Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet 3DGPWAA (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

In recent years, 3D printing has gained tremendous attention as the most popular additive manufacturing (AM) technology in the construction industry. The application of 3D printing could help increase revenue for construction companies while simultaneously enabling productivity through rapid automated construction. Moreover, 3D printing helps in reducing waste, labor, and environmental impacts that are associated with conventional construction methods. 3D printing of cement-based materials generates high carbon emissions which is a major challenge for the construction industry. In this regard, despite being relatively new, the 3D printed geopolymers (3DGP) hold relevance in the evolving landscape of low-carbon construction that eliminates the need for traditional cement. The main ingredients in geopolymers include precursor materials and alkaline activators. The precursor material comprises aluminosilicate wastes such as fly ash, slag, etc. while the activator is typically a combination of sodium hydroxide and sodium silicate solution. However, the high cost and environmental impacts associated with commercially available sodium silicate solutions limit the applications of 3DGP. Thus an affordable and environmentally friendly substitute for traditional activators is highly desirable. This research aims to develop innovative low-cost 3DGP mortar using alternative agricultural waste-derived alkaline activators. The proposal investigates the fresh and hardened properties such as setting time, workability, compressive strength, microstructure, and durability of the printed geopolymer mortar. Additionally, the sustainability of the printed geopolymer mortar will be assessed through the life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology. The use of waste-derived activators in making 3DGP will streamline the production process, offering a cost-effective construction technique that is essential to the future of Europe and the world leading to a greener future.

Mots clés : sustainable construction, geopolymer, additive manufacturing, waste derived activators, rice husk ash, sustainability, circular economy

Participants :
- Université de Northumbria (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 260347.92 €
Projet ImHuMult (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

In an increasingly interconnected world, harmonious intercultural communication is imperative, particularly within multicultural societies. This project aims to investigate the intricate interplay between linguistic (im)politeness and conversational humour in multicultural contexts. It focuses on instances of intercultural humour leading to offence in new media and real-life interactions. Furthermore, it explores the reciprocal influence of real-life and new media interactions on intercultural humour and offence dynamics. To achieve these objectives, a dual-method approach encompassing micro-level interactional pragmatics and macro-level corpus pragmatics and will be used. The data will be drawn from social media and authentic real-life conversations. The findings will contribute to a comprehensive understanding of (im)politeness and conversational humour in a multicultural context and will aid in the development of comprehensive theories regarding these pragmatic phenomena. These findings will also have substantial implications for policymakers, educators, broadcasters, and the general public.

Mots clés : pragmatics, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics,  im politeness, conversational humour, intercultural communication, multiculturalism, new media

Participants :
- Université de Lancaster (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 260347.92 €
Projet FINS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Marine shagreen is a luxurious, storied leather material made from the skins of elasmobranchs (sharks, rays, skates). Admired for being visually striking, waterproof, and conveying a sense of worldliness, shagreen became coveted by the wealthy and elites of 17th-19th century northwestern Europe. Crafted from shark or ray skin, once turned into shagreen, more precise taxonomic identifications are not possible. Provided the multinational origins, the elasmobranch species targeted span the Atlantic Ocean to the Indo-Pacific. Finding the Identifiable Species in Shagreen (FINS) aims to use a multimethodological approach to analyse museum objects and unveil which species of elasmobranchs were targeted for marine shagreen production in Europe’s early modern period. Historical archival research will be undertaken to refine our knowledge of anticipated target species while non-destructive and minimally destructive methods will be employed to directly analyse shagreen objects for taxonomic identifications. Understanding the historical exploitation, trade, and demand for elasmobranch skins in this time period, which coincides with the rise of industrialised fishing efforts, is critical and a timely endeavour to establish the ecohistory of these keystone taxa. One third of all elasmobranch species are classified as being threatened with extinction by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. A key challenge to ongoing elasmobranch conservation efforts is the lack of historical data and ecological baselines. Through a combination of biocodicology, historical analysis, ecological research, interdisciplinary collaboration, and innovative approaches, we aim to provide valuable insights into the material culture, environmental history, and ecological dynamics related to elasmobranch exploitation during this period.

Mots clés : historical ecology, elasmobranchs, early modern period, marine ecology, historical fisheries, marine conservation, marine resource exploitation

Participants :
- Université de Copenhague (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 214934.4 €
- Université de Reading (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet LEJO (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Arguably 80% of all data is spatial. This calls for highly efficient and effective spatial data operations. Among them, spatial joins are frequently needed as a key primitive in various applications such as traffic management, robotics control, location-based services and even human brain modelling. However, existing spatial join approaches follow the traditional filter-and-refinement paradigm that is data distribution-oblivious. As a result, existing approaches are increasingly inefficient as spatial datasets to be joined become larger and more complex. The project LEJO is intended to make use of machine learning techniques to better understand the distributions of spatial data, and accordingly design learned approaches for highly efficient spatial join processing. Specifically, the research actions of LEJO include (1) learned approaches for binary spatial joins of memory-resident data; (2) learned approaches for binary spatial joins of disk-resident data; (3) learned approaches for multi-way spatial joins. The research actions will mainly concern analysis of the bottlenecks of existing approaches, design of distribution-aware space/data partitioning, design of learned model based indexes and join algorithms, and implementation and evaluation of the proposed techniques. These research actions, as well as project planning and management, will significantly strengthen the fellow’s research profile and manage skill. This in turn will put him in a considerably better position for future career development after the project. Moreover, a two-way knowledge transfer is expected as LEJO combines the fellow’s expertise in machine learning and the host university’s expertise in spatial data management. Focusing on the challenging intersection of spatial data management and machine learning, LEJO will not only advance the frontier research in the academia but also bring about potential impacts on many spatial data application domains in and beyond Europe.

Mots clés : spatial join machine learning ai4db

Participants :
- Université technique de Berlin (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Roskilde (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 230774.4 €
Projet STAT-TMDs (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The description of the proton properties and its internal structure is still a challenging issue within Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of strong interaction. The standard one-dimensional picture, encoded in collinear parton distribution functions (PDFs), is not able to explain the proton spin budget in terms of quark and gluon spin. A new class of parton distributions, including intrinsic transverse momentum effects, has then been introduced: the Transverse Momentum Dependent PDFs (TMDs). By encoding the correlation between the proton/parton spin and the parton intrinsic transverse momentum, they can provide a much richer and detailed picture: a 3D image of the proton. TMDs are now of great interest in hadron and spin physics, being able to describe several experimental observables at moderate and high energy. At the same time, they represent a perfect ground for testing fundamental properties of QCD, such as universality and factorisation.  STAT-TMDs aims at building an improved statistical framework for studies of TMDs, applying for the first time modern statistical techniques to TMD analyses. Through a bottom-up approach, I will provide new and more robust phenomenological extractions of (un)polarised quark and gluon TMDs, carefully assessing the uncertainties in the data and extrapolation regions. This will eventually allow, thanks to global Bayesian reweighting techniques, for a quantitative estimate of factorisation breaking effects in inclusive polarised hadronic reactions.  The project represents a timely effort, as it has the ambition to determine a new standard for the hadron physics community, and to set the ground for the future precision era of TMD studies, when data from the future US Electron-Ion Collider and fixed-target programs at the LHC will come.

Mots clés : hadron structure tmds qcd pdfs

Participants :
- Université de Cagliari (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 188590.08 €
Projet SRDDRM (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

SRDDRM will provide the very first comprehensive, substantive research output on the attribution of state responsibility for the death and disappearance of refugees and migrants. Despite it being a critical question of public international law (“PIL”), international refugee law (“IRL”), international human rights law (“IHRL”), international law on human trafficking, international migration law, and law of diplomatic and consular protection, a singular authoritative legal source on SRDDRM does not currently exist. Though several resources have been published that address SRDDRM directly, none comprehensively map the legal framework relative to it or incorporate extensive case studies. As a result, no single source exists in international law to determine the rules of attribution of international responsibility, relative to deaths and disappearances of refugees and migrants. SRDDRM will fill this gap. It will provide a single comprehensive source of international law, based on extensive original research in critical geographic locations where deaths and disappearances of refugees and migrants occur at an extremely high rate. These include the Darién Gap separating Colombia and Panama, the US-Mexico border, the Channel Crossing between France and the United Kingdom, the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea, and the three most common Mediterranean Crossings between Morocco and Spain, Libya and Italy, and Turkey and Greece/Cyprus. Supervised by Professor Siobhán Mullally – Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights and current UN Special Rapporteur for trafficking in persons – the researcher, a doctor of PIL with specialisation in IRL and state responsibility, will undertake SRDDRM at the host institution, University of Galway, who has successfully hosted 30 Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowships in Horizon 2020 and is currently hosting 9 Horizon Europe fellowships.

Mots clés : public international law international refugee law international human rights law international law of migration international law on human trafficking law of diplomatic and consular protection

Participants :
- Université nationale d'Irlande à Galway (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 268568.64 €
Projet TEMPL3D (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The emergence of 3D printing technology has revolutionized the field of Liquid Crystal Networks (LCNs), enabling the fabrication of advanced functional materials with unprecedented precision and customization. However, to date, only a few liquid crystal phases (primarily nematic) have been utilized in the 3D printing of structures, thereby limiting the potential of other mesophases in more effectively controlling the anisotropic properties of the final materials. TEMPL3D seeks to overcome this limitation by combining 3D printing technology with the unidirectional order of Columnar Liquid Crystals (CLCs), pioneering a novel 3D patterning method for ultrasmall nanoparticles (USNPs). This approach aims to enhance the intrinsic properties of USNPs along the columnar axis, and potentially introduce entirely new functionalities. By leveraging the unique characteristics of CLCs and the precision of 3D printing, the research intends to develop highly ordered nanoporous polymeric materials with customizable nanopores. These nanopores will act as templates for metallic USNPs, such as superparamagnetic nanoparticles and quantum dots, enhancing or creating new properties. The ultimate goal of TEMPL3D is to develop multifunctional materials with applications in photonics, optoelectronics, soft robotics, and catalysis—surpassing current technological capabilities. This multidisciplinary project is aligned with the MSCA strategy, contributing to Europe’s growth and competitiveness. TEMPL3D also involves a strong exchange of knowledge between the host institution and me. This fellowship will play a key role in advancing my future independent research career in chemistry by offering interdisciplinary training across a wide range of skills, mentorship from leading experts in the field, and the opportunity to establish a new research line that has not yet been explored at the host institution.

Mots clés : liquid crystalline networks, nanoparticles, 3d printing, columnar liquid crystals, polymeric composites

Participants :
- Université de Florence (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 193643.28 €
Projet INJORG (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Economic Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

In this project I explore the effect of diversity-related societal events on workplace cooperation. Throughout the recent decade a number of large-scale cultural and political events have continued to draw attention to threats like racism, sexism, and discrimination. Prominent examples of such events are the #MeToo movement, the Black Lives Matter movement, or Islamic terrorism in Europe. Despite the prominence of these events in public discourse, we don’t know the consequences of this mega-threats for the cooperation and interaction between co-workers in organizations. In this project, I deploy a novel interdisciplinary approach, in which I combine insights from the emerging “macro” literature in sociology and management and their effect on organizations and the large existing “micro” literature in psychology on diverse work teams and behavioral strategy in order to develop and test novel hypotheses about how diversity related large-scale events that occur in organizations´ larger social context affect the cooperation in diverse teams and the decision-making in organizations. I will focus on four related research questions: 1) How did the #BlackLivesMatter movement affect the cooperation between black and white co-workers? 2) How did the #MeToo movement affect the cooperation between male and female co-workers? 3) How did Islamist terrorist attacks in Europe affect the cooperation between Islamic and Non-Islamic co-workers? and 4)How can managers and business leaders manage issues arising from mega-threats? In order to test my prediction I will collect a novel large scale database including information on diversity related mega-threats from Twitter and media reports and combine it with data on the cooperation in organizations. The ambitious goal of this interdisciplinary project is to open a research stream which strives to develop an understanding on how macro societal events affect our micro behavior with other co-workers in organzations.

Mots clés : cooperation in organizations, group diversity, groups and teams, team conflict and cooperation, intergroup relations

Participants :
- École de commerce de Copenhague (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 214934.4 €
Projet COPP (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

In this cutting-edge project, I ask the research question: “How do business actors define the transnational rules that govern corporations’ responsible behaviour?”. Extending insights from political science and management studies, the central objective of this research project is to enlarge the scope of actors, activities, and processes being studied, and reveal more nuanced ways through which corporations exert power in and over political rules. This main objective is operationalized into four working packages. WP1 aims to synthesize the existing literature on corporate power in and over rules. The other WPs elucidate three indirect and often overlooked types of corporate political power i.e., power in and through: global production networks (GPNs) [WP2]; big four consultancies [WP3]; and trade associations [WP4]. To this end, I create a novel dataset of national and international governmental CSR policies from different countries, international organizations, and regional organizations in all major world regions spanning a 65-year period by drawing together data from different online platforms. In WP2, I measure the similarities between different governmental CSR policies (based on Cosine similarity) as a result of backward and forward GPN participation. In WP3, I code the authorshipof these CSR policies and the degree of similarities with publications by the big four consultancies. In WP4, I send out a large-scale survey to trade association representatives to ask about their lobbying on the CSR policies within my dataset. To further unpack the causal relations of WP3 and WP4, I also conduct in-depth interviews. By drawing on management theories on how companies govern global markets and political theories on the functioning of governments, I ambitiously move this research agenda forward in an interdisciplinary manner. This helps to overcome the treatment of either business or politics as black-boxes while also bridging the analytical macro-micro divide.

Mots clés : corporate social responsibility corporate political activities environmental and social regulation mixed methods

Participants :
- École de commerce de Copenhague (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 230774.4 €
Projet RADFUSION (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

This study addresses critical knowledge gaps in tungsten-chromium (W-Cr) alloy behaviour under fusion-relevant conditions. As fusion energy progresses,developing materials for extreme reactor environments is crucial. This research conducts a comprehensive comparison of W-Cr alloys and ITER-grade tungsten, focusing on their response to simultaneous radiation damage and plasma-material interactions. Using advanced experimental techniques and computational modelling, the study quantifies radiation effects,characterises plasma exposure effects, and evaluates their combined impacts. A key innovation is the development of machine learning models to predict long-term material behaviour and usage of neural networks in image analysis. By benchmarking W-Cr alloys against pure tungsten and creating predictive models this project provides crucial insights for future fusion reactor design. Aligning with key research missions on neutron tolerance and safety, this project integrates cutting-edge materials science with fusion technology development, aiming to accelerate progress towards sustainable, carbon-free fusion energy.  The project's multidisciplinary approach combines radiation physics, plasma science, and advanced materials characterization techniques. The findings will not only advance our understanding of W-Cr alloys but also contribute to the broader field of extreme environment materials, potentially impacting other areas of energy research and industrial applications. By addressing key challenges in fusion reactor materials, this project plays a vital role in the global effort to develop clean, sustainable energy solutions for the future.

Mots clés : radiation safety, plasma facing material, fusion, structural safety, demo, step

Participants :
- Université de Birmingham (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 276187.92 €