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PES-INST-Prosjektetablererstøtte EU (FoU)

The landscape and isobars of European values in relation to science and technology

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Awarded: NOK 8,304

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

PES-EU-Prosjektetablererstøtte EU (bedrift)

European Chemical Biology Infrastructure

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Awarded: NOK 33,316

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Akershus

PES-INST-Prosjektetablererstøtte EU (FoU)

Semantically Advanced Global Enterprise

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Awarded: NOK 74,999

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

PES-EU-Prosjektetablererstøtte EU (bedrift)

Community Collaboration and Web Intelligence to Support Development with Off-The-Shelf Software Components

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Awarded: NOK 76,005

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

Manouvring in hybrid health care organizations

Norwegian health care is pervaded with tensions due to conflicting policy aims and dispersed responsibilities. On one hand efforts are made to make the system streamlined, efficient and based on budget units with clear responsibilities. On the other hand efforts are made to make services responsi...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Sustainable tourism development in mountain park areas

A) Development scenarios for the parks will mainly be specified in meetings/interviews with local stakeholder representatives. The current situation will be described and applied as Scenario I. The meetings will also help specifying a Scenario II - a rela tively 'low impact' type of increased fac...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

AutoConRig - Semi-autonomous control system for unmanned drilling rigs

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Awarded: NOK 6.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Agder

FORNY-3-Kommersialisering av FoUresultater

Kommersialiseringsstipend: Plasmabrenner for bruk i redningstjeneste og spesialoppdrag

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Awarded: NOK 0.76 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Akershus

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

"Sats på torsk" konferansen, 13 - 15 februar 2008. Rica Ishavshotel Tromsø

Sats på torsk fokuserer på kunnskapsformidling mellom næring, forvaltning og forskning. Programmet er nå snart ferdig for møtet i februar for det tiende nasjonale nettverksmøte som holdes på Rica Ishavshotell i Tromsø i februar 2008. Fiskeriminister Hel ga Pedersen har bekreftet at hun vil hold...

Awarded: NOK 69,999

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Vestland

PES-INST-Prosjektetablererstøtte EU (FoU)

Environmental impact of engineered nanoparticles. Fate and hazards

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Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Akershus

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN: Biological indicators for classification of ecological status in freshwater

The main objective of BIOCLASS-FRESH is to develop and validate biological indicators suitable for classification of ecological status in rivers and lakes in line with the EU Water Framework Directive. The project will build upon the results of recent pro jects and expand further by focusing on s...

Awarded: NOK 6.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

ACTOR: Arctic Climate Change, Tourism, and Outdoor Recreation

Northern Norway and Svalbard are experiencing rapid changes in the climate and these changes have environmental, societal, and economic consequences. Hence, climate change will most likely have considerable impact on the regions' tourists and tourism indu stry. The main objective of this project...

Awarded: NOK 12.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Quality Goat Milk for Cheese Production / Kvalitetsmjølk for kvit geitost

The pattern of consumption of goat milk in Norway is currently changing, and consumers are more inclined to cheese than whey products (brown cheese). This calls for an improvement of overall quality and especially of flavour and rennet coagulation propert ies of the milk. The present project will...

Awarded: NOK 9.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Akershus

MILPAAHEL-Miljøpåvirkning og helse

Hearing loss and tinnitus: genetic and environmental effects

Depending on the criteria used 1/3 - 1/6 of the population experience hearing impairment. Tinnitus is defined as the sensation of sound without any outer sound stimulus present. Environmental risk factors such as noise exposure are frequently described fo r both the diseases. A genetic component ...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2015

Location: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Effect of northern climate and postharvest conditions on health related properties of selected Brassica vegetables in Norway

Some previous studies have shown that certain vegetables grown at high northern latitudes with cool summers, long photoperiods and special solar radiation develop different quality than vegetables grown in the south. However, very little is known about ho w Brassica vegetables respond to differen...

Awarded: NOK 11.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

OST-Øst-Europa-programmene

NATURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COOPERATION IN NORTHERN RUSSIAN AND NORWAY FOR MUTUAL BENEFITS ACROSS NATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC BORDERS

The proposed cooperation project is linked a newly started IPY research project PPS Arctic funded by RCN which fucuses on Present day processes, Past changes, and Spatiotemporal variability of biotic, abiotic and socio-environmental conditions and resourc e components along and across the Arctic ...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Healthy cheese: Influence of milk fat components on microbial activity and development of bioactive components in fat reduced cheese.

Prosjektet SUNN OST har skal danne et kunnskapsgrunnlag slik at oster med redusert fettinnhold med gode sensoriske egenskaper kan utvikles. Vi ønsker å øke forståelsen av hvordan melkefett og fettkulemembran komponenter (FKMK) påvirker mikrobiologisk veks t og metabolisme i ost, utvikle metoder f...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Akershus

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Innovative and attractive fish dishes (188389)

Attractive seafood dishes for large scale production are in minority among the dishes served in institutional households and industrial kitchens of the HoReCa segment. The seafood dishes present are characterised by low quality due to improper handling, p rocessing, packaging, storage conditions ...

Awarded: NOK 6.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Rogaland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Survey Methods for Abundance Estimation of Sandeel (Ammodytes marinus) Stocks

Sandeels are small eel-like fish that is laterally compressed and without swimbladder that swim in large shoals and inhabit areas with specific sandy substrate into which they burrow. Sandeels are distributed in coastal and shallow open-ocean waters throu ghout the North Sea, but the geographical...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Vestland

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Subsidizing R&D and installment of carbon abatement in open economies

The European Union and Norway have both proposed tougher unilateral emission reduction targets than what is required by the Kyoto protocol. According to some setting tough unilateral targets will lead to faster technological development, which again will influence other countries willingness to p...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

Terminert Optical and electrical properties of nanostructured materials for energy conversion

The project is aimed at acquiring the fundamental knowledge on formation, optical, electrical, and thermal properties of nano-structured solar cells by combination of fabrication, characterization, and modeling methods. We will investigate possibilities o f enhancing efficiency of different inorg...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

SAMF-Fagkomiteen for samfunnsvitenskap

Democracy, social inequality and learning in transition

The theme of this prosject is to contribute to the research on political socialization in the fields: - educational and social inequality and political socialization research. - the transitional learning perspectives on political socialization rese arch. - further develop the resesearch o...

Awarded: NOK 44,999

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Flammable Societies: The Role of Oil and Gas Industry in the Promotion of Poverty Reduction and Social Volatility

Through the development of a series of comparative case studies in present-day Latin America, Africa, Europe and the former Soviet Union we propose to explore the way in which the current concerns for social responsibility in the international oil and gas industry are transferred into concrete s...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2017

Location: Vestland

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Identification of plant foods and drinks available in the Norwegian marked that reduce oxidative stress and dampen inflammation

Oxidative stress is intimately involved in pathophysiology many chronic degenerative diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cataract as well as neurodegenerative diseases. Oxidative stress is also central to the theory of aging. We ar e therefore investigating the role of die...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Fjord ecosystems - Sami communities: Local ecological knowledge and socio-ecological history

The project will bring forth management-relevant knowledge about a largely neglected part of Norway's marine/coastal environment; the northern fjords. This will be achieved through cross-disciplinary partnership, including marine scientists from Institute for Marine Research, international co-op...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

The potential use of recombinant Salmonid alphavirus in development of prophylactic and therapeutic measures against viral fish diseases

Recently, the University of Bergen (UB) engaged a PhD student in a 4-year position (project start Mars 1st 2007), aiming at developing a full-length recombinant salmonid alphavirus 3 (SAV3). This subtype of SAV is the etiologic agent of pancreas disease ( PD) in farmed Atlantic salmon in Norway. ...

Awarded: NOK 0.75 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Mobilizing unutilised labour reserves: the role of part-time work and extended employment interruptions

Norwegian women have a high employment level, but at the same time one of the highest part-time rates in Europe as well as in the Nordic countries, and part-time is common among women in all stages of the life cycle. At the same time a substantial proport ion is absent from work due to childbirth...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Den nye arbeidsplassen: Arbeid, helse og deltakelse i arbeidslivet. En prospektiv, longitudinell undersøkelse.

Both individual level, organization level, and society level factors participate in determining health, absence, and participation in or exit from working life. Several studies have shown that work factors contribute to health problems that are important determinants of musculoskeletal disorders,...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Making sense of a preposterous universe: Dark energy from extra dimensions

One of the most intruiging problems in modern cosmology is that of dark energy: Why does the expansion of the universe seem to be accelerating, when standard gravity is attractive? The absence of any kind of fundamental physical understanding of such seem ingly unnatural behaviour has led scienti...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

Depression in adolescence. Precursors and developmental pathways from 18 months to 18 years.

The purpose of the project is to identify precursors, early predictors and developmental pathways to symptoms of depression in adolescence. We will also investigate gender differences related to development of mental health. The proposed project is base d on a longitudinal, prospective populati...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo