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INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Prosjektetablering: Nominale former i norsk; deres bruk og betydning

Dette prosjektets formål er å etablere et forskningssamarbeid mellom lingvister ved Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet og en forskergruppe ved Universitetet i Minnesota (USA). Emnet vi ønsker å etablere et forskningsprosjekt rundt, er bruken av, og betydningen til, ulike nominale f...

Awarded: NOK 55,000

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Kina - Norway - China collaboration for better resistance against Powdery Mildew and Fusarium Head Blight in wheat

Powdery mildew (PM) and Fusarium head blight (FHB) are among the most devastating diseases on small-grained cereals in both Norway and China. PM has become a serious leaf disease in both countries due to the widespread use of race-specific resistance gene s that can easily be overcome by mutation...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Resource dependent communities in "old economy" regions.

The so-called ?new economy? is rapidly transforming the advanced Western societies. Urban areas are being strengthened while many rural areas are being undermined in economic, demographic, and cultural terms. The impacts of these developments are particul arly pronounced in regions and communitie...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Innlandet

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

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

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

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

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

USA - Regional Partnership for Carbon Sequestration Risk Assessment of Long Term CO2 Geological Storage

A number of demonstration scale CO2 geological storage projects are currently planned in New Mexico and Texas as part of the Partnership for Carbon Sequestration organised by the Department of Energy in the USA. These demonstration projects are described in detail in the second attachment to this...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Kina - Chinese-Norwegian Network for Industrial Design

Research and education activities between NTNU and XUAT were established already in 1989. The initiator was the Department of Architectural Design, History and Technology, which has carried out several projects in Xian (a.o. financed by NORAD), and who gr adually involved other departments at NTN...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

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

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

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

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

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

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Preparing barley for the healthy food market by charachterisation and validation of bioactive components

Barley is the most important cereal crop in Norway, and an increased utilisation of this cereal is therefore economically important. Most of the barley is used in animal feed and to be able increase the utilisation, more barley must be used in human consu mption. Ongoing national projcets and int...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Risk reduction of contaminated soils and sediments through Activated Carbon amendment

It is proposed to establish a new scientific cooperation between the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) and Stanford University, California, USA (prof. Richard Luthy). Prof. Luthy is the first to have shown that amendment of activated carbon (AC) to s ediments is a very promising in situ reme...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Canada - Comparative studies of the Canadian and Norwegian Aluminium Industry

This initiative is founded on one of the six the strategic research area of NTNU: The Globalization Programme. Focus will be put on similarities and differences between the aluminium sector in Canada and Norway respectively in order to learn about the h istorical developments and the challenges...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

USA - Collaborative Pacific Studies: University of Bergen and University of Hawai'i at Manoa

The present proposal lays the foundations for a long-term collaborative programme of research in the field of Pacific Studies between Norway and the USA. It takes as its starting point the general "Memorandum of Understanding on Student Exchange and Facu lty Cooperative Research" signed in 2003 ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Vestland

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Airborne Current Use Pesticides

Long-range transport of environmental pollutants has become a prime area of interest during the last decade. Most of the interest has been coupled to persistent organic pollutants (POPs). In contrast to the POPs, very little data exist on "current use pes ticides" (CUPs), i.e., the pesticides tha...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Utvikling av en ny operasjonsmetode for kneligamentskader

Medial collateral ligament (MCL) injuries are the most common knee ligament injury. Such injuries are thought to be over twice as common as ACL tears. But the exact functional role of the main medial structures, the tibial collateral ligament (TCL or als o known as the superficial medial collate...

Awarded: NOK 66,023

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

USA - Bilateral projects between Bogen lab and various laboratories associated with Harvard Medical School

The applicant, Bjarne Bogen, had a 6 months sabbatical stay at Dana Farber Cancer Institute/ Harvard Medical school Sept 1st 2004 to March 1st 2005. During this period he established a number of bilateral collaborations with the following laboratories: 1) Klaus Rajewsky (Center for Blood Researc...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Japan - Explore possibilities for research collaboration between Norway and Japan on endoreduplication in plants

Endereduplication is the process where the cell replicates chromosomal DNA without intervening mitoses. The result is a cell with increased number of nuclei and increased size in most cases. The process is well known in animal cells, for example in musc le cells where endoreduplication causes t...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Kina - Joint Norwegian/Chinese R&D in data aquisition and trigger concepts for the CBM experiment at FAIR/GSI

The exploration of the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter is one of the most challenging fields of modern high-energy physics. At ultra-relativistic beam energies provided by RHIC and the future LHC, one can expect partonic matter to be produced at very high temperatures and at small b...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Vestland

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Kina - Collaboration between Tsinghua University and NTNU in CO2 management

Initials talks between the parties interested in CO2 management were held in Beijing at Tsinghua University in late October 2005. Further plans are as follows: Submission of application to EU FP6 within January 20 for a STREP on collaboration with a few CASTOR partners, selected partners from CS...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Kina - Samarbeid mellom kinesiske og norske bedrifter - utfordringen i å identifisere og utnytte hverandres sterke sider

Dette forprosjektet har som utgangspunkt at både populær-og akademisk litteratur peker på at mange internasjonal samarbeid mislykkes, og at det derfor er mer behov for forskning på dette feltet. Den viktigste hensikten med forprosjektet er å få en oversik t over relevant teori, utbredelsen av fen...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Large-Scale 3D Transient Hydraulic Tomography Using Parallel Computers

The capability of characterizing heterogeneous hydraulic parameters in the subsurface is essential for monitoring and predicting groundwater resources. Investigating such heterogeneity by the technique of hydraulic tomograph in basin-scale presents a for midable challenge. The size of computatio...

Awarded: NOK 77,000

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Japan - Advanced Biological Materials International collaboration between NTNU and Japan

Development of materials from natural resources are important in transforming into a sustainable and technological advanced society. The project focuses on developing international research projects between Japan and Norway within materials based on biol ogical resources. Focus areas include dev...

Awarded: NOK 86,471

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Kina - Energy Conservation in Buildings - Chinese/Norwegian Cooperation

NTNU has established "Energy and Petroleum/Resources and Environment" as a principal strategic multidisciplinary R&D activity (see Project Description Attachment). International cooperation is a major part of this effort, with main focus on Japan, USA an d China. NTNU's university rector and a l...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Japan - Use of new, less corrosive steel in shipping and offshore industry

Steel manufacturers have always been looking into ways of producing ship-grade steels with improved corrosion resistance properties and a competitive price. After studying publications and patent applications that have been published in the last years in this area we have to conclude, that it is ...

Awarded: NOK 83,668

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Akershus

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

USA - Samarbeid på forsknings - og næringsnivå innen økonomisk utvikling og innovasjonssystemer mellom Stavanger og Texas

Dette prosjektet har to nivåer, et forskningssamarbeid og et samarbeid på næringslivsnivå som inkluderer samarbeid mellom teknologi-inkubatorer. Begge prosjektene involverer i høyeste grad kunnskapoverføring - og utvikling. I forskningssmarbeidet tenker en en ?tradisjonelt? ved at en gjennomfø...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Rogaland

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Significance of scallop genetics and environment on juvenile viability in culture - a trans Atlantic research cooperation

University of Bergen has since the 1980s been one of the leading Norwegian organisations for development of scallop aquaculture. National and international research cooperation is an important component for developing a sustainable scallop industry. We wi ll therefore increase the collaboration w...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Vestland

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Citizenship and Local Development in the North

This project aims at re-establishing and expanding the close links that developed between Canadian and Norwegian social scientists operating in a multi-disciplinary mode, but with a clear focus on local level development processes in the Northern areas. T he works by Robert Paine, Ottar Brox and ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Strategic collaboration between SFA, UNH and NTNU

We propose a strategic collaboration between researchers within SINTEF Fisheries and aquaculture (SFA) aquaculture technology section, the University of New Hampshire's Open Ocean Aquaculture (OOA) and NTNU Department of cybernetics to solve some of the c hallenges of open ocean aquaculture. The ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage