Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet MulPHys (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Mathematics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Experimental evidence indicates that fluid filtration through unsaturated porous media exhibits a hysteretic behavior, originating at a microscopic level from surface tension at the point of contact between water and air in the pores. As a result, the pressure-saturation constitutive relation turns out to be of hysteresis type, accurately described with the Preisach operator by a thorough fitting procedure. The main objective of the MulPHys project is to expand the knowledge about Preisach hysteresis for fluid filtration and build new mathematical models for unsaturated porous media, employing a multiscale approach. The suitability of the Preisach operator in describing the hysteretic behavior of unsaturated porous solids sparked an intense research effort in the community of experts in PDEs with hysteresis, with the goal of including the Preisach operator in mathematical models. In these endeavors, the presence of a microstructure was neglected, with the approach being directly macroscopic. Another branch of research has considered porous media as objects with a microstructure, and has derived the macroscopic description of fluid flow from local behavior. In this body of research, however, porous media are often assumed to be completely saturated so that no hysteresis can occur. With MulPHys, we will fill the gap between these two research areas, employing homogenization techniques to provide a justification of the Preisach operator as the correct tool for describing filtration. Particular attention will be paid to including gravity effects and understanding solid-liquid interactions at the microscopic level. Numerical simulations and experimental data will be instrumental in achieving these objectives. Potential applications in the preservation of historic buildings are foreseen, thus addressing a European priority and implying significant impact not only for the scientific community, but also for the professional sectors and society as a whole.

Mots clés : hysteresis, homogenization, microstructure, unsaturated flow

Participants :
- Université de Technologie du Sud-Est (Irlande) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université technique de Prague (Rép. Tchèque) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 166278.72 €
- Université de Duisbourg et Essen (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet JustClima (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Due to planetary environmental crises and injustices we face as society, different academic communities have started to posit the need to reenvision scientific disciplines to deal with such crises. Science plays a crucial role in imagining sustainable just ways of living and in proposing solutions for the uneven way the intersected crises affects communities worldwide. Therefore, science education, as the connection between science and society, has a paramount role in cultivating imagination, aiming at sustainable just futures and educating the next generation of scientists and science educators. The question then becomes, “How can the imagination be pedagogically cultivated?” JustCLIma deals with this question by proposing a novel multi-theoretical and multimethodological approach centred on southern ways of being and doing to imagine and work towards just futures. The project operates from the premise that: 1) we need to imagine and learn with the spaces we inhabit, but also the ones we do not, and 2) we need to learn with decentred, usually overlooked spaces that today deal with deep climate conflicts. Hence, JustCLIma aims to address the following goals: 1) propose a theory of imagination through research training at the University of Groningen, and 2) fieldwork research in Chile and the Netherlands interviewing justice-oriented scientists and science educators involved in climate justice questions. With this knowledge, JustCLIma will: 3) design, implement, and evaluate pedagogical resources for the education of future scientists and science teachers. JustCLIma will contribute theoretically and empirically to science education with “Pedagogy for the Imagination: Science Education for Climate Just-Futures”, bringing more robustness to the knowledge that future scientists and science teachers are building about their disciplinary roles, encouraging identities as climate-just futures designers.

Mots clés : science education, imagination, climate justice, pedagogy

Participants :
- Université de Groningue (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 232916.16 €
Projet SUSTAIN (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Excessive carbon emissions and management of construction and demolition waste (CDW) are critical challenges that the EU seeks to overcome to achieve climate neutrality. Portland cement (PC), an indispensable material for modern infrastructure construction, is responsible for approximately 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions, while CDW represents the largest waste stream in the EU, accounting for more than a third of all waste. The SUSTAIN project addresses these issues by absorbing carbon emissions through integrated bio-mineralisation and accelerated carbonation of CDW materials and utilising it to develop novel self-healing carbon-negative concrete. The project is interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary in nature, aiming to carbonate recycled concrete powder (RCP) and recycled aggregates (RA) through a synergistic process that combines CO2 absorption with microbial-induced enhancement. This process aims to meet the cement demand in the construction sector by repurposing RCP as supplementary cementitious material and improving the quality of RA to enable their full replacement of natural aggregates. Additionally, this treatment will give self-healable properties to concrete, allowing it to autonomously repair cracks through microbial-induced carbonate precipitation during its service life. This project aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of “Sustainable Cities and Communities” and the European Green Deal, thus enhancing EU scientific excellence. The researcher will receive extensive training to advance his career by learning new analytical and experimental skills, effective management, advanced training, supervision skills, publishing papers, writing EU patents, and funding proposals. The project will play a vital role in achieving net-zero CO2 emissions, offering climate-neutral construction materials, and equipping the researcher with cutting-edge skills to catalyse future leadership roles in academia and industry.

Mots clés : self healing carbon negative concrete, construction and demolition waste, carbon capturing, waste upcycling

Participants :
- Holcim innovation center (France) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Bradford (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 276187.92 €
Projet IMMUNOPREVENT (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Damaged cells, including precancerous cells, continuously accumulate in healthy tissues, but they are identified and eliminated by the immune system in a continuous process named immunosurveillance. Therefore, effective immunosurveillance plays an essential role in preventing cancer development. IMMUNOPREVENT aims to understand how aberrant precursor breast cancer cells escape from immune surveillance, and whether we can leverage this knowledge for future cancer prevention strategies for women at high risk of developing breast cancer. Mutations in the DNA repair genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 confer a 70% lifetime risk of breast cancer, in contrast to the 13% risk in the general female population. The majority of BRCA mutations are inherited, but there are no effective breast cancer prevention options for BRCA carriers besides the invasive prophylactic mastectomy. Therefore, this is an unmet clinical need that demands new knowledge that can be translated into prevention strategies in the future. In this project, I will investigate the potential tumour protective role of LCOR in clearing BRCA-deficient cancer-initiating cells before tumour establishment. LCOR enhances tumour immunogenicity by inducing tumour antigen presentation, thus rendering breast cancer cells visible and vulnerable to immune attack. However, its role in early oncogenesis remains unknown. Here, employing a novel mouse model for mammary gland-specific loss of Lcor and Brca1, I will interrogate the role of LCOR in premalignant clonal dynamics, tumour development and early immune evasion. This knowledge will expand our general understanding of the early immune-mediated events in the premalignant mammary gland that eventually lead to cancer initiation. With this fellowship I will gain skills and knowledge on immune oncology and the results generated will be the foundation for future research lines on immunotherapy for breast cancer prevention that I will pursue as an independent researcher.

Mots clés : brca, immunotherapy, preneoplasia, immunosurveillance, antigen presentation, mammary gland biology

Participants :
- CERCA Institution (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 209914.56 €
Projet WARINA (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The WARINA project will analyse some fictional, autobiographical, and diaristic texts that represent characters who are unable to act, or who can only act for the worse, that is, perform what in this project will be called “negative action”. The project poses a special focus on how “inaction” and “negative action” activate different stereotypes about social categories such as race, gender, and social class. Its driving belief is that the study of fiction and life writing (autobiographies and diaries) will provide new insights into politically charged representations of inaction or negative action, results that will be achieved by the application of an interdisciplinary theoretical grid, combining literary theory, the social sciences, and cultural psychology. The concepts of inaction/negative action have not been studied as general topics in literature: they tend to be connected to specific authorial poetics, or to great cultural narratives. What is missing is a study of the specific ways in which rhetorical strategies represent and thus create images of inaction and negative action. This study will be conducted in close dialogue with social sciencists and social psychologists' research on agency. In particular, research objects will focus on 1) the use of cognitive metaphors to define what “action” and “inaction” are, and the implementation of metaphors of place that connect a certain place with inaction; 2) the study of emotions from a constructivist point of view, that is, with the aim of understanding how the same emotion can be represented either as being conducive to action, or to inaction, even in the same text; 3) the close observation of the ways in which characters or authors build their life narratives by selecting salient events, relationships, and media products. The corpus’s texts stem from the first half of the Twentieth century, a period whose culture informs some of the terms related the agency that are still in use today.

Mots clés : narrative theory, intermediality

Participants :
- Linnaeus University (Suède) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 206887.68 €
Projet OnSeaT.TraILSPACE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This project in global diplomatic and colonial history aims to explain how Southeast Asian Sultans’ ideas and perspectives influenced colonial relations in c. 1750-1920. The project’s comparative method focuses on three courts in maritime Southeast Asia (Sulu, Johor, and Mataram) that offer compelling parallels and divergences in their interaction with European colonial powers. The project analyses specific key terms and phrases in manuscripts written and collected at the courts, that reflect on crucial aspects of rulers’ political priorities, ideas and motivations. Building on the applicant’s prior research experience, the research innovatively then uses recent advancements in archival digitization and automatic handwritten text recognition technology, which is applied to trace variations and translations of the key terms and phrases in colonial archival records, primarily the rulers’ correspondence and treaties with colonial powers. By automatically identifying and comparing how Southeast Asian terminology reverberated in the archives and knowledge production of the British, Dutch and Spanish colonial empires in Southeast Asia, the project uncovers the potential influences of local ideas on processes and practices of diplomatic interaction, treaty-making and, thus, on the vocabulary and legal frameworks of European colonial empires. In doing so, the project challenges established paradigms that prioritize European colonial frameworks as the sources of political organization in colonial and postcolonial Southeast Asia. It contributes to growing strands of global history that reveal the influence of non-European actors, practices and knowledge within global frameworks. This encourages more polyvocal and less Eurocentric perspectives in public debate and history writing to clarify the long-term consequences of colonialism and its impact on international relations and current socio-political fabrics, identities and conflicts in and beyond Southeast Asia.

Mots clés : southeast asia, international history, global interaction, empire, digital humanities, manuscripts

Participants :
- Linnaeus University (Suède) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 222727.68 €
Projet SHE-NAB (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Beer is the world’s most consumed alcoholic drink but its alcohol content has a negative impact on health. The consumption of non-alcoholic beer (NAB) has rocketed recently, driven by changes in manufacturing processes and a more health-conscious consumer base. In Europe, the market size is estimated in $22 billion (2022). Despite its potential for diet improvement, the impact of NAB on health has been barely investigated. Moreover, this expanded market is not reusing its by-products properly and generates considerable waste. The aim of this project is to address this lack of information by elucidating the contribution of NAB to health, and by implementing waste valorisation practices to generate products with added value for the circular economy. By applying the latest methods in metagenomics, synthetic microbial ecology approaches and metabolism modelling, SHE-NAB will provide a proof-of-concept for the rational design of a novel NAB prototype, helping to deliver on EU health and sustainability priorities and to educate in the context of public health. After the generation of valorised waste products, we will harness the microbial potential of selected newly characterised strains with key functionalities (i.e: synthesis of bioactive molecules) to develop synthetic communities (SC) for the fermentation of NAB at small and pilot scale. By metagenomics and metabolomic data obtained during fermentation, ecological networks will be constructed to disentangle the contribution of each taxa to the traits of the final product and allowing a rational design of the SC to control fermentation processes. The final products will be assessed for health benefits using ex vivo gut models and cell assays. An effective two-way transfer of knowledge with industry will be achieved, particularly during a non-academic placement period, applying the SC developments at pilot scale and using valorised waste products for the production of healthy NAB in a commercial brewery environment.

Mots clés : nutrition, food sciences

Participants :
- Wicklow wolf brewing company (Irlande) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Teagasc (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 249618.0 €
Projet HealthyPlants (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Plant viruses continue to be one of the main threats to European agriculture, exacerbated by climate change, evolution of pesticide resistance, and loss of crop protection chemistries. Europe has ambitions of creating a more sustainable food system with a goal of reducing pesticide usage by 50% by 2030 as part of the European Farm to Fork Strategy. Achieving these goals requires robust integrated pest-management (IPM) approaches and real-time decision support systems (DSS) for farmers. In disease management there is a strong reliance on rapid, sensitive, and specific diagnostic tools built on a clear understanding of viral diversity. HealthyPlants will use high-throughput sequencing to (i) complete the first systematic survey of viruses of cultivated plants in Ireland and establish a baseline upon which to build improved diagnostic tools, (ii) establish the importance of arable margins and hedgerows as cereal virus reservoirs, and (iii) identify viruses on newly imported crops with potential phytosanitary risks. HealthyPlants will deliver the first database of viral sequences of cultivated plants on the island of Ireland, an open-access platform to support development of robust diagnostics within Europe.

Mots clés : cereals, sequencing, phytosanitary, plant viruses

Participants :
- Département de l'Agriculture (Irlande) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- Teagasc (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 199694.4 €
Projet URDER (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The recent intensive sociopolitical debates on racism and the colonialism, which created a wave of protests across the Global North, has broken the ordinariness of the racial status quo endemic to the modern social institutions. In academia, it has enforced a series of initiatives, asking for reconsidering curricula and diversity quotas. The URDER project takes a step back from these societal debates to understand how practices of diversity are understood and applied by those who have a central impact on academic knowledge production and science more generally: the reviewers of academic grants. By studying the evaluation practices of the review panelists of the European Research Commission grant awards, the project will explore how scientific excellence is linked with diversity practices in the European research space. Bringing together (a) science policy studies, (b) cultural sociology, and (c) postcolonial critique, the URDER project seeks to investigate how the European academic elites in social sciences and humanities understand the role of decolonial, anti-racist, and diversity initiatives in European research. The proposed project will allow for training the Fellow in science policy, research management, and research evaluation while the Fellow will offer her valuable knowledge in postcolonial theories, feminist epistemology, and intersectionality. To provide conceptual overlaps between these fields of research will allow for critical assessment of diversity initiatives and propose effective solutions to address diversity in academia.

Mots clés : decolonization, diversity, sociology of academic work, cultural sociology, postcolonial theory

Participants :
- Institut für Höhere Studien - Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) (Autriche) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 183600.96 €
Projet EROS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Garnet-like, Li7La3Zr2O12 (LLZO) is a promising solid electrolyte (SE) material for solid-state-batteries (SSBs), whose market growth highlights the urgent need for sustainable waste management solutions. Hybrid recycling, which integrates thermal pre-treatment and recovery of critical elements, is a highly promising approach, especially for complex material streams like LLZO. However, this method remains unexplored for SSBs. EROS aims to address this gap by combining advanced thermodynamic modeling and experiments to develop an efficient hybrid recycling process for LLZO. In this regard, phase diagrams are essential in designing the thermal pre-treatment conditions directly influencing downstream recovery. The first step of the project is to execute thermodynamic modeling using the CALculation of PHAse Diagrams (CALPHAD) approach to develop a database for calculating phase diagrams and thermodynamic properties. This will be done at Seoul National University during the first 24 months of the project. During the return phase in Aalto University, key experiments will be designed to examine chemical reactions and phase formation during pre-treatment, providing critical data to enhance recycling efficiency. This innovative approach aims to reduce energy consumption, material losses and accelerate industry adaptation of hybrid recycling methods for new battery materials. The project will allow the fellow to benefit from the combined mentorship of expert supervisors in CALPHAD (outgoing phase) and thermochemistry (EU phase), skill development, and collaborate with international peers, enabling her to explore new research avenues and secure collaborative projects. She will also share her expertise in metallurgy and CALPHAD modeling to both the outgoing and EU host institutions, contributing to broader research and industrial advancements.

Mots clés : metallurgy, phase equilibria, slags, calphad, phase diagrams, recycling

Participants :
- Université Aalto (Finlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 353647.44 €
- Université nationale de Séoul (Corée du Sud) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €