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H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

CO2 to light olefins conversion by cascade reactions over bifunctional nanocatalysts: an ‘all X-ray’ approach

In a waste-to-value perspective, CO2 can represent a sustainable carbon source to produce light olefins, representing key building blocks for petrochemical industry. CASCADE-X proposes an ultimate approach to directly convert CO2 to light olefins through cascade reactions over a bi-functional cat...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2020

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Time-domain Gibbs sampling: From bits to inflationary gravitational waves

The detection of primordial gravity waves created during the Big Bang ranks among the greatest potential intellectual achievements in modern science. During the last few decades, the instrumental progress necessary to achieve this has been nothing short of breathtaking, and we today are able to m...

Awarded: NOK 18.6 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Structural studies of the full-length human Vitamin C transporters: unravelling Vitamin C transport across the membrane

SVCTs are Sodium-dependent Vitamin C Transporters, part of the large solute carrier protein family (SLC), and are the major carriers for Vitamin C uptake and regulation. Abnormal Vitamin C regulation has been associated with several diseases, including cancer, obesity, hypertension, autoimmune an...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2020

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Network representations of contextual memory in a neocortical circuit

How are memories formed and how do we remember them? Despite decades of memory research, these are still unanswered questions. There is consensus that the hippocampus is a key circuit for forming new memories. According to the classical model, memories that initially depend on the hippocampus, ma...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2020

Location: Oslo

H20-LEIT-LEIT-SPACE-Space

Beyond Planck -- delivering state-of-the-art observations of the microwave sky from 30 to 70 GHz for the next decade

The detection of primordial gravity waves created during the Big Bang ranks among the greatest potential intellectual achievements in modern science. During the last few decades, the instrumental progress necessary to achieve this has been nothing short of breath taking. However, from the latest ...

Awarded: NOK 5.8 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2020

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

What is the role of the axonal connections between the hemispheres in sensory processing?

Why does our brain have two hemispheres and what is the role of connections between them? While it is well known that in humans, each hemisphere has functional specializations, we have little mechanistic understanding of how circuits communicate across the corpus callosum that connects the hemisp...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2020

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Mixed-phase clouds and climate (MC2) – from process-level understanding to large-scale impacts

The importance of mixed-phase clouds (i.e. clouds in which liquid and ice may co-exist) for weather and climate has become increasingly evident in recent years. We now know that a majority of the precipitation reaching Earth’s surface originates from mixed-phase clouds, and the way cloud phase ch...

Awarded: NOK 14.0 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Deciphering the mycobiome of indoor environments by high-throughput sequencing

Fungi have ubiquitous distribution in natural ecosystems and are also common in the built environment, where people spend major parts of their lifetime. When moisture is present, fungal growth can cause material deterioration and adverse effects on the occupant’s health. Traditional methods for a...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2020

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Spectra of Molecules in Strong Magnetic Fields

Electronic spectroscopy is one among several types of spectroscopy employed to study molecules in stellar objects. Strong magnetic fields, as in white-dwarfs and neutron stars, can severely distort these spectra. To accurately interpret the data, we must understand the forces shaping the spectra ...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2021

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Molecular Identification of Plants

Many of the nearly 400,000 species of plants provide food, feed, medicines, and construction materials. Besides these positive impacts, plants also affect us negatively through pollen allergies, poisonous species, as invasive species, and as adulterants in herbal medicines. Nevertheless, plants a...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2021

Location: Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku - Tromssa ja Finmarkku og 3 andre

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Abiota, Biota, Constraints in Macroevolutionary Processes

To what degree do microevolutionary processes that happen on a generational time scale matter for macroevolutionary patterns recorded on time scales of millions of years in the fossil record? To answer this fundamental question in evolutionary biology, we need a model system in which we can overc...

Awarded: NOK 18.5 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-LEIT-LEIT-ICT-Information and Communication Technologies

3D Multi-Process Sequential Integration for Smart Sensor Interfaces

The IoT is composed of connected devices that are characterized by their interaction with the environment via a plethora of sensors and actuators. The trend goes to ever more complex interactions and thus an increase in the number of different sensors integrated in the same product, which in turn...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2022

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Bacterial Adhesion Control through Surface TArgeted Regulation

Fundamental investigations of bacterial adhesion will create the knowledge base to advance surface engineering approaches. Directed mutagenesis of adhesin genes in several oral pathogens will be used to create a library of knockout strains. Recombinant adhesins will also be over-expressed in E.co...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2019

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Interfaces for Relational Listening: body, telematics, memory, migration

In the European context of migration and diasporas, and at the intersection of sound art, music cognition, psychology and human-computer interaction, this project will develop INTIMAL: a novel physical-virtual “embodied system” for relational listening. Through the artistic practice of telematic ...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2019

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Scalable inference algorithms for Bayesian evolutionary epidemiology

Advances in sequencing technologies are currently providing an unprecedented opportunity to a detailed discovery of the mechanisms involved in the evolution and spread of microbes causing human infectious disease. Simultaneously the developers of statistical methods face an enormous challenge to ...

Awarded: NOK 23.2 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2022

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

The Missing Link of Episodic Memory Decline in Aging: The Role of Inefficient Systems Consolidation

Which brain mechanisms are responsible for the faith of the memories we make with age, whether they wither or stay, and in what form? Episodic memory function does decline with age. While this decline can have multiple causes, research has focused almost entirely on encoding and retrieval process...

Awarded: NOK 18.6 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2022

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Linking micro- and macroevolution: macroevolutionary quantitative genetics of Drosophila wing morhology

The striking mismatch between evolution at short (microevolution) and long (macroevolution) time scales is a major remaining problem in evolutionary biology (the paradox of stasis). FLYWING will apply novel quantitative genetic theories and statistical methods to analyses of exceptionally high qu...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2019

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Functional dissection of the head-direction circuit in mouse retrosplenial cortex.

Head direction (HD) cells provide directional information during spatial navigation and thus act as an internal compass. The goal of this study is to understand how the HD circuit creates a lasting neural trace of transient directional changes. Cells selective for HD have been identified in sever...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2019

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Images in Exile:Gender and representations among Syrian Kurdish women in Norway

The project Images in Exile (IMEX) addresses the current refugee crisis and its implications for Syrian Kurdish women in Europe. It challenges images about Muslim women, who are often the subject of debates on the supposed dichotomy between an imagined secular progressive West and religious backw...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2019

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

The Global and Local Organization of Production

A defining feature of the global economy is the gradual fragmentation of production across firms and borders, a phenomenon that has been termed outsourcing or global value chains. State-of-the-art empirical economic analysis on value chains has mostly been limited to the study of aggregate data ...

Awarded: NOK 13.7 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2021

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

The Post-crisis Legitimacy of the European Union European Training Network

Is there a crisis in the legitimacy of the European Union? That research question is timely and important. Investigating it is also an ideal way of training research leaders of tomorrow to rethink our assumptions about the study of legitimate political order. Whilst, however, the financial crisis...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2020

Location: Oslo

H20-HEALTH-Health, demographic change and wellbeing

Healthy minds from 0-100 years: Optimising the use of European brain imaging cohorts

Our main objective is to identify determinants of brain, cognitive and mental health at different stages of life. By integration, harmonisation and enrichment of major European neuroimaging studies of age differences and changes, we will obtain an unparalleled database of fine-grained brain, cogn...

Awarded: NOK 45.1 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2022

Location: Oslo

H20-LEIT-LEIT-ICT-Information and Communication Technologies

Multi-cloud Execution-ware for Large-scale Optimized Data-Intensive Computing

MELODIC will enable data-intensive applications to run within defined security, cost, and performance boundaries seamlessly on geographically distributed and federated cloud infrastructures. Serving the user’s needs and constraints, MELODIC will realise the potential of Cloud computing for big da...

Awarded: NOK 14.3 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2020

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

ALMA – The key to the Sun’s coronal heating problem.

How are the outer layers of the Sun heated to temperatures in excess of a million kelvin? A large number of heating mechanisms have been proposed to explain this so-called coronal heating problem, one of the fundamental questions in contemporary solar physics. It is clear that the required energ...

Awarded: NOK 17.9 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2021

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Hybrid Particle-Field Approach Including Electrostatics for Large-Scale Simulations of Biological Systems

Despite the continuous progress in computer simulations, the typical time and size bottlenecks are nowadays still heavily affecting the feasibility of large-scale simulations of complex biological systems at the molecular resolution accuracy. The current proposal aims at formulating a new hybrid ...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2018

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

The Economics and Politics of Conservation

The UN’s approach to climate policy is to focus on national emission caps for greenhouse gases. Most of the economic theory on environmental agreements is also studying such a demand-side approach, even though it is well known that such an approach has several flaws, including carbon leakage and ...

Awarded: NOK 14.1 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2021

Location: Oslo

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

Reconsidering European Contributions to Global Justice

GLOBUS critically assesses the EU’s impact on justice in a global system characterised by uncertainty, risk and ambiguity. GLOBUS defines a new research agenda for the study of the EU’s global role. This agenda directs attention to underlying political and structural challenges to global justice ...

Awarded: NOK 8.4 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2020

Location: Oslo

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

Sustainable Market Actors for Responsible Trade

This Project aims to address an increasingly pressing global challenge: How to achieve the EU’s development goals and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, while meeting the global target of staying within two degrees global warming and avoid transgressing other planetary boundaries. EU polici...

Awarded: NOK 15.8 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2020

Location: Vestland og 2 andre

H20-LEIT-LEIT-SPACE-Space

Planetary Terrestrial Analogues Library

A new and exciting era of planetary space exploration started in 2000 with a plethora of in-situ and orbital missions in operation at terrestrial planets and small Solar System bodies. The characterisation of the surface of these planetary objects is one of the major goals of space exploration. I...

Awarded: NOK 5.4 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2021

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

The role of 5HT3a inhibitory interneurons in sensory processing

How do cortical circuits process sensory stimuli that leads to perception? Sensory input is encoded by complex interactions between principal excitatory neurons and a diverse population of inhibitory cells. Distinct inhibitory neurons control different subcellular domains of target principal neur...

Awarded: NOK 11.3 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2020

Location: Oslo