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BILATNAER-Bilat.samarb.m.N-AM,Kina,Jpn,I

Fertilizer technologies for reduced N2O emission from food production

We are convinced that there exist options for reducing N2O emissions per unit N input, and that these can be most effectively explored by investigating how N2O emissions are regulated at the cellular-, microhabitat-, microcosm level (rather than by measur ing N2O fluxes at the field scale). Our...

Awarded: NOK 0.38 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Akershus

BILATNAER-Bilat.samarb.m.N-AM,Kina,Jpn,I

Gas Technology PhD program with MIT, NTNU and StatoilHydro

Therefore the present project is an important part of NTNU strategy within the area Energy and petroleum- resources and environment. It is supported by the university management. Possible new topics identified so far are (persons responsible for the init iatives are listed in parenthesis): - Tra...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BILATNAER-Bilat.samarb.m.N-AM,Kina,Jpn,I

Increased value creation in food production through characterizing and mitigating emissions of greenhouse gases from agriculture in Norway

Summary The forecasted climate makes it critical that Norway increase both the extent and efficiency of food production, while minimizing emissions of the green house gases (GHG); N2O, CO2 and CH4. Strategies to reduce GHG emissions should consider the fa rm as a complete ecosystem. Agriculture a...

Awarded: NOK 0.23 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Akershus

BILATNAER-Bilat.samarb.m.N-AM,Kina,Jpn,I

Long term energy market equilibriums and the effect of new investments

In the future introduction of renewable energy sources will be critical to achieve sustainability, but energy systems will still have to rely on both the new sources and traditional sources like nuclear power and hydrocarbons. We promote analytical models to provide decision support for energy s...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NAERINGSPH-Nærings-phd

Modeling of Toxic Industrial Chemical releases in realistic environments.

Toxic Industrial Chemicals (TIC) are often quoted as the most hazardous materials and constitute a severe threat for people living in proximity of industries and storage areas where such materials are handled. For example, three years ago, a large release of chlorine gas in the Chinese province ...

Awarded: NOK 0.96 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

MAROFF-2-Maritim virksomhet og offsh-2

Innovation in Global Maritime Production 2020

Norway has a long tradition as a maritime nation in shipping, shipbuilding and maritime equipment manufacturing, and has retained a leading position globally at the start of the 21st Century. But with rising cost and increased competition from other natio ns, particularly in Asia, the industry is...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MAROFF-2-Maritim virksomhet og offsh-2

Study of the Effects of NOx Emissions Reductions from Ships on Fuel Consumption and other Emissions with Emphasis Particulates

Survey of Literature and other existing knowledge The literature study concentrates on particle formation from internal combustion engines especially after the combustion process. Emphasis will be put on how NOx and their reduction measures influence part icle formation. Investigation of growth...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-STP-Statsstipendprogram, utlendinger

Szirmai, Orsolya Ungarn 08/09 Kulturavtalestipend

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Awarded: NOK 19,000

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

Working hours,health,and safety in the petroleum industry, A longitudinal prospective study.

Hovedmål med studien var å bestemme om skift/natt arbeid sammen med psykososialt arbeidsinnhold har betydning for mentale helseplager blant onshore- og offshoreansatte i norsk petroleumssektor. Deltakerne besvarte spørreskjemainstrumenter to ganger: 1772 (av 3258 inviterte = 54,4%) besvarte førs...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2015

Location: Oslo

BILATNAER-Bilat.samarb.m.N-AM,Kina,Jpn,I

Exploring complementary advantages by making a twin arrangement between a Norwegian and a Chinese coastal region

Exploring complementary advantages by making a twin arrangement between a Norwegian and a Chinese coastal region The main objective of this project is to start releasing expected mutual benefits of collaboration between two coastal districts with fisher ies background, one in Norway and one in ...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BILATNAER-Bilat.samarb.m.N-AM,Kina,Jpn,I

Facilitating increased use of inexpensive protein-rich byproducts from bio-fuel in feed for Nile tilapia through fermentation

Through 20 generations of selection, Nile tilapia is the aquaculture species with highest potential for rapid growth and efficient feed utilisation. It is thus the aquaculture species with highest increase in production world-wide, and has great prospects , both for the high end fillet market in ...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Akershus

BILATNAER-Bilat.samarb.m.N-AM,Kina,Jpn,I

Heritable variation in melanin-based pigmentation and resistance to salmon lice in Atlantic salmon

Intensive aquaculture of salmonid fish is a relatively new innovation, compared to the cultivation of other animals. The process of domestication has only just begun in these fish, and breeding programs have been essential to the expansion of the aquacult ure industry. Presently, disease and ecto...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Akershus

BILATNAER-Bilat.samarb.m.N-AM,Kina,Jpn,I

Overføring av positive helse- og fruktbarhetsegenskaper fra NRF til Holstein ved kryssing

I internasjonal storfeavl har det vist seg at den dominerende rasen, Holstein, har noen store svakheter, nemlig dårlig fruktbarhet, dårlig helse og livskraft og dermed kort levetid. Den norske NRF har ikke disse svakhetene. Det norske avlsarbeidet har hat t et bredere og mer fullstendig avlsmål e...

Awarded: NOK 0.34 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Innlandet

NAERINGSPH-Nærings-phd

Innovativ bruk av Syntetisk Aperture Sonar for inspeksjon av vannforsyningsnettverk

Breivoll Inspection Technologies AS utvikler, markedsfører og selger tjenester for inspeksjon av vannforsyningsnettverk, basert på avansert bruk av hydroakustikk for måling av godstykkelse og innvendig/utvendig korrosjon på vannforsyningsrør. Breivoll er verdensledende på denne type tjenester som...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NAERINGSPH-Nærings-phd

Gene regulatory effect of disease-associated DNA mutations

Menneskets genom viser stor grad av individuell variasjon, og ulike varianter er assosiert med blant annet forskjellig sykdomsutvikling. Assosiasjonsstudier og molekylærgenetisk kartlegging er viktige verktøy for identifikasjon av genomiske endringer rela tert til sykdom. Kunnskap om de biologisk...

Awarded: NOK 0.92 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Østfold

FORNY-3-Kommersialisering av FoUresultater

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

Prosjektaktiviteter: HiNT fortsetter arbeidet etter tidligere hovedmodell der mobilisering og idéavklaring står sentralt. Dagens resultat viser at det gjenstår mobiliseringsarbeid. Dette betyr å fortsette med forankring, integrering av kunnskapen og bear beide holdningen til brukerrettet nyskapi...

Awarded: NOK 0.35 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

SAMRISK-Samfunnssikkerhet og risiki

Emergency Preparedness and Management Network

A networking project on disaster research between University of Agder (UIA), Norway, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Indonesia, and University of Ruhuna (UR), Sri Lanka, in collaboration with University of Stavanger (UIS) and associated partners. Backgr ound: Based both on the forecasting of t...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Agder

SAMRISK-Samfunnssikkerhet og risiki

Norwegian and Nordic network in information security and societal risk

Information infrastructures build an indispensable foundation for Norway's economic and community life. Infrastructures such as data networks, telecommunications, databases, financial transactions and web services pervade all of society's functions. Any a ccidental or intentional failure of such ...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Oslo

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

ECLAIR-RFCP-CT

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Awarded: NOK 1.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

VRI-Virkemidler for regional innovasjon

Utvikle modeller for konsept og merkevare for et verdiskapings-og visningsenter med kulturarv som tema

For å kunne drive en målrettet markedsføring av et verdiskapings- og visningssenteret, må bedriften ha kunnskap om de viktigste markedssegmentene og deres motiv og behov for å bruke dette opplevelsessenter. Hva er interessant for forbruker nå det gjelder opplevelsen kulturarv. Med form for inform...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Rogaland

IS-RUOK-EONR-økonomi

Schindler, Dirk eon ruhrgas økonomi kat 3

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Awarded: NOK 17,000

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Medical products of algiante oligomers providing symptom relief for patients suffering from Cystic Fibrosis (CF)

The objective is design and formulation of alginate oligomers providing symptom relief for patients suffering from Cystic Fibrosis (CF) offering improved efficacy compared to current treatments. Pseudomonas aeruginosa as example of one of the most common bacterial infections in CF patients secret...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Akershus

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Interoperable Object-Oriented Model for Infrastructure Management

A critical challenge of today's societies is the management of infrastructures and their environment. The need of proper tools is especially acute in the urban areas, in which many layers of information and many disciplines converge in fast-changing condi tions. The primary objective for this p...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus

KULVER-Kulturell verdsetting

Patterns of Cultural Valuation. Priorities and aesthetics in exhibitions of identity in museums.

The project PaCuVal investigates how different ethnic groups and minorities have been presented and represented in Norwegian museums of cultural history during the last 150 years. The research field of museums of cultural history in Norway and their repr esentations of ethnic groups and minoriti...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Oslo

KULVER-Kulturell verdsetting

Being Together. Remaking Public Intimacies

This project is about public intimacies. Public intimacies describe the current situation where intimate, sexual and personal matters are part of the public. Cultural repertoires and discourses in the form of representations and aesthetic, performative an d communicative modes forge and inform ne...

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Oslo

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Marinepack 2010 - Optimal emballering og distribusjon av norsk sjømat

Marinepack 2010 vil fokusere på to hovedområder: I. Utviklling av fiberløsninger, primært for effektiv distribusjon i enheter på 3-20 kg av fersk rundrenset fisk og filet med minimal ismengde og kontroll på kjølekjede II. Utvikle emballasje- og distribu sjonssystemer for superkjøling i kombinas...

Awarded: NOK 0.76 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Buskerud

SYKEFRAVÆR-Forskn.om årsaker til sykefrav

Health, work and society - multi-disciplinary studies of determinants of sickness absence and disability

New knowledge on health related income replacement programs and social exclusion critically depends on the ability to combine hypotheses involving individual and social determinants with health. This project brings together researchers from economics, soc iology, psychology and medicine with a co...

Awarded: NOK 12.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Vestland

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Behandlingsmetode for osteoartritt

I henhold til revisjon pr sept 2011: Formålet med prosjektet er å utvikle en behandlingsmetode for osteoartritt (OA), basert på terapeutisk(e) regime(r) for å eliminere bakteriell provokasjon i ledd. Prosjektet er basert på hypotesen at bakteriell prov okasjon er sentral i patogenesen av OA. V...

Awarded: NOK 11.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

New Production Route for Solar Cells from New Feedstock and Waste Raw Materials (New PRoCeS)

The proposed innovation project is directed towards a new production process for silicon solar cells - from new and waste raw materials to finished solar cell product. Industrial partners in the project are Umoe Solar and 6N Silicon Inc. in close cooperat ion with SINTEF, NTNU and the Internation...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Akershus

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Making words into deed: Analyzing supply chains for bioenergy and factors for development in different regions

The Norwegian authorities have ambitious goals for bioenergy, and an increasing number of firms have in recent years started up activity in bioenergy. This is existing businesses as well as new entrepreneurial enterprises specially set up for bioenergy. S ome firms are small, others are large. Ho...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage