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H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

The neoMONSTERS Within: The Others in India’s Science Fiction

The Science Fiction (SF) of a spatio-temporal location is a window into the soul of a people. It manifests the “cultural unease” that specific identities evoke in the national imagination. SF not only demonstrates how contesting ideologies slug it out within the ring of the popular but also inter...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

A Gendered History of Emotions in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy

WomenThinkingLove will provide the first History of Emotions of Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy, with regard to the system love/marriage/adultery, from a gender perspective. As Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy are still under-investigated from the perspective of the History of ...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Combining Machine Learning and Quantum Chemistry for the Design of Homogeneous Catalysts

While machine learning (ML) methods are already commonly applied in heterogeneous catalysis, the use of such methods for the design of homogeneous catalysts is a largely overlooked field. A recent proof-of-principle study showed the huge potential of ML in homogeneous catalysis by demonstrating t...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Novelties, Biases, and Landscapes in Evolution

Several challenges undermine our ability to predict the course of evolution: the likelihood of evolutionary novelties, the impact of the adaptive landscape, and the influence of developmental biases. NOBLE (NOvelties, Biases, and Landscapes in Evolution) will make use of cutting-edge machine lear...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Incremental Sound Change in Oslo (ISC-Oslo)

The project "Incremental Sound Change in Oslo" (ISC-Oslo) will investigate the socio-demographic origins of five ongoing phonetic changes in a post-hoc phonetic analysis of two corpora from the early 2000s. Working-class children and youth have been identified as one of the main sources of lang...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Mathematical and Numerical Modelling of Process-Structure Interaction in Fractured Geothermal Systems

In the development and production of high-temperature geothermal resources, large induced gradients in pressure and temperature during injection operations results in complex dynamics. This includes boiling of geothermal fluids and deformation of the fractured rock, dynamics that are currently no...

Awarded: NOK 21.4 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Artificial Intelligence Model for Cognitive Assessment for infants and Children

The development of the understanding of normal and especially pathological human brain development is as important as ever, and has the potential to unlock enormous clinical benefits. It is essential to understand the underlying reasons that leads to faulty brain development in premature babies, ...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Smart and CO2 neutral Olefin Production by arTificial Intelligence and MAchine Learning

The proposed project is to develop and maintain long term collaborations between Europe and China towards CO2 neutral Olefin production. We will realize this objective by carrying out joint research in big data and artificial intelligence (AI) for ethylene plants integrated with carbon capture an...

Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

TraCS - Training in Computational Science

The use of computing is revolutionizing research, industry, government and society, and new skills are needed to be competitive. The COMPSCI doctoral program will train science researchers and innovators with disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transferable skills and a foundation in computationa...

Awarded: NOK 25.7 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

The changing relationships between digital technologies, DNA and evidence

The relationship between digital technologies, DNA and evidence is changing so rapidly and profoundly that in-depth and creative analyses of the links between them are urgently needed. Digital innovations within forensic DNA analysis affect the making of DNA evidence. For example, new computer pr...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Control of light vehicle-manipulator systems

The advent of light and freely moving autonomous robots that can perform complex and versatile operations in challenging environments, involving highly precise and forceful physical interactions, would represent a scientific breakthrough. In such robots, kinematics and dynamics will be intimately...

Awarded: NOK 26.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Made in Sweatshops. Worker, technology and Gender (comparison Paris-Shanghai, Late 19th c.-Late 20th c.)

Made in SweatShops. Worker, Technology and Gender (Comparison Paris-Shanghai, Late 19th c.-Late 20th c.) Made in Sweatshops (MISS) proposes to study the female workers in the clothing industry through an analysis of workshop techniques and a comparison between two major manufacturing centres: Par...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

A probabilistic framework for assessing polar wander – Constraining paleolongitude in deep time

The quantification of past plate motions is of paramount importance to advancing our understanding of Earth’s evolution. Plate motions of the last ~130 Ma are well-resolved from magnetic isochrons and hotspot tracks, but as those records are progressively destroyed by subduction, they cannot be u...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-FET-Future and Emerging Technologies

OrganVision: Technology for real-time visualizing and modelling of fundamental process in living organoids towards new insights into organ-specific health, disease, and recovery

OrganVision is a revolutionary technology proposition that will break new grounds in microscopy and develop an ideal imaging solution for organoid research. It will enable life scientists to visualize life unfolding in real-time inside the cells and tissue in an organ-mimicking living tissue envi...

Awarded: NOK 14.6 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

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

H20-FOOD-Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research

OLIVE LEAF MULTI-PRODUCT CASCADE BASED BIOREFINERY: FROM AN UNDER-USED BIOMASS IN THE PRIMARY SECTOR TO TAILORMADE SOLUTIONS FOR HIGH ADDED VALUE INTERNATIONAL MARKET APPLICATIONS

OLEAF4VALUE is a three-year project that will develop a complete valorization system for the olive leaf. 4,5 million ton of olive leaves are produced annually in the world by the olive oil industry, a key industry in southern Europe and along the Mediterranean coast (Spain, Italy, Greece, Portuga...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Vestland

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Submarine Landslides and their impacts on Offshore Infrastructures

Due to significant expansion of offshore structures in Europe, estimating potential submarine slides is important for the safe design of offshore structures so that they can withstand the impact of landslides. However, state-of-the-art submarine landslide modelling (a) fails to understand the tri...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

H20-FOOD-Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research

Sustainable COATings based on LIGNIn resins and bio-additives with improved fire, corrosion and biological resistance

Sustainability in coatings covers aspects related to energy and resource conservation, waste minimization or efficiency and the use of renewable and non-toxic products. The coatings industry has been driven by regulatory issues to diminish the content of volatile organic compounds to improve indo...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Vestland

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Innovative Tools for Cyber-Physical Energy Systems

The principal goal of the InnoCyPES ITN is to provide world-leading and transferable scientific training to a new generation of 15 high-achieving early stage researchers (ESRs). In the course of their training, they will study, investigate and improve various facets of digitalized and interconnec...

Awarded: NOK 6.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Development of Emerging Contaminants – Hybrid Soft Sensor for on-line monitoring of contaminants of emerging concern in water

The water resources and especially the drinking water in Europe and globally face new challenges with the emerging micropollutants, originating from pharmaceuticals, personal care products, plastics, flame retardants, etc. Even though they present in extremely low concentrations and do not exhibi...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Viken

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

DOCTORAL PROGRAMME FOR INTEGRATED RESEARCH ACTIVITIES TO UNLOCK A POTENTIAL OF TOP-LEVEL RESEARCHERS IN DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY

The PERSEUS Doctoral Programme aims at fostering the training of highly skilled doctoral researchers in thematic areas of Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Twins, Internet of Things, Extended Reality and Information and Cyber Security linked to sectors of the national importance to Norwa...

Awarded: NOK 34.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

H20-FOOD-Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research

ALGAE4IBD –FROM NATURE TO BEDSIDE- ALGAE BASED BIO COMPOUND FOR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF INFLAMMATION, PAIN AND IBD

Algae4IBD's mission is to develop commercial products for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) prevention and treatment using aquatic natural biological resources. With the emerging developments in natural product, notable success has been achieved in discovering natural products and their synthetic ...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Innocent Children or Security Threats? European Children Born of War

How can we ensure that children born of war do not pay for the sins of their parents? Political debates about how to address the plight of children born of foreign fighters to ISIS/Daesh make this an acute concern in Europe today. The European debates are polarized; some argue that socialization ...

Awarded: NOK 19.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

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-FOOD-Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research

Supplying bioactives Compounds from micro-Algae to foster a bLue futurE

The current food system is seriously challenged by evolving consumers needs and by the rapid world population growth, which could peak to 9.7 billion people in 2060. To provide food system with high nutritional value ingredients, it becomes of paramount important to harness the potential of the o...

Awarded: NOK 0.71 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Supply of dense water to the overflows across the Greenland-Scotland Ridge

SUPERFLOW will determine the pathways and dynamics of dense water in the Nordic Seas that sustains the lower limb of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which helps maintain the temperate climate of northwest Europe. The densest water supplying the AMOC stems likely from the G...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Vestland

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Migration rhythms in trajectories of upward social mobility in Asia

Ninety percent of the global increase in the size of middle classes is occurring in Asia. What is driving this tremendous middle-class expansion and how is it related to the unprecedented levels of internal and international migration in that region? Specifically, what roles does migration play i...

Awarded: NOK 16.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Exploring the Limits of Mass Transport in Electro-Chemical Energy Converters ThRough uncOnstrained Design and Interface Engineering

A promising option to store and transport clean energy are electrochemical fuels that can be converted to electricity on demand. Fuel cells, electrolysers and flow batteries are used for conversion to and from fuel and have advantages over batteries as storage capacity is cell size independent. R...

Awarded: NOK 16.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Eco-friendly corrosion protective coatings based on smart nanotechnology platforms for a circular economy

The need to develop and use products made out of residues or sub-products from industry is creating pressure over fields where more traditional, linear economy concepts prevail. In this project we address one important stage of the life cycle of products, particularly trying to extend its service...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

H20-FOOD-Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research

High Performance Bio-based Functional Coatings for Wood and Decorative Applications

Achieving a climate-neutral Europe by 2050 requires the replacement of fossil-based material with bio-based material on a broad basis. Today, ca. 900 kt/y paints and coatings are produced in Europe, with more than 80% still being from fossil resources. Wood and decorative coatings represent a lar...

Awarded: NOK 23.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage og 3 andre

H20-FOOD-Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research

Innovative high-value cosmetic products from plants and plant cells

The InnCoCells project will develop innovative and sustainable plant-based production processes for the commercial exploitation of scientifically validated cosmetic ingredients based on underutilised plant resources. We will optimise these resources for profitable and sustainable production using...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

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