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FORSKNINGSKOMM-Forskningskommunikasjon

Fysikkolympiaden

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Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2027

Location: Oslo

FORSKNINGSKOMM-Forskningskommunikasjon

Abelkonkurransen

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Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2027

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Kortere generasjonsintervall hos laks

I avlsarbeidet ønsker vi størst mulig avlsframgang per år samtidig som næringen ønsker stor fleksibilitet i smoltproduksjonen slik at smolt kan settes ut og fisk slaktes hele året. Dersom generasjonsintervallet for laks kan reduseres fra fire til tre år, vil den avlsmessige framgangen øke med 33 ...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2015

Location: Vestland

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Norsk deltagelse i IEA implementing Agreement on Electricity Network Analysis, Research and Development.

Denne søknaden gjelder for deltagelse i Annex I. I utkastet til ?Program of Work? (Version 0, 16. March 2006) er det gitt følgende beskrivelse av sentrale problemstillinger og sentrale FoU-utfordringer: Annex I: Information Collation and Dissemination. S cope The central focus of Annex I will be...

Awarded: NOK 0.70 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Oslo

FORNY-3-Kommersialisering av FoUresultater

Infrastrukturmidler 2007 - Høgskolen i Nord-Trøndelag

I prosjektet FORNY HiNT 2007 er følgende hovedmål definert: Høgskolen i Nord-Trøndelag skal gjennom kommersialisering av sine FoU-resultater forsterke sin posisjon som regional utviklingsaktør. Gjennom å jobbe videre med holdningsskapende arbeid og kompet ansehevende tiltak både på organisasjonsn...

Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SKOGFOND-Utviklingsfondet for skogbruket

Vindfellingsfrekvens og trestabilitet ved lukkede hogster

Gjennom Levende Skog standarden har skogbruket forpliktet seg til å benytte lukkede foryngelseshogster (> 15 gjenstående trær per daa eller < 2 daa store åpninger) hvor det er økonomisk og biologisk mulig ved foryngelse av gran. Sviktende trestabilitet og vindfelling er et reelt problem ved slik...

Awarded: NOK 0.43 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Oslo

SAM-EU-Samfinansiering EU-kontoret

Middleware platform for eMPOWERing cognitive disabled and elderly.

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Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

The use of rheotactic and optometry responses in order to slaughter salmon at a rested state

New legislations regarding slaughter practices of farmed fish in Norway are expected to be enforced by 2007. The directive is expected to ban the current use of carbon dioxide to anaesthetise the fish before bleeding, and only stunning methods which rende r the fish unconscious immediately (e.g. ...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SMARTRANS-Næringslivets transp. og ITS

Kapasitetsmangel og bruk av IT til bedre styring og kontroll av transportene

I Norsk Logistikkbarometer (www.logistikkbarometeret.no) anslås bedriftenes gjennomsnittlige transportkostnader til å være 7,5 % av omsetningen. Når det gjelder automatisering, planlegging, styring og kontroll har imidlertid transportområdet fått langt m indre oppmerksomhet enn de andre logistik...

Awarded: NOK 0.46 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Tidsskriftet Søkelys på arbeidsmarkedet - støtte til publisering

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Awarded: NOK 0.95 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

The Ice Age development and human settlement in Northern Eurasia (ICEHUS II)

The project studies the Late Quaternary environmental changes in the Barents-Kara sea region and the ice age human occupation in northern Russia. We propose to carry out a lake coring programme in the Russian Arctic. The European Science Foundations progr amme QUEEN (Quaternary Environment of the...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Norwegian component of the Ecosystem Studies of Subarctic and Arctic Regions

The main goal of NESSAR is to quantify the impact of climate variability on the structure and function of marine ecosystems in the Nordic and Barents seas. This interdisciplinary program will mount intensive field studies of the physical and biological p rocesses at the Arctic Front in the Baren...

Awarded: NOK 20.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Long-term Sea Level Variability in the Nordic Seas

Many forces in the atmosphere and ocean influence the sea level. Thus the sea level integrates a great number of physical processes in the environment and therefore can be a representative parameter for monitoring of climatic changes. There are more than 30 tide-gauge stations in the Barents, Nor...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Decadal variability on the North Atlantic Ocean/Nordic Seas

Project DEC-OCEAN aims at clarifying the origin behind decadal and multi-decadal variability in the North Atlantic and its influences on the transports and properties of Atlantic water to the Nordic Seas. Regionally induced oceanic variability to the nort h of the Greenland-Scotland Ridge will al...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Expected Change in Fisheries in the Barents Sea

Project summary The project focuses on how changes in climate, i.e. increase in temperature, will influence fish stocks and their commercial stakeholders. Changes in fish distribution will not only affect the fisheries directly through changes in possibl e fishing areas, and changes in yield bec...

