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HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

The possible role of zooplankton in modulating ecosystem effects of acute oil spills in the Norwegian and Barents Seas.

The proposed project will study long-term effects of acute oil spills in the Norwegian and Barents Seas, focusing on the role of zooplankton. Zooplankton, constituting the food for e.g. herring, capelin and young cod, is central in the ecosystem; yet impo rtant questions remain unsolved. The over...

Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

An integrated study of stakeholders and living resources in relation to the potential effectiveness of MPAs as a management tool (MPAtool)

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are a promising tool for preventing overexploitation of marine biological resources. However, there are still few MPAs in temperate waters. Encouraged by the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries, the Institute of Marine Researc h and local commercial fishers, four MPAs...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

Transnasjonale nettverk, nasjonale demokratier. Politisk mobilisering og engasjement blant unge voksne med innvandrerbakgrunn

Internasjonal migrasjon er et kjennetegn ved moderne globalisering. Økonomiske, politiske og sosiale forhold gjør at mennesker flytter til nye steder og etablerer seg i andre land. Mange opprettholder likevel viktige bånd til hjemlandet. Et resultat er at politisk aktivitet, lojalitet og tilhøri...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Rights to uncultivated land and social change

The goal of the project is to describe and analyse issues of rights relating to uncultivated land in rural areas in Norway, including coastal areas, in the light of current social and economic changes and development needs in these areas. The main emphasi s is on different types of rights and org...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

GLOBHELS-Global helse

Immunity towards mycobacteria - identification of avirulent vaccine strains and therapeutic targets

Tuberculosis (TB) kills nearly 2 million people each year, and, together with HIV, Mycobacterium tuberculosis top the WHO list of deaths caused by infectious agents. In HIV infected individuals, Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) is a major cause of second ary lethal infections. The only vaccine c...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILGENHEL-Miljø, gener og helse

Cardiovascular morbidity and mortality: Effects of noise or air pollution or both?

Since road traffic is a source of both air pollutants and noise, it is very important to disentangle the health effects of the two very different types of environmental exposures related to road traffic. There are indications that both noise and air pollu tion are associated with increased risk o...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Southern Ocean Biogeochemistry: Education and Research

With extreme oceanographic variability over very short distances, the waters around South Africa provide a wealth of information on the mechanistic controls on marine biogeochemical variability. South African waters occupy a special niche in oceanography lying at the junction between western and ...

Awarded: NOK 0.66 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Metagenomics and Gene Discovery in Antarctic Terrestrial Habitats

We aim to use metagenomic methods to access portions of Antarctic low temperature crenarchaeotal genomes. Large insert metagenomic fosmid clones identified by colony hybridization with crenarchaeotal 16S rRNA gene probes will be sequenced and ORFs identif ied. The design of probes to terminal reg...

Awarded: NOK 0.75 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Assessment of mixture toxicity of compounds in discharges to the North Sea and coastal areas of Norway

The North sea and coastal areas of Norway receive input of pollutants from various sources including disharges from land, maritime and offshore oil production activitites, leakage from contaminated sediments and long-range atmospheric transport. These com pounds exist as complex mixtures in the r...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Oslo

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Validation of CO2 Capture

In absorbers for removal of CO2 from exhaust from natural gas fired power stations the liquid/gas flow ratio is very low. Problems may easily arise with wetting of the packing material. This reduces mass transfer. In order to counteract this effect good i nitial distribution of liquid is essentia...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Rogaland

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

A study of HIV and AIDS in relation to people with disability in South Africa

This project aims to look at different aspects of HIV/AIDS and disability in South Africa. It is hypothesized that people with disabilities face a higher risk of HIV infection. To understand the effects of HIV on people with disabilities one must look at the status society awards them in relatio...

Awarded: NOK 0.65 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Khoe-San Culture, Language and Memory in South Africa

The project has two main components. One component comprises networking and research collaboration with regional universities with research profiles addressing Khoe-San/indigenous issues (e.g. University of Namibia, University of Botswana and the Univer sity of the Western Cape) and the Univers...

Awarded: NOK 0.45 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Gobies and hake in the hypoxic waters of the Benguela up-welling current

Our aim is to investigate how the goby (Sufflogobius bibarbatus) and the shallow water hake (Merluccius capensis) cope with the hypoxic waters of the Benguela current. Both are key species of the ecosystem. They show a remarkable tolerance to the hypoxic conditions found in this up-welling area, ...

Awarded: NOK 0.85 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Industrial Applications of Metal Hydrides for Hydrogen Extraction, Storage and Compression

Introducing hydrogen as universal environment-friendly energy carrier demands efficient technologies allowing to extract it from industrial streams (products of coal gasification, process gases of refineries, etc.), to store it by a compact and safe way, and, finally, to deliver H2 to a consumer ...

Awarded: NOK 0.68 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Akershus

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

A Translational Effort to Develop Novel Magnetic Resonance Imaging Protocols and Sequences for Studying Myocardial Lethal Reperfusion Injury

Cardiovascular disease remains a leading cause of death worldwide. Impaired coronary circulation in the heart following a myocardial ischemic episode will lead to compromised hemodynamic function and ultimately cell death. Coronary reperfusion is the only means of limiting infarct size, provided...

Awarded: NOK 0.79 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Nutritional intervention and novel diagnostics to improve community-based control of tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem in developing countries as well as in the Republic of South Africa (RSA). Despite significant strides in case detection and treatment, the prevalence of TB continues to rise at an alarming, also in the RS A. More effective diagnostic methods are ...

Awarded: NOK 0.29 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Økt bruk av tre i byggenæringen - miljøforhold som konkurransefaktor

Den overordnede ideen er at prosjektet skal tilgjengeliggjøre miljødokumentasjon i de kildene som oppsøkes av beslutningstakere, forskningsmiljøer og offentlig administrasjon, og dermed bidra til økt bruk av tre i byggenæringen. I tillegg vil prosjektets resultater kunne brukes til å tilrettelegg...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Oslo

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Modeling of the effects of CO2 leaks from pipelines and process facilities

When processing and transporting significant quantities of CO2 there is a potential for leaks of CO2 to plant or surroundings. CO2 is denser than air and will replace air near the ground. Significant leaks may represent a significant hazard to people down wind, and even moderate sized leaks may f...

Awarded: NOK 1.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Seeds for growth - Identification of transcriptional programs controlling seed growth and development from Arabidopsis to rice

The last decades have brought about a tremendous increase in our understanding in molecular mechansims of seed development. However, further progress appears to be haltered by three major constraints. First, seeds are compound structures that harbour many tissues and cell types. Currently, a rel...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

The WTO-Doha and the Economic Growth for The Rural Poor

Agricultural trade liberalization is high on the agenda for the World Trade Organisation, specifically underscoring the potential positive effects for the world?s poor. This project will study how better international market access will ?trickle down? to rural livelihoods in the developing world....

Awarded: NOK 0.51 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Akershus

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

Norwegian Child Protection in a Comparative Perspective

Forskningsrådsprosjekt: Barnevernet i et komparativt perspektiv Korttittel: CHILDPRO Dette forskningsprosjektet skal utforske og gi innsikt i relasjonen mellom politiske strategier/føringer og praksis innen barnevernsfeltet. Det vil først og fremst adress ere de to første punktene slik de fremkom...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

Barnevern og ettervern - marginalisering, multietnisitet og autonomi

Barnevern og ettervern - marginalisering, multikulturalitet og autonomi er et analyseprosjekt ved NOVA. Prosjektet knytter seg til longitudinelle barnevernsdata og analyser av disse (det pågående NOVA-prosjektet Barnevern i Norge 1990-2006). De longitudin elle barneverndataene er etablert over en...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Oslo

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Benthic biodiversity ? function and toxicology of selected key Arctic organisms

The proposed project is a cooperation network between the Norwegian institutes Akvaplan-niva and University Centre on Svalbard and the Russian institutes Knipovich Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (PINRO) and Murmansk Marine B iological Institute (MMBI). The programm...

Awarded: NOK 0.59 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Climate change Altering the Nordic Energy System

National energy systems in the Nordic countries are influenced by a complex of factors that makes foresight a difficult task. This project will focus on the effects of climate change but connect this policy field to two other profound developments: the in terconnection of the Nordic energy system...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

SAMF-Fagkomiteen for samfunnsvitenskap

Constructing Regional Advantage in Knowledge-based Industries - Norwegian Policy Approaches (ECRP-2007)

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Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Agder

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Hallgeir Herikstad - Engasjement som nasjonal ekspert ved Europakommisjonen - DG RTD, Directorate E.

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Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Rogaland

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

Forskningsleder Siri Forsmo

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Awarded: NOK 0.89 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

Forskningsleder Gun Roos

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Awarded: NOK 1.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

SFI-Sentre for forskningsdrevet innovasjon

CAST - Cancer Stem Cell Innovation Center

SUMMARY SFI-CAST has been established by the Research Council of Norway with the aim of using knowledge about stem cell biology to improve our understanding of cancer, and to develop new therapeutic tools. SFI-CAST was hosted by the Oslo University Hospital (OUS) with the University of Osl...

Awarded: NOK 80.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2015

Location: Oslo

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Kompetansebehov i marin sektor

Prosjektbeskrivelse Kompetansebehov i marin sektor Bakgrunn Høgskolen i Bodø (HBO) utdanner ledere og mellomledere til fiskeri og havbruksnæringa. Som alle utdanningsinstitusjoner som driver med slik utdanning opplever HBO at rekrutteringen til disse st udieplassene er preget av liten appell ho...

Awarded: NOK 24,999

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda