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BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

NKJ 127 Assessment of validity of the dairy health recording systems in the Nordic countries (DAHREVA)

The disease control schemes of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden were elaborated in a 1-year NKJ pilot project in 2001 (project number NKJ: 1276). The pilot project suggested three possible main reasons for differences in the numbers of treatment record s: 1) differences in the recording system...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Akershus

FORSKNINGSKOMM-Forskningskommunikasjon

UngeAbel

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Awarded: NOK 7.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2027

Location: Akershus

PROFORSK-Skole og samfunn

First Lego League

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Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2016

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

EraSME Healthypastry - Means for healthier pastry products

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Awarded: NOK 0.34 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

NKJ 128 - Phenotypic and molecular characterisation of genetic resources of Nordic timothy (Phleum pratanese L.)

Timothy is the most important forage grass species in the northern part of the Nordic countries. However, serious winter damages, which significantly lower persistency and yields, occur regularly. The Nordic plant breeders have so far been quite successfu l in developing new, high-yielding variet...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Akershus

PROSDIV-Diverse

Towards self-sustainable European regional cattle breeds (EURECA)

Prosjektet omhandler bevaring og bruk av lokale/regionale kuraser: " status og organisering av eksisterende bevaringsprogrammer for disse i Europa " kartlegging av metodikk og software for forvaltning av genressurser " utvikling av perspektiver og retning slinjer for å utvikle raser og vellykkede...

Awarded: NOK 0.45 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Akershus

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Tidsskriftet Søkelys på arbeidsmarkedet - støtte til publisering

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Awarded: NOK 0.95 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Arctic Frontiers Tromsø 2007 - Science Conference

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Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

P-KVINN-Program for kvinne- og kjønnsf

Nettpresentasjon av programmet Kjønnsforskning: kunnskap, grenser, endring

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Awarded: NOK 0.24 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Akershus

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Gender equality, cultural diversity, religious pluralism: State policies and feminist interventions

Prosjektet studerer policyutvikling og kvinners organisering i krysningspunkter mellom kjønn, etnisitet/rase og religiøs tilhørighet og er den første i sitt slag i Norge. Utgangspunktet er en antagelse om at disse makt-, identitets og rettighetsfeltene i stor grad behandles som separate policyomr...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

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

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Hydrogen production from natural gas in high-temperature membrane reactors: Advanced catalysis from atoms to processes

The project deals with a development of a catalyst system in a high temperature hydrogen permeable membrane reactor, enabling production of hydrogen and CO2 simultaneously from natural gas. The active, stable and cheap catalysts will be developed by new c atalyst design through the combination of...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Development and clinical testing of juice rich in phytochemicals and antioxidants

We will develop juice rich in natural antioxidants and phytochemicals and test bioactivity in clinical trials. Specifically, together with TINE R&D we aim at develop two juices based on grapes, pomegranates and/or blueberries. By screening potential ingre dients available on the marked we will op...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

5 - Antibiotics from the sea - isolation and characterization of novel compounds from cold-water benthic organisms(fortsetter som 184688)

The modern society relies on a continuous development of new drugs, either to replace older and less efficient drugs, or even more important, to address clinical needs that are unmet today. The emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance in common hu man pathogenic bacteria has fuelled the n...

Awarded: NOK 0.75 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Automatic weed assessment for precision spraying in cereals

The load of herbicides on Norwegian cereals fields is unnecessarily high. The spraying represents an unnecessary cost for farmers, in Norway estimated to about 20 millions NOK yearly, and lots of herbicides superfluously spread to the environment. The mos t important reason for this excessive her...

Awarded: NOK 8.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Preclinical diagnosis of prion disease

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are a threat to food safety and to human and animal health. Diagnosis of these diseases and early detection of the infective agent is vital for future spread and prevention of disease. The identification of candidate molecules as biomarkers of pre...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

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

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

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Violence, poverty and police corruption

The police in low-income countries are among the most corrupt sector of their governments, sporadic evidence indicates. In this project we seek to estimate the extent of police corruption and explain its variation. Here the interaction between police beha viour and crime, some of which is violent...

Awarded: NOK 4.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Cascading effects of climate change and UV envirotoxins on the nutritional quality of the food base in marine ecosystems

With the current focus on ecosystem-based approaches to the management of marine resources establishing the effects of various environmental variables on the flow of energy through marine ecosystems is essential, and strongly prioritized. The research pro posed here uses two variables (temperatur...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Vestland