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INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

China - Bilateral Cooperation on Security and Military Studies

In recognition of the swift rise of Asian global power - particularly China's - and its potentially dramatic consequences for the rest of the world, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS) regards the development of high-quality research in Asian/Ch inese security and military matters as a ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Oslo

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China - Diabetes and Diabetic Retinopathy in a Norwegian and Chinese Population

Diabetes is now a major threat to global public health that is rapidly progressing, with the biggest impact on adults of working age in developing countries. At least 171 million people worldwide have diabetes. This figure is likely to more than double by 2030 to reach 366 million. Recent WHO ca...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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China - bilateral cooperation in heart failure research

We hereby apply for project establishment support for bilateral research cooperation with groups in Beijing, China.The planned bilateral research cooperation is an integral part of the international strategy of our institute and the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Oslo (UoO). Our instit...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

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China - cooperation with Norway in SEA level observation -Evaluation of Chinese Tide Gauge Network based on ESEAS quality control standards

Cooperation in sea level observations between Norway and China will open a new area for research and cooperation. The importance of such cooperation lies in the common interests two countries have and are looking for. Although Norway is a small country co mpared to the size of China, it has a lon...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Buskerud

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China-Norway. Bilateral cooperation on pesticide residues in crops and environment

Extensive use of agrochemicals in China has led to severe environmental pollution and potential health problems to human and animals. The aim of the project is to establish collaboration between Jilin Academy of Agriculture Science, Bioforsk Lab and Biofo rsk, Division of Plant Health and Plant P...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Akershus

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China: Reforming social and political institutions through diversification and incremental change

This proposal is for funding to develop research collaboration between researchers at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography (ISS) and relevant Chinese counterparts. The application regards a strategic initiative at ISS directed at establishing a ctive and lasting research collaboration ...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

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Russland - Devonian - Carboniferous faunas, depositional environment and carbonate sedimentology of selected areas of Novaya Zemlya, Russia

Novaya Zemlya is surrounded by some of the most important proven and potential hydrocarbon provinces in the Arctic. Exposures of Precambrian through Early Triassic strata on Novaya Zemlya provide vital information with which to constrain the geological ev olution of adjacent basins. However, owin...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

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India: cooperation on studies of the Indian Ocean circulation and Ecosystem, including the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal

An Indo-Norwegian institutional co-operation programme is suggested within research, higher education, technology development and commercialization within numerical ocean research studies and ocean modelling as well as satellite Remote Sensing Research is proposed for joint implementation by six...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Vestland

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JAPAN - establishing research cooperation between NTNU-SINTEF and AIST

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan, home to more than 2500 researchers and 5300 visiting scholars, is one of the most advanced research institutes in the world. They currently have a large forefront running acti vity within nanotechnology, and make a fo...

Awarded: NOK 35,000

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Japan - bilateral cooperation in Arctic Climate Studies

Prosjektet vil bygge relasjoner til mellom Japan og Norge innenfor geofysikk/klima studier i arktiske strøk med tanke på en fremtidig søknad til NFR. Prosjektet vil arrangere en workshop våren 2007 diskusjon av fremtidige problemstillinger/muligheter for søknader innen klimaendringer, slik som ...

Awarded: NOK 75,000

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Buskerud

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Russland -Vekstfaktorers påvirkning, og nedbrytning av dopaminerge systemer i ulike faser av Parkinsons sykdom

Professor Ugrumov ved Labatoratory of Hormonal Regulations, Institute of Developmental Biology ved det Russiske Vitenskapsakademiet, har ekspertise innen dopaminerge systemer (sentrale i Parkinsons sykdom) og lang erfaring med studier av sykdomsmekanismer . Hans gruppe har i en 20-årsperiode stud...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

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Russland-Etablering av bilateralt forskningssamarbeid innen kliniske og epidemiologiske studier av flåttbårne agens og sykdommer

Utbredelsen av flått og alvorlige flåttbårne sykdommer er økende i Norge. I Norge opplever man nå at utbredelsen også omfatter nordområdene og slike sykdommer er et stort problem i sentrale og nordområder i Russland. Man vil med dette utarbeide hovedprosj ekt som tar sikte på å kartlegge utbredel...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Agder

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USA - Solution structure of large proteins and protein-ligand complexes by high-field NMR

The acquisition of high-resolution conformational, dynamical and ligand binding data in solution requires the application of state-of-the-art NMR, which complements information from X-ray crystallography. This structural information is necessary for the u nderstanding of the function and regulati...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Vestland

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USA - bilateral cooperation: Designing human-centered innovation and creative product/service architecture in entrepreneurial enterprises

This US bilateral cooperation will lead to new and long term institutional/scientific research collaboration between USA and Norway. The bilateral cooperation aims at establishing a research project that focuses on extending business and technological in novating with a broader basis including h...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

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Japan-collaborative development of program systems with hierarchical quantum chemical methods.

State of the art treatment of phenomenon in bio-molecules and nanostructures are limited to the use of unsystematic computational methods, like density functional theory and effective fragment methods. They are mostly aiming at the structures and properti es of ground states. For improved theoret...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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KINA: Towards a viable social welfare system and a sustainable economic development of China.

Cooperation is planned with School of Social Development and Public Policy at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. 1. The Frisch Centre aims at conducting research at a high level. One of the mechanisms to achieve that aim is to develop an international n etwork of researchers. Over the last year...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Oslo

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USA - bilateral cooperation: Speciation and Phylogeography of Soil Arthropods in the Mountains (SAPHARI)

The international collaborative project will target selected taxa within the insect order Coleoptera (beetles) to study speciation and phylogeography of soil arthropods in the mountains, using the Southern Appalachians as a model. The project will include the following objectives and address the...

Awarded: NOK 57,000

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Oslo

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USA and China - bilateral research on Ideology, Cultural Memory, and Canonization in cross disciplinary and cross cultural perspective.

(In Norwegian:) Det synes å være slik at en gitt kultur etablerer visse "ortodokse" måter å forstå seg selv og sin historie på. Denne "kulturens normalforståelse" knyttes svært ofte til ytre objekter som klassiske tekster, bestemte (kultiske) handlinger, klesdrakt, osv. Slike tekster, handlinger,...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Oslo

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USA, Japan and China, - scientific cooperation to ensure the safe use of novel food ingredients derived from gene technology.

The safety of novel food ingredients produced by modern biotechnology has been a concern raised by many consumers, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and scientists. Thus, the need for careful risk assessment of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) int ended for food and feed is recognized in ...

Awarded: NOK 80,566

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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USA-Determination of Molecular Descriptors of drug targets, anti-targets and counter targets for Cancer therapy

Many potent Matrix metalloproteinases inhibitors (MMPIs) have been developed for the treatment of cancer in recent years with great expectations. Many of them have been tested in clinical trials and discontinued. These inhibitors lack specificities betwee n cancer producing and cancer inhibiting ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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USA/Canada - Ice abrasion and frost deterioration of high performance concrete structures - service life

In the first phase the participants will review contributions to the objective of the project from their varying fields of expertise and possibilities for financial support for a main project. This will include brief overviews of expertise in the fields o f environmental loads (ice pressure, free...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Nord-Amerika - bilateralt forskningssamarbeid innenfor vinterdrift av veger.

Vinterdrift er et av de tunge innsatsområdene innenfor drift av veger i Norge, og årlig brukes det ca 1,2 milliarder NOK for å sikre framkommeligheten og gjøre vintervegene trafikksikre. Dette har stor samfunnsmessige betydning både for næringsliv og for den enkelte trafikant. Vinterdrift er e...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Kina - Norwegian-Chinese Media Research

Høgskolen i Oslo (HiO) inngikk i 2004 en samarbeidsavtale med Communication University of China (CUC). Dr. Wangyu, Associate professor, CUC, som arbeider innen feltet journalistikk, medier og kommunikasjon, skal oppholde seg i 10 mnd ved HiO, Avd. for jou rnalistikk, bibliotek- og informasjonsfag...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

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CHINA - bilateral cooperation in green electronics

The proposed project addresses the global problem of toxicity and deficient processing routines pertaining to electronic waste, through facilitating innovation within the field of electronics production and the implementation of new, more environmentally sustainable technology. Through connecting...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Vestland

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Canada - bilateral cooperation on polar biodiversity

This application seeks funding to initiate bilateral cooperation between leading biodiversity institutions in Canada and Norway. Our research focus will be on animal diversity in polar regions using DNA barcoding as a tool for species discrimination and i dentification. Polar research has a great...

Awarded: NOK 91,570

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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USA - BILAT-Analysis and Mathematical Physics Collaboration between MI UiB (Norway), Georgetown University and SUNY, Stony Brook (USA)

The Analysis Group at the Mathematical Institute, University of Bergen, is recently formed and rather strong and promising. Latest interests of the group lie within Complex and Harmonic Analysis, and their applications to Mathematical Physics. During the last year the group applied for several pr...

Awarded: NOK 60,000

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Vestland

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USA - bilateral cooperation in climate and greenhouse gas emission in Arctic

Basing on the scientific background, we plan to propose the development of the inverse modelling, i.e. recovery of variability and trends, of the CH4 emission sources in the Arctic. The project will have three major components: (A) consistent and complete database accounting for both the concent...

Awarded: NOK 20,361

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Vestland

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Russland? vår tids russenorsk

se prosjektbeskrivelse

Awarded: NOK 98,000

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Oslo

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USA - Bilateral collaboration on magnetically controlled nano-machines with bio-related applications

Motion of micro- and nanoscale objects is being used by nature for cell trafficking and delivery of metabolized products. In nanoscience one aims to copy nature's strategies, and apply them to the nanoscale motion of roving sensors, drug delivery and effe ctive transport systems, commonly called ...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

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USA - Norway: Bilateral Cooperation in Documentary Studies.

USA - Norway Bilateral Cooperation in Documentary Studies. The project proposes a cooperation project between Department of Art and Media Studies, NTNU and Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, USA. The pr oject aims at coordinating efforts by res...

Awarded: NOK 50,000

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage