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NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Fire Resistance of Innovative Timber Structures

The project will consist of the following work-packages (WP): WP1 Design concepts for load-bearing timber structures under fire conditions WP2 Innovative solid wood panel and light weight timber structures WP 3 Connections and joints WP 4 Novel components and structural materials WP 5...

Awarded: NOK 0.23 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Oslo

SIP-LMD-SIP finansiert av Landbruksog matdepartementet

Bioavailability and biological effects of chemicals - Novel tools in risk assessment of mixtures in agricultural and contaminated soils

Prosjektet har siste år jobbet på flere fronter: Transkriptom-analyser for meitemark eksponert for ulik miljøgifter og blandinger, med sikte på å beskrive giftighetsmekanismer. Bioinformatikk-arbeidet er ennå ikke ferdigstilt og utarbeides som del av sama rbeidet med Universitetet i Cardiff. Pa...

Awarded: NOK 13.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Akershus

HELSEFORSKNING-HELSEFORSKNING

Senter for omsorgsforskning i region sør, Universitet i Agder

Senter for omsorgsforskning (SOF), sør, er et samarbeidsprosjekt mellom Universitetet i Agder og Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge. Senteret har 8 ansatte i ulike stillingsstørrelser, samt forskere tilknyttet på prosjektbasis. Vi har 10 PhD stipendiater og en postdoktor stilling. I rapporteringsperiod...

Awarded: NOK 28.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2025

Location: Agder

SIP-Strategiske instituttprogram

Tid og usikkerhet

Hovedproblemstillingen i programmet er å komme fram til mer realistisk verdsetting av tidsbesparelser og økt pålitelighet i transport og tilgrensende aktiviteter. Problemet har to sider: den fysiske og den økonomiske. Vi trenger å vite mer om verdsetting av tid og pålitelighet, både for gods og...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Døgngradindikator for temperaturfølsomme produkter: utvikling og testing av industriprototyp

TimeTemp strips måler døgngrader. En sterk blå fargesøyle brer seg gradvis over strippen, avhengig av tid og temperatur. Prosessen går sakte ved lav temperatur og raskt ved høy temperatur. Matvaren kan spises så lenge TT-strippen går dvs. viser et gjenvær ende lagringspotensial, kvalitetsgrensen,...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Cross-Layer Optimisation of Short-Range Wireless Sensor Networks, Part 2

In the following summary mainly the planned research of the Norwegian side is targeted, with a general introduction to the project target application. The project will use a target application to focus the scientific work and enhance research cooperation . The target application is sensing of ra...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv 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

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

SIP-Strategiske instituttprogram

Kunstnernes levekår i det nye kulturarbeidslivet

Prosjektet omhandler kunstnernes sosiale bakgrunn med fokus på rekruttering og hvordan kunstnerne lykkes i sin kunstneriske virksomhet. Kunstfeltet er preget av et "kronisk lavinntektsproblem" som følge av stor tilstrømming til og liten avgang fra kunstne ryrkene, uten at etterspørselen etter kun...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Telemark

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Multiple instruments and the design and implementation of effective energy and climate policy

This project analyses the economic consequences of using multiple instruments towards energy and climate policy targets. The project studies the main political causes for deviating from the simple cost efficient recommendations. A key objective of the pro ject is to identify effective policy meas...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

METAdata and MObile Superdistribution Extension System

The main idea of the project is to develop and provide generic tools that will encourage and enable end consumers to become active contributors to the creation, marketing and reselling of multimedia products. This will make the value chain more efficient and increase the revenues for the artists ...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Buskerud

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Spontaneous preterm birth: a systems biology approach in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study

sPTB is an unresolved common complex condition in perinatal medicine and is related to long-term disabilities such as cerebral palsy, cognitive and respiratory problems, which will affect the infant in every day life situations. The pathophysiology of sPT B remains poorly understood. Infection an...

Awarded: NOK 15.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Local NOR-MIC BioImaging node at the University of Tromsø

At the University of Tromsø we now establish a core facility for BioImaging. This core facility will be equipped with instruments aimed at imaging, flow cytometri, cell sorting and plate/membrane readers of fluorescent and chemiluminescent signals. For th is core facility we will have two full-ti...

Awarded: NOK 0.45 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MILPAAHEL-Miljøpåvirkning og helse

Health effects related to environmental exposure in an industrial community

Environmental monitoring has shown relatively high levels of heavy metals like cadmium, mercury and lead in residential areas in the industrial town of Odda. The main objective of this project is to provide new knowledge about the association between envi ronmental exposure to chemical factors an...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Vestland

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Epigenetic and transcription factor patterns in regulation of cancer-stroma-vascular interactions of human urogenital cancer

In cancer increased cell proliferation outweighs apoptosis and the cancer cells lose contact inhibition and invade surrounding stroma. Genomic instability provides substrate for the evolution and selection of increasingly aggressive cells that invade and metastasize. We have previously reported p...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Vestland

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

Longitudinal studies of Major Depression Disorder and cognitive functioning and emotional information processing: predictors for relapse?

Kognitiv funksjon hos pasienter som opplever sin første episode av depresjon: Det foreliggende prosjektet har inkludert en gruppe mennesker som opplever å bli deprimert for første gang i sitt liv, og undersøkt kognitive funksjoner hos denne gruppen samm enliknet med en gruppe som ikke har vært d...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2015

Location: Vestland

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

Preschool ADHD: Early characteristics, developmental trajectories, risk and protective factors in a prospective birth cohort

Background: ADHD is highly prevalent, characterized by age inappropriate levels of inattention, hyperactivity and impulsiveness. It represents a substantial threat to healthy social and academic development, and increased risk for psychiatric comorbidity. Knowledge about early characteristics, d...

Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2015

Location: Oslo

GLOBHELS-Global helse

Multi-disciplinary approach to Explaining Differential Immunization Coverage

Although there exist effective vaccines for many life-threatening diseases, access to these technologies remains limited in many low and middle income countries. The proposed project address the question: Why are some low-income countries and communities therein far more successful than others in...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

Early detection and prevention of psychiatric disorders among preschoolers in the community: Mechanisms of change and long term follow up

Young children have psychiatric disorders to a comparable extent with that of any other age group, and they endure. If undetected, problems may escalate and become more resistant to change. However, far fewer young children with psychiatric disorders rece ive treatment than do school age children...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

GLOBHELS-Global helse

Impact of a new and affordable conjugate meningococcal vaccine on carriage of serogroup A Neisseria meningitidis and disease transmission

Meningococcal meningitis is causing repeated massive epidemics in an area south of Sahara, termed the meningitis belt. The disease-causing bacteria are mainly serogroup A meningococci. These are transmitted between individuals by air-borne droplets and as ymptomatic carriers are the principal sou...

Awarded: NOK 11.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

KLINISK-Klinisk forskning

The Prescription Peer Academic Detailing (Rx-PAD) study. A cluster-randomized educational intervention to improve GPs' prescription practice

The study will be employed as a cluster randomized study targeting 80 general practice (GP) continuous medical education (CME) groups (about 500 GPs) which will be randomized to recieve one out of two interventions - being controls for the other. Furtherm ore, an extended control group comprised ...

Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Quality Goat Milk for Cheese Production / Kvalitetsmjølk for kvit geitost

The pattern of consumption of goat milk in Norway is currently changing, and consumers are more inclined to cheese than whey products (brown cheese). This calls for an improvement of overall quality and especially of flavour and rennet coagulation propert ies of the milk. The present project will...

Awarded: NOK 9.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Akershus

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Microcircuits for spatial representation in hippocampus and entorhinal cortex

Despite impressive advances in almost every field of neuroscience, our understanding of brain function remains largely confined to its building blocks at the microscopic level, and to phenomenological descriptions at the macroscopic level. Transgenic mice have provided neuroscience with countles...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosjektstøtte for medisin, helse og biologi

Prevention of cardiac inefficiency in type 2 diabetes by means of high-intensity exercise training

Type 2 diabetes is associated with altered myocardial metabolism, reduced cardiac performance and reduced cardiac efficiency (cardiac work per unit oxygen consumption). The long-term objective of the present project is to understand the mechanisms behind diabetic cardiomyopathy, an example of car...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

FORURENS: Effects of catchment processes and forest management in boreal forests on Hg and MeHg in surface waters

Mercury (Hg) pollution is becoming an environmental problem of great concern in boreal areas across the entire northern hemisphere, especially because of bioaccumulation of methylmercury (MeHg) in fish and consequences of this toxic substance for human he alth. There is an urgent need for better ...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Subsidizing R&D and installment of carbon abatement in open economies

The European Union and Norway have both proposed tougher unilateral emission reduction targets than what is required by the Kyoto protocol. According to some setting tough unilateral targets will lead to faster technological development, which again will influence other countries willingness to p...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

Terminert Optical and electrical properties of nanostructured materials for energy conversion

The project is aimed at acquiring the fundamental knowledge on formation, optical, electrical, and thermal properties of nano-structured solar cells by combination of fabrication, characterization, and modeling methods. We will investigate possibilities o f enhancing efficiency of different inorg...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

En studie av samiske barns rettigheter i forhold til barnekonvensjonen

Barnekonvensjonen er den eneste av FNs generelle menneskerettighetskonvensjoner som spesifikt henviser til urfolks rettigheter. 1. august 2003 ble barnekonvensjonen inkorporert i Menneskerettighetsloven. Det vil si at barnekonvensjonens bestemmelser ved m otstrid går foran bestemmelser i annen na...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Handel med oppdrettsfisk - hva er suksesskriteriene?

Prosjektet forkuserer på tre overordnede spørsmål.: 1) Hvilke grep har man gjort i eksporten av oppdrettsartene laks, pangasius og tilapia i det internasjonale markedet som har gjort at man har lykkes i å ekspandere eksporten både med hensyn til volum og marked? 2) Hvorfor har man ikke lykkes å f...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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