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IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

The African Archive. It's content, context and connections

This research collaboration between the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies/Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural and Religious Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway and the Centre d Etudes des Mondes Africains (CEMAf) in Paris. Bot h centres have strong competence in the r...

Awarded: NOK 34,850

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Vestland

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Real-time risk mapping for improving prevention and control of infectious diseases

The overall objective of this project is the development of a cutting-edge methodology for performing real-time, quantitative risk maps indicating probability of acquiring infectious agents in farmed animals. This method will subsequently be used for pred icting occurrences of outbreaks using pan...

Awarded: NOK 40,000

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Viken

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Multi-scale deformation around magmatic intrusions in sedimentary basins

The goal of the proposed project is to address the mechanics of multi-scale deformation as a result of magmatic intrusions, and particularly sills, in sedimentary basins. Such deformation have implications at: (1) large scale, as sills lift up their overb urden, forming dome structures that can a...

Awarded: NOK 40,000

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Finger/fracture instabilities in selected glass/gel colloidal systems.

Clays, in particular the synthetic clay laponite, are commonly used as model systems for colloids. Clay-water mixtures are viscoelastic materials, and of particular interested is fingering (in clay sols) and fracturing (in clay gels) instabilities in the vicinity of the continuous sol-gel transi...

Awarded: NOK 40,000

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Knowledge Gardening in the Web of Data

Cultural institutions have the crucial goal of storing, managing and disseminating knowledge about our culture to a worldwide audience of people. Museums, libraries, archives and other vendors of cultural heritage information are currently in the process of exposing their data as Linked Open Dat...

Awarded: NOK 40,000

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Impact of natural and anthropogenic stressors on physiological stress and telomere dynamics of raptor chicks

Ecotoxicology is faced with great challenges when trying to predict the impact of environmental pollutants on wildlife, especially in species at the top of the food chain that are concomitantly affected by multiple, ongoing changes in their natural enviro nments. A proper ecotoxicological risk as...

Awarded: NOK 25,000

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku - Tromssa ja Finmarkku

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

A New Transport Framework for the Internet

The goal of this project is to start work on the design of an Internet transport-layer system underneath a protocol-independent API, that builds on the currently standardised transport technology, and that picks the best available transport protocols for a given application. Such a system should...

Awarded: NOK 50,000

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

CONNECTIONS BETWEEN CONSTRAINED CONTROL DESIGN AND THE THEORY OF POSITIVE DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

The object of the present project is to investigate the relationship between the constrained control design methodologies and the theory of positive dynamical systems. The attractive feature of positive systems in automatic control is that it extrapolate s the understanding of simple first-order...

Awarded: NOK 60,000

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

ETKF for the Adaptive Optics on the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT)

The project considers the application of ensemble data assimilation techniques to the advanced Adaptive Optics (AO) of the E-ELT, the future largest telescope in the world. This is justified by the increasing complexity of AO systems and the need to corr ect high-dimensional AO systems for atmos...

Awarded: NOK 30,000

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Vestland

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Nanoparticle trapping with plasmonic fibre cavites

New tools are necessary to manipulate objects on the nano-scale. It is far from obvious to pick up a nanowire and put it next to the transistor it should be connected to, even if you don't have big fingers. Optical waveguides have proven useful to trap an d propel nanowires, as Hellesø's work has...

Awarded: NOK 60,000

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku - Tromssa ja Finmarkku

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Fidelity of a youth football coach education program in France and Norway.

The main aim of the project is to examine the fidelity (defined as how closely a set of procedures were implemented as they were supposed to have been) of an intervention aimed at enhancing young peoples' physical activity and well-being, via training of grass-root coaches of 10-14 year-old foot...

Awarded: NOK 60,000

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Vestland

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

IDOL: varIability moDeling & sOftware product Line

Developing software is a complex task. In addition to this complexity, nowadays? world is driven by high expectations expressed by end-users in front of software. For example, Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) must be adaptable to different contexts (e.g., desktop, tablet), and the running system ...

Awarded: NOK 36,000

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Enumeration using structure: algorithms and complexity

Enumeration is at the heart of exact complexity. The following question was already asked in 1956 by Kurt Gödel in a famous letter to John van Neumann: "It would be interesting to know, ... how strongly in general the number of steps in finite combinatori al problems can be reduced with respect t...

Awarded: NOK 63,000

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Vestland

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Efficient Algorithms for Graph Modification Problems

Motivated by the identification of some hidden combinatorial structures on experimental data-sets, graph modification problems cover a broad range of classical graph optimization problems, among which are edge-completion, edge-deletion, edge-edition or ve rtex-deletion problems. These problems a...

Awarded: NOK 95,323

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Stochastic bilevel optimization problems with applications to optimal planning in industry and services

The objective of this project is to set up a joint collaboration between NTNU and Universite Paris Sud in the development of numerical methods for solving an important class of applied decision problems, which are stochastic bilevel optimization problems. This class of problems has emerged recen...

Awarded: NOK 80,000

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

The Physics of the Thorium Cycle

Thorium is a significant resource that has the potential to be used in nuclear power generation in a way that can dramatically reduce the quantities of long-lived radioactive waste produced. We propose to use precise Monte-Carlo based 3D computer simulati ons to study the feasibility of incorpora...

Awarded: NOK 90,000

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Experimental and numerical studies of friction

Developing a better understanding of friction is a significant scientific challenge with important practical applications. Through the proposed collaboration we will establish a collaboration between two research groups with complementary skills both work ing on friction: a group in Lyon, France,...

Awarded: NOK 60,000

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

A cross-national approach on community planning. Workshops in partnership between University of Tromsø and l'Université Francois-Rabelais

This project is based on a partnership signed in 2009 between the University of Tromsø and l'Université Francois-Rabelais de Tours. The object of the project is duplex: to elaborate and actuate the partnership between our universities, and to elaborate th e research field of community planning th...

Awarded: NOK 89,955

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Ionisasjon og kvantekontroll i atomer, molekyler og graphene

I prosjektet tas det sikte på å etablere nytt samarbeid innen studier av molekyler og nanostrukturer (Rydberg atomer, graphene) utsatt for sterke og i noen tilfeller, kontrollerbare og korrelerte, tidsavhengige vekselvirkninger med ladete partikler eller elektromagnetiske felter. Det vil etable...

Awarded: NOK 60,000

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Collaboration between Nice and Trondheim to investigate the effect of neuromuscular activation strategies on muscle performance

Målet med dette prosjektet er å utvikle et solid og bærekraftig samarbeid mellom bevegelsesvitenskap i Nice (Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis; UNS) og Trondheim (Institutt for bevegelsesvitenskap, NTNU) på effekten av nevro muskulære aktiveringsstrategier på muskel...

Awarded: NOK 90,000

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Zinc-chelating disruptors of the casein kinase CK2

Dette programmet (ZINCK2) er knyttet til enzymet casein kinase 2 (CK2), som er et zink-avhengig enzym og en markør ved kreft og viktig for kreftcellenes spredning. Det ultimate prosjektmål er å studere om nye enzym-hemmere syntetisert i de to gruppene i L yon, Frankrike og Oslo, Norge, kan regule...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Groundwater modelling and 3D visualisation of Holmedal well field, Western Norway

The project aims at establishing research cooperation between, France and Norway in the field of modelling groundwater flow in fractured rocks. The research partners are the Université Pierre et Marie Curie Laboratoire Sisyphe (UPMC-Sisyphe) in Paris and the Geological Survey of Norway (NGU) in ...

Awarded: NOK 40,000

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Characterisation of innate mucosal immunity during Cryptosporidium parvum infection

Newborn animals and humans are very vulnerable to infections via mucosal surfaces. Cryptosporidium parvum, a zoonotic pathogen that develops in the gut mucosa, causes profuse diarrhoea that can lead to death by dehydration. Due to the limited availability of drugs effective against the parasite,...

Awarded: NOK 10,825

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Functional mapping of brainstem-spinal motor circuits

Understanding how specific groups of neurons contribute to behaviour is a formidable challenge which in mammals requires studying extensive networks. Many motor networks encompass large areas of the central nervous system, mostly due to the presence of lo ng axonal connections such as those conne...

Awarded: NOK 60,943

Project Period: 2011-2013

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

MODULATING AQUAPORIN FUNCTION WITH PEPTIDE APTAMERS

The objective of this proposal is to facilitate the exchange between the CNRS/ENS Lyon Team and the University of Oslo Team to investigate the effect of specific peptide aptamers on aquaporin (AQP) function while investigating the expression and fate of A QP-interacting proteins. A fortuitous obs...

Awarded: NOK 80,000

Project Period: 2011-2013

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Novel solid sorbents for CO2-capture

This collaboration program between the University of Rennes and the Insitute for Energiteknikk (IFE) aims at the evaluation and development of a novel type of solid sorbents for low-temperature CO2 capture. The processes developed for CO2-capture from f lue gases up to now, use chemical solvent...

Awarded: NOK 30,000

Project Period: 2011-2013

Location: Viken

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Understanding the scale and mechanisms behind extreme high latitude warmth during Greenhouse climates of the Cenozoic

The Earth is in a period of global warming, manifested in a net loss of land-based ice masses and an overall trend of reduced Arctic sea-ice extent. Predicting the future warming trend as well as its consequences for the climate system is a major challeng e in climate research. High latitude clim...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2013

Location: Vestland

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Social Differentiation and Lifestyles

The two involved research teams will develop a (geometric) model of the space of lifestyles based on data collected in each respective geographic zone (Norway and France), using a coordinated and methodologically rigourous approach founded on Geometric Da ta Analysis methods (MCA, especially). Th...

Awarded: NOK 45,335

Project Period: 2011-2013

Location: Rogaland

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Genomic dissection of seed development

Parent of origin dependent expression plays an important role in seed development of flowering plants, and disruption of imprinted genes typically leads to developmental abnormalities often resulting in abortion of the seed. We have used a mutant in the A rabidopsis Cdc2/CDC28 homologue, CDKA;1 a...

Awarded: NOK 97,853

Project Period: 2011-2013

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Inhibiting protein-membrane interactions: towards new therapeutic strategies

The goal of the present proposal is to find compounds able to hinder the binding of Proteinase 3 to the neutrophil plasma membrane in vitro. Proteinase 3 is a neutrophil enzyme, present at the surface of the neutrophil plasma membrane and which has been i dentified as a drug target for a number o...

Awarded: NOK 28,700

Project Period: 2011-2013

Location: Vestland

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