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VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Dependable ICT for the Energy Sector

Software as an integrated part of critical components used in O&G installations is increasingly being used in the oil & gas industry, because it promises more functionality, lower building costs, lower cost of operation, as well as higher flexibility for future changes and upgrades. In particular...

Awarded: NOK 10.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

FORURENS: Environmental effects of the new low-calorie sweetener sucralose

Project summary. The project aims at understanding possible environmentally deleterious effects of the recenty introduced artificial sweetener sucralose. The registration of food-additives does not require any environmental risk assessment by envir onmental agencies. Consequently, there is...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Akershus

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

Integration, exclusion and job mobility in different types of Norwegian work organisations

The premise for the project is that processes of work life integration are not uniform. On the contrary, the character of these processes may be expected to be quite different between various sectors, industries and occupational contexts. This is not only because jobs are designed differently an...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: How to prevent invasion of alien species onto urban hills and coastal heathland ecosystems: Sustaining biodiversity in cultural lands

The coastal heath ecosystem is classified as greatly endangered under the EU Habitats Directive. This is because of land-use changes resulting in a dramatic decrease in the utilisation of outfields for grazing. The threatened heathlands are invaded not on ly by native scrub and trees, but also by...

Awarded: NOK 6.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Impact of water-based drilling mud in the Barents Sea: a study using the epibenthic coral species Lophelia pertusa

The search for exploitable reserves of fossil fuels has now reached the Arctic regions and this will be accompanied by drilling operations. Current legislation by SFT strictly limits drilling discharges to that from the top hole sections in the Barents Se a. Discharges to the sea will be limited ...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Rogaland

MILPAAHEL-Miljøpåvirkning og helse

Type 1 Diabetes and the Hygiene Hypothesis (helminths and parasites, and symptomatic virus infections)

Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases with childhood onset. The incidence of T1D has increased with 25% during the last three years, and threefold during the last generation. The disease has a multifactorial aetiology and app ears after a long period where the immune...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

MILPAAHEL-Miljøpåvirkning og helse

Toxicological characterization of selected secondary fungal metabolites in Norwegian grain

Grains are commonly infected with toxigenic fungi, particularly with species of the Fusarium and Alternaria genera. Fusarium fungi are producers of a range of well known mycotoxins as well as less known bioactive metabolites for which little toxicological information exists. Food and feed contai...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus

MILPAAHEL-Miljøpåvirkning og helse

Environmental exposure to phthalates and Bisphenol A and the development of diabetes and asthma - an in vivo and in vitro study

Asthma, allergy and diabetes increased during the last decades. These diseases are caused by dysfunction of the immune system. Diabetes and allergic diseases could share common underlying immunological mechanisms and environmental causes. Our hypothesis i s that the two groups of chemicals, phtha...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

Novel light-weight metal hydrides for hydrogen storage applications

One major unsolved problem for the introduction of hydrogen into the global energy system is effective storage of hydrogen. This proposal addresses hydrogen storage in aluminium hydride and novel boron-based hydrides. Both groups of materials have hydroge n contents in the range of 10 wt% H. Rece...

Awarded: NOK 8.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Akershus

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

End Use of Photovoltaic Technology in Norway

The overall objective of this project is to investigate the hypothesis that "solar electricity is a viable alternative even in Norway". Because of the project, we will know more about under what assumptions this is true, or - conversely - why the hypothes is is false. This will be achieved throug...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Agder

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Climate warming and insect outbreaks in sub-arctic birch forest

Population outbreaks in geometrid moths constitute the most pronounced disturbance factor in sub-arctic birch forest that sometimes leads to extensive forest death. We have recently made two discoveries that suggest that distinct, climate-change related s hifts in geometrid outbreak ranges are no...

Awarded: NOK 10.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Gjenvinning av komposittmaterial fra fritidsbåter

Det finnes per dags dato ingen system for retur av fritidsbåter i Norge. Samtidig er antall gamle kasserte båter økende, enten at de ligger på land eller i vann, og dette vil kunne skape et miljøproblem de kommende årene. Det vil på et eller annet tidspun kt enten fra myndighetene eller forbruker...

Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

SkrueEkstrudering av ALuminium

HØYFASTE ALUMINUMSLEGERINGER: Hovedmålet med denne aktiviteten er materialutvikling gjennom bruk av skrueekstrudering, med hovedfokus på høyfaste aluminiumslegeringer. Skrueekstrudering kan benytte granulater, maskineringsspon, chips osv., noe som gir n ye muligheter når det gjelder produksjon a...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Oslo

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Avansert Bonding

Bakgrunn: Ultralyd hjerteavbildning har i mange år vært en svært viktig kilde for diagnose og forebygging av hjertelidelser. Preventive undersøkelser redder mange liv, og utstyret brukes i økende grad både til overvåkning av pasienter, assistanse under hj erteoperasjoner og diagnostisering. En vi...

Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Vestfold

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Industrialisert produksjon av digital terapi.

Changetech AS er et norsk selskap som industrialiserer tjenester innen psykologi, nærmere bestemt psykologiske endringer. Dette skjer ved bruk av digitale kanaler (mobiltelefon, internett, mv.). De sentrale fagpersonene bak Changetech har tidligere laget en ikke-industrialisert løsning for røykes...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Tissue Factor siRNA for treatment of melanoma metastasis

The project described herein covers the research and initial preclinical part of the project of developing a drug based on small interfering RNAs (siRNA) targeting Tissue Factor, a molecule known to be involved in the processes of blood clotting, metastas is and angiogenesis. The project has emph...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Semi-semantic models for cross-sector portals

The project will address the following sub goals: 1) To develop open standards and tools that will lower the barriers of entry in the area of semantically enhanced portals and services and make it possible for small and medium sized companies and organiza tions to exploit semantic systems. 2) To...

Awarded: NOK 11.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Kontinuerlig Kromatografering for industriell separasjon av spesialmetaller (P-CAC preparative continious annual chromatography)

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Awarded: NOK 6.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Ny teknologi for titan-fremstilling

Elkem ønsker å skape fremtidsrettet ny industri. Titan-fremstilling er et område hvor Elkem har gode forutsetninger på grunn av sin høy-temperatur kompetanse til å bidra til utvikling av nøkkelteknlogi. Prosess-alternativet som vurderes er basert på elekt rolyse. Siktemålet er produksjon av flyte...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

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

VANN: Long-term effects of a biological invasion

Exotic species represent an increasing global threat resulting in ecological disturbance and biodiversity loss in natural ecosystems. In spite of recent emphasis on these problems, several aspects of introductions and invasions are still poorly understood . The present project relates to a non-na...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

GLOBHELS-Global helse

Evaluation of the Impact of the Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness Strategy on Neonatal and Infant Mortality

This is a recently initied cluster-randomized trial in Haryana, North India. Eighteen geographical areas served by Primary Health Centres (PHCs) (average population 30,000) were randomized to intervention or comparison areas. The IMNCI intervention includ es three main components: a) improvements...

Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Constraining total feedback of the climate system by observations and models

Assessing global warming projections on the basis of various future emission scenarios is difficult because a number of key variables in climate change are poorly quantified. In particular, the feedbacks of the climate system when greenhouse-gas concentra tions and aerosols are changing are not w...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Cooperative Mining of Independent Document Repositories

Document repositories contain a wealth of knowledge that can be discovered through text-mining techniques. With the advent of all-digital management processes, new types of repositories have emerged, for example personal document repositories like email folders. The typical approach to mine coll...

Awarded: NOK 8.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Modeling benthic consumption, advection, and carbon subsidies in the Barents Sea

Benthic communities play important roles in the processing of organic carbon on Arctic shelves. These roles affect nutrient availability for phytoplankton; food supply for benthic-feeding fish, seabirds, and mammals; and long-term storage of carbon in sed iments. The dynamic nature and pronounced...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN: Declining long-term trends in Atlantic salmon abundance: inferring mechanisms using catch data for Norway and Scotland.

Long-term time-series of Atlantic salmon catches for c. 250 Norwegian rivers (some spanning the period 1876 to present) and 48 Scottish rivers (1952 to present) will be subject to statistical analyses in order to deduce what regulates the long-term dynami cs of spawning populations. Preliminary a...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Development of a peptide-based therapeutic vaccine to combat HIV disease (chronic immune stimulation)

This project aims to develop a novel therapeutic vaccine that induces nonneutralising antibodies to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to modulate disease rather than inhibit infection. Much evidence has now accumulated supporting the concept that acquire d immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is an ...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Robust Envelope Construction Details for Buildings of the 21. Century

Buildings of the 21. century should be well-insulated (energy efficient), have a good indoor climate, use materials in an efficient way (minimize material use and ecological loadings), and should be built in order to minimize the number of building defect s. Today, this is not necessarily the cas...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Utvikling og bruk av nye seleksjons og high throughput screeningsverktøy for effektiv stammeforbedring i prosesser for produksjon av antib

Prosjektet er et samarbeid mellom Alpharma AS, SINTEF materialer og kjemi og Institutt for Bioteknologi ved NTNU. Prosjektdeltagerne har arbeidet sammen i en rekke prosjekter de siste 15 årene og har i felleskap utviklet flere kommersielt lønnsomme biopro sesser for produksjon av ulike antibiotik...

Awarded: NOK 10.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Kombinert kjemisk og mikrobiologisk prosess for fermentering av pentoser til etanol

Betydelige deler av karbohydratene i lignocellulose biomasser består av pentoser. En av de største utfordringene for lønnsom produksjon av annen generasjon bioetanol fra lignocellulose er omdannelsen av pentoser til etanol. Mange grupper i verden i dag u tvikler genmodifisere mikrober for å omse...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Østfold

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