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VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Arbeids- og bedriftsvandringer i et utvidet Europa: Inkludering i det gode arbeidslivet?

Tre år etter EU-utvidelsen ser vi at bedriftenes arbeidskraftstrategier er i endring, og at det nasjonale reguleringsregimet både på lov- og avtalenivå har vært og er under omfattende revisjon. Kunnskap om den nye arbeidskraftsmobilitetens former og omfan g, og ikke minst konsekvensene/responsene...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Oceanography and Match-mismatch

We intend to study ecosystem functioning using the match-mismatch hypothesis as a framework. The marine ecosystem chosen - the Benguela Upwelling - is an important fishing area and thereby also subject to anthropogenic constraints. The present proposal i s link to Mico project ES427093 that invo...

Awarded: NOK 0.41 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

PERMASOM - Organic matter in permafrost: molecular composition and associated response to increasing temperature

The release of CO2 to the atmosphere from the mineralization of soil organic matter (SOM) in thawing permafrost is one of the largest potential feedback mechanisms on the climate system. This positive feedback, i.e. it will aggravate climate changes, is d ue to the fact that SOM decomposes faster...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus

OST-Øst-Europa-programmene

MAritime REsources of the BArents SEa: Satellite data driven monitoring in the context of increase of commercial efficiency of the fishery

The main objective of the four-year project is to advance our capability to monitor the Barents Sea maritime resources focusing on the increase of the commercial efficiency of the fishery. It is anticipated that implementation of the developed monitoring system will result in significant reductio...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Vestland

OST-Øst-Europa-programmene

The role of protected nature in sustainable local development in North-West Russia and Northern Norway - a comparative analyses

The research project intends to increase understanding and knowledge in the field of interconnection of nature conservation process and development of local communities. The study will be carried out on the base of comparison of different protected areas management systems and institutional frame...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Atmosphere-Space Interaction Monitor (ASIM) and the Modular X-ray and Gamma Sensor (MXGS)

The discovery of Transient Luminous Events (TLEs - Red Sprite, Blue Jet and Elves) in the late 80s have brought a renewed focus on electrical processes in the Earth´s atmosphere. A different type of flashes, the X- and gamma-bursts (TGFs) from the atmosp here above thunderstorms, were discovered...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Vestland

SIP-Strategiske instituttprogram

Samspill mellom transport, mobilitet og informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi

Utviklingen og spredningen av informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi (IKT) har endret betingelsene for vareproduksjon, tjenesteyting, arbeids- og hverdagsliv i dagens samfunn. Denne utviklingen har stor betydning for transportsektoren, både fordi spredn ingen av teknologi påvirker organisering ...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Oslo

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Increasing basic knowledge on muscle abnormalities in intensive production systems

Abnormalities in fish muscle represent not only an ethical and welfare issue, but may also have a negative impact on economy and market acceptance due to growth impairment in affected fish, elevated mortality and reduced fillet quality. Alertness and know ledge on this field is also important for...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Expansion Strategies for Local Food Enterprises

The overall objective of this project is to contribute towards increased value added in local food enterprises, by obtaining new knowledge about the conditions for expansion, and how the industries can solve challenges they face in different phases of exp ansion. Sub-goals: 1. Conduct an analys...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Norwegian bread wheat with high baking quality and sustainable disease resistance through marker-assisted selection (188291).

Norway has in recent years become almost self-sufficient in wheat thanks to better and more adapted varieties. While nearly all high quality wheat for bread making was imported a couple of decades ago, the milling and baking industry now depend on quality wheat produced in Norway. To achieve bre...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Akershus

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Sunne arbeidsplasser - Organisatoriske faktorer som fremmer og hemmer langtidsfriske arbeidstakere i et globalisert arbeidsliv

Prosjektet har som viktig ambisjon å frambringe kunnskap om de utfordringer som ligger til globale selskapers innsats med å utvikle helsefremmende arbeidsplasser. Det har sin innretning mot organisatoriske faktorer knyttet til produksjon og verdikjede, ma rkedsforhold og intern organisering av ar...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

FECIMOD - Forecasting ecological effects of climate change: integrating functional and correlative models

The demand for ecological forecasting is growing, but present models have severe limitations. Uncertainties derive from unrealistic model assumptions as well as the intrinsic stochasticity of natural processes. The proposed project will answer to these ch allenges by merging hypothesis testing of...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Digestion studies of fatty acids and proteins in milk from different species - Effect on gut health

Gastro-intestinal infections are increasing in industrial countries and for certain diseases, e.g. diarrhoea caused by bacterial and viral infections, there is an increase in incidences that is described as having epidemic proportions. Detection of natura l components in foods that can replace an...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

The effect of political uncertainty in fisheries management: A case study of the Northeast Arctic cod fishery

We seek to investigate the effects of political uncertainty on fisheries, with a special focus on non-compliance with quota regulations. Institutional or political uncertainty is sometimes referred to as uncertainty about the rules of the game. We look at institutional uncertainty on two levels;...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Vestland

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

The digestive tract and human health. Effects of probiotics and polyunsaturated fatty acids on intestinal epithelium and immune function.

This project will address two different questions related to food and health: 1)Do probiotic microorganisms mediate their health-promoting effects by interacting with the intestinal epithelium in a way that differs from non-probiotic microorganisms and ot her commensals? 2)Do dietary polyunsatura...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Akershus

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Team incentives, human capital and job satisfaction

The purpose of this research project is to better understand the causes and nature of teamwork and team incentives, and how these can promote, or obstruct, performance and job satisfaction. Team production is one of the defining characteristics of a firm, and there seems to be a consensus that t...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Omstilling

Prosjektgruppen vil ta utgangspunkt i de områdene i programnotatet som er omtalt som "omstillinger og mobilitet" og mekanismer som påviker inkludering og utstøting i arbeidslivet. Vi har organisert deltemaene under overskriftene 1) Kostnader ved omstillin g 2) Omstillingsprosesser og 3) Årsaker t...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Innovative and attractive fish dishes (188389)

Attractive seafood dishes for large scale production are in minority among the dishes served in institutional households and industrial kitchens of the HoReCa segment. The seafood dishes present are characterised by low quality due to improper handling, p rocessing, packaging, storage conditions ...

Awarded: NOK 6.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Rogaland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Survey Methods for Abundance Estimation of Sandeel (Ammodytes marinus) Stocks

Sandeels are small eel-like fish that is laterally compressed and without swimbladder that swim in large shoals and inhabit areas with specific sandy substrate into which they burrow. Sandeels are distributed in coastal and shallow open-ocean waters throu ghout the North Sea, but the geographical...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Vestland

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Arbeidsmarkedsmobilitet i de nordiske velferdsstatene og betydningen av de institusjonelle reguleringene på arbeidsmarkedet

Prosjektet skal muliggjøre norsk deltakelse i et nordisk samarbeidsprosjekt som skal sammenligne mobiliteten på arbeidsmarkedene i de nordiske landene (Danmark, Finland, Norge og Sverige). Fire former for mobilitet vil bli viet særlig oppmerksomhet i sama rbeidsprosjektet: Bevegelser inn og ut av...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

OST-Øst-Europa-programmene

Emerging persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the high North and North-Western Russia

The aim of the proposed initiative is to develop a mutual scientific exchange program within environmental chemistry based upon transfer of scientific knowledge, MSc, PhD students and personnel. The main activity will be medium-term research visits (3-12 months; 6 months in average) of M.Sc., Ph....

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Svalbard

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Influence of polysaccharide based dietary fibre on gut microflora and human health-INFIGUT

This project aims at generating new knowledge about the influence of dietary fibres on the gut microflora and to document effects on the human health. The knowledge can be utilized as basis for dietary recommendations and form a basis for development of n ew, health promoting foods. The intesti...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Identification of plant foods and drinks available in the Norwegian marked that reduce oxidative stress and dampen inflammation

Oxidative stress is intimately involved in pathophysiology many chronic degenerative diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cataract as well as neurodegenerative diseases. Oxidative stress is also central to the theory of aging. We ar e therefore investigating the role of die...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Improved control of Colletotrichum acutatum in strawberry and sweet cherry

Colletotrichum acutatum is an important fungal pathogen in many crops worldwide. In the Nordic countries it is of particular importance in strawberry and cherry where it causes blackspot and bitter rot, respectively. The disease usually appears very late in the season in sweet cherry, even after ...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Improving barley yields in organic stockless farming systems through innovations in green manure management

Helårs grønngjødsel brukes for å bedre jordas fruktbarhet og sanere ugras. I Byggro-prosjektet har vi prøvd ut ulik handtering av helårsgrønngjødsel. Etter slått ble grønnmassen enten hakket og tilbakeført, fjernet eller fermentert i biogassreaktor og del vis tilbakeført som gjødsel til korn nest...

Awarded: NOK 5.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Akershus

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Wireless Interference-Limited high-throughput Access Technologies and applicatIons

This is a continuation of the fruitful collaboration between TKK, LU and NTNU established in the WILATI project. The research on MIMO WLAN is extended to modem improvements, cooperative multiuser MIMO and spectrum sensing as well as new application areas, like localization. The clear trend in ...

Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Restriction of lipid deposition in the liver of cod by use of bioactive substances in salmon oil and vegetable feed ingredients.

Use of high-energy feeds has been of major importance for the development of cost effective farming of fast growing salmonids. High energy diets contain high levels of lipids, and such diets cause development of a large fatty liver in cod. More than 80% o f total body lipids in cod are in fact fo...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

KLINISK-Klinisk forskning

Is beta cell rest by insulin treatment beneficial in preserving beta cell function in latent autoimmune diabetes of the adult ( LADA)?

Latent Autoimmune Diabetes LADA) er en hyppig form av diabetes. Det er vist at mellom 5 og 10 % av alle pasienter med diabetes har LADA. Selv om denne formen av diabetes altså er hyppig er mye mindre kjent om hva som er beste behandling enn hva som er kjent for type2 diabetes (aldersdiabetes) ell...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

CARBON-HEAT- CARBON uptake and fluxes of water and HEAT in the North Atlantic Current

CARBON-HEAT is a three year project that will study a potential feedback between the ocean carbon cycle and climate change, relating to the flow speed and heat and carbon flux of the Atlantic water en route to the Arctic Ocean We intend to -Assess the de gree to which the Atlantic Water (AW) is ...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

FARMED COD SPAWNING IN NET PENS: OFFSPRING RECRUITMENT UNDER NATURAL CONDITIONS AND INTERBREEDING WITH WILD LOCAL STOCK

Escapes of farmed fish from the aquaculture industry as well as large-scale stock enhancement/ranching activities are regarded as a risk factor for negative genetic impacts on native gene pools. The Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua L.) is now the most interesti ng new marine species for large-scale far...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Vestland

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