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SIP-Strategiske instituttprogram

Kunstnernes levekår i det nye kulturarbeidslivet

Prosjektet omhandler kunstnernes sosiale bakgrunn med fokus på rekruttering og hvordan kunstnerne lykkes i sin kunstneriske virksomhet. Kunstfeltet er preget av et "kronisk lavinntektsproblem" som følge av stor tilstrømming til og liten avgang fra kunstne ryrkene, uten at etterspørselen etter kun...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Telemark

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Timberbased element systems for improving the energy efficiency of the building envelope

Biological building materials, especially timber could gain great importance if it would succeed to offer appropriate construction systems that achieve the vital potential of the material, i.e. prefabrication and ecological value. The challenge lies in th e implementation of consistent sustainabl...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Impact of meteor showers on mesospheric smoke particles

We propose to carry out a rocket campaign in 2008, in collaboration with Leibniz-Institut für Atmosphärenphysik (IAP), Germany, to study smoke particles in the middle atmosphere. The rockets will be launched from Andøya Rocket Range during and shortly af ter a meteor shower. The primary goal is...

Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Akershus

PETROSAM-Samfunnsvitenskapelig petroleumsforskning

Petroleum industry research in economics and economic management (217329)

Project abstract The project will focus on topical issues in the petroleum industry, drawing theories and methods of economics, finance, accounting and management. We will provide input to topical strategic issues in the industry, but also to detailed dec isions pertaining to regulation, taxation...

Awarded: NOK 22.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Rogaland

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Digestion studies of fatty acids and proteins in milk from different species - Effect on gut health

Gastro-intestinal infections are increasing in industrial countries and for certain diseases, e.g. diarrhoea caused by bacterial and viral infections, there is an increase in incidences that is described as having epidemic proportions. Detection of natura l components in foods that can replace an...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

The effect of political uncertainty in fisheries management: A case study of the Northeast Arctic cod fishery

We seek to investigate the effects of political uncertainty on fisheries, with a special focus on non-compliance with quota regulations. Institutional or political uncertainty is sometimes referred to as uncertainty about the rules of the game. We look at institutional uncertainty on two levels;...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Vestland

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

The digestive tract and human health. Effects of probiotics and polyunsaturated fatty acids on intestinal epithelium and immune function.

This project will address two different questions related to food and health: 1)Do probiotic microorganisms mediate their health-promoting effects by interacting with the intestinal epithelium in a way that differs from non-probiotic microorganisms and ot her commensals? 2)Do dietary polyunsatura...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Akershus

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Team incentives, human capital and job satisfaction

The purpose of this research project is to better understand the causes and nature of teamwork and team incentives, and how these can promote, or obstruct, performance and job satisfaction. Team production is one of the defining characteristics of a firm, and there seems to be a consensus that t...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Omstilling

Prosjektgruppen vil ta utgangspunkt i de områdene i programnotatet som er omtalt som "omstillinger og mobilitet" og mekanismer som påviker inkludering og utstøting i arbeidslivet. Vi har organisert deltemaene under overskriftene 1) Kostnader ved omstillin g 2) Omstillingsprosesser og 3) Årsaker t...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Restriction of lipid deposition in the liver of cod by use of bioactive substances in salmon oil and vegetable feed ingredients.

Use of high-energy feeds has been of major importance for the development of cost effective farming of fast growing salmonids. High energy diets contain high levels of lipids, and such diets cause development of a large fatty liver in cod. More than 80% o f total body lipids in cod are in fact fo...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

KLINISK-Klinisk forskning

Is beta cell rest by insulin treatment beneficial in preserving beta cell function in latent autoimmune diabetes of the adult ( LADA)?

Latent Autoimmune Diabetes LADA) er en hyppig form av diabetes. Det er vist at mellom 5 og 10 % av alle pasienter med diabetes har LADA. Selv om denne formen av diabetes altså er hyppig er mye mindre kjent om hva som er beste behandling enn hva som er kjent for type2 diabetes (aldersdiabetes) ell...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Tracing viral disease dissemination in aquaculture: an interdiciplinary approach between molecular virology and dispersal modelling

Viral diseases are a large problem in Norwegian salmon farming imposing economic as well as welfare-related challenges to the industry. In order to control viral disease dispersal, knowledge on the dispersal pathways of the disease agents and key factors affecting the interaction between the dise...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

The effect of dietary carbohydrates on muscle metabolism, connective tissue composition and fillet quality in cod (Gadus morhua L).

Post mortem softening of fish muscle and occurrence of gaping are major problems for the fish industry. Muscular connective tissue provides mechanical integrity, rigidity, and elasticity to skeletal muscles. Extracellular matrix (ECM) represents an import ant part of the connective tissue, and ch...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

STACK TECHNOLOGY FOR CERAMIC PROTON CONDUCTORS

High temperature ceramic proton conductors (HTPC) are in principle superior to PEM and standard SOFC conductors for use in steam electrolysers and hydrogen fuel cells because of the water-free transport of protons; the steam used or formed is associated w ith the oxygen/air side, and thus, dry hy...

Awarded: NOK 16.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Multiple instruments and the design and implementation of effective energy and climate policy

This project analyses the economic consequences of using multiple instruments towards energy and climate policy targets. The project studies the main political causes for deviating from the simple cost efficient recommendations. A key objective of the pro ject is to identify effective policy meas...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

KLINISK-Klinisk forskning

The Prescription Peer Academic Detailing (Rx-PAD) study. A cluster-randomized educational intervention to improve GPs' prescription practice

The study will be employed as a cluster randomized study targeting 80 general practice (GP) continuous medical education (CME) groups (about 500 GPs) which will be randomized to recieve one out of two interventions - being controls for the other. Furtherm ore, an extended control group comprised ...

Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Bidrar innvandring til å "smøre hjulene" i regionale arbeidsmarkeder?

I dette prosjektet vil vi analysere om innvandrere bidrar til å redusere ubalanser i tilbud- og etterspørsel etter arbeidskraft mellom geografiske regionaer i Norge. Det sentrale utgangspunktet er analyser fra aandre land som tyder på at immigranter er me r geografisk mobile innenfor det nasjonal...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Sensing Music-Related Actions

This interdisciplinary project, combining scientific, technological and artistic methods, proposes three crucial topics for future development of multimodal media devices: 1) the importance of action-sound couplings for both performance and perception of music, 2) the control potential of human b...

Awarded: NOK 6.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Døgngradindikator for temperaturfølsomme produkter: utvikling og testing av industriprototyp

TimeTemp strips måler døgngrader. En sterk blå fargesøyle brer seg gradvis over strippen, avhengig av tid og temperatur. Prosessen går sakte ved lav temperatur og raskt ved høy temperatur. Matvaren kan spises så lenge TT-strippen går dvs. viser et gjenvær ende lagringspotensial, kvalitetsgrensen,...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Pathogenesis of complex genetic diseases, using pre-eclampsia as a model

Pre-eclampsia (PE) is the most common pregnancy-associated complication in the Western world. The syndrome is a major contributor to maternal and fetal illness/death. No therapeutic treatment exists. The mechanisms involved in development of PE remain to be elucidated. Observations suggest immu...

Awarded: NOK 8.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Detection of gene products in cells; An advanced imaging FUGE2 platform node

We here propose the establishment of a FUGE node in Imaging. This node is based on the imaging expertise in the research groups at the Department of Molecular Biosciences (IMBV), the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences (IMB), and the Department of Biochem istry, the Radium Hospital, DNR/RH at the...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Establishment/Evaulation of a Biomolecular NMR Structure Platform and Instrumentation Requirements for Biomolecular NMR

All molecules function through their three-dimensional structures as well as through their chemical properties. Understanding the mode of action of proteins and other biomolecules as well as optimal medical and biotechnological exploitation of these molec ules therefore relies to a large extent o...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Population-based cohorts and biobanks in Norway. A national consortium for research on genes, environment and health

The Biohealth 2 proposal is based on CONOR (Cohort of Norway) and MoBa (the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study), which together formed BioHealth 1 (Biobanks for Health in Norway). BioHealth I was funded by FUGE I and has five partners: the universiti es in Tromsø (UiT), Bergen (UiB) and Oslo...

Awarded: NOK 19.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Stroma-targeting: a directed approached aimed at tumor stroma fibroblasts

In recent years the awareness about the importance of the stroma for normal tissue homeostasis and tumor growth has increased. Much of this progress has been in the field of angiogenesis and anti-angiogenesis approaches are currently receiving considerabl e attention. In contrast to the recent fo...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Vestland

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

The CIGENE node of the Norwegian Sequencing and Genotyping Service Platform

CIGENE's mandate in the FUGE I period has been to: A. Establish and maintain a national core facility providing: (i) - a high-throughput SNP-typing service for human, animal, plant and microbial materials, (ii) - key competence concerning identification a nd methodological integration of experime...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus

PRAKUT-Praksisrettet utdanningsforskn

Barnehagen i endring. Inkludering i praksis

Norsk senter for barneforskning. NTNU (NOSEB) har i samarbeid med Høgskolen i Nord-Trøndelag (HiNT) etablert en tverrfaglig forskergruppe som skal framskaffe og formidle forskningsbasert og praksisnær kunnskap om barnehagen som en integrerende samfunnsin stitusjon og inkludering i praksis. Med f...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

GNBIO-Grunnleggende næringsrettet bioteknologi

Development of assays for diagnostics of viral diseases in farmed salmon: New tools for disease control based on host-pathogen interaction

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Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Host-virus interactions in Atlantic salmon

Infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) and infectious salmon anemia virus (ISAV) are viruses causing threatening diseases in Norwegian aquaculture. Certainly, one of the most challenging problems in designing control strategies against these viruses is to define the specific factors, both in...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Long-term ecological effects of sheep grazing in alpine ecosystems and its integration with management

We propose to further develop two unique experimental studies in contrasting alpine ecosystems (running from 2000 in Setesdal Vesthei and 2002 in Hol) to address several important new research questions: The overall aim is to facilitate sustainable manage ment of sheep grazing in alpine habitats ...

Awarded: NOK 7.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN: Upscaling biological data, processes and models in relation to hydrological processes and models to catchment scale

In order to obtain sustainable use, development and management of water resources, it is crucial to understand how ecological and hydrological processes at small spatial scales relate to the whole catchment. The major challenge in this project is to integ rate the knowledge of the physical enviro...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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