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Implications of digital transformation for migrant labour

Accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, rapid digitalisation has fundamentally transformed European working conditions. While its positive consequences are well recognised, digital transformation also puts a sorely needed part of the European workforce at risk of unemployment, poverty and social exclusion. IDILAB (Implications of digital transformation for migrant labour) investigates the impacts that technological progress and subsequent structural changes have on the labour market integration of migrant workers. By developing a new methodological approach, IDILAB shall provide novel evidence on migrants’ exposure to the process of digitalisation, and formulate evidence-based and innovative policy options for the EU and national governments to improve on the scope and adequacy of national and European policy directed at encouraging a fair digital transition for all, including migrants. The proposed project will contribute with new knowledge on migrants’ own perspectives on barriers and enablers for a sustainable integration in a fast-changing labour market. I, the experienced researcher (Dr Olga Gheorghiev, the Czech Republic), will work with a European centre of excellence (the Research Centre for Digitalisation of Public Services and Citizenship (CEDIC, OsloMet, Norway), and the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI, Belgium) for intersectoral knowledge transfer, career development, and European added value.

Locating Intergenerational Ties, rematriating late-19th-century unpublished photographs of Sámi Women and Children

Employing a decolonial approach inspired by critical museology and Indigenous studies, LIT aims to initiate a visual restitution/rematriation process fostering attention to Sámi people’s experiences during colonial encounters, and to illuminate individual life-stories of women and children photographed by Italian anthropologists Mantegazza and Sommier between 1879 and 1886. It wishes to generate dialogical knowledge of unpublished visual/written materials, enabling Sámi communities of interest to gain access to these scholars’ photographs. In complex socio-historical Indigenous/settler contexts such as Sápmi (the Sámi homeland), Sámi people’s control over their own heritage has proved essential to processes of cultural and ethnopolitical self-determination. Part of the Sámi visual heritage consists of photographs taken - often through mild violence and coercion - by academics engaged in physical anthropological practices involving Sámi individuals of all ages and genders. The resulting academic and divulgative publications circulated in Europe for decades, shaping and reinforcing stereotypes of Sámi peoples and cultures. Photos taken in colonial encounters by late-19th/early-20th century scholars to visualize Sámi people’s supposed biological-cultural inferiority (until a few decades ago inaccessible to the Sámi) have become important means of decolonization and empowerment through art and activism. The visual restitution of such photographs is of the utmost importance not only from a cultural heritage perspective but is also considered by Sámi institutions and individuals as an urgent necessity. LIT proposes an innovative approach based on the co-construction of knowledge and with a gender dimension. I shall reconstruct life stories of women and children photographed by Italian ethnologists, locating their descendants and returning their photographs to their communities. LIT would benefit my career, making me a leading researcher in Sami Studies and museology.

CULTUral heritage in RurAL remote areas for creative tourism and sustainabilITY

The main objective of the project is to contribute to the promotion of cultural and creative tourism activities, considering the different capacities, resources, and specificities (material, creative, human...) of the territories, as a mean to help with the sustainable development of peripheral rural areas, favoring job creation and population settlement. For this, the potential of its cultural heritage will be researched, taking into account both the artisan material culture (techniques, materials, patterns and decorative elements), as well as the intangible culture (music, oral knowledge and culinary traditions) as a resource.
 
To promote non-seasonal tourism as a form of sustainable development with a stable population settlement we are going to research the crafts linked to the territory and their implications, but we will also carry out a documentation of the productive processes. First and foremost, we are going to cater to the necessities of the local communities and pay attention to aspects related to societal groups at risk of exclusion, such as women, the elderly and the youth.

All this will be developed from a multidisciplinary perspective, for which we will count on the various teams —most of them linked to different countries— that will be part of the consortium. Each of these partners will contribute to the development, as well as to the final result of the project through input directly related to their area of ??expertise: for example, among the collaborators we have intellectual teams specialized in the digitalization of heritage, research, or communication and dissemination, as well as as various institutions that will act as a testing ground for the more practical parts of the proposal. However, if something will characterize our work, it will be the constant collaboration between all parties, as well as the exchange of advice and experiences that will help to enrich collective knowledge and guarantee optimal results.

POWERING ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP TO DRIVE THE CLIMATE TRANSITION

PACESETTERS responds to the abstract challenge of the climate transitions by shifting from a model of entrepreneurship based on individual, short-term incentives to one that is driven by co-agency and new capacities to act together in sustainable ways. It does so by examining the concrete circumstances, investigating possible support mechanisms and stress-testing instruments that enable art and culture, creativity and heritage to drive the climate transition.
Therefore, PACESETTERS will set out to:
-Create knowledge from collaborative research to keep pace with the transition
-Propose and test creative business models to set the pace of the transition
-Assess strategies of valorisation to push the pace of the transition
 
This approach will identify and analyse advanced practices that run transversally across the cultural and creative sectors; contextualise the outcomes of co-research in real-world laboratories for social imagination; further develop and promote the preliminary results of experiments in iterative support and evaluation frames. The PACESETTERS approach centres on inclusion, participation and iteration in order ensure that gender equity and diversity inform it at every step and on every level.

The result will be a critical evaluation and all-encompassing demonstration of the actual potentials of the CCIs to drive the climate transition while systematically analysing their impact on micro-, meso- and macro-level:
-Understanding the climate transition as a triple transition: green, digital and inclusive
-Innovating aPACESETTERS responds to the abstract challenge of the climate transitions by shifting from a model of entrepreneurship based on individual, short-term incentives to one that is driven by co-agency and new capacities to act together. It does so by examining the concrete circumstances, investigating possible support mechanisms and stress-testing instruments that enable art and culture, creativity and heritage to drive the climate transition.

Smart and Sustainable Host UniverCities: leveraging city-university interactions to further the twin green and digital transition

SUNSET aims to develop innovative research and training capacity around city-university interactions driving the EU’s green and digital transition. This twin transition is a defining element of the current EU policy agenda towards achieving climate neutrality and sustainable growth. The European Commission considers cities to be frontrunners in this transition agenda, but their transformational capacity and resilience crucially depends on the presence of agile and high-performing urban innovation ecosystems. SUNSET brings together (1) prominent researchers working in diverse geographical and disciplinary settings at leading universities (N=6) with (2) partners (N=16) from city governments (often participating in the Cities Mission to achieve climate neutrality by 2030), innovation companies, research institutes and civil society organizations to analyze and foster the performance of these urban innovation ecosystems: drawing on a purposeful range of interdisciplinary, international, and intersectoral exchanges, the Doctoral Network will investigate whether and how universities can successfully become key drivers of the twin transition in cities via their role as innovation partners, the implementation of campus living labs, and as architects of decision-making in governance ecosystems. Through a tailored combination of network-wide training events and academic and non-academic secondments, the SUNSET Doctoral Network will train a new generation of researchers to become future urban innovation ecosystem leaders in the pursuit of the twin green and digital transition. The findings will lead to practical guidelines regarding the design and implementation of living labs for university and city management, tailored strategies to foster more inclusive and diverse urban ecosystems, and diverse forms of scientific outreach and dissemination.

Providing research infrastructure services to support Next Generation EU

This four-year project will harness outputs from key social science RIs in Europe and other reliable sources to support the aims of the ‘Next Generation EU’ programme and to inform EU youth policy. Virtual access will be provided to the outputs through special installations (portals) developed during the project. The core of the proposal is a set of existing research ‘services’, which will be re-purposed and customised to focus directly on the five themes: Make it Green; Make it Digital; Make it Healthy; Make it Strong; and Make it Equal. 

For each area, the consortium will work collaboratively to produce seven sets of resources:

i)	A searchable inventory of relevant variables drawn from multiple cross-national datasets; 

ii)	Analytical summaries, suitable for policy makers and analysts new to the field, as well as interactive resources available through the project portal;

iii)	Harmonised and merged extracts from these datasets that reduce the burden on analysts and increase sample sizes;

iv)	New data collected through the ESS’s established CRONOS web panel infrastructure. Eleven countries will field five waves of the panel, each one dedicated to a NextGenEU theme. Free and rapid access to the data will be available through the CRONOS portal alongside analytical summaries;

v)	In-person and virtual deliberative forums with young people (aged 18-34) in four countries covering the five Next Generation EU’ themes;

vi)	An educational tool (E-NextGen) channelling our data for use in classrooms and by the general public;

vii)	Comprehensive training materials related to all project outputs.


EXPRESS 2 SPECIFY AND PROTECT THE EU SOCIAL CONTRACT (EXPRESS2)

EXPRESS2 is a project that addresses from a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and cross-sectional perspective, the growing demand for a new, more democratic, inclusive, and sustainable social contract in the EU. To achieve this, the project will work to create a more appealing and legitimate EU social contract draft that will be submitted to inhabitants, Member States and EU institutions that will have the possibility to participate and decide upon the conditions, rights, and obligations to be binding. The goal is to strengthen the EU agreement of association by promoting social dialogue, civic engagement, and integration. An express draft shall be achieved by means of policy dialogue, campaign implementation, collaborative workshops, advocacy planning, and innovative offline and online formats and tools to create spaces for dialogue. To this end, EXPRESS2 will involve EU policymakers and institutions throughout the project to obtain a more appealing and legitimate EU social contract draft. 
The project will also focus on identifying and analyzing disruptive elements of the social contract, such as insecurity, populism, climate change, mistrust in institutions, gender discrimination, digitalisation and pandemics. The analysis of these stressors includes both individualised and cross-sectional approaches to cover the plausible relation of multiple disruptors, their concatenation or the “trigger” effect of a disruptive phenomenon to another. By understanding these disruptive elements and their effects on the social contract, the project will propose concrete measures to ironclad the social contract and it will provide relevant information to protect it from actual and potential disruptions thus we conceive social contracts as incomplete theorised agreements and living documents. In addition to academic, policy, and socio-economic outcomes, EXPRESS2 will propose recommendations to strengthen the social contract's resilience and capacity for further development.


Mapping of Longitudinal data of Inequalities in Education

The MapIE project aims to identify mechanisms causing educational inequalities and policies or interventions compensating for them. We do a systematic review of how these have been studied internationally using longitudinal designs. We map existing longitudinal data that we describe in a public metadata database, and we analyse them to describe the mechanisms of inequalities and to identify effective policies and interventions in different local contexts. We focus on the contextual differences between the Nordic and Central European countries that have structurally different education systems. Within national contexts and using comparative research designs, we look at system-, regional- and school-level policies and practices and individual-level factors (e.g. socioeconomic status, immigrant background, gender, special educational needs) that are associated with the development of educational inequalities and the successful prevention of achievement gaps. We publish and disseminate the empirical results of the project through multiple channels to scientific audiences, policy makers and the wider public. At the end, we create a public framework for studying educational inequalities longitudinally in future studies, acknowledging the role of local contexts but aiming for comparability at the European level. 

We implement the project in seven work packages. Our consortium consists of internationally acknowledged experts in large-scale educational assessment research from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Hungary and Luxembourg/Germany. The partners have a long-standing history of collaboration with each other, European researchers, and national and international education policy makers, and they bring extensive longitudinal datasets to the project. The project will considerably strengthen the knowledge base of what shapes educational outcomes over time, how to best support the learning of all students and how to reduce education inequalities in the short, medium and long term.

Contextualized pathways to reduce housing inequalities in the green and digital transition.

The project Reducing housing inequalities in the green and digital transition (ReHousIn) is committed to better understand the impacts of recent crises on housing inequalities across different European regions, especially with regard to the implementation of the green transition launched by the EU. The overall aim is to explore the mechanisms affecting the (re)production of housing inequalities under recent crisis conditions, and the impacts of the EU induced green transition in different national contexts and along different degrees of urbanisation. Based on a contextualized and comparative understanding of the mechanisms (re)producing housing inequalities, ReHousIn inquiries into multi-level pathways and inclusive local housing initiatives to spark innovative EU, national and local policy solutions towards inclusionary and quality housing, mitigating the possible negative impacts of the EU induced green transition. It conducts a comparative, multi-level analysis in 9 European countries – Austria, France, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom – focusing on attractive metropolitan regions, middle-sized cities and rural areas by means of a mixed-method project design. A quantitative data analysis on recent trends in housing inequalities and their relation to crises across different levels of urbanization will provide the framework for 27 local cases studies in which the impact of multi-level trajectories of housing-system, welfare regimes and environmental policy instrumentations on the (re)production of local housing inequalities and the emergence of inclusive housing initiatives are analyzed. Based on this, ReHousIn compares mechanisms of differentiation feeding into policy labs, aiming to formulate recommendations on how to tackle negative social externalities related the EU green transition at EU, national and local levels.

Strengthening resilience and mental wellbeing through the Support4Resilience toolbox for leaders in elderly care

European elderly care experiences labor shortages, lack of qualified workers and a mismatch between capacity and demands, causing stress, burnout, and reduced mental wellbeing among healthcare workers and informal caregivers. Leaders are crucial in promoting supportive working conditions but lack research-based measures to act upon these challenges.

Support4Resilience (S4R) will develop, implement, and evaluate a research-based Toolbox to support healthcare leaders in improving healthcare workers’ and informal caregivers’ resilience and mental wellbeing in elderly care. S4R will identify resilience and mental wellbeing factors among healthcare workers and informal caregivers; explore their perspectives and needs; develop new theory on the relationship between individual and organizational resilience, and mental wellbeing; and develop recommendations and cost-effective interventions. The Toolbox with tailormade resources for policy and practical use will be available through an open access S4R Resource Bank.

The S4R Toolbox includes three main tools: 1) Mapping and identification, 2) Reflection and education, and 3) Reorganization. Measures are initiated at the organizational level and effects on mental wellbeing and resilience transpire at the frontline of elderly care. The Toolbox covers different situational contexts, types of healthcare providers and health system levels. Elderly care settings in six European countries will implement and evaluate the Toolbox through a process evaluation, effectiveness evaluation, and cost-effectiveness evaluation. 

S4R provides policymakers, decisions-makers and leaders with solutions for taking action to solve specific risks for healthcare workers’ and informal caregivers’ resilience and mental wellbeing. Thus, pertinent to the work programme, S4R will support the development of resilient health systems in European elderly care through improved leadership capabilities, governance structures, and adaptive capacities.

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Det siste tiåret har vi sett en eksplosiv økning i bruken av avanserte AI-systemer, som Deep Learning. Disse systemene er basert på store datamengder og avgjørelsene som taes er ofte uforståelige for brukerne. Samtidig anvendes de som sentrale verktøy i beslutningsprosesser som angår både enkeltpersoner, næringsliv og samfunnet forøvrig. Det er derfor svært viktig at brukerne kan evaluere og stole på disse avgjørelsene. Feltet som kalles eXplainable Artificial Inteligence (XAI), altså ‘forklarbar kunstig intelligens’, har som mål å begrunne avgjørelser som taes av komplekse AI-systemer.
Prosjektet er rettet mot eksempelbaserte forklaringer, med vekt på enkelheten av eksemplene. Vi vil utvikle matematiske formuleringer av enkelhet som går på tvers av ulike representasjonsdomener, og som korrelerer godt med hva mennesker oppfatter som enkelt.  Basert på tidligere arbeid innen feltet Machine Teaching vil vi utvikle den konseptuelle og praktiske bruken av eksempelbaserte forklaringer, og slik bane vei for anvendelsen av Machine Teaching innen XAI. 
Prosjektet er et partnerskap mellom Universitetet i Bergen og VRAIN - et forskningssenter for AI i Valencia, samt Equinor og BKK AS, norske selskaper i energisektoren som har identifisert XAI som avgjørende for deres virksomhet. I begge selskapene anvendes moderne AI-systemer i flere beslutningsprosesser og det er viktig å få en forklaring på avgjørelsene som taes. Prosjektet vil gi brukere og eksperter større nytte av disse verktøyene, gjennom en bedret forståelse av den modellen av anvendelsesdomenet som AI-systemet utgjør, og bedret evne til å vurdere om beslutninger kan være tatt på feil grunnlag eller om de er svakt begrunnet.

The field of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) is concerned with giving human users a better understanding of the behavior of complex AI systems. The last decade has witnessed an explosive rise in the use of decision systems built on modern AI techniques that are often opaque, such as deep learning. These are black-box systems used to predict sensitive individual information like credit score, insurance risk, and health status. Meanwhile, the GDPR contains clauses that introduce  a  right  for  all  individuals  to  obtain “meaningful explanations of the logic involved” when automated decision-making takes place. This right represents an urgent scientific challenge and this is what XAI aims to deliver on.

Machine teaching is an emerging field that has recently attracted attention in AI. Briefly, machine teaching can be considered as an inverse problem to machine learning where the goal is for the teacher to find the smallest training set that produces a target concept. This goal can be seen as compatible with the goals of explainable AI. We take the learner  to be the human user, and the target concept to be (a part of) the black-box AI system that needs explanation. The machine teaching algorithm must find a small set of labelled examples that will allow the human to build her own model of the AI system and thereby arrive at an explanation of the target concept. 

We argue that since any machine learning model has been trained on data, then data is indeed the natural common language between the user and this model. The goal of this project is to develop the conceptual and practical setting of example-based explanation, applying and expanding the techniques of machine teaching to reach the goals of explainable AI and to meet the need for software and knowledge acquisition of the industrial partners Equinor and BKK AS.

Machine Teaching for Explainable AI

The proposal is part of the the NFR project no 178683 "Violence, poverty and police corruption" for the period period 2007- 2009. Jens Christopher Andvig is project leader. Involved researchers are me and Amit Shrivastava from the Norwegian Institute of I nternational Affairs (Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Institutt (NUPI) in Norwegian), Odd-Helge Fjeldstad from Christian Michelsen's Institute and (now deceased)Omar Azfar from John Jay's College, CUNY.
Specifically, within this propject, the present proposal aime d at analysing at analyzing the consequences of street level reports of corruption (police corruption) and crime on the level of development, using International Crime Victimization Surveys. The focus will evauate the impact of police corruption on the le vel of development, education and health as well as the interactions with criminal activities.

Crime, police corruption and development: evidence from victimization data

Crocus sativus L., is cultivated in many areas of the Mediterranean region and South Asia for its red stigmas (style branches, commonly known as saffron). Saffron is used as food and beverages additive, is an important ingredient of Mediterranean, Indian  and Chinese diet and has been used as a drug in folk medicine, especially for the treatment of mental illnesses without any toxic side effects. The coloring properties and the biological actions of saffron is mainly attributed to a unique family of water  soluble carotenoids it contains as the main constituents, known as crocins. Crocins are glycosides of the apocarotenoid crocetin, which can be of the all-trans or the 13-cis type. Although the styles of Crocus sativus had been extensively studied and thei r chemical composition has been well-determined, only recently the aqueous methanol extracts of styles from a few wild species of the Crocus genus native in the area of Western Greece have been analyzed and shown considerably different elution profiles co mpare to the one from Crocus sativus. In addition, these extracts were found to present interesting antiproliferative activity, mainly attributed to their crocins irrespective of the degree of glycosylation and thus showed promise for use as chemopreventi ve or anticancer agents.
 Taking into consideration these results and the fact that the genus Crocus consists of about 80 species worldwide, we are now proposing to study the composition of the styles of a variety of wild Crocus species native in the area  of Western Greece and identify the individual components of their extracts using hyphenated mass spectrometry techniques (e.g. GC-MS, HPLC-UV-MS). We will then proceed to studying their biological properties in a series of biological systems in order to  identify the most potent compounds. These compounds will be finally used as leads for the development of more active synthetic compounds with the desired biological profiles.

Isolation and characterization of crocetin derivatives from wild Crocus species and alternative total synthesis of crocetin and analogs

The goal of the project is the definition of a new paradigm of health care services patient based through the use of Web 2.0 tools.
The work will be mainly focused on two goals:
A. Analysis of the telemedicine service provision model in the Nordic countri es to be applied in Spain
The existing model in the Nordic countries for the deployment of telemedicine services will be analysed, identifying all those best practices that are extrapolated to Spain, especially in Valencia. Particular attention will be de voted to the study of communication networks, integration models, standards used, level of semantic interoperability, ethical and legal barriers already covered and the business and funding models. 
B. p-health (personal health) and health 2.0 
Activities  carried out by the NST and other Norwegian organizations (NORUT, IