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HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Oppfølging av slakteprosjekter

Nye forskrifter og krav knyttet til slakting av fisk og trykk fra markedet om større hensyn til fiskens velferd i kombinasjon med krav til kvalitet har økt behov for forskning på slaktemetoder. For tiden er flere institutter i gang med forskning på områd er som bedøvelsesmetoder, fremføring, tre...

Awarded: NOK 0.35 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SFI-Sentre for forskningsdrevet innovasjon

The Michelsen Centre for Industrial Measurement Science and Technology

Michelsensenteret for Industriell Målevitenskap og Teknologi (MIMT)er et tverrdisiplinært ressurssenter i instrumentering og måleteknikk innen petroleum, miljøovervåking samt fiskeri og havbruk. Sensorteknologiene som blir utvikla i prosjektene, er basert på akustikk, elektromagnetisme, optikk el...

Awarded: NOK 80.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2015

Location: Vestland

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Søknad om regionale midler til FUGE-N for perioden 2007-2011

Det regionale fagrådet for FUGE-N har hatt et budsjett på ca. 6,8 mill kroner i perioden 2002-2006 for å støtte regionale tiltak som bl.a. et kompetanseprosjekt, støtte til reiser for å øke kompetanse, lokale arbeidssamlinger og professor II-stillinger. E tableringen av FUGE-N har styrket og heve...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

FUGE II - Region West Application

This application is a response to the call for regional funding within the FUGE II program. Five professor II positions are requested to bring specific areas of expertise in support of systems biology, organelle biology, proteomics, microarray technology and marine functional genomic research. ...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Vestland

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Conversion of salmon by-products to high-value ingredients of growth media for probiotic bacteria

Rest raw materials (by-products) from the marine aquaculture industry are a little utilized resource, with a vast potential due to the presence of valuable polyunsaturated lipids, rare anti-oxidants and large amounts of protein. Recent developments in the applicant?s and other European laborator...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Akershus

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

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

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

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

SFI-Sentre for forskningsdrevet innovasjon

MabCent - Centre on Marine Bioactives and Drug Discovery

MabCents bioprospekteringsaktivitet i denne rapportperioden (01.12.13-01.12.14) har vært en fortsettelse av den omfattende aktiviteten som har foregått siden 2007 For å begynne med de biologiske ressursene, så gikk Marbank/MabCents hovedtokt (3 uker i mai) i år på øst og vestsiden av Svalbard ...

Awarded: NOK 76.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2015

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Competetive Food Processing in Norway

Prosjektet KMB Competitive Food Processing in Norway startet opp i 2007, hvor hovedaktiviteten ble avsluttet i 2011. I perioden 2012-2014 er siste del av prosjektarbeidet blitt ferdigstilt i form av en doktorgradsavhandling. Etter syv år med intens forsk ning på superkjøling har state-of-the-art ...

Awarded: NOK 26.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Accelerated production of Atlantic halibut

This project aims at establishing optimal rearing conditions for maximal growth in the land-based phase of Atlantic halibut production. Environmental parameters (temperature, photoperiod and their interaction) will be manipulated to enhance faster growth in juveniles. Water quality experiments wi...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

High school students - building scientific and polar curiosity through participation in Fram-V: a scientific field camp on drifting sea ice

To inspire, educate and give hands-on polar research experience to high school students, we propose to establish a five week field camp on drifting sea ice about 300 km north of Svalbard. The four week science and education program - early April to early May 2007 will involve up to 50 students (4...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Vestland

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Continuous seismic reflection profiling buoys - a future direction for marine geophysical exploration of the Arctic Ocean

Experience from the last decade of icebreaker expeditions into the central Arctic Ocean demonstrate that about a quarter of the deep polar basin will remain inaccessible to modern multi-channel seismic exploration by towed arrays even when the survey vess el is assisted by a nuclear icebreaker. W...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Vestland

SAM-EU-Samfinansiering EU-kontoret

Operational evaluation tools for fisheries management options

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Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

The impact of produced water on fish reproduction: a multigeneration approach

Major oil and gas activities are on-going along much of the Norwegian continental shelf, and it is anticipated that exploration and production will expand in the near future to include new oil fields in the high Arctic. Of major concern is the environment al impact of waste discharges from oil pr...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Gobies in Evolutionary Ecology: a Nordic Network

The main aim of this proposal is to further develop Nordic collaborative efforts and exchange of ideas in the study of evolutionary ecology of gobies. Several species of Nordic gobies have proven to be very successful as models in studying questions in be havioural and evolutionary ecology. Notab...

Awarded: NOK 0.84 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Quality labelling and consumer responses in the Norwegian food sector

This is a three year cooperative KMB-project involving The Norwegian Agricultural Economic Research Institute (NILF). The Norwegian Food Centre (Matforsk), The Norwegian Institute of Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Fiskeriforskning) and The National i nstitute for consumer research (SIFO). It...

Awarded: NOK 6.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

SFI-Sentre for forskningsdrevet innovasjon

CREATE - Centre for Research-based Innovation in Aquaculture Technology

CREATE, Senter for forskningsbasert innovasjon i Aquaculture Technology, ble etablert i 2006. Senteret ble grunnlagt av industrien og Norsk Forskningsråd gjennom finansieringsplan fra Senter for Forskningsbasert innovasjon (SFI) og ble drevet i åtte år til og med 2014. CREATE utførte forskning ...

Awarded: NOK 80.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

FRANCISELLA SP. INFECTION IN ATLANTIC COD (Gadus morhua) - STUDY OF PATHOGEN AND HOST IMMUNE CELLS INTERACTIONS

A new bacterial disease affecting cultured cod has been causing serious and increasing number of disease outbreaks at Norwegian sea cage facilities since summer of 2004. This bacterium has recently been identified as Francisella sp., a fastidious facultat ive intracellular pathogen. The propose...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Predator-prey interactions and how they influence the behaviour and morphology of the queen conch Strombus gigas for sea ranching

The doctoral study conducted by Ellen Sofie Grefsrud was carried out to investigate the defence capabilities in P. maximus of cultured and wild origin to better understand predator-prey interactions between crabs and scallops in culture (funded by The Res earch Council of Norway -project 137326)....

Awarded: NOK 0.47 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Personlig utenlandsstipend for Ane Sandtrø for besøk ved professor Vikram N. Vakharias laboratorium ved Universitetet i Maryland

Utenlandsoppholdet er en del at et stipendiatprosjekt kalt "The surface structure of IPN virus -role of central VP2 amino acids on epitope formation and development of persistent infection". Innen dette prosjektet satser vi på kompetanseutvikling innen st rukturstudier av ikosahedriske virus, hvi...

Awarded: NOK 51,999

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

THORPEX-IPY: Improved forecasting of adverse weather in the Arctic region - present and future

We propose here a Norwegian contribution to the International Polar Year (IPY) project THORPEX-IPY. THORPEX-IPY is the Arctic component of the international program THORPEX (The Observing System Research and Predictability Program), which is a part of the WMO World Weather Research Program (http...

Awarded: NOK 30.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Mapping threats to arctic bird populations. The effect of infectious organisms and pollution on bird health. IPY NO 172 BirdHealth

The arctic environment and its wildlife are currently being threatened; from climate change, from pollution and from infectious organisms (IO). Health in wildlife is regulating population numbers through individual survival and reproduction. Little is kno wn about the combined impact of IO and po...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ISPJUS-ISP - Satsing på juridisk forskning

Bærekraftig utvikling av havområdene i nord. Muligheter og trusler.

Hovedaktiviteten bestått av to PhD prosjekt. Det første, "Third State Involvement in the Context of Establishing the Outer Limits of the Continental Shelf" behandler prosessen med å fastsette yttergrensen for kontinentalsokkelen hvor denne strekker seg utover 200 nautiske mil fra kysten. Klarlegg...

Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2015

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Regulatory pathways of skeletal development in teleost fish: The impact of genetic, dietary, and environmental factors.

This proposal addresses the necessity to establish collaborative projects between Norwegian and North-American research institutions working in the field of fish skeletal development and malformation. A workshop, organised in Canada (Halifax) by scientist s from AKVAFORSK, NRC and Univ. of Dalhou...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Study of the long-term effects on Atlantic Herring (Clupea harengus) exposed to an oil-polluted Calanus finmarchicus diet.

The aim of this project is to investigate the effects of trophic transfer of hydrocarbons, following a worst-case scenario oil spill, on the development and reproduction of Atlantic Herring (Clupea harengus). The study will examine the long-term effects o f feeding oil-polluted Calanus finmarchic...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Efficient, low-cost monitoring of calanus

Being the dominant zooplankton group in the North Atlantic, herbivore copepods play an essential role in the food web energy transfer. As an important food item for commercially exploitable fish stocks, it is vital to fill the knowledge gaps on the mechan isms governing the variability in biomass...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Modelling disease dispersal in marine fish aquaculture in Norwegian coastal areas: Contributions to a new concept of area management?

As a measure to avoid the spreading of fish and shellfish diseases, a defined distance is required between all aquaculture facilities. From 2006, this requirement was also implemented for intermediate live storing of fish. The established distance regulat ions represent a clear limitation to the ...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland