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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

The main objective of the project is to offer a comparative study of early modern translations of Petrarch’s Canzoniere in English and French, as well as examining their impact on their respective ‘translation traditions’. First, I aim to clarify the features of European Petrarchism by focussing ...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2022

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-SCIENCE-Encourage citizens to engage in science

Science education for action and engagement towards sustainability

The main objective of the Science Education for Action and Engagement Towards Sustainability (SEAS) is to establish, coordinate and evaluate collaboration among six open schooling networks led by universities and science centres with partners in Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Italy, Norway, Sweden, a...

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

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

WomenWritingSaints is an interdisciplinary project exploring the religious literature authored by different categories of early modern women writers in post-Tridentine Italy (1563-1700), bringing together literary studies, cultural history, the history of ideas and women’s studies. The sacred wri...

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-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

American Norwegian Sound Systems and Language Contact

This project examines language contact and language maintenance among American Norwegian-English bilinguals. By drawing on both quantitative and qualitative methods, I focus on bilingual vowel patterns and the extent to which Norwegian and English influence each others' phonological systems in wa...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2021

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-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-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Language switching and script mixing: multilingual landscapes of medieval Scandinavia

The present project aims to investigate the encounter between the Latin and the native vernacular written culture in medieval Scandinavia, through phenomena of language and script switching in epigraphic sources. The spread of Latin is a pivotal point in the development of all European literate s...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

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

In the aftermath of the high-precision Planck and BICEP2 experiments, cosmology has undergone a critical transition. Before 2014, most breakthroughs came as direct results of improved detector technology and increased noise sensitivity. After 2014, the main source of uncertainty will be due to as...

Awarded: NOK 19.2 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Socioeconomic gaps in language development and school achievement: Mechanisms of inequality and opportunity

As inequality increases in most developed countries, children from socioeconomically disadvantaged families are at exceptional risk for academic underachievement with lasting consequences for individuals, their communities, and society at large. Among policy makes, early childhood education and c...

Awarded: NOK 18.3 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

SCIENTIA-FELLOWS II: International Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme

The SCIENTIA-FELLOWS II (SF-II) proposal is based on of the FP7-funded SCIENTIA-FELLOWS programme (http://www.med.uio.no/english/research/scientia-fellows/) coordinated by the University of Oslo. The original programme has recruited over 80 researchers and provided excellent training in both rese...

Awarded: NOK 82.5 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

What if we were able to use CO2 and H2 from renewable energy sources as fuel and chemical feedstocks, and thus decrease CO2 emissions and displace fossil fuels at the same time? COZMOS will develop an energy-efficient and environmentally and economically viable conversion of CO2 to fuels and high...

Awarded: NOK 10.7 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage og 2 andre

H20-ERC-European Research Council

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

Autoimmune disease is an increasing health concern. These diseases are strongly associated with altered gut microbiome. When immunosuppression fails there is little to offer in terms of therapy. In this project, I hypothesize that gut signals (microbial factors from the intestine) unaffected by i...

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

The current proposal aims to established a computational protocol for the rational calculation of NMR parameters in transition-metal complexes by accurately taking into consideration relativistic effects and conformational dynamics. Despite the advances attained in theoretical chemistry methods, ...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2021

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Language-Affect Interface in Parent-Infant Communication

Language, gesture, and affect are the three musketeers of parent-child interaction. Although affect, our experience with emotions, plays a key role in communication, its developmental trajectory in the beginning of life remains unclear. How do infants develop affect recognition that corresponds ...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2021

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Brokering China’s Extraversion: An Ethnographic Analysis of Transnational Arbitration

Chinese global engagements are deepening across sectors and geographic regions. The objective of BROKEX is to fill specific gaps in knowledge about how China’s extraversion advances. The project takes an original approach by examining brokers who mediate in transnational fields. It opens the “bla...

Awarded: NOK 14.3 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Genetic Epilepsy Models in Zebrafish

Recent advances in clinical genetic studies of epilepsies have identified a steadily growing number of mutations in new candidate genes, creating a need for an effective approach to rapidly provide functional data as to their in vivo function. Furthermore, there is an urgent need to create new, c...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2020

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Value Judgments and Redistribution Policies

Heterogeneity and diversity are a pervasive aspect of modern societies. Differences in individuals’ preferences, needs, skills, and information are key to explain variation in individuals’ behavior and to anticipate individuals’ responses to policy changes. There is no consensus, however, about h...

Awarded: NOK 9.9 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Whales of Power: Aquatic Mammals, Devotional Practices, and Environmental Change in Maritime East Asia

In various parts of East Asia, aquatic mammals are associated with divine power, and serve as objects of devotion. In south and central Vietnam, cetaceans are worshipped as life-saving deities. In some Japanese coastal areas, the spirits of whales are venerated during ritual ceremonies. In China,...

Awarded: NOK 14.4 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

An integrated hypothesis for cognitive and positive symptoms in schizophrenia

An integrated hypothesis for cognitive and positive symptoms in schizophrenia: Schizophrenia is a complex developmental brain disorder with three main clusters of symptoms: (i) positive (psychosis, delusions and hallucinations), (ii) negative (reduced motivation and social withdrawal), and (iii)...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2021

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

SPatial variability and Implications of the Timing of FIsh Responses to the Environment

Prediction of fish production is hindered by the lack of high-resolved data, and the complexity of the bio-physical systems affecting fish survival. A key factor determining the survival of larval fish is the relationship between predator recruitment and prey-predator overlap (match-mismatch hypo...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2020

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Engaged Universals: Ethnographic explorations of ‘Universal Health Coverage’ and the public good in Africa

UNIVERSAL HEALTH is an anthropological study that follows how a new global policy, Universal Health Coverage (UHC), travels and is engaged by policy-makers, bureaucrats and citizens in three African countries. Defined by the WHO as ensuring that all people can use the health services they need wi...

Awarded: NOK 13.8 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

The construction of readers as (co-)observers in multimodal novels. Radical reader engagement in the visual age

The research action at the University of Oslo (UiO) takes its starting point from the striking appeal to the reader's visual perception in contemporary multimodal novels. Drawing on state-of-the-art research in interdisciplinary narratology, cognitive linguistics, and visual semiotics, the projec...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2021

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

The evolutionary origins and consequences of human-commensalism in Passer sparrows

Human-commensal species are almost constantly present in our daily lives; they are the mice in our fields or the sparrows in our gardens. The evolutionary trajectories of these species are intertwined with our own through the development of agriculture and human civilization, yet we know surprisi...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2020

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

New speakers and use of Russian in the Northern Norway

The NEW_WAY project will look at trajectories across the lifespan among Russian-speaking linguistic actors, and on the role of speaking/writing Russian in the political economy of Northern Norway around the Russian-Norwegian border. With the end of Cold War and implementation of more flexible bor...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2020

Location: Oslo

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