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INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Satellite Altimetry-Gravimetry Derived Geoid and Circulation of Ice-Covered Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans for Climate change Studies

The partners in this project have already started discussions within the framework of the "Working Title". This cooperation will result in a joint project within the framework of the proposed title in this application. However, the "Working Title" could b e supplemented with the additional inform...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Kina - Prevention of type 2 diabetes in Oslo, Pakistan, Bangladesh and China

The Jiangsu Provincial Centre for Disease Control (Jiangsu CDC) in Nanjing has already collected data from a random sample of about 5000 urban individuals aged 20 years and above for a diabetes study. The epidemiological situation of T2DM in China is very little studied yet. We are now going to ...

Awarded: NOK 54,000

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

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KIFEE "Teknologisamarbeid Japan-Norge og KIFEE som nasjonal samarbewidsarena"

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Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Kina - Measuring foliar mass and crown density using airborne laser scanning as a measure of forest health

The project shall initiate a research co-operation on remote of forest health between leading forest research institutes in Norway (Norwegian forest research institute, Skogforsk and University of life sciences, UMB/INA) and China (Chinese academy of Fore stry, CAF). The idea is to use airborne l...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

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NA - Research Establishment At Level with Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security

The project objective and sub-goals will be achieved by the following means: a) Contact: The intial essential contact with the director of CERIAS, Professor Spafford, is already established, by his visit to NTNU autumn 2005. b) Agreement: The long-term institutional cooperation will be sougth b...

Awarded: NOK 66,899

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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USA Network and program for Process Intensification

Process intensification (PINT) and related activities such as Process Analytical Technology (PAT) are becoming important areas for many chemical, petrochemical and oil companies with respect to optimal control of their large scale production processes. Wi th increasing focus on the environmental ...

Awarded: NOK 14,250

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Japan - Electrolysis for sustainable development - New techn. for molten salts and for restoration of Lake Biwa in collaboration with Japan

The main purpose of the project is to establish collaboration between research groups in Japan and NTNU. Contact between scientists at NTNU and Doshisha University and Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan has been made through the KIFEE activities; a symposiu m in 2004 and a workshop in 2005. We have...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Japan - Social Science Research with Japan

The search for an appropriate partner department includes two stages. In the first stage, three representatives from ISS, the chair or deputy chair, the head of the Japan program, and another scholar will visit candidate universities in Japan. In the se cond phase, a researcher from each of the...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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USA - Sea ice modelling and assimilation of satellite data, cooperation with the Canadian Ice Service and US National Ice Centre

The Norwegian Meteorological Institute, met.no, is running the national sea ice service. Met.no is also responsible for EUMETSAT High Latitude Ocean & Sea Ice SAF which operationally provide satellite based automatic sea ice analysis to European users. Th e research department at met.no is engage...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Effects of snow conditions on the predator-prey interaction between hare and lynx

It is believed that snow conditions influence the predator-prey interaction between hare and lynx, but empirical evidence is needed to confirm this assumption. Two very promising data sources are already available. First, the 10-year dataset consisting of snow-tracking records of predators from ...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

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Kina - Disability, living conditions and rehabilitation in the community: Establishing research collaboration between China and Norway

Det søkes om prosjektetableringsstøtte til et samarbeidsprosjekt om funksjonshemmedes levekår og rehabiiliteringsbehov i tre provinser i Kina - hvorav den ene er Tibet. De involverte parter har allerede etablert kontakt gjennom tidligere reise, praktisk s amarbeid og utveksling av studenter/fagfo...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

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NA - Establishment and participation of the R&D-program: Bug to Drug

PubGene was established in August 2001 by researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway), and the Norwegian Radium Hospital (Norway). During 2002-2004, the core organization was built up both in USA and Norway covering all majo r roles in the company. PubGene provides ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

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USA - Scientific seminar in Oslo with participants from Johns Hopkins Medical School and Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo

The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Oslo will organise a scientific seminar in Oslo in 2006 on the subjects of neurobiology, cardiology, and cancer research, and has invited fellow colleagues from Johns Hopkins University. The seminar is a based on the existing Agreement of Cooperation b...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

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NA - Chloroplast genetic engineering of turfgrass (creeping bentgrass) --Modify the plant and protect the environment simultaneously

Chloroplast genetic engineering offers a number of unique advantages, including high-level transgene expression, multi-gene engineering in a single transformation event and transgene containment by maternal inheritance. More than 40 transgenes have been s tably integrated and expressed in the tob...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

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Kina - Collaboration on marine biopolymers between NTNU and Wuhan University, China

The Norwegian Biopolymer Laboratory (NOBIPOL) at NTNU has extensive ongoing research activities within marine biopolymers such as alginates, chitosans and fish gelatin (see www.biotech.ntnu.no/nobipol). China and Norway have large and renewable biological resourcces for production of alginates, ...

Awarded: NOK 25,000

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Kina - China's climate change policy: through the prism of energy policy

The project proposal to be developed (should funding be obtained) concerns China's energy and climate policy. China is a key country in climate change affairs, and improved knowledge of China's domestic energy and climate policy is of great importance for global environmental politics. One main ...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

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NA - Degradation of PEM fuel cells

Proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells for electrochemical conversion of hydrogen to electric energy are considered to be a viable technology in a future energy system, due to the potential of obtaining high efficiencies. Fuel cell technology is, howev er, still at a pre-commercial stage. High...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Kina - Regional disparities in maternal and child mortality in China

Både Verdensbanken gjennom sitt prosjekt ?Reaching the Poor? og WHO i sin årsrapport har tydelig signalisert betydningen av å identifisere barriærer barn og mødre møter i helsevesenet globalt. Forskning og tiltak må i større grad ha et fattigdomsperspekti v. Som det hevdes holder det ikke å si at...

Awarded: NOK 90,000

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

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Canada - Palaeobiogeography, palaeoecology and stratigraphy of bryozoan faunas and sediments, Ca and Norw Upper Palaeozoic boreal realm

Bryozoans are among the most diverse and most common fossils in Carboniferous and Permian rocks of the present day Arctic. They are rivaled only by brachiopods and echinoderms, and have been extensively studied in the stratigraphic type areas of Russia an d elsewhere. In recent years stratigraphi...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Synchronizing Holocene Land-Ocean Climatic Records Utilizing Icelandic Tephra Horizons

The aim is to establish a transatlantic group of researcher to develop strong interdisiplinary research on refining the tephra chronology and testing of its utilty to study centennial and higher frequency climate variability in marine and terrestrial core archives. In order to obtain a better pi...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Vestland

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NA - Ocean Waves: Dynamics, Hazards, Currents and Utilization

Norway, surrounded by the North, Norwegian and Barents Seas with a rich endowment of offshore petroleum resources, has been an international leader in scientific and technological research essential to the exploration, exploitation and management of ocean resources. Interactions and collaboratio...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

USA - Cooporation Marine Science North America - Norway

To organise a workshop during March 2006 in Woods Hole, USA, with the obejective to bring together scientists from the Insiture of Marine Research (Norway) and National Marine Fisheries Service (USA) to discuss four identified topics, to write proposals t o meet the deadlines for the Norwegian Re...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Vestland

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

USA - Establishing long-term research cooperation with Water Resources Research Group led by Prof VP Singh at Louisiana State University

The main aim of this proposal is to establish a long-term concrete cooperative relation between the hydrology group at UiO and the world's most prominent research groups in the United States. The Louisiana State University (LSU), Baton Rouge, USA, is a fl agship university of Louisiana and has a ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

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NA - Prosjektetablering på ville bær - kommersialisering av blåbærdyrking og revegetering av arktiske myrområder

Høsten 2005 besøkte forskere fra Planteforsk (Holt, Kise og Kvithamar) ulike forskningsinstitusjoner i Canada. Hensikten med reisen var å bygge et nettverk på ville bær mellom Norge og Canada. Vi besøkte FoU miljø og næringsliv i statene New Foundland, No va Scotia og Quebec. Nå ønsker alle parte...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - The role of exocyst protein/glutamate receptor interactions in postsynaptic receptor trafficking

The concept of excitotoxicity covers the process of harmfull overstimulation of glutamate receptors in neurons. It is integral to neurodegenerative diseases such as stroke, seizures, brain trauma, etc. We have recently started a new EU funded collaborativ e project ("GRIPANNT") on the role of glu...

Awarded: NOK 28,000

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

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NA - Carbon monoxide as an antioxidant in lipids and heme pigments of meat and fish

The interest for research on CO for meat and fish has grown substantially over the past 3-4 years, much because of the recent legislative developments in the USA and EU. Norway and the USA have been pioneers in the utilisation of CO for muscle foods. We p ropose to evaluate new research areas of ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Kina - SINO-NORWEGIAN CENTRE FOR ECO-ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

China is facing a large number of environmental challenges and seeks international scientific assistance in how to deal with these issues. The importance of meeting these requests are reflected in statements issued from the Norwegian government (Soria-Mor ia erklæringen), from Ministry of Educati...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

USA - PepTalk- Project establishment support for studies on peptide nutrition, growth and development of larval fish between Norway and USA

This application for project establishment support for a bilateral research cooperation (PepTalk) between the participating collaborators in Norway and in the US is based on the complementary approach of the research groups that has developed and has been obvious for many years. Because there is...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Vestland

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - New Paradigms for Speech Technology - Pilot

The current paradigm for speech modeling, in particular for automatic speech recognition (ASR) is based on statistical pattern recognition where model parameters are learnt from large collections of speech and text data. The performance of these systems a re, in spite of several decades of resear...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Samarbeid innen studier av sykdom på trær ved bruk av molekylærbiologiske metoder

Min kontakt i Canada er Dr. Armand Séguin (www.arborea.ulaval.ca/en/who/armand-seguin.php) . Dr. Séguin arbeider med å øke vår molekylære forståelse av de molekylære mekanismer bak hvordan trær reagere på sykdom og annet stress forårsaket av miljøet. Ve d Laval Universitetet har de som et hoved...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus