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IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Arctic Predators as Indicators of Tundra Ecosystem State. A Norwegian IPY proposal under the ArcticWOLVES initiative ID No: 672

Strongly cyclic interaction between plants, herbivores and predators typically drives the food web dynamics over large tracts of the arctic tundra biome. These interaction cycles, however, now appear to be fading out at the southern edge of tundra, possib ly due to climate warming. The Arctic Cli...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

DOC turnover in polar microbial food webs.

Microbial communities, including phytoplankton, protozoa, bacteria, archaea, fungi and virus, are by far the most abundant and the most taxonomic and genetically diverse group of organisms in marine pelagic ecosystems. Biological activity, biomass, produc tion and remineralization in these system...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

PPS Arctic Norway - the Norwegian contribution to the internationally endorsed IPY project #151; PPS Arctic

The PPS Arctic Norway project is the Norwegian contribution to the circumpolar IPY core project PPS Arctic (Present day processes, Past changes, and Spatiotemporal variability of biotic, abiotic and socio-environmental conditions and resource components a long and across the Arctic delimitation z...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ISPJUS-ISP - Satsing på juridisk forskning

Bærekraftig utvikling av havområdene i nord. Muligheter og trusler.

Hovedaktiviteten bestått av to PhD prosjekt. Det første, "Third State Involvement in the Context of Establishing the Outer Limits of the Continental Shelf" behandler prosessen med å fastsette yttergrensen for kontinentalsokkelen hvor denne strekker seg utover 200 nautiske mil fra kysten. Klarlegg...

Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2015

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ISPJUS-ISP - Satsing på juridisk forskning

Rettsstatlege utfordringar ved internasjonalisering av strafferettspleia, med særleg fokus på europeisk integrasjon

Både den materielle strafferetten og dei straffeprosessuelle reglane om etterforsking og domstolsbehandling har tradisjonelt hatt eit sterkt nasjonalt særpreg. Men dei siste åra har det skjedd hyppige endringar av regelverket, som i stor grad har vore ini tiert av eller påverka av det internasjon...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Vestland

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Arctic Natural Climate and Environmental Changes and Human Adaptation: From Science to Public awareness

SciencePub aims to answer two critical questions in current Arctic climate research: What characterizes natural climate change in the Arctic, and how did early pioneer immigrants relate to climate change? By studying natural climate archives in terrestria l and marine sediments from Svalbard, N N...

Awarded: NOK 20.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

The Impacts of Oil and Gas Activity on Peoples in the Arctic Using a Multiple Securities Perspective

GAPS Is a truly multidisciplinary project, where social AND natural scientists work together to provide a comphrehensive understanding of security in the Arctic. GAPS contains a series of related and integrated sub-projects that address security in the Ar ctic from different angles. Each sub-pro...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

PES-INST-Prosjektetablererstøtte EU (FoU)

Støtte til kontraktsforhandlinger - EUs 7 RP.

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Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Vestland

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Development of gene therapeutic approaches for rheumathoid arthritis using in vivo gene delivery by photochemical internalisation (PCI)

Gene therapy has a large potential for treatment of many different diseases. The potential of gene therapy has, however, yet to be realised, mainly due to the lack of safe and efficient methods for delivery of therapeutic genes to diseased tissues in the body. It has recently been shown that PCI ...

Awarded: NOK 5.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Proposal for a National consortium in Fish Genomics - FishGen

The present proposal describes the establishment of a National Consortium in fish genomics (FishGen). The main partners in the FishGen are; Institute of Marine Research (IMR), University of Bergen (UoB), National institute of nutrition and seafood researc h (NIFES), University of Tromsø (UiTø), N...

Awarded: NOK 14.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Stormwater and roads - dimensioning for climate change

The transport infrastructure is a vital part of the society, with high capital investments, proper management and design of this system is therefore very important. Climate changes will increase the frequency of extreme precipitation events, floods and sn ow melt periods experienced by the infras...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Akershus

ISPJUS-ISP - Satsing på juridisk forskning

Mellom demokratisk styring, effektiv konkurranse og avtalefrihet i markedsstaten

Prosjektet vil belyse spenningen mellom forvaltningsretten, konkurranseretten og kontraktsretten med utgangspunkt i velferdsforvaltningen. Velferdsforvaltningen er valgt da det offentlige her både utøver myndighet, tildeler rettighetsbaserte ytelser og tj enester, samarbeider med private med ordn...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Marine Mammals Exploring the Oceans Pole to Pole

Marine Mammal Exploration of the Oceans Pole to Pole (MEOP) will deploy state-of-the-art animal-borne CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth) tags on strategically chosen, deep-diving marine mammal species to explore their current movement patterns, behaviou r and habitat utilization in Polar Region...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

Depostional models for Cenozoic sandy systems

A recent gas discovery in the North Sea is located at just 160 m sub-bottom depth. The reservoir consists of Pliocene glacial sandstone capped by glacial diamicton; it represents a milestone in exploration of the North Sea and highlights the potential for commercially recoverable hydrocarbons in...

Awarded: NOK 6.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Functional genomics of phenotypic plasticity of cod: a national consortium.

The proposed project is submitted by the University of Oslo as such (through its rector) on behalf of the other members in the consortium consisting of strong basic research groups with a strong and long experience within the fields of genomics, ecology a nd evolutionary biology. Although we repr...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

KONT-Kontingenter

Norwegian membership fee to ORFEUS

ORFEUS (Observatories and Research Facilities for EUropean Seismology) is a non-profit foundation that aims at co-ordianation of digital broadband seismology in the Euro-Mediterranean area. It gathers and provides seismological waveform data to the scient ific community through its data center. I...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Norwegian Participation in the Planck LFI Instrument: Pipeline Development and QUIET

The present application constitutes a supplement to project 165491/V30 "Norwegian Participation in the Planck LFI Instrument and Cosmology with the Nordic Optical Telescope" . A dedicated data reduction centre for the QUIET (Q/U Imaging ExperimenT) CM B polarization experiment will be set up ...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Oslo

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Advanced sample preparation and characterisation of fuel cell materials for increased fuel cell durability

This project relates to an 5-months scientific stay for PhD-student Axel B. Ofstad from Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway to Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), NM, USA. The PhD-student?s work at LANL will...

Awarded: NOK 0.17 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

IMPROVED EFFICIENCY AND DURABILITY OF PEM WATER ELECTROLYSERS FOR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION

Water electrolysers based on proton exchange membrane (PEM) technology show very promising results with respect to stable and efficient hydrogen production from renewable energy sources. Major challenges to overcome before this technology may be considere d viable in this context include cost red...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Seedling quality and establishment routines for rapid growth start of Abies nordmanniana and Abies lasiocarpa for Christmas tree production

The production of quality Christmas trees are demanding and customers pay well only for high quality trees. One of the most crucial factors is the plant materials used and the establishment routines. Today, the average fraction of Christmas trees sold amo unts to only 50 percent of those planted....

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

CLIMIT-Forskning, utvikling og demo av CO2-håndtering

Subsurface storage of CO2 - Risk assessment, monitoring and remediation (SSC - Ramore)

Large scale underground storage of CO2 off the coast of Norway is internationally pioneering and stimulates for further development of international leading expertise in the area, expertise which in turn will represent a sound fundamental basis for large scale in situ CO2 reservoir storage experi...

Awarded: NOK 21.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Oslo

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Market-based value adding and differentiation of salmon

This project aims to provide novel insights that can help Norwegian salmon companies to improve their long term competitiveness and profitability through enhanced value adding and differentiation strategies. The project will base its results on in-depth s tudies of key buyers in three important m...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Assessment of human impact on the marine CARBon system in arctic regions (A-CARB)

Carbon dioxide is the most important manageable forcing agent of climate change. Large amounts are emitted through fossil fuel burning. Prediction of future climate change and planning of mitigation strategies requires that thorough knowledge of the facto rs that control the distribution of anth...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Vestland

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Gender equality, cultural diversity, religious pluralism: State policies and feminist interventions

Prosjektet studerer policyutvikling og kvinners organisering i krysningspunkter mellom kjønn, etnisitet/rase og religiøs tilhørighet og er den første i sitt slag i Norge. Utgangspunktet er en antagelse om at disse makt-, identitets og rettighetsfeltene i stor grad behandles som separate policyomr...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Remittances from immigrants in Norway

Prosjektet vil frembringe ny kunnskap om pengeoverføringer fra innvandrere i Norge til deres opphavsland. Dette er et viktig element i varige transnasjonale bånd i etterkant av internasjonal migrasjon. På verdensbasis mottar utviklingsland dobbelt så mye i overføringer fra sine utvandrere som i o...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Inngår i 201779: Increased power and salmon production with Environmentally Designed Operation of Regulated Rivers

Mer laks og mer kraft ved miljødesignet vassdragsdrift: Formålet med prosjektet er å utvikle strategier for drift av vannkraftverk i regulerte elver som optimaliserer forholdet mellom kraftproduksjon og produksjon av laksefisk. Prosjektet vil også utvikl e kriterier for hvordan vannkraftverk, bå...

Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Can nuisance growth of the aquatic macrophyte Juncus bulbosus be related to elevated nitrogen deposition as well as hydropower regulations?

The hydroelectric power industry has thus far been strongly linked to the problem with mass development of the aquatic macrophyte Juncus bulbosus in regulated freshwaters, although other factors like climate variability, acid rain and liming may also cont ribute to the expansion of this species. ...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Civil protection and climate vulnerability

This project takes the link between civil protection and climate change as its starting point. Our aim is to investigate which factors determine the capacity for local adaptation to climate change by studying long-term institutional learning within civil protection institutions in the wake of ext...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Mapping and identification of the mutation causing Epiphyseal Dysplasia in Norwegian Hunting dogs, postdoc

Hunting is a widespread activity of importance for individual recreation and has a great value for local tourist industry in the country side. Most hunting is dependent on a healthy population of hunting dogs. Norway has three national hunters (breeds) wh ich are used for the major part of huntin...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Interna.trade regulating organisations and Sout-East Asian regionalisation of trade agreements. Implications for Norwegian seafood industry

The study focuses on two overall questions: 1) What are the main trends of development of the WTO and regional trade organisations? and 2) What are the consequences for the Norwegian seafood industry? The region of South-East Asia is of strategic interes t to the Norwegian seafood industry, both...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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