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INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

KINA - bilateralt samarbeid for å identifisere prosjekter innenfor IKT-feltene programvare, sensorer, kommunikasjon og jernbanesystemer

Kina er et av de prioriterte samarbeidsland SINTEF har for forskning utenfor Europa. SINTEF IKT har flere ganger vurdert hvordan vi best skal komme i inngrep mot Kina og deltok blant annet på EUs konferanse for forskningssamarbeid i Beijing i 2002 uten at dette ga kontakter som ble vurdert som i...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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CHINA, bilateral cooperation in mycotoxin research to improve safe food production

China has become a strategically important partner of Norway. This has also been recognized by Bioforsk, which has attempted to establish a co-operation platform with Jilin Academy of Agricultural Science (JAAS). An agreement of collaboration was last yea r signed between Bioforsk and JAAS, and t...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Akershus

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Canada - bilateral collaboration on infant feeding policy and infant feeding practices

The Department of Sociology, University of Bergen, and the Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, Canada will initiate research collaboration on infant feeding policy and infant feeding practices. Infant feeding has become a key public health i ssue, nationally as well as international...

Awarded: NOK 75,000

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Vestland

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Canada - forskningssamarbeid vinterturisme

Hvordan fremme en tettere kobling mellom FoU-miljøer og turistnæringen for å bidra til innovasjon og produktutvikling innen vinterturisme? Dette vil være et sentralt aspekt ved samarbeidet mellom Norut Samfunnsforskning og Simon Fraser University. Turisme senteret ved Simon Fraser University har ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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China - Bilateral Cooperation for Sustainable Water Management towards Environmental and Ecological Effects

The joint Norwegian institutions led by the University of Life Science and the Yellow River Conservancy Commission of China are willing to establish research networks, and make cooperative efforts on the subjects with mutual interest and subjective compet ence, and establish new project proposals...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Akershus

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China - Bilateral collaboration in the field of comparative genomics of stress tolerance in grasses

Rice and wheat are the two main crops in China, and China has an extensive genome research activity of high international standard in these species exemplified by one of the Chinese institutions involved in this project, namely the Chinese Academy of Agri cultural Sciences (CAAS) (www.caas.net.c...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Akershus

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China - Initiation of a cooperation project on capacity building for mitigating persistent organic pollutants in China

In order to strenghten it's research cooperation with China, NIVA has signed a cooperation agreement with Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, takes active part in the establishment of the Sino-Norwegian Interdisciplin ary Centre for Environmental Research (NI...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Oslo

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China - Numerical methods and software for modeling seepage in porous media

In recent years, the fractional calculus has been recognized as a powerful modeling methodology for porous media. The main obstacle for applying fractional calculus to modeling seepage in porous media is the costly computing effort. The fractional derivat ive equations are known to be computation...

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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Russland - Promoting environmentally and socially sound oil and gas development in North West Russia

The Barents Sea lies makes up 7% of the Arctic Ocean and washing the shores of both Norway and Russia. Leading Norwegian companies like Statoil, Norsk Hydro and Aker Kvaerner that want to do business there, have accumulated an enormous technological poten tial and operational experience. This als...

Awarded: NOK 99,420

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Rogaland

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RUSSLAND - BILATERAL SAMARBEID INNEN FORSKNING OG UTVIKLING AV VERDISKAPENDE INNOVASJON OG FORNYING I OFFENTLIG SEKTOR

Innovasjon knyttet til styring, organisering og nye samarbeidsformer som kan bidra til økt tjenestekvalitet, produktivitet og bedre ressursutnyttelsen i kommuner, fylker og i nasjonen, er blitt et stadig viktigere tema i både Norge og i Russland. I begge land er det fokus på styring og organiseri...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

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Russia - Bilateral Cooperation on Sami Related Research with Institutions in North-West Russia

According to a strategic plan for 2005-2009 the NSI's research shall be conducted in the overall-Sami perspective that means taking into account Sami research and needs in all the countries, where the Sami live. The NSI has plans to involve Sami related r esearch conducted in Russia into Sami res...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

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Russia - develop joint research project on migration

Til nå har det meste av forskningen på migrasjon over russisk-nordiske grenser vært gjort av nordiske forskere. Hensikten med denne BILAT-søknaden er å styrke den kvalitative migrasjonsforskningen i Russland, ved å utvikle et felles forskningsprosjekt run dt migrasjon i nordområdene. Innvilget s...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Vestland

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Russland - Bilateral samarbeid innen petroleum spill renovering

Norut Teknologi bidrar med tekniske støtte til Arctic Spill Control A.S. i Narvik ved utvikling av teknologi for land og vann basert forurensing av petroleum produkter. Gjennom Barents initiativet har Norut Teknologi blitt koblet sammen med forskere hos Kola Science Centre (RAS), som har utvikle...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

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Russland - møte mellom russiske og norske bilder av hverandre i krysskulturelt samarbeide.

I Norut Samfunnsforsknings internasjonale strategier og prioriteringer står forskning på nordområdene og forskning i samarbeid med miljøer i nordområdene sentralt. Norut Samfunnsforskning søker å realisere disse strategiene og prioriteringene gjennom fler e tiltak. 1) Vårt strategiske instituttpr...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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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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USA and Canada: International Raymond Carver Network; Launching of an International Society and Scholarly Review

Given Raymond Carver's status as one of the most important short story writers of the 20th century (he is translated into over 20 languages, taught in schools in America and abroad that include courses in the liberal arts, social sciences and medical huma nities) critical studies of his life and ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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USA, Electrodeposition of silicon

The electrochemical processing group at National Institute of Standards and Technology has a lot of experience in electroplating for the electronics industry. The group worked a lot with electrochemistry in ionic liquids and molten salts. They are also hi ghly skilled in nano technology. Nano cr...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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USA-joint initiative in food safety: The development of a project proposal on LC-MS/MS for the determination of low levels of food allergens

I en normal populasjon lider 2-5% av befolkningen av matallergi, og blant barn er frekvensen enda høyere (5-7%). En matallergiker må unngå all mat med allergene proteiner og er helt avhengig av at innholdsdeklarasjonen til ferdigfabrikert mat er korrekt. Regelverket for deklarasjon av matallergen...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Akershus

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USA: Worldwide Heritage Media: Linking Scholars and the Public in the Search for Roots - establishing a seminar to explore collaboration

As the escalating pace of technological innovation and globalization continues to transform and disrupt peoples lives and communities around the planet, so do their yearnings for a sense of stability and rootedness. This dilemma is powerfully illustrated by a photograph in Thomas Friedmans book T...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Vestland

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Russia - bilateral cooperation in innovative aspects of biological control of weeds.

Gjennom dette prosjektet skal vi legge grunnlag for langvarig samarbeid mellom All-Russian Research Institute of Plant Protection, i St. Petersburg og Bioforsk Plantehelse om å utvikle biologisk bekjempelse av ugras ved hjelp av plantepatogene sopper. De t er mest aktuelt å utvikle såkalte mykoh...

Awarded: NOK 15,300

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Akershus