Awarded: NOK 9.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

PLAN - Responding to Climate Change: The Potentials of and Limits to Adaptation in Norway

PLAN is a coordinated, social science-based research project that analyzes the potentials of and limits to adaptation as a response to climate change in Norway. This four-year project will provide an empirical and theoretical understanding of adaptation a s a social process, with an emphasis on i...

Awarded: NOK 26.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Oslo

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Landscape planning versus real world landscape changes

This project will study changes in land use on a municipal scale, based on analyses of existing, up-dated digital maps (DMK) and older versions to be digitised from existing analogue format. Four to six municipalities in the Oslo Fjord region will be chos en as study areas, dependent on data avai...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Akershus

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Distributed Renewable Energy Hydrogen Systems

Systems based on renewable energy (RE) sources with medium-term hydrogen (H2) energy storage have the potential to play an important role in various power applications. RE/H2-systems are well suited for high-cost applications, such as remote telecommunica tion stations and uninterrupted power sup...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Balance Management in Multinational Power Markets

Growing attention is given to the exchange of balancing services between control areas in different countries. It must be expected that the need for balancing services will increase due to rapid expansion of new renewable energy sources. By having a syste m-wide approach instead of a control area...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Ocean Prediction Networking

Our proposal seeks funds (1) to network Norwegian resources, (2) to implement a formal collaboration on the national level, and (3) to foster international collaboration within the field of ocean prediction. Reliable ocean state description and forecasts of, e.g., extreme currents and waves, ha...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Emerging patterns of East - West migration in Europe: New patterns of mobility in a changing political landscape

Prosjektet har resultert i tre doktorgrader. Jon Horgen Friberg forsvarte sin doktorgrad i 2013. Han tar for seg arbeidsmigrasjon mellom Polen og Norge, med fokus på drivkreftene for migrasjon og ulike mekanismer som bidrar til inkorporering og/eller nye former for sosial ulikhet og marginaliser...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2015

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN: Surveys, stable isotopes, satellites and salmon: exploring elements of the marine ecology of Barents Sea Salmo salar

Salmon rivers in northernmost Norway, Finland and the Kola peninsula (Russia), support important fisheries, both in coastal areas and in the rivers themselves, and contribute more than 50% of the world freshwater catch of wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar ). The River Tana, along with other impo...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Efficient, low-cost monitoring of calanus

Being the dominant zooplankton group in the North Atlantic, herbivore copepods play an essential role in the food web energy transfer. As an important food item for commercially exploitable fish stocks, it is vital to fill the knowledge gaps on the mechan isms governing the variability in biomass...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

In the Shadow of a Conflict: Impacts of Zimbabwe's Land Reform on Rural Poverty and Development in Mozambique, South Africa, and Zambia

While much attention has been devoted to Zimbabwe's fast-track land reform - its causes, manifestations, and impacts on Zimbabwean society - comparatively little has been written about the fates of those who left the country because of the conflict. In pa rticular, the processes by which they ent...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2017

Location: Akershus

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

The Hardangerfjord Salmon Lice Project

This three-year research effort will focus on the interactions of salmon lice between farmed and wild salmonids in the Hardangerfjord and will be a continuum of the project which was initiated in 2004 (http://www.nina.no; attachment:NFRProgressReportHarda nger2005). The applied project consists o...

Awarded: NOK 5.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Bridge Building NERSC - SIO -WHOI

Acoustic tomography is a cost effective method for obtaining time series of unique, synoptic and horizontally averaged oceanographic depth profiles at a high temporal resolution, which can be tailored and implemented in any ocean area including deep and i ce covered oceans. Today, acoustic tomogr...

Awarded: NOK 0.80 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Vestland

GLOBHELS-Global helse

LAYVAC: Lay health worker programmes for vaccine uptake in low and middle income countries: Developing a global knowledge-base

Background: Lay health workers (LHWs), who carry out healthcare functions but have no professional healthcare qualifications, are used widely and have the potential to improve vaccination uptake in low and middle income countries (LMICs). However, data on their effects, cost-effectiveness and su...

Awarded: NOK 10.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Tools for environmental planning to reduce risks of leaching and runoff of pesticides to groundwater and surface waters-a pilotproject

The project will contribute to achieve national goals on environmental friendly and sustainable food production by developing tools for farmers to be used at farm scale level to reduce risk of pollution from pesticides in agriculture. The project will dev elop and evaluate three different tools. ...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Akershus

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

New methods for organic raspberry production in polyethylene tunnels

Raspberries for the fresh market is a new and very profitable crop in Norway, and the production in polyethylene tunnels is increasing rapidly. In Norwegian organic production, the experience so far is that using tunnels is a prerequisite if growing for t he fresh market. The project focuses on t...

Awarded: NOK 6.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus