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MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Microbiocidal coatings based on Sphagnum biopolymers for extending the shelf-life of fresh fish (184255)

At present only 1 in 3 temperate marine fish is sold to the consumer (mostly export) as high-quality, high-profit fresh fish. The rest is sold as lower-grade, lower-profit processed fish. If the shelf-life of fresh fish can be extended by only 20-30 % (2- 3 days) then the economic and social (in ...

Awarded: NOK 4.9 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Prenatal stress in farmed salmon: Consequences for emotional and cognitive function in offspring

We have previously shown in farmed salmon that augmented levels of maternal cortisol exert detrimental impacts on the physiological and morphological development of offspring. Our results thus accentuate the importance of knowledge on how the maternal end ocrinological state during gametogenesis ...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Akershus

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

INVENTIO - Theory and Practice of Designing Digital Genres for Learning and Leisure.

Despite the promise of technology, there are lags in the textual realisation of rich multimodal communication. We see three levels of digital media: hardware, software and genre as meaningware. We focus on genre in making meaning via digital media from a humanistic point of view. In research and ...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Oslo

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Norwegian and Russian Upper Atmosphere Co-operation On Svalbard

During the Norwegian - Russian research seminar organized by the Norwegian research council and the Norwegian Polar Institute in Tromsø 9 - 10 March 2006, group 4 with members associated to upper atmospheric research on Svalbard compiled a list of actions to be taken in order to increase the coo...

Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Svalbard

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Home, Hearth, and Household in the Circumpolar North

The project aims to generate a longitudinal statistic picture of Sámi and Kvæn households for all of Sápmi (including the Kola peninsula). It will also explore the historical dynamics of Sámi dwellings and the use of space among the Evenki reindeer herder s in the recent past and present. The pro...

Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

The temple of Castor and Pollux

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Awarded: NOK 0.17 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Oslo

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

ISI - Innovativ sprøytestøpeindustri

Prosjektet er initiert av Forum for sprøytestøping (av plast) og ledes av bildelprodusenten Plastal AS på Raufoss. Målet er å utvikle innovative og konkurransedyktige sprøytestøpte plastkomponenter, samt utvikle kostnadseffektive defektfrie sprøytestøpepr osesser. Hovedområdene for prosjektet e...

Awarded: NOK 14.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Østfold

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

Colony, Empire, Environment: A comparative international history of 20th century Artic (EUROCORES programme BOREAS)

Professor Wråkberg will trace the beginnings of nature conservation in the Artic initially focusing on the scientific and political initiatives behind establishing a world nature ambiguous transition from a colonial and national top-down administration of early circumpolar Artic nature serves to...

Awarded: NOK 0.93 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

CRASH- Integrert, differensiert og lean verdikjede for aluminiumsprodukter til bilindustrien

Hydro Aluminium Structure - North European Region (SNER) er den største tilbyder av bildeler i aluminium for personbiler på verdensbasis. Gjennom å utvikle en kundedrevet og lean verdikjede skal vi styrke vår markedsposisjon. I det siste tiåret har bi lindustrien fokusert på kostnadskutt og e...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Innlandet

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

DeStore - Decentralized Storage of Multimodal User Data

Websentriske tjenester blir stadig mer populære, mye grunnet muligheten til å leie en komplett tjeneste med en minimal administrativ innsats for kunden. Webbaserte tjenester har likevel flere svakheter i forhold til lokalt driftede løsninger. I de webtje nestene hvor brukeren selv produseres sto...

Awarded: NOK 5.9 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Context-sensitive systems for mobile communication in hospitals

This project will focus on context-sensitive interfaces, middleware, and new interaction forms for mobile devices that support multi-modal communication in hospitals. Such devices will support media such as voice services, text-messaging and paging in an efficient and non-interruptive manner as...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

CAIM - Context Aware Image Management

Caim (Context-Aware Image Management) prosjektet benytter kontekstinformasjon til bilder (slik som dato og sted et bildet ble tatt) for automatisk å finne mer informasjon om det man ser i bildet (for eksempel i form av Wikipedia artikler og web-sider) og tilby nye typer bildesøk. Vi tilbyr for e...

Awarded: NOK 10.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NEVRONOR-Nasjonal satsing på nevrovitenskap f

The Parkinson study in Western Norway and Aust-Agder. Motor and non-motor problems in patients with Parkinson's Disease (PD)

Parkinson's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder of unknown cause. In 2003 it was proposed a new hypothesis by neuropathologists which claims that the disease develops from the brain stem and thereafter to higher levels of the brain in a pr e-determined anatomical sequence. This hy...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Vestland

DEMOSREG-Demokrati, styring og regional

Multi-level goverance and regional development - the politics of natural gas

Målet i dette prosjektet er å studere hvilken betydning nettverk mellom offentlige og private aktører på ulike geografiske nivåer har i forhold til å påvirke politikken for regional utvikling. Det empiriske utgangspunktet er nettverk etablert for å fremme innenlands bruk av naturgass i tre regio...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILGENHEL-Miljø, gener og helse

Food from the sea - health effects of organic pollutants and essential nutrients from marine food. The Norwegian Women and Cancer Study.

In the Norwegian Women and Cancer study (NOWAC), detailed dietary information is available in addition to a large biobank. Altogether 68 000 women aged 41-70 years at recruitment have been followed up for cancer incidence and mortality through linkages to national registers based on the unique n...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MILPAAHEL-Miljøpåvirkning og helse

Thermolysis of carbohydrates and intestinal cancer risk.

Increased colorectal cancer risk is associated with a Western style diet and several carcinogenic and hazardous compounds are formed during heat processing. Acrylamide is formed in µg/amounts during heating of sugar-rich foods, but 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) is produced in much larger quantit...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Oslo

DEMOSREG-Demokrati, styring og regional

Kulturarv og stedsidentitet

Byutvikling som politikk- og forvaltningsområde fanger opp både fysiske, sosiale, miljømessige, teknologiske, økonomiske og kulturelle problemstillinger. De siste år har kultur som drivkraft og innfallsvinkel til byutvikling fått økt oppmerksomhet. Med ut gangspunkt i teori- og erfaringsgjennomga...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

SAM-EU-Samfinansiering EU-kontoret

e-CUBES 3-D Integrated micro/nano modules for easily adapted applications

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Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SAM-EU-Samfinansiering EU-kontoret

SAM-EU støtte SigmaChain a STREP in the 6FP, Kontrakt no 518451

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Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SAM-EU-Samfinansiering EU-kontoret

Assessment of the monetary values of environmental and resource costs for water services

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Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Oslo

KLINISK-Klinisk forskning

Autoimmune polyendokrine syndrome type I- model disease for autoimmunity

Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type I (APS-I) (OMIM 240300), is a rare autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations in the autoimmune regulator (AIRE) gene. The disorder typically begins in early childhood and the patients gradually develop autoimm une destruction of different endocrine an...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Vestland

SAM-EU-Samfinansiering EU-kontoret

The nitrogen cycle and its influence on the European greenhouse gas balance

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Awarded: NOK 0.52 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Akershus

NANOMAT-Nanoteknologi og nye materialer

New innovative barrier solutions for targeted fresh food packaging applications

One of the primary challenges in food packaging business is the presence of oxygen contained in a produce or permeate through the packaging material, having a strong negative effects on the quality and shelf-life of the foodstuff. Effective barrier materi als are in general expensive multilayer s...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Spatiotemporal dynamics of introduced bark beetles: resource competition, invasion risk and management

The movement and establishment of invasive species in new habitats is a global economic and ecological problem. The increased trade among countries and continents has increased the chances of introductions of new species. Once alien pest species have beco me established in their new habitats, the...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Gizzard inflammation in broiler chickens and slaughter turkeys

Gizzard erosion and ulceration has been described as a health problem in commercial poultry in many reports, and from different regions of the world. We have recently detected that a condition affecting the gizzard is commonly found in randomly sampled li ve broilers and slaughter turkeys in Norw...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2013

Location: Akershus

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Biotransformation of Halogenated Organic (HOCs) and Associeted Biological Effects in Artics Seabirds

Due to their high trophic levels Arctic seabirds are exposed to relatively high amounts of halogenated organic contaminants (HOCs). Contaminant metabolism influences both tissue levels and patterns. In addition, it plays a critical role in contaminant-ind uced biological effects because of the fo...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Utvikling og implementering av kurver basert på daglige registreringer av vekt og fôropptak i avlsarbeid på gris

Slaktegrisegenskaper som veksthastighet, fôrutnyttelse og kjøttprosent har uønska genetiske sammenhenger med purkeegenskaper som morsevne og holdbarhet. Dette begrenser avlsframgangen for disse egenskapene. I dag registreres tilvekst og fôrforbruk som enk le registreringer - "alder ved 100 kg" o...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Innlandet

MAROFF-2-Maritim virksomhet og offsh-2

Optimization of bottom trawl gear with respect to energy consumption.

The increasing oil prices and the minimal pricing on catch are making energy optimization a topic of current interest for the bottom trawling industry. Experiments with different trawl configurations in order to optimize the gear are both costly and time consuming. The consequence is that in orde...

Awarded: NOK 8.3 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Electric power systems for subsea processing and transportation of oil and gas

SINTEF Energy Research proposes a joint long term research project involving oil companies, supplier industry, NTNU and the Norwegian Research Council with the intention to boost the knowledge and skills on design, analysis and verification of systems for transmission and distribution of power t...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KLINISK-Klinisk forskning

Stimulated differentiation of native human acute myeloid leukemia (AML) blasts as a potential cancer-cell specific therapeutic target

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an aggressive disorder characterized by accumulation in the bone marrow of large numbers of abnormal blood cells that fail to develop into normal functional blood cells. This is a life-threatening condition if not treated. Patients under the age of 60 are given int...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Vestland