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INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

CHINA - bilateral cooperation in green electronics

The proposed project addresses the global problem of toxicity and deficient processing routines pertaining to electronic waste, through facilitating innovation within the field of electronics production and the implementation of new, more environmentally sustainable technology. Through connecting...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Vestland

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

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

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

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

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

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

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

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

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

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

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

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

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

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

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

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

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

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

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

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

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

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

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

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

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

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

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

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

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

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

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Japan- Electrolysis for sustainable development - New technologies for molten salts and for restoration of Lake Biwa

1. 3rd KIFEE Symposium. Help in preparing the program for "Electrolysis Systems" and participate in the 3rd KIFEE Symposium to be held in Japan in 2007. 2. Lake Biwa. An ambitious research program has been proposed to clean up Lake Biwa by adding oxygen by in-situ electrolysis. Electricity will ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Russland? vår tids russenorsk

se prosjektbeskrivelse

Awarded: NOK 98,000

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

USA - Bilateral collaboration on magnetically controlled nano-machines with bio-related applications

Motion of micro- and nanoscale objects is being used by nature for cell trafficking and delivery of metabolized products. In nanoscience one aims to copy nature's strategies, and apply them to the nanoscale motion of roving sensors, drug delivery and effe ctive transport systems, commonly called ...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

USA - Norway: Bilateral Cooperation in Documentary Studies.

USA - Norway Bilateral Cooperation in Documentary Studies. The project proposes a cooperation project between Department of Art and Media Studies, NTNU and Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, USA. The pr oject aims at coordinating efforts by res...

Awarded: NOK 50,000

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

USA - Studies of protein N-terminal acetyltransferases: potentially important human enzymes in medicine.

The present project is rooted in the clinical work of professor J. E. Varhaug at the Endocrinology/ Surgery Section at Haukeland Hospital and the collaboration with professor J. R. Lillehaug was initiated twenty years ago. This form the basis for a multid isiplinary research collaboration between...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Vestland

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

KINA - bilateralt samarbeid for å identifisere prosjekter innenfor IKT-feltene programvare, sensorer, kommunikasjon og jernbanesystemer

Kina er et av de prioriterte samarbeidsland SINTEF har for forskning utenfor Europa. SINTEF IKT har flere ganger vurdert hvordan vi best skal komme i inngrep mot Kina og deltok blant annet på EUs konferanse for forskningssamarbeid i Beijing i 2002 uten at dette ga kontakter som ble vurdert som i...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PES-INST-Prosjektetablererstøtte EU (FoU)

Støtte til kontraktsforhandlinger - EUs 7 RP.

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Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Vestland

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Protein aggregation and degradation in aging and disease: Role of polyubiquitination and autophagy

Hundreds of proteins encoded by the human genome have the propensity to form cytoplasmic aggregates under certain conditions. Although the mechanisms of intracellular protein aggregation are poorly understood, it is well known that deposits of aggregatete d proteins are highly associated with agi...

Awarded: NOK 8.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Mapping threats to arctic bird populations. The effect of infectious organisms and pollution on bird health. IPY NO 172 BirdHealth

The arctic environment and its wildlife are currently being threatened; from climate change, from pollution and from infectious organisms (IO). Health in wildlife is regulating population numbers through individual survival and reproduction. Little is kno wn about the combined impact of IO and po...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

CAVIAR - Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in the Arctic Regions: Focus on northern Norway and northern Russia

The Arctic is experiencing rapid changes in environmental, societal and economic conditions. The particular conditions to which communities are sensitive are not well documented, nor have the conditions that might facilitate or constrain the adaptive capa city in the face of interacting climate a...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 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

The Dynamic response of Arctic glaciers to global warming: A Norwegian contribution to the IPY-37 GLACIODYN

This project is a Norwegian contribution to IPY Activity 37 Glaciodyn. The goal is to investigate the role of ice dynamics in the response of Arctic glaciers and ice caps to global warming, to improve prediction of future changes and their impact on fresh water fluxes to the ocean and thus global...

Awarded: NOK 14.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Bipolar Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation

In BIAC the mechanisms, manifestation and impact of intermediate and bottom water formation originating from the bipolar Atlantic Ocean shelves will be explored. The overall goal is to evaluate the global ventilation through circum Arctic and Antarctic sh elves and consequences for the climate by...

Awarded: NOK 32.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

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

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