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DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

ESF - Research and Monitoring for and with Raptors in Europe (2010-2015)

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Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FORINFRA-Nasj.sats. forskn.infrastrukt

NorStore - Norwegian Data Storage Infrastructure

The objective of the NorStore initiative is to develop and operate a persistent, nationally coordinated infrastructure that provides non-trivial services to a broad range of scientific disciplines that have a variety of needs for storing and publishing di gital data. The infrastructure provides ...

Awarded: NOK 34.2 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Why Is the Sea Ice Melting so Fast? Improving Understanding of Melt Processes on First-Year Arctic Sea Ice

The area of summer sea ice in the Arctic has been decreasing since satellite observations started in 1979, and the area of ice lost in summer during the last five years is far beyond what was predicted by climate models. Furthermore there has been a shift from thicker multi-year ice to thinner f...

Awarded: NOK 0.87 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

ARCtic Ocean Mixing: Influence of changing ice cover on internal waves and mixing

The proposal is motivated by recent findings showing i) the sensitivity of Arctic Ocean circulation to background deep-ocean diapycnal mixing and ii) enhancement of near-inertial internal wave activity and induced mixing in the absence of sea ice. Mixi ng in the stratified ocean is related to ...

Awarded: NOK 0.87 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Vestland

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Terrestrial Invertebrate Fauna of Svalbard Workshop

? Build personal acquaintances between scientists working at disparate institutions. ? Coordinate future invertebrate research. ? Visit to the research facilities available at the Svalbard Science Centre and in Barentsburg. A briefing on the facilities in Ny-Ålesund will also be presented. ?...

Awarded: NOK 0.46 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Norwegian and Russian Upper Atmosphere Co-operation On Svalbard part 2

The scientific objectives as stated by NORUSCA including multi-site* spectral observations of aurora and airglow, morphology and temporal dynamics in context of ionospheric convection, and real time exchange of data during radar and rocket campaigns are a ll items that will be addressed by this a...

Awarded: NOK 1.00 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Svalbard

FORINFRA-Nasj.sats. forskn.infrastrukt

Advanced Conflict Data Catalogue: Defining an Industry-Standard for Data on Armed Conflict

The quantitative study of armed conflict is rapidly developing. The Armed Conflict Dataset, a joint Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) and PRIO project, has for some time been the most widely used dataset in this field. In order to maintain this status we must address the changing needs of the...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Oslo

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Fra toponymisk fortielse til toponymisk dekolonisering av urfolks navneforråd

I forskningsprosjektet vil den offisielle bruken av stedsnavn i to urfolksspråk, samisk og maori granskes både diakronisk og synkronisk, nemlig både utfra historisk og dagens navnebrukperspektiv. Et sentralt formål i dette prosjektet er å øke kunnskapen o m kolonial navngivingshistorie i urbefolk...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

ISPSAM-ISP - Samfunnsvitenskap

The Political Economy of Resource Abundance

The main aim of the project is to advance our understanding of the economic challenges, and their possible solutions, in resource abundant countries. Three PhD students will be recruited. Key to the project will be to advance our understanding about optim al policy to cope with the resource curse...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Study of non-linear phenomena in the polar ionosphere induced by the SPEAR heating facility

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Awarded: NOK 0.72 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Svalbard

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

Co-morbid Diabetes and Eating Disorders - an exploration of prevalence, psychological correlates and diabetic control

Dette prosjektet er en delstudie av Barnediabetesregisteret og har undersøkt spiseproblemer ved type 1 diabetes. Forekomsten av spiseproblemer hos 770 gutter og jenter med type 1 diabetes i alderen 11-19 år var 18% i hele utvalget, 9% blant guttene og 28% blant jentene. Vi fant at forekomsten økt...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Oslo

ISPHUM-ISP - Humaniora

Historievitenskapens grenser

"Historievitenskapens grenser" skal bidra til en bredere fagoffentlighet innenfor norsk historieforskning med utgangspunkt i diskusjon og forskning på nyere historiografi i et institusjonelt og transnasjonalt perspektiv. Prosjektets hovedaktiviteter, best ående av to større vitenskapsseminarer og...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Oslo

ISPHUM-ISP - Humaniora

Mot en grenseoverskridende økonomisk historie

Prosjektet har tre hovedkomponenter. Den viktigste av disse består av tre større konferanser som vil relateres direkte til selvrefleksjon rundt den økonomiske historien som fagfelt. Konferansene arrangeres i et institusjonelt samarbeid med NTNU. De to før ste konferansene vil bli holdt i Oslo, me...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Oslo

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

The library as a virtual meeting place

The research is part of both my PhD project and the PLACE (Public Libraries as Arenas for Citizenship) project which is hosted by Oslo University College. My PhD dissertation explores the possible implications of the application of the semantic web techno logies in libraries. The PLACE project a...

Awarded: NOK 21,999

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Nanosyntax in the neurolinguistic analysis of aphasia: theoretical compatibility and possible diagnostic tools.

The primary objective of the project is to investigate the theoretical compatibility of the nanosyntax approach to generative grammar in terms of the current neurolinguistic analyses of aphasia based on generative frameworks. The secondary objective is to devise a set of cross-linguistic diagn...

