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Updated on: 01/10/2024
At the beginning of the year, the University of Bordeaux launched the 2nd edition of its call for projects aimed at stimulating interdisciplinary approaches in new fields of research to provide answers to the complex questions facing society. Of the 77 eligible projects, 15 were selected.
In order to overcome scientific and technological barriers and respond to major societal challenges requiring the contribution of different disciplines, the University of Bordeaux launched an annual call for interdisciplinary and exploratory research projects last year.
The second call was launched at the beginning of 2024. The projects were then evaluated on the basis of feedback from the research departments and an ad hoc committee comprising members of the Research Commission. Based on these evaluations, the final selection was carried out by the members of the University of Bordeaux's Research Coordination Committee, which was chaired by the Vice-Presidents for Research, Innovation and International networks. 15 projects involving all 11 research departments were selected for 2024, out of the 77 eligible projects submitted. The total budget is 1 million euros, with funding ranging from 42,000 € to 85,000 € depending on the project.
Once again, the scientific community was faced with two imperatives. The first was to propose an exploratory project, i.e. one that was innovative, either in terms of its cross-disciplinary approach or in terms of the scientific question addressed by the consortium. The project must not have been funded or co-published on the same subject over the previous 3 years.
"In the same way as the 2023 edition, this call for projects has been a success. Our community was highly mobilised and submitted as many projects as last year, if not a few more. We now have 35 research projects on a wide range of themes that meet the university's strategic priority of interdisciplinarity. I'm delighted with all the synergies that have been created, and hope that they will lead to future national and international research projects that will have an impact beyond our campus."
The second requirement was for the proposed projects to be at the crossroads of different scientific fields, to increase synergies between different scientific communities, and to encourage interdisciplinarity.
The notion of interdisciplinarity can be considered at the level of a laboratory, a team or a department. In this particular case, innovative interdisciplinary collaboration associated with a given scientific question was given priority. Priority was also given to projects designed by researchers from different departments in a recent move towards new collaboration.
The 2023 edition of the call supported 20 projects, selected from 71 eligible applications, with an increased budget and support from the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment.
These interdisciplinary and exploratory research projects, which last 24 months, are small consortia of 2 to 4 researchers and their teams, working to answer a very specific research question. They are therefore different from the more general Major Research Programmes, which focus on a given theme and involve a larger number of scientists.
The aim is also for this funding, which is managed by the laboratories, to act as a stepping stone for the scientists, enabling them to respond to other national calls for projects from the French National Research Agency, European calls for projects under the Horizon Europe programme, or early-stage funding if the results show potential for innovation.
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Description: applying biophysical tools to decipher the molecular mechanisms and interactions that govern the activity of the fungal toxin candidalysin. Coordination:
Description: This project aims to non-invasively image the intra-nuclear mechanical properties of cells by probing them in situ. Acoustic waves of variable submicron wavelengths likely to interact with nuclear mechanical heterogeneities will be generated and optically detected.
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Description: create a new muscle-on-a-chip model by combining cell encapsulation technology and electrical stimulation; characterise it molecularly, structurally and functionally, including its contraction and bioimpedance; and use it to identify an early diagnostic marker for sarcopenia.
Description: The project is characterised by a twofold scientific challenge: firstly, to bring together researchers from a number of disciplines working on the theme of war within the framework of an observatory of armed conflict, which will produce analyses and expert reports on current issues; and secondly, to develop on this basis a research project on ‘Europe in the face of war'. Through the prism of the various disciplines involved (law, economics, political science, sociology), this project will study the strategic challenges facing Europe as war returns to its borders.
Description: Combining the versatility of organic metal network chemistry with the richness of the physics of frustrated magnetisms to unlock new avenues of quantum research.
Description: Identifying vocal biomarkers of craving in addiction to enable passive detection of the risk of relapse in everyday life, and paving the way for new therapeutic targets for digital interventions.
Description: Potential and proven endocrine disruptor effect on the rainbow trout holobiont at an early stage by characterising microbiota ontogeny and metabolite dynamics using complementary omics approaches.
Description: Nanomedicine has enormous potential for the future, but still faces a number of hurdles in terms of targeting and efficacy. Here, we combine the expertise of two leading Bordeaux laboratories by exploiting the properties of natural nanoparticles (such as viruses and pseudoparticles) and artificial inorganic nanoparticles to ultimately induce immunogenic cell death (ICD), a promising strategy in cancer therapy, for example.
Description: Deciphering water stress thresholds and the mechanisms associated with hydraulic failure by coupling X-ray microcomputed tomography and optical nanosensors on several crop and tree species.
Description: The ORACLE project aims to advance our understanding of worship practices at the oracular sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi through an interdisciplinary approach involving 3 departments at the University of Bordeaux. This interdisciplinary approach opens up new methodological and analytical perspectives for the simulation of physical phenomena that will be able to renew our understanding of the functioning of the oracular space and the experiences of pilgrims.
Description: The aim of this collaboration is to study the palaeorecharge of aquifers in the North Aquitaine basin that are used for drinking water, and to deduce palaeoclimatic data using trace-scale isotope analysis (18O, 2H, 14C, rare gases).
Description: Although the interweaving of neurosciences and philosophy has often been described as a paradigmatic success story of interdisciplinary integration, no work to date has accurately measured the impact of philosophical reflection on neurosciences. This project aims to fill this gap by mobilising a wide range of analytical tools, and to open up new avenues as to how philosophy might be useful to neurosciences in the future, in the Bordeaux area and beyond.
Description: Agro-ecological transition and human health. Stevia rebaudiana is a plant species known for accumulating steviol glycosides (SG) in its leaves, which are used as a natural sweetener. Local, sustainable production of this species in south-west France has recently been developed through a complete chain from production to processing. This diversification species for farmers, produced using agro-ecology, also needs to be marketed in a variety of ways to ensure its long-term viability. This recently domesticated and relatively unselected species synthesises polyphenols in addition to SG, whose anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer/chemo-radio-protective effects have only been partially explored and will be assessed in this project.
Description: Improving children's mental health is currently an important societal objective. School is a significant living environment for children and is therefore concerned by the issue of schoolchildren's mental health. This means that future teachers need to be aware of and trained in these issues, which is all the more important given that children's mental health has been little studied, if not neglected. Our study therefore deals with a controversial subject (e.g. autism, attention deficit with or without hyperactivity, bullying, depression, suicide risk) concerning this age group. Mental health literacy is a recent theory defined as the ability to find, understand, evaluate and use information, knowledge and beliefs about mental health. A good level of mental health literacy makes it possible to identify signs of malaise and to be equipped to deal with any mental health problem. The aim of our study is twofold: to provide a tool for measuring the mental health literacy levels of students intending to become school teachers; and to co-create an intervention for students intending to become school teachers, with a view to improving their level of children's mental health literacy.
Description: Targeting the DR5 receptor to counter tumour heterogeneity.
