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NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Terrestrial C sequestration potential in Norway under present and future climate

Terrestrial ecosystems in the northern hemisphere have been a significant sink in the global C cycle. However, strength and duration of the terrestrial C sink is uncertain and will impact future trends in atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Likely factors, al so relevant in Norway, to affect the terr...

Awarded: NOK 6.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

OST-Øst-Europa-programmene

Study of Russian Air Pollution Sources and their Impact on Atmospheric Composition in the Arctic

RAPSIFACT will interpret existing and conduct new measurements of greenhouse gases, gaseous air pollutants, and aerosols in Russia, which is the most important source region for Arctic air pollution. This has especially high relevance and is extremely urg ent because climate change is proceeding ...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Akershus

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Intelligente verktøy og produkter med mikro-nano sensorer integeret i overflaten

COSMOS er et løpende nordisk prosjekt. Det er nå sendt inn en søknad om MNT ERA-Net Project med navn COSMOS II : "Components and Smart Machines with Micro-Nano Surface Embedded Sensors" som skal bygge videre på dette. Det søkes her om finansiering av den norske delen av COSMOS II. Norske COSMO...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Innlandet

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Design, manufacturing and application of polymer particles with or without metal coating for use as spacers in Liquid Crystal Displays

Norwegian particle technology have been of a very high international standard for decades, not least due to ground-breaking R&D at SINTEF / NTNU. Conpart has through the supply agreement signed with a world leading manufacturer already shown that this tec hnology represents a very interesting alt...

Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Akershus

SIP-Strategiske instituttprogram

Nettverk - en modell for innovasjon i kommunene?

Overordnet er formålet for dette prosjektet å bidra til innovasjon i kommunene i Innlandet gjennom kunnskapsutvikling og aktiv medvirkning. Vi ønsker spesielt å få anledning til å utnytte erfaringene våre fra å bistå utviklings- og læringsnettverk i både offentlig og privat sektor med sikte på å ...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Innlandet

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Marine omega-3 fatty acids and health - use of systems biology in controlled dietary intervention studies

Intake of fatty fish and cod liver oil has been part of a healthy diet in Norway for many years due to the high availability of fish. Omega-3 fatty acids from cod liver oil are used by the Norwegian food industry to develop new healthy food for the consum ers. To understand the beneficial health ...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

CARBON-HEAT- CARBON uptake and fluxes of water and HEAT in the North Atlantic Current

CARBON-HEAT is a three year project that will study a potential feedback between the ocean carbon cycle and climate change, relating to the flow speed and heat and carbon flux of the Atlantic water en route to the Arctic Ocean We intend to -Assess the de gree to which the Atlantic Water (AW) is ...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

KelpPredict: Kelp community structure and function; analysing interactions and developing models along multiple exposure gradients

The Laminaria hyperborea kelp forests and its associated biodiversity are under pressure by kelp trawling, grazing by sea urchins, changing climate (storms) and pollutions (eutrophication). These pressures are related to exposure gradients, e.g. sea urchi n grazing is found in the more sheltered ...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Quality Goat Milk for Cheese Production / Kvalitetsmjølk for kvit geitost

The pattern of consumption of goat milk in Norway is currently changing, and consumers are more inclined to cheese than whey products (brown cheese). This calls for an improvement of overall quality and especially of flavour and rennet coagulation propert ies of the milk. The present project will...

Awarded: NOK 9.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Akershus

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Economic Effects of marine fishing tourism - the case of coastal regions in Norway

The Norwegian fisheries authorities have stated that the lack of research-based knowledge on marine fishing tourism overall makes it difficult to decide on future management measures to secure a sustainable management and an economically viable distributi on of coastal fish resources between mari...

Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SIP-Strategiske instituttprogram

Samordningens muligheter og begrensninger - utfordringer i og omkring transportsektoren

SIPets overordnede formål er at TØI bygger opp en kunnskapsbase som gjør det mulig å sette samordning på den forskningsmessige dagsorden. Gjennom det vil vi bidra til at politikk og forvaltning får et bedre kunnskapsgrunnlag for å vurdere samordningens mu ligheter og begrensninger i samferdsels-,...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Oslo

KLINISK-Klinisk forskning

Thalidomide versus Velcade in melphalan refractory multiple myeloma

Standard treatment of patients under the age of 65 with multiple myeloma is high dose melphalan followed by infusion of autologous blood stem cells (ASCT). Standard treatment of patients over the age of 65 is low dose melphalan and prednisolon. Most patie nts respond to this treatment, but patien...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

The Role of Seeds in a Changing Climate - Linking Germination Ecophysiology to Population and Community Ecology

Rekruttering fra frø (frøspiring og frøplantenes overlevelse) er en nøkkelprosess i plantenes livshistorie med konsekvenser for artenes utbredelse, evolusjon, og overlevelse. Både frøenes økologiske rolle og deres klimarespons best forstås ved å sette dette livshistoriestadiet inn i en større sam...

Awarded: NOK 6.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Vestland

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

Arbeids- og bedriftsvandringer i et utvidet Europa: Inkludering i det gode arbeidslivet?

