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INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Canada - forskningssamarbeid vinterturisme

Hvordan fremme en tettere kobling mellom FoU-miljøer og turistnæringen for å bidra til innovasjon og produktutvikling innen vinterturisme? Dette vil være et sentralt aspekt ved samarbeidet mellom Norut Samfunnsforskning og Simon Fraser University. Turisme senteret ved Simon Fraser University har ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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China - Bilateral Cooperation for Sustainable Water Management towards Environmental and Ecological Effects

The joint Norwegian institutions led by the University of Life Science and the Yellow River Conservancy Commission of China are willing to establish research networks, and make cooperative efforts on the subjects with mutual interest and subjective compet ence, and establish new project proposals...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Akershus

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China - Bilateral collaboration in the field of comparative genomics of stress tolerance in grasses

Rice and wheat are the two main crops in China, and China has an extensive genome research activity of high international standard in these species exemplified by one of the Chinese institutions involved in this project, namely the Chinese Academy of Agri cultural Sciences (CAAS) (www.caas.net.c...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Akershus

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China - Initiation of a cooperation project on capacity building for mitigating persistent organic pollutants in China

In order to strenghten it's research cooperation with China, NIVA has signed a cooperation agreement with Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, takes active part in the establishment of the Sino-Norwegian Interdisciplin ary Centre for Environmental Research (NI...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Oslo

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China - Numerical methods and software for modeling seepage in porous media

In recent years, the fractional calculus has been recognized as a powerful modeling methodology for porous media. The main obstacle for applying fractional calculus to modeling seepage in porous media is the costly computing effort. The fractional derivat ive equations are known to be computation...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

FORNY-3-Kommersialisering av FoUresultater

Lactic acid fermentation to obtain healthier French fries by reducing formation of acrylamide

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Awarded: NOK 0.35 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Akershus

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USA - Bilateralt samarbeid om studier av mobilitet og biotilgjengelighet av kvikksølv i marine sedimenter med fokus på tiltak

Kvikksølv er en av de mest potente uorganiske miljøgiftene, hovedsaklig på grunn av potensialet for omdanning til metyl-kvikksølv, som er svært biotilgjengelig og giftig og som bidrar til akkumulering i fisk. I mange norske fjorder og havner representerer sedimentene et lager for kvikksølv og om...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

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USA - Computational Evaluation of Rupture Potential of Aneurysms

An aneurysm is a local enlargement of the artery. Rupture of an aneurysm is associated with high mortality, and elective repair is recommended when the risk of rupture exceeds the risk of repair. Currently, however, there is a lack of good criteria for pr edicting rupture. The present guideline i...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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USA - Kill the messenger strategies in human pathogenic bacteria using RNase P, a molecular tool with an innovative therapeutic potential

"Kill the messenger"-strategies is a new innovative tool in functional genomic research of both bacteria and mammalian cells. This approach also holds promise for the development of a new class of therapeutics using RNA-molecules to silence unwanted gene expression in vivo. In eukaryotic cells di...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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USA - an open framework for future collaborative research in image guided surgery (IGS)

Applicant: SINTEF Health Research, Medical Technology: Over 10 years of experience in the field of image guided surgery within the National Center for 3D Ultrasound in Surgery (SINTEF, NTNU, St Olavs Hospital) in Trondheim, Norway. The unique collaboratio n between scientists and clinicians withi...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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USA - bilateral collaboration on connective tissue and biospectroscopy

Meat and fish farming industries have both a great challenge in producing high quality food products regarding human and animal health as well as eating quality as textural properties. In food research, it is established that intramuscular connective tiss ue contributes to fish and meat texture a...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Akershus

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USA - bilateral cooperation in dynamics and noise in nanodevices

We propose collaborative effort in studies of quantum dynamics and noise in novel devices for nanoelectronics, with focus on building blocks for future quantum computers ? quantum bits (qubits) and logical gates. The main obstacle in realizing quantum alg orithms is random time-dependent fields (...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

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USA - bilateral cooperation in the use of air bubble flotation in fisheries technology and related fields

Etablere samarbeid med Dr. Ira leifer ved Marine Sciences Institute ved USCB (USA), med tanke på anvendelser av bobler og flotasjon i fiskeriteknologi m.m. Samarbeidet det søkes støtte om vil foregå i Trondheim, i form av møter, diskusjoner og arbeidsgru pper for utarbeidelser av søknad.

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Japan-collaborative development of program systems with hierarchical quantum chemical methods.

State of the art treatment of phenomenon in bio-molecules and nanostructures are limited to the use of unsystematic computational methods, like density functional theory and effective fragment methods. They are mostly aiming at the structures and properti es of ground states. For improved theoret...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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KINA: Towards a viable social welfare system and a sustainable economic development of China.

Cooperation is planned with School of Social Development and Public Policy at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. 1. The Frisch Centre aims at conducting research at a high level. One of the mechanisms to achieve that aim is to develop an international n etwork of researchers. Over the last year...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Oslo

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Canada - bilateral cooperation on polar biodiversity

This application seeks funding to initiate bilateral cooperation between leading biodiversity institutions in Canada and Norway. Our research focus will be on animal diversity in polar regions using DNA barcoding as a tool for species discrimination and i dentification. Polar research has a great...

Awarded: NOK 91,570

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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CANADA: DEVELOPING BEHAVIOURAL PET PARADIGMS TO STUDY DOPAMINERGIC FUNCTION FOR USE IN SCHIZOPHRENIA

Severe mental disorders are characterized by the presence of psychosis and schizophrenia is the most common psychotic disorder. The disease is a major cause of disability worldwide and rank as one of the most costly disorders to afflict humans. The etiolo gy remains elusive, but schizophrenia is ...

Awarded: NOK 40,852

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

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USA - CO2 storage: Project co-ordination with Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

This application concerns funding of exchange visits (duration 2 weeks - 1 month) of senior scientific staff from LANL and IFE. We wish to invite Dr. J. William Carey to IFE in winter/spring 2007. A return visit of senior scientific staff during autumn 20 07 is also planned. The purpose of this w...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Akershus

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Canada - Human Health and Environment Research Network

Global temperatures are increasing and the earths climate is changing. While natural and physical events and cycles have resulted in significant global climate change in the past, the rapid change now underway can be clearly ascribed to human activity. Em issions of carbon dioxide and other green...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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Signaling Mechanisms of Bioactive Polysaccharides from Traditional Chinese Medicine

Traditional Chinese medicinal plants have been used for centuries, and, increasingly, clinical trials have demonstrated their efficacy against a wide range of pathologies. However, there is still an urgent need to understand how Chinese medicine works in order to make full use of this important, ...

Awarded: NOK 90,000

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

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China - Bilateral cooperation in waste management

Narvik University College (NUC) has since 1996 developed a broad cooperation with China. To day we have a formal cooperation between our institution and two universities in China. The main institution for cooperation is Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology (BIPT). There is also a coopera...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

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China - Initiation of a cooperative project on impacts of climate change on water resources on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau

The Qinghai Tibetan Plateau has received much attention internationally related to effects on and from climate change. This high elevation, semi-arid plateau in northwestern China is headwaters for the three great rivers of southeast Asia, the Yangtze (Ch angjiang), Yellow (Huanghe) and Mekong (...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Oslo

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China - bilateral cooperation in comparative linguistics and second language acquisition

Prosjektet som det blir søkt om støtte for å etablere, er eit samarbeidsprosjekt innanfor komparativ lingvistikk og andrespråktileigning, nærmare bestemt komparativ analyse av norsk og (mandarin-)kinesisk språkstruktur, samt utforsking av korleis kinesara r tileignar seg norsk som andrespråk, og ...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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China - bilateral cooperation within biogas from sewage sludge for renewable energy production

A concrete project plan is currently under development for establishment of a project with the working title "Biogas from sewage sludge for renewable energy production in China". The main objective of the main project is to increase production and applica tion of renewable energy from waste in Ch...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

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China- Micro energy technology for Microsystems as joint doctor student projects

Starting from 2005, IMST at HVE has built bilateral cooperation with MEMS center at Xiamen Unievrsity. In Sept 26 2006, two University have signed a University cooperation agreement (See attached HVE-XMU.pdf). As the first project, we are planning a jo int Ph.D. education program. Three Ph.D. ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Vestfold

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China-bilateral cooperation in drug-herb interactions and immune mechanisms in psoriasis.

China-bilateral cooperation in drug-herb interactions and immune mechanisms in psoriasis. Prosjektet er rettet mot to samarbeidsgrupperinger ved "China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences" i Beijing: "Institute of Chinese Materia Medica" og "Guang An Men Hospital". Formålet med "drug-herb inte...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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USA - Developing alternative non-lethal tools for predator management.

We will build a network between American and Norwegian large predator researchers in two phases. First, Norwegian bear researcher, Martin Smith, will visit the National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC). He will meet the staff and gain first hand knowledge of facilities and working procedures. The ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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USA - Ellam-iinga: Resilience Pathways of Indigenous Circumpolar Communities and their Youths

Contemporary circumpolar indigenous youth typically grow up in remote, culturally distinct settings. These young people experience backgrounds of a rich cultural history confronted by rapid social transition. What are the resilience pathways for healthy d evelopment in the face of this? What are ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

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JAPAN - Norwegian-Japanese cooperation for the establishment of common methods and databases to ensure safe and authentic seafood

To validate traceability information, protect international trade and enforce the current legislative in Norway, Europe and Japan regarding the safety and labelling of food and seafood, it is essential to develop and implement, at an international/global level, analytical methods and common datab...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Japan - bilateral collaboration on materials characterization of wooden cladding for sustainable building envelopes

Wood is an important building material in Japan and Norway. The durability and service life of a wooden cladding building envelope is an important element in sustainable building design. Suitable experimental and modelling methods for quantitative service life prediction in this area are lacking...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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