity (microresonators) and will embody the ideal characteristics of a MWP source (low optical loss, tunable high repetition rate, low phase noise, high power handling capacity, high nonlinear conversion efficiency, ease of coupling with optical fibers). The proposal is divided into three work packages (WPs). The first two WPs are dedicated to the fabrication and miniaturization to the centimeter scale of the fiber microlaser proposed in two different configurations, one based on a commercial erbium doped fiber (EDF) (where only the third order nonlinearity is exploited) and the other one based on the EDPPF (where both the second and third order nonlinearities are used to generate solitons). The third WP describes the experimental procedure (RHD) adopted to implement the MWP source for applications in Communication Networks starting from the two versions of the fiber microlaser presented in the first two WPs.


Participants :
- Université de Lille (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 226420.56 €
Projet CHArT (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

CHArT aims at investigating how Arabic Christianity living in a predominantly Islamic environment assimilated its own foundational religious heritage through a momentous translation process from Greek into Arabic. The case study is chosen among the unpublished Arabic translations of the mysterious Christian theologian known as Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (early 6th century CE), whose entrance in the Arab world in the 10th-11th centuries intertwines with crucial Middle Eastern intellectual milieus. CHArT’s overarching objective consists in charting the assimilation of this author in Arabic, by publishing both the Arabic translations of Pseudo-Dionysius’ influential treatise On Celestial Hierarchy and placing them for the first time into the broader Arabic cultural landscape. The project objectives will be achieved thanks to an interdisciplinary combination of textual criticism, codicology, paleography, as well as disciplines which will shed light on the cultural milieus behind the translations. The project results will open up new fields of research on the Arabic, Byzantine, and Georgian fortune of Pseudo-Dionysius, as well as on possible cross-pollinations between religious cultures within the Islamic world. In turn, this will contribute to the broader goal of reconstructing the history of Christianity in the Middle East and its relationships with Islam.

Mots clés : arabic christianity, patristics, translations from greek into arabic, religious culture

Participants :
- Université de Padoue (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 280202.88 €
- Université Dalhousie (Canada) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet PHOCAT (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The photocatalytic conversion of CO2 into valuable chemicals such as CO is a promising solution to mitigate both the health and environmental impact from green house gases. The photocatalytic field faces several challenges towards their industrial deployment under competitive scale. Several knowledge gaps exist in the design and understanding of photo-active materials mimicking the organic reactions catalysed by nature. The training tasks in PHOCAT, under the supervision of Prof. Arias (Host, EHU, Spain) and a 4-month secondment period with Prof. Ravelli (UNIP, Italy) will provide the researcher with new skills in chemical reaction engineering, material science and operando spectroscopy. PHOCAT will explore new chemical engineering concepts, related to photocatalyst design, catalysis, spectroscopy and engineering in order to enhance CO productivity from CO2 and H2O reactants. Specifically, PHOCAT will tailor the electronic and redox features in C3N4 materials, tested under unprecedented capillary solvation methods and operando synchrotron XAS. This scientific approach will contribute to design innovative photocatalytic process with potential industrial application. This MSCA-PF will certainly contribute the researcher to be trained in new scientific and transferable skills, enhancing the career perspectives to become an independent and mature researcher in the EU in the near future.

Mots clés : heterogeneous catalysis, reaction mechanisms, photo reactions

Participants :
- Université du Pays basque (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 181152.96 €
- Université de Pavie (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet DECIPHER (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Quantifying the multiscale functionality of light-triggered hierarchically-structured assemblies represents a challenge in materials science underpinning the design of efficient next-generation optoelectronics, photovoltaics, and energy storage nanodevices. Critical to this challenge is the availability of new metrology and inspection tools which allow to probe the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of these materials, while interacting with light pulses, with quantitative contrast to all its components. DECIPHER proposes to combine phase retrieval image reconstruction methods with the advances in pulsed electron source technology, to build a break-through microscope capable of directly visualizing the nanoscale dynamics of functionalized materials with fs-ps temporal resolution and Å-nm spatial resolution. The proposal has three main objectives: (i) Construct a next-generation ultrafast electron diffraction imaging system. (ii) Implement cutting-edge phase retrieval methods to enable full-field quantitative imaging across length scales with sensitivity to heavy and light elements. (iii) Leverage these new methods to directly visualize light-activated functioning NP supracrystals, with unique sensitivity to their quantitative chemical/elemental composition and, simultaneously, to their 2D/3D topography. This approach will enable the study of nanoscale dynamical behavior with unprecedented detail and provide vital feedback toward the design of energy-efficient, high-performance devices.

Mots clés : ultrafast coherent diffractive imaging, functionalized nanoparticles

Participants :
- École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (Suisse) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- J.g.h. franssen (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Pavie (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 215937.6 €
Projet ExoDivers (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Determining the diversity of exoplanets' compositions and structure is fundamental for investigating the Earth's uniqueness. The improvement of ground-based instruments and the launch of new space missions (e.g. JWST) is providing unprecedented information as to exoplanets' masses, radii and atmospheric speciation. However, none of these properties can uniquely constrain the nature of planetary interiors, which dictate their geological evolution. In order to interpret these new observations and identify future exoplanet targets, the implementation of accurate interior models is required. At present, much of our knowledge on exoplanets' interior comes from analogue experiments on Earth-like compositions performed over pressure-temperature-composition spaces relevant for the Solar System. Stellar data, however, has indicated a greater compositional diversity than in our own Solar System, thereby preventing an accurate description of the mineralogy and structure of orbiting planets. ExoDivers aims to bridge the gap between astronomical observations and the interior properties of exoplanets, by investigating the evolution of stable mineralogical assemblages for exotic compositions expected in exoplanetary cores and mantles with pressure and temperature. The experimental bulk compositions will derive from spectroscopic data of observed host stars, providing access to a compositional space that remains yet unstudied. Experiments will be performed to determine the stability of different minerals and refine their thermodynamic properties. These new data will supplement existing databases and will be used to calculate the mantle and core mineralogy of exoplanets. This novel approach obviates the Earth-centric view of exoplanets mineralogy that has characterized the field up to this point and will be implemented to determine, a priori, how variations in the interior affect geological processes, including the possibility of starting convection or activating a dynamo.

Mots clés : mineralogy, exoplanets, experiments, thermodynamics, mass radius, compositional diversity

Participants :
- École polytechnique fédérale de Zurich (Suisse) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Pavie (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 297164.16 €
Projet VALGER (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Verbal valency is the number of core arguments a verb can take, hence instantiating a particular valency frame. There are for instance zero-valent verbs e.g. to rain (Eng. it rains); monovalent verbs e.g. to sleep (Eng. I sleep); bivalent verbs e.g. to kiss (Eng. the girl kisses the boy); trivalent verbs e.g. to give (Eng. the boy gives a present to the girl); etc. The present project’s overarching aim is to map out and analyze the valency patterns of Germanic. This is done by selecting a number of representative language varieties within Germanic (= Gmc), and by tracing the evolution and variation of valency patterns for a selection of verb meanings, following the methodological golden standard set out by the ValPaL project. The to-be-researched languages are: Gothic (East Gmc); English, German, Dutch, and Frisian (West Gmc); Icelandic and Swedish (North Gmc). The present project contributes to advancing that methodology and it is inscribed in the research activity carried out by the Pavia Linguistics Team within the Pavia Verbs Database project (PaVeDa). The overarching aim of my project is made up of the following objectives: 1) gather all elicited data in a digital resource; 2) pursue a diachronic analysis of valency patterns within the history of single languages; 3) carry out a synchronic analysis of valency patterns in the Germanic languages at different language stages; and hence 4) reconstruct valency patterns of Germanic in prehistoric times. The most relevant direct outcomes of the project are: 1) make the data available to other researchers; 2) contribute to the actual research in diachronic morphosyntax; 3) expand the PaVeDa database with diachronic data for Germanic; and hence 4) establish a well-defined benchmark within the addressed research area, by implementing a standard tool designed at the host institution.

Mots clés : morphosyntax, germanic comparative linguistics, language reconstruction, corpus linguistics, computational methods in historical linguistic analysis

Participants :
- Université de Pavie (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 172750.08 €