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MAROFF-2-Maritim virksomhet og offsh-2

Optifoul Project

The roughness of the surface of the hull is one of the major factors that contribute to the overall fuel consumption of the vessel. Measurements of the hydrodynamic drag of different commercially available antifouling coatings have shown that surface roug hness between different antifouling syste...

Awarded: NOK 1.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus

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

SIRIUS: Sensing, Adapting and Protecting Pervasive Information Spaces

Utviklingen av trådbasert og i enda større grad trådløs sensorteknologi som kan kobles til internett, vil i fremtiden muliggjøre mange nye applikasjoner innen helse og omsorg, miljøovervåkning, trafikkstyring, smarte hus osv. Men for å kunne bygge appl ikasjoner med sensorer og nettet som basiste...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Exploring and expanding an understanding of Norway's entrepreneural history

Preliminary research suggests these non-conventional religious leaders and groups, being excluded from conventional forms of enterprise, were particularly attuned to new economic and business opportunities. We have focused on the idea of Israel Kirzner w hen he notes that entrepreneurs are espec...

Awarded: NOK 81,500

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Vestland

SKOGFOND-Utviklingsfondet for skogbruket

Påvisning av råteutvikling i trematerialer etter langtidseksponering i felt ved hjelp av molekylære metoder.

Modifisert tre representerer en ny generasjon trebeskyttelse. Generelt kan man si at modifisering av tre er en prosess som endrer og bedrer egenskapene til tre uten bruk av gift. Man vet at modifisering av tre fungerer mot en rekke vednedbrytende organism er, men lite om hvorfor. Dette er nye sys...

Awarded: NOK 0.34 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Akershus

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

KOMmunikasjonssystemer for FREMtidens mobile AD-hoc nettverk

Kommunikasjon for mobile enheter er et stort område hvor Europa bruker betydelige midler og ressurser for å ta frem egnet teknologi. Fokus knyttes til båndet 5.855 GHz og 5.925 GHz. Dette båndet er ut fra fysiske lover godt egnet for kommunikasjon over ko rte avstander. For å oppnå målsettingene...

Awarded: NOK 7.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Automatisert og tilpasningsdyktig produksjon av stykkstøpegods

Ledende norske produsenter av stykkstøpegods, som er en viktig underleverandør til annen norsk og europeisk industri, ser behovet for et vesentlig løft knyttet til å øke automatiseringsgraden i alle ledd av produksjonen for å stå bedre rustet både med hen syn til den globale konkurransesituasjone...

Awarded: NOK 13.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Østfold

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Dependable ICT for the Energy Sector

Software as an integrated part of critical components used in O&G installations is increasingly being used in the oil & gas industry, because it promises more functionality, lower building costs, lower cost of operation, as well as higher flexibility for future changes and upgrades. In particular...

Awarded: NOK 10.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: How to prevent invasion of alien species onto urban hills and coastal heathland ecosystems: Sustaining biodiversity in cultural lands

The coastal heath ecosystem is classified as greatly endangered under the EU Habitats Directive. This is because of land-use changes resulting in a dramatic decrease in the utilisation of outfields for grazing. The threatened heathlands are invaded not on ly by native scrub and trees, but also by...

Awarded: NOK 6.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Assessing the marine fish diversity of Jan Mayen and adjacent waters towards the 2010 Norwegian Red List

The recent version of the Norwegian Red List was published in 2006. Jan Mayen and its adjacent waters is the only Norwegian Territory in the Northern Hemisphere which is not included. An update of the Norwegian Red List is due in 2010, with the aim to inc lude also the area around Jan Mayen. Lit...

Awarded: NOK 0.32 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Vestland

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Integration, exclusion and job mobility in different types of Norwegian work organisations

The premise for the project is that processes of work life integration are not uniform. On the contrary, the character of these processes may be expected to be quite different between various sectors, industries and occupational contexts. This is not only because jobs are designed differently an...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

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

Hybrid Quantum Computers

Quantum computers can process exponentially more information than classical computers. So, whereas, classically, a 32-bit register can operate on one 32-bit number, a quantum counterpart could simultaneously process 2^32 different numbers by using quantum entanglement and superposition. But you ...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

Long term effects of early intervention in psychosis: Ten year follow-up of the TIPS study.

Mental illness is now the largest cause of disability in the developed countries, and schizophrenia is ranked among the leading causes of the total burden of disease worldwide. In addition to personal suffering, the disorder also represents a major proble m to society In spite of more than 75 000...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

Political Parties and Democracy: Decline or Change?

We study the role of political parties in contemporary democracies. The main research question is whether parties have primarily changed or declined as organizations and whether parties' contributions to democracy are stable or in decline. Our focus is th e behaviour and inter-relationship of par...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

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

Saxitoxin biosynthesis and genomics in organisms from two kingdoms - horizontal gene transfer or parallel evolution?

Paralytic shellfish poisoning is a potentially fatal affliction that results from the consumption of seafood or drinking water, which is infested with the neurotoxic alkaloid saxitoxin and its analogues (PSTs). Although PSTs are produced by a complex and unique biosynthetic pathway, distantly rel...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

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

Cancer-targeted T cell Receptors - the next generation immunotherapeutic drugs

The aim is to generate recombinant T cell receptors that recognize cancer cells. DNA encoding the receptors form basis for novel drugs for immunotherapy of cancer. Two strategies are followed to select T cells with the desired receptors: 1) A large number of T cell clones recognizing common canc...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2015

Location: Oslo

MILPAAHEL-Miljøpåvirkning og helse

Environmental mercury and human health in Arctic Norway

Persistent pollutants in Arctic areas have received much attention. It is well known that these contaminants accumulate in food webs and potentially cause severe physiological damages to top level predators including humans. People in Arctic regions tend to be more exposed to these pollutants due...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

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

Receptors controlling the innate immune system

Myeloid cells are activated quickly at the start of an immune response and play a central role in the orchestration of the secondary, adaptive immune response. The adaptive response is influenced both indirectly, through the secretion of cytokines that re gulate the type of immune response genera...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Precise analysis of mass movements through correlation of repeat images (CORRIA)

Slow mass movements such as ice flow, landslides, rock mass instabilities, rockglacier creep, or solifluction are fundamental earth surface processes. Quantification and monitoring of surface velocity fields on these features is a crucial prerequisite for process understanding, numerical modelli...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

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

Molecular characterization of breast cancer: Combined genomics, metabolomics and MR imaging

Breast cancer has the highest incidence and mortality of all malignant diseases among women globally. The heterogeneous nature of breast cancer results in different clinical presentations and outcomes, and patients show a diverse range of responses to a g iven treatment. Processes leading to more...

Awarded: NOK 4.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

MSH: Realismens surrealisme, surrealismens realisme: Balzac og Breton

Prosjektet tar sikte på å undersøke et representativt utvalg av Balzacs romaner og fortellinger fra Paris, og André Bretons viktigste Paris-romaner (Nadja, Les Vases communicants, L'Amour fou), i et komparativt perspektiv som omfatter tre nivå: (1) den m er eller mindre "hallusinerte" bybeskrive...

Awarded: NOK 1,659

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Vestland

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Eng. oversettelse av dr.art.-avh. "Norges konges rike og hans skattland" Kongemakt og statsutvikling i den norrøne verden i middelalderen

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Awarded: NOK 64,999

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SIP-NHD-Strategiske instituttprogram finansiert av NHD

Optimization and environmental improvement of CO2-capture processes

It is now a well established fact that in order to mitigate unwanted environmental effects of CO2 emissions the capture and storage of CO2 is one method promising significant cuts. The continuing growth of world demand for fossil fuels, will only increase the need for CO2 capture and storage tec...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Telemark

MILPAAHEL-Miljøpåvirkning og helse

Environmental exposure to phthalates and Bisphenol A and the development of diabetes and asthma - an in vivo and in vitro study

Asthma, allergy and diabetes increased during the last decades. These diseases are caused by dysfunction of the immune system. Diabetes and allergic diseases could share common underlying immunological mechanisms and environmental causes. Our hypothesis i s that the two groups of chemicals, phtha...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Teamwork and incentives

Team production is one of the defining characteristics of a firm, and there seems to be a consensus that teamwork is particularly important in knowledge-intensive organizations. However, empirical findings suggest that the use individual incentives, as op posed to team incentives, is higher in kn...

Awarded: NOK 81,500

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Vestland

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Automatisert 3D sammenføyning og håndtering av møbelhud og tekstiler

Prosjektet skal finne løsninger for automatisert sammenføyning av tekstiler og møbelhud til 3D produkter og moduler - med en ekstrem grad av fleksibilitet. Sammenføyning av møbelhud og tekstiler er en av de siste i hovedsak manuelle prosesser i tekstil og møbelindustrien. Årsaken er at sammenføy...

Awarded: NOK 18.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Møre og Romsdal

VEFO-Velferd, familie og oppvekst

Barndom - i går, i dag, i morgen

Velferd og livskvalitet for barn er nært knyttet til forståelse av "den gode barndom". I nordiske land sees barndom først og fremst som en livsfase knyttet til utdanning og skole, lek og barnekultur, mens arbeid knyttes til voksne. I barndomsforskningen s tår spørsmål som knytter seg til profesjo...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Idea Work. Zones of criticality and collective practice in creating extraordinary value.

The project aims to understand and enable the creative practices of "idea work", a form of work that is increasingly key to competitive advantage throughout all sectors of the economy. Idea work involves activities of conceiving, reinforcing, combining, r ejecting, testing, and recombining ideas ...

Awarded: NOK 13.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Innovativ sårhelingsteknologi: Utvikling av nye produkter for sårheling og regenerering av hud

Business-konseptet er å utvikle, dokumentere og patentere et terapeutisk sårhelingsprodukt fra et ekstrakt av lakseegg. Produktet vil forbedre sårheling, stimulere regenerering av hudceller, regulere hudcelle-differensiering (celledelingsegenskaper) og st imulere kollagen-utskillelse. Pilotstudie...

Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Tissue Factor siRNA for treatment of melanoma metastasis

The project described herein covers the research and initial preclinical part of the project of developing a drug based on small interfering RNAs (siRNA) targeting Tissue Factor, a molecule known to be involved in the processes of blood clotting, metastas is and angiogenesis. The project has emph...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Low-cost wafers for high-end PV

Norway has proven to be uniquely positioned to take a great share in the growth in PV. With basis in the world-leading competence in the Norwegian metallurgical industry and R&D institutions, several companies have emerged with the main focus on productio n of the required ultra-high-purity silic...

Awarded: NOK 16.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

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