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FME-Forskningssentre for miljøvenn

Miljøvennlig kjernekraftteknologi

Dette prosjektet har som formål å sende inn en søknad på et FME innenfor miljøvennlig kjernekraftteknologi. Både thorium- og urandrevne 3.- og 4.-generasjons systemer vil inngå. Prosjektet vil studere muligheten for kommersiell utnyttelse av de store nor ske thoriumforekomstene. Aldring av mater...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Akershus

PES-INST-Prosjektetablererstøtte EU (FoU)

Inclusive Identity Management

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Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

IS-TOPP-Toppfinans. av M.Curie-stipend

Low-light and Fluorescence Hyperspectral Imaging

The topic of the project is experimental work in the field of hyperspectral imaging. A brief general description of this field is given below. The work will be done mainly at Norsk Elektro Optikk AS (NEO), but in close collaboration with FFI and NTNU. Th e main focus of this project is the devel...

Awarded: NOK 0.84 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Akershus

FORNY-3-Kommersialisering av FoUresultater

Mobilisering for kommersialisering av forretningsidéer med utgangspunkt i brukerdrevet nyskaping ved helsefagavdelingen ved HiNT Namsos.

Prosjektsammendraget er som før, men den lille tilføyelsen på at vi legger ekstra innsats på idéhavere som har startet sitt kommersialiseringsløp. Det er mao viktig at HiNT har en tett kontakt og kan få optimalt med erfaringer ut av de aktørene som har st artet sitt kommersialiseringsforløp samme...

Awarded: NOK 48,418

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

PES-INST-Prosjektetablererstøtte EU (FoU)

Prosjektetablering mot PROGRAM för Europeiskt Territoriellt Samarbete (Interreg Sverige-Norge 2007-2013). Fysisk aktivitet og folkehelse

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Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FME-Forskningssentre for miljøvenn

CO2-frie prosesser for miljøvennlig energiproduksjon

I prosjektet som planlegges, legges vekten på systemstudier av ulike metoder for CCS. Sentralt i arbeidet står oppbyggingen av et fleksibelt testanlegg for utvikling av nye løsninger for fangst av CO2, lokalisert ved Risavika Gas Centre. Fokus er dessuten på utvikling av matematiske modeller for...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Rogaland

FME-Forskningssentre for miljøvenn

Forskningssenter for effektive integrerte energisystemer

Hovedprosjektet som det tas sikte på å etablere er innenfor utviklingen av ny teknologi for energisystemer. Sentrale temaer er integrasjon av ulike energiløsninger, inkludert kraft- og varmeprodusenter og sluttbrukere i framtidens bærekraftige, kostnadsef fektive og pålitelige energisystem. Det f...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Rogaland

FME-Forskningssentre for miljøvenn

Bærekraftig energi-policy

Prosjektet tar sikte på etableringen av Stavanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Policy. Her vil fokus være på samfunnsmessige, økonomiske og miljømessige dimensjoner ved vår tids energiutfordringer. I utviklingen av et mer bærekraftig energisystem vil det være nødvendig med vitenskapelig og te...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Rogaland

FME-Forskningssentre for miljøvenn

Framtidens termiske kraftsystemer

I prosjektet det tas sikte på å etablere vil termisk kraftproduksjon, som trolig vil utgjøre mer enn 60 % av verdens produksjon fram mot 2030, studeres. Dette vil legge til rette for mer effektiv utnyttelse av fossile brensel, såvel som å muliggjøre økt b ruk av fornybare energiressurser. Temaer...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Rogaland

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Understanding of defects and impurities in ZnO; synthesis, doping, and band gap engineering

The project deals with understanding of fundamental physical properties of ZnO motivated to be a promising material when considering new challenges of efficient energy saving/production, further developing/securing the communication highways, developing s ensor interfaces (for example to the huma...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Sediment remediation through activated carbon amendment: Long-term monitoring of a field pilot in Trondheim Harbour

HavKyst delprogram II This project is a follow-up of an NFR-financed Strategic Institute Program at NGI that will terminate at the end of 2007 (2004-2007). In the context of this project, activated carbon amendment has been applied (May 2007) as a novel remediation technique in a pilot project i...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Improving food safety in the domestic environment by risk analysis of consumer food handling and evaluation of risk-reducing measures(188384

Food contamination creates a significant social and economic burden on communities and their health systems. In 2005, about 30% of reported food borne outbreaks in Norway originated to food consumed at home. Food producers or retailers are often pointed o ut as responsible in food associated outb...

Awarded: NOK 9.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

The role of novel interferons in antiviral immunity and DNA vaccine mechanism in Atlantic salmon

To develop more efficient vaccines and other methods to fight viral diseases of Atlantic salmon there is a need for a better understanding of antiviral immune mechanisms in this species. Interferons (IFNs) play a crucial role in innate immune responses ag ainst virus infections in mammals whereby...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

CLIMATE CHANGE: DISTRIBUTING RESPONSIBILITIES JUSTLY

The purpose of this project is to investigate four specific research questions concerning the responsibility to take on the costs associated with climate change. A further aim is to provide ethically sound premises for policy-making. 1 & 2. Climate cha nge raises questions both of mitigation a...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

SECOND GENERATION BIOFUEL - TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND IMPACTS ON BIOMASS MARKETS

It is expected that 90% of the increase of CO2 emissions in Europe between 1990 and 2010 will be attributable to transport. In the short and medium term, use of biofuels can be an important mean to reduce the GHG emissions from the transport sector. The second generation biofuels based on lignoc...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Requirements for Secure Information Systems

The project will develop and evaluate methodology and tool support for security requirements engineering, integrated with mainstream software development methods. The main features of the contribution will be as follows: - The methodology shall be lightwe ight, meant to be used primarily by mains...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

Mapping the Normative Terrain of An Ethics of Care

This project is based on an assumption that health care prioritisations raise substantially ethical difficult choices. Further it is presumed that an ethics of care which take the relation to particular patients to be salient might provide important norma tive arguments to the benefit of individu...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosj.st. med.,helse,biol

B-cell lymphomagenesis in Ung-deficient mice: collaboration between chronic antigenic stimulation and DNA repair deficiency

The importance of responding appropriately to DNA damage is highlighted by the frequent development of human disease, most notably cancer, in cells where this response is compromised. Here, we ask whether endogenous DNA damage, such as uracil in DNA, can contribute to activation of the DNA damage...

Awarded: NOK 6.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Socio-demographic factors influencing attendance and survival of breast cancer in the Norwegian Breast Cancer Screening Program

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide. In Norway, a total of 2694 women were diagnosed and 715 women died of breast cancer in 2003. On the basis of the results of randomised trials from New York, Canada and different studies in Sweden , the Norwegian Ministry of Health and So...

Awarded: NOK 0.28 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

FME-Forskningssentre for miljøvenn

CEntre for Sustainable Energy Strategies

Senter for bærekraftige energistrategier vil samle et sterkt og flerfaglig kompetansemiljø som integrerer teknologi, økonomi, miljø og samfunnsfag, for å skape ny kunnskap for private og offentlige aktører. Senteret vil være en uavhengig arena for strateg isk diskusjon rundt energisystemer og -te...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

ISEE konferansen Applying Ecological Economics for Social and Environmental Sustainability i Nairobi 7 - 11 august 2008

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Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-STP-Statsstipendprogram, utlendinger

Zirh, Besim Can, Tyrkia. statsstipend 2008/09

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Awarded: NOK 70,000

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

PES-INST-Prosjektetablererstøtte EU (FoU)

Smart Power Management in Home and Health - SmartPM

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Awarded: NOK 74,999

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

FRIMED-Klinisk medisin og folkehelse

Cognition and plasticity throughout the human lifespan - Neuroanatomical, neurophysiological and neuropsychological markers and mechanisms

The present proposal seeks to uncover the markers and mechanisms underlying changes in brain and cognitive behavior throughout the lifespan, and whether, and how, we ourselves can initiate, enhance or slow such changes. The goal is to detail the nature of age changes in both brain anatomy, activ...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosj.st. med.,helse,biol

Incipient speciation through ecological divergence in subarctic whitefish populations

The evolutionary processes that can create two species out of one are still under exploration and continuous debate. Recent developments have emphasised the potential of ecological speciation where species divergence may develop as an evolutionary consequ ence of ecological interactions within th...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosj.st. med.,helse,biol

Exploiting the plasticity in social life history; physiology of extreme longevity in honeybee diutinus workers

Our studies have documented direct effects of vitellogenin on stress resistance and longevity during summer. However, although vitellogenin RNAi in workers living under favorable ambient conditions provides functional insight, it does not directly address the role of vitellogenin in extreme work...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Akershus

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosj.st. med.,helse,biol

Cellular interactions underlying organization of cortical circuits

A major question in neuroscience is how appropriate connections are formed when the brain develops and how these connections are modified with experience. It is well established that neural circuits are fine-tuned by experience during 'critical periods' i n early postnatal life. In the visual sys...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Leif Eriksson mobility program: Value Creating Board Exchange 2008-2009

I plan to spend my sabbatical 2008-2009 to develop further the possibilities we have got from the "Value Creating Board" research program. This will be done by spending the period July 2008 till June 2009 with researchers in other countries. I will this year have a base at Carlson School of Ma...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

FRIMED-Klinisk medisin og folkehelse

Night work, circadian gene polymorphisms and breast cancer risk among female nurses. A nested case-control study

Less than half of all breast cancers can be explained by known risk factors. Results from recent epidemiological studies have been largely consistent in suggesting a positive association between night work and increased risk of breast cancer in women. Th ese findings suggest a role of circadian ...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

SUP-NHD-Strategiske UoH-progr.fin.NHD

Acoustic image formation and interpretation

This proposal outlines a cross-disciplinary project for acoustic image formation in terms of seismic data processing, signal processing for sonar image formation and processing, and image analysis and pattern recognition for information extraction from th e acoustic signal. It will be carried out...

Awarded: NOK 7.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Oslo