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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

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

Linguistic Identity and Attitudes in Spanish-speaking Latin America

The main purpose of this application is to prepare a grant proposal for the Latin America Program Nov. 26 call. The second is to present the objectives of the future project: ?Linguistic Identity and Attitudes in Spanish-speaking Latin America? (LIAS), wh ich aims to study attitudes towards the L...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Vestland

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Internet Security Conference, Seguridad de Redes

Conference. The aim of the conference is to highlight the threats that Internet installations in Bolivia face today. The country has no legislation on cyber crime, nor does it have a CERT-centre, or National Security Centre. Surveys done by the University of Bergen in cooperation with Universida...

Awarded: NOK 49,922

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Vestland

IS-RUST-EONR-statsvitenskap

Lindau, Marianne Gro, eonr stat kat 1

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Awarded: NOK 35,000

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-RUST-EONR-statsvitenskap

Krohn-Dale, Helena eonr stat. kat 1

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Awarded: NOK 35,000

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Promoting Research Collaboration around Women and ICT in Latin-America and Europe through the Regional Centres in Argentina and Norway

The European Centre for Women and Technology through its Secretariat in Norway and the UNESCO Regional Chair on Women, Science and Technology in Latin America with its headquarters in Argentina desire to organize a three day international workshop in Dram men the 12-14th of November to develop ne...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Buskerud

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

The link between participatory democracy and political influence of civil society - A comparative study of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay

There has been turn to left political power in Latin America during the last decade. Cicvil society and radical activists rather prefer to work politically to change the society than taking up guns in a revolutionary attempt. Our hypthesis is that this ch ange came about since participatory budge...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

The Politics and Anthropology of Energy in Latin America

Poverty and violence are notable problems in Latin America, but it is clear from ongoing events and reports that Latin Americans themselves see energy resources and policies as a crucial source of solutions to their wider difficulties of development and d emocratic stability. Recent decades have ...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Vestland

PES-INST-Prosjektetablererstøtte EU (FoU)

Social ties and the integration of youth of immigrant background in Northern European labour markets

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Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

MARINFORSKHAV-Marine ressurser og miljø - havmiljø

SEAPOP

SEAPOP er et nasjonalt program som styrker og samordner oppbyggingen av kunnskap om sjøfugl i norske farvann: Bestandene kartlegges i et rullerende system, og deres utvikling og demografi overvåkes på et nettverk av lokaliteter. Parallelt med dette utføres studier som belyser sjøfuglenes økologis...

Awarded: NOK 73.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Støtte til populærvitenskapelig bok basert på IPCCs 4. hovedraapport

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Awarded: NOK 0.77 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

IS-RUST-EONR-statsvitenskap

Rothkehl, Rebecca eon r stat kat 1

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Awarded: NOK 42,500

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-RURE-EONR-rettsvitenskap

Thorrud, Henrik Kaldahl, eonr r juss

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Awarded: NOK 90,000

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

KOSK-II-Katalyse og org.synt.kjemi II

Fundamental understanding of novel Co catalysts on carbon nanofibers in F-T synthesis

It has been found that the CNFs are promising as supports to achieve high activity and selectivity due to their mesoporous structure, high mechanical strengths, high surface areas. More importantly, it was found that the activity and selectivity of F-T ca talysts depends significantly on the Co c...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KOSK-II-Katalyse og org.synt.kjemi II

Synthesis of novel activators for procaspase-3: an approach to a personalised cancer treatment

Cancer is an important public health concern around the world. Chemotherapy is no doubt one of the most successful ways in which cancer can be treated. For years, chemotherapy has been indiscriminate warfare by using chemotherapeutic agents that are toxic to both normal and cancer cells. In this...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Oslo

KOSK-II-Katalyse og org.synt.kjemi II

Design and synthesis of novel aspartic protease inhibitors.

This project will focus on the development of much needed novel inhibitors of the aspartic proteases related to HIV/AIDS and Alzheimers disease. In order to pursue these goals, the project seeks to establish a strong research group in medicinal chemistry at the Centre for Pharmacy at the Universi...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Study of Rare B Decays

In the ATLAS experiment we want to perform the first study of the very rare B decay Bs -> mu+mu- using a multivariate analysis technique. The resullts provide another important test of the Standard Model. We will validate our analysis procedure on the exc lusive decays Bs->J/psi psi and B ->J/psi...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Linkages between Rural Institutions and Redistributional Networks: Ag. Marketing Coops, Corruption, and Patrimonialism in East Africa

The research subjects of this study are poor African farmers and the marketing institutions that are available to them. These institutions may be any of a range of marketing institutions, from single individuals who serve as intermediaries between farmers and markets, who buy agricultural output...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Møre og Romsdal

ISPHUM-ISP - Humaniora

Språkkontakt og språkval i Nord-Norge

Prosjektet søkjer å utvikle ein integrert sosiolingvistisk teori som kan gjere greie for premissane for språkval på mikro- og makronivå i ein språkkontaktsituasjon. Verdiar knytte til samisk og kvensk (fortidas morsmål), og i vår tid til dei norske etnole ktane i språkkontaktområda (notidas morsm...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

From Reason to Rules in International Development Policy: The effects of legal and economic standardization in development policy

The project aims to improve our knowledge of International Organizations' (IO) development policies by examining whether policy design has been increasingly standardized around legal and economic "best practices". The concern here is that the increased s tandardization of policy design reduces t...

Awarded: NOK 0.27 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

IS-STP-Statsstipendprogram, utlendinger

Hiss, Florian STP 08/09 Tyskland

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Awarded: NOK 70,000

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-STP-Statsstipendprogram, utlendinger

Gruber, Sabrina STP 08/09 Østerrike

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Awarded: NOK 55,000

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-RURE-EONR-rettsvitenskap

Hafsahl, Johannes eon ruhrgas rettsvit kat 1

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Awarded: NOK 90,000

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-RUST-EONR-statsvitenskap

Malvik, Petter eon r statsvit kat 1

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Awarded: NOK 35,000

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-RUST-EONR-statsvitenskap

Johnsen. Invild, eon r statsvit kat 1

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Awarded: NOK 35,000

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke