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H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

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

LiVE provides a historically informed comparative ethnography of contemporary vulture conservation in changing European landscapes. It investigates how the global phenomena of accelerating species loss and corresponding wildlife management unfold within specific historical and cultural contexts. ...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

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

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

Awarded: NOK 19.7 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Towards Precision Psychiatry

Towards Precision Psychiatry

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2022

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

The Emergence, Life, and Demise of Autocratic Regimes

ELDAR will investigate three aspects of autocratic politics: 1) the emergence of autocratic regimes; 2) policy-making (“life”) in autocracies in the areas of education, infrastructure, pensions and media regulation; 3) autocratic regime breakdown. ELDAR offers a comprehensive perspective, highlig...

Awarded: NOK 19.7 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

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

The Holy Grail of selective C-H activation has been vigorously pursued for more than 70 years in all areas of catalysis - homogeneous, heterogeneous and biological - yet with scarce cross-fertilization. CUBE will bridge this gap, by synergistically disclosing the secrets of Cu-containing biologic...

Awarded: NOK 56.2 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Oslo og 2 andre

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

New Exploration Tools for European Pegmatite Green-Tech Resources

New Exploration Tools for European Pegmatite Green-Tech Resources

Awarded: NOK 27.5 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Oslo og 2 andre

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Finding Flow: Negotiating diverse temporalities in migrant family life

Finding Flow: Negotiating diverse temporalities in migrant family life

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-HEALTH-Health, demographic change and wellbeing

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

Breast Cancer (BC) is the first cause of cancer-related death in women worldwide. Breast cancer is classified into well-recognized molecular subtypes. Despite solid pre-clinical evidence, only some patients benefit from administering drug combinations, an indication that patient and tumor heterog...

Awarded: NOK 18.4 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Oslo og 2 andre

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-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

MORPHEMIC proposes a unique way of adapting and optimizing Cloud computing applications by introducing the novel concepts of polymorph architecture and proactive adaptation. The former is when a component can run in different technical forms, i.e. in a Virtual Machine (VM), in a container, as a b...

Awarded: NOK 6.5 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2022

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Secretion, Autophagy and their role in Neurodegeneration

Neurodegenerative disorders are among the leading causes of mortality and will become more relevant in our continuously aging societies. Most neurodegenerative disorders exhibit alterations in proteostasis, i.e. an imbalance between protein production, sorting and degradation. The secretory and t...

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

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

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

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

IPG_CORE examines the grammatical properties of German, Norwegian, and Swedish impersonal pronouns outside of and inside attitude contexts (i.e., sentential arguments of attitude verbs, like "believe"). The aim is to provide new linguistic data and theoretical results that allow us to settle the ...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2021

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

American Norwegian Sound Systems and Language Contact

American Norwegian Sound Systems and Language Contact

Awarded: NOK 2.1 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

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-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

In this project, we will use social modifications of heritability as measurement devices for assessing how social conditions shape opportunity structures, and how human potential is either constrained or enabled. Major themes in family demography and social stratification such as equality of oppo...

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

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

Awarded: NOK 19.2 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-ENERGY-Secure, clean and efficient energy

Efficient CO2 conversion over multisite Zeolite-Metal nanocatalysts to fuels and OlefinS

Efficient CO2 conversion over multisite Zeolite-Metal nanocatalysts to fuels and OlefinS

Awarded: NOK 10.7 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage og 2 andre

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

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Recurrent disease in the liver transplant: window to identify and stop gut signals driving autoimmunity

Recurrent disease in the liver transplant: window to identify and stop gut signals driving autoimmunity

Awarded: NOK 14.4 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-SOCIETY-Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective Societies

EU Differentiation, Dominance and Democracy

The UK’s decision to leave the EU sent shock-waves through an EU that had gone through an unprecedented process of integration extending for seven decades. Brexit came at a propitious moment for a Union that was still reeling from the effects of the Euro-crisis, the refugee crisis and other chall...

Awarded: NOK 6.8 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Relativistic and Dynamic effects in Computational NMR Spectroscopy of transition-metal complexes

Relativistic and Dynamic effects in Computational NMR Spectroscopy of transition-metal complexes

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2021

Location: Oslo