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INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Coop. between the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, and the International Arctic Research Center, University of Fairbanks

The Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR) in Bergen, and the International Arctic Research Center (IARC) at the University of Fairbanks, Alaska USA will strengthen the research cooperation between them in order to establish the critical mass and exp ertise necessary to enhance our understan...

Awarded: NOK 20,312

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Vestland

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Consolidation of the cGRASP concept in connection with whole genome sequencing of the Atlantic salmon

The collaboration between CIGENE, Willie Davidson at Simon Fraser University and Ben Koop at University of Victoria was initiated less than two years ago. In August this year, their cGRASP project was awarded a substantial 3-year grant from Genome Canada (7MCAD). The project, with an overall budg...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Japan - Japanese and Norwegian Computional Grammar Cooperation

With the aim of preparing a joint initiative in natural language applications based on Japanese and Norwegian, researchers behind the computational grammars JACY (for Japanese) and Norsource (for Norwegian) will define a project of alignment between these two grammars, to support the constructio...

Awarded: NOK 30,000

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Preparing barley for the healthy food market by charachterisation and validation of bioactive components

Barley is the most important cereal crop in Norway, and an increased utilisation of this cereal is therefore economically important. Most of the barley is used in animal feed and to be able increase the utilisation, more barley must be used in human consu mption. Ongoing national projcets and int...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Risk reduction of contaminated soils and sediments through Activated Carbon amendment

It is proposed to establish a new scientific cooperation between the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) and Stanford University, California, USA (prof. Richard Luthy). Prof. Luthy is the first to have shown that amendment of activated carbon (AC) to s ediments is a very promising in situ reme...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Canada - Comparative studies of the Canadian and Norwegian Aluminium Industry

This initiative is founded on one of the six the strategic research area of NTNU: The Globalization Programme. Focus will be put on similarities and differences between the aluminium sector in Canada and Norway respectively in order to learn about the h istorical developments and the challenges...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

USA - Collaborative Pacific Studies: University of Bergen and University of Hawai'i at Manoa

The present proposal lays the foundations for a long-term collaborative programme of research in the field of Pacific Studies between Norway and the USA. It takes as its starting point the general "Memorandum of Understanding on Student Exchange and Facu lty Cooperative Research" signed in 2003 ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Vestland

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Airborne Current Use Pesticides

Long-range transport of environmental pollutants has become a prime area of interest during the last decade. Most of the interest has been coupled to persistent organic pollutants (POPs). In contrast to the POPs, very little data exist on "current use pes ticides" (CUPs), i.e., the pesticides tha...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Utvikling av en ny operasjonsmetode for kneligamentskader

Medial collateral ligament (MCL) injuries are the most common knee ligament injury. Such injuries are thought to be over twice as common as ACL tears. But the exact functional role of the main medial structures, the tibial collateral ligament (TCL or als o known as the superficial medial collate...

Awarded: NOK 66,023

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

USA - Bilateral projects between Bogen lab and various laboratories associated with Harvard Medical School

The applicant, Bjarne Bogen, had a 6 months sabbatical stay at Dana Farber Cancer Institute/ Harvard Medical school Sept 1st 2004 to March 1st 2005. During this period he established a number of bilateral collaborations with the following laboratories: 1) Klaus Rajewsky (Center for Blood Researc...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Japan - Explore possibilities for research collaboration between Norway and Japan on endoreduplication in plants

Endereduplication is the process where the cell replicates chromosomal DNA without intervening mitoses. The result is a cell with increased number of nuclei and increased size in most cases. The process is well known in animal cells, for example in musc le cells where endoreduplication causes t...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Agricultural plants and production systems for sustainable energy supply

The objective of this pilot project is to establish cooperation with research institutes in the United States and Canada and to develop concrete project applications that can qualify for funding. The application from the Norwegian Crop Research Institute (NRCI) concerns cooperation with The Unive...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

USA - Validering av norskutviklet metodikk for biomasse- og skoginventring basert på fjernmåling med bruk av laser for N-A forhold.

Prevista er i dag Nordens ledende leverandør av skogrelaterte geografiske data og planprodukter til skogbruket. Dagens produksjon baserer seg i stor grad på manuell arbeidsinnsats - feltarbeid og fysisk håndtering av data. Det er gjennomført flere vellykk ede leversanser i Norge og metoden er vit...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Buskerud

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Norwegian Plant Science Centre - establisment of bilateral research cooperation

The idea of development of a Norwegian Plant Science Centre was initiated about one year ago. On a global scale plants have never been as important to people as at the beginning of the 21th century. We are facing lack of food security, lack of land suita ble for agriculture, demands for alternat...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Ny teknologi for å redusere utslipp fra ildsteder

Prosjektet tar utgangspunkt i et av de største miljømessige problemer på verdensbasis; utslipp til luft fra mindre ildsteder. Utslippene er størst i de mange utviklingsland som baserer mest av sin energiforfyning på biomasse, men i mange industrialiserte land er dette også opphav til store utslip...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Canada - Palaeobiogeography, palaeoecology and stratigraphy of bryozoan faunas and sediments, Ca and Norw Upper Palaeozoic boreal realm

Bryozoans are among the most diverse and most common fossils in Carboniferous and Permian rocks of the present day Arctic. They are rivaled only by brachiopods and echinoderms, and have been extensively studied in the stratigraphic type areas of Russia an d elsewhere. In recent years stratigraphi...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Synchronizing Holocene Land-Ocean Climatic Records Utilizing Icelandic Tephra Horizons

The aim is to establish a transatlantic group of researcher to develop strong interdisiplinary research on refining the tephra chronology and testing of its utilty to study centennial and higher frequency climate variability in marine and terrestrial core archives. In order to obtain a better pi...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Vestland

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Ocean Waves: Dynamics, Hazards, Currents and Utilization

Norway, surrounded by the North, Norwegian and Barents Seas with a rich endowment of offshore petroleum resources, has been an international leader in scientific and technological research essential to the exploration, exploitation and management of ocean resources. Interactions and collaboratio...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

USA - Cooporation Marine Science North America - Norway

To organise a workshop during March 2006 in Woods Hole, USA, with the obejective to bring together scientists from the Insiture of Marine Research (Norway) and National Marine Fisheries Service (USA) to discuss four identified topics, to write proposals t o meet the deadlines for the Norwegian Re...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Vestland

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Kunnskapsoverføring innen akvakultur gjennom et felles forskningsprosjekt mellom UTMSI og RF - akvamiljø, i Belize

Bakgrunn IC2 institute er involvert i etablering av en forskningspark i Belize (mellomamerika). Et sentralt element i forskningsparken er fokus på akvakultur som er den hurtigst voksende industrien i landet utenom turisme. Instituttet UTMSI som er Univers ity of Texas sitt akvakultur - instituttt...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Rogaland

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Kina - Collaboration China-Norway on denitrification - a process strongly linked to water quality protection and greenhouse gas emissions.

We here apply for financial support to establish a Chinese-Norwegian research consortium in microbial ecology/environmental biotechnology. As a first step we plan to involve researchers from two Chinese universites (Shanghai Jong Tong University and Yangz hou University) and Norwegian University ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Japan-Norway Cooperation on Process Engineering within the Kyoto International Forum for Environment and Energy (KIFEE)

KIFEE (Kyoto International Forum for Environment and Energy) is an arena for research cooperation between Japan and Norway within the areas of energy and energy-related materials. KIFEE shall support the bilateral agreement on technology cooperation signe d in May 2003, and shall be open to all u...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Kina - Cooperation between Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.(SJTU) and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) within Gas Technology

Initial talks between the parties interested in gas technology were held in Shanghai late October 2005 during the visit of the NTNU Rector delegation. Natural gas is going to be an important energy source in the Shanghai region, based on imported LNG and gas pipeline from North West China. Why ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Kina - Methods in the management of environemental and natural resources and applications to China.

The project takes off from the need for Chinese academic and research communities to strengthen their ability to analyse issues related to economic and environmental stability of China on the background of the high economic growth and its consequences. T he projects emphasizes methods in the man...

Awarded: NOK 63,182

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Kina - Fostering international cooperation in renewable energy

The Centre for Renewable Energy aims to works closely with a number of domestic and international partners to build effective long-term partnerships and synergies, and to advance the work in collaboration with other leading institutions and initiatives su pporting renewable energy deployment. T...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Effects of fish oils/proteins and contaminants on obesity-linked insulin resistance

Insulin resistance (i.e. where a given concentration of insulin does not show the expected magnitude of effects on target cells) is a hallmark of Type 2 diabetes and obesity, two metabolic diseases reaching today epidemic proportions. Both the amount and type of nutrients (fat, carbohydrate or ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Vestland

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Kina - Doing Business in China - a Study of Norwegian SME's in China

The short term objective (2006) is to plan and conduct an empirical study of the experiences of Norwegian SME's which are trying to do business in China. In 2005, preliminary contacts were established between Sogn og Fjordane Unversity College and Beiji ng Normal University. Professor Songbai L...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Vestland

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - NTNU/UW collaboration on regional climate change and built infrastructure sustainability

Sustainability is a general concept that relates to the ability of humankind to continue to grow and thrive on a planet with limited resources. Focusing on built infrastructure can narrow the scope of sustainability research to a degree, but it is still a formidably broad theme. No single resear...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Utvikling av computer-baserte prosedyrer for å effektivisere regional kartlegging av biomasse i skog med flybåren LiDAR

Flybåren LiDAR (LIght Detection and Ranging) er den mest lovende fjernmålingsbaserte teknikken for kartlegging av biomasse i skog fordi den er i stand til å beskrive den 3-dimensjonale strukturen av trær og vegetasjon. Som første land i verden, er teknikk en nå tatt i operasjonell bruk i Norge ve...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Establishment of joint research projects between Norway and USA/Canada in the field of turfgrass science

The rapid increase in the number of golf courses in Scandinavia is parallelled with an increase in the demand for turfgrass research. The Scandinavian Turfgrass Research Foundation (SFG) was established in 2002 by the national golf unions in the Scandinav ian countries. SFG supports high-quality...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

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