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BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Ultrasound Simulator - Helping save lives

In heath care the use of simulators may both improve quality and efficiency of the treatment process as well as ensure safe and correct handling of patients in acute situations. Ultrasound technology has improved dramatically in recent years, both due to image quality as well as due to the size a...

Awarded: NOK 10.4 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Rogaland

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Designing business models for customer value in heterogeneous networks

Technological research conducted to fulfil the vision of seamless services provided across heterogeneous networks has been intense. Business model research on heterogeneous networks is scarce and focuses seamless services across existing access network in frastructures, such as GPRS, UMTS and Wi-...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2013

Location: Vestland

KLINISK-Klinisk forskning

Catheter directed thrombolysis in the treatment of acute deep vein thrombosis - a randomized clinical trial

Rationale: Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a severe disease which may cause severe disability and which is sometimes fatal. Conventional treatment with low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) and oral antiocoagulants is associated with some degree of long-term sequalae, i.e., post-thrombotic syndrome (...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Spoken Information Retrieval by Knowledge Utilization in Statistical speech processing

Current automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance is at its best one order of magnitude below human performance. A new statistical framework is needed that will incorporate knowledge sources in a combined knowledge-based and data-driven paradigm. The project is a part of a joint internation...

Awarded: NOK 10.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Intelligent ski - smart fabrikk

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Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Innlandet

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Communication and Information Sharing between Patients and Their Care Providers

Improving Shared Decision Making (SDM), patient-provider communication, and providing all citizens with equal access to health information has become a high priority health policy goal. In this interdisciplinary, international research collaboration we wi ll develop and test CONNECT (Care Online:...

Awarded: NOK 6.7 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Active Behavioral Interfaces for Seamless Network Integration

The project addresses basic challenges in seamless integration of software solutions for heterogeneous net, by proposing a meta-infrastructure for environment awareness based on a novel notion of Active Behavioral Interfaces. This notion of active behavi oral interfaces will enable software comp...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Technology for Scalable Commercial Video Streaming in the Internet

The primary goal of this project is to develop a robust infrastructure for real time video streaming over the Internet, making it possible for it to eventually replace broadcasting-based TV, and at the same time adding new features such as true video-on-d emand. Such a system cannot be implement...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Secure Heterogeneous Information Presentation (heterogeneous content on heterogeneous platforms)

The networked society is entirely dependent on the access to and use of information. A typical problem for a user is that the information he is seeking is available but not organised in the way matching his actual needs. E.g., it is in different format w hich does not conform to user's interface...

Awarded: NOK 7.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Vestland

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Flexible Integration Processes in the Public Sector

This project will investigate processes where ICT is employed in the public sector to establish and sustain networked collaborative work practices. Achieving change and learning in complex socio-technical assemblages involve handling of complexity, for wh ich flexibility is a key strategy. Thus o...

Awarded: NOK 8.4 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Oslo

ISPJUS-ISP - Satsing på juridisk forskning

International tribunals: legalization and constitutionalization - implications for national constitutional structures

Prosjektet er basert på antakelsen om at forpliktelsene stater påtar seg i traktater i økende grad tolkes og utvikles i ved internasjonale domstoler. Prosjektet forfølger to hovedmål. Det første er å identifisere hvilken rolle ulike internasjonale domstol er spiller for rettsutviklingen internasj...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Bargaining for Non-Participation? Two-level Games and US Behaviour in the Climate Negotiations

Putnam's theory of two-level games has received widespread attention in the literature on international cooperation. According to this theory, negotiators will look ahead and only consider treaty designs that are likely to achieve ratification in all majo r participating countries. Interestingly,...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

DEMOSREG-Demokrati, styring og regional

Multi-level goverance and regional development - the politics of natural gas

Målet i dette prosjektet er å studere hvilken betydning nettverk mellom offentlige og private aktører på ulike geografiske nivåer har i forhold til å påvirke politikken for regional utvikling. Det empiriske utgangspunktet er nettverk etablert for å fremme innenlands bruk av naturgass i tre regio...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

DolphiSkin - Utvikling av en håndholdt ultralydskanner med 3D-visualisering for dermatologisk diagnostisering.

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Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Innlandet

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Secure Wireless Positioning and Transactions

Aktiv RFID er et forholdsvis nytt fagområde som er spådd en rask vekst de neste 10 år. Markedet for aktive RFID systemer ligger innen transport, telekommunikasjon, logistikk, helse, maritim og militære anvendelser. SWiPT prosjektet ønsker å kombinerer en trådløs link med en krypterings prosessor...

Awarded: NOK 8.4 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Akershus

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Smidig Trådløs Infrastruktur for Framtidige Pakkebaserte Telenett

Prosjektet Smidig, Trådløs Infrastruktur skal finne ut og skaffe hva som kreves for å få mest mulig nytte av høykapasitets radio som del av framtidige telenett. Slike radioer vil overføre data mellom knutepunkt i det nettverket som formidler informasjon m ellom brukere. De vil være del av den skj...

Awarded: NOK 19.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Vestland

SHP-Strategiske høgskoleprogram

Miniatyr ultralydtransducere for medisinske anvendelser

Målet med prosjektet er å utvikle to typer små ultralyd-transducere for medisinske anvendelser. Begge er teknologisk basert på mikromaskinering av silisium. Transducerne skal brukes mot to forskjellige medisinske anvendelser. Synergien mellom de to konsep tene er så stor at det er fornuftig å koo...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Vestfold

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Context-sensitive systems for mobile communication in hospitals

This project will focus on context-sensitive interfaces, middleware, and new interaction forms for mobile devices that support multi-modal communication in hospitals. Such devices will support media such as voice services, text-messaging and paging in an efficient and non-interruptive manner as...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Black shale improved and sustainable solutions for building, construction and real estate sectors

Black shale is a black carbon and sulphur shale material, deposited about 500 million years ago. Black shale, as used in the proposal, includes both alum shale and clay shale containing carbon. The black shales contain quartz, illite, feldspars, carbonate s and pyrite minerals -uranium, radon, si...

Awarded: NOK 9.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

A Lagrangian study of pathways and mixing of Arctic and Atlantic waters in the Norwegian Sea. Part II: Analysis and Synthesis

Scientists at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR) and at the University of Rhode Island (URI) have completed a 4 years long collaborative field project in the Nordic Seas. The circulation of the Atlantic Water (AW) and the Arctic Intermediate Water (AIW) have been studied using acoust...

Awarded: NOK 0.70 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Vestland

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Future Technology In Intraoperative Image Guidance - Better patient treatment

This project proposal is collaboration between MISON AS and the research group in Trondheim at SINTEF, NTNU and St Olavs University Hospital. Minimally invasive therapy is now increasing in the health sector due to improved patient treatment and faster re covery of the patient. By using ultrasoun...

Awarded: NOK 10.3 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

ISI - Innovativ sprøytestøpeindustri

Prosjektet er initiert av Forum for sprøytestøping (av plast) og ledes av bildelprodusenten Plastal AS på Raufoss. Målet er å utvikle innovative og konkurransedyktige sprøytestøpte plastkomponenter, samt utvikle kostnadseffektive defektfrie sprøytestøpepr osesser. Hovedområdene for prosjektet e...

Awarded: NOK 14.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Østfold

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

CRASH- Integrert, differensiert og lean verdikjede for aluminiumsprodukter til bilindustrien

Hydro Aluminium Structure - North European Region (SNER) er den største tilbyder av bildeler i aluminium for personbiler på verdensbasis. Gjennom å utvikle en kundedrevet og lean verdikjede skal vi styrke vår markedsposisjon. I det siste tiåret har bi lindustrien fokusert på kostnadskutt og e...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Innlandet

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

DeStore - Decentralized Storage of Multimodal User Data

Websentriske tjenester blir stadig mer populære, mye grunnet muligheten til å leie en komplett tjeneste med en minimal administrativ innsats for kunden. Webbaserte tjenester har likevel flere svakheter i forhold til lokalt driftede løsninger. I de webtje nestene hvor brukeren selv produseres sto...

Awarded: NOK 5.9 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

NEVRONOR-Nasjonal satsing på nevrovitenskap f

The Parkinson study in Western Norway and Aust-Agder. Motor and non-motor problems in patients with Parkinson's Disease (PD)

Parkinson's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder of unknown cause. In 2003 it was proposed a new hypothesis by neuropathologists which claims that the disease develops from the brain stem and thereafter to higher levels of the brain in a pr e-determined anatomical sequence. This hy...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Vestland

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Microbiocidal coatings based on Sphagnum biopolymers for extending the shelf-life of fresh fish (184255)

At present only 1 in 3 temperate marine fish is sold to the consumer (mostly export) as high-quality, high-profit fresh fish. The rest is sold as lower-grade, lower-profit processed fish. If the shelf-life of fresh fish can be extended by only 20-30 % (2- 3 days) then the economic and social (in ...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILGENHEL-Miljø, gener og helse

Food from the sea - health effects of organic pollutants and essential nutrients from marine food. The Norwegian Women and Cancer Study.

In the Norwegian Women and Cancer study (NOWAC), detailed dietary information is available in addition to a large biobank. Altogether 68 000 women aged 41-70 years at recruitment have been followed up for cancer incidence and mortality through linkages to national registers based on the unique n...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

INVENTIO - Theory and Practice of Designing Digital Genres for Learning and Leisure.

Despite the promise of technology, there are lags in the textual realisation of rich multimodal communication. We see three levels of digital media: hardware, software and genre as meaningware. We focus on genre in making meaning via digital media from a humanistic point of view. In research and ...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Oslo

ISPJUS-ISP - Satsing på juridisk forskning

Utmarksrettigheter og samfunnsendring. Rettigheter, organisering og regulering i norsk utmark i møte med næringsendringer og miljøproblem.

Bakgrunnen for prosjektet er utviklingstrekk som utfordrer den tradisjonelle tingsretten, tvinger fram nytenkning og nødvendiggjør både kritisk analytisk og konstruktiv forskning. Prosjektet vil ha tre elementer som vil utgjøre et hele: - Teoriutvikling o m rettigheter og regulering av fast eiend...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Oslo

MAROFF-Maritim virksomhet og offshore operasjoner

Utvikling og implementering av prosess-styringssystem (operasjonssentral) for fiskeoppdrettsnæringen (PISCADA)

Sammenkopling mellom teknologi og menneske ved hjelp av IKT-baserte trådløse nettverk har ikke vært gjort før innafor havbruksnæringa. En har operert med frittstående system som ikke har kommunisert med verken menneske eller med instrumentering på intelli gent vis. Heller ikke har en tenkt på opp...

Awarded: NOK 6.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage