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BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Tools and Techiques for Global Leadership Development in Norwegian MNEs

Norwegian firms in all industries are increasingly investing in value generating activities abroad. This project is aimed particularly at those Norwegian multinational enterprises (MNEs) that contain knowledge-rich subsidiaries. These are faced by the cha llenge of how to utilize those knowledge-...

Awarded: NOK 5.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Environmentally Friendly Fungicides, Combinatorial Synthesis and Screening of Chitooligosaccharides

The research proposed in this project application complements ongoing activities on the use of chitooligosaccharides (CHOS) as environmentally friendly fungicides. CHOS inhibit chitinases, enzymatic systems that allows fungi to grow. The project focuses o n chemical approaches to production of fu...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

KLINISK-Klinisk forskning

Stimulating self-management in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome through web-based situational feedback

Self-management of chronic pain is increasingly seen as an important tool in providing adequate care to patients with Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) and other types of Chronic Non-malignant Pain. Enhancing the patient's self-management of his condition is th ought to be effective in reducing pain an...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

FRINETT - RESSURSNETTVERKET FOR FRI PROGRAMVARE

Fri programvare representerer det raskest voksende segmentet i programvaremarkedet. Gartner Group antar at dette markedet vil 8 dobles på 5 år og vil vokse til 1/5 av det totale programvaremarkedet i 2008. EU gjennomførte nylig en kartlegging av verdiskap ning knyttet til fri programvare i Europa...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

DEECON - Unravelling population connectivity for sustainable fisheries in the Deep Sea (EuroDEEP)

Over-exploitation of traditional coastal stocks has resulted in the shift of commercial harvesting towards less-known, deep-sea living resources in many parts of the world. Most of these "new" fisheries are now proving to be unsustainable. A key to our ab ility to manage these fisheries and prote...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Ressursnettverk: Universell Utforming og IKT

I Stortingsmelding nr. 17 2006/2007 (IKT-meldingen) formuleres det som en målsetning for regjeringen at all teknologisk utvikling med IKT innen offentlig sektor skal bygge på universelt utformede løsninger. Videre oppfordrer regjeringen privat sektor til å gjøre det samme. Universell utforming ge...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Bruk og drift av TH!NK hydrogen-biler i HyNor

TH!NK hydrogen er en enestående bil i verden med elektrisk/brenselcelle løsning. HyNor ønsker å bidra enda sterkere til at norske TH!NK utvikler seg til å bli et internasjonalt salgsprodukt. Dette gjør HyNor best gjennom å være de første brukerne av de fø rste bilen(e) i sine knutepunkt og gjenno...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Harvesting at lower trophic levels - stock assessment and ecological consequences

The demand for feed to the aquaculture industry has shown a strong increase over the last years in parallel with the increase in total production within the industry. Estimated growth in the fish farming industry is supposed to cause a permanent shortage of marine oils within a few years, and of ...

Awarded: NOK 11.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Vestland

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

Energy Balance and Breast Cancer Aspects. A randomised clinical trial with physical activity interventio

Breast cancer requires intense and prolonged treatments often associated with significant side effects, also influencing their levels of physical activity after diagnosis. New evidence from large cohort studies supports a role of physical activity in redu cing recurrence and improving survival. A...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

SFF-Sentre for fremragende forskn

Centre for Geobiology, CGB Deep Seafloor, Deep Biosphere & Roots of Life

The Centre for Geobiology (CGB), was established in 2007 as a Centre of Excellence (CoE) with funding from the Research Council of Norway?s (RCN?s) second CoE funding call. According to its original application, CGB?s goals were to - establish a new interdisciplinary field - Geobiology - at t...

Awarded: NOK 103.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2017

Location: Vestland

DEMOSREG-Demokrati, styring og regional

Strategiske regioner i spenningsfeltet mellom demokratisk styring og effektivitet

Regionene har lenge vært et hett tema. Det gjelder så vel i diskursen omkring forvaltningspolitiske reformer som betingelser for utviklingen av bærekraftige regioner. Utgangspunktet for dette prosjektet er at det i skyggen av disse diskursene har grodd fr am et omfattende sett av samarbeidstiltak...

Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

New materials and methods for placement of a thin layer cap on contaminated seabed

The Norwegian Ministry of the Environment identified remediation of contaminated sediments as important. The total release of contaminants to the fjord environment from larger areas with moderate contaminant levels can be greater than that from smaller ar eas with higher contaminant concentration...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Plain building - plain sailing? Exploitation of knowledge in the building and construction industry

The project analyzes how knowledge is utilized in the building and construction industry, in order to find out why existing knowledge is underutilized. The project is carried out by NIFU STEP in collaboration with BI, Veidekke, BNL and other firms and org anisations in the building and constructi...

Awarded: NOK 11.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Biopolymer Engineering

The project is based on a multidisciplinary research platform with extensive industry co-operation to perform research on marine biopolymers and their microbially produced analogues, providing novel biomaterials, initially designed for drug delivery syste ms, tissue engineering, nutraceuticals an...

Awarded: NOK 24.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Norsk produsert økologisk frukt til forbrukarane

AL Gartnerhallen og BAMA ynskjer å stette etterspurnaden etter økologisk frukt hjå sine kundar, og vi har sett oss som mål at minst 15 % av fruktomsettinga skal vere norskprodusert økologisk vare innan 2015, noko som er i tråd med regjeringa sitt mål. Der som Gartnerhallen/BAMA skal nå dette måle...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

SAM-EU-Samfinansiering EU-kontoret

EFFORTS Effective Operation in Ports

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Awarded: NOK 0.98 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SAM-EU-Samfinansiering EU-kontoret

ENEPO - EU Eastern Neighbourhood: Economic Potential and Future Development

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Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

SAM-EU-Samfinansiering EU-kontoret

The competitiveness of firms, regions and industries in the knowledge-based economy: What room for job-rich growth in Europe (MICRO-DYN)

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Awarded: NOK 0.37 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

CLIMIT-Forskning, utvikling og demo av CO2-håndtering

Thermophysical properties of CO2/H2O mixtures Condensation processes relevant for oxy-fuel cycles

Condensers for separation of CO2 and steam are central devices in oxygen-fired power plants with CO2 capture, so called Oxy-Fuel processes. The project aims at studying the fluid flow dynamics, the heat transfer process, and the condensation process for C O2/H2O mixtures in order to provide neces...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Rogaland

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Witwatersrand Central Basin Mine Water Apportionment Pilot Study

NIVA and CGS are to embark on a pilot study to develop methodologies and techniques to determine ecological footprints and volumetric contributions for apportioning liability for sustainable management of pollution and water ingress into underground gold mine openings of the Witwatersrand Central...

Awarded: NOK 0.77 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

The Artic Eye

The TV-documetary will show the scientific methodes and results from some of the science programs going on at NY Ålesund, Svalbard. I will stress that this is a marginal place for life and thats why it is an eye for what is going on when it comes to pollu tion and climate change. (se the main te...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Oslo

NANO2021-Nanoteknologi og nye materiale

Modeling and Fabrication of Nanowire Lasers

Semiconductor NWs are of both large fundamental and technological interest and have generated enormous interest worldwide in the past few years. These free-standing NWs are usually obtained by epitaxial growth on semiconductor surfaces with predeposited m etal nanoparticles. The NW diameter is fi...

Awarded: NOK 10.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIMED-Klinisk medisin og folkehelse

Multi-modal imaging: The importance of fiber connections for cognitive function, brain activity and brain structure in research and clinic

The main objectives of this project are 1) integration of informations from different neuroimaging methods (diffusion tensor imaging [DTI], structural MRI, functional MRI [fMRI], event-related potentials [ERP]) and refined cognitive measures, 2) use these methods to understand the biological fou...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Metabolic Profiling of Rubus (Cloudberry and Raspberry): Effect of Inheritance and Environment on Phytochemicals Beneficial to Human Health

Raspberry (Rubus idaeus) and cloudberry (R. chamaemorus) are closely related species of the Rubus genus. Raspberry is economically important in several countries and many different varieties exist. Conversely there are only four commercial available varie ties of cloudberry. These have been selec...

Awarded: NOK 0.66 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Innlandet

NANOMAT-Nanoteknologi og nye materialer

Development of novel sonosensitive liposomes for targeted ultrasound mediated drug delivery - a new paradigm within cancer therapy.

A serious limitation of conventional chemotherapy is the unspecific distribution of cytotoxic drugs within the body resulting in reduced therapeutic efficacy and systemic side effects. In contrast, cytotoxic drugs formulated as nanoparticulate or liposoma l delivery systems favour accumulation in...

Awarded: NOK 8.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

FRIMED-Klinisk medisin og folkehelse

Effects of Pregnancy, Lactation and Menopause on Bone Health

Fragility fractures are a common public health problem particularly in Scandinavia. The pathogenesis of bone fragility is multi-factorial. Two factors will be studied ? the effect of pregnancy and menopause. Whether pregnancy and lactation result in bo ne loss is not clear, and if so, whether ...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NANOMAT-Nanoteknologi og nye materialer

Manufacturing and application of metal coated polymer particles as BGA/CSP balls in electronic interconnect

Norwegian particle technology have been of a very high international standard for decades, not least due to ground-breaking R&D at SINTEF / NTNU. Conpart has through the supply agreement signed with a world leading manufacturer already shown that this tec hnology represents a very interesting alt...

Awarded: NOK 8.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Utvikling av nye miljø- og kostnadseffektive løsninger for emballering og distribusjon av økologisk dyrket frukt- og grøntprodukter

Målet for prosjektet er å bidra til økt omsetning av økologisk frukt og grønt og å sikre at emballering og distribusjon av økologisk frukt og grønt har høy verdikjede-effektivitet og dermed sikre en optimal miljø- og ressursprofil for produktene Basis fo r prosjektet er ønsket fra en stor del av...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Arctic Climate Change and Variability Connected to the Stratosphere

The aim of this proposal is to investigate the impact of climate change on stratospheric ozone recovery, using a state-of-the-art, coupled chemistry-climate model (CCM), and, in turn, to analyse the feedbacks of stratospheric ozone changes onto the climat e of the northern high latitudes. Simulat...

Awarded: NOK 6.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

SFI-Sentre for forskningsdrevet innovasjon

FACE - Multiphase Flow Assurance Innovation Centre

Flerfaseforskning i Norge strekker seg tilbake til 1980-tallet da utviklingen av felter som Ekofisk, Statfjord og Gullfaks ble igangsatt. Disse feltene stilte helt nye krav til kontroll på flyt av flerfase gass og væske i rørledningene og nye, lange trans portledninger med gass og kondensat ble i...

Awarded: NOK 80.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2015

Location: Akershus