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BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

"From ten to one" - multi property cooperation for personal forest owners in the coastal forestry

I perioden fra 1. desember 2013 til 1. juni 2014 er det gjennomført/avsluttet seks sett av aktiviteter. A) Det er skrevet et omforent notat fra hver av de tre regionmøtene avholdt i november 2013. Regionmøtene fant sted i Kystskogbrukets fylker, henh oldsvis i Bodø, Bergen og Stjørdal. På det ...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KULVER-Kulturell verdsetting

Dyr som ting og dyr som tegn. Standardisering og synliggjøring av dyr

Prosjektet undersøker relasjoner mellom natur, kultur og estetikk ved å se på estetiske transformasjoner av dyr til ting og tegn. Dette vil utfordre både kultur- og vitenskapshistoriens forståelser av sine gjenstandsområder, og problematisere fagenes oppd elingen i hva som er kulturelt og hva som...

Awarded: NOK 6.8 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Oslo

CLIMIT-Forskning, utvikling og demo av CO2-håndtering

Carbon dioxide capture by metal-organic frameworks

Carbon dioxide capture from natural gas or flue gas is of great current interest. The ability to selectively remove it will significantly contribute to a reduction in carbon dioxide emission because of the relatively high concentrations with which it is p resent in these sources. Metal-organic f...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MAT-SLF-Matprogr.:Prosj.fullfin.av SLF

Pilot studies for amending the management system of potato cyst nematodes (PCN) Globodera spp.(197906)

Potato cyst nematodes (PCN) are worldwide potato pests. The yellow species (yPCN) G. rostochiensis, and the white species (wPCN) G. pallida are quarantine pests subjected to national regulations. For farmers, PCN infestations result in costly production s ystem and loss in sales value of farms. S...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Akershus

MAT-SLF-Matprogr.:Prosj.fullfin.av SLF

Elements in an integrated pest management (IPM) of the invasive Iberian slug, Arion lusitanicus, in agriculture

Hovedaktivitetene har fokusert på formidling av resultatene, både vitenskapelig og populærvitenskapelig publisering samt flere foredrag på flere nivåer (fra lokale hage-lag til internasjonal konferanse). Bearbeiding og publisering av en populærvitenskapel ig folder om brunskogsnegl har bidratt ti...

Awarded: NOK 8.4 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Akershus

RUSMIDDEL-Rusmiddelforskning

DEVELOPMENT OF AN IMPROVED NALTREXONE DEPOT FORMULATION

Naltrexone is a well known opioid antagonist with established properties but clinical usefulness in oral formulations is limited by high patient attrition. Research at Unit for Addiction Medicine points to implant formulations as promising, but implant p rocedures hamper clinical applicability a...

Awarded: NOK 6.3 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Oslo

MAT-SLF-Matprogr.:Prosj.fullfin.av SLF

Cultivation of Jeusalem artichoke under long day conditions - quality characterisation and health aspects (194863)

Summary The vegetable tuber plant Helianthus tuberosus has reserved attention the last years because of the high content of the multi functional and healthy prebiotic fructooligosaccharides (FOS). Reported effects are: proliferation of bifidiobacteria and reduction of detrimental bacteria in the...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Food consumption: Changing preferences or stable habits?

Increase in food-related diseases, also in Norway, emphasizes the importance of exploring how food choices are made and which factors influence them. This project aims to explore and assess the importance of habit as a determinant in food consumption, in addition to the traditional preference- an...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Fish welfare assessment through brain function: Impacts of environmental stress on brain plasticity and behaviour

Developing reliable measures of fish welfare is a priority within Norway and the EU. Although fish welfare definitions vary, a key aim is to provide environments that minimize stressors that impact health and the animal?s mental function. In mammals, prol onged stress can affect brain function to...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

New tools for online overall assessment of rearing environment, stress level, and fish welfare in Atlantic salmon cage farms

The welfare of farmed fish has received increasing attention in recent years. Fish that thrive grow faster, are less sensitive to stress and less vulnerable to disease. In this project we propose a system for overall monitoring and assessment of rearing environment and fish welfare in sea cages...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2011

Location: Vestland

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

Biomass to liquid fuels

Gassifisering av biomasse (for eksempel skogsavfall) fulgt av gassbehandling og syntese av hydrokarboner (såkalt Fischer-Tropsch syntese) er en mulig produksjonsrute for bærekraftig biodrivstoff som ikke fortrenger matvareproduksjon. Metoden er spesielt egnet for framstilling av diesel og flydriv...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

P-KVINN-Program for kvinne- og kjønnsf

Tenkning som handling: kjønn, demokrati, frihet Thought as Action: Gender, Democracy, Freedom

Our shared interest in theoretical questioning has led us towards a more rigorous interrogation of the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of some of the concepts that are currently being marshalled in the name of democracy and freedom, among them , "citizenship", "human rights", "subject...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Vestland

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

Congestion Managment and Block Bids in Deregulated Electricity Markets

The project focuses on studying alternative ways of handling congestion management and block bids in deregulated electricity markets. Both the Nordic and the European electricity market will be studied. Comparisons between nodal pricing, zonal pricing and counter purchase for the European market...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Vestland

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

Design of novel Pd-alloy membranes with controlled composition, homogeneity and nanostructure for hydrogen production under harsh conditions

The primary large-scale industrial hydrogen production route is from natural gas through a process that involves two equilibrium-limited reactions: the steam reforming and the subsequent WGS step, to arrive at a gas which is rich in H2 and low in CO. Hydr ogen selective membranes have frequently ...

Awarded: NOK 6.3 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

LAND: The post-medieval archaeological resource in and around Norwegian towns: heritage potential, protection and management

Prosjektet har det siste året i all hovedsak jobbet med sluttpublikasjonen, som også oppsummerer deler av hovedresultatene fra prosjektet. I tillegg kommer resultatene til de to stipendiatene, men disse foreligger i sin helhet først 2015. Prosjektets viktigste resultat er debatten man har klart å...

Awarded: NOK 6.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2017

Location: Oslo

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Hydrogen in solar-grade p-type silicon: dominant complexes and solar cell efficiency

The PV market is dominated by solar cells based on mc-Si, and it is expected that Si will continue to dominate in the years to come. Huge efforts are put down in research related to improving and optimizing such silicon based photovoltaics. Practically a ll earlier solar cells based on p-type Si...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Poverty, disability and access to social welfare in the Peoples Republic of China

The overall objective of this project is to describe and analyse the links between disability and poverty as found in poor, rural communities in two regions - Gansu province and Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) - in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). By a pplying a grass-root approach, based on q...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Poverty Reduction and Gender Justice in Contexts of Legal Pluralism

This project seeks to explore the relationship between complex legal pluralities and gendered forms of poverty. By shaping opportunities for personal autonomy, political participation and access to economic resources (such as education, health, land, wat er or employment), complex legal pluralit...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Vestland

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

Study of heat and mass exchangers in heat-driven systems: - theoretical modelling and experimental testing

Efficient use of energy in the industry and in the society is focussed in the present call for proposals. Energy efficiency requires careful selection and sizing of the components of the heat conversion technologies such as heat pumps and chillers. Compac t heat exchangers and enhancement of heat...

Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Love on the farm: A risky business? Marital settlements, cohabiting agreements and divorces in family farms

A divorce or a break-up on a family farm is a complex process with potentially disastrous consequences not only to individuals and families, but also to the economic viability on family farms. This project is explorative as there is no research-based know ledge about the extent to and the ways in...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MAT-SLF-Matprogr.:Prosj.fullfin.av SLF

The climatic challenge of food products in a holistic environmental and life cycle perspective (194871)

The main research questions to be focused in the project are: - How robust and reliable are existing methods and methods under development for calculating environmental profiles of food products in a holistic life cycle perspective, and is it possible to develop a methodological framework that ...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Østfold

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

Vulnerability and security in a changing power system

The modern society is critically dependent on a secure electricity supply to maintain its functionality. Increased knowledge about the security of supply regarding vulnerabilities in the power grids and wide-area interruptions (blackouts) is very importan t to enable a secure and flexible power s...

Awarded: NOK 8.3 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

ICI 2009-2010: Investigation of cusp irregularities by sounding rockets

The recent discovery of reversed flow channels and strong flow shears in the daytime auroral zone requires a new approach for studies of plasma instabilities and irregularity formation in the F-region ionosphere. Until last year, common knowledge was that the physical processes structuring plasm...

Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2011

Location: Oslo

KOSK-II-Katalyse og org.synt.kjemi II

Design and optimisation in organic synthesis:Optimisation of telscope reactions and methodologies base on orthogonal experiments

Telescope reactions: Assume that a three-step reaction is to be optimised: Lay out a statistical design to map the first step. Run the experiments an determine the responses. The response matrix Y=[y1 y2 ....ur] summarises the results. A principal compone nt model will determine the number of ind...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Designing feasible and efficient climate policies

No policy can be implemented or sustained for any length of time without public support. Several important examples of failures to implement new Piougivan tax schemes bear testimony to this. In order to design Pigouvian taxes that are both efficient and f easible we need to understand why it is s...

Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2011

Location: Oslo

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

Electricity Demand Knowledge

There is an increasing focus on challenges related to climate-changes and security of energy supply. EU has specified a binding target for 2020 to reduce the EU global primary energy use by 20 %, compared to a normal growth. Energy efficiency in energy co nversion, supply and end-use is the short...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Evaporative demands and deficit irrigation on golf courses and other turfgrass areas

While lack of water is a major problem for turfgrass areas worldwide, Scandinavian golf courses have often been over-irrigated resulting in increased mowing costs, disease problems, nutrient and pesticide leaching, and reduced playing quality. By this pro posal, STERF wants to promote scientifica...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Endra produksjonsmetodar for kålrot - nye tiltak og strategiar for kostnadseffektivt ugrasreinhald

Kålrot er ein gamal matvekst knytt til tradisjonelle norske matrettar som har fått auka merksemd i seinare tid. Kålrotforbruket til mat er aukande i Noreg. Dyrkingsmetodane har blitt tilpassa etter utvikling av utstyr og tilgjengelege plantevernmiddel og kålrotdyrkinga framstår i dag som ein mod...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Rogaland

PES-INST-Prosjektetablererstøtte EU (FoU)

IRIS PES Rammebevilgning

IRIS ser for seg at det samlet vil bli søkt om å bli med i 10-12 initiativer i 2009. Disse vil bli fordelt på følgende måte: Petroleumsavdelingen: Sanntidsovervåking, modellering, integrerte operasjoner, CO2 lagring, boringsteknologi 2-3 søknader Gasste knologi og Risavika Gas Centre: Effektive...

Awarded: NOK 0.98 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Rogaland

PES-INST-Prosjektetablererstøtte EU (FoU)

PES Rammebevilgning

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Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Rogaland