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

Proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs), converting chemical fuels into electricity, are a promising electrochemical technology for the sustainable energy production using clean energy sources, thus, addressing the global challenge of energy demand and pollution control. However, drawbacks of the current polymer electrolyte materials (i.e, degradation and efficiency) limit their application. Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs), a class of hybrid porous materials, have recently found potential applicability in this emerging cross-disciplinary energy area. MOF-PEMs project aims to prepare new cost effective MOF-based membranes gathering good stability, and high proton conductivity over wide range of humidity and temperature conditions, supported by theoretical calculations toward understanding their proton-conducting pathways, which is an important step to industrially efficient PEMFCs. MOF-PEMs will, thus, overtake the current bottleneck of most commercial PEMs, by developing new electrolyte materials with high proton conductivity comparable or even surpassing Nafion® and affordable price, filling the gap between basic research and marketable applications. Key opportunities envisioned from MOF-PEMs include mitigation CO2 emissions and alternative sustainable energy-conversion and energy storage systems that are reliable, low-cost and environmentally friendly. We believe that the results of MOF-PEMs will attract large industrial interest derived by the need of society and governments for continued energy supply associated with rapid population growth.

Mots clés : metal organic frameworks mofs , proton conductivity, mixed matrix membranes mmms , proton exchange membranes pems , proton exchange membrane fuel cells pemfcs , clean energy, phosphonate based mof

Participants :
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 181152.96 €
Projet FLOAT (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Plastics contaminate the environment at global level and are a major concern for ecosystem safety and human health. In particular, plastics of smaller size called microplastics (1 μm < plastics < 1 mm; MPs) are considered a higher risk for organisms due to the combination of widespread distribution and toxicity. Indeed, MPs can contaminate every ecosystem, even remote regions on the globe, for which the atmospheric transport plays a pivotal role. The aim of this project FLOAT is creating a model to simulate MP emissions in the atmosphere, their dispersal, and deposition for assessing the contamination of terrestrial and water surfaces by airborne MPs at local scale and large scale, i.e., Central Europe. Specific objectives are: 1) to generate simulations of MP emissions from densely populated areas, their atmospheric transport and deposition to remote regions in Central Europe; 2) to quantify the contribution of the deposition from the atmosphere on MP concentrations in land and lacustrine surface water by direct measurements; 3) to validate the model by the measurements, then use the tuned model to “upscale” the measurement outputs from the local scale to Central Europe. The FLEXPART model will be used for simulations. Direct data on airborne MP deposition will be measured by stationary passive sampling devices and lake water surface sampling. Microplastic contamination will be characterized in terms of polymer type, shape, size, mass, colour and abundance. By the end of the project, FLOAT will provide a tuned model for the dispersal of airborne MPs at large scale, which will be used quantify the deposition of airborne MPs on lakes in Central Europe.

Mots clés : microplastics, plastic pollution

Participants :
- Université de Vienne (Autriche) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 183600.96 €
Projet BridgeDem (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

How does the changing organization of work affect political conflict in advanced democracies? While we know much about the impact of labor markets on political attitudes and behavior, the workplace as a site of preference formation is largely unexplored – even if this is where a majority of people spend most of their awake time, experience contact and collaboration within and across status groups, and exchange about society and politics. BridgeDem argues that social relations at work impact affective polarization, preferences for redistribution, and support for populism, and that changing workplaces have exerted a major influence on these outcomes. Linking political behavior and political economy literatures with sociology of work & organization, it explores this argument in three ways, studying how (1) changing management styles (2) increasing vertical segregation between status groups and (3) increasing horizontal segregation between social groups in companies have impacted the political outlook of the employed. These inquiries contribute to the encompassing endeavor of building a theory of ‘bridging institutions’ – institutions that set different groups within a society into meaningful social contact and by doing so foster democracy, the workplace serving as a crucial yet underexplored case. To do so, this project leverages an innovative and mixed methodological strategy, combining (a) theory development on the basis of in-depth qualitative interviews with (b) causal identification by matching administrative employer-employee datasets with individual-level panel surveys (SOEP-IAB; LISS-CBS) and (c) assessing long-term trajectories across countries and sectors using administrative and cross-sectional survey data. This comes with an outreach initiative to unions, HRM associations and the public, promoting an understanding of the workplace not merely as a site of economy but equally as a societal ‘bridging institution’ that generates feedback on democracy.

Mots clés : political behavior political economy labor sociology welfare state social policy populism preferences for redistribution affective polarization social sorting workplace

Participants :
- Université de Zurich (Suisse) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Vienne (Autriche) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 214344.72 €
Projet LACOS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become ubiquitous in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP). This project aims to advance the applications of LLMs in the multidisciplinary field of Computational Social Science (CSS). Specifically, LLMs are often used to pseud-label (at scale) variables in data that are of interest to social scientists (e.g., a psychologist would look for emotion markers, an economist for statements about money, a human rights researcher for toxic language etc.) I will develop and test novel tooling for applying LLMs to efficiently pseudo-label CSS data in a cross-lingual setting. The project will proceed in three phases. First, a dataset and methodology for evaluating the language robustness of LLMs (isolated from all other confounding factors) will be developed. Second, using this methodology a set of general best practices will be determined for the scenario of applying LLMs to cross-lingual pseudo-labeling for CSS. Finally, both existing and novel active learning approaches will be investigated to minimize the manual annotation effort required to oversee the pseudo-labeling process. Using insights from this project a user-friendly freely publicly available tool for pseudo-labeling using LLMs will be published. The methods will be tested on two example tasks: toxicity detection and disinformation detection. Overall, the project results will make the work of CSS researchers more efficient in terms of both time and financial resources. Moreover, the cross-lingual nature of the tool will make it applicable to languages other than English, including small and low-resourced languages. Consequently, this project will contribute to make tooling accessible to a wide and diverse set of CSS researchers, increasing the outreach and inclusivity of CSS research and fostering international collaboration.

Mots clés : natural language processing, computational social science

Participants :
- Université de Vienne (Autriche) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 214344.72 €
Projet TarasLAB (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The port city of Taranto has grown in the shadow of ILVA, the largest steel plant in Europe. Since the 1960s, ILVA has provided the people of Taranto with livelihoods and hopes for prosperous futures but also contributed to the city’s environmental degradation and public health crisis. In 2012, ILVA was seized after a court's preliminary hearing deemed the steel plant responsible for Taranto's public health and environmental crisis. To reduce polluting emissions, the blast furnaces were shut down and the steel workforce faced layoffs. A socio-economic crisis ensued, adding to the environmental and public health crisis. Since then, the future of Taranto has been on hold: the state's promises to implement environmental policies and nationalise the plant have never materialised. Exploring the tensions between labour and environment, TarasLAB asks: How can the future be imagined and reclaimed when people's livelihoods mostly depend on what is likely to threaten their lives? To answer this question, it combines ethnographic and collaborative visual methods to engage the research participants in a collective project of multimodal storytelling, which will unfold through and culminate in the co-production of an ethnographically informed graphic novel. TarasLAB leverages anthropological theories and methods to analyse timely issues of interests to both society and policymakers: in addressing Tarantini’s concerns about their future, the project aligns its objectives with the European challenges to make Europe sustainable and secure by 2050. The project's results will add to scholarly debates on sustainable futures in the European semi-periphery while offering a unique contribution on the epistemological affordances of Graphic Anthropology. The Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna will offer the applicant consistent training-through-research in Political Anthropology, enabling her to grow into an independent and confident scholar.

Mots clés : political anthropology, deindustrialisation, industrial labour, environment, future, hopes, risks, southern europe, graphic anthropology

Participants :
- Université de Vienne (Autriche) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 214344.72 €
Projet SWEATHEART (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

In the context of the EU "Healthier Together" initiative, the main objectives include reducing the significant health burden of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), especially cardiorespiratory (CR) ones, and improving the overall health and well-being of the community. As several CR diseases manifest during extreme exercise, there is a need to monitor these conditions and tailor the exercise regimens to the specific subject’s CR profile. The goal of SWEATHEART is to create an energy-efficient embedded wearable system to continuously monitor CR parameters during high-intensity exercise and exercise-induced phenomena in elite athletes, whose profile is the most suited. It will use accurate wearable sensors in real-world training sessions to tailor exercise prescriptions and prevent overreaching and cardiorespiratory issues. To achieve the goal, SWEATHEART will follow three objectives: 1) Detect the CR parameters in real-time using an optimal set of non-invasive and low-cost wearable sensors and emerging computing techniques; 2) Detect fatigue and overreaching derived by extreme exercise based on the extracted CR parameters; 3) Design an energy-efficient embedded system for tailored exercise prescription based on the CR parameters and overreaching.  The project requires multidisciplinary involvement of different parties. The host institution and the supervisor have extensive knowledge of mathematical and statistical modeling and machine learning methodologies. Moreover, their collaborations with sports clubs and the supervisor's start-up experience will enhance the project results and the researchers's future career development. The secondment institution specializes in exercise physiology and has long-lasting experience in data protocol design. The applicant contributes to the system-level design of embedded wearable sensors for biomedical applications. The hosts and applicant will mutually benefit from the project outcomes and the newly formed collaborations.

Mots clés : biomedical wearable sensors, tailored exercise prescription, online cardiorespiratory monitoring, ventilatory thresholds, energy efficient embedded computing, overreaching prevention

Participants :
- Université de Lausanne (Suisse) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 209914.56 €
Projet SIPOCAG (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Mathematics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

SIPOCAG aims to understand and classify singularities occurring in positive-characteristic from two points of view: First, to understand the indecomposable summands arising via the Frobenius morphism of a ring or a variety, and second, to understand the relation between the theory of arc/jet schemes and the "standard" singularities of positive-characteristic commutative algebra. Towards the first objective, given a ring R in characteristic p, one obtains a new module by restricting scalars along the Frobenius self-map on R. The properties of resulting module reflect the singularities of R; for example, Kunz showed that this module is flat if and only if R is regular. I seek to understand what the indecomposable summands of this module tell us about R, especially as one restricts scalars along higher iterates of the Frobenius. In particular, SIPOCAG focuses on the question of how many different isomorphism classes of indecomposables show up in this process: I propose to understand when this number is finite, and what the types and nature of the summands tell us about the ring R. Towards the second objective, the arc scheme of a variety X and its truncation, the jet schemes, are moduli spaces of infinitesimal curves on X, and have proved useful in studying singularities in birational geometry. However, the relation between the arc/jet schemes and the usual notions of singularities in commutative algebra, such as F-purity, remains unknown. SIPOCAG will characterize such classes of singularities via the study of their arc/jet schemes, and leverage these connections to better understand the behavior of these singularities.  Finally, I propose to develop useful new computational tools for working with concrete examples of the preceding two phenomena, which will be useful not only for SIPOCAG but also to many other researchers. These goals will be approached by combining my existing geometric approach to these topics with the algebraic expertise of the host.

Mots clés : singularities, the frobenius morphism, indecomposable summands, arc jet schemes, macaulay2

Participants :
- Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 209914.56 €
Projet INTERCOL (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

INTERCOL investigates a moment of mass mobilisation at the start of the twentieth century when several non-violent protests erupted across the world. Like in contemporary demonstrations, people marched on the streets to fight for a shared idea of justice, which, for the early twentieth century demonstrators, targeted empires and colonialism. Rather than studying these mass protests within a national framework, INTERCOL excavates how non-violent anti-colonial protests were viewed across the colonies. To this end, it brings together two colonies of two different empires that underwent parallel processes of decolonisation—India and Korea. Although Indian and Korean anti-colonial actors shared similar political aspirations and methods to challenge the British and Japanese empires respectively, their interaction mostly took an intellectual form rather than physical organisation of an alliance. They debated the events and ideas unfolding across borders and incorporated them into their own assessment of anti-colonial tactics and world politics. INTERCOL uncovers these intercolonial references by examining the receptions of the Korean Manse movement in India and the Indian Satyagraha movement in Korea. By bringing to the surface the heterogeneity of intercolonial references expressed in Hindi, Korean, and English newspapers, political pamphlets, and letters of historical actors, INTERCOL lays the foundation for a new interdisciplinary subfield—intercolonial public—that offers a new approach to understanding the global anti-colonial moment in the early twentieth century. The twenty-four months of the fellowship will be dedicated to outlining the parameters of an intercolonial public, testing the benefits and limits of intercoloniality as method, and applying the implication of INTERCOL to contemporary debates on democracy in Asia, where India and Korea are increasingly growing closer.

Mots clés : asian history, transnational asia, anti colonialism

Participants :
- Université Stanford (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Vienne (Autriche) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 183600.96 €
Projet FEAR-BEES (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The idea that invertebrates may have basic or primitive forms of emotions is growing. In part, this is based on cumulative evidence of high-level cognitive skills in these miniature brained animals. However, the mere presence of high-order cognitive skills does not imply the existence of emotional states and the characterization of the mechanisms underlying emotional states in invertebrates is still at its infancy. The study of proximate mechanisms of emotions in invertebrates has the potential to bypass the discussion on the appropriateness of semantics labels and advance our understanding of how the neural architecture and neurotransmitters involved in invertebrates emotions compare to those found in mammals, including humans. This project will exploit a multicomponent approach, including behavioural, neurophysiological, and cognitive correlates, to obtain powerful insights on the emotion of fear in invertebrates. Using the honey bee Apis mellifera as a model system, this project will: 1) characterise the behavioural and physiological correlates of "fear" using an equivalent paradigm of fear conditioning widely used in vertebrates, 2) investigate the molecular cascade of "fear" by quantifying the biogenic amines and neuropeptides in specific brain regions and circulating neuro-hormones in the haemolymph using cutting edge techniques, and 3) test the effect of blocking or activating different aminergic/hormonal systems by local injection of specific drugs/amines/hormones in the brain/haemolymph to identify casual links between specific brain regions and emotional processing. Besides advancing our current understanding of the emotional system of invertebrates, the project outputs will affect how we interact with invertebrates and will open fruitful ethical discussions to change current research policies.

Mots clés : emotions, fear

Participants :
- Université de Florence (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Sorbonne Université (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 211754.88 €
Projet CondmatQTech (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

We propose a program for creating and protecting quantum correlations and coherences responsible for the supremacy of quantum technologies, by identifying their optimal embodiment in many-body states of quantum matter in and out of equilibrium. Our vision is to connect various stable phases of quantum matter, especially the non-equilibrium ones, with perturbatively connected families of resourceful states, and thus tie the stability and creation of those phases with those of the resources. Our concrete formulation is based on physics insights of the symmetry, localization property, and dynamics of many-body systems under coherent external drive.  For state creation, we will employ quantum annealing based protocols combined with our understanding of quantum phase transitions between simple phases (e.g., ferromagnetic) and those with useful correlations like long-range entanglement (e.g., spin liquids). The approach promises to evade notorious classical barriers. For example, the “sign problems” in simulating highly frustrated ground states without disorder can be bypassed by our protocol. For protecting delicate quantum states, we propose a novel approach of combining dynamical stability owing to the suppression of many-body chaos by a periodic drive and Many-Body Localization. Our program will facilitate and expedite the advent of quantum technologies which are expected to revolutionize every aspect of human life and society. On the fundamental side, the project will uncover new territories in the field of quantum condensed matter, especially that stabilized out-of-equilibrium. This will initiate new research perspective to the field of theoretical many-body physics, and endow the nascent field of non-equilibrium coherent quantum matter with a direct technological (and hence economic) relevance.

Mots clés : non equilibrium dynamics, quantum phases, floquet systems, many body localization, quantum annealing, quantum information, quantum resources, entanglement, spin liquid

Participants :
- Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 211754.88 €