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FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Proposal for a National consortium in Fish Genomics - FishGen

The present proposal describes the establishment of a National Consortium in fish genomics (FishGen). The main partners in the FishGen are; Institute of Marine Research (IMR), University of Bergen (UoB), National institute of nutrition and seafood researc h (NIFES), University of Tromsø (UiTø), N...

Awarded: NOK 14.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

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

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

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

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

NucPro: Epigenetics of nuclear programs - from genome-wide landscapes to individual factor mechanisms

This Proposal outlines research plans for global epigenetic and transcription factor studies at an already established Functional Genomics (FUGE) Consortium for studies of nuclear programs at the University of Oslo (UiO). The consortium is a joint effort from four independent research groups to e...

Awarded: NOK 11.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Optimized Heterogeneous Multiuser MIMO Networks

This project investigates multiuser multi-input multi-output (MIMO) networks using heterogeneous wireless mobile access technologies. The aim is to develop several novel techniques by exploiting the high number of degrees of freedom offered by the network s (multiuser, space, time and frequency d...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Akershus

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

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Developing the SALBANK resource

The SALBANK population was set up as an experimental cross to detect QTLs and genes. By crossing strains that have been geographically isolated since the glacial period: the relict strain Byglandsbleka and the Norwegian elite population NLA followed by in ter crosses, family sets with an expected...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

CAIM - Context Aware Image Management

Caim (Context-Aware Image Management) prosjektet benytter kontekstinformasjon til bilder (slik som dato og sted et bildet ble tatt) for automatisk å finne mer informasjon om det man ser i bildet (for eksempel i form av Wikipedia artikler og web-sider) og tilby nye typer bildesøk. Vi tilbyr for e...

Awarded: NOK 10.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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

PRAKUT-Praksisrettet utdanningsforskn

Praksisrettet Veiledning i Grunnopplæringen (PVG)

Prosjektet fremmes på vegne av et team satt sammen av deltakere fra Høgskolen i Bodø med partnere ved Høgskolen i Nesna, Universitetet i Tromsø, Universitetet i Oslo, Statped Nord, Bodø, Tromsø, Rana og Alstahaug kommuner representert ved skoler og PP-tje nesten i kommunene. Prosjektet handler ...

Awarded: NOK 4.9 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

PRAKSFOU-Praksisrettet FOU i skolen

Lesing av fagtekster som grunnleggende ferdighet i fagene

Myndighetenes satsing gjennom Kunnskapsløftet og L06 omtaler lesing som én av fem grunnleggende ferdigheter i alle fag. Prosjektet knytter leseferdighet til lesing av læremidlenes fagtekster. Læremidlene har fått beskjeden oppmerksomhet ved evalueringene av tidligere reformer (R94 og L97). Samtid...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Vestfold

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