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IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Collaboration On Nature-based solutions Performance Assessment

The implementation of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) is envisioned as a key step toward building more resilient and sustainable cities, because of the multiple benefits NBS can provide (e.g., urban flood, heat and drought mitigation, biodiversity restoration, recreation, etc.). Recent research both...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Unraveling the effects of biotic interactions on snow algae behaviour

In polar regions and high-altitude mountain ranges, snow algae blooms develop during summer and form colorful surfaces in melting snow. Snow algae not only contribute to primary production and carbon dioxide absorption in snow ecosystems, but these blooms also darken the snow surface, increasing ...

Awarded: NOK 70,000

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Sustainability Wine Labelling: A French – Norwegian Scientific Cooperation

The backdrop for our collaboration is rooted in the historical and current landscape of the natural wine industry. The resurgence in popularity of natural wines, tracing back to its modern beginnings in France in the 1950s (Vigneron, 2022) and the subsequent boom after Isabelle Legeron's Raw Wine...

Awarded: NOK 40,000

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Exchange and Collaboration for Paleo Ice Sheet Integration

Together with our partners in France, we aim to build an modeling infrastructure that can consistently simulate the Greenland ice sheet over the entire glacial cycle and validate the results using the best available reconstructions. This can greatly improve our understanding of ice sheet stabilit...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Vestland

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Ionospheric monitoring of tsunamis from low-earth orbit satellites

We propose a two-year project that facilitates the interaction and development of a collaboration between NGI and OCA scientists. Our team brings together expertise in tsunami hazard modeling, as well as tsunami source modeling. The team proposes to develop a methodology to remotely sense tsunami...

Awarded: NOK 80,000

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Extending Tractability Bounds: Logic and Structure for Algorithms

The project aims to establish long-term scientific cooperation in Theoretical Computer Science between the Algorithms Research Group of the Department of Informatics of the University of Bergen (UiB) and the Algorithms, Graphs and Combinatorics (AlGCo) team of LIRMM (Laboratory of Computer Scienc...

Awarded: NOK 80,000

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Vestland

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Business and Society in Challenging Spaces: The Role of ESG in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings

This project formalizes an institutional collaboration between SUM (University of Oslo) and KEDGE, two leading European spaces for research on the changing role of the private sector in society. This multi-disciplinary engagement will take the initial form of four exchange visits, two by SUM rese...

Awarded: NOK 80,000

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Gender equality through sustainable work life for leaders and coaches in sport

This collaborative and cross-cultural project responds to the European Union initiatives and the International Olympic Comitees objective for increasing gender equality in sport. Worldwide, women in top leadership positions in sports is reported to be 8.4–20% for coaches and 10-30% for leaders. E...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

DASGEO: Artificial Intelligence investigation of Geo-mass movements using Distributed Acoustic Sensing

In a recent study, researchers from NORSAR and ITES - University of Strasbourg worked on how to use machine learning to deal with big data coming from DAS-based geological monitoring. This study was led by joint master’s student M. Donnadille was focusing on the use of machine learning to learn h...

Awarded: NOK 39,000

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Akershus

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

POlymer architected structures for Traffic ENergy absorbers in Transport InfrastructuraAL systems

Every year, road traffic accidents claim 1.35 million lives and cost countries 3% of their GDP, making them a grave concern worldwide. Norway, in its 2022-2033 National Transport Plan, prioritizes Vision Zero for road safety. Among accident types, run-out-off road crashes contribute significantly...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Norwegian-French collaboration in nanofluid heat transfer

This collaborative effort will boost several projects in the field of nanofluid heat transfer that are currently on in Norway and France. This research direction has been prevalent in the past two decades due to the simplicity of nanofluid production. However, from research literature and user ex...

Awarded: NOK 60,000

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Vestland

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Impact of Diving on Vascular Health

Diving exposes the human body to physical stress that initiate a range of phyiological and biochemical responses. Much of the maritime and marine industry still completely rely on diving and will so for many years ahead. It is therefore key to understand possible negative health effects of this o...

Awarded: NOK 94,000

Project Period: 2023-2024

Location: Vestland

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Exploring and leveraging energy monitoring on End-to-End worst edge-fog-cloud continuum for observatories deployed in extreme environments

The monitoring of energy usage is the key to analyze and understand continuum resources usage. This project will be the first step in order to deal with energy efficient infrastructures in terms of hardware and software services. But providing an End-to-End energy monitoring solution remains a re...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2024

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Learning and Reasoning in Knowledge Graph Embeddings

A very prominent application of AI is to predict new facts based on patterns found in datasets in the format of Knowledge Graphs (KGs). These are graph structures representing knowledge of a domain of interest and/or of a particular organization. The flexibility of KGs when representing incomplet...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2024

Location: Vestland

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Enabling multi-physics energy harvesting for in-vivo applications

Scientifically the project is concerned with a new way to harvest energy from sources accessible for in vivo devices. These sources can be of mechanical, thermal, or photonic nature, but within the body the energy that can harvested from each of them individually is rather small. In our novel app...

Awarded: NOK 71,000

Project Period: 2023-2024

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Perceptual-cognitive information processing and the psychology of sustainability

In the present project, we will identify the low- and high-level processes that independently as well as interactively underpin the psychology of sustainability. We will conduct a series of experiments that will make use of and combine the expertise of a prominent cognitive psychology lab in Fran...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2024

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Timed strategies for rewrite-based symbolic analysis of real-time systems

The development of time-critical systems (e.g., aircraft control systems or autonomous vehicles) require rigorous methods for guaranteeing the correct behavior of the system. Quite often, some characteristics of the system are unknown at design phase, and hence the need for introducing parameters...

Awarded: NOK 75,000

Project Period: 2023-2024

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Allostatic load in a multiethnic study population - the SAMINOR Study

The project aims to measure the total impact from long-term adverse environmental and psychosocial stress in indigenous populations, such as the Sami. Specifically, we want to explore if these adverse conditions have long-term health effects and how they may differentially influence health in two...

Awarded: NOK 80,000

Project Period: 2023-2024

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Equivalent nonlinear control methods for digitalization in robotics and autonomous systems

Robotic and autonomous systems largely rely on the complex and often distributed and hierarchical control systems that have to ensure the main functionalities with a flexible and safe operation. The classical automatic feedback controllers continue to experience the new challenges coming from an ...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2024

Location: Agder

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Establishing a research foundation for collaboration on viruses infecting Pavlovophyceae

Phytoplankton diversity, abundance, and community composition change through the seasons, driven by variations in environmental conditions and biological processes. Haptophytes are an important component of this community, contributing to 30-50 % of the photosynthetic standing stock (biomass) in...

Awarded: NOK 25,473

Project Period: 2023-2023

Location: Vestland

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Tracking geophysical and geodetic signals of magma-structure coupling using analog and numerical modelling

The aim of this project is to establish a novel collaboration in order to reconcile several research approaches in volcanology, namely geophysics in active volcanoes, and field geology in exhumed extinct volcanoes and physical modelling of magma emplacement. Dykes are the most fundamental magma p...

Awarded: NOK 49,000

Project Period: 2023-2024

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Aurora Mobility Program - Methodological approaches to drug use in observational studies

An interdisciplinary cooperation between UiT and Université Paris Cité on the statistical analysis of epidemiological data was initiated in the 1990s by professors emeriti Jean-Christophe Thalabard and Eiliv Lund. This long standing, “first generation” collaboration was organized through the co-s...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2024

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

OpenLiverLab - Open source library for the liver, from images to clinicians

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Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2024

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

SporeHybrids - Combination of bacterial spores displaying light reactive proteins with upconverting nanoparticles.

Microbial spores, such as those from the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis have the capacity to absorb substances such as ions, proteins and can be coated with polymers. Furthermore, through genetic engineering, the surface of spores can be decorated with heterologous proteins. SporeHybri...

Awarded: NOK 97,000

Project Period: 2023-2024

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Structuring collaboration in the field of environmental dynamics and impacts of contaminants of emerging concern in marine environments

Beyond individual scientists, this collaboration will connect highly complementary communities, while pushing the boundary of knowledge on the highly topical societal matter of environmental contamination. In this particularly challenging and ambitious research field, our project will enable qual...

Awarded: NOK 82,000

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Gradient Flow Modelling of Multi-phase Flow in Deformable Porous Media

Fluid flow in deformable porous media is of high relevance in both France and Norway. Applications with a strong multi-physics coupling range from subsurface activities as CO2 storage, geothermal energy, and nuclear waste management, to biomedical engineering as studying Alzheimer’s and osteopor...

Awarded: NOK 82,703

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Vestland

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Does ultrasound elastography provide a valid estimation of the amount of muscle damage?

The inability of non-invasive techniques to estimate muscle damage limits our understanding of injury occurrence. Shear wave elastography (SWE) technique provides a reliable (Lacourpaille et al. 2012) and accurate (Eby et al. 2013) quantification of individual muscle shear modulus (i.e., stiffne...

Awarded: NOK 21,138

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Spectral and Polarization Imaging of Specular Cultural Heritage Artifacts

The intensity of specular reflections makes it difficult to capture usable images of specular material. In art paintings or stained glasses, this is a major problem for documentation and analysis. We propose to update spectral and polarimetric imaging systems to spectropolarimetric imaging syste...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2023

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Trustworthy Fleet Management of Edge-based Systems

According to Gartner, by 2022, more than 50% of enterprise-generated data will be created and processed outside the Cloud. This has led to the emergence of Edge computing, which comprises software modules running both in the Cloud and on devices at the edge of the network such as gateways, router...

Awarded: NOK 35,730

Project Period: 2022-2023

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Peptoid nanotubes for cancer therapy

Organic nanotubes are promising nanomaterials displaying many potential applications in nanotechnology, in particular nanomedicine. Nanomaterials with cylindrical or rod-like morphologies are of great advantage to get a longer circulation time in blood compared to spheres with similar chemistry a...

Awarded: NOK 80,000

Project Period: 2022-2023

Location: Oslo