Le Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) rappresentano il principale programma di riferimento dell’Unione europea per la formazione dottorale e post-dottorato.
Le MSCA si focalizzano sull’eccellenza scientifica, di ricerca e metodologica. Si basano sul principio della mobilità fisica: i ricercatori che ricevono il finanziamento devono spostarsi da un Paese ad un altro per acquisire nuove conoscenze e competenze per poter sviluppare la loro carriera di ricerca; e della Interdisciplinarietà: i ricercatori sono inoltre fortemente incoraggiati a spostarsi tra diversi settori e discipline.
Le MSCA sono aperte a tutti i settori della ricerca e dell’innovazione e i temi sono scelti liberamente dai ricercatori.
All'interno di Horizon Europe le Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions sono :
– MSCA Doctoral Networks: formare dottorandi innovativi, creativi e imprenditoriali in grado di affrontare le sfide attuali e future.
– MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships: migliorare il potenziale creativo e innovativo dei ricercatori in possesso di un dottorato di ricerca e di far acquisire nuove competenze attraverso una mobilità internazionale, interdisciplinare e intersettoriale.
– MSCA Staff Exchanges: promuovere collaborazioni internazionali, intersettoriali e interdisciplinare nella ricerca e nell’innovazione attraverso lo scambio di personale e la condivisione di conoscenze e di buone pratiche.
– MSCA COFUND: cofinanziare nuovi o esistenti programmi di dottorato e programmi di borse post-doc a livello nazionale, regionale o internazionale
– MSCA and Citizens: avvicinare la ricerca e i ricercatori al grande pubblico, per aumentare la consapevolezza dell’importanza della ricerca e dell’innovazione.
Titolo del progetto: Symbolism and iconography of ancient Egypt and Sub-Saharan Africa
Responsabile del progetto: dr.ssa Urska Furlan
Dipartimento: Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo (DAAM)
Settori disciplinari / settori ERC coinvolti: SOC - Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC); Egyptology; Archaeology; History of archaeology
Data inizio progetto: 01/01/2025
Data fine progetto: 31/12/2026
Acronimo: ESSA
Website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101152222
Abstract: The ESSA project will challenge the Egyptological scholarly narrative that has for centuries contextualised ancient Egypt in relation to the Mediterranean and the Near East and simultaneously overlooked its position on the African continent, minimising its relations with sub-Saharan cultures. This transformative objective will be achieved with the creation of a catalogue of motifs, symbols, and cultural traits shared by several ancient cultures. By presenting the key elements of cultural exchange, the project aims to disrupt traditional perspectives of Egyptology. The ESSA will adopt a diachronic approach and systematically examine different phases of the relations, which will allow for a nuanced evaluation of changes and/or continuity of cultural values over time. Moreover, it will delve into how these cultural shifts relate to the prevailing political dynamics of each period. The overarching goal of the ESSA project is to recontextualise ancient Egyptian civilisation, not only in relation to other African cultures but will instead, reposition it as an integral part of the African continent.
Titolo del progetto: Villages to Empire: 4000 Years of Death and Society in Elam (4500-525 BCE)
Responsabile del progetto: dott.ssa Yasmina Wicks
Dipartimento: Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo (DAAM)
Settori disciplinari / settori ERC coinvolti: SOC - Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC); Egyptology and ancient near eastern archaeology, art and culture; Textual philology, palaeography and epigraphy; Social theory
Data inizio progetto: 01/01/2022
Data fine progetto: 28/04/2024
Acronimo: ELAMortuary
Website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/892581
Abstract: Elam was an ancient civilization in the southwest of modern-day Iran that flourished before the rise of the Persian Empire. The EU-funded ELAMortuary project will portray a long timeline of social change in Elam through the exploitation of mortuary evidence. It will combine archaeology, philology and social theory with digital technology to analyse the uninterrupted sequence of mortuary evidence from small villages (ca. 4500 BCE) to the emergence of the Persian Empire (ca. 525 BCE) at the vast settlement mound of Susa on the Susiana plain. Taking a historical perspective that seeks long-term patterns in societies, it will reassess the validity of the linear model of social evolution that remains dominant in literature on ancient southwest Iran.
Titolo del progetto: Science, technology and research for ethical engagement translate in society
Responsabile del progetto: prof.ssa Johanna Monti
Dipartimento: Studi Letterari, Linguistici e Comparati (DLLC)
Settori disciplinari / settori ERC coinvolti: Public Engagement; Citizen Science; Science for Sustainability; Technology and People; Research for the Future;
Participatory Science; Outreach, collaboration, and dissemination
Data inizio progetto: 2023
Data fine progetto: 2025
Acronimo: STREETS
Website: https://www.nottedeiricercatori-streets.it/wp/
Abstract: Science and research, like the society of which they are a part, are not static, but constantly evolving. They are bidirectional elements that, from their interaction, draw mutual benefit and new impetus for improvement. Throughout human history, connections and connecting routes have always characterized relationships, cross-fertilization, cultural growth, and development: in other words, roads, both physical and metaphorical. Roads are lines that connect history and the economy, space and time. They radiate across the land to connect places, to facilitate contact, to foster cross-fertilization. They encourage centripetal and centrifugal movements and actions. They are a metaphor for journeying, for movement, for evolution. Furthermore, science and society need to rediscover maps together to orient themselves in the places they inhabit and change, to better explore them, and to achieve greater and better development. They need directions. The streets are therefore the backbone that supports the various elements of our project, which involves universities in Campania and Southern Lazio, research centers, cultural venues, municipalities, institutions, associations, and the business community. Furthermore, the STREETS highlight some of the topics that Europe has focused on in recent years for the development of our society: Science, Technology, Research, and Ethics, for a structured engagement of segments of society through appropriately translated content to describe all the actions of the consolidated and new relationship between science, economics, and society.