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PES-INST-Prosjektetablererstøtte EU (FoU)

Work inclusion and cohesion: Trade Unions, networks and A10 migrant workers in an enlarged Europe

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Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

SAMFUNN: Manufacturing legitimacy of environmental policy

This project seeks to explore the relationship between scientific knowledge and political action, aiming to illuminate how scientific knowledge is related to legitimacy of environmental policy. This is done through three empirical case studies. The main c ase study is (a) the development of an en...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Vestland

MAROFF-2-Maritim virksomhet og offsh-2

Maritime Safety Management in the High North

The High North represents new environmental conditions setting new safety design requirements where statistics and experience are limited, and where known solutions accordingly can not be applied without thorough evaluations and research activities. In th is complex environment R&D programs need ...

Awarded: NOK 9.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-JSPS-JSPSmobilitet fra Japan

Saito Yamanoi, Yayoi, JSPS-FY2008, short-term - A comparative study of the elderly care systems in Norway and Japan

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Awarded: NOK 74,460

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

BILATNAER-Bilat.samarb.m.N-AM,Kina,Jpn,I

"CRYSTAL-DIRECT" A Norway-Japan Bilateral Research Collaboration Project

CRYSTAL-DIRECT will establish a formal collaboration between SINTEF, NTNU, Hydro Solar and The Institute for Materials Research of Tohoku University in Japan. The goal of the experimental work is to investigate if it is possible to obtain laterally dendri tic growth in an early stage of direction...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PROREAL-Profileringsprogrammet for realfagene

Telemark Talentutvikling

Telemark har lyktes godt med å skape nye arbeidsplasser etter år 2000, svært mange av dem relatert til IKT-næringen. Veksten i sysselsetting har vært 220 %. IKT Grenland er et nettverk av virksomheter som arbeider for vekst og samarbeid i IKT-næringen, og representerer både leverandører og realf...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Telemark

BILATNAER-Bilat.samarb.m.N-AM,Kina,Jpn,I

Novel loudspeaker membranes based on nanofibrillar cellulose

Nanofibrils are the building blocks of wood fibres. They are characterized by high aspect ratio and high mechanical strength. In addition, they have the inherent property to adhere to each other and form strong networks. Nanofibrils is not yet a commercia l product, but expected on the market wit...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Østfold

NEVRONOR-Nasjonal satsing på nevrovitenskap f

Common paths to neurodegeneration

Neurodegenerative diseases are a diverse group of disorders that are an ever-increasing social and economic burden on society. Design of drugs or therapeutic approaches to halt or slow the progression of these debilitating diseases will need to exploit kn owledge of pathogenic mechanisms. Protein...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

IS-STP-Statsstipendprogram, utlendinger

Ohnishi, Fujio, Japan, statsstip. 2008-09

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Awarded: NOK 70,000

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Samisk viten og kunnskap i høgere utdanning, undervisning og oppdragelse: Forsknings- og skriveseminarrekke på samisk

Samisk høgskole har siden 1989 vært en viktig institusjon for samisk utdanning på høgere nivå og for samisk forskning. Et av de sentrale argumentene for opprettelsen av høgskolen var at den skulle utforme velegnede studieprogram som tar hensyn til samiske behov. Samisk høgskole har utarbeidet og...

Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

BILATNAER-Bilat.samarb.m.N-AM,Kina,Jpn,I

Bilateral collaboration to make aquaculture structures more escape safe by utilizing full-scale testing facilities

The proposed project is for funding to arrange a workshop where a groupe of researchers from Nortway and the US meet to discuss ideas for a larger bilateral research program on escape related issues in the aquaculture industry worldwide, with special emph asis on problem related to a move towards...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Vascular gas bubbles and endothelial damage in relation to saturation diving.

The research project suggested is part of a competence program in diving initiated by StatoilHydro going from 2007 to 2011, but needs additional financial support to be completed. The major challenge for all parties involved in the exploitation of the o il and gas resources is to secure that ma...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Biota Guard IO Center

Oljeindustrien er konfronert med stadig større krav til faktabasert bevisførsel for å kunne dokumentere at offshore bore- og produksjonsoperasjoner blir gjennomført på en miljømessig forsvarlig måte. Kravene forsterkes etterhvert som industrien flytter si n aktivitet til nye og mer miljøsensitive...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Rogaland

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Information material for public health care professionals

We would like to produce information material for physicians, midwives and other health care workers who meet the couples before, during and after their pregnancy. We would like to make information folders and also write in journals read by the health car e professionals. We would also like to ma...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Vestland

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Socially Robust Nanotechnolocy in Latin-America: Ethics and Governance from a "Southern" Perspective

This project will build upon an established collaboration between the Univ of Bergen and the Univ Nacional Autónoma de México. We will perform research at the interface between ethics and social science (so-called ELSA research, ethical, legal and social aspects of technology) to study the introd...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Vestland

IS-NAD-Samarbeid med NORAD-land

Baskar, Sushmitha, India, statsstipendiat 2008/09

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Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Vestland

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Renewable Energy in Central America

A holistic approach for the assessment of renewable energy sources indispensable for its sustainable development and use includes a variety of topics that needs to be investigated: from environmental and societal issues to developing tools to master the r ecently opened common energy market in Ce...

Awarded: NOK 80,000

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Survivors of Human Righst Violations in Processes of Transitional Justice: The Cases of Argentina and Chile

The project aims at exploring how trials related to gross human rights violations committed by an earlier regime influence the lives of the survivors of past human rights violations. The focus of the project will be on the cases of Argentina and Chile, wh ere court trials are now taking place aft...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

The social and environmental implications of the transnationalization of Central American business

The rise of transnational companies from the South is an emergent phenomenon that is gaining increasing attention form shcolars within the academic fields of economy and political economy. In Latin America the rise of the so called "multilatinas" has been in focus for some years, but most attent...

Awarded: NOK 84,130

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

NAERINGSPH-Nærings-phd

Percutaneous access and connection to visceral organs

Surgical treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases (ulcerative colitis and Crohns disease), familiar polyposis and large bowel cancer often requires partial or total removal of the affected organ with formation of a stoma for collection of the intestinal c ontents. For patients with congenital mal...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

NEVRONOR-Nasjonal satsing på nevrovitenskap f

1st Meeting on Brain Aquaporins

We are planning a meeting with around 25 national and international speakers and 150 participants. All key persons in this field, as Peter Agre (Nobel Prize winner 2003), Samira Saadoun, Olivera Nesic-Taylor and Marios Papadopoulos, have agreed to partici pate (if funding is available). The forme...

Awarded: NOK 59,999

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

IS-STP-Statsstipendprogram, utlendinger

Zizalova, Paula Tsjekkia 08/09 kulturavtalestipend

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Awarded: NOK 70,000

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

IS-STP-Statsstipendprogram, utlendinger

Hirouchi, Daisuke, JP, statsstip. 2008-09

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Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

IS-STP-Statsstipendprogram, utlendinger

Tkatsjenko, Alisa Russland 08/09 Kulturavtalestipend

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Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

IS-STP-Statsstipendprogram, utlendinger

Tsuchiyama, Ryoko, Japan, statsstip. 2008-09

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Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

VRI-Virkemidler for regional innovasjon

Hvordan lykkes stort som små? Finnes det organiseringsformer innen kulturnæringene som vil øke effektivitet og lønnsomhet i bedriftene?

Kulturnæringsbedriftene i Øst-Finnmark er i all hovedsak små og har en rekke utfordringer knyttet til samhandling og vekst. For en kulturnæringsaktør som Hermetikken, som er en nøkkelbedrift for utviklingen av næringen i Øst-Finnmark er det et stort behov for informasjon om samhandling og nettve...

Awarded: NOK 0.80 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

IS-RUST-EONR-statsvitenskap

Obrestad, Kristin D. eonr stat kat. 1

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Awarded: NOK 35,000

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-RURE-EONR-rettsvitenskap

Lillerud, Katrine eonr rett kat 1

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Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-RUST-EONR-statsvitenskap

Løchen, Liv A. eon ruhrgas statsvit kat 1

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Awarded: NOK 70,000

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Transmission and reservoirs of Francisella piscicida. Implications for wild and farmed cod.

A new species of Francisella (F. piscicida), causing mortality in farmed cod (Gadus morhua), was isolated autumn 2004 from farmed cod in Rogaland. In 2005 this bacterium was isolated from several cod farms in Rogaland, Hordaland, Møre og Romsdal, Nordland and Denmark and from Atlantic salmon in ...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Vestland