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ENERGIX-Stort program energi

STable OPerating conditions for biomass and biomass residues combustion plants

Målsettingen med STOP prosjektet er å utvikle nye strategier for forbedrede operasjonsbetingelser for biomasse og biomasse restfraksjoner forbrenningsanlegg gjennom bruk av mer homogent brensel med 1) minimert innvirkning av sesongvariasjoner og 2) optimalt brensel med hensyn til forurensende uts...

Awarded: NOK 11.2 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Implications of high fertility in developing countries - a multilevel analysis based on DHS data

see objectives above Obviously, such knowledge about how important it is to try to reduce fertility and how socieoeconomic development may help in achieving that is of great value to politicians and planners at several levels in several countries.

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Oslo

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Impacts of extreme weather events on infrastructure in Norway (InfraRisk)

Global warming will most likely change the frequency and/or intensity of Extreme Weather Events (EWEs) in most world regions. Climate change and the resulting expected increase in major weather-related natural catastrophes are essential drivers of an expe cted trend of rising losses in the future...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Oslo

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Forprosjekt for vindbasert energiproduksjon med kite

Kitemill har som overordnet mål å utvikle teknologi for å utnytte vindkraft til energiproduksjon gjennom bruk av kite, hvor ferdige systemer (kitemølle-parker) vil bestå av flere store kiter som opererer simultant for å gi en kontinuerlig energiproduksjon . Konseptet går ut på at en kite går opp ...

Awarded: NOK 0.97 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Agder

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Obesity, vitamin D insufficiency, and asthma in Norwegian and Canadian populations

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Awarded: NOK 6.7 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2016

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

SAMFUNN: Bringing STS into Environmental History

This application asks for partial support for an international workshop to be held Trondheim in August 2010 on the intersection of science and technology studies and environmental history. The conference co-conveners -- Dolly Jørgensen and Finn Arne Jørge nsen (both from Department of Interdiscip...

Awarded: NOK 74,999

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

STAMCELLER-Stamcelleforskning

Influence of inflammation and cancer on mesenchymal stem cell function

Impaired mesenchymal stem cell function and dysregulated osteoblastogenesis is a common feature of diseases such as multiple myeloma, breast cancer metastasizing to bone and some autoimmune diseases. The consequences for the affected patients are pain, fr equent fractures and severely reduced qua...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Genetic and Process Optimizations for Effective Screening and Functional Production of Novel Therapeutic Antibody Fragments

The application range of antibodies in medicine and biotechnology is broad and there is a huge progress in the design and selection of new variants with novel properties. Affitech is a relative young biotech company founded in 1997, and is still establish ed in the international forefront of disc...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2011

Location: Oslo

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Computational Molecular Analysis for Thorium Fuels

Thorium oxide has a set of physical and chemical properties which make it an excellent fertile nuclear fuel matrix. For such fuels to receive safety 'qualification', their safe performance needs to be demonstrated using a combination of physical testing and computer modelling. To support this ...

Awarded: NOK 0.21 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Akershus

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Optisk ikke-invasiv vevsdiagnose

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Awarded: NOK 6.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Vestland

SAM-EU-Samfinansiering EU-kontoret

Pepino mosaic virus: epidemiology, economic impact and pest risk analysis

PEPEIRA is an RTD activity aimed at developing an EU-wide Pest Risk Assessment (PRA) for Pepino mosaic virus (PepMV). The proposal will investigate the epidemiology and economic impact of PepMV in order to allow a robust and scientifically-justified asses sment of the risk posed by this pathogen ...

Awarded: NOK 80,585

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Akershus

SYKEFRAVÆR-Forskn.om årsaker til sykefrav

Vanlige psykiske lidelser og personlighetsforstyrrelser - følger for sykefravær og uføretrygd

Formålet med studien var å øke kunnskapen om konsekvensene av vanlige psykiske lidelser og personlighetsforstyrrelser i forhold til sykefravær og uførhetstrygd. Både vanlige psykiske lidelser og personlighetsforstyrrelser oppstår i ung voksen alder, samtidig som man skal ta viktige valg om utdann...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2017

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

From Climate Knowledge to Local Adaptation - How can we strengthen the adaptation capacity of local government?

This project aims at developing new knowledge and measures relevant for strengthening local government capacity for adaptation to climate change. This will be analysed in a multi level and cross-sector context aiming at understanding how adaptation strate gies to climate change can be co-ordinate...

Awarded: NOK 6.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Oslo

IT-FUNK-IT for funksjonshemmede

AAL - REMOTE

The REMOTE project offers a modular system of Ambient Intelligent platform and telehealth applications for remote elderly people. Innovation results from the integration of ICT components like wearables, sensors, localization systems for primary end-user and like tele-monitoring services, decisi...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

BiodivERsA: EcoCycles: Interacting impacts of land use and climate change on ecosystem processes: From cyclic herbivores to predators of con

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Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

RBGRUNSAMF-Resultatbasert grunnbevilgning - Samf.vitensk.institutter

Grunnbevilgning - CMI. Videreføring av prosjekt 160025/V10.

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Awarded: NOK 219.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2022

Location: Vestland

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Nordic Conference in Development Economics 2009

I 2001 ble det tatt initiativ til å opprette et uformelt nettverk (Nordic Network of Development Economics-NNDE) for å styrke og stimulere yngre forskere innen dette fagområdet. Dette la grunnlaget for at man fra 2002 arrangerte en høyt profilert årlig No rdic Conference in Development Economics ...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Akershus

SAM-EU-Samfinansiering EU-kontoret

Strategy and methodology for improved IWRM: An integrated interdisciplinary assessment in four twinning river basins

The STRIVER project a STREP funded under the following Environment Programme in FP6: Global Change and Ecosystems Research area: II. Water cycle, including soil-related aspects II.3.1. Integrated water management at catchment scale SUSTDEV-2005-3.II.3.6: Twinning European/third countries river ...

Awarded: NOK 0.67 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Akershus

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

Early Intervention and Social Mobility: Improving the Opportunities of Disadvantaged Children

Family is important for child development. Internationally it is well documented that family environments of young children are important predictors of outcomes later in life, such as education, labor market participation, earnings, health, and crime. In particular, children of families with low...

Awarded: NOK 9.9 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Rogaland

JTI-Joint Technology Initiatives

ARTEMIS Call 1 CESAR Cost-efficient methods and processes for safety relevant embedded systems - CESAR

Følgende prosjektsammendrag er hentet fra Technical Annex: The embedded safety-critical systems design and development industry is facing increasing complexity and variety of systems and devices, coupled with increasing regulatory constraints while costs , performances and time to market are con...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Akershus

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

SAFEFOODERA - Effects of climate change on emerging natural toxins in plant and seafood production (EMTOX)

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Awarded: NOK 0.61 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2011

Location: Akershus

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

The New Challenges in High Seas Fisheries Management: Dealing with Competition Across Institutional Venurs

One of todays most pressing marine governance issues is the how to effectively govern areas beyond national jurisdiction, on the high seas. This project will address two clusters of current challenges in high seas fisheries management: i) the adoption of trade measures to combat IUU-fishing (ill...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

The law and economics of relational contracts

Contracts form the web of the economy. The ability of parties to enter into voluntary contractual agreements is essential for economic exchange and prosperity. There are basically two devices that govern contracts: Contract law and norms. Contract law se ts the legal rules of exchanging parties'...

Awarded: NOK 5.8 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Rogaland

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosjektstøtte for medisin, helse og biologi

Cardiac stroke volume and its contribution to the circulation: Interaction of mechanical and nervous factors affecting the heart

Når du puster, påvirkes hjertet av både nervøse og mekaniske faktorer. Mitt prosjekt har som hovedfokus å se på samspillet mellom mekaniske og nervøse påvirkninger av hjertets slagvolum. I prosjektet har jeg utviklet og publisert en ny metode for å måle s lagvolum fra hjertets høyre og venstre si...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Oslo

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosjektstøtte for medisin, helse og biologi

Identifying molecular targets on cancer stem-like cells from human brain tumours

The overall objective of our laboratory is to determine the biological mechanisms underlying brain tumour development and identify novel therapeutic targets that will block or reduce tumour progression. Our research group has been able to isolate two diff erent phenotypes from human glioblastomas...

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Vestland

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosjektstøtte for medisin, helse og biologi

Dual band-pass filtering of information within cortical pyramidal neurons

Pyramidal neurons are the principal cells the main 'computational units' - of the cerebral cortex, but how they function remains enigmatic. The present proposal aims at elucidating novel functional principles within these cells that are likely to be impor tant at two different levels: at the fund...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Oslo

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosjektstøtte for medisin, helse og biologi

The anatomy of memory: circuitry and functions of the hippocampal-parahippocampal region.

The human hippocampal-parahippocampal region plays an important role in memory. The relationship between the circuitry contained in this brain region and its contribution to memory is a topic of intense research, yet to date there is no complete and mecha nistic understanding of how the circuitry...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FORINFRA-Nasjonal sats.på forskningsinfrastrukt.

A national infrastructure for biobanks and biobank related activity in Norway

There has been an accelerating interest by researchers world wide in gaining access to Norwegian biobanks with their comprehensive samples and data collections. In parallel, Norwegian researchers have gained increased competence and impact in this field, acknowledging the necessity to collabora...

Awarded: NOK 79.6 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2017

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINATEK-Fri prosjektstøtte for matematikk, naturvitenskap og teknologi

Integrated Design of Model-Based Observers and Delay-Based Attenuation of Measurement Disturbances

The focus of the project is design of state estimators for physical systems based on partial state measurements. We assume that the measurements are corrupted by disturbances with (partially) known autocorrelation profiles. The goal is to develop tools fo r integrating model-based observer design...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRINATEK-Fri prosjektstøtte for matematikk, naturvitenskap og teknologi

Design of Efficient Solar Energy Materials from Theory(DESEMAT)

Hovedmålet for forskningsprosjektet DESEMAT har vært å benytte beregningsmetoder i kjemi og fysikk for å forstå hvorledes kjemisk sammensetning, krystallstruktur og defekter har innvirkning på egenskaper for transparente tynne oksid lag som har potensial for å forbedre ytelsen til neste generasjo...

Awarded: NOK 5.4 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Oslo