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KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Climate feedbacks of aerosols via water vapour in cloud free air

AERO-CLO-WV will investigate aerosol-cloud-water vapour feedback mechanisms which have previously not been studied in depth and quantified. Thus the proposal is highly relevant to the call with detailed studies of processes and feedback mechanisms. It wil l complement the work in the scenario pro...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Oslo

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Arsenolipids in fish oil, fish feed, fish and other seafood

Arsenic exists in many different chemical forms in the marine environment, of which the water-soluble arsenicals are well studied. The toxicity of arsenic compounds depends on their chemical form, with inorganic arsenic being the most toxic. Knowledge reg arding arsenolipids (lipid soluble arseni...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Socio-economic effects of fisheries-induced evolution

There is a pressing need to advance evolutionarily enlightened fisheries management because ignorance of harvest-induced adaptive change could have large, negative, and practically irreversible effects on ecology, economy, and society. Marine ecosystems a re increasingly dominated by human interv...

Awarded: NOK 8.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

Renewable strategies? Implementing and commercialising new energy technologies

The project focuses on conditions of innovation, implementation and commercialisation of new renewable energy technologies, emphasising industrial development. What challenges are companies in this area facing, what are their possibilities to utilise new possibilities in different parts of the va...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Understanding of defects and impurities in ZnO; synthesis, doping, and band gap engineering

The project deals with understanding of fundamental physical properties of ZnO motivated to be a promising material when considering new challenges of efficient energy saving/production, further developing/securing the communication highways, developing s ensor interfaces (for example to the huma...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosj.st. med.,helse,biol

Plastids as cellular reservoir for nuclear transcription factors

Transcription factors are responsible for the transcription of the genetic information and are therefore key molecules in any cell. In plant cells the genetic information is divided into three sub-genomes (nuclear, plastid, mitochondrial) that are depende nt on each other. The description of a eu...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

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

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

SECOND GENERATION BIOFUEL - TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND IMPACTS ON BIOMASS MARKETS

It is expected that 90% of the increase of CO2 emissions in Europe between 1990 and 2010 will be attributable to transport. In the short and medium term, use of biofuels can be an important mean to reduce the GHG emissions from the transport sector. The second generation biofuels based on lignoc...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Viken

SAMF-Fagkomiteen for samfunnsvitenskap

Between the Game System and the Virtual World

Being part of the DIGICULT project at the Dept. of Information and Media Studies, UiB, this proposal describes and investigates transdiegetic frames of reference in computer games, with emphasis on the operative and aesthetic functions of these. Computer games utilize the relationship between die...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Vestland

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Requirements for Secure Information Systems

The project will develop and evaluate methodology and tool support for security requirements engineering, integrated with mainstream software development methods. The main features of the contribution will be as follows: - The methodology shall be lightwe ight, meant to be used primarily by mains...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

The Spanish salt fish market and opportunities for the Norwegians

The objective of this project is to investigate the restructuring of the Spanish salt fish market and the adaptation of the Norwegian salt fish producers to this market. While exports of salt fish to Spain from other countries have grown considerably the Norwegians have lost market share the last...

Awarded: NOK 6.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Vestland

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Ecosystem Finnmark (EcoFinn): Ungulate overabundance, trophic cascades and subsidies

We will use the framework of current food web theory for elucidating two likely cascading ecosystem impacts of reindeer overabundance in Finnmark. One cascade we predict to be induced by loss and fragmentation of riparian willow habitats due to reindeer o verbrowsing, which in turn lead to loss o...

Awarded: NOK 9.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

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

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Effects of energetic particle precipitation on the energy budget in the mesosphere and thermosphere - chemistry, temperature, and dynamics

The main objective of this project is to study the temperature and chemical effects of particle precipitation and Joule heating on the upper atmosphere, including its influence on dynamics. This project will use Earth observing spacecrafts such as TIMED, Polar, DMSP, the NOAA, EVISAT and NPOESS s...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

ArcAct - Unlocking the Arctic ocean: The climate impact of increased shipping and petroleum activities

Petroleum and shipping activities at higher latitudes have increased considerably over recent years, and a significant further increase is expected. Melting of sea ice will open opportunities for new shipping routes and lengthen the navigation season of e xisting routes, as well as open new areas...

Awarded: NOK 9.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Work unlimited: Identity construction in a Global context

Work migration is a complex and interdisciplinary phenomenon. The proposed project will draw on anthropological theories of migration and globalization, as well as relevant theories from studies on organisational psychology, with the objective of gaining a better understanding of the individual c...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosj.st. med.,helse,biol

Incipient speciation through ecological divergence in subarctic whitefish populations

The evolutionary processes that can create two species out of one are still under exploration and continuous debate. Recent developments have emphasised the potential of ecological speciation where species divergence may develop as an evolutionary consequ ence of ecological interactions within th...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

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

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosj.st. med.,helse,biol

Exploiting the plasticity in social life history; physiology of extreme longevity in honeybee diutinus workers

Our studies have documented direct effects of vitellogenin on stress resistance and longevity during summer. However, although vitellogenin RNAi in workers living under favorable ambient conditions provides functional insight, it does not directly address the role of vitellogenin in extreme work...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Viken

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosj.st. med.,helse,biol

Cellular interactions underlying organization of cortical circuits

A major question in neuroscience is how appropriate connections are formed when the brain develops and how these connections are modified with experience. It is well established that neural circuits are fine-tuned by experience during 'critical periods' i n early postnatal life. In the visual sys...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

Mapping the Normative Terrain of An Ethics of Care

This project is based on an assumption that health care prioritisations raise substantially ethical difficult choices. Further it is presumed that an ethics of care which take the relation to particular patients to be salient might provide important norma tive arguments to the benefit of individu...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

MAROFF-2-Maritim virksomhet og offsh-2

Metoder for design av akterskip,propulsjon og styresystemer for offshorefartøy.

Utvikling og operasjon av større offshore fartøy setter større krav til dokumentasjon av både skrog og propulsjonssystemer mht effektivitet, sikkerhet og pålitelighet. Per i dag mangler både kunnskaper og metodikk for å kunne foreta optimale valg av løsni nger. Modellforsøk har store begrensninge...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Møre og Romsdal

SUP-NHD-Strategiske UoH-progr.fin.NHD

The Norway-China cooperation project on Underwater Acoustic Monitoring and Communication

The objective of this project is to strengthen the cooperation between China and Norway through collaborative research on underwater acoustic monitoring and communication along two parallel paths: acoustic remote sensing of marine environment for seabed c haracterization, and applied signal proce...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SUP-NHD-Strategiske UoH-progr.fin.NHD

Acoustic image formation and interpretation

This proposal outlines a cross-disciplinary project for acoustic image formation in terms of seismic data processing, signal processing for sonar image formation and processing, and image analysis and pattern recognition for information extraction from th e acoustic signal. It will be carried out...

Awarded: NOK 7.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Oslo

SUP-NHD-Strategiske UoH-progr.fin.NHD

Knowledge Base and Tools for Development and Management of a Sustainable Infrastructure.

Over the last decades, sustainable development and sustainability have become crucial issues globally. Through various types of international cooperation, it has been pointed out that the activities within the building and construction sector play a key r ole in the development of a sustainable s...

Awarded: NOK 6.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Transnational family relations. A comparative perspective on present legal challenges (JOURNALNR UIO: 07/230)

The project focuses on minority women's right to non-discrimination, in the light of their position in the family and marriage, and with a view to a cultural complex, socially unequal and transnational context of law. The focal point of the study is on Mu slim women's right to protection against ...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Socio-demographic factors influencing attendance and survival of breast cancer in the Norwegian Breast Cancer Screening Program

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide. In Norway, a total of 2694 women were diagnosed and 715 women died of breast cancer in 2003. On the basis of the results of randomised trials from New York, Canada and different studies in Sweden , the Norwegian Ministry of Health and So...

Awarded: NOK 0.28 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Interoperable Object-Oriented Model for Infrastructure Management

A critical challenge of today's societies is the management of infrastructures and their environment. The need of proper tools is especially acute in the urban areas, in which many layers of information and many disciplines converge in fast-changing condi tions. The primary objective for this p...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Viken

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Virtually Enhanced Real-life synchronizeD Interaction - ON the Edge

Verdione produced, in cooperation with the World Opera and Kulturhuset Tromsø, a distributed opera, the Opera buffa "La Serva Padrona". This was distributed over two stages in December 2011. It was presented in two public performances after long preparati ons and a week-long rehearsal on site; Ja...

Awarded: NOK 24.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Cardiomyopathy syndrome: A multi-task approach to reduce losses and improve knowledge

Cardiomyopathy syndrome (CMS) is a severe cardiac disease in farmed Atlantic salmon. The disease has been diagnosed in Norway since mid 80s. CMS causes significant losses for the industry in the form of mortality at seawater sites and in connection with transport to the slaughter houses. As CM...

Awarded: NOK 9.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

SYKEFRAVÆR-Forskn.om årsaker til sykefrav

Reasons for sick leave and disability pension

The majority of long term sickness leaves and disability pensions are granted for unspecific conditions with few objective findings, and a high level of comorbidity. The diagnosis and therapies are based on interpretations of subjective statements from th e patient. Decisions regarding diagnosis,...

Awarded: NOK 10.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Vestland

SYKEFRAVÆR-Forskn.om årsaker til sykefrav

Health, work and society - multi-disciplinary studies of determinants of sickness absence and disability

New knowledge on health related income replacement programs and social exclusion critically depends on the ability to combine hypotheses involving individual and social determinants with health. This project brings together researchers from economics, soc iology, psychology and medicine with a co...

Awarded: NOK 12.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Vestland

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Behandlingsmetode for osteoartritt

I henhold til revisjon pr sept 2011: Formålet med prosjektet er å utvikle en behandlingsmetode for osteoartritt (OA), basert på terapeutisk(e) regime(r) for å eliminere bakteriell provokasjon i ledd. Prosjektet er basert på hypotesen at bakteriell prov okasjon er sentral i patogenesen av OA. V...

Awarded: NOK 13.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

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

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