PSalteRATIO develops its methodology from the convergence of genetic editing and traditional philological ecdotics. It analyses the rationale of a multilingual group of 12th-13th century metrical psalters (‘First French Metrical Psalter’, ‘Second French Metrical Psalter’, and the ‘Middle English Surtees Psalter’), similar to the Huguenot Psalter in terms of form but different in nature and function. Research will explore the connection of these three texts with French and English prose translations of the psalms dating back to the 12th-14th centuries. The study will also address the use of medieval exegetical literature (both Latin and in the vernacular, 11th-14th centuries) in the shaping of these metrical psalters. PSalteRATIO is based on an Open-Access corpus, whose end result is the publication of a joint digital edition of the aforementioned three texts and an all-encompassing study of their literary and genetic evolution. The project will be undertaken by four French partner teams with experience in the history of medieval French and English (language and literature) and digital humanities. They will be joined by two independently financed international teams from Czech Republic and Romania, in order to open a greater debate in philology, translatology, and ‘vernacular theologies’, which will lead to a common ERC Synergy project proposal in 2026. The theoretical and practical aspects of PSalteRATIO focus on translation automatisms and clusters (chief theoretical interest); links between vernacular and Medieval Latin tradition; comparatist literary approaches; sociolinguistics; cultural history; prosody; codicology and palaeography; textometry; and lexicography. These aspects will be discussed by the six partner teams in a series of seminars open to BA and MA students, with individual and collective papers published in the open-review journal of the project.

This project focuses on the elaboration of a composite material presenting new functionalities, thanks to its innovative chemical composition and structure, which will allow tuning its magnetic properties by the application of an electric field. We will sinter new composites artificially coupling together an inorganic piezoelectric matrix with unidimentional ferromagnetic nano-inclusions. The use of lead-free piezoelectric compounds and rare earth-free magnets is proactive in relation with the current legislation. A new, low-cost and eco-friendly elaboration process will be developed. In particular the uniqueness of our project consists in using the Spark Plasma Sintering technique assisted by a magnetic field allowing the control of the magnetic nano-inclusions organization within the piezoelectric matrix. The final goal will be the optimization of the Magneto-Electric coupling properties. These properties will be studied as function of the micro and nanostructure and the quality of the interfaces between the two phases. The main innovative aspects and goals of the COMPAGNON project are: • The development of an innovative composite, presenting coupled functions making possible the tuning of the permanent magnet parameters (Mr, Ms, Hc and Ka) by the application of an electric field. These composites will present magnetoelectric coupling coefficients of the order of hundreds of mV.cm-1.Oe-1. • Characterization of the interfaces in the composite by the development of advanced multi-scale techniques: atomic (high resolution TEM, EELS, etc.), nanostructural (FIB-3D) and bulk ones (XPS, PDF, etc.). • Contribute to the understanding of the link between the structure, the composition and the interface within the nanocomposites (nanowires-matrix) and the ME properties evolution. • To shade light either at a fundamental level (nucleation and growth of nanowires and/or core@shell materials, magneto-electric coupling, control of grain size, nature of the interfaces and densification/structuring effect on the composites…) and at the technological one (nanostructuring under magnetic field) in the frame of multifunctional materials. • Provide free rare earths permanent magnets with a magnetic field of the order of 1 T whose magnetic energy could be tuned by an electric field.