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SIP-Strategiske instituttprogram

Strategic Program on Global Health and Development

The strategic program at CMI is linked up to a larger research program on global health and development in Bergen. Within the SIP, one sub-project is directly linked to the larger project that focuses on mobilization of human resources within the health s ector in developing countries. The SIP al...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Vestland

SIP-Strategiske instituttprogram

CONtinuity and Change - Cultural ENvironments and SUStainable landscape development -CONCENSUS

CONCENSUS is focused on achieving knowledge to sustain management of cultural heritage environments and esthetic values in a landscape context. It is designed to develop knowledge built on a close collaboration between managers of cultural heritage nation ally, regionally and locally and an inter...

Awarded: NOK 20.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Oslo

SIP-Strategiske instituttprogram

Metal speciation-a missing link inn assessing the state of the environment

Methods for determination of presence and/or concentrations of metals in their actual chemical form are to be developed. Knowledge of actual chemical state of elements in the Norwegian environment is currently close to non-existent. Current assessments d o not reveal the presence of toxic compou...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Akershus

SIP-Strategiske instituttprogram

Integrated environmental modelling for river basin management: Models, uncertainties and good modelling practice

Mathematical models are increasingly used in both core and applied science projects and within environmental management, which is not surprising since models help to organise, synthesize, and track information and scientific knowledge and hypothesis in a way that would not be possible otherwise. ...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Oslo

SIP-Strategiske instituttprogram

Fate, risk and management of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in the Norwegian sewage system

Increased attention is currently being paid to pharmaceutical substances and personal care products (PPCPs) as a class of environmental contaminants. PPCPs can enter the aquatic environment following manufacture, use, disposal or ingestion/excretion. The majority of PPCPs are thought to enter aqu...

Awarded: NOK 7.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

SIP-Strategiske instituttprogram

Ecosystem dynamics under influence of natural and human drivers

This research programme is designed to examine a number of critical questions for understanding the structure and function of alpine and boreal ecosystems under natural dynamics and the influence of human-induced land use and climate change. The purpose i s to develop a more solid basis for predi...

Awarded: NOK 20.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SIP-Strategiske instituttprogram

Coastal ecosystems: Human impact and ecosystem indicators

Recent studies have shown a world-wide transformation of coastal ecosystems due to fisheries and other human impact factors. A sustainable development is only possible through an adaptive ecosystem based management. There is accordingly a strong national need for an increased competence in marine...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SIP-Strategiske instituttprogram

Planning and Organisation for improved Public Health (POPHEALTH)

Preventive public health (PPH) aims at reducing causes of health risks while strengthening the conditions contributing to improved better health. PPH implies efforts to improve health by influencing individual life styles as well as the general conditions of life facilitated by the physical envi...

Awarded: NOK 9.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Timing and determination of fecundity and skipped spawning: implications for stock-recruitment theory of determinate spawners

To forecast stock size is an integral part of responsible and sustainable management of marine resources, and requires intimate knowledge of stock-recruitment relationships. Models that accurately depict these relationships have therefore long been sought . These models have evolved in complexity...

Awarded: NOK 4.9 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Distribution of Selected Organic Pollutants and Estimation of the Degradation Rate of Chiral Compounds in the Arctic Ocean and N Atlantic

A large number of water and air samples from various parts of the Arctic Ocean and North Atlantic have been made available. The samples were collected during expeditions 2002 and 2005. Various types of environmental contaminants should be determined in th e samples. These include traditional pers...

Awarded: NOK 0.59 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Tracking the atmospheric sources of selected POPs to contaminated coastal zones

The key objective of this proposal is to increase the quantitative understanding of the atmospheric sources, occurrence, and transport of selected POPs to contaminated coastal zones by use of passive air samplers. During summer and autumn 2006 it is plan ned to carry out a first screening campai...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Akershus

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Inputs of Chemicals from Recreational Activities to the Norwegian Coastal Zone 1. Summer Pilot Study

The purpose of this project is to establish whether chemicals are entering the Norwegian coastal zone from seasonal recreational activities. This will be achieved through performing a pilot survey during summer to establish the occurrence of chemicals der ived from recreational activities in the ...

Awarded: NOK 0.43 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

7 - International Symposium on ICZM

International Symposium on ICZM, Arendal, Norway, 11-14 June 2007 This international multi-disciplinary conference is intended to promote science and integration of knowledge for the sustainable management of coastal resources. It will provide a venue fo r scientists, engineers, managers and pol...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Generic properties of harvest control rules: what works and what doesn?

This project aims on reviewing, comparing and contrasting different fisheries management regimes in order to evaluate their effectiveness to all stakeholders in the target fishery. Special consideration will be given towards the biological, economical and social implications of the management re...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Barents sea eccosstem dynamics - a spatial approach

How perturbations from harvest and climate cascade through marine shelf ecosystems depend on species interactions. Interaction strength is therefore of vital importance to ecosystem dynamics. In this project, we propose a spatial approach to study trophi c and competitive interactions in boreal ...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Modeling and Control of Tensegrity Structures in Marine Systems

The project is financed through the IntelliSTRUCT programme organized as a cooperation between Centre for Ships and Ocean Structures and SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture. The programme aims at developing new technology and methods for fishery and aquacult ure in the future. The research activit...

Awarded: NOK 17,999

Project Period: 2006-2006

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Environmental pollution from municipal waste. Transport, bioaccumulation and effects on wildlife near point sources in Trondheim, Norway

Cities produce large amounts of municipal waste, some of it toxic. Old landfills may leach contaminated water, posing potential hazard to the environment. Trondheim city is a major contributor of effluents to the Trondheimsfjorden ecosystem. People eat fi sh and mussels caught locally, and the sh...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Exposure as a factor for primary and secundary production in a kelp forest

Project summary It is a well established fact that kelp forest are highly productive areas, with an annual production about 10 times of what might be found in phytoplankton dominated waters. Resent research have also shown that kelp is an important carbon source for many animals in these areas. ...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Outbound mobility to City of Hope's Beckman Research Institute for two postdoctoral scholars who will do research on non-protein-coding RNA.

The proposal describes outbound mobility of two postdoctoral scholars and their families to City of Hope's Beckman Research Institute (Duarte, CA). The researchers are still partially employed by Interagon AS, where they have conducted their doctoral rese arch, but will now also be employed as po...

Awarded: NOK 0.23 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Østfold

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Optimization issues in medical image processing and fiber tracking

The main topic of this project is the study of efficient computational algorithms in so-called "fiber tracking". Fiber tracking is a relatively recent methodology. It is made possible by access to new advanced MR scanners able to produce high-quality diff usion tensor images which promises clinic...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Vestland

CERN-Kjerne- og partikkelforskning

CERN-related research programme 2006-2011 - Nuclear Physics

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Awarded: NOK 40.3 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2015

Location: Vestland

CERN-Kjerne- og partikkelforskning

High Energy Particle Physics

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Awarded: NOK 44.7 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2015

Location: Oslo

F-KJEM-Naturvitenskap, kjemi

EUCHEM 2006 Conference on Organic Free Radicals

Free organic radicals and radical chemistry has a great and continuous increasing interest within a large variety of research areas. In order to satisfy the crucial interaction between researchers and research groups worldwide working within this research topic. A request was directed to Scandin...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2006

Location: Vestland

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission

Prosjektet består i å videreføre og koordinere norsk engasjement i forhold til Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC). IOC er et mellomstatlig organ innenfor UNESCO, har 129 medlemsland, og arbeider for å fremme internasjonalt samarbeid og koor dinere programmer innen marin forskning, ...

Awarded: NOK 0.47 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Vestland

F-FYS-Naturvitenskap, fysikk

Northern Optics 2006 (conference)

Northern Optics is a series of conferences with the aim of bringing together optical scientists and people from the optics industry and optics companies in the Nordic and Baltic countries. NO 2006 is the third conference in the series, the previous were held in Sweden in 2000 and in Finland in 2...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2006

Location: Akershus

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Extensive reductions of reindeer lichen heaths - repeated freeze-thaw cycles and ground-icing as potential key factors

Climate scenarios predict that high latitudes will experience a substantial increase in winter temperatures during the next decades. It has been suggested that repeated freeze-thaw cycles and the formation of ground-ice, which are induced by winter warmin g, will have profound effects on vegetati...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SIP-Strategiske instituttprogram

Processes of change in urban environments: cultural heritage, urban development and regionalisme

The developmental growth of cities and towns in the past 20 to 25 years has become both the object of continual social focus and a multidisciplinary and sector-comprehensive political field. It is of vital importance that cultural heritage is analysed and included as assets and resources for the...

Awarded: NOK 13.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Oslo

FORMNT-Formidlingsprogrammet MNT

Hva sier internasjonale studier som Eurobarometer og ROSE om den norske befolknings forhold til vitenskap, teknologi og samfunn?

Hva sier internasjonale studier som Eurobarometer og ROSE om den norske befolknings forhold til vitenskap, teknologi og samfunn? Det er mange forestillinger og myter knyttet til en 'realfag-krise' i Norge. Det er viktig at de tiltak man setter inn for å bedre situasjonen er basert på en god besk...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2006

Location: Oslo

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Numerical Analysis and Simulation of Geometric Wave Equations

Numerical simulations have grown to become a significant component of almost all scientific disciplines, playing the role of physical experiment in many circumstances. Yet for many mathematical models and in particular in the new field of gravitational wa ve astronomy, current algorithms are unsa...

Awarded: NOK 9.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Oslo

CERN-Kjerne- og partikkelforskning

Instrumentation for High Energy Particle and Nuclear Physics

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Awarded: NOK 30.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2015

Location: Oslo

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