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MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Enhanced safety of Norwegian type dry fermented sausage with focus on enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli

This project concerns safe production of Norwegian type dry fermented sausages (DFS). Two outbreaks in Norway this year, caused by enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) and Salmonella Kedougou in DFS, emphasize the need to focus on enhanced safety of such products. Outbreaks may cause severe ...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

A Study of Influenza Viruses in Their Natural Reservoir in Wild Birds in Norway

The major goal of this project is to better understand the dynamics of influenza A virus infections in wild birds in Norway. At the National Veterinary Institute, in the context of the surveillance for highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1, a large collection of samples is being gathered ...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Attractive host plant volatiles and genetic regulation of the olfactory response in the control of apple fruit moth, Argyresthia conjugella

The apple fruit moth Argyresthia conjugella is regarded as the most important insect pest on apples in Fennoscandia. Until 2005 the organophosphorous compound azinphos-methyl (Gusathion) has been used in apple fruit moth control. The compound is now dereg istrated due to environmental concerns an...

Awarded: NOK 9.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Reduction/elimination of spore forming bacteria in lightly heat treated foods

The project seeks to identify processes which are able to strongly reduce spore forming bacteria in lightly heat treated (<98 ºC) foods. To solve this task, three research groups with different, complementary competence will cooperate. The project require s characterisation of potentially pathoge...

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Anthelmintic resistance in small ruminant nematodes in Norway

Gastrointestinal nematode infestation is considered as the most important of all infectious diseases in small ruminants. Losses due to endoparasites, and the degree of suffering involved, has a marked impact on animal welfare and production losses in smal l ruminant flocks around the world. In th...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Potential of muscle profiling on value-addition of products and consumer satisfaction under Norwegian beef production conditions

Matforsk deltar i et EU-prosjekt på kvalitet og sikkerhet av storfekjøtt hvor utnyttelsen av utradisjonelle stykningsdeler er en sentral del av prosjektet. Ny forskning i USA har vist at ved å bruke utradisjonelle metoder for nedskjæring og utbeining kan verdien av slaktet økes betydelig. I EU-p...

Awarded: NOK 7.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Akershus

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Stormwater and roads - dimensioning for climate change

The transport infrastructure is a vital part of the society, with high capital investments, proper management and design of this system is therefore very important. Climate changes will increase the frequency of extreme precipitation events, floods and sn ow melt periods experienced by the infras...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Akershus

ISPJUS-ISP - Satsing på juridisk forskning

Mellom demokratisk styring, effektiv konkurranse og avtalefrihet i markedsstaten

Prosjektet vil belyse spenningen mellom forvaltningsretten, konkurranseretten og kontraktsretten med utgangspunkt i velferdsforvaltningen. Velferdsforvaltningen er valgt da det offentlige her både utøver myndighet, tildeler rettighetsbaserte ytelser og tj enester, samarbeider med private med ordn...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Marine Mammals Exploring the Oceans Pole to Pole

Marine Mammal Exploration of the Oceans Pole to Pole (MEOP) will deploy state-of-the-art animal-borne CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth) tags on strategically chosen, deep-diving marine mammal species to explore their current movement patterns, behaviou r and habitat utilization in Polar Region...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Functional genomics of phenotypic plasticity of cod: a national consortium.

The proposed project is submitted by the University of Oslo as such (through its rector) on behalf of the other members in the consortium consisting of strong basic research groups with a strong and long experience within the fields of genomics, ecology a nd evolutionary biology. Although we repr...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

KONT-Kontingenter

Norwegian membership fee to ORFEUS

ORFEUS (Observatories and Research Facilities for EUropean Seismology) is a non-profit foundation that aims at co-ordianation of digital broadband seismology in the Euro-Mediterranean area. It gathers and provides seismological waveform data to the scient ific community through its data center. I...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

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

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Ocean Mixing in the Arctic: Case study at the North Pole Environmental Observatory

Ocean mixing plays a pivotal role in climate variability and change. Despite its importance, mixing is the most uncertain component of modern ocean general circulation models. Field measurements covering both the small (turbulent) scales and conventionall y measurable larger scales aid to underst...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Vestland

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN: Quotas as a management approach for sustainable harvesting of Atlantic salmon populations in rivers and bag-net fisheries in Norway.

Management of Atlantic salmon is moving towards using management targets (numbers of females left to spawn) as a tool for obtaining sustainable harvest and viable populations. To obtain the desired number of spawners, fishing pressure has to be determined before the start of the season. To use t...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Study of the long-term effects on Atlantic Herring (Clupea harengus) exposed to an oil-polluted Calanus finmarchicus diet.

The aim of this project is to investigate the effects of trophic transfer of hydrocarbons, following a worst-case scenario oil spill, on the development and reproduction of Atlantic Herring (Clupea harengus). The study will examine the long-term effects o f feeding oil-polluted Calanus finmarchic...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Educational pathways of minority youth: Intersections of gender, class and ethnicity

Minoritetsungdom har betydelig høyere risiko for framtidig marginalisering enn ungdom med etnisk norske foreldre. Utdanning har av myndighetene blitt utpekt som det viktigste virkemidlet for å sikre integrering og hindre at etniske minoriteter opplever ma rginalisering i framtida. Forskning har v...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Oslo

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Hydrogen production by Sorbent Enhanced Reforming

The aim of the present project is to demonstrate hydrogen production by sorbent enhanced reforming by building a continuous automated lab scale process. Key elements in the process will be to find the best reactor setup for the process, to find the most o ptimal sorbent material/catalyst combinat...

Awarded: NOK 10.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Inngår i 201779: Pre- and post-construction studies of conflicts between birds and wind turbines in coastal Norway

The main focus of this project is to obtain biological and ecological knowledge on wind turbines and bird behaviour, mortality and mitigating measures, and tool development to facilitate data collection. The project results will give significant, increase d knowledge about how wind power can affe...

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Planetary Boundary Layer Feedbacks Affecting the Polar Amplification of Arctic Climate Change in Seasonal Ice Zone

Studies based on observations, climate modelling and paleo-data have revealed a strong polar amplification (PA) of climate sensitivity in the Arctic. By contrast to the mean global temperature, which has increased by less than 1 degree during the past 100 years, the mean temperature in Longyearb...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Norwegian-Russian Collaboration on Fast Ice Growth and Decay in Kongsfjorden and Grønfjorden (Svalbard)

We propose a combined observational and numerical study of atmosphere - sea ice - ocean interactions in Kongsfjorden and Grønfjorden by analyzing the processes driving the growth and decay of fast ice in this area in the seasons 2006/2007 and 2007/2008. A dditionally, we aim at fast ice scenario ...

Awarded: NOK 0.60 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

A Pan-Arctic Network of Experts on Environmental Issues associated with Petroleum Development in the Arctic PANEP

Off-shore oil exploration and production is moving towards Arctic regions, where knowledge about the environmental impact of such activities is extremely limited. As a result, petroleum operations in the Barents Sea area, have strict environmental regulat ions, i.e. a zero discharge framework.Mos...

Awarded: NOK 54,999

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Welfare of Farmed Fish from Harvest to Killing- Meeting the Future Challenge

For salmon, cod and halibut, the fish are often live chilled prior to exsanguination with or without a stunning. From 2007 a new slaughter directive will act demanding that fish are stunned and killed unconsciously. Furthermore the welfare under CO2 suppl ement and chilling is questioned involvin...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Rogaland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Heart and skeletal muscle inflammation (HSMI) in Atlantic salmon: diagnosis, pathogenesis and epidemiology

Heart and skeletal muscle inflammation (HSMI) is a transmissible disease of viral aetiology affecting farmed Atlantic salmon. The disease appears to be spreading rapidly into new areas, and it is important to limit further spread. HSMI is characterized by severe inflammation in heart and red ske...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

ONTOGENY OF LIPID DIGESTION AND EFFECTS OF FEEDING PRE-DIGESTED LIPIDS TO ATLANTIC COD (GADUS MORHUA) LARVAE

Lipids provide cod larvae with energy and essential fatty acids, the latter being structural components of biological membranes and precursors for the eicosanoids; signalling molecules which participate in regulation of a range of biological processes. Un til now, research on dietary lipids for m...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Vestland

SKOGFOND-Utviklingsfondet for skogbruket

Registrering av skogskader med hyperspektral skanner

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Awarded: NOK 0.17 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Kinetic plasma instabilities for inhomogeneous conditions

The proposal addresses studies of kinetic instabilities in hot dilute inhomogeneous plasmas. Such inhomogeneities are present in particular also for plasmas in contact with solid objects as dust or metallic objects such as spacecrafts. Kinetic instabiliti es originate from properties of the veloc...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

The Norwegian Cluster studies 2007-2009

This is a joint proposal submitted by researchers from the Universities of Bergen (UiB) and Oslo (UiO) and the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) to support the Norwegian Cluster studies 2007-2009. A main theme is the reconnection process and the effects of this process as it can be...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland