0 projects

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

Popular Music and Gender in a Transcultural Context

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Awarded: NOK 8.4 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Oslo

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

Modelling and forecasting risk in electricity, carbon and related energy markets (Oil, Gas, Coal)

Vitenskaplig fremstilling: ELCARBONRISK prosjektet har som formål å utvikle modeller for analyse og prediksjon av finansiell risiko for kraftsselskaper. Risiko er her tilknyttet individuell risiko for energikontrakter (elektrisitet, karbon, el-sertifi kater og tilknyttede kontrakter innen olje,...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

Designing Political Representation - A study of the variation in context and consequences of political quotas in India

Political quotas, redistricting and getting-out-the-vote campaigns are some of the strategies implemented to increase the political representation of underrepresented groups. Such reforms are usually based on the explicit or implicit expectation that incr eased political representation will trans...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

STAMCELLER-Stamcelleforskning

Neural patterning of the mammalian forebrain - in vitro generation of Hippocampal neurons from mouse and human ES cells.

The mammalian forebrain develops from a sheet of neuroepithelium that is flanked by distinct patterning centers. The Hippocampus, a part of the brain of crucial function for perception, memory and learning - which is disproportionally affected in diseases such as Alzheimers and epilepsy, arise f...

Awarded: NOK 0.46 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2016

Location: Oslo

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosj.st. med.,helse,biol

From clinical to molecular characterization of multiple sclerosis

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Awarded: NOK 7.8 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2016

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Law and Economics

Research stay at University of California Berkeley (UCB) fall 2010 and spring 2011 1. Collaboration with researchers at UCB. Professor Richard Gilbert and professor Michael Katz have invited me to do research at UCB in their research group. My research interests overlap with their ongoing rese...

Awarded: NOK 0.32 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Paleocene/ecocene catastrophic events recorded by oceanic basins and global implications

Early Tertiary climate, and in particular the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), has been recently compared to the present day climatic conditions, due to the similarity in sudden carbon release forcing global temperature increase. Recreating the gl obal conditions from 55 million years ago...

Awarded: NOK 0.17 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Rights, Empowerment and Poverty: From Appealing Rhetoric to Implementable Policy?

The urgency of reducing world poverty requires innovative and practical thinking and the Human Rights-Based Approach to Development (HRBA) and the Legal Empowerment of the Poor (LEP) are increasingly being considered by various organisations to be viable alternatives to conventional development ...

Awarded: NOK 0.48 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Faces within Faces

This application concerns a planned research trip to New York from July to December 2010 (six months). During this period I intend to work as a visiting scholar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in order to conduct research, particularly data collection, for my PhD dissertation. The study is roo...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Oslo

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Cod Development CODE

CODE er en kunnskapsplattform der ni norske og flere internasjonale universiteter og forskningsinstitusjoner deltar. CODE har som hovedmål å få en dypere forståelse av utviklingsprosesser i torsk samt hvordan miljøfaktorer (ernæring og temperatur) påvirker utviklingen. En viktig del av arbeidet b...

Awarded: NOK 21.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Vestland

SYKEFRAVÆR-Forskn.om årsaker til sykefrav

Vanlige psykiske lidelser og personlighetsforstyrrelser - følger for sykefravær og uføretrygd

Formålet med studien var å øke kunnskapen om konsekvensene av vanlige psykiske lidelser og personlighetsforstyrrelser i forhold til sykefravær og uførhetstrygd. Både vanlige psykiske lidelser og personlighetsforstyrrelser oppstår i ung voksen alder, samtidig som man skal ta viktige valg om utdann...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2017

Location: Oslo

IS-RWE-Musikksamarbeid Norge-Tyskland

Bratsj - privattimer, Tabea Zimmermann/Moshe Ben-Dor, Tyskland

Bratsj - privattimer hos Tabea Zimmermann i Tyskland Berlin/Hannover. Se projektbeskrivelse!

Awarded: NOK 39,999

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-RUST-EONR-statsvitenskap

Stuvøy, Kristi, E.ON Ruhrgas prog statsvit

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Awarded: NOK 40,000

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

How formalization closed the gender land gap in Peru and the impact on women's empowerment - REISESTIP

The Special Land Titling and Cadastre Project (PETT) in Peru has over the last decade issued titles for over 5.8 million agricultural plots, unique in the world when it comes to the extent and speed of the process. Fifty-six per cent of all plots belongin g to households with couples became joint...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Oslo

SKATT-Skatteøkonomi

Timing of behavioural effects of tax changes. Interpretations and comparisons of results from microsimulation models and panel data approach

Individual behavioural response of taxation is at the heart of public policy. This is reflected in the economic literature by a large number of articles presenting evidence on how taxes influence individual behaviour. At the Research Department of Statist ics Norway, the importance of this policy...

Awarded: NOK 0.73 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Oslo

IS-RUST-EONR-statsvitenskap

Jevnaker, Torbjørg Viveke S. E.ON Ruhrgas stipend statsvitenskap

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Awarded: NOK 35,000

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Modeling neural mapping and remapping in the hippocampus

Navigation and memory for every-day episodes are thought to depend on the hippocampus and associated brain networks, supported by the characteristic properties of the underlying neural networks. Considerable progress in uncovering the neural basis for spa tial cognition in the hippocampus and par...

Awarded: NOK 0.23 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-RWE-Musikksamarbeid Norge-Tyskland

Fiolin - Studier för Melise Mellinger, Ensemble Recherche, Freiburg

Violinstudier i samtidsmusik för Melise Mellinger, Ensemble Recherche, Freiburg. Jag söker medel för att kunna studera för Melise Mellinger, violinist i Ensemble Recherche, Freiburg, en av världens främsta ensembler för ny musik. Jag har under mina studi er och i arbetslivet specialiserat mig på...

Awarded: NOK 39,999

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Fish peptides screening on obesity-linked metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular risk profile

Previous studies at Laval University and Nofima marine/University of Tromsø have shown that cod protein is a natural insulin-sensitizing agent that prevents obesity-linked muscle insulin resistance. However, the molecular mechanisms and the superior effec t of cod protein in comparison with other...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Molecular mechanisms of gene regulation in autosomal and X-linked genes by the Y chromosome in Drosophila.

In this project Drosophila genetics will be used to test the hypothesis that the Y chromosome effects on gene expression result from blocks of simple-sequence DNA in the Y chromosome that compete for DNA-binding proteins that affect gene expression. The aims and challenges of this work are: 1....

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

How do Arctic rodent communities function: an analysis of individual specialization in herbivores

This is an application for a fellowship for Eeva Soininen within the Leiv Eiriksson mobility program. The suggested exchange is between the Institute of Arctic and Marine Biology, the University of Tromsø, Norway (home institute) and the Canadian Research Chair in Conservation of Northern Ecosys...

Awarded: NOK 50,000

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Functions of the dentate gyrus

The hippocampus is known to play an important role in various types of memory both in humans and rodents. The dentate gyrus is a sub-region of the hippocampus and one of two places in the adult brain where new neurons are continuously added to existing ne tworks. The function of these adult born ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosj.st. med.,helse,biol

Tracking signatures of adaptive diversification during postglacial colonization: the build-up of genomic isolation in threespine stickleback

Trepigget stingsild er regnet som en opprinnelig marin art. Likevel har den invadert ferskvann gjentatte ganger etter den siste istid. Stingsild i ferskvann er ofte morfologisk forskjellig fra stingsild i sjøen; spesielt har de flere beinplater langs kroppssidene i saltvann enn i ferskvann. I en ...

Awarded: NOK 7.3 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Oslo

NAERINGSPH-Nærings-phd

Biomolecular coating of commercially pure titanium dental implants

The excellent biocompatibility of titanium is well established. Titanium and its alloys are widely applied in dental and orthopedic implants such as prostheses and joint replacements. Its excellent biocompatibility, great mechanical strength and high cor rosion resistance has been known for deca...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Oslo

NAERINGSPH-Nærings-phd

Biomolecular of coating of titanium alloy implants for improved healing

The excellent biocompatibility of titanium is well established. Titanium and its alloys are widely applied in dental and orthopedic implants such as prostheses and joint replacements. Its excellent biocompatibility, great mechanical strength and high cor rosion resistance has been known for deca...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Oslo

IS-RUST-EONR-statsvitenskap

The intellectual history of cosmopolitanism. Volume two 1800-2010: Challenges of globalization

Applying for a three month mobility grant in connection with volume two of The Intellectual History of Cosmopolitanism. This is an anthology edoted by Jakobsen presenting major texts in cosmopolitan political thought, in Norwegian translation, with detail ed introductions and annotations. In his ...

Awarded: NOK 50,000

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosj.st. med.,helse,biol

A whole-genome approach to monogenic and type 1 diabetes: Copy-number variation and exome screening

Diabetes is an epidemically increasing, common disease with high morbidity. Recently, there has been a break-through in the identification of diabetes risk genes. Although the genome-wide association studies in type 2 diabetes have been successful in iden tifying common gene variants associated w...

Awarded: NOK 9.7 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Vestland

SIPHINIFES-SIP ved HI

ADMAR Adaptive management of living marine resources by integrating different data sources and key ecological processes

Norge har som et mål å bruke en økosystemtilnærming ved forvaltningen av våre ulike fiskerier. Dette er blitt fastslått gjennom Havressursloven. NFR-prosjektet ADMAR (?Adaptive Management of Living Marine Resources by Integrating Different Data Sources and Key Ecological Processes?) (prosjekt nr....

Awarded: NOK 30.6 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Vestland

SIPHINIFES-SIP ved HI

Challenges towards sustainable aquafeeds-plant nutrients and contaminants interactions- Use of biological models and indicators-

Fiskemel og fiskeolje har tradisjonelt vært brukt som hovedingredienser i fôr til oppdrettslaks. I dag brukes mindre av disse ingrediensene fordi en økning av produksjonsvolumet krever bruk av utradisjonelle fôringredienser. I dag spiser oppdrettslaksen derfor fôr med mindre marine råvarer og mer...

Awarded: NOK 25.7 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Vestland

IS-RUOK-EONR-økonomi

Personlig mobilitetsstipend.

Masterstudent i økonomi på utveksling fra NHH til Universität Mannheim.

Awarded: NOK 34,999

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke