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FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

USE OF SNP-CHIPS AND SELECTIVE DNA POOLING FOR IDENTIFYING DISEASE RESISTANCE MARKERS IN ATLANTIC SALMON

The main objective of this project is to find molecular markers that can be implemented in a marker assisted selection program (MAS) to increase genetic resistance to infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) in the Norwegian Atlantic salmon breeding program. MAS h as a great potential to increase the rate...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Climate change impacts in the Electricity Sector

Climate change will have impacts on electricity markets, both on demand and supply. In Norway, important likely impacts are that the supply of hydropower and wind power will be boosted by weather changes, while warmer winters will dampen heating demand. H owever, in other European countries, the ...

Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Mobilizing social capital in ICT-based global organizations

The MOSCITO project will generate new empirical insights and accumulate evidence in the form of practical organizational knowledge as to how organizations operating on an international scene can use specific communication technologies to develop, maintain , combine and exploit social capital. The...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Massive multi-type 3D datasets in parallel Environments

Most existing software for handling of 3D data-sets is based on historic levels of computer performance, and programmed according to a sequential paradigm. Low cost parallel processing hardware is now available due to the recent introduction of multi-core CPUs and programmable graphics cards. Th...

Awarded: NOK 10.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

National resources for genomics, functional genomics and health research in Atlantic salmon and Atlantic cod. WP 3 (tidl del av177030)

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Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Detection, characterization and differentiation of infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) strains in farmed Atlantic salmon

IPN outbreaks are seen both in the freshwater and seawater phase of the production, resulting in severe annual losses, and has emerged as a severe threat to the economy of the fish-farming industry. According to recent estimates, the yearly losses due to IPN in Norway are NOK 1 billion. This pro...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Møre og Romsdal

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Expected Change in Fisheries in the Barents Sea

Project summary The project focuses on how changes in climate, i.e. increase in temperature, will influence fish stocks and their commercial stakeholders. Changes in fish distribution will not only affect the fisheries directly through changes in possibl e fishing areas, and changes in yield bec...

Awarded: NOK 9.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

PLAN - Responding to Climate Change: The Potentials of and Limits to Adaptation in Norway

PLAN is a coordinated, social science-based research project that analyzes the potentials of and limits to adaptation as a response to climate change in Norway. This four-year project will provide an empirical and theoretical understanding of adaptation a s a social process, with an emphasis on i...

Awarded: NOK 26.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Tøffere krav? Ferdigheter og deltakelse i arbeidsmarkedet

Prosjektet er en empirisk studie av hvordan leseferdigheter, problemløsningsevne, utdanning og helse henger sammen med deltakelse i arbeidsmarkedet. Det hevdes ofte at arbeidslivets krav til kvalifikasjoner har økt. Vi vil teste om kravene har blitt skjer pet de siste ti årene og på hvilke måter ...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Functional genomics of phenotypic plasticity of cod: a national consortium.

The proposed project is submitted by the University of Oslo as such (through its rector) on behalf of the other members in the consortium consisting of strong basic research groups with a strong and long experience within the fields of genomics, ecology a nd evolutionary biology. Although we repr...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

The geography of social vulnerability, environemental hazards and climate change.

The study set out to modify, apply and evaluate a model for environmental risk assessment, here termed 'The vulnerability of a place model', as a means for studying the potential impact of future extreme climatic events in Norwegian regions. The model, de veloped and used in an American context, ...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in Norway: NORDADAPT

There is general agreement that the impacts of climate change combined with changes in social and economic conditions are likely to pose significant challenges locally. NORADAPT focuses on how projected changes in climate interact with changes in socio-ec onomic and institutional conditions, and ...

Awarded: NOK 7.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Educational pathways of minority youth: Intersections of gender, class and ethnicity

Minoritetsungdom har betydelig høyere risiko for framtidig marginalisering enn ungdom med etnisk norske foreldre. Utdanning har av myndighetene blitt utpekt som det viktigste virkemidlet for å sikre integrering og hindre at etniske minoriteter opplever ma rginalisering i framtida. Forskning har v...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Universell Utforming i Multimodale Grensesnitt

Prosjektet vil bidra til å inkludere flere mennesker i det moderne informasjonssamfunnet ved å utvikle mellomvare, kunnskap og retningslinjer. Mellomvaren skal: a. generere brukerprofiler vha. IKT-støttet kartlegging av brukernes kognitive ferdigheter, b. danne et programvarebibliotek med funksj...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Oslo

STAB-Statistikk og kunnsk.grunnlag

Historisk analyse av FoU-bevilgningene over statbudsjettet

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Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Digital Interoperability with Trust

Recent years have seen an unprecedented acceleration in the evolution and expansion of Internetbased service provision and inter/intra-enterprise integration in all market sectors. This brings about the prospect of ad-hoc integration of systems across org anisational boundaries. Spanning national...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Mouse models for studying oxidative demethylation of DNA and RNA

It was recently discovered that the AlkB protein from E. coli uses a novel mechanism, termed oxidative demethylation, to remove deleterious methyl lesions from DNA and RNA. Eight mammalian AlkB homologues, denoted ABH1 - ABH8 (mABH1-8 in mice), exist, and two of these, ABH2 and ABH3, have been s...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Oslo

NANOMAT-Nanoteknologi og nye materialer

Entry of Nanoparticles into cells: Characterization of Nanoparticles as tools to study endocytic pathways and intracellular transport

Research on nanoparticles have evolved into biological applications with large expectations for the use of magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles and fluorescent Quantum dots in different imaging techniques both for tumor targeting and drug delivery in humans and as probes at the cellular level. In th...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

PRAKUT-Praksisrettet utdanningsforskn

Nyutdannede læreres mestring av yrket: om kvalifisering i høgskole og grunnskole

I dette prosjektet skal vi studere nyutdannede læreres mestring av yrket. Spørsmålet gjelder ikke bare funksjonen til høgskole og grunnskole som læringsarena, men også hva som læres, og hva som læres best, på hvilken arena. Bedre kunnskap om disse forhold ene er av sentral betydning fordi læreren...

Awarded: NOK 7.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Genomics as a tool for detecting selection in farm Atlantic salmon and interactions between escaped farm and wild salmon

Norway is of unique importance for the Atlantic salmon, both as the largest producer of farmed salmon and a main reservoir of wild stocks. However, escaped farmed fish make up a significant portion of spawners in the wild, and there is concern that the ge netic constitution of wild stocks is dete...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Immune stimulating responses of biopolymers with particular reference to treatment of chronic wounds

Chronic wounds are a major world health problem; estimated to affect 3% of the population over the age of 65. There is a demand in the wound healing marked for new efficient products. The chronic wound bed represents a very complex system where bacteria a nd their products and degraded proteins c...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Akershus

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Point-of-care Multi-Aware Clinical Pilot

Our contributions will be: - Usage-scenarios and requirements for this kind of pervasive multi-user, multi-session, multi-task computing in the hospital ward. - Models and theory for computer-mediated group interaction and communication in fragmente d, information-intensive, work processe...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

FABULA (FremrAgende By for Undervisning og LAering): Seamless networks for transforming the city into an arena for learning

The vision of FABULA is a city that, with the help of seamless networks, becomes a learning arena for its students, with services that allow people not only to access learning material anytime and anywhere, but also, and most importantly, to take an activ e role in collaborative processes of know...

Awarded: NOK 11.3 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Host-pathogen interactions: In vitro and in vivo exploration of the quorum sensing system of the marine fish pathogen Vibrio salmonicida.

The genus Vibrio is among the most numerous and ubiquitous of marine bacteria and commonly found as etiological agents of diseases in both vertebrates and invertebrates throughout the world. Vibrio salmonicida, a halophilic and psychrophilic (cold adapted ) marine gram-negative bacterium, the eti...

Awarded: NOK 6.3 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

EU7-STRA-Strålevern, EUs 7. rammeprog

Consolidation of European nuclear education, training and knowledge management.

The Coordination Action consolidates and expands the achievements of the ENEN, EURAC and the NEPTUNO projects attained by the European Nuclear Education Network Association in respectively the 5th and 6th framework programme. The project activities will b e mainly structured around the five commi...

Awarded: NOK 0.78 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Akershus

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

STRATEGIES FOR SEAMLESS DEPLOYMENT OF MOBILE PATIENT MONITORING SYSTEMS

Wireless biosensor networks are likely to enable new applications in medicine and health care. The wireless technology can be used to eliminate the use of cables. This means the technology will be helpful for patients to have enhanced mobility, a key fact or for speedy recovery after major surgic...

Awarded: NOK 5.6 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Robust multimedia streaming services

The main contribution of the project is to develop knowledge through experimentation on how to develop multimedia streaming services that manage their own adaptation and configuration. This knowledge will help to define a new generation of computing stand ards that supports increasing demands for...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Oslo

PRAKUT-Praksisrettet utdanningsforskn

Teaching about religious diversity in schools. Applying and developing an interpretive cultural approach to religious education.

Norwegian religious education has since 1997 focused on three aims; learning about religions and world-views, learning from religions and world-views, and learning to live together. Religion and world-views is one of the most important arenas in the schoo l community where cultural diversity (eth...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Rogaland

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Development of a Peptide-based Universal Influenza Vaccine

This study aims to develop a safe and effective peptide-based universal influenza vaccine targeting dendritic cells, that stimulates cell mediated immunity to reduce morbidity and mortality associated with influenza virus infection. Such a vaccine can be made in advance of a pandemic and can also...

Awarded: NOK 8.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

SHP-Strategiske høgskoleprogram

Samisk språkoverføring i ulike kontekster

Ein stor del av språka i verda er i dag truga språk, og ein stor del av dei truga språka er igjen urfolksspråk. Skifte av heimespråk frå urfolksspråk til majoritetsspråket i staten går føre seg over heile verda.Gjennom politisk makt til urfolk, auka statu s for språka og god språkplanlegging kan ...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2013

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

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