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SIOS-PP-Svalbard Inte Artic Eart Ob Sy

Etabl.partn.7 - British Antarctic Survey

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Awarded: NOK 0.95 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SIOS-PP-Svalbard Inte Artic Eart Ob Sy

Etabl.partn.21 - Meteorologisk institutt

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Awarded: NOK 0.66 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Oslo

SIS-MILJO-Strategiske instituttsatsninge

Bio-Ethanol in public transport: an integrated approach to evaluate the impact of climate change policies in urban areas

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Awarded: NOK 5.4 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2014

Location: Akershus

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Non-commercial values attached to marine resources in the coastal zone

Bakgrunn for prosjektet er at vi ser en økende interesse for bruk av kystsonen i Nord-Norge til kommersielle aktiviteter. Ifølge næringsavdelingene i de tre nordligste fylkeskommunene er det flere marine næringer, som krever plass i kystsonen, som vil ekspandere i årene framover. De to næringene ...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

BiodivERsA Biodiversity scenarios for fragmented landscapes; freshwater connectivity and the future of fish diversity

De fleste scenariomodeller som prøver å framskrive effekten av endringer i miljø på enkeltarter og økosystemer tar ikke hensyn til hvordan organismer kan spre seg mellom habitater. Kontinuitet og vandringsveier mellom mulige leveområder er avgjørende i denne sammenhengen. Dette gjelder spesielt f...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

Network in Norwegian Environmental Toxicology: 4th Norwegian Environmental Toxicology Symposium

4th Norwegian Environmental Toxicology Symposium - Emerging challenges and threats in the Arctic will be organized in Tromsø in September 2012. The symposium will focus on various issues related to environmental toxicology including monitoring and managem ent, multiple stressors, contaminant effe...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Rule of Law for Nature - Forskerkonferanse i miljørett i Oslo 9. - 11. mai 2012

Prosjektet er en internasjonal forskerkonferanse på Det juridiske fakultet, Universitetet i Oslo 9.-11. mai 2012. Norsk tittel på konferansen er "Rettsikkerhet for naturen". Internasjonalt har miljøretten - herunder ikke minst EU-retten - vokst kraftig i de senere tiårene og setter i økende grad...

Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

ALIANSE - Aggregation of Local Impacts Assessments to the National Scale

This project aims at providing an appraisal of the socio-economic impacts of climate change to Norway, based on the present state of knowledge about the expected climatic changes. Results from various available studies about impacts of climate change on e conomic sectors, in particular locations ...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2010

Location: Oslo

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Process Innovations for High Current Density

Hydro has over the past ten years succeeded with very ambitious programmes for continuous productivity increase in existing potlines, reaching world-leading performance levels. The limits for possible improvements by a continuous approach have now nearly been reached, as the performance of many e...

Awarded: NOK 7.6 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Oslo

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

THORPEX-IPY: Improved forecasting of adverse weather in the Arctic region - present and future

We propose here a Norwegian contribution to the International Polar Year (IPY) project THORPEX-IPY. THORPEX-IPY is the Arctic component of the international program THORPEX (The Observing System Research and Predictability Program), which is a part of the WMO World Weather Research Program (http...

Awarded: NOK 30.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Contaminants in Polar Regions -Dynamic range of contaminants in polar marine ecosystems

This project is a part of the multinational IPY initiative "Fate, uptake and effects of contaminants in the Arctic and Antarctic ecosystem" (short name COPOL). The overall aim of this initiative is to improve the knowledge of the dynamic range of man-made contaminants in marine ecosystems of Pol...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Arctic Predators as Indicators of Tundra Ecosystem State. A Norwegian IPY proposal under the ArcticWOLVES initiative ID No: 672

Strongly cyclic interaction between plants, herbivores and predators typically drives the food web dynamics over large tracts of the arctic tundra biome. These interaction cycles, however, now appear to be fading out at the southern edge of tundra, possib ly due to climate warming. The Arctic Cli...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Sustainable Polymers for Solar Collector Applications

Previous results from the group have resulted in the first commercial all-plastics solar collectors. This success has been an inspiration behind the proposed new IEA-SHCP Task "Polymeric Materials for Solar Thermal Applications", now approved by the ExCo. The aim of the present project is partic...

Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Protected Areas as Resourced for Coastal and Rural Business Development, dr.gr.stip.

The main objective is to improve the level of knowledge on how different factors influence the possibilities for business development in protected areas. In particular spatial, institutional and procedural structures that influence business development in protected areas will be investigated. Fo...

Awarded: NOK 7.6 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN: Genetic engineering in aquaculture: Sustainability from an ethical, ecological and economic perspective

The most prominent challenge to GE in a sustainable context is how to ensure environmental protection and at the same time achieve economic benefits. Only through integration of different scientific disciplines can this challenge be adequately understood and managed. We intend to combine experime...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Potential of bio-energy with carbon capture and storage to limit warming to 1.5°C

Den økte kunnskapen om den alvorlige trusselen fra klimaendringer har ført til forskning på alternative metoder for å redusere og reversere den menneskeskapte økningen i mengden av karbondioksid i atmosfæren. De fleste av FNs klimapanels utslippsscenarier som stabiliserer globale temperaturer på ...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Oslo

MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

COAST-BENEFIT: Ecosystem Service Valuation For Coastal Zone Management: From Promise to Practice

SAMMENDRAG COAST-BENEFIT prosjektet tar utgangspunktet i ekspertrapporten «Naturens goder - om verdier av økosystemtjenester» (NOU 2013:10). Hovedmålet er å bidra til forbedret vitenskapelig kunnskap og kompetanse som er relevant for å beskytte miljøet og regulere økonomiske aktiviteter som sa...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2021

Location: Rogaland

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Clean energy production - Environmental technologies - Cleaner air

Fokus på grønn teknologi og grønn omstilling er økende. CEC har vært en satsning innen grønt skifte, og en plattform for samarbeid mellom FoU aktører og relevant næringsliv. CEC-nettverket har hatt to hovedfokusområder: sensorteknologier (1) og prosesskontroll og assessment-tjenester (2) i en...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2018

Location: Akershus

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

JPI Oceans - Mikroplast - PLASTOX - SINTEF, NTNU, NPI, NILU - Dir and indir ecotoxicological impacts of microplastics on marine organisms

PLASTOX-prosjektet ble koordinert gjennom det europeiske fellesprogrammet JPI Oceans (Joint Programming Initiative for Productive Seas and Oceans), og besto av 15 partnere fra 11 europeiske land. PLASTOX undersøkte interaksjon og effekter (opptak, ekskresjon og toksisitet) av mikroplastpartikler ...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2019

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILUTARENA-Formidlings- og koordineringstiltak for miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Zooplankton Production Symposium (ZPS), 9-13 May 2016, Bergen, Norway

Zooplankton Production Symposium I begynnelsen av mai 2016 arrangerte ICES (Det internasjonale råd for havforskning) og PICES (North Pacific Marine Science Organization) sammen med Havforskningsinstituttet, Norge det sjette internasjonale symposiet for dyreplanktonproduksjon. Symposiet, som e...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Barents Sea Ecosystem Resilience under global environmental change

The influence of climate warming on the Barents Sea ecosystem is documented by the long-term ocean temperature increase observed since the 1960s and the projected increases of up to 3°C by 2050. The impact of climate warming on Barents Sea communities can be exacerbated by fisheries. The project...

Awarded: NOK 14.4 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Vestland

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

FORURENS: Models and stable isotopes to quantify sources of nutrients transported by rivers to the sea: atmospheric deposition, land sources

This project will examine scenarios of changes in nutrient fluxes to the sea from atmospheric deposition and land-based sources. Integrated studies will be conducted at two river basins draining to the Norwegian Skagerrak coast; the eutrophic system Vansj ø/Hobøl and the oligotrophic system Tovda...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Trees as drivers of silvopastoral system function

The silvopastoral system is a livestock production option that involves the interaction of woody components (shrubs and trees), herbaceous forage and the different species of domestic herbivores. This system of meat and milk production has many advantages in the tropics both for food production ...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

APECS: Shaping the Future of Polar Research International Directorate Office

Norway, as many western countries, is facing a scientific generation gap in conjunction with the difficulty in recruiting natural and physical scientists. The work of APECS is helping young scientists maneuver the challenging academic world, encouraging t hem to stay in science, and recruit the n...

Awarded: NOK 1.00 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Ecosystem based management of key fish stocks in the NE Atlantic under climate change using coupled biophysical and fisheries models

This project aim at integrating process understanding in operational fisheries management under present day climate and future climate scenarios. The NE Atlantic harbours some of the worlds largest stocks of herring, blue whiting, mackerel, capelin, cod, haddock and saithe. The stocks interact d...

Awarded: NOK 6.1 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Vestland

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Solar cells silicon wafer cutting (SIWACUT)

The main objective will be reached by the following secondary objectives: 1. Understand the effect of the sawing parameters on the wafer quality for different mixtures of virgin and recycled materials in the cutting slurry. 2. Characterize the component s in the slurry (SiC, PEG, Fe, Si) and un...

Awarded: NOK 8.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Agder

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Pests and pest risk factors in Jatropha plantations in West Africa

Jatropha curcas is a shrub in the species rich family Euphorbiaceae, which has become extensively cultivated in various parts of the world, mainly for its high oil content, particularly in the seeds to be used in the production of bio-diesel. Being extrem ely drought tolerant, J. curcas can be cu...

Awarded: NOK 0.44 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Akershus

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

BiodivERsA: CLIMIGRATE: Integrating ancient DNA and ecological modelling to quantify the impact of climate change on biodiversity

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Awarded: NOK 0.83 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND:Towards a new framework for the management of both cultural and natural heritage in upland Landscape Conservation Areas (LCA) in Norway

The inherent dynamism of upland landscapes challenges scientists and land managers to secure the right balance of conservation and management measures against a backdrop of complex and changing socio-economic drivers, and a rapidly evolving evidence base. This interdisciplinary project will deve...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage