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H20-ERC-European Research Council

Storyworlds in Transition: Coptic Apocrypha in Changing Contexts in the Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods

Storyworlds in Transition: Coptic Apocrypha in Changing Contexts in the Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods

Awarded: NOK 19.7 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Living with Vultures in the Sixth Extinction: An Ethnographic Study of Avian Conservation in Changing European Landscapes

LiVE provides a historically informed comparative ethnography of contemporary vulture conservation in changing European landscapes. It investigates how the global phenomena of accelerating species loss and corresponding wildlife management unfold within specific historical and cultural contexts. ...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Towards Precision Psychiatry

Towards Precision Psychiatry

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2022

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

The Emergence, Life, and Demise of Autocratic Regimes

ELDAR will investigate three aspects of autocratic politics: 1) the emergence of autocratic regimes; 2) policy-making (“life”) in autocracies in the areas of education, infrastructure, pensions and media regulation; 3) autocratic regime breakdown. ELDAR offers a comprehensive perspective, highlig...

Awarded: NOK 19.7 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Unravelling the secrets of Cu-based catalysts for C-H activation

The Holy Grail of selective C-H activation has been vigorously pursued for more than 70 years in all areas of catalysis - homogeneous, heterogeneous and biological - yet with scarce cross-fertilization. CUBE will bridge this gap, by synergistically disclosing the secrets of Cu-containing biologic...

Awarded: NOK 56.2 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Oslo og 2 andre

H20-ENV-Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials

New Exploration Tools for European Pegmatite Green-Tech Resources

New Exploration Tools for European Pegmatite Green-Tech Resources

Awarded: NOK 27.5 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage og 2 andre

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Finding Flow: Negotiating diverse temporalities in migrant family life

Finding Flow: Negotiating diverse temporalities in migrant family life

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2022

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Between Sea and City: Ethnographic explorations of infrastructure, work, and place around leading urban container ports

How to study the turbulent transitions and risky mobilities of global capitalism today? An illuminating, but often overlooked site that lends itself to explorations into the changing nature of our economic system can be found at the interface between sea and city, i.e. at the port. Container port...

Awarded: NOK 14.8 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo

H20-HEALTH-Health, demographic change and wellbeing

RESISTANCE UNDER COMBINATORIAL TREATMENT IN ER+ AND ER- BREAST CANCER.

Breast Cancer (BC) is the first cause of cancer-related death in women worldwide. Breast cancer is classified into well-recognized molecular subtypes. Despite solid pre-clinical evidence, only some patients benefit from administering drug combinations, an indication that patient and tumor heterog...

Awarded: NOK 18.4 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Oslo og 2 andre

H20-ERC-European Research Council

CoFutures: Pathways to Possible Presents

CoFutures: Pathways to Possible Presents

Awarded: NOK 13.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-LEIT-LEIT-ICT-Information and Communication Technologies

Modelling and Orchestrating heterogeneous Resources and Polymorphic applications for Holistic Execution and adaptation of Models In the Cloud

MORPHEMIC proposes a unique way of adapting and optimizing Cloud computing applications by introducing the novel concepts of polymorph architecture and proactive adaptation. The former is when a component can run in different technical forms, i.e. in a Virtual Machine (VM), in a container, as a b...

Awarded: NOK 6.5 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2022

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Secretion, Autophagy and their role in Neurodegeneration

Secretion, Autophagy and their role in Neurodegeneration

Awarded: NOK 6.7 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Translational Traditions and Imaginaries: A Comparative History of Petrarch’s Canzoniere in French and English

Translational Traditions and Imaginaries: A Comparative History of Petrarch’s Canzoniere in French and English

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2022

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Authoritarianism and Messianic Conceptions of Politics in Turkey 1850-2015

The literature approaches the authoritarian turn in Turkish politics either as an example of political Islam gone wrong or as part of the competitive authoritarianism that sweep across the globe. But even a cursory glance reveals the persistence and recurrence of authoritarian themes in Turkish p...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2021

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Women Writing Saints: Proto-feminist Discourses in Religious texts written by Women in Counter-Reformation Italy

WomenWritingSaints is an interdisciplinary project exploring the religious literature authored by different categories of early modern women writers in post-Tridentine Italy (1563-1700), bringing together literary studies, cultural history, the history of ideas and women’s studies. The sacred wri...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2021

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Looking for the Impersonal Core -- Impersonal Pronouns across Germanic languages

Looking for the Impersonal Core -- Impersonal Pronouns across Germanic languages

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2021

Location: Oslo

H20-SCIENCE-Encourage citizens to engage in science

Science education for action and engagement towards sustainability

The main objective of the Science Education for Action and Engagement Towards Sustainability (SEAS) is to establish, coordinate and evaluate collaboration among six open schooling networks led by universities and science centres with partners in Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Italy, Norway, Sweden, a...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2022

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Recording the Borders: Sounding Displacement and Integration in Europe

Recording the Borders: Sounding Displacement and Integration in Europe

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2021

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

The History of Intellectual Property Rights in the Creative Industries

CREATIVE IPR aims to study the rise of intellectual property rights in the creative industries, from the international treaties of the late nineteenth century to the present day, with a focus on Europe in the global world. CREATIVE IPR examines the consequences of this development for the creat...

Awarded: NOK 18.5 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

American Norwegian Sound Systems and Language Contact

American Norwegian Sound Systems and Language Contact

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2021

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Language switching and script mixing: multilingual landscapes of medieval Scandinavia

Language switching and script mixing: multilingual landscapes of medieval Scandinavia

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Societal openness, normative flux, and the social modification of heritability

Societal openness, normative flux, and the social modification of heritability

Awarded: NOK 19.1 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Infinity in Mathematics: A Philosophical analysis of Critical Views of Infinity

This project’s research goal is a systematic philosophical and mathematical analysis of critical views of infinity: views which have questioned one or more aspects of standard approaches to infinity in mathematics. Criticism of infinity originates in fundamental debates at the turn of the 20th ce...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2021

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Socioeconomic gaps in language development and school achievement: Mechanisms of inequality and opportunity

As inequality increases in most developed countries, children from socioeconomically disadvantaged families are at exceptional risk for academic underachievement with lasting consequences for individuals, their communities, and society at large. Among policy makes, early childhood education and c...

Awarded: NOK 18.3 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Cosmoglobe -- mapping the universe from the Milky Way to the Big Bang

In the aftermath of the high-precision Planck and BICEP2 experiments, cosmology has undergone a critical transition. Before 2014, most breakthroughs came as direct results of improved detector technology and increased noise sensitivity. After 2014, the main source of uncertainty will be due to as...

Awarded: NOK 19.2 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

SCIENTIA-FELLOWS II: International Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme

The SCIENTIA-FELLOWS II (SF-II) proposal is based on of the FP7-funded SCIENTIA-FELLOWS programme (http://www.med.uio.no/english/research/scientia-fellows/) coordinated by the University of Oslo. The original programme has recruited over 80 researchers and provided excellent training in both rese...

Awarded: NOK 82.5 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-ENERGY-Secure, clean and efficient energy

Efficient CO2 conversion over multisite Zeolite-Metal nanocatalysts to fuels and OlefinS

What if we were able to use CO2 and H2 from renewable energy sources as fuel and chemical feedstocks, and thus decrease CO2 emissions and displace fossil fuels at the same time? COZMOS will develop an energy-efficient and environmentally and economically viable conversion of CO2 to fuels and high...

Awarded: NOK 10.7 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage og 2 andre

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Recurrent disease in the liver transplant: window to identify and stop gut signals driving autoimmunity

Autoimmune disease is an increasing health concern. These diseases are strongly associated with altered gut microbiome. When immunosuppression fails there is little to offer in terms of therapy. In this project, I hypothesize that gut signals (microbial factors from the intestine) unaffected by i...

Awarded: NOK 14.4 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-SOCIETY-Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective Societies

EU Differentiation, Dominance and Democracy

The UK’s decision to leave the EU sent shock-waves through an EU that had gone through an unprecedented process of integration extending for seven decades. Brexit came at a propitious moment for a Union that was still reeling from the effects of the Euro-crisis, the refugee crisis and other chall...

Awarded: NOK 6.8 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Relativistic and Dynamic effects in Computational NMR Spectroscopy of transition-metal complexes

The current proposal aims to established a computational protocol for the rational calculation of NMR parameters in transition-metal complexes by accurately taking into consideration relativistic effects and conformational dynamics. Despite the advances attained in theoretical chemistry methods, ...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2021

Location: Oslo