Awarded: NOK 69,999

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

GLOBHELS-Global helse

Biomarkers of mycobacterial infection and disease, and molecular characterization of mycobacteria from high TB-burden countries.

Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem throughout the world. Currently, there are 8 million new cases and 2-3 million deaths annually from TB. More than 95% of all cases and 98% of all deaths occur in developing countries, where few resources are available to ensure proper treatment....

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

Interaction among human interference, climate and the viability and dynamics of contracted acacia populations in the Eastern Sahara

There are two main factors driving environmental change in arid lands, climate variability and human interference. ACACIA will focus on these factors' effect upon the dynamics and viability of an essential resource, namely tree populations of Acacia torti lis, in a short- and long-term perspectiv...

Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Vestland

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Influx of Atlantic Water from the Nordic Seas to the Arctic Ocean during the late glacial and the Holocene.

Under siste istid var Barentshavet dekket av Svalbard-Barentshavet isskapene. Etter isen trakk seg tilbake ble Barentshavet etter hvert en av hoved transportveiene for Atlantisk vann på vei mot Polhavet. I dag er syd-vestlige Barentshavet dominert av varm t og salt Atlantisk vann mens nordlige Ba...

Awarded: NOK 0.55 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Cooperative seismological studies on Spitsbergen

This is a proposal to establish and operate a high-quality seismic station in Barentsburg, and to carry out associated seismological studies. The project is relevant with respect to the call for proposals since it involves cooperation between Norway and R ussia in monitoring induced seismicity du...

Awarded: NOK 0.82 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Akershus

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

PEA-Puccinellia in the European Arctic -Who is who, who is where, and why?

Arctic plants are rather recent (Late Tertiary-Pleistocene) immigrants or recently evolved. Two major processes in this evolution seem to have been hybridization and polyploidization, leading to complex relation patterns, and range of intermediate variant s between species. Thus, to untangle the ...

Awarded: NOK 0.35 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Seabird Population Responses to Changes in Food Conditions

Since current environmental change alters the distribution, abundance and timing of prey species in marine ecosystems, higher trophic levels will need to respond to changes in food availability. Observations from seabirds in the North Atlantic and the Nor th Pacific provide evidence that trade-of...

Awarded: NOK 0.82 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Coordination and integration of Norwegian and Russian marine research activities on Svalbard (CoNoR)

In close cooperation with Svalbard Science Forum (SSF), we propose to organize two series of symposia, one in Svalbard and one in St Petersburg to promote, coordinate and integrate planned and ongoing Norwegian and Russian research activities on Svalbard in selected research fields. We focus on ...

Awarded: NOK 0.79 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Svalbard

U2020-Norsk utdanningsforskning 2009-2018

Developing Sustainable Assessment Cultures in Norwegian Schools as Learning Organisations.

This pre-project will develop the foundation for a larger project on the development of sustainable assessment cultures in Norwegian primary, lower-secondary and upper-secondary schools. The concept of assessment culture is theoretically understood in ter ms of the inter-relationship between pupi...

Awarded: NOK 0.45 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Innlandet

BEHANDLING-God og treffsikker diagnostikk, behandling og rehabilitering

The social, psychological, genetic and neurobiological context of pediatric OCD and OCD treatment response

Tvangslidelse eller obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) er en relativt lav prevalent (0,5-3,0%) men veldig alvorlig psykiatrisk lidelse som kan forekomme hos barn og voksne. Ca. halvparten av voksne med OCD rapporterer at de hadde hemmende og alvorlige tvangssymptomer som barn. OCD hevdes å være ...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2018

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

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Personlig utenlandsstipend for doktorgradsstipendiat Annelene Pengerud i tilknytning til prosjektet PERMASOM

Som en sentral del av Annelene Pengeruds doktorgradsarbeid ved Institutt for plante- og miljøvitenskap (IPM) ved Universitetet for miljø- og biovitenskap (UMB) er det planlagt et 6 måneders opphold ved Laboratoriet for terrestrisk biogeokjemi (Bioemco) i Frankrike. Arbeidet her vil skje under ve...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Akershus

FINNUT-Forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren

Nasjonal forskerskole for lærerutdanningene (NAFOL)

Nasjonal forskerskole for lærerutdanning (NAFOL) sitt hovedmål har vært å styrke kvaliteten i alle typer lærerutdanning. NAFOL ønsket å gjøre dette gjennom en målrettet, sterk og langsiktig satsing på organisert forskerutdanning og har samarbeidet med et nasjonalt nettverk av lærerutdanningsinsti...

Awarded: NOK 87.9 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2022

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

GLOBHELS-Global helse

Development of a food-grade Lactobacillus-based oral vaccine delivery system

In low-income countries, efforts to increase immunization coverage are hampered by weak health systems. Furthermore, the unaffordable costs of some vaccines remain a major barrier for people to access vaccination services. To develop novel technologies fo r effective production and delivery of va...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Akershus

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Publiseringsstøtte til tidsskriftet Namn og Nemne for 2010.

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Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Vestland