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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-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)

Migration and its societal impact have never been higher on the agenda than in our globalized world, which is why it features prominently in the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 13. It is a challenge that not only poses problems, but also offers opportunities in various ways. The possibility of a posi...

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-INFRA-Research infrastructures

Towards an Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope

Observations of the sky at sub-millimeter and millimeter ((sub)mm) wavelengths have yielded transformational results in the study of the origin of chemical complexity, the birth of stars and planetary systems, the evolution of galaxies across cosmic times and the large-scale architecture of the U...

Awarded: NOK 11.6 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Genetics, Geography and the Intergenerational Transmission of Maternal Depression Risk

We can all name a family member, close friend, colleague or acquaintance who has suffered from depression. It is a common, pervasive and devastating illness characterised by persistent episodes of low mood. Depression affects individuals across all geographical locations and by the year 2030 it w...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo

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

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

Since Roman law, all entities have been categorized and regulated either as persons or as things (subjects or objects). However, this conceptual, epistemological and regulatory dualism is currently being challenged by disruptive research and innovation, among which organoid research is a prominen...

Awarded: NOK 7.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

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

Many of the world’s top refugee-hosting countries have neither signed nor ratified the 1951 Refugee Convention. So do international conventions make a difference? The Refugee Convention represents a paradigmatic – and exceptionally timely – test of this theoretical and empirical puzzle, for refug...

Awarded: NOK 14.8 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-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-HEALTH-Health, demographic change and wellbeing

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

The Gravitate-Health mission is to equip and empower citizens with digital information tools that make them confident, active, and responsive in their patient journey, specifically encouraging safe use of medicines for better health outcomes and quality of life. It is our vision that engagement o...

Awarded: NOK 32.1 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Viken 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-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Globalizing Anti-Feminism: A Phenomenology of Transnational Networks of Islamic Women Organizations

This project seeks to study global Islamic women organizations and the emerging transnational movement they represent. These organizations are characterized by an opposition against what they perceive as feminism and westernization and have a global pro-activeness that seek to produce emancipator...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Musical and Poetic Creativity for A Unique Moment in the Western Christian Liturgy, c.1000-1500

BENEDICAMUS pursues a transformative focus on creative practices surrounding a particular moment in the Western Christian liturgy: the exclamation Benedicamus Domino (“Let us Bless the Lord”), which sounded in song several times a day from c.1000 to 1500. This moment was granted special musical l...

Awarded: NOK 19.6 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

4DSpace: integrated study for space weather at high latitudes

Ionosphere is the partially ionized, outermost part of the Earth’s atmosphere. Its dynamics is inherently complex and affected by dynamic conditions in the solar wind. In the polar regions, it is directly coupled to the Earth’s magnetosphere and space plasma. The polar ionosphere is subject to th...

Awarded: NOK 19.7 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-ERC-European Research Council

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

Large-scale immigration has introduced salient new dimensions of ethnic stratification in Europe’s rich, liberal democracies—successful incorporation of disadvantaged, newcomer immigrant minorities now poses a critical challenge for the 21st century. Despite a vast literature on labor market ineq...

Awarded: NOK 14.8 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-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

The Dematerialization of Fashion and France's Couture Propaganda during the 1960s and 1970s

FASHION IN IR aims to study the role of French women’s sartorial fashion in its international relations with a focus on both its interaction with the Common Market and its influence on the American mass market during the 1960s and 1970s. This approach is meant to open up the fields of Fashion His...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2022

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Social Systems in Transition: The Meaning of Collective Identity and the Interpretation and Translation of the Greek Term Sarx in Paul’s Letters

The aim of the project is to explore community differentiation implications arising from the Greek term sarx in Paul’s letters. The choice of primary material is based on the observation that this term recurs in settings where collective identity is established, and where the salvific capacity of...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2022

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Towards Precision Psychiatry

The intricacies of the human mind and its disorders are one of the remaining modern-day enigmas. Whereas recent advances in brain imaging and genetics are currently changing the clinical neurosciences by identifying novel general mechanisms of complex traits underlying risk and resilience at the ...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2022

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

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

This project proposes the first systematic study of Coptic apocrypha covering the entire timespan of Coptic literary production, and it aims to do so with unprecedented methodological sophistication. Apocrypha is here defined as (1) texts and traditions that develop or expand upon characters and ...

Awarded: NOK 19.7 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo

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

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

New Exploration Tools for European Pegmatite Green-Tech Resources

The manufacture of devices for green energy production and storage in Europe is a strategic, fast-growing sector which is essential in ensuring that the EU meets its energy and climate targets for 2030. It is worth an estimated €30 Bn in turnover, with investments of €4 Bn in the EU27, and is lik...

Awarded: NOK 27.5 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage og 2 andre

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: Viken og 2 andre

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Finding Flow: Negotiating diverse temporalities in migrant family life

Based at the Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan (MultiLing) at the University of Oslo, this project will undertake a critical sociolinguistic ethnography by way of a new innovative approach - rhythmanalysis - to explore the temporal dimensions of migrant adaptation processe...

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-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-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: Trøndelag - Trööndelage 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

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