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H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Time and quantification in cognition, communication and cultural practice

This project investigates the relationship between time and number in human cognition, focusing on how this relationship is culturally and linguistically configured. This area remains under-researched in traditional societies speaking endangered languages. The experienced researcher will carry o...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Vestland

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Arctic Regime Adaptation to Great Power Competition: The Security Dimension

The security agenda of modern and foreseeable Arctic politics substantially depends on the interactions between the U.S., Russia, and China. The ambition of this project is to figure out how to improve the Arctic regime to make it a more effective instrument for solving security problems amid the...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku - Tromssa ja Finmarkku

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Safety and Resilience through Digital Practices: A Participatory Study with Women at the Intersection of Gender-Based Violence and Immigration in Norway

Rahaf Mohammed, an 18-year-old Saudi woman who was subjected to domestic violence, utilized social media to make her voice heard by foreign authorities. Via this ‘digital’ call for help, she successfully escaped violence. The internationally recognized #metoo movement became active on social medi...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Rogaland

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Impact of Timanian faults on Arctic Tectonics

ArcTec proposes to study (1) the westward extent, kinematics and timing of formation, and (2) reactivation–overprint of Timanian (i.e., ca. 600 million years old) faults during subsequent tectonic events in the Arctic, and to (3) insert these faults into a detailed tectonic evolution model for Sv...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Cloud-Phase Feedback and Climate: bridging the gap between observation and simulation

Earth’s climate is rapidly changing, with major socioeconomic consequences. A key scientific challenge is to improve climate-model projections by reducing uncertainty in cloud-climate feedbacks. The proposed research will investigate a cloud-feedback mechanism that has a potentially powerful but ...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

The evolutionary origins and consequences of bipolarity in Hydrozoa.

Bipolarity, or the presence of the same species in both polar regions, has intrigued the scientific community over centuries. Almost the entire tree of life taxa, from microbes to whales, are known to include some bipolar representatives inhabiting the Arctic and the Antarctic. However, our knowl...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Vestland

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Exploring the underlying mechanIsms of partial leptin reduction towards a non-invasive obesity therapy

Leptin regulates energy balance by functioning as a “satiety signal”. When identified 26 years ago, expectations were high that leptin therapies could be used for the treatment of obesity. In contrast to the successful use of leptin for treatment of individuals with lipodystrophy and complete lep...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Vestland

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Micro-level Politics of Peace

Peace settlements are elite pacts that ignore the views of the population, those most affected by the conflict, which leads to a lack of buy-in for sustainable peace. The project “Micro-level Politics of Peace” (MICROPOLPAX) puts individuals at the centre of the focus and asks what peace means to...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

SUITCASES – Adaptive photobiont community assemblage as a process of lichen response to changing environments

Lichens – are complex and dynamic symbiotic entities formed by fungi living together with algal photobionts. They are key organisms for alpine, tundra and taiga biomes. They are famous for their tremendous adaptive ability to a wide range of environments and also to the harshest conditions such ...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Succinate-induced leukemic stem cell formation via epigenetic remodeling of hematopoietic stem cell

In life, no matter how small, changes can have huge impact on its quality. For hematopoietic stem cells (HSC), similar can happen. Through minor shifts, from normal to pre-leukemic and finally leukemic phenotype, generation of leukemic stem cells (LSC) results in overt malignancy, such is acute m...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku - Tromssa ja Finmarkku

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Fucoxanthin Upregulation through Combined Omics and Metabolically Improving Control Segments

The growing awareness towards health and disease prevention holds a great future globally for naturally derived nutraceuticals. This has led to a dramatic increase in demands of naturally synthesized carotenoids, particularly fucoxanthin. This golden-brown carotenoid is used as anti-oxidant, anti...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Vestland

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Shaping European Research Leaders for Marine Sustainability

SEAS will provide exceptional inter- and transdisciplinary research and training opportunities, supported by a dedicated team supervision and inter-sectoral mentoring scheme for 37 ERs in the area of marine sustainability, a strategic focus of the beneficiary University of Bergen, Norway. The SEA...

Awarded: NOK 43.8 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Vestland

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Healthcare Access in Rural Border Regions. Realizing Patient Rights Across European Borders

The fellowship – Healthcare Access in Rural Border Regions. Realizing Patient Rights Across European Borders (HARBOR) – will launch the first cross-national and multi-scalar study of cross-border interactions and their impact on access to healthcare in rural and disadvantaged border areas in Euro...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Multilingual sentence processing in real-time

The project INSPIRE (multilINgual Sentence Processing In Real-timE) will investigate two potential factors that influence multilingual sentence processing, cross-linguistic influence and language dominance, to shed light on the ongoing debate about how the language systems in a multilingual speak...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku - Tromssa ja Finmarkku

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Smart Planning, Operation and Control for Energy Internet

The planning, operation and control is of importance to the Energy Internet (EI). With large numbers of energy routers (ERs) integrated into EI, the EI system becomes more complex and variable. This state of affairs renders it is necessary to develop new architecture, modelling, optimization and ...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

The role of bacteriocins in shaping oral biofilms

In the BOB project, the role of bacteriocins in shaping oral biofilms will be investigated by moving a Spanish researcher currently working in Ireland to the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Bacteriocins are antimicrobial peptides produced by bacteria primarily known as killer peptides, and...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Viken

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Heritage Language Acquisition: The qualitative nature of input and cross-linguistic influence

This project aims to fill important gaps in our existing knowledge of Heritage Language (HL) acquisition, a subfield of bilingualism studies. While most previous research has focused on describing how HLs diverge from their monolingual baselines, the main objective of HeLA is to understand why he...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku - Tromssa ja Finmarkku

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

High Asian Icy Landscapes during warm interstadials (HAIL): coupling between monsoon intensity and past glacier culminations?

The cryosphere of High-Mountain Asia (HMA) is extremely sensitive to shifts in air temperature and precipitation, with its glaciers and ice caps not only responding to the present warming but also to changes in the intensity of prevailing atmospheric circulation systems. One such system–the Asian...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Intelligent and Sustainable Aerial-Terrestrial IoT Networks

Environment disasters linked to climate change are predicted to cause huge economic loss of 200 billion Euros and endanger millions of people annually and globally by 2040. Internet-of-Things (IoT) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are two promising technologies that can monitor environment cha...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Break-Through Rocks

Deformation in Earth’s crust localizes onto faults that may rupture rapidly producing earthquakes or undergo slow aseismic slip. The detailed mechanisms that control the transition between the seismic and aseismic regimes and the onset of earthquakes remain unknown. These mechanisms control the g...

Awarded: NOK 27.6 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Minuscule Texts: Marginalized Voices in Early Medieval Latin Culture (c. 700–c. 1000)

MINiTEXTS seeks to systematically study early medieval minuscule texts, i.e. short texts of which large numbers were added to blank spaces of Latin manuscripts from c. 700 to c. 1000 and which manuscript scholars refer to as “microtexts,” “guest texts,” or “additions.” Unlike such manuscripts’ ma...

Awarded: NOK 26.7 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Coupled cluster theory for polaritons: changing molecular properties with quantum light

The chemistry of light-matter states (polaritonic chemistry) is a relatively new research area in chemistry. Recent experiments have demonstrated that molecular polaritons can have a profound impact on the outcome of chemical reactions taking place inside cavities. Molecular polaritons are formed...

Awarded: NOK 26.8 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

H20-INFRA-Research infrastructures

Storage Research Infrastructure Eco-System

According to the European Green Deal goals, new energy storage technologies will supply more flexibility and balance in the grid, providing a back-up to intermittent renewable energy and contribute to seasonal energy storage challenges. Above all, the main challenge for energy storage development...

Awarded: NOK 9.5 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage og 3 andre

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

understanding PLAstic pollutioN effects on the biogeochemical cycle of ElemenTs

Plastic and microplastic pollution is a global environmental and societal concern. While focus has been placed on assessing the direct impacts on biota, indirect ecological effects are unexplored. Following very recent (and unexpected) laboratory evidences of a considerable binding between metals...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Soviet Ellipses: Omissions as Techniques of Border Transgression in Photography, Literature, and Everyday Life

This research action at the University of Oslo (UiO) deals with the creation and representation of ellipses (i.e. conscious omissions) in Soviet photography, literature, and everyday life. It sets out from the premise that the accumulation of omission practices during Soviet times (1917–1991) did...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Metal graphdiyne towards electrochemical water splitting

Hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) are two key half-reactions in electrochemical water splitting, which is an eco-friendly technology to produce hydrogen. Both of the half-reactions are limited by high overpotentials and interaction between the reactions. Until ...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Vestfold og Telemark

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Design of a monolithic matter-wave interferometer for gravity sensing and navigation

Interferometry is a universal, precision metrology tool. Matter wave interferometers have been developed over the last decades and are now used as gravimeters for prospecting and geoscience and in fundamental studies, i.e. of quantum coherence, gravitational constant measurements and dielectric r...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Vestland

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Investigation of Climatic Events - Cooling and Ash in the Palaeogene

The Palaeogene period in the early Cenozoic (66 – 23 million year ago) saw the transition of the Earth’s climate state from Greenhouse (with no polar ice-caps, as characterised the entire Mesozoic) to Icehouse (as we see today with Polar ice caps). Understanding the dynamics in climate during suc...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Gender-Gap in Political Endurance: a novel political inclusion theory

Democracies are under pressure worldwide: The political landscape is rapidly changing, with new parties emerging and old ones suffering, as voters turn away from established parties. We also witness a significant gender-gap in political endurance, meaning that women’s careers as elected represent...

Awarded: NOK 25.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Advanced Methodologies for Next Generation Large Scale CMB Polarization Analysis

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation was emitted when the Universe was 380,000 years old and is observed today at 2.7 K. It is a wonderful probe to study the evolution of the Universe. Tiny anisotropies in its temperature and polarization are induced by quantum scalar (density) and ten...

Awarded: NOK 0.99 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

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