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MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

The Division of Matrimonial Wealth in Malay Polygyny & the Codification of Culture in Malaysian Islamic Family Law

This project is an anthropological investigation into the division of matrimonial assets in the Malaysian Islamic family law (IFL) from a socio-legal and gendered perspective. The concept of matrimonial assets is not officially recognized in classical Islamic law; rather, it is an adat (customary...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Vestland

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Resilient Solutions for Coastal, Urban, Estuarine and Riverine Environments

The Doctoral Network (DN) “RESCUER“ (Resilient Solutions for Coastal, Urban, Estuarine and Riverine Environments) will focus on the training of young researchers (Fellows) in the general area of coastal oceanography, hydraulic and coastal engineering, applied mathematics, and scientific computati...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Vestland og 2 andre

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Bergen research and training program for future AI leaders across the disciplines

Bergen research and training program for future AI leaders across the disciplines

Awarded: NOK 29.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Vestland og 4 andre

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Decoding Death and Dying in people with Dementia by Digital thanotyping

Decoding Death and Dying in people with Dementia by Digital thanotyping

Awarded: NOK 20.2 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Vestland

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Resilient northern overturning in a warming climate

Resilient northern overturning in a warming climate

Awarded: NOK 30.3 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Vestland

CL1-Health

Targeting Epstein-Barr Virus Infection for Treatment and Prevention of Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory and degenerative disease of the central nervous system (CNS). It constitutes the most common non-traumatic cause of neurological impairment among young and middle-aged people and represents a major healthcare burden. Our recent research strongly i...

Awarded: NOK 29.6 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Buskerud og 5 andre

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Dynamic Magnetosphere Ionosphere Thermosphere coupling

DynaMIT addresses a fundamental misunderstanding of how Earth is coupled to space in the polar ionosphere. Here, the neutral atmosphere collides with charged particles influenced by electromagnetic fields, profoundly impacting the dynamics of the atmosphere and its surroundings. Despite being the...

Awarded: NOK 20.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Vestland

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Connecting Resonances: A decolonial intervention into Sound Studies by listening to the Global South

The proposed project intends to create a fertile entry point into the history, practice and aesthetics of sound media in South Asia as a key area of the Global South, aiming to understand the unique auditory cultures and sonic sensibility of this under-explored area in the light of the transcultu...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Vestland

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Atmospheric blocking under global warming - sources of uncertainty in climate predictions and projections.

Cold spells, heatwaves and droughts have severe socio-economic impacts and are related to a peculiar phenomenon known as ‘atmospheric blocking’. Accurate and timely prediction of blocking frequency and strength is therefore of enormous importance. However, despite decades of research, climate mod...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Vestland

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Contested Knowledges in and through Asylum Litigation

Contested Knowledges in and through Asylum Litigation

Awarded: NOK 15.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Vestland

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Music as an invitation: liveness in digital piano performances through participating audiences

Music as an invitation: liveness in digital piano performances through participating audiences

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Vestland

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Network Inpainting via Optimal Transport

Network Inpainting via Optimal Transport

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Vestland

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Data-Driven Approaches in Computational Mechanics for the Aerohydroelastic Analysis of Offshore Wind Turbines

Data-Driven Approaches in Computational Mechanics for the Aerohydroelastic Analysis of Offshore Wind Turbines

Awarded: NOK 20.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Vestland

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Distributed and prepared. A new theory of citizens' public connection networks in the age of datafication

Distributed and prepared. A new theory of citizens' public connection networks in the age of datafication

Awarded: NOK 20.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Tracking the deep evolutionary origins of neurons

Tracking the deep evolutionary origins of neurons

Awarded: NOK 20.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Fundamentals of formal properties of nonmanuals: A quantitative approach

Sign languages, in addition to using the hands, also use positions and movements of other articulators: the body, the head, the mouth, the eyebrows, the eyes and the eyelids, to convey lexical, grammatical, and prosodic information. This linguistic use of the nonmanual articulators is known as no...

Awarded: NOK 15.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

3D diamond growth

Diamond, due its outstanding properties, is a desired material to coat various objects for medical, bioelectronics, optical, aerospace, marine and other applications. However, achieving uniform coatings on complex-shaped 3D objects is still a not overcome challenge due to 2D nature of current dep...

Awarded: NOK 15.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Towards Operational Supermodel Climate Prediction

TOSCP will proof-of-concept a radically new approach to climate prediction based on supermodelling. Climate prediction promises reliable information on climate and its extremes for the coming seasons and years. This information is critical to providing climate services that are needed to build a ...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2024

Location: Vestland

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Versatile water vapour isotope calibration device (VISOR) for laboratory and field use

Climatic change will have large impacts on the global water cycle, and thus on hazardous weather and the availability of water to society. Earth observation from the ground and space is necessary to detect how and where the water cycle changes. The stable isotope composition of water vapour and p...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Vestland

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

The Micro-Level Effects of Civil Wars on Multiple Dimensions of Women's Empowerment

WarEffects aims to advance a systematic, nuanced, and rigorous understanding of how civil wars affect women’s social and political empowerment at the local level. Recent quantitative research suggests that civil wars promote women’s political representation, but these accounts reflect country-lev...

Awarded: NOK 18.1 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Vestland

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

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

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

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

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

Fucoxanthin Upregulation through Combined Omics and Metabolically Improving Control Segments

Fucoxanthin Upregulation through Combined Omics and Metabolically Improving Control Segments

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Vestland

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-ERC-European Research Council

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

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

Awarded: NOK 25.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Developing an Adverse Outcome Pathway for metabolic Nuclear Receptor-binding compounds in Atlantic cod

Environmental contaminants are accumulating in oceans and marine food webs and thereby pose a risk for both ecosystem and human health. In my MSCA-project, I aspire to bring the field of environmental toxicology to the next level by applying my track-record in developing Adverse Outcome Pathways ...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Vestland

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Fluid Inclusion Microthermometry in Speleothems

Ongoing global warming is rapidly moving us away from the climate states we are used to and understand from observational time series. This poses the urgent need to extend our “climate memory” by deciphering climate information stored in geologic archives. However, obtaining quantitative estimate...

Awarded: NOK 21.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Evolution of Cognitive Tools for Quantification

Exact quantification, including the ability to count, depends on both conceptual breakthroughs and cognitive tools such as numeral systems. These tools appear in striking diversity across cultures and manifest in different modalities (verbal, body-based, written, or material). To address the tant...

Awarded: NOK 28.6 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Vestland