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FRIMED-Klinisk medisin og folkehelse

Pathophysiological role of inflammatory mechanisms in heart failure

...heart failure (HF) is an important and increasing cause of cardiovascular morbidity...may play an important role in the development of HF, a notion that ha s opened up for new...mechanisms related to regulatory chem okines and ligands in the TNF superfamily. Furthermore,...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Oslo

FRIMED2-FRIPRO forskerprosjekt, medisin og helse

Identifying biomarkers of metastatic lung cancer using Gene expression, DNA methylation and microRNAs in blood prior to clinical diagnosis

...cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide with smoking as the...results in part from our inability to predict and explain differences in risks among current and...biomarkers investigated in blood are omic profiles; DNA methylation, gene expression and...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2022

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Dynamics of Environmental Change and Conflict

...the many potential devastating consequences of climate change, the risk of societal disruption...KLIMAFORSK call for providing a better understanding of the risks climate change poses to social...It involves hosting Assistant Professor Andrew M. Linke, University of Utah, at PRIO as a...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2018

Location: Oslo

F-DIDA-Naturvitenskap, didaktikk

Scientific biography of the mathematician, engineer, and philosopher Richard von Mises (1883-1953)

...aims at writing the first scientific biography of the influential Austrian-German-Jewish-American...Richard von Mises. Due to the role model of the German system and due to von Mises'...the topic is also bearing on the history of applied mathematics in Scandinavia. The...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Agder

SAMKUL-Samfunnsutviklingens kulturell

Religion and integration: Religious pluralization as cultural condition for social cohesion and social conflict in a post-secular era

...relationship between religious pluralization and social cohesion and conflict has been a...seem to make the link into a defining problem of our times. This project addresses a limited...questions across a number of modern societies and religious cultures, including Scandinavia and...

Awarded: NOK 0.18 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Oslo

IS-TOPP-Toppfinans. av M.Curie-stipend

Toppfinansiering av Marie Curie-stipendiatstilling til Diane Groot ved ITN-prosjekt CASE 2381111

...full title of CASE is: The Changing Arctic and Sub-Arctic...Training Programme on Marine Biotic Indicators of Recent Climate Changes in the High Latitudes of...CASE started April 1st, 2010 for a period of 4 years. The main aim of the CASE Initial...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-TOPP-Toppfinans. av M.Curie-stipend

Toppfinansiering av Marie Curie-stipendiatstilling til Sarah Berben ved ITN-prosjekt CASE 2381111

...full title of CASE is: The Changing Arctic and Sub-Arctic...Training Programme on Marine Biotic Indicators of Recent Climate Changes in the High Latitudes of...CASE started April 1st, 2010 for a period of 4 years. The main aim of the CASE Initial...

Awarded: NOK 0.67 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Renewable Energy in Central America

...holistic approach for the assessment of renewable energy sources indispensable for its...development and use includes a variety of topics that needs to be investigated: from...energy market in Central America. Coordination of the research efforts between the Norwegian and...

Awarded: NOK 80,000

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Cognitive Phenomenology and Its Consequences for the Content Internalism/Externalism Debate in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science

...default view in philosophy of mind and cognitive science is a separatist one,...and mental content as two separate facets of the mental. Whereas the connection between the...this project explores the reverse possibility of studying intentional character in terms of...

Awarded: NOK 33,999

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FORFI-Kunnsk.gr.l.f.forskn.innov.pol

Innovation and Defence Industrial Policy: Creating a Common Strategy for Institutions with Different Goals and Approaches to Policy-Making

...Innovation Norway and the Ministry of Defence seek to promote a...the two institutions greatly differ in terms of their policy goals, approaches and policy...wheth er Innovation Norway and the Ministry of Defence would better serve the defence industry...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Oslo

GRØNNPLATTFORM-Grønn plattform

Multi-horizon power-market mechanisms and Connection to the wider European energy system

...foundation for a main project within the field of power-market mechanism design and linking to...an export industry within this field consisting of both products and services it is important to...mechanisms underlying the future development of the power-market. It is especially important to...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2021

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

East Asian DecCen: Exploring Decadal to Century Scale Variability and Changes in the East Asian Climate during the last Millennium

...climate in East Asia is very complex, with profound variations on seasonal, interannual and...leading to heavy rainfall in June, July and August along th ousands of kilometres long...long-term c hanges to EASM will have large implications for the region. On interannual time...

Awarded: NOK 7.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Vestland

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Technology, Economic Change, Heterogeneity and Internationalisation in Latin America

...global dynamics provides new opportunities and challenges for Latin American economies. The...of technological development, increasing trade and FDI flows, and the rapid growth of large...the global economic landscape. The impacts of these profound technological and economic...

Awarded: NOK 0.24 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

FRIPRO-Fri prosjektstøtte

TeraEpi: Teratogenicity of anti-seizure medication: the roles of epigenetics and folic acid supplements

...teratogenicity of anti-seizure medication (ASM) has been...mechanisms remain remarkably elusive. This gap of knowledge precludes both discovery and...mechanisms involved in the teratogenicity of ASM, we aim at improving knowledge and safety...

Awarded: NOK 8.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

FRIPRO-Fri prosjektstøtte

Targeting Tumor-associated macrophages (TAM) to increase the efficacy of PD-1 blockade cancer immunotherapy

...of research and vast attempts at stimulating...largely unsuccessful until the recent discovery of immune checkpoints. Drugs which block these...first described by Prof. Honjo with PD-1 and Prof. Allison with CTLA-4, have initiated a...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Oslo

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Reconceptualising Transitional Justice: The Latin American Experience

...book is the outcome of a three-year international research project on...trajectories in truth, justice, reparations and amnesties in countries emerging from periods...rights and humanitarian law. The country studies -Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia,...

Awarded: NOK 76,000

Project Period: 2015-2015

Location: Vestland

FINNUT-Forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren

Professional Actors’ Work on Retaining Students in Secondary Education

...is designed to demonstrate promising practices of multiple actors by identifying: 1)...of students in upper secondary education and with what consequences. Thus, the project will...knowledge base in this field including implications for research, policy and practice. The...

Awarded: NOK 11.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Environmental pollution from municipal waste. Transport, bioaccumulation and effects on wildlife near point sources in Trondheim, Norway

...produce large amounts of municipal waste, some of it toxic. Old...Trondheim city is a major contributor of effluents to the Trondheimsfjorden ecosystem....that the impact on the environmental quality of the fjord by discharged wastewater is monitored...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

FABULA (FremrAgende By for Undervisning og LAering): Seamless networks for transforming the city into an arena for learning

...vision of FABULA is a city that, with the help of...not only to access learning material anytime and anywhere, but also, and most importantly, to...processes of knowledge construction and sharing. This is made possible by the seamless...

Awarded: NOK 11.3 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

U-Pb geochronology of Caledonian eclogites

...project will investigate the timing of eclogite formation in the Western Gneiss Region...spanned some 20 million years between about 415 and 395 Ma. The causes and implications of these...use high-resolution methods to better understand the reasons for these age variations and to...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Oslo

SAMKUL-Samfunnsutviklingens kulturell

The relational politics of aesthetics. Negotiating relations between art and society through cultural policy

...project studies the relations between aesthetics and...public measures to ensure a social impact of the arts. This topic will be studied by...work, through a general music policy, and through the use of culture in foreign policy....

Awarded: NOK 8.5 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2018

Location: Telemark

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Community- based solutions for agricultural risk mitigation and transfer to enhance adaptation to climate change in Ethiopia

...is the primary sources of economic development in Ethiopia, however its...food insecurity is undermined by a multitude of factors including the recent climate change...floods. Agricultural insura nce is seen as one of the best strategies to address farm risks and...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2014

Location: Akershus

FRIPRO-Fri prosjektstøtte

DYPOLE: Dynamics of polar confined basins - The Eurasia Basin from breakup in greenhouse to present in icehouse conditions

...main goal of the project is to obtain an understanding of...Sea-Svalbard margin, caused continental breakup and variation in spatial and temporal oceanic...links between the tectono-magmatic history of the Cenozoic Arctic and oceanographic and...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

FRIPRO-Fri prosjektstøtte

Parenthood, childlessness, and mental health in times of falling fertility

...a partner and having children are life-changing events and...health. In the last decades, the proportion of childless individuals has increased. The...population are unknown. Our aim is to understand how mental health is linked with reproductive...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Climate variability, food insecurity, and social conflict

...the many potential devastating consequences of climate change, the risk of societal disruption...KLIMAFORSK call for providing a better understanding of the risks climate change poses to social...8 months to study how food insecurity impacts of climate variability and extremes are associated...

Awarded: NOK 0.24 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2017

Location: Oslo

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Southern Ocean Biogeochemistry: Education and Research

...the waters around South Africa provide a wealth of information on the mechanistic controls on...lying at the junction between western and eastern boundary systems and the Southern...on the regional biogeochemistry. Both natural and anthropogenic forcing has an effect on each of...

Awarded: NOK 0.66 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

PES2020-Prosj.etabl.støtte H2020

Project Establishment Support (PES2020) - H2020 FOOD-E project

...focuses on the research topic “innovative and citizen-driven food system approaches in...Food Security priority. The key challenge of the project is to improve health and well being...able to providing them with affordable, safe, and nutritious food. This challenge will be...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Oslo

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

NOP Northern Lights: Film and Media Studies Yearbook

...of Nordic journal: "Northern Lights: Film and...grants for Nordic scientific journals for 2014 and for the period...

Awarded: NOK 15,177

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SIP-Strategiske instituttprogram

From conservative to pragmatic modernization of education? International comparative analysis of the restructuring of educational policy.

...comparative study situated within the tradition of critical educational policy analysis focusing...visions and objectives, the implementation of reforms and new mechanisms, and activities...to structure, governance, content and systems of support and control. Part of our intention is...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2010

Location: Oslo

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

Unravelling the secrets of oxidative biomass decomposition

...depolymerization of recalcitrant polysaccharides such as chitin and...co-polymeric structures, as in plant cell walls and insect cuticles, will have a profound impact...such as microbial physiology, plant pathology and biorefining. The 2010 discovery of Lytic...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2023

Location: Akershus