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P-KVINN-Program for kvinne- og kjønnsf

Visjon, situasjon, utfordring. Likestilling og barnelovgivning i Norge

Empirisk materiale er primært lover og lovforarbeider. Den litteraturvitenskapelige tilnærmingen skal gi ny innsikt på tre nivåer: 1. Den gir historisk kunnskap og bevissthet om familieforståelser i det norske samfunnet fra 1981 til 2005, slik disse er bl itt nedfelt i barnelovgivnignen. Normer o...

Awarded: NOK 0.70 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Agder

AREAL-Areal- og naturbasert næringsutvikling

Innovation in small scale rural tourism: How to organise for improvement and expansion?

As established in the governmental action plan for tourism in Norway, there is a need to improve capabilities of innovation, competence, and co-operation within tourism. However, the knowledge on how to do this in practice is poor and fragmented. This pro ject aims at improving this situation and...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Labour market integration of non-western immigrants - identifying policies that work

This project addresses the weak labour market integration among non-western immigrants in Norway. Labour market integration is generally defined as the process by which immigrants' labour market attachment becomes more alike that of natives. Thus, the mai n outcome variables in our analyses are i...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Mer effektive prosesser som gir bedre indre og ytre miljø i ferrolegeringsindustrien

Prosjektets bærende idé er å forbedre indre og ytre miljø i ferrolegeringsindustrien. Et sentralt element er å befeste ferrolegeringsindustriens posisjon som ledende på miljø og dermed trygge eksisterende, samt utvikle nye arbeidsplasser. Prosjektet, so m er et samarbeid mellom Ferrolegeringsin...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Assessment of risk posed by high levels of the brominated flame retardant hexabromocyclododecane in the Norwegian fjord Åsefjorden(BromRisk)

The brominated flame retardants (BFRs) have received considerable attention the last years because of their extensive use and presence in the environment. Hexabromocyclododecan (HBCD) is one of the most extensively used BFRs with an annual demand of appro ximately 17 000 metric tons. HBCD is fat ...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Akershus

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

2Artificially created ecosystems (ACEs) in coastal waters: developing methods to assess their effects on wild fish in cold-waterenvironments

Artificial structures, such as marinas, harbours, sea-cage fish farms, mussel rafts and oil platforms, are widespread throughout Norway's coastal zone. Such structures may constitute 'Artificially Created Ecosystems' (ACEs) by providing substantial artifi cial habitat and modifying ecosystem proc...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Bruk av skruekompressor i hybrid varmepumpe med NH3/H2O som arbeidsmedium

Hybrid Energy AS ble stiftet i mai 2004 for å avdekke muligheter og bygge systemer for redusert energibruk i industri og større varmesystemer. Det installerte produktet vil være den hybride varmepumpen som er utviklet ved IFE de siste 9 år. Hybrid Energy AS har avdekket flere prosjekter med god n...

Awarded: NOK 0.91 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Akershus

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Employment Discrimination on Grounds of Ethnicity, Gender and Disability: A Legal Analysis of the Decisions of the New Appeals Board

Antidiscrimination laws are central to processes of inclusion, exclusion and the quality of participation at the workplace. However, experience and reason dictate that one must question what these laws mean in practice for victims of employment discrimina tion. The assessment of the operation, ef...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Kina - Chinese-Norwegian Network for Industrial Design

Research and education activities between NTNU and XUAT were established already in 1989. The initiator was the Department of Architectural Design, History and Technology, which has carried out several projects in Xian (a.o. financed by NORAD), and who gr adually involved other departments at NTN...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

OST-Øst-Europa-programmene

Building capacity to meet the challenges of multi-level democracy: the case of conserving species with transboundary populations

European democracy is curently developing into a multi-level strcuture, with Pan-European, national, regional and local levels. Conflicts can occur when values held at one level do not correspond to those held at another level. This can often occur in cas es of biodiversity conservation where the...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Cold climate modelling

A weakness in the Swat-model is its rather poor ability to simulate water balances during prolonged periods with winter and frozen soils. The data collected through the Agricultural Environmental Monitoring Programme in Norway (JOVA) offers excellent oppo rtunities to do so as they represent agri...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

USA - Operativ Psykologi: Kontaktmøter med samarbeidspartnere i USA med sikte på utarbeidelse av søknad for hovedprosjekt

Based on preliminary results from previous research at the U.S. Military Academy/ Norwegian Naval Academy and University of Bergen we propose to develop a new research collaboration between researchers at the University of beregn Norway and significant U. S. institutions involved in research and ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Vestland

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

India - Utvikling av F&U-prosj og tjenester innen helse, miljø og sikkerhet i et samarb mellom SINTEF og det indiske statsoljeselskapet ONGC

I september 2005 undertegnet SINTEF en intensjonsavtale (MOU) med det indiske, statseide oljeselskapet The Oil & Natural Gas Corporation LTD (ONGC). Formålet med avtalen er FoU og opplæring på områder som Helse, miljø og sikkerhet. Fra SINTEFs side er vi interesserte i å vokse internasjonalt på o...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Antigen and immune cell dynamics characterising protective immunity in salmonids - basis for improved vaccine strategies

The aim of the present Project Establishment Support application is to establish collaboration between important research communities in the USA and Norway. The collaboration will initially manifest itself as a joint research project application to the No rwegian Research Council, aiming to addre...

Awarded: NOK 70,000

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Preparation of a large Petromaks project: Investigation of Hydrate Plugging and Non-Plugging Properties of Oils

For 2006 we have received funding from the DeepStar consortium in Houston for a smaller project. That project is a cooperation between three partners: 1. The Ugelstad Laboratory, NTNU, 2. Colorado School of Mines, USA, 3. Institut Francais du Petrole (IFP ), France. However, we want to iniate a l...

Awarded: NOK 80,000

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Kina - Initialisation of Project Co-operation with the Xinning Environmental Protection Bureau and its affiliated Research Institutes, China

NIVA has established project activities in China in 1995, and since then, carried out 10 R&D projects in various provinces in China. Through the Chinese counterparts in these projects, we have been introduced to the Xinning Env protection Bureau, which is keen on establising a project in water a...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Canada - Bilateral research cooperation between ITEM (NTNU, Norway) and SITE (University of Ottawa, Canada)

We intend to establish a formal research cooperation between the Institutt for Telematikk (ITEM), at NTNU, and the School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE), at the University of Ottawa, Canada. As a step forward to achieve the abovemention ed main goal, we aim at inviting Prof. Gr...

Awarded: NOK 45,872

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Electrooxidation of biofuels in Fuel Cell Processes - an advanced study

Fuel cells are emphasized as a breakthrough technology. There is a number of scientific problems that need to be addressed to make it a robust and competitive energy technology. Hydrogen is the ultimate fuel. A major introduction of hydrogen will be heavi ly delayed because of lack of infrastruct...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Kina - Paternity and social structure in small passerines of the Tibetan Plateau

The pre-project will lay the foundation for a larger research collaboration between the bird research group at Natural History Museum, UiO, and the research group of a chinese bird ecologist, Dr. Lu Xin at Wuhan University. Dr. Lu Xin has worked for sever al years with the breeding ecology and be...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Canada - Etablering av samarbeid med Carleton University, Canada om Prediksjon av residiv og rehabiliteringsbehov blant lovbrytere

Det er en utfordring for kriminalomsorgen i mange land å redusere nye lovbrudd etter soning. Gjentagagelsekriminaliteten er høy, 60% av innsatte i norske fengsler begår nye lovbrudd. Alminnelig fengselssoning har svært liten individualpreventiv effekt. De t finnes i dag teknikker for å kartlegge ...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

USA - Corporate Responsibility in US and Norway

"Management Systems of CSR" will serve as the umbrella topic under which the supporting suggested sub-projects will reside. The purpose of the following suggested sub-projects will exhibit to industry the tangible project examples that may be conducted. Enterprises ranging from small and medium...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Kina - Industrial Ecology in China

China?s rapid development has made China one of the world?s most important economic powers and has increased wealth, employment, and business opportunities inside China. At the same time, Chinese economic development has caused resource depletion, environ mental degradation, and a rapidly changin...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Escaped Farmed Fish - A Trilateral Cooperation Initiative between Norway, Canada and USA

A trilateral network on escaped farmed fish was established during a workshop in Washington DC, 1-3 November 2005. The first meeting developed fruitful discussions, and managed to establish a framework for future work. Both the preventive approach (how to hinder escapement, either by improved te...

Awarded: NOK 35,258

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Vestland

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Coop. between the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, and the International Arctic Research Center, University of Fairbanks

The Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR) in Bergen, and the International Arctic Research Center (IARC) at the University of Fairbanks, Alaska USA will strengthen the research cooperation between them in order to establish the critical mass and exp ertise necessary to enhance our understan...

Awarded: NOK 20,312

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Vestland

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Consolidation of the cGRASP concept in connection with whole genome sequencing of the Atlantic salmon

The collaboration between CIGENE, Willie Davidson at Simon Fraser University and Ben Koop at University of Victoria was initiated less than two years ago. In August this year, their cGRASP project was awarded a substantial 3-year grant from Genome Canada (7MCAD). The project, with an overall budg...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Japan - Japanese and Norwegian Computional Grammar Cooperation

With the aim of preparing a joint initiative in natural language applications based on Japanese and Norwegian, researchers behind the computational grammars JACY (for Japanese) and Norsource (for Norwegian) will define a project of alignment between these two grammars, to support the constructio...

Awarded: NOK 30,000

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Preparing barley for the healthy food market by charachterisation and validation of bioactive components

Barley is the most important cereal crop in Norway, and an increased utilisation of this cereal is therefore economically important. Most of the barley is used in animal feed and to be able increase the utilisation, more barley must be used in human consu mption. Ongoing national projcets and int...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Risk reduction of contaminated soils and sediments through Activated Carbon amendment

It is proposed to establish a new scientific cooperation between the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) and Stanford University, California, USA (prof. Richard Luthy). Prof. Luthy is the first to have shown that amendment of activated carbon (AC) to s ediments is a very promising in situ reme...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Canada - Comparative studies of the Canadian and Norwegian Aluminium Industry

This initiative is founded on one of the six the strategic research area of NTNU: The Globalization Programme. Focus will be put on similarities and differences between the aluminium sector in Canada and Norway respectively in order to learn about the h istorical developments and the challenges...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

USA - Collaborative Pacific Studies: University of Bergen and University of Hawai'i at Manoa

The present proposal lays the foundations for a long-term collaborative programme of research in the field of Pacific Studies between Norway and the USA. It takes as its starting point the general "Memorandum of Understanding on Student Exchange and Facu lty Cooperative Research" signed in 2003 ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Vestland

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