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ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Norwegian Participation in the Hinode satellite

The Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics (ITA) at the University of Oslo has since the summer 2000 participated in the development and construction of the major international solar experiment the Japanese Hinode (formally known as Solar B) satellite. In this proposal we argue that Norway uphold ...

Awarded: NOK 0.36 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Oslo

IS-STP-Statsstipendprogram, utlendinger

Rachamim, Tamar (Bsor), Israel, statsstipend 2008/09

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Awarded: NOK 19,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Oslo

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Verktøy for innvendig presisjonsmaskinering - VIP

Dagens prosess ved Volvo Aero Norge for innvendig bearbeiding av lange og slanke jetmotorakslinger er karakterisert av lange operasjonstider og en stor andel støtteprosesser som ikke direkte bidrar til verdiskaping. Dagens prosess er utviklet på 1960-tall et, men benyttes fremdeles fordi det fore...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

A Measurement-Theoretic Approach to the Estimation of Genetic Architecture and its Effects on Evolvability

A central question of evolutionary biology concerns the study of evolvability, which is the ability of a population to change in response to selection. A growing body of theory implicates the pattern of genetic interactions underlying a trait, referred to as the genetic architecture of a trait, ...

Awarded: NOK 0.24 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Oslo

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

A Sustainable Process to Capture and Store CO2 to Increase Production of Renewable Bioenergy

This research project involves an international consortia of R&D institutions and companies to develop a sustainable process to capture and store carbon dioxide (CO2) to produce more renewable bioenergy. The project involves designing and testing of photo bioreactors for microalgae grown on waste...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Vestfold

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

Environmental Friendly Strategies for Waste Management in India Utilising Cement and Concrete Production Technology

This Industry-oriented-bilateral project between India and Norway aims to contribute to further increase the utilisation of mineral wastes in Indian cement and concrete industry in an environmental and scientific sound way in order to ensure sustainable e nergy and resource management. The projec...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Cultural-sensitive health care combining traditional and conventional medicine in Meso-America

Background: There is currently no initiative in Guatemala and Mexico to coordinate appropriate research programs in the field of coexistence and mutual understanding between western health workers and practitioners of traditional indigenous medicine. Sinc e a majority of the population in these a...

Awarded: NOK 0.35 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Indigenous peoples' rights to consultation (ILO169) and development interventions: comparing experiences in Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil

The ILO Convention # 169 (C169) is unique, as it is the only legally binding instrument in international law that distinctly deals with indigenous peoples' rights. It covers a range of issues, including land rights and access to natural resources. C169 is directed to governments, recognising the...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Akershus

DEMOSREG-Demokrati, styring og regional

Flernivåstyring i spenningsfeltet mellom funksjonell og territoriell spesialisering

Bokprosjekt: Anne Lise Fimreite, Per Lægreid og Lise Hellebø Rykkja, red. Samfunnsikkerhet og kriser - Flernivåstyring, samordning og spesialisering. Bokens formål er å bidra til å fremme kunnskapsstatusen på dette feltet gjennom synteser av gjennomført f orskning innenfor det felles temaet som p...

Awarded: NOK 59,999

Project Period: 2009-2011

Location: Vestland

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

Fertilizer technologies for reduced N2O emission from food production

The project will explore options to minimize N2O emissions from food production, be it by development of new fertilizer formulations/fertilizer regimes or alternative soil managements. The search for such mitigations in the past have largely been unsucces sful, but recent progress in molecular bi...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Akershus

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

Improving Health and Fertility in US Holstein by Crossing with Norwegian Red (NRF)

Holstein (HOL) is the dominating dairy cattle breed worldwide. The breed is characterized by high milk yield but poor performance for some important functional traits. Low fertility together with poor health and high mortality has resulted in reduced long evity. In Norwegian Red (NRF) these funct...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Innlandet

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Can waste emissions from fish farms change the structure of marine food webs ? Acomparative study of coastal ecosystems in Norway and Chile

In the third mesocosm experiment the response of the phytoplankton to nutrient addition wassignificantly lower than in both our previous experiments in Chile. There seems to be a difference in the balance between phytoplankton production and the efficiency of the predators keeping hebiomass of th...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SKOGFOND-Utviklingsfondet for skogbruket

Anskaffelse av kabelkranmodell til kursing og undervisning, Forprosjekt

Modellen skal brukes i undervisning av taubanemannskaper og entreprenører, og i undervisning av elever på Mære landbruksskole og andre. Modellen vil enkelt kunne transporteres i en tilhenger eller en kassebil slik at kurs kan tilbys hos oppdragsgivere. De n skal fungere som en simulator av en ful...

Awarded: NOK 0.28 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NANO2021-Nanoteknologi og nye materiale

Nanoskolen.no En innføring i nanoteknologi og funksjonelle materialer for ikke-realister

Nanoteknologi har vært et buzzord det siste tiåret. Men hva er det i praksis? Nano-ordet brukes ofte litt ukritisk og det ofte skorter på kunnskap om hva nanoteknologi kan gjøre for oss. Nanoskolen.no vil være en kort og konsis innføring i forsknin gsfeltet. Prosjektet vil bestå av en kor...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Bilat - Pseudocalanus: ecology and taxonomy of two sibling copepod species in Svalbard and Northern Norwegian waters

Research on the ecological significance of smaller copepod species in the Arctic has not received adequate attention. Possible reasons are their smaller size, fragile bodies, difficult handling and identification and that they are frequently underrepresen ted due to undersampling by coarse plankt...

Awarded: NOK 40,999

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

EUROSTARS-EUROSTARS

4793 Integrated Natural Gas based Hydrogen Production and Compression System

At present, annually 500 billion m3 of hydrogen are produced globally in centralised large-scale refinery-like plants, compressed to 200 bar, and transported for use in industrial processes. In this old-fashion supply chain a significant part of the energ y content is wasted on transport as huge ...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Akershus

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

Training in sources, sinks and impacts of atmospheric nitrogen deposition in the Arctic - Tjarda Roberts

The NSINK Initial Stage Network training network targets one of the most vital, interdisciplinary problems facing future Arctic environmental management: namely the enrichment of Arctic terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems by reactive atmospheric nitrogen f rom low latitude emission centers. The pr...

Awarded: NOK 0.27 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

Reduced energy use in Educational buildings with robust Demand Controlled Ventilation

Several studies have shown that the energy use due to ventilation of classrooms can be reduced with 50 to 60 % with well designed demand controlled ventilation (DCV) compared with constant air volume (CAV), presupposed traditional classroom based educatio n. However, the use of the school areas h...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

GASSMAKS-Økt verdiskaping fra naturgass

Katalysatorutvikling for formaldehydproduksjon - Forprosjekt

K. A. Rasmussen AS og SINTEF ønsker å avklare muligheten for å utvikle nye katalysatorer for fremstilling av formaldehyd fra metanol. Dagens teknologi har visse svakheter, og formålet med dette forprosjektet er å undersøke det teknologiske og organisasjon messige grunnlaget for å forske frem bedr...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Oslo

PRAKSFOU-Praksisrettet FOU i skolen

Samarbeid nasjonal konferanse i oktober - "Læring og utvikling - mangfold og fellesskap"

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Awarded: NOK 50,000

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Innlandet

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

NY LENSE 2008

Dagens oljevernutstyr har begrensninger tilknyttet bølgehøyde, strøm og det å operere i mørke. Dette kan føre til at en i praksis bare kan kontrollere oljesøl i 60-70 % av tiden. Oljevernet vi har i dag kan således sies å ha begrenset totaleffektivitet. NorLense har lagt i front internasjonalt ...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

SYKEFRAVÆR-Forskn.om årsaker til sykefrav

Selvvurdert helse og uføretrygd. Nasjonalt samarbeidsprosjekt for anvendelse av helseundersøkelser i kobling til FD-trygd

En stadig økende andel av befolkningen i yrkesaktiv alder innvilges uføretrygd. En omfattende litteraturgjennomgang konkluderte med at årsaker til arbeidsuførhet i det vesentligste er ukjente, og at forskningsfeltet er underutviklet både teoretisk og meto disk. Studier som anvender longitudinelle...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Vestland

PES-INST-Prosjektetablererstøtte EU (FoU)

High throughput healthcare integrated biobanking technologies for tissues, cells and body fluids - From preanalytics to automated storage, r

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Awarded: NOK 14,999

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Oslo

EUROSTARS-EUROSTARS

4655 Absolute Quantification of Proteins in Mass Spectrometers for Diagnostic Use

In this project, we will develop a novel way to quantitatively measure protein concentrations in biofluids. We expect that this technology will be widely applied in medical diagnostics and proteomics research, a multi-billion euro market in which mass spe ctrometry plays a key role. We aim to val...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Oslo

NETT-Stimulerings-/nettverksbygging

Økonomisk bidrag til konferanse om vanndirektivet

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Awarded: NOK 70,567

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Oslo

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

Mechanisms for state-dependent changes of thalamic processing

Thalamus contains nuclei in sensory and motor systems that control the major gateways to cerebral cortex in a two-way dialogue with cortex. The nuclei pre-process, synchronize and modulate cortical input depending on behavioral states like sleep, wakefuln ess, arousal, and vigilance. In awake, at...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Oslo

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

Stimulated Production: Steady and Non-Steady State Two-Phase Flow

One of the most important goals in the recovery of hydrocarbons is to find methods which make it possible to recover the last 20 to 60% of the oil after the production well is declared not profitable. There are many reasons why a large percentage of the oil is ...

Awarded: NOK 8.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Oslo

IS-RUOK-EONR-økonomi

Sureth, Caren, eon r øk. kat 3

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Awarded: NOK 40,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IT-FUNK-IT for funksjonshemmede

Universal User Competence

The recent Norwegian Discrimination and Accessibility Act will place much greater demands on Universal design of Web technology. Web sites should be accessible and usable for everyone, also all groups of disabled users. Our hypothesis is that the new Web Content Accessibility guidelines (WCAG 2....

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Oslo

IS-NAD-Samarbeid med NORAD-land

Johnsen, Jan. norsk spesialist til Kina 2009

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Awarded: NOK 10,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Oslo