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NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

The Payoff of Promises: Articulating, Negotiating and Implementing Wealth Sharing

Peace agreements offer an opportunity for poverty alleviation. Wealth-sharing is often part of the negotiations to end civil wars, but the outcome often disappoints, both the aggrieved who had placed their hopes in rebellion and the international sponsors of the settlement. This study focuses o...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2017

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Social networks, labour transactions and outcomes: A theoretical and empirical study of migrant workers, and their employers, in South-Asia.

We study motives and explanations for network use in labour transactions in low income countries and the implications for employers, and in particular for the segment of poor unskilled workers. One explanation favoured among economists is that networks ar e vehicles for effective information tran...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2017

Location: Vestland

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

Arbeidsseminar om samhandling mellom nivåer i helsetjenesten og konsekvenser for utvikling av bygg og infrastruktur i helsevesenet

SINTEF Helse søker om støtte fra NFR for gjennomføring av et arbeidsseminar over 2 dager med norske og internasjonale innledere og deltakere. Seminaret skal bidra til økt kunnskap om og forståelse for sammenhenger mellom leveranse av helsetjenester på flere nivåer i helsevesenet og de fysiske ...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

Prioritization in the Health Care Sector

This project investigates prioritization in the Norwegian health care sector. The objective is to see how actual prioritization is affected by regulation and finance systems of the specialist health care sector, and to establish systems for surveillance o f prioritization of patients over geograp...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

The effect of dietary carbohydrates on muscle metabolism, connective tissue composition and fillet quality in cod (Gadus morhua L).

Post mortem softening of fish muscle and occurrence of gaping are major problems for the fish industry. Muscular connective tissue provides mechanical integrity, rigidity, and elasticity to skeletal muscles. Extracellular matrix (ECM) represents an import ant part of the connective tissue, and ch...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

STACK TECHNOLOGY FOR CERAMIC PROTON CONDUCTORS

High temperature ceramic proton conductors (HTPC) are in principle superior to PEM and standard SOFC conductors for use in steam electrolysers and hydrogen fuel cells because of the water-free transport of protons; the steam used or formed is associated w ith the oxygen/air side, and thus, dry hy...

Awarded: NOK 16.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

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

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Økologiske eplesorter for Norge

Den viktigste enkeltfaktoren for vellykket økologisk produksjon av epler er høy skurvresistens, men det også nødvendig at de produserte eplene likes av forbruker. Prosjektet skal først velge ut nye, skurvresistente eplesorter som passer for økologisk dyrk ing i Norge. Sortene skal så karakteriser...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Telemark

MAROFF-2-Maritim virksomhet og offsh-2

NORTRASHIP - Norwegian Transformations in Shipping: The dynamics and competitiveness of the Norwegian maritime cluster

Norway is one of the world's leading maritime nations, with a role in the maritime industries that far exceeds what one would expect based on shares of world population or trade. The project analyses the factors that have enabled the country to attain thi s position, with particular emphasis on t...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Vestland

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Lavtemperatur frysing (Superfrysing) og distribusjon av sjømat

Lakseslakteriet Nova Sea ønsker å satse på innfrysing av laks, og i samarbeid med forskningsmiljøene SINTEF, Matforsk og Norner ønsker de i prosjektet å etablere kunnskap og teknologi for lavtemperatur frysing (superfrysing). Prosjektet tar sikte på å do kumentere effekten av superfrysing (innfr...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

TRACKING SOURCES OF MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION ALONG THE FOOD CHAIN BY FTIR SPECTROSCOPY

The food chain is becoming more and more complex since various products, materials, different processing steps etc. are involved, with the consequence that possible sources for microbial contamination are various. This complexity makes it difficult to tra ce microbial safety problems that occur i...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Moisture induced effects on the capacity of screws and threaded bar connections in timber structures.

The competitiveness of timber structures is largely governed by the design and effectiveness of its connections. Moisture-induced cracks in wood connections are a major problem in load bearing connections. Threaded bars and long self-tapping screws repres ent new possibilities in the quest to avo...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

The conservation of vulnerable epiphytic lichens in managed boreal forests

This project aims to generate new scientific knowledge necessary for sustainable resource utilization in managed boreal forests. A fundamental challenge is to develop timber harvest regimes without adversely affecting biodiversity. Improving the condition s for vulnerable species in managed fores...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Implementing environmental policy -analysing the governance of integrated use and protection politics

During the last decades, the involvement of local stakeholders, lay knowledge and cross-sectoral approaches in environmental decision making have been addressed in a wide range of international conventions. Also, the Mountain text and the Coastal strategy , described by Norwegian environmental au...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Presisjonsgjødsling til jordbær og bringebær i forskjellige klima- og dyrkingsområder

Jordbær og bringebær til friskkonsum er produkter der det er marked for økt produksjon i Norge, og de siste årene har det skjedd en omfattende strukturendring i norsk bærproduksjon. Det har blitt færre og større produsenter, og nye sorter og dyrkingssyste m har blitt tatt i bruk (plasttunneler, t...

Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Innlandet

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

By-products from fruit and berry processing; a source of health promoting components?

Tittel: Optijuice: Biprodukter fra frukt og bær prosessering – en kilde til helsefrembringende komponenter? Mål: Utvikle fenolrike, naturlige og høyverdige matprodukter med fordelaktige biologiske egenskaper fra biprodukter etter frukt- og bærprosesserin g. Delmål 1) Optimalisere ekstraksjonen ...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

SIP-FKD-SIP finansiert av Fiskeri- og Kystdepartementet

Innovative and Safe Seafood - Processing, Hygiene, Spectroscopy

The proportion of meals that are prepared outside of the home is increasing. Meeting the three consumer mega-trends convenience, health and sensory enjoyment, are vital for a products' success in the marketplace. For fish products, convenience is the lack ing area, and hence one that is in need o...

Awarded: NOK 24.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SIPHINIFES-SIP ved HI

Seafood and mental health: Uptake and effects of marine nutrients and contaminants alone or in combination on neurological function.

Seafood as part of a balanced diet is thought to play a central role in the battle against the increasing occurrence of lifestyle diseases with neurological disorders being pinpointed as one of the greatest threats to public health worldwide. However, sea food may in addition to contributing with...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

SIP-LMD-SIP finansiert av Landbruksog matdepartementet

Landscape Change

Landscapes are a valuable but also limited and vulnerable natural resource, which currently are changing at unprecedented rates in many locations. Increasing our understanding of landscape change, including driving forces, policy tools (focusing on the ag ricultural landscape) and how different o...

Awarded: NOK 9.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Akershus

MILPAAHEL-Miljøpåvirkning og helse

Hearing loss and tinnitus: genetic and environmental effects

Depending on the criteria used 1/3 - 1/6 of the population experience hearing impairment. Tinnitus is defined as the sensation of sound without any outer sound stimulus present. Environmental risk factors such as noise exposure are frequently described fo r both the diseases. A genetic component ...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2015

Location: Oslo

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

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

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

SIP-FKD-SIP finansiert av Fiskeri- og Kystdepartementet

Fish welfare and performance in recirculating aquaculture systems

Recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS), in which fish tank water is recycled with the aid of biological filters, is little used in Norway. RAS may offer advantages over traditional flow-through (FT) systems, regarding sustainability and fish welfare, but these aspects have been little studied f...

Awarded: NOK 18.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Novel High-Temperature Proton and Mixed-Proton Electron Conductors for Fuel Cells and H2-Separation Membranes (N-INNER)

Prosjektet “Novel High-Temperature Proton and Mixed-Proton Electron Conductors for Fuel Cells and H2-Separation Membranes” har som mål å utvikle høytemperatur protonledere og blandede proton-elektronledere med arealspesifikk motstand mindre enn 0.1 Ocm2 s om i tillegg er stabile i CO2-holdige atm...

Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Velferdsforum i Bergen

Velferdsforum i Bergen ble etablert våren 2000 som et nettverk for velferdsforskere i Bergen. Det samler forskere og studenter fra ulike institutter og fakulteter ved universitetetet, Rokkansenteret og Norges Handelshøyskole/SNF. Interesserte fra Høgsko len i Bergen, og fra kommunen deltar også...

Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Vestland

SMARTRANS-Næringslivets transp. og ITS

GUNVOR - Godstransport og usikkerhet - Valuation of transport time and reliability in freight transport

Transport time variability and information are both related to the reliability of transport. None of them are standard components of cost benefit analysis, the well-established ex ante evaluation method in the transport sector. Recognising that transport policy measures for improved reliability (...

Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Nasjonal forskningskonferanse - forskning om funksjonshemmede

Norsk nettverk om forskning om funksjonshemmede (Nondr) ble etablert i 2004. Nettverket er den norske grenen av det nordiske forskernettverket "Nordic network on Disability research" (NNDR). En hovedaktivitet er for nettverket er å stimulere til styrket f orskning på området gjennom å avholde nas...

Awarded: NOK 61,551

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Innlandet

FORNY-3-Kommersialisering av FoUresultater

Selection of screening "leads" with specific anti-cancer activities for further development towards targeted drugs

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Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MAROFF-2-Maritim virksomhet og offsh-2

An environmental friendly antifouling system for ship hulls

All surfaces exposed to the marine environment, including man-made structures such as ships, are subjected to biofouling. The current project aims at abolishing detrimental ingredients in antifouling paints and thereby the threat of leakage of toxic subst ances from ships on the ocean. In additio...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Møre og Romsdal

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