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H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Index of Middle English Prose: Digital Cotton Catalogue Project

The Index of Middle English Prose (IMEP) is the most important reference tool for Middle English non-verse texts. It seeks, for the first time, to locate and identify all surviving English prose texts composed between c. 1200 and 1500. In this project I will aim at developing and testing an innov...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Becoming Indigenous language speakers and writers in higher education

Across the world, Across the world, Indigenous teacher education programs constitute important sites for the creation of Indigenous language speakers, writers and future language teachers. Such speakers are key agents for the reclamation and revitalization of threatened Indigenous languages. Peru...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

The Division of Ethics from Political Philosophy: Kant and Baumgarten on Right, Virtue, and Justice

Ethics and political philosophy are integral to human individual activities and social interactions, and yet modern philosophy since Immanuel Kant has reinforced the separation of these two domains. DEKANT aims to resolve the confusion in the intellectual foundation of ethics and show how it can ...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Good attention: Attention norms and their role in practical reason, epistemology, and ethics

What is good attention? Much public discussion about social media, public health, and political debates is focused on versions of this question. What deserves our attention and how we should regulate attention in the face of distraction occupies the debate. What is missing is a philosophical inve...

Awarded: NOK 21.4 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

The neoMONSTERS Within: The Others in India’s Science Fiction

The Science Fiction (SF) of a spatio-temporal location is a window into the soul of a people. It manifests the “cultural unease” that specific identities evoke in the national imagination. SF not only demonstrates how contesting ideologies slug it out within the ring of the popular but also inter...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

A Gendered History of Emotions in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy

WomenThinkingLove will provide the first History of Emotions of Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy, with regard to the system love/marriage/adultery, from a gender perspective. As Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy are still under-investigated from the perspective of the History of ...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Combining Machine Learning and Quantum Chemistry for the Design of Homogeneous Catalysts

While machine learning (ML) methods are already commonly applied in heterogeneous catalysis, the use of such methods for the design of homogeneous catalysts is a largely overlooked field. A recent proof-of-principle study showed the huge potential of ML in homogeneous catalysis by demonstrating t...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

COllective ROBOtics through Real-time Entrainment of Evolved dynamical Systems

COllective ROBOtics through Real-time Entrainment of Evolved dynamical Systems

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Novelties, Biases, and Landscapes in Evolution

Novelties, Biases, and Landscapes in Evolution

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Incremental Sound Change in Oslo (ISC-Oslo)

Incremental Sound Change in Oslo (ISC-Oslo)

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

TraCS - Training in Computational Science

The use of computing is revolutionizing research, industry, government and society, and new skills are needed to be competitive. The COMPSCI doctoral program will train science researchers and innovators with disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transferable skills and a foundation in computationa...

Awarded: NOK 25.7 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

The changing relationships between digital technologies, DNA and evidence

The changing relationships between digital technologies, DNA and evidence

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Made in Sweatshops. Worker, technology and Gender (comparison Paris-Shanghai, Late 19th c.-Late 20th c.)

Made in SweatShops. Worker, Technology and Gender (Comparison Paris-Shanghai, Late 19th c.-Late 20th c.) Made in Sweatshops (MISS) proposes to study the female workers in the clothing industry through an analysis of workshop techniques and a comparison between two major manufacturing centres: Par...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

A probabilistic framework for assessing polar wander – Constraining paleolongitude in deep time

The quantification of past plate motions is of paramount importance to advancing our understanding of Earth’s evolution. Plate motions of the last ~130 Ma are well-resolved from magnetic isochrons and hotspot tracks, but as those records are progressively destroyed by subduction, they cannot be u...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Innocent Children or Security Threats? European Children Born of War

How can we ensure that children born of war do not pay for the sins of their parents? Political debates about how to address the plight of children born of foreign fighters to ISIS/Daesh make this an acute concern in Europe today. The European debates are polarized; some argue that socialization ...

Awarded: NOK 19.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Artificial Intelligence in Colonoscopy for Cancer Prevention

Removal precancerous polyps (so-called adenomas) during colonoscopy reduces colorectal cancer incidence and mortality. We have recently developed artificial intelligence (AI) systems which optimise colonoscopy quality by aiming at increasing the detection of adenomas. However, it is unknown if th...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-INFRA-Research infrastructures

Towards an Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope

Towards an Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope

Awarded: NOK 11.6 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Between migration and linguistics: Greeks in Western Europe and the emergence of contrastive grammar in the Renaissance (c.1390–1600)

Between migration and linguistics: Greeks in Western Europe and the emergence of contrastive grammar in the Renaissance (c.1390–1600)

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-SWAFS-CROSST-Science with and for Society - Cross-theme

Responsible Open Science in Europe

Open science (OS) where research planning, processes, data and results are freely available to all stakeholders is the future of science. OS will make science more effective and more responsive to societal needs, and it will enable citizens to participate actively in all aspects of science as cit...

Awarded: NOK 6.6 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Oslo og 2 andre

H20-SWAFS-CROSST-Science with and for Society - Cross-theme

Embedding a comprehensive ethical dimension to organoïd-based research and resulting technologies

Embedding a comprehensive ethical dimension to organoïd-based research and resulting technologies

Awarded: NOK 7.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Genetics, Geography and the Intergenerational Transmission of Maternal Depression Risk

Genetics, Geography and the Intergenerational Transmission of Maternal Depression Risk

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Protection without Ratification? International Refugee Law beyond States Parties to the 1951 Refugee Convention

Protection without Ratification? International Refugee Law beyond States Parties to the 1951 Refugee Convention

Awarded: NOK 14.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Dynamic Territory: A Normative Framework for Territory in the Post-Holocene

Climate change will disrupt current political, societal and economic paradigms. What should a just territorial arrangement be for countries that will partially or totally disappear due to sea level rise, or whose main productive activities—like farming—will be lost due to changed weather patterns...

Awarded: NOK 16.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Dissecting the paradox of stasis in evolutionary biology

There is something deeply disconcerting about the current state of knowledge on rates of morphological evolution across different timescales: Why do most species in the fossil record exhibit negligible morphological change when contemporary populations often respond rapidly to selection? The ROCK...

Awarded: NOK 16.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

H20-HEALTH-Health, demographic change and wellbeing

Gravitate–Health: Empowering and Equipping Europeans with health information for Active Personal Health Management and Adherence to Treatment

Gravitate–Health: Empowering and Equipping Europeans with health information for Active Personal Health Management and Adherence to Treatment

Awarded: NOK 32.1 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa og 3 andre

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Social Resilience, Gendered Dynamics, and Local Peace in Protracted Conflicts

How can ‘resilient communities’ remain resilient in protracted conflicts and contribute to sustainable peace rather than to increased vulnerability to renewed conflict? How do local conflicts link to national conflicts and what are the implications for peacebuilding? What are the gender dimension...

Awarded: NOK 14.8 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

How Work Organizations Shape Ethnic Stratification across Immigrant Generations: Assimilation, Segregation, and Workplace Contexts

How Work Organizations Shape Ethnic Stratification across Immigrant Generations: Assimilation, Segregation, and Workplace Contexts

Awarded: NOK 14.8 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

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

Gestural Meanings: Typology and Interface Constraints

The proposed project 'Gestural Meanings: Typology and Interface Constraints' (GeMeTIC) will investigate how gestures, i.e., hand/body movements and facial expressions, contribute to the meaning of spoken utterances. This question has recently gained substantial traction in formal semantics and pr...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2022

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

4DSpace: integrated study for space weather at high latitudes

4DSpace: integrated study for space weather at high latitudes

Awarded: NOK 19.7 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo