The main objective of this project is to study interactions among phenomena relating to memory and patrimony as they are connected to migrations –taken here in their general understanding of population displacements–, as well as foreign borders, inclusion and exclusion processes and representations on migrants. This work is based on cases of immigration and emigration societies, and integrates specific ones such as colonial and postcolonial societies as well as the ones classified as « collapsed ». Firstly, we aim at understanding, how, to what extent and under which conditions the processes of inclusion and discrimination do (or not) yield actions in the fields of memory and patrimony. Secondly, we intend to analyse repercussions of memory initiatives on the way migration and integration in societies. Working on European cases (FR, GER, SPA, ITL, SLOV, UK, GRE, NDL, POR, AUT) in a comparative perspective with other international cases (ISRL, USA, CA), the present project aims at unfolding complex relations among migration, practices and politics of individual and collective memory-making, national and global history, by using a local, national and transnational approach. The challenge here is to bring forth a cumulative and theoretical reflection on the basis of empirical materials, about how political, social and territorial exclusions related to migrations connect with socio-cultural mediations and appropriations of the past, along a double line: analyzing their potential impacts, and taking them as the consequences of discrimination, as well as the transfer on memory and cultural grounds, of struggles, among which some political ones, to gain recognition. Besides these rallying movements, we also intend to pay attention to memory silences and to absences of specific communities in their national histories which constitute, in addition to other marginalization factors – such as access to labor, living spaces, religious affiliation, etc. – indications of discrimination.

We bring together researchers on quantum information theory, Bose-Einstein condensates and atom interferometry to create and detect entanglement of large, spatially separated samples. Our purpose is both to gain a deeper understanding of of quantum information in many body systems as well as to develop practical approaches for manipulating and exploiting it. The ultimate goal is to enhance the performance of a separated path atom interferometer using entangled samples. Atomic interactions in BEC's consititute a non-linearity highly analogous to four wave mixing or parametric down conversion in optics, and which can be exploited to create entanglement. Two separate lines of research have been pursued in the past; on the one hand one can use the spin degrees of freedom of an atom to produce atom pairs whose spins are entangled, and on the other one can entangle the motional degrees of freedom in a spirit close to that of the original EPR proposal. In the CEBBEC project, these two lines of research will be brought together in both the technological sense (using one kind of entanglement to make another) and conceptual one (studying complex situations in which both spin and motion are entangled) giving rise to new possibilites for applications and new theoretical challenges. The participating partners have developed sophisticated detection technologies which allow us to make new types of mesaurements. We intend to respond to the great need for theoretical work to understand and exploit them. Finally, we will address practical applications and explore their metrological validity. The EU's Future and Emerging Technologies agenda aims to foster transformative research in quantum information science by coordinating efforts of different research communities. Our project aims to bring together two separate lines of research in which European groups have been leading players and to exploit the common ground that they share. We plan to combine the manipulation of atomic spins and of motional degrees of freedom. The present project will develop a unified approach in both the technological sense (using one kind of entanglement to make another) and conceptual one (studying complex situations in which both spin and motion are entangled) giving rise to new possibilities for applications and new theoretical challenges. We plan to optimize the extraction of relevant information from (entangled) physical systems as discussed in the Target Outcomes of the Call Announcement. In this context, we may go even farther and achieve new or radically enhanced functionalities with our research.

The project proposes new unsupervised computational models to automatically extract background knowledge after reading large amounts of unstructured text. This automatically extracted knowledge is in the form of classes, categorized entities and predicates whose arguments are typified by probability distributions over classes. Classes themselves will be automatically organized into taxonomies related to the predicates in which they participate. In this way, new methods and models based on extensional definitions of concepts are developed for the automatic creation of knowledge bases close related to textual representations as to enable textual inferences. The extracted knowledge will be also linked to external human-made resources such as Freebase, DBPedia and WordNet, and the knowledge bases will be interfaced to several engines for disambiguation, relation extraction, relatedness and expansion. All these resources and tools will be available for the development of a reading machine as part of the project. The purpose of the reading machine is to answer questions about a given text. Texts are never self-contained and their interpretation always requires the recovering of large amounts of background knowledge. Thus, the Machine Reading technology under development must incorporate the recovering and use of large amounts of background knowledge into the processing of language. This Machine Reading technology will be evaluated through Multiple-Choice Reading Comprehension tests (MRC) developed by humans over documents unseen before by the machine. MRC tests enable objective and reproducible evaluation experiments, 100% reusable as benchmarks available for the international community. Interestingly, the industrial partner in charge of the Machine Reading system development will apply the reversing technology to automatically generate MRC tests for the automatic assessment of children reading abilities. This reading machine will work with at least two languages, English and French. The support and coordination of an international evaluation campaign for Machine Reading in multiple languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Romanian, Bulgarian and Arabic) is part of the proposal. This evaluation campaign will serve to measure the development progress of the project technology in a comparative/competitive environment.

This project focuses on implications for linguistic theory of a phenomenon found in some Basque dialects known as allocutivity—morphological agreement with non-participant addressees. Current syntactic literature is besotted with this phenomenon for the privileged access it offers into syntactic representations of Speaker and Hearer speech act roles, which are encoded syntactically in all human languages. Basque is special as a laboratory variety for exploring the syntax of speech act roles in that no other language so far described approximates Basque in terms of (i) the direct morphological evidence that it offers about the relationship among allocutivity, thematic addressees and vocative expressions, and (ii) its rich patterns of cross-dialectal/cross-speaker variation revealing loci of formal variation. The principal goal of this project is to describe three facets of this phenomenon wholly ignored in extant formal and psycholinguistic descriptions: (i) the nature of cross-dialectal variation and change in the syntax of allocutivity; (ii) the relationship of allocutivity to vocative expressions across dialects; and (iii) differences in grammatical constraints across levels of politeness marking. The project team —spanning diverse fields of expertise and from several different institutions— will gather two kinds of data to address these issues: survey data through a web-based application (N ?500), and interview data with a smaller set of participants (N ?120). Data will be made publicly accessible through an online data dashboard and through summaries in peer-reviewed publications.

For ten years, the European Union considers the notion of gender equality through the lens of a liberal political mindset, aiming to rally an entire highly-skilled workforce to maintain the continent’s economic competitiveness internationally. Research and academia are at the same time dramatically evolving through the generalisation of competitive funding and the establishment of excellence policies. Observing that in this context, female researchers remain underrepresented, the RESET project (Rethinking gender Equality and Scientific Excellence Together) aims to address the following question: how, and to which extent, do scientific excellence norms have an impact on female researcher’s careers, with regard to the local academic and national labour markets? Supported by Equal Opportunities Officers from several European universities, most of whom are researchers involved in Social Sciences and Humanities, RESET brings research and political action together. It intends to make the most out of its practical and organisational dimension to address research areas currently ignored by SSH research on the obstacles to women’s career progression in academia. European literature traditionally analyses women’s position in academic careers in three categories: at micro (individuals), meso (organisations) or macro level (society) (Lefeuvre 2016). Corrective actions that form the GEP tie these three dimensions together. Through the questions we raise and the data we collect, the project intends firstly to provide answers to the “grey area” of comparative analysis at a European level identified by Nicky Lefeuvre. In the context of RESET, mechanisms of women’s inclusion/exclusion in scientific careers with regard to the national academic labour market will be compared on four criteria: duration and status of the granting of tenure after the PhD, methods of selection for professorial positions, distribution of positions between “local” and “national” candidates, decisions related to the allocation of resources (salaries). Beyond the use of qualitative and quantitative methods of survey, the definition and implementation of the GEPs shall collect information of the effects of the norm of scientific excellence on the gender of academic careers, depending on the state of the academic labour market for each university and of each national context. The guideline of the corrective actions of the GEPs is to act upon the academic career continuum (PhD enrolment, allocation of a tenured position, access to senior/higher positions; emeritus, honours and academic acknowledgements). The second major research guiding principle of the RESET project will consist in addressing the impact of the international norm of scientific excellence on gender-related career inequalities among the partner European universities. The most common analytical frame used to describe the evolution of the higher education and research landscape is the new public management (Musselin 2017). In an operational perspective, the implementation will be closest to the laboratories and involving its members and directions. It relies on interviews, which approach is twofold: practice- and research-oriented.