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IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Arctic Natural Climate and Environmental Changes and Human Adaptation: From Science to Public awareness

SciencePub aims to answer two critical questions in current Arctic climate research: What characterizes natural climate change in the Arctic, and how did early pioneer immigrants relate to climate change? By studying natural climate archives in terrestria l and marine sediments from Svalbard, N N...

Awarded: NOK 20.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ISPJUS-ISP - Satsing på juridisk forskning

Rettsstatlege utfordringar ved internasjonalisering av strafferettspleia, med særleg fokus på europeisk integrasjon

Både den materielle strafferetten og dei straffeprosessuelle reglane om etterforsking og domstolsbehandling har tradisjonelt hatt eit sterkt nasjonalt særpreg. Men dei siste åra har det skjedd hyppige endringar av regelverket, som i stor grad har vore ini tiert av eller påverka av det internasjon...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Vestland

PRAKUT-Praksisrettet utdanningsforskn

Kvalitet i opplæringa - om tilpassa opplæring

Prosjektet studerer kvaliteten på opplæringa i grunnskulen, knytt til omgrepet tilpassa opplæring, aktualisert av Kunnskapsløftet, men med ei mykje lengre historie. Grunnlaget for prosjektet er analysar av forsking om tilpassa opplæring som syner at ein i kkje kan definere kva tilpassa opplæring ...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Møre og Romsdal

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Outreach and communication: Reindeer Herders Vulnerability Network study: Reindeer Pastoralism in a Changing Climate

EALÁT OUTREACH focuses on understanding adaptive capacity of reindeer pastorlism to climate variability and change in the Arctic. Nomadic reindeer herding practices, ancient in origin, represents models of sustainable exploitation and management of northe rn terrestrial ecosystems that is based o...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Tools for environmental planning to reduce risks of leaching and runoff of pesticides to groundwater and surface waters-a pilotproject

The project will contribute to achieve national goals on environmental friendly and sustainable food production by developing tools for farmers to be used at farm scale level to reduce risk of pollution from pesticides in agriculture. The project will dev elop and evaluate three different tools. ...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Akershus

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

New methods for organic raspberry production in polyethylene tunnels

Raspberries for the fresh market is a new and very profitable crop in Norway, and the production in polyethylene tunnels is increasing rapidly. In Norwegian organic production, the experience so far is that using tunnels is a prerequisite if growing for t he fresh market. The project focuses on t...

Awarded: NOK 6.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

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

The main objective of this project is to amend knowledge about how small scale rural tourism can expand through innovation and improved organisation. Research questions: 1: Identify how innovation is understood and interpreted among small scale rural tourism firms? What kind of innovation occ...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Modelling disease dispersal in marine fish aquaculture in Norwegian coastal areas: Contributions to a new concept of area management?

As a measure to avoid the spreading of fish and shellfish diseases, a defined distance is required between all aquaculture facilities. From 2006, this requirement was also implemented for intermediate live storing of fish. The established distance regulat ions represent a clear limitation to the ...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

NorClim - Climate of Norway and the Arctic in the 21st Century

NorClim responds to the need for identification and understanding of natural climate fluctuations in Norway and the Arctic (our region) by combining analyses of available instrumental data from land and the ocean for the past 50 to 100 years and unique hi gh-resolution time series for the last mi...

Awarded: NOK 59.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Vestland

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Verification of traceability data of marine oils with emphasis on species,geographical origin and processing conditions

The Norwegian Food Safety Authoritiy (NFSA) is responsible for inspection of the marine oils that are part of the Norwegian trade. Necessary for that task, and nowadays unfortunately unavailable, there must be effective routines and analytical methods sui table to verify the authenticity of the o...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Reducing campylobacter jejuni in the food chain by modifying the upper digestive tract of slaughter chicken

The zoonotic pathogen C. jejuni is the leading cause of food-borne bacterial diarrhoeal disease throughout the world. C. jejuni readily colonize poultry and represents a major problem for the poultry industry and is a potential public health hazard throug h its high ability to survive in unproces...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Safe grains: Mycotoxin prevention through resistant wheat and oats

In 2004 there were alarming levels of mycotoxins like DON and T-2/HT-2in Norwegian wheat and oats. In 2005 the latter levels in oats were prohibitive for e.g. horsefeed. The present proposal builds on a decade of Norwegian cereal breeding and research to introduce/identify resistance against the ...

Awarded: NOK 9.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Feral sheep in coastal heaths - developing a sustainable local industry in vulnerable cultural landscapes, dr.gr.stip.

Year-round sheep farming on the Norwegian west coast has a history dating back several millennia. This important part of our cultural heritage has resulted in a distinct breed of animals, the feral sheep, that has evolved in close interaction with the cre ation and maintenance of a unique semi-na...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Akershus

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Stability and mobility of Shiga toxin-encoding bacteriophages in clinical and environmental strains of Escherichia coli O103

E. coli O103 belongs to a subset of serotypes of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) associated with severe human illnesses. Shiga toxin (Stx) production is essential but not sufficient for virulence in pathogenic STEC as factors involved in att achment, haemolysis and iron scavenging a...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Decadal variability on the North Atlantic Ocean/Nordic Seas

Project DEC-OCEAN aims at clarifying the origin behind decadal and multi-decadal variability in the North Atlantic and its influences on the transports and properties of Atlantic water to the Nordic Seas. Regionally induced oceanic variability to the nort h of the Greenland-Scotland Ridge will al...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Integration of biomonitoring with risk assessment by construction of biomarker bridges for water column organisms exposed to produced water

In the on-going PROOF project "Validation of methods and data for environmental risk assessment offshore" a theoretical framework for integration of biomonitoring into environmental risk assessment procedures was developed. Experimental data were obtained and used to demonstrate that the establi...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Rogaland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Commercial mid-water trawling for cod, haddock and saithe: Shifting effort to reduce impact on bottom fauna of bottom trawling(FHFinn182490)

Concerns have been raised about the impact of bottom trawling on the benthic community. In Norway, considerable damage to deep-water coral reefs by trawlers have led to the closure of areas and initiated mapping of larger bottom areas of the Barents Sea. In this project we will explore the implic...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Interactions between eutrophication, oil and contaminants in marine ecosystems

Although there is much knowledge about environmental processes associated with environmental pressures such as eutrophication, oil and contaminants, there is limited understanding of how such pressures interact in their effects in marine ecosystems. This project aims to clarify interactions betwe...

Awarded: NOK 8.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

The Effect of Climate Change on Arctic High-Impact Weather Events (ArcChange)

We propose a coordinated Norwegian research project to study how meso-scale high impact weather in the arctic region of the North Atlantic will be affected by future climate change. The project aims at improving our understanding of the regional climate s ystem in the Arctic. The large scale obse...

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

Life-Time Commissioning for Energy Efficient Operation of Buildings

Buildings account for over 40% of the energy use and the CO2 emissions in Europe. This buildings should fulfill many requirements, but practical experience shows serious discrepancies between assumptions and goals and the reality. There are several reason s for this problems: poor design, poor op...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Deep sea offshore wind turbine technology

This project will combine wind technology know-how with offshore and energy industry experience to enhance development of deep sea (+30 m) offshore wind farms. The overall objective is to advance Norwegian development within this field, and pin-point tech nical solutions that ensure cost-efficien...

Awarded: NOK 13.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

The Effects on Population Dynamical Key-Processes of a Changing Climate in Arctic Ecosystems

The present project aims at understanding and predicting how variations and changes in climate can affect key-processes that operate both on population dynamical and ecosystem level. More specifically, we will use long-term monitoring data on population d ynamics and population specific demograph...

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Seasonal Predictability over the Arctic Region - exploring the role of boundary conditions

Thus far, seasonal prediction efforts have not made an optimal use of the information that is inherent in the inital states and memories of the cryosphere and the ocean. The impact of stratospheric events also needs to be considered in this context. The o bjective of the proposed project is to ex...

Awarded: NOK 7.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Preparing for a rainy day: Configuring climate science for future society

The project will investigate how climate change issues are being understood and appropriated in different strategically important sectors of society, both on local, regional and national level and with a broad geographical diversification. The project wil l focus on climate change management in t...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

The geography of social vulnerability, environemental hazards and climate change.

The study set out to modify, apply and evaluate a model for environmental risk assessment, here termed 'The vulnerability of a place model', as a means for studying the potential impact of future extreme climatic events in Norwegian regions. The model, de veloped and used in an American context, ...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

7 - The health of the North Sea Environment - an international workshop

An international workshop/conference will be arranged in 2007 to develop plans for a future international research activity to study the health of the North Sea. Work in the project will be through an international steering group with members from academi a, management and industry in Norway, Ger...

Awarded: NOK 0.27 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

IGBP/IHDP Land Ocean Interaction in the Coastal Zone

The proposal seeks financial support for Prof. Jozef M. Pacyna to perform his tasks as a chairman of the IGBP/IHDP Land-Ocan Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) project. The main goal of LOICZ is to provide the knowledge, understanding and prediction needed to allow coastal communities to a...

Awarded: NOK 0.24 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Akershus

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in Norway: NORDADAPT

There is general agreement that the impacts of climate change combined with changes in social and economic conditions are likely to pose significant challenges locally. NORADAPT focuses on how projected changes in climate interact with changes in socio-ec onomic and institutional conditions, and ...

Awarded: NOK 7.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Påvirker avlsarbeidet for økt sjukdomsresistens forekomsten av vaksineskader, immunrespons og effekten av vaksinering ?

I de norske avlsprogrammene for laksefisk har det gjennom flere generasjoner blitt selektert for økt resistens mot infeksjonssjukdommene furunkulose og ILA og metoden, smittetest med uvaksinert presmolt, har blitt tatt i bruk for flere arter andre steder i verden. Det er vist at slik seleksjon øk...

Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Learning ability, cognitive capacity and welfare of farmed fish

This project will give new knowledge and basic understanding about learning ability and cognitive capacity in farmed fish and the function of their motivational systems. This knowledge has high relevance for the assessment of welfare, since only sentient (conscious) beings are considered as moral...

Awarded: NOK 0.81 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Vestland