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BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Mycotoxin contamination in oats, - characterization of the infection process by the major T-2 and HT-2 toxin producer Fusarium langsethiae

The trichothecene deoxynivalenol (DON) is frequently found in wheat. However, in Norway also the more toxic trichothecenes T-2 and HT-2 are often found, particularly in barley and oats. In 1999 Langseth and Rundberget concluded that 'Norwegian oats were f ound to contain HT-2 and T-2 toxin in con...

Awarded: NOK 5.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Akershus

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Effects of Changing Climate on the Alpine Tree Line and Mountain Forest Carbon Pools Along 1500 km N-S and Elevation Gradients

Vi har dokumentert gode resultater ved bruk av vegetasjonshøydemålinger fra flybåren laserskanning (FLS) til deteksjon av små trær i overgangssonen mellom skog og alpin sone. Høydemålingene er i praksis en tett tredimensjonal sky av ekko fra laserpulser sendt ut fra en sensor under et fly. Gjenno...

Awarded: NOK 8.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2016

Location: Akershus

SIP-Strategiske instituttprogram

Videreutvikling av nytte-kostnadsanalyser: Investeringer under usikkerhet, irreversibilitet og imperfekte markeder

Store investeringer og tiltak vil på ulike måter påvirke rammebetingelsene for bedrifter og enkeltpersoner på kort og lang sikt. Samfunnsøkonomiske nytte-kostnadsanalyser er den etablerte metoden for å veie fremtidige fordeler og ulemper opp mot hverandre , og derigjennom avgjøre om en planlagt i...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Møre og Romsdal

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Habitat restoration in overgrazed areas on the northern Norwegian coast

The principal objective is to test the hypotheses that former kelp forests that were grazed by sea urchins can be restored by artificially re-introduce three-dimensional habitats. This may promote colonisation of sea urchin predators that may reduce recru itment of sea urchin populations and indu...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Terrestrial C sequestration potential in Norway under present and future climate

Terrestrial ecosystems in the northern hemisphere have been a significant sink in the global C cycle. However, strength and duration of the terrestrial C sink is uncertain and will impact future trends in atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Likely factors, al so relevant in Norway, to affect the terr...

Awarded: NOK 6.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

OST-Øst-Europa-programmene

Study of Russian Air Pollution Sources and their Impact on Atmospheric Composition in the Arctic

RAPSIFACT will interpret existing and conduct new measurements of greenhouse gases, gaseous air pollutants, and aerosols in Russia, which is the most important source region for Arctic air pollution. This has especially high relevance and is extremely urg ent because climate change is proceeding ...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Akershus

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Low-frequency acoustics - potentials and dangers for marine ecosystem application

Low frequency acoustics from hundreds of Hz to 10 kHz includes the range for Navy sonars and have recently been tested assessing the distribution, density, and behaviour of pelagic fish. These frequencies are within the hearing range of fish and marine ma mmals. Operation at these frequencies may...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Restriction of lipid deposition in the liver of cod by use of bioactive substances in salmon oil and vegetable feed ingredients.

Use of high-energy feeds has been of major importance for the development of cost effective farming of fast growing salmonids. High energy diets contain high levels of lipids, and such diets cause development of a large fatty liver in cod. More than 80% o f total body lipids in cod are in fact fo...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Impacts of Climate change and Energy Policies on the electricity Sector

Abstract: The electricity sector is and will be affected both by climate change and by climate change mitigation policies, and ICEPS analyses the effects of mitigation policies on the electricity sector. Building on, extending and supporting other projec ts, ICEPS examines the impacts of mitigat...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Vestland

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Subsidizing R&D and installment of carbon abatement in open economies

The European Union and Norway have both proposed tougher unilateral emission reduction targets than what is required by the Kyoto protocol. According to some setting tough unilateral targets will lead to faster technological development, which again will influence other countries willingness to p...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

GLOBHELS-Global helse

Multi-disciplinary approach to Explaining Differential Immunization Coverage

Although there exist effective vaccines for many life-threatening diseases, access to these technologies remains limited in many low and middle income countries. The proposed project address the question: Why are some low-income countries and communities therein far more successful than others in...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

GLOBHELS-Global helse

Impact of a new and affordable conjugate meningococcal vaccine on carriage of serogroup A Neisseria meningitidis and disease transmission

Meningococcal meningitis is causing repeated massive epidemics in an area south of Sahara, termed the meningitis belt. The disease-causing bacteria are mainly serogroup A meningococci. These are transmitted between individuals by air-borne droplets and as ymptomatic carriers are the principal sou...

Awarded: NOK 11.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

Terminert Optical and electrical properties of nanostructured materials for energy conversion

The project is aimed at acquiring the fundamental knowledge on formation, optical, electrical, and thermal properties of nano-structured solar cells by combination of fabrication, characterization, and modeling methods. We will investigate possibilities o f enhancing efficiency of different inorg...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Enabling small scale biomass CHP in Norway

The economy of scale is a driver for large-scale CHP plants. However, large-scale CHP plants demands a large customer for the heat produced. Such customers in Norway are scarce and certainly not of such magnitude that it is possible to utilise Norways pot ential biomass resources. Therefore, smal...

Awarded: NOK 16.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Low Energy Commercial Buildings - Factor 2-4-10 reduction

While the energy use in Norwegian residential buildings is decreasing, the energy use in commercial buildings is increasing. This may be due to a range of different factors like lack of knowledge of integrated energy design, higher comfort requirements, m ore use of glass, etc. To build new kno...

Awarded: NOK 8.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

GLOBHELS-Global helse

2nd generation Vaccibodies for infectious diseases

Aim: PI (Bjarne Bogen) and co-workers have recently reported on a novel vaccine technology, Vaccibodies, which appears very potent. The object of the present proposal is to further improve the design and immunogenicity of Vaccibodies (resulting in 2nd gen eration Vaccibodies). Background: New an...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Going Home to Fight? Explaining Refugee Return and Violence

This project examines why some returning refugees come to destabilize the peace process in their home country. Despite considerable literature on refugee warriorism in exile, there is no analysis of their role upon return. Likewise, the challenge of rein tegrating refugee warriors does not figur...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2017

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Unravelling the Vicious Circle: Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Livelihoods in Small-scale Fisheries

In this project we question how poverty can be alleviated through ecosystem-based management of natural resources. Alleviating poverty sometimes requires strategies which are inherently in conflict. This is particularly the case in economies based on natu ral resources. As one seeks to reduce pov...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Flammable Societies: The Role of Oil and Gas Industry in the Promotion of Poverty Reduction and Social Volatility

Through the development of a series of comparative case studies in present-day Latin America, Africa, Europe and the former Soviet Union we propose to explore the way in which the current concerns for social responsibility in the international oil and gas industry are transferred into concrete s...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2017

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Social networks, labour transactions and outcomes: A theoretical and empirical study of migrant workers, and their employers, in South-Asia.

We study motives and explanations for network use in labour transactions in low income countries and the implications for employers, and in particular for the segment of poor unskilled workers. One explanation favoured among economists is that networks ar e vehicles for effective information tran...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2017

Location: Vestland

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

Arbeidsseminar om samhandling mellom nivåer i helsetjenesten og konsekvenser for utvikling av bygg og infrastruktur i helsevesenet

SINTEF Helse søker om støtte fra NFR for gjennomføring av et arbeidsseminar over 2 dager med norske og internasjonale innledere og deltakere. Seminaret skal bidra til økt kunnskap om og forståelse for sammenhenger mellom leveranse av helsetjenester på flere nivåer i helsevesenet og de fysiske ...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

Prioritization in the Health Care Sector

This project investigates prioritization in the Norwegian health care sector. The objective is to see how actual prioritization is affected by regulation and finance systems of the specialist health care sector, and to establish systems for surveillance o f prioritization of patients over geograp...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Power System Analysis and Transmission Planning in a Changing Environment

The main objective is to build the competence necessary to face future challenges in power system analysis and transmission expansion planning. The most important contribution of this project will be knowledge and methods used in computer optimisation and simulation models. The goal is to defin...

Awarded: NOK 9.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

RUSMIDDEL-Rusmiddelforskning

Biological bases of addiction: investigating norepinephrine and brain stress systems using PET in abstinent alcoholics

This project constitutes progress toward the specific goal of solving the complex biomedical problem of addictive behaviors. It will finance a Norwegian post. doc. (the project manager) to take part in an interdisciplinary research consortium at Yale Univ ersity on stress, self control and addict...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Oslo

ESRF-ESRF – Program for synkrotronforskning

Synchrotron-based X-ray studies of sea ice

The goal of the present project is to utilize modern technology and interdisciplinary work to close a fundamental gap in the description of the medium sea ice. We will for the first time apply synchrotron-based X-ray computed micro-tomography (XMT) to obt ain a three-dimensional description of th...

Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Vestland

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Handtering av grasstrengen i totrinnshausting, for rask fortørking og god surfôrkvalitet.

Surfôr av god hygienisk og ernæringsmessig kvalitet er avgjerande for eit godt økonomisk resultat i norsk mjølk- og kjøttproduksjon. Totrinnshausting og fortørking før konservering kan gi betre kvalitet og lågare produksjonskostnader enn direkte hausting, og har gradvis vorte meir brukt også i N...

Awarded: NOK 0.63 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Møre og Romsdal

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Animal welfare and energy production and account when utilizing locally produced wood chips and peat in circuit-based animal production

The ProLOCAL project aims at innovate technologies for animal housing and at the same time combining the hitherto mainly separated enterprises of forestry, animal husbandry, bio energy and organic farming. In today's animal husbandry there is a great dema nd for litter material. Litter and other ...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Økt konkurransekraft i norsk produksjon av epletrær

Prosjektet 'Økt konkurransekraft i norsk produksjon av epletrær' har som hovedmål å utvikle forbedret produktkvalitet og kostnadseffektivitet i norsk produksjon av epletrær. Delmål i prosjektet er metoder for rasjonell oppformering av eplegrunnstammer og alternative produksjonsteknikker for å red...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Telemark

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Presisjonsgjødsling til jordbær og bringebær i forskjellige klima- og dyrkingsområder

Jordbær og bringebær til friskkonsum er produkter der det er marked for økt produksjon i Norge, og de siste årene har det skjedd en omfattende strukturendring i norsk bærproduksjon. Det har blitt færre og større produsenter, og nye sorter og dyrkingssyste m har blitt tatt i bruk (plasttunneler, t...

Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Innlandet

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Synthesis and durability of CNT based MEAs for PEMFC (Nanoduramea) (N-INNER)

The objective of the product is to improve the durability of the membrane electrode assemblies of PEM fuel cells by studying the basic degradation phenomena of carbon supported PT catalysts and perflourosulphonated proton conducting membranes. Improved ca talysts are developed by using advanced c...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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