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HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Bioeconomic Multispecies Analysis of Marine Ecosystems

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Bilat - Changes in the Calanus complex on both sides of the Atlantic and its possible impact on fish populations

A 10 degree latitude northward shift in the characteristic copepod populations of temperate oceans has been observed over the past several decades, seemingly in association with global warming effects on ocean water temperature. This has moved the Subarct ic and Cold Temperate copepod species int...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Vestland

RUSMIDDEL-Rusmiddelforskning

The Use of Drugs and Alcohol: The Impact on Employment, Unemployment and Risk of Social Exclusion.

In this project we will analyse the use of drug and alcohol and the impact on employment and unemployment in the transition from youth to adulthood. We will use unique data of a longitudinal survey of a representative sample of 2000 young people followed up through 25 years: from 1985 to 2010. M...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Workshop on survey methods for estimating catch, effort and economic value of widely dispersed marine recreational fisheries

The goal of this multidisciplinary workshop is to develop collaborative research on cost-effective methods that can be used to monitor catch and effort and to quantify the economic effects in diffuse marine recreational fisheries in Europe. The importanc e of quantifying catches in marine recrea...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Promoting prosperous coastal communities - Integrated community and business development in a regional perspective

The overriding question asked by this project is: Why have some coastal communities succeeded in developing prosperous communities while others struggle? We will study factors of importance to success: demography and economic development; local and region al collaboration; the importance of a coh...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

How formalization closed the gender land gap in Peru and the impact on women's empowerment

The Special Land Titling and Cadastre Project (PETT) in Peru has over the last decade issued titles for over 5.8 million agricultural plots, unique in the world when it comes to the extent and speed of the process. Fifty-six per cent of all plots belongin g to households with couples became joint...

Awarded: NOK 0.62 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Oslo

GLOBHELS-Global helse

Additional activities related to an ongoing project: Impact of the new vaccine MenAfriVac on carriage of serogroup A Neisseria meningitidis

Meningitis due to Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A represents an important public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa. New meningitis vaccines (against pneumococci, Hemophilus influenzae and serogroup C meningococci) manufactured by conjugating the pol ysaccharide to a carrier protein have bee...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2012

Location: Oslo

KOSK-II-Katalyse og org.synt.kjemi II

Understanding catalytic effects in Pd alloy model systems and membranes through advanced characterization and modelling.

The manipulation of adsorption properties of catalysts and membranes in H2/CO mixtures has been targeted many researchers, and has relevance to natural gas conversion in general and hydrogen technology in particular. We recently discovered that the inhibi tion of hydrogen transport through PdAg m...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FINNUT-Forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren

GOVERNANCE, MANAGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE IN THE NORWEGIAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

English The three PhD students financed by the project have all finished studies at the Department of Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, during 2013. These are: Jon Marius Vaag Iversen, Educational governance: Interactions between institutions and school resources Kaj...

Awarded: NOK 13.3 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SAMF-Fagkomiteen for samfunnsvitenskap

Consortium of international market research, annual conference, May 26-29, 2010

The project is principally to organize the CIMaR 2010 conference, with participants from about 25-30 countries. Invitations will be sent early Fall 2009, with subsequent follow-up rounds, paper submissions/reviews and carry out the conference in late May 2010. An integral part of the project i...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Oslo

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

Investigating social inequalities & determinants of weight development in youth: Applying longitudinal, environmental and experimental data

Forskerprosjektet "Investigating social inequalities & determinants of weight development in youth: Applying longitudinal, environmental and experimental data." baserer seg på data fra den longitudinell studien «Voksen i år 2000», den Europeiske tverrsnittsstudien fra EU-prosjektet ENERGY og inte...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Oslo

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

Inflammasome activation by cholesterol crystals

Atherosclerotic lesions are focal thickenings of the innermost layer of the artery consisting of cells from the artery cell wall, connective tissue elements, liquid and crystalline lipids as well as blood-borne immune cells. Immune cells in atheroscleroti c lesions show signs of activation and pr...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

U2020-Norsk utdanningsforskning 2009-2018

Learning ressources and writing in educational textual cultures

The project Learning Resources and Writing in Educational Textual Cultures responds to the programme Utdanning2020, particularly in connection with Area A "Educational objectives, content, and teaching and working methods", as well as Area B "Assessment f orms, learning processes and learning out...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Vestfold

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

Can Cysteine Metabolism Provide a Target to Treat Obesity?

Framdriftsrapport. Rapporteringsfrist: 20121001. Mottatt: 20130211. 197195 - Can Cysteine Metabolism Provide a Target to Treat Obesity? Side: 8 begrenset. Flere av de beskrevne prosjektene vil nå bli utvidet til også å inkludere aminosyre- og fettsy reprofilen, noe som vil markert heve kvaliteten...

Awarded: NOK 9.4 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Oslo

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

Cellular Interactions with the Extracellular Matrix of Tumour Microenvironment

Interactions of cells (both tumour and stromal cells) with extracellular matrix (ECM) are an important part of the influence of the microenvironment on tumour progression. ECM interacts with cells via integrin receptors, as well as other receptors, and pr ovides signals for cell proliferation and...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

The Nordic-European Initiative on Colorectal Cancer (NordICC)

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a major burden in western countries. The disease develops from precursor lesions. Colonoscopy can detect and remove CRC precursor lesions and may thus be effective for CRC prevention. According to European Union guidelines, evid ence from randomised trials to reduce inc...

Awarded: NOK 13.8 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Oslo

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Toxic Algae: Taxonomy, Quantification and Early Warning

TOXICALGAE tok sikte på å øke forståelsen av giftig marine mikroalger og vi fokuserte primært på arter som er giftig for fisk. Mange av dem er små, skjøre og vanskelig å oppdage ved hjelp av standard overvåkingsmetoder som lysmikroskopi, derfor er nye verktøy som enkelt og nøyaktig kan oppdage og...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2016

Location: Oslo

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

Enhanced Minimally Invasive Therapy,- e-MIT

Prosjektet e-MIT (enhanced Minimally Invasive Therapy) har som hovedmålsetting å forbedre behandling av pasienter gjennom utvikling av minimal invasive teknikker. e-MIT har videre mål om å forbedre behandling av pasienter med utposning på hovedpulsåren (abdominalt aorta aneurysme), kreft i mage, ...

Awarded: NOK 13.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

The law and economics of relational contracts

Contracts form the web of the economy. The ability of parties to enter into voluntary contractual agreements is essential for economic exchange and prosperity. There are basically two devices that govern contracts: Contract law and norms. Contract law se ts the legal rules of exchanging parties'...

Awarded: NOK 5.8 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Rogaland

FRIMED-Klinisk medisin og folkehelse

Society for Medical Innovation and Technology, Academic Conference 2010, Trondheim, Norway

Society for Medical Innovation and Technology, SMIT (http://www.smit.de/), er en organisasjon som hvert år arrangerer en vitenskapelig tverrfaglig internasjonal konferanse innen temaet medical innovation and technology. Den vitenskapelige konferansens ans var og hovedarrangør er den årlige konfer...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

The pathogenic role of chemokines in atherogenesis and plaque destabilization

I korthet har prosjektet tatt utgangspunkt i kjemokiners betydning i utviklingen av aterosklerose. Kjemokiner er potente kjemoattraktanter av inflammatoriske celler inn til blant annet blodkarets vegg. Dette gjør at kjemokiner kan være spesielt viktig i utviklingen og destabilisering av aterosk...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Oslo

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

Identifying molecular targets on cancer stem-like cells from human brain tumours

The overall objective of our laboratory is to determine the biological mechanisms underlying brain tumour development and identify novel therapeutic targets that will block or reduce tumour progression. Our research group has been able to isolate two diff erent phenotypes from human glioblastomas...

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Vestland

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

The anatomy of memory: circuitry and functions of the hippocampal-parahippocampal region.

The human hippocampal-parahippocampal region plays an important role in memory. The relationship between the circuitry contained in this brain region and its contribution to memory is a topic of intense research, yet to date there is no complete and mecha nistic understanding of how the circuitry...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Implications of high fertility in developing countries - a multilevel analysis based on DHS data

see objectives above Obviously, such knowledge about how important it is to try to reduce fertility and how socieoeconomic development may help in achieving that is of great value to politicians and planners at several levels in several countries.

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Oslo

FINNUT-Forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren

Qualifying for professional careers

Våre undersøkelser viser at begrepet forskningsbasert utdanning er uklart og at det brukes på ulike måte. Bare et mindretall av studentene innfor de fire profesjonsutdanningene involveres i lærernes FoU-prosjekter og det varier i hvilken grad studentene har kjennskap til lærernes forskning. Evnen...

Awarded: NOK 12.9 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Oslo

GLOBHELS-Global helse

mVAC - Mobile innovations in recording child vaccination and health data in immunization registers

We will develop an innovative and mobile phone based solutions to create a fully digital system for recording immunizations at the individual level, which can be implemented in countries both with and without a public unique person ID structure/system. Pr imary health care workers will be equippe...

Awarded: NOK 5.4 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Vestland

U2020-Norsk utdanningsforskning 2009-2018

Budding Science and Literacy A longitudinal study of using inquiry-based science and literacy in comprehensive schooling

Forskerføtter og leserøtter er et undervisnings- og forskningsprosjekt ved Naturfagsenteret som har fokus på å integrere utforskende læringsaktiviteter (i henhold til hovedområdet Forskerspiren i lærerplanen) og grunnleggende ferdigheter. Prosjektet har o versatt og tilpasset allerede eksisterend...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Oslo

U2020-Norsk utdanningsforskning 2009-2018

Places for learning, care and growth - The physical environments in early childhood education and care institutions (ECECI) in Norway

The project will develop research methods for gaining new knowledge about the impact of physical environment on children's learning, care and growth in kindergarten, and with a focus on learning areas in the Framework Plan for the Content and Tasks of Kin dergartens. The project is interdisciplin...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

APECS: Shaping the Future of Polar Research International Directorate Office

Norway, as many western countries, is facing a scientific generation gap in conjunction with the difficulty in recruiting natural and physical scientists. The work of APECS is helping young scientists maneuver the challenging academic world, encouraging t hem to stay in science, and recruit the n...

Awarded: NOK 1.00 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Konferanse om klimaendring og sikkerhet

Menneskeskapt klimaendring er en av vår tids største utfordringer. Spørsmålet om klimaendringenes betydning fred og sikkerhet er nå også kommet i søkelyset, ikke minst gjennom to begivenheter i 2007: behandlingen i FNs sikkerhetsråd og tildelingen av Nobe ls fredspris til IPCC og Al Gore. Både de...

Awarded: NOK 0.45 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Oslo

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