Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet IDChild (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Children with diverse backgrounds (e.g., ethnic, sexual orientation and gender identity) and characteristics (e.g., abilities) are overrepresented in foster care, and evidence shows that these groups of children tend to face additional challenges, such as being misunderstood by professionals and foster carers and experiencing more placement breakdowns. Foster care systems can be disconnected from children’s needs and realities, thus reasserting normative standards and perpetuating inequalities. Additionally, there is reduced evidence on the specific needs of diverse groups of children who are in foster care, more specifically regarding their social identity and how the different elements of social identity intersect (race, ethnicity, gender identity, sex assigned at birth, sexual orientation, ability, religion, socioeconomic status, and other social categories). Young people who are in foster care, social workers, and foster carers across four foster care systems, England, Portugal, Spain, and The Netherlands, will share their perspectives, contributing to a deeper understanding of the three objectives of the project: i) to analyse the social identity development of children who are in foster care in four countries through the lens of intersectionality ii) to explore and compare the foster care systems (legislation, policy, practice, and research) and the support provided to children’s social identity development in four countries and, iii) to identify quality indicators of foster carers to support children’s social identity development, in four countries. The project will contribute unique and novel insights into children's social identity development, which can advance research, enhance practice processes of quality care, inform policy, and ultimately improve children's developmental outcomes.

Mots clés : foster care, child protection system, role of foster carers, children s identity development, children in alternative care

Participants :
- Université de Barcelone (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Eurochild (Belgique) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Groningue (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 271345.2 €
Projet RECOMPUTE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The ever-increasing power consumption of electronics necessitates the development of new energy-efficient device paradigms for data storage and computation. In this pursuit, approaches aimed at mimicking the functionality of the human brain in artificial devices, so-called neuromorphic engineering, have attracted a lot of attention. Reservoir computing relying on a random, untrained reservoir provides a powerful platform to exploit materials for brain-inspired computing without strict requirements on the device-to-device variability. Implementing reservoir computing in-materio is, however, challenging because of difficulties to adapt the two main reservoir properties – nonlinearity and memory capacity - to computational tasks. Epitaxial complex oxides offer a wealth of nonlinear material properties with tunable memory characteristics, making them ideal candidates for task-adaptive physical reservoir computing. With RECOMPUTE, I aim to establish in-materio reservoir computing using epitaxial complex oxides to efficiently perform computational tasks. I propose to achieve this by combining in thin-film epitaxial heterostructures (i) rare-earth nickelates with a tunable nonlinear negative differential resistance and (ii) relaxor ferroelectrics with a memory capacity that is tunable via the chemical composition. By fabricating prototypical thin-film devices, characterizing and optimizing their electrical transport characteristics, and simulating their computational performance, I intend to shed light on the fundamental relationship between the intrinsic material properties of reservoir devices and their performance in solving different cognitive tasks – a crucial insight that has been elusive so far.  Ultimately, the successful implementation of the proposed research will establish novel reservoir computing devices based on complex oxides and serve as a template for the study of other nonlinear systems for unconventional computing among and beyond complex oxides.

Mots clés : reservoir computing, epitaxial heterostructures, complex transition metal oxides, rare earth nickelates, relaxor ferroelectrics, unconventional computing, neuromorphic devices and systems

Participants :
- Université de Groningue (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 217076.16 €
Projet 3DCOMPASS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

3DCOMPASS aims to revolutionize the production of complex shaped all-solid-state lithium batteries (ASSLB) using Xolography volumetric 3D printing, a technology that offers superior speed, resolution, and freedom of shape compared to traditional manufacturing techniques including conventional 3D printing methods. The project focuses on the development of Xolography 3D printing for solid state electrolytes, both polymeric and ceramic, enabling the efficient fabrication of solid-state electrolytes with unexplored architectures. 3DCOMPASS will firstly develop containing Li-conductors and suitable for Xolography process with low optical density (<0.22 for 1cm of path at 405 nm), high viscosity (10-60 Pa s) and high polymerization rates. In a second step the printing process will be optimized in relation to resins formulations to obtain the desired speed (55 mm3/h) and resolution (5-20 µm) impossible to achieve with traditional 3D printing techniques. Finally complex shaped electrolytes will be fabricated by Xolography with tailored architectures to: i) enhance the interfacial area with the electrodes, ii) allow high cathode loadings, iii) increase the critical current density vs. Li-metal. The produced electrolytes will be used to assemble half and full cells with Li-metal as anode and Mn-doped LFP as cathode with the following expected performances: ionic conductivity of the electrolytes >10-4 S cm-1 at room temperature, capacity >400Wh/kg, high resistance to dendrite growth with a critical current density > 0.5 mA/cm2. 3DCOMPASS will provide a new class of materials printable by Xolography and at the same time open the door to a new generation of ASSLB with superior performances allowed by micrometric scale architectures possible to produce in a fast and scalable way. Furthermore, the career of the candidate is expected to largely benefit from the present proposal thanks to its training in a strategic field (3D printing for ASSLB).

Mots clés : solid state lithium batteries, 3d printing, volumetric 3d printing, xolography, electrolytes, photopolymerization

Participants :
- CERCA Institution (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 194074.56 €
- Alternative energy innovations sl (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
Projet EUREG (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

A major challenge of the regulatory governance scholarship is to develop effective measures for capturing the content of regulation. In European Union (EU) studies, the lack of content-based measures of regulation impedes the ability to analyze regulatory designs across diverse policy areas; explain whether regulatory design choices are driven by euroscepticism, institutional, or sectorial factors; and investigate how configurations of regulatory design elements affect transposition dynamics. Addressing these challenges, EUREG’s main objective is to analyze and explain the variation of regulatory designs across EU policy areas and investigate their transposition through a content-based analysis of EU rules. Leveraging on my experience in computational text analysis along with scientific and transferable skills training, I introduce a new unit of analysis of regulation, the regulative statement, and analyze four content elements of regulatory design: actors, stringency, aims, and issues. This approach is applied to analyzing EU regulatory design across 21 policy areas from 1993 to 2023 through computational text analysis, explaining its variation through panel analysis, and investigating the transposition of environmental regulatory design through fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis. EUREG’s efforts have scientific, societal, and economic impacts. Scientifically, it introduces a unique measure of regulation and advances original theoretical arguments about the origins and effects of EU regulatory design. Societally and economically, it simplifies EU rules and improves the assessment of EU regulatory burden, aligning with the core missions of the European Commission’s Better Regulation Agenda. The facilities and mentorship provided by the host institution (LMU; Prof. Christoph Knill) and the secondment institution (UAntwerpen; Prof. Koen Verhoest) will contribute to achieving EUREG's objectives and fostering my development as an independent researcher.

Mots clés : regulation, european union, regulatory design, governance, environmental policy

Participants :
- Université d'Anvers (Belgique) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Louis-et-Maximilien de Munich (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 189687.36 €
Projet COMPLAPSE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Tobacco smoking remains the leading preventable cause of premature morbidity and mortality in Europe. Gold standard treatment for smoking cessation includes pharmacotherapy and behavioural support. However, smoking lapses – influenced by momentary fluctuations in cravings and social cues – are a key source of treatment failure. COMPLAPSE aims to advance the state-of-the-art by developing and validating a dynamic computational model of lapse risk, improving the precision of static behaviour change theories to account for observed complexities and laying the foundation for dynamically tailored, person-centred digital smoking cessation interventions for increased effectiveness. COMPLAPSE is interdisciplinary in scope – drawing on know-how from behavioural science, engineering, and computer science – and directly contributes to Europe’s Path to the Digital Decade and its Strategic Framework for the Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases. First, a conceptual model will be developed by articulating a diverse group of stakeholders’ (e.g., researchers, policymakers, smokers) dynamic predictions through participatory systems mapping. Next, a computational model will be developed through formulating mathematical equations for each model component, followed by a series of simulations to iteratively refine the model to align with stakeholders’ predictions. Finally, the model will be validated against temporally dense experience sampling and sensor data collected in smokers’ daily lives to critically examine whether the computational model outperforms static state-of-the-art theories. The research objectives are linked to key training, knowledge transfer and communication activities to advance the researcher’s expertise and transferrable skills, enabling her to develop independence; valorise the researcher’s knowledge within the associated partner organisation and beneficiary; and disseminate the results to the scientific community, industry professionals, and the public.

Mots clés : behaviour change complexity science computational modelling ecological momentary assessments personalisation precision health precision medicine smoking cessation tailoring

Participants :
- Université de Tampere (Finlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 302331.36 €
- University of California System (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet CorpCONTROL-in-TAX (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

CorpCONTROL-in-TAX aims to understand the role of taxation in explaining the development of widely dispersed share ownership in countries like the United Kingdom and the United States, in contrast to the persistence in many continental European states like Germany and Italy of corporate ownership structures characterized by controlling shareholders. The nature and structure of corporate ownership is a fundamental issue in comparative corporate governance, as the idea that ownership concentration limits economic growth and financial development is a central cornerstone of modern corporate finance. Indeed, family-owned listed companies, especially those that are heir-controlled firms, may produce downsides, not only in terms of lowering firm value and profitability, but also by curtailing the functioning of the market for corporate control and engender the extraction of private benefits by the controlling families to the detriment of the minority shareholders. Accordingly, CorpCONTROL-in-TAX investigates the role of taxation on corporate governance in a comparative setting, focusing on the British and American experience, on the one hand, and the German and Italian, on the other. To achieve its goals, the project plans to track, from the 1950s on, the evolution of corporate ownership structures in the United Kingdom, United States, Germany and Italy in connection with the concomitant changes in their tax frameworks. The purpose is to gauge whether different ownership structures - i.e., different frameworks of corporate ownership and control - in the U.K., U.S., Germany and Italy echo divergences in their tax systems, including as regards inheritance taxes, capital gain tax rates and income taxes. Therefore, CorpCONTROL-in-TAX's wide scope considers issues that affect not just one but several countries in Europe. This study does also have special importance for those EU member states where low productivity-related issues are at the forefront of policy debates.

Mots clés : corporate governance corporate ownership structure concentrated family ownership tax policy income taxation capital gain taxes inheritance taxes

Participants :
- Société Max-Planck pour le développement des sciences (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'Hambourg (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 289407.84 €
- University of California System (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet DRYLIFE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The effects of global warming are particularly pronounced in drylands, leading to their fast degradation and hampering the capacity to support active life. In an era of fast desertification, DRYLIFE seeks to identify those conditions that determine the dry limit for microbial life in the US Western drylands where a temperature increase up to 3°C associated to increases in aridity is expected by the end of the century. DRYLIFE will answer the key question using endolithic communities, simple and stable microbial communities dwelling inside rocks ubiquitous in drylands worldwide, as paradigmatic model system. In hyper-arid regions, in particular, once the threshold of dry tolerability for plants and soil microbes is crossed, endoliths represent the latest possibility for life, regulating water retention and nutrient cycles and creating positive feedback for ecological successions. DRYLIFE will be carried out in leading US and EU research laboratories by undertaking an interdisciplinary approach to address fundamental questions about how tiny microbes may have global-scale impact. This bottom-up project will combine amplicon sequencing, shotgun metagenomics, micro-environmental monitoring, geomicrobiology, and machine learning. Data generated will be translated, for the first time, into predictive models to better understand endolithic communities functioning and adaptations under global change, addressing a key knowledge gap. While my previous pioneering studies on Antarctic endoliths laid the basis for DRYLIFE, this Action will broaden my research and training skills and widen my professional networks, leading to a critical career development boost as an independent researcher. DRYLIFE will likely have the potential to improve projection of future climate impact on drylands, help tackle a timely global challenge of outmost importance to the Horizon Europe program, inform the next-generation of drylands ecologists, and, finally, provide evidence for policy makers.

Mots clés : endolithic microbial communities, extremophiles, rock desert microbiome, drylands, microbial ecology, amplicon sequencing

Participants :
- University of Tuscia (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 265099.2 €
- Conseil supérieur de la recherche scientifique (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of California System (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet IMW (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Mind-wandering research in the cognitive sciences shows that a significant portion of novel ideas and breakthrough “aha!” moments happen when attention is shifted internally, away from tasks in the external environment. However, research has not explored how to encourage these creative mental wanders. Inspired by how exposure to art leads to generating innovative ideas, this project investigates the hypothesis that a digital arts intervention can enhance creative thoughts when mind-wandering. This use of digital technology is antithetical to its common aim of guiding attention externally. Accordingly, this project challenges how we use digital technology and opens opportunities for interdisciplinary research across the arts and sciences. Expected impacts are: 1) paving a new direction in mind-wandering research by investigating the possibility of inspiring creative thoughts, 2) Uncovering how digital arts can be an empirical tool to investigate cognitive processes, and 3) Conceptually extending the discourse of how technology affects cognition. This project will produce high-impact research publications, presentations, and an interdisciplinary symposium to disseminate findings across relevant disciplines. Communication with the public will be facilitated with a project dedicated website and targeted outreach efforts both at the TC and return host institutions.

Mots clés : mind wandering, creativity enhancement, new media art, divergent thinking, convergent thinking

Participants :
- École normale supérieure PSL (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 300441.6 €
- University of California System (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet FoodStore (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

FoodStore investigates food storage systems in the Northern Fertile Crescent (western inner Syria, south eastern Turkey, northern Iraq) during the late fifth, fourth and third millennia BC, in order to define the relationship between storage practices, socio-economic complexity and ecological conditions. During these millennia, the area experienced different trajectories leading to the emergence of complex societies, and the storage of food staples was central to these developments. The project has a multi-level design that combines the collection of published data, with the direct study of storage facilities from key archaeological sites. These features will be investigated through a combination of traditional macro-archaeological methods with micro-archaeological techniques from applied geological, chemical, and biological disciplines: microstratigraphy, Fourier Transform Infra-Red Spectroscopy, and phytolith analysis. Key objectives for FoodStore are the establishment of a robust analytical protocol to investigate food storage practices in archaeological contexts; to develop an interdisciplinary framework to tackle issues connected to food preservation; to contribute to the collaboration between archaeology, anthropology and natural sciences; and to enhance the relevance of archaeology to support traditional rural heritage and food management practices.

Mots clés : fertile crescent food storage social complexity social inequality food security

Participants :
- University of Tuscia (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 265099.2 €
- University of California System (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €