Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
How Artifacts Acquire Agency: Towards a Philosophy of Automation (HAAA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Austria
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2022-01-16
End date: 2024-01-15
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 186167.04
EU funding (EUR): 186167.04
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The proposed project brings together the applicant, a promising early career researcher (Mark Thomas Young) with a prolific and internationally renowned supervisor (Mark Coeckelbergh), hosted by one of the foremost centers for the philosophy of technology in Europe (University of Vienna). The primary objective is to develop a new philosophical approach to the study of automation that challenges dominant conceptions of automation as technologies that operate without human involvement by highlighting the wide variety of ongoing skillful practices upon which they depend. Drawing on perspectives from feminist studies of technology, the project will (1) identify the different forms of human agency upon which automating technologies depend, (2) explore the processes by which they come to be hidden from view and finally (3) examine the ethical concerns surrounding their erasure. In addition to making a substantial contribution to existing literature on automation in the philosophy of technology, the theoretical approach this project develops will also be useful for historical and sociological studies of technology alongside designers interested in the social impacts of automating technologies. By proposing a novel conception of automation which is useful across disciplines, this research addresses the secondary objective of this project; to establish the project manager as a leading voice in the philosophy of technology and to provide him training and experience that will enable him to attain his long-term career goal of a permanent position in philosophy. In addition to disseminating research results through the production of articles, a journal special issue and the organization of academic events on the theme of automation, this project will also utilize forms of public outreach which are intended to raise public awareness of the human agency underlying automation and the ethical concerns associated with its erasure.

Keywords: automation,skill,agency,philosophy of technology,sociology of technology
Establishing international standards in the analysis of patient reported outcomes and health-related quality of life data in cancer clinical trials (SISAQOL-IMI)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Innovative Medicines Initiative 2
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: IMI2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Spain,Australia,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Belgium,Switzerland,Norway,Belgium,Belgium,Croatia,France,United States,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Canada,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Denmark,Japan
Call: Establishing international standards in the analysis of patient reported outcomes and health-related quality of life data in cancer clinical trials (H2020-JTI-IMI2-2019-18-two-stage, 2019)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5944754.75
EU funding (EUR): 2281840.0
Participants: 33
Project status: SIGNED

Measuring and quantifying how a patient feels or functions during treatment is an important endpoint in cancer clinical trials. It is generally accepted that the collection of PRO data in cancer clinical trials allows the inclusion of the patient’s voice in the risk-benefit assessment of therapies. However, no standards exist on how to analyse, interpret or report health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and other patient-reported outcomes (PROs). This initiative wants to pursue efforts in addressing the urgent need for standardization, by setting clear and validated standards that are tailored to and endorsed by all relevant stakeholders. With a strong international and multi-stakeholder Consortium, the initiative aims at finding consensus on suitable methods to analyse valid PRO objectives in cancer randomized clinical trials (RCTs) and ways to communicate these PRO findings in a standardized way that is understandable to all. To achieve this aim, SISAQOL-IMI will identify valid PRO research objectives and match these with appropriate statistical methods for PRO analysis in cancer RCTs. Translation to the estimands framework will be provided. Furthermore, the possibility of extending these recommendations to single-arm trial designs will be explored. Recommendations on clinically meaningful change for PRO instruments, as well as design considerations and ways for assessing quality of collected PRO data will be developed, and tools and templates for presentation and visualization of PRO findings freely made available. Strong emphasis is put on continuous collaboration with patient advocacy representatives throughout the project. Increased interpretability, adoption and full use of PRO outcomes for all stakeholders is expected by providing consensus-based and validated recommendations and communication tools for PRO data, ultimately resulting in better communication and shared decision making, improved outcomes, treatment satisfaction and care.

Keywords: patient reported outcomes,data analysis
Unraveling the persuasive power of 360º-video Virtual Reality narratives (PersVR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2021-10-16
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175572.48
EU funding (EUR): 175572.48
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Raising awareness and comprehension of global problems such as climate change or refugee movements provides a communicational challenge, as these problems often stay abstract and distant to people. With the advent of virtual reality (VR), academics and journalists alike put their hope in 360º-video VR stories as a potentially revolutionary tool to create scenarios that make these problems more graspable, thus raising concern and instigating attitude-change. However, to date, empirical insight into potential persuasive effects of 360º-video VR stories is almost absent, and theoretical conceptualizations of how they might impact people are lacking. PersVR is going to change this. The aim of PersVR is to overcome these shortcomings, and to demonstrate if and how immersive journalism and documentary focusing on 360º-video VR might affect people’s beliefs, attitudes, and behavior. The project adopts a multidisciplinary perspective that integrates knowledge from different fields (including social psychology, communication sciences, and psychophysiology) into a theoretical model that describes how narrative and immersive attributes of 360º-video VR lead to persuasive outcomes. The empirical testing of the model will utilize an innovative combination of self-report, psychophysiological, and behavioral methods to comprehensively illuminate the psychological mechanisms involved. The complex set of methods deployed will permit to determine optimal methodological standards that promise to guide future related studies. The current rise of “immersive journalism” and VR storytelling accentuate the high relevance, timeliness, and expected impact of the project. The innovative approach of the project and the envisioned collaboration with the host will provide the applicant with a unique research profile and significantly advance his striving for an independent career at world-leading research centers dedicated to illuminate the social impact of new VR technologies.

Keywords: media psychology,virtual reality,immersive journalism,immersive media,persuasion,attitudes,psychophysiology,360 video
Financial aids to support the researcher recruited by MSCA-IF project (MetaFun)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Special Needs Allowance (H2020-IBA-MSCA-SNLS-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2020-11-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 34.0
Total project cost (EUR): 59357.0
EU funding (EUR): 59357.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Request of financial support to cover the additional costs that researchers/staff members with disabilities face due to the increased costs of their mobility and/or to ensure necessary assistance by third persons or for adapting their work environment

Keywords: pseudoachondroplasia,skeletal dysplasia,accessibility,lab equipments,automation,lab robots,transportation
Queer Interventions on Self-Harm in Prison (Prison Self-harm)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Australia,United States,United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 273026.0
EU funding (EUR): 273026.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

This proposal deals with the persistent problem of self-harm in prisons and addresses limitations of mainstream approaches by outlining a theoretical approach informed by Queer Studies. This project aims to offer a queer interpretation of these phenomena through a more holistic, less pathologizing frame of understanding self-harming experiences in prison settings. My research so far (Vasiliou, 2020) has examined the paradox of pleasure in ex-prisoners’ accounts of pain and suffering in prison and has attempted to engage issues of gender and sexuality in considering narratives of pain/pleasure, agency and resistance. These findings are the base for this training and research proposal which will focus specifically on understanding the problem of self-harm in prisons from a Queer Criminology (QC) perspective. The project is divided in three phases: First, during the outgoing phase, I will train for 5 months with a prominent expert in the emerging field of Queer Criminology in Australia (Dr Matthew Ball) and, second I will work with Dr Eric Stanley in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies of the University of California (19 months). In the return phase, I will work for 12 months in the department of Sociology in the University of Warwick with an outstanding expert on the issue of women’s self-harming in prison settings (Dr Anastasia Chamberlen). The aims of the project are: 1) training in QC Theory and Methodology 2) To outline the scene in relation to self-harming issues in European prison settings. 3) To design and apply a QS methodological tool for conducting research with self-harming individuals in ex-prisoners population. 4) To conduct research with ex-prisoners about experiences of self-harming at the return phase in the UK. 5) To publish a brief policy document in which issues of self harming will be addressed from a holistic perspective with a particular interest about issues of gender and sexuality. This project will make an important empirical and theoretical contribution to the issues of self-harming in prison settings and will contribute to the development of the field of QC in Europe.

Keywords: self harm,prisons,queer studies,criminology
Curve Counting and Log Geometry (LOGEO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Mathematics
Countries involved: Netherlands,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 253052.16
EU funding (EUR): 253052.16
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The Gromov--Witten invariants of a space X record the number of curves in X of a given genus and degree which meet a given collection of cycles in X. Gromov--Witten theory is an extremely active field of research, and through its technical challenges attracts some of the most talented researchers at the interface of geometry with physics, who have made a lot of progress here over the last 20 years. We propose a program to apply Gromov--Witten theory to questions from a broad range of areas of mathematics: from sheaf counting theories, from mirror symmetry, and from the moduli theory of curves. The key new ingredient here is the recent significant advance in our understanding of these theories using logarithmic (log) geometry, which is a modern variant of algebraic geometry, developed to deal with two fundamental and related problems: compactification and degeneration. We will investigate solutions to these problems in interlinked areas of algebraic geometry, and use them to obtain major advances in Gromov--Witten theory. Building on the success of our previous work on log Gromov--Witten theory, we propose a program to 1) construct a computationally effective log geometric extension of sheaf counting theories, 2) develop new techniques to enumerate curves in Deligne-Mumford stacks (orbifolds) and to construct mirrors to such stacks, and; 3) investigate stability in the moduli spaces of curves along with original new connections to quiver-stability theories. Completion of these projects, will break new ground in enumerative algebraic geometry, and even if not all of the overall goals are achieved it will be a cornerstone in understanding curve-counting in different setups via modern log geometric techniques.

Keywords: log geometry,gromov witten theory,pt theory,stacks,mirror symmetry,moduli of curves
Bringing CItizens, Models and Data together in Participatory, Interactive SociaL EXploratories (CIMPLEX)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Emerging themes and communities
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Germany,Switzerland,Hungary,United Kingdom
Call: Global Systems Science (GSS) (H2020-FETPROACT-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4206875.0
EU funding (EUR): 3450625.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

We propose visionary research to develop modeling, computational, and ICT tools needed to predict and influence disease spread and other contagion phenomena in complex social systems. To achieve non-incremental advances we will combine large scale, realistic, data-driven models with participatory data-collection and advanced methods for Big Data analysis. In particular we will go beyond the one-dimensional focus of current approaches tackling one aspect of the problem at a time. We will interconnect contagion progression (e.g. epidemics) with social adaptation, the economic impact and other systemic aspects that will finally allow a complete analysis of the inherent systemic risk. We will develop models dealing with multiple time and length scales simultaneously, leading to the definition of new, layered computational approaches. Towards policy impact and social response we will work to close the loop between models, data, behavior and perception and develop new concepts for the explanation, visualization and interaction with data and models both on individual and on collective level. We will cast the fundamental advances into an integrated system building on widely accepted open ICT technologies that will be used and useful beyond the project. As a tangible ICT outcome directed at facilitating the uptake and impact of the project, we will implement “Interactive Social Exploratories” defined as interactive environments which act as a front-end to a set of parameterizable and adjustable models, data analysis techniques, visualization methods and data collection frameworks. In summary, we aim to (1) produce fundamental theoretical, methodological and technological advances (2) mold them into a broadly usable ICT platform that will be a catalyst for producing, delivering, and embedding scientific evidence into the policy and societal processes and (3) evaluate the system empirically with policy makers and citizens focusing on the concrete problem of epidemic spreading.

Keywords: complex systems,big data,human computer interaction,socio technical systems,public health
Iron and Carbon Interactions and Biogeochemical CycLing in Subglacial EcosystemS (ICICLES)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Germany,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-09-15
End date: 2021-09-14
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 239860.8
EU funding (EUR): 239860.8
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Glaciers have been conventionally viewed as lifeless bodies that have little impact on biogeochemical cycles. It is now known that liquid water is present under all large ice masses. In Antarctica, subglacial lakes and rivers have been discovered. One of these subglacial lakes, Subglacial Lake Whillans, was accessed in 2013, and supports a diverse and metabolically active microbial ecosystem. This raises questions about biogeochemical cycling within these ecosystems. Specifically, the sources, concentrations, flows, modifications and interactions between life essential nutrients. The nutrients sourced from these environments might have an impact on downstream ecosystem productivity. This is of particular importance as the Southern Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica, is the world’s largest high nutrient low chlorophyll region, where iron is the primary limiting element for life. Organic matter is thought to play a major role in regulating the flux and bioavailability of iron, and may also be an important source of bioavailable carbon. The main objective of ICICLES is to investigate the cycling and interactions between iron and carbon (as organic matter) in these unique environments. Iron and organic matter in waters and sediment samples from three sites at the bottom of the Antarctic Ice Sheet will be characterised using state-of-the-art spectroscopic and microscopic techniques. Diatom culturing using these samples will be used to determine potential iron bioavailability to downstream marine organisms, and the effects of organic matter complexation. A new budget of iron and organic matter export, and associated bioavailability, from the Antarctic Ice Sheet will be constructed and utilised with a global ocean model to postulate the impact of subglacial meltwaters on marine productivity. This combination of techniques will provide unprecedented insight into nutrient cycling in unique subglacial ecosystems, and the potential of ice sheets to fertilise surrounding oceans.

Keywords: subglacial biogeochemistry,iron,carbon,organic matter,elemental cycles,ft icr ms,mc icp ms,xanes,diatoms,antarctic ice sheet,southern ocean,spectroscopy,microscopy,mineralogy
Empirical study of Literature Training Network (ELIT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Joint Doctorates
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Israel,Italy,Switzerland,Norway,Poland,Slovakia,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-03-01
End date: 2025-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2548886.24
EU funding (EUR): 2548886.24
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

In Europe one in five people lacks adequate reading skills. Additionally, research shows that the amount of time spend reading is in decline and becoming more intermittent and fragmented. This is alarming, since recent empirical research shows that literary reading, by virtue of its appeal to first-person experience, yields unique cognitive and emotional benefits, such as enhancing the capacity for empathy, social inference, and emotional self-regulation. To arrive at a deeper understanding of how reading literature can lead to positive societal effects, more fundamental research is needed first. We need to clarify the (neuro)-cognitive processes that are crucial to literary reading in theoretical models. Model development should go hand in hand with the elaboration of novel empirical methods to test them. In addition, we need to investigate forms of narrative engagement and types of literary texts in which empathy plays an important role. Narrative engagement is an important contributor to reading enjoyment. Once these processes and literary experiences are mapped out, we can explore the effects of literary reading on mental well-being. To answer these questions, we propose to set up an ETN that aims to train a new generation of innovative and interdisciplinary researchers in the empirical study of literature: The Empirical Study of Literature Training Network (ELIT). As there are currently no interdisciplinary doctoral programs available across Europe, we developed a new program that revolves around comprehensive and integrative training that emphasizes the multidimensionality of reading. ELIT will stimulate true interdisciplinary research: our doctoral candidates will combine theory-driven approaches with various empirical methods. We will be collaborating closely with a range of non-academic partners to draw in valuable insights about how reading can fulfil certain societal needs.

Keywords: interdisciplinarity,empirical study of literature,empathy,narrative engagement,literature and,wellbeing,text analysis,shared reading