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IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Paleoceanagraphic and climatic variability on decadal to millennial timescales across the Drake Passage

Paleodrake requests support to recover cores at marine sites in order to portray the decadal-millennial scale climate and ocean variability in the Drake Passage region of Antarctica through the Holocene and the last glacial period. These records will ult imately provide the quantitative reconstr...

Awarded: NOK 0.18 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Vestland

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Development of gene therapeutic approaches for rheumathoid arthritis using in vivo gene delivery by photochemical internalisation (PCI)

Gene therapy has a large potential for treatment of many different diseases. The potential of gene therapy has, however, yet to be realised, mainly due to the lack of safe and efficient methods for delivery of therapeutic genes to diseased tissues in the body. It has recently been shown that PCI ...

Awarded: NOK 5.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Oslo

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Quantifying the Effects of Sediment Deposition, Compaction and Pore Fluid on Rock Properties and Seismic Signatures

Primary sediment compositon (provenance), depositional environments and mechanical and chemical compaction have strong impact on the physical and seismic properties of the subsurface. By trying to quantify relations between geological processes and geophy sical (seismic) parameters, we will incre...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Seedling quality and establishment routines for rapid growth start of Abies nordmanniana and Abies lasiocarpa for Christmas tree production

The production of quality Christmas trees are demanding and customers pay well only for high quality trees. One of the most crucial factors is the plant materials used and the establishment routines. Today, the average fraction of Christmas trees sold amo unts to only 50 percent of those planted....

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

CLIMIT-Forskning, utvikling og demo av CO2-håndtering

Subsurface storage of CO2 - Risk assessment, monitoring and remediation (SSC - Ramore)

Large scale underground storage of CO2 off the coast of Norway is internationally pioneering and stimulates for further development of international leading expertise in the area, expertise which in turn will represent a sound fundamental basis for large scale in situ CO2 reservoir storage experi...

Awarded: NOK 21.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Oslo

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Socio-economic and environmental impacts of organic farming

Organic farming has developed rapidly in recent years. Interest in the organic sector stretches beyond the market opportunities. It is perceived to provide multiple benefits beyond the immediate effect on the farmer, e.g., environmental performance, healt hier and safer food, rural development an...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

PPS Arctic Norway - the Norwegian contribution to the internationally endorsed IPY project #151; PPS Arctic

The PPS Arctic Norway project is the Norwegian contribution to the circumpolar IPY core project PPS Arctic (Present day processes, Past changes, and Spatiotemporal variability of biotic, abiotic and socio-environmental conditions and resource components a long and across the Arctic delimitation z...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Monitoring of Development in Traditional Indigenous Lands of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Northwestern Russia

Urfolkenes tradisjonelle landområder i Nenets autonome område opplever alvorlige miljøpåvirkninger gjennom moderne industriell utvikling. Tundra og reinbeite ødelegges eller forurenses i stor skala. Urfolkenes (nenetsernes og izhma-komiernes) tradisjonell e næringer og kulturelle overlevelse er t...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

CRYOSLOPE - Monitoring, dating and modelling climate change effects on high arctic mountain slope processes and their impact on traffic ...

CRYOSLOPE Svablard will study how cold mountain slopes in Svalbard will respond to future projected climatic changes and how these potential changes could affect the traffic on the roads in the Longyearbyen settlement and the surrounding highly used winte r roads connecting the settlements and to...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Svalbard

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

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Advanced sample preparation and characterisation of fuel cell materials for increased fuel cell durability

This project relates to an 5-months scientific stay for PhD-student Axel B. Ofstad from Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway to Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), NM, USA. The PhD-student?s work at LANL will...

Awarded: NOK 0.17 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

IMPROVED EFFICIENCY AND DURABILITY OF PEM WATER ELECTROLYSERS FOR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION

Water electrolysers based on proton exchange membrane (PEM) technology show very promising results with respect to stable and efficient hydrogen production from renewable energy sources. Major challenges to overcome before this technology may be considere d viable in this context include cost red...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Market-based value adding and differentiation of salmon

This project aims to provide novel insights that can help Norwegian salmon companies to improve their long term competitiveness and profitability through enhanced value adding and differentiation strategies. The project will base its results on in-depth s tudies of key buyers in three important m...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Polar Study using Aircraft, Remote Sensing, Surface Measurements and Models, of Climate, Chemistry, Aerosols, and Transport - Norway

To address the above objectives, POLARCAT will carry out four major (and a few smaller) co-ordinated measurement campaigns in the Arctic. These will involve about 12 different aircraft (some involved in more than one mission), a ship, and all the major Ar ctic surface stations, for which long-ter...

Awarded: NOK 17.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Akershus

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Arctic Natural Climate and Environmental Changes and Human Adaptation: From Science to Public awareness

SciencePub aims to answer two critical questions in current Arctic climate research: What characterizes natural climate change in the Arctic, and how did early pioneer immigrants relate to climate change? By studying natural climate archives in terrestria l and marine sediments from Svalbard, N N...

Awarded: NOK 20.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Arctic Predators as Indicators of Tundra Ecosystem State. A Norwegian IPY proposal under the ArcticWOLVES initiative ID No: 672

Strongly cyclic interaction between plants, herbivores and predators typically drives the food web dynamics over large tracts of the arctic tundra biome. These interaction cycles, however, now appear to be fading out at the southern edge of tundra, possib ly due to climate warming. The Arctic Cli...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Climate knowledge on the road? Scientific knowledge, transdisciplinarity and the performance of expertise

Assumptions about climate changes may have considerable impact on investments in and the management and maintenance of transport infrastructure and the transport industry in Norway. Thus, the development and diffusion of knowledge about climate changes an d their potential impact on the transport...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Protein aggregation and degradation in aging and disease: Role of polyubiquitination and autophagy

Hundreds of proteins encoded by the human genome have the propensity to form cytoplasmic aggregates under certain conditions. Although the mechanisms of intracellular protein aggregation are poorly understood, it is well known that deposits of aggregatete d proteins are highly associated with agi...

Awarded: NOK 8.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

The Impacts of Oil and Gas Activity on Peoples in the Arctic Using a Multiple Securities Perspective

GAPS Is a truly multidisciplinary project, where social AND natural scientists work together to provide a comphrehensive understanding of security in the Arctic. GAPS contains a series of related and integrated sub-projects that address security in the Ar ctic from different angles. Each sub-pro...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Assessment of human impact on the marine CARBon system in arctic regions (A-CARB)

Carbon dioxide is the most important manageable forcing agent of climate change. Large amounts are emitted through fossil fuel burning. Prediction of future climate change and planning of mitigation strategies requires that thorough knowledge of the facto rs that control the distribution of anth...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Vestland

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

CAVIAR - Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in the Arctic Regions: Focus on northern Norway and northern Russia

The Arctic is experiencing rapid changes in environmental, societal and economic conditions. The particular conditions to which communities are sensitive are not well documented, nor have the conditions that might facilitate or constrain the adaptive capa city in the face of interacting climate a...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Bipolar Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation

In BIAC the mechanisms, manifestation and impact of intermediate and bottom water formation originating from the bipolar Atlantic Ocean shelves will be explored. The overall goal is to evaluate the global ventilation through circum Arctic and Antarctic sh elves and consequences for the climate by...

Awarded: NOK 32.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

Depostional models for Cenozoic sandy systems

A recent gas discovery in the North Sea is located at just 160 m sub-bottom depth. The reservoir consists of Pliocene glacial sandstone capped by glacial diamicton; it represents a milestone in exploration of the North Sea and highlights the potential for commercially recoverable hydrocarbons in...

Awarded: NOK 6.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Norwegian Participation in the Planck LFI Instrument: Pipeline Development and QUIET

The present application constitutes a supplement to project 165491/V30 "Norwegian Participation in the Planck LFI Instrument and Cosmology with the Nordic Optical Telescope" . A dedicated data reduction centre for the QUIET (Q/U Imaging ExperimenT) CM B polarization experiment will be set up ...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Oslo

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Emission trading in Europe: The importance of allocation rules

The project will explore the implications of different allocation rules in emission trading schemes (ETS). Current allocation rules in the EU and Norwegian ETS are partly designed so that firms can influence on the number of allowances they get (especiall y for new entrants). The allocation rules...

Awarded: NOK 6.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Civil protection and climate vulnerability

This project takes the link between civil protection and climate change as its starting point. Our aim is to investigate which factors determine the capacity for local adaptation to climate change by studying long-term institutional learning within civil protection institutions in the wake of ext...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Participatin in IEA PVPS Task 10 - Leadership of Subtask 2: Urban Planning, Design and Development

SINTEF and NTNU has participated in IEA PVPS Task 10 during 2005 and 2006, through the Smartbygg project -subtask 2.4 Building Integrated Photovoltaics. The Smartbygg work that has been contributed to the Task 10 work concerns the development of a tool fo r integration of PV in the built environm...

Awarded: NOK 0.22 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Violence, poverty and police corruption

The police in low-income countries are among the most corrupt sector of their governments, sporadic evidence indicates. In this project we seek to estimate the extent of police corruption and explain its variation. Here the interaction between police beha viour and crime, some of which is violent...

Awarded: NOK 4.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Oslo

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