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DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

IHDP - Prime sponsorship 2007 -2009 including special support for 2008

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Awarded: NOK 0.69 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Analysis and Possibility for Control of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Processes to Facilitate Adaptation to Environmental Changes

Convective rainfalls are of enormous importance for agriculture and water resource management in semi-arid areas such as Central-North-Eastern South Africa, where more than 50% of the country population is concentrated. This project will contribute into t he redress and capacity development of th...

Awarded: NOK 0.76 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

FORURENS: Nuclear receptor targets for endocrine disrupting effects - mechanisms of action for emerging pollutants?

This project aims to further elucidate the role of nuclear receptors in the mechanisms of action of known and emerging environmental pollutants. We want to explore the hypothesis that dose-dependent routing and cross-talk between different nuclear recepto rs may determine the nature of the endocr...

Awarded: NOK 7.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

FORURENS: Occurence and fate of springtime atmospheric deposition of mercury in the Arctic

Deposition of mercury (Hg) from the atmosphere to the sensitive polar ecosystems is of particular interest in the Arctic. This is because studies have indicated the possibility of large depositional fluxes of Hg occurring during the polar spring (so-calle d Hg Atmospheric Depletion Events or AMDE...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Sustainable Aluminium Surface Applications

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Defect engineering for crystalline silicon solar cells

This project is a collaboration between solar cell research groups at IFE, SINTEF and NTNU, and the three industrial partners Elkem Solar, REC and REC Wafer. The main objective is to build up a thorough fundamental understanding of defects in crystallin e silicon (Si) materials in order to redu...

Awarded: NOK 29.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Akershus

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Paradoxes of Design: Aesthetication as a Barrier to Sustainable Consumption?

The project will investige related processes of design and consumption by focusing on the way aesthetics is managed by designers and consumers. Following set of research questions arise: How does designers understand sustainable design? How can we underst and differences in how aesthethication co...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

New materials and methods for placement of a thin layer cap on contaminated seabed

The Norwegian Ministry of the Environment identified remediation of contaminated sediments as important. The total release of contaminants to the fjord environment from larger areas with moderate contaminant levels can be greater than that from smaller ar eas with higher contaminant concentration...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

FORURENS: Reduced pesticide loads and risks in cropping system

Sustainable agriculture requires that soil, water and air quality are maintained. Pesticides have routinely been found in surface waters receiving agricultural runoff, particularly after heavy autumn/spring rainfall. There are practical ways to ensure tha t risks to the environment are minimized ...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

FORURENS: Importance of climate and chemical composition of precipitation on distribution and behaviour of radiocaesium in terrestrial ecosy

Measurements of 137Cs in natural soils in Norway show that the residence time of the radionuclide in the organic-rich surface layer varies much between different parts of the country. Faster removal of Cs from the surface soil in coastal areas suggests th at Cs exchange with marine cations such a...

Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Witwatersrand Central Basin Mine Water Apportionment Pilot Study

NIVA and CGS are to embark on a pilot study to develop methodologies and techniques to determine ecological footprints and volumetric contributions for apportioning liability for sustainable management of pollution and water ingress into underground gold mine openings of the Witwatersrand Central...

Awarded: NOK 0.77 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

DEMO2000-Prosjektrettet teknologiutv. petroleumsvirksomhet

Fiber Optic Reservoir Monitoring

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Awarded: NOK 5.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Vestland

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Metagenomics and Gene Discovery in Antarctic Terrestrial Habitats

We aim to use metagenomic methods to access portions of Antarctic low temperature crenarchaeotal genomes. Large insert metagenomic fosmid clones identified by colony hybridization with crenarchaeotal 16S rRNA gene probes will be sequenced and ORFs identif ied. The design of probes to terminal reg...

Awarded: NOK 0.75 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Benthic biodiversity ? function and toxicology of selected key Arctic organisms

The proposed project is a cooperation network between the Norwegian institutes Akvaplan-niva and University Centre on Svalbard and the Russian institutes Knipovich Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (PINRO) and Murmansk Marine B iological Institute (MMBI). The programm...

Awarded: NOK 0.59 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Assessment of estuary dependency and management of two important fishery species

The dependency on critical habitats, such as estuaries, represents a bottleneck in the life-history of many exploited fishery species. The proposed project aims to assess the management implications of estuarine dependency in two important South African c oastal fishery species, spotted grunter (...

Awarded: NOK 0.95 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Gobies and hake in the hypoxic waters of the Benguela up-welling current

Our aim is to investigate how the goby (Sufflogobius bibarbatus) and the shallow water hake (Merluccius capensis) cope with the hypoxic waters of the Benguela current. Both are key species of the ecosystem. They show a remarkable tolerance to the hypoxic conditions found in this up-welling area, ...

Awarded: NOK 0.85 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Industrial Applications of Metal Hydrides for Hydrogen Extraction, Storage and Compression

Introducing hydrogen as universal environment-friendly energy carrier demands efficient technologies allowing to extract it from industrial streams (products of coal gasification, process gases of refineries, etc.), to store it by a compact and safe way, and, finally, to deliver H2 to a consumer ...

Awarded: NOK 0.68 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Akershus

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Levels and Implications of Persistent Organic Pollutants and other contaminants in South Africa

The lack of knowledge concerning organic pollutants in South Africa, within the context of the Stockholm Convention (SC) on POPs, is the reason for the thrust of this application. The three partners, the Norwegian School for Veterinary Science (project ow ner), Norwegian Institute of Air Research...

Awarded: NOK 0.66 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Southern Ocean Biogeochemistry: Education and Research

With extreme oceanographic variability over very short distances, the waters around South Africa provide a wealth of information on the mechanistic controls on marine biogeochemical variability. South African waters occupy a special niche in oceanography lying at the junction between western and ...

Awarded: NOK 0.66 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Springtail (Collembola) responses to changing, variable environments: a bi-polar approach linking individuals to ecosystems

The aim of this project is to investigate the way in which environmental variation cascades up through life history variation to effect species- and assemblage-level responses to habitat fragmentation and climate change. It builds on observations that cli mate change and habitat fragmentation are...

Awarded: NOK 0.55 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

TORJUS AND MIRO EXPLORE THE ARCTIC: A BOOK ABOUT ARCTIC SCIENCE FOR AND BY KIDS

East Greenland boasts some of the most spectacular geological sites of the world. The scale of the landscape, the range of colors and structures of the rocks is striking. Sea and land mammals, birds and large fish are numerous and easy to approach. Peop le have only lightly touched the land, an...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Continuous seismic reflection profiling buoys - a future direction for marine geophysical exploration of the Arctic Ocean

Experience from the last decade of icebreaker expeditions into the central Arctic Ocean demonstrate that about a quarter of the deep polar basin will remain inaccessible to modern multi-channel seismic exploration by towed arrays even when the survey vess el is assisted by a nuclear icebreaker. W...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Vestland

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

High school students - building scientific and polar curiosity through participation in Fram-V: a scientific field camp on drifting sea ice

To inspire, educate and give hands-on polar research experience to high school students, we propose to establish a five week field camp on drifting sea ice about 300 km north of Svalbard. The four week science and education program - early April to early May 2007 will involve up to 50 students (4...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Vestland

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Polar bear circumpolar health assessment in relation to toxicants and climate changing.

Anthropogenic pollution and climate change are the two most significant threats for arctic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Because of food chain biomagnification of lipophilic persistent organic pollutants (POPs), the polar bear is one of the spec ies which have the highest levels of thes...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Design and Scale-up of Solar Grade Silicon production

Elkem Solar shall during the next 5 years become the world's leading supplier of solar grade silicon (SoG-Si) feedstock for the photovoltaic industry. This ambitious goal require a series of efforts from all parts (scientific, technical, marketing, etc.). In the present project, the silicon ingo...

Awarded: NOK 9.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

iAOOS-Norway: Closing the loop

iAOOS-Norway: Closing the loop is a contribution to an integrated Arctic Ocean Observing System, iAOOS. It builds on, and supplements, other ongoing components of iAOOS such as NABOS and DAMOCLES. iAOOS-Norway will contribute a share to iAOOS through buil ding on pieces of an ocean-atmosphere-cry...

Awarded: NOK 33.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in Urban and Peri-Urban Horticulture in Bénin

Urban and peri-urban (UPU) horticulture provides an increasingly important source of income in many African countries. A major factor driving the importance of UPU gardening is an increasing marketing opportunity for a growing population of unemployed and unskilled youths in the cities. However,...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2014

Location: Akershus

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Planetary Boundary Layer Feedbacks Affecting the Polar Amplification of Arctic Climate Change in Seasonal Ice Zone

Studies based on observations, climate modelling and paleo-data have revealed a strong polar amplification (PA) of climate sensitivity in the Arctic. By contrast to the mean global temperature, which has increased by less than 1 degree during the past 100 years, the mean temperature in Longyearb...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Kvalitet fra bunn til munn.Utvikling av løsninger for et nettverk av bedrifter i verdikjeden for linefisket hvitfisk

Hovedmålet for prosjektet er å bidra til å øke miljø- og ressurseffektiviteten i fiskerisektoren og bedre tilgang på ren norsk mat? av høy kvalitet. Dette skal skje gjennom økt fangst og omsetning av linefisket hvitfisk basert på selektive og ressurseffe ktive fiskemetoder, og på at kvaliteten b...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Innlandet

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Potential of muscle profiling on value-addition of products and consumer satisfaction under Norwegian beef production conditions

Matforsk deltar i et EU-prosjekt på kvalitet og sikkerhet av storfekjøtt hvor utnyttelsen av utradisjonelle stykningsdeler er en sentral del av prosjektet. Ny forskning i USA har vist at ved å bruke utradisjonelle metoder for nedskjæring og utbeining kan verdien av slaktet økes betydelig. I EU-p...

Awarded: NOK 7.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Akershus

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