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H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Gestural Meanings: Typology and Interface Constraints

Gestural Meanings: Typology and Interface Constraints

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2022

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

The Developing Communicator: Pragmatics, Sense Conventions and Non-Literal Uses of Language

Children are born communicators. A growing body of developmental evidence suggests that the cognitive abilities enabling the expression and comprehension of communicative intentions – so-called pragmatic abilities – which underlie language use and understanding, develop early. However, a puzzling...

Awarded: NOK 14.6 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

The Dematerialization of Fashion and France's Couture Propaganda during the 1960s and 1970s

FASHION IN IR aims to study the role of French women’s sartorial fashion in its international relations with a focus on both its interaction with the Common Market and its influence on the American mass market during the 1960s and 1970s. This approach is meant to open up the fields of Fashion His...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2022

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Social Systems in Transition: The Meaning of Collective Identity and the Interpretation and Translation of the Greek Term Sarx in Paul’s Letters

The aim of the project is to explore community differentiation implications arising from the Greek term sarx in Paul’s letters. The choice of primary material is based on the observation that this term recurs in settings where collective identity is established, and where the salvific capacity of...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2022

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Storyworlds in Transition: Coptic Apocrypha in Changing Contexts in the Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods

This project proposes the first systematic study of Coptic apocrypha covering the entire timespan of Coptic literary production, and it aims to do so with unprecedented methodological sophistication. Apocrypha is here defined as (1) texts and traditions that develop or expand upon characters and ...

Awarded: NOK 19.7 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Towards Precision Psychiatry

The intricacies of the human mind and its disorders are one of the remaining modern-day enigmas. Whereas recent advances in brain imaging and genetics are currently changing the clinical neurosciences by identifying novel general mechanisms of complex traits underlying risk and resilience at the ...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2022

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Living with Vultures in the Sixth Extinction: An Ethnographic Study of Avian Conservation in Changing European Landscapes

Living with Vultures in the Sixth Extinction: An Ethnographic Study of Avian Conservation in Changing European Landscapes

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

The Emergence, Life, and Demise of Autocratic Regimes

The Emergence, Life, and Demise of Autocratic Regimes

Awarded: NOK 19.7 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo

H20-ENV-Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials

New Exploration Tools for European Pegmatite Green-Tech Resources

The manufacture of devices for green energy production and storage in Europe is a strategic, fast-growing sector which is essential in ensuring that the EU meets its energy and climate targets for 2030. It is worth an estimated €30 Bn in turnover, with investments of €4 Bn in the EU27, and is lik...

Awarded: NOK 27.5 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage og 2 andre

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Unravelling the secrets of Cu-based catalysts for C-H activation

Unravelling the secrets of Cu-based catalysts for C-H activation

Awarded: NOK 56.2 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Oslo og 2 andre

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Finding Flow: Negotiating diverse temporalities in migrant family life

Based at the Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan (MultiLing) at the University of Oslo, this project will undertake a critical sociolinguistic ethnography by way of a new innovative approach - rhythmanalysis - to explore the temporal dimensions of migrant adaptation processe...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2022

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Between Sea and City: Ethnographic explorations of infrastructure, work, and place around leading urban container ports

How to study the turbulent transitions and risky mobilities of global capitalism today? An illuminating, but often overlooked site that lends itself to explorations into the changing nature of our economic system can be found at the interface between sea and city, i.e. at the port. Container port...

Awarded: NOK 14.8 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

CoFutures: Pathways to Possible Presents

This project investigates future fictions from five distinct traditions: Afrofuturism, Sinofuturism, Arab/Gulf-futurism, Latin@futurism, and Indofuturism. All these fictions respond to the burning issues of the present, the transnational discourses of demographic change, climate change, and techn...

Awarded: NOK 13.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-HEALTH-Health, demographic change and wellbeing

RESISTANCE UNDER COMBINATORIAL TREATMENT IN ER+ AND ER- BREAST CANCER.

RESISTANCE UNDER COMBINATORIAL TREATMENT IN ER+ AND ER- BREAST CANCER.

Awarded: NOK 18.4 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage og 2 andre

H20-LEIT-LEIT-ICT-Information and Communication Technologies

Modelling and Orchestrating heterogeneous Resources and Polymorphic applications for Holistic Execution and adaptation of Models In the Cloud

Modelling and Orchestrating heterogeneous Resources and Polymorphic applications for Holistic Execution and adaptation of Models In the Cloud

Awarded: NOK 6.5 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2022

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Secretion, Autophagy and their role in Neurodegeneration

Secretion, Autophagy and their role in Neurodegeneration

Awarded: NOK 6.7 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Translational Traditions and Imaginaries: A Comparative History of Petrarch’s Canzoniere in French and English

Translational Traditions and Imaginaries: A Comparative History of Petrarch’s Canzoniere in French and English

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2022

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

American Norwegian Sound Systems and Language Contact

This project examines language contact and language maintenance among American Norwegian-English bilinguals. By drawing on both quantitative and qualitative methods, I focus on bilingual vowel patterns and the extent to which Norwegian and English influence each others' phonological systems in wa...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2021

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Authoritarianism and Messianic Conceptions of Politics in Turkey 1850-2015

The literature approaches the authoritarian turn in Turkish politics either as an example of political Islam gone wrong or as part of the competitive authoritarianism that sweep across the globe. But even a cursory glance reveals the persistence and recurrence of authoritarian themes in Turkish p...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2021

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

The History of Intellectual Property Rights in the Creative Industries

CREATIVE IPR aims to study the rise of intellectual property rights in the creative industries, from the international treaties of the late nineteenth century to the present day, with a focus on Europe in the global world. CREATIVE IPR examines the consequences of this development for the creat...

Awarded: NOK 18.5 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Women Writing Saints: Proto-feminist Discourses in Religious texts written by Women in Counter-Reformation Italy

WomenWritingSaints is an interdisciplinary project exploring the religious literature authored by different categories of early modern women writers in post-Tridentine Italy (1563-1700), bringing together literary studies, cultural history, the history of ideas and women’s studies. The sacred wri...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2021

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Recording the Borders: Sounding Displacement and Integration in Europe

Working at the intersections of music and refugee studies, RecBord examines soundscapes of displacement. It asks how sound mediates relations between refugee and host communities: How do experiences of forced migration manifest in sound? How do these sounds both enable and constrain processes of ...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2021

Location: Oslo

H20-SCIENCE-Encourage citizens to engage in science

Science education for action and engagement towards sustainability

Science education for action and engagement towards sustainability

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2022

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Looking for the Impersonal Core -- Impersonal Pronouns across Germanic languages

Looking for the Impersonal Core -- Impersonal Pronouns across Germanic languages

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2021

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Language switching and script mixing: multilingual landscapes of medieval Scandinavia

Language switching and script mixing: multilingual landscapes of medieval Scandinavia

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Societal openness, normative flux, and the social modification of heritability

Societal openness, normative flux, and the social modification of heritability

Awarded: NOK 19.1 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Infinity in Mathematics: A Philosophical analysis of Critical Views of Infinity

This project’s research goal is a systematic philosophical and mathematical analysis of critical views of infinity: views which have questioned one or more aspects of standard approaches to infinity in mathematics. Criticism of infinity originates in fundamental debates at the turn of the 20th ce...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2021

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Socioeconomic gaps in language development and school achievement: Mechanisms of inequality and opportunity

Socioeconomic gaps in language development and school achievement: Mechanisms of inequality and opportunity

Awarded: NOK 18.3 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Cosmoglobe -- mapping the universe from the Milky Way to the Big Bang

In the aftermath of the high-precision Planck and BICEP2 experiments, cosmology has undergone a critical transition. Before 2014, most breakthroughs came as direct results of improved detector technology and increased noise sensitivity. After 2014, the main source of uncertainty will be due to as...

Awarded: NOK 19.2 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

SCIENTIA-FELLOWS II: International Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme

SCIENTIA-FELLOWS II: International Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme

Awarded: NOK 82.5 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Oslo