Tre år etter EU-utvidelsen ser vi at bedriftenes arbeidskraftstrategier er i endring, og at det nasjonale reguleringsregimet både på lov- og avtalenivå har vært og er under omfattende revisjon. Kunnskap om den nye arbeidskraftsmobilitetens former og omfan g, og ikke minst konsekvensene/responsene...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Oslo

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

The population biology and ecology of the world's northernmost harbour seals in a changing Arctic

"The population biology and ecology of the world's northernmost harbour seals in a changing Arctic" har vært et svært produktivt forskningsprogram. Steinkobbe på Svalbard er en unik genetisk bestand som har vært isolert fra andre bestander i rundt 1000 år. Den har vært gjennom en såkalt genetisk ...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

KLINISK-Klinisk forskning

Rehabilitation after severe traumatic brain injury. A national multicentre study

In Norway, the annual rate of hospital admission caused by head trauma is around 200 per 100 000 inhabitants. About 15 % of the patients admitted to a neurosurgical department with traumatic brain injury, are in the severe group according to the Glasgow C oma Scale score. These patients demand in...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Development of genetic markers for population biology studies of Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus L)

The Northeast Atlantic Mackerel supports one of the most valuable European fisheries producing up to 700000 tonnes per year. Historically the Northeast Atlantic mackerel stock has been split into three spawning components, a western, a southern and a Nort h Sea component. Prior studies have demo...

Awarded: NOK 0.78 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Oslo

SIP-Strategiske instituttprogram

Transport, energi og miljø (TRANSDATA)

Vestlandsforsking har samlet inn og systematisert data om transport, energi og miljø siden instituttet ble opprettet i 1987. En viktig tidlig milepel var i 1993 ved utgivelsen av rapporten "Persontransport, konsekvenser for energi og miljø". Rapporten dok umenterte utviklingen i en omfattende dat...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Vestland

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Effect of northern climate and postharvest conditions on health related properties of selected Brassica vegetables in Norway

Some previous studies have shown that certain vegetables grown at high northern latitudes with cool summers, long photoperiods and special solar radiation develop different quality than vegetables grown in the south. However, very little is known about ho w Brassica vegetables respond to differen...

Awarded: NOK 11.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Subsidizing R&D and installment of carbon abatement in open economies

The European Union and Norway have both proposed tougher unilateral emission reduction targets than what is required by the Kyoto protocol. According to some setting tough unilateral targets will lead to faster technological development, which again will influence other countries willingness to p...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Healthy cheese: Influence of milk fat components on microbial activity and development of bioactive components in fat reduced cheese.

Prosjektet SUNN OST har skal danne et kunnskapsgrunnlag slik at oster med redusert fettinnhold med gode sensoriske egenskaper kan utvikles. Vi ønsker å øke forståelsen av hvordan melkefett og fettkulemembran komponenter (FKMK) påvirker mikrobiologisk veks t og metabolisme i ost, utvikle metoder f...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Akershus

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Numerical Modeling in 3D of Rift Segmentation, Propagation, and Oblique Rifting: Control of Strain Weakening and Brittle Ductile Coupling

The work proposed here focuses on understanding the evolution and structural style of sedimentary basins and passive margins in 3 dimensions (3D) using state of the art computational modelling techniques. To date very few 3D models exist that follow the e volution of rifting to large deformation ...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

STAMCELLER-Stamcelleforskning

Factors predicting graft-versus host disease after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

Allogeneic stem cell transplantation (ASCTx) represents the most commonly applied therapeutic use of stem cells from born individuals. The mortality and complication rate of ASCT is high, often preventing its use in less severe conditions than cancer. Th e aim of this project is to generate a be...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

NEVRONOR-Nasjonal satsing på nevrovitenskap f

Opioid activated NMDA and opioid receptor mechanisms: studies of rodent and human brain using PET

The scope of the proposed project is to study the molecular mechanisms of opioid exposure. Within the financial framework, it will be focused on preclinical testing and validation as well as first human studies. Further studies depend on additional fundin g. Intentionally, opioid analgesia in p...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

NEVRONOR-Nasjonal satsing på nevrovitenskap f

Mitochondrial Health and Neuronal Life

Lars Eide and Magnar Bjørås are joint applicants for this project. Mitochondria have central roles in neuronal homeostasis as they actively participate in energy production, calcium buffering and apoptosis control. Erosion of mitochondrial function is th ought to underlie the progressive neurona...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

NEVRONOR-Nasjonal satsing på nevrovitenskap f

THE PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF AUDITORY HALLUCINATIONS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA - BRAIN IMAGING STUDIES

The present proposal attempts to respond to the challenges for neuroscience research in Norway and stated in the Nevronor Programme announcement January 2007. We specify six empirical , hypothesis-driven studies wher we attempt to: a) use fMRI and other MRI brain imaging measures to advance know...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Vestland

NEVRONOR-Nasjonal satsing på nevrovitenskap f

The role of activity in synaptic development and plasticity in motor pathways: A multi-methodological dynamic imaging approach

This project addresses a major question in neuroscience: How activity in the nervous system regulates the organization of synaptic connections. It poses this question in the motor system, where activity-dependent regulation is less well understood than in sensory systems. To address this questio...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Bacterial flagellin: a novel adjuvant for vaccine strategies

The focus will be on development of strongly protective vaccines aimed primarily to fish, but the knowledge generated will be highly relevant within vaccine development to mammalian species - as fish possess very similar immune defence mechanisms compared to mammalian species. This will be achie...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

Adolescent Mental Health: A Prospective Family Study

The aim of the research project is to improve the understanding of the social processes for developing mental health problems, such as depression and anxiety among Norwegian adolescents. Further, we want to examine the risk and protective factors such as social network, parental characteristica, ...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Structural characterization of neural network alterations in transgenic rat model of Huntington's disease

Huntingtons disease (HD) is an untreatable inherited neurodegenerative disease causing motor and cognitive dysfunction and premature death, due to loss of specific neurons in the basal ganglia. Having access to the first transgenic rat model of HD, the pr esent project seeks to conduct the first ...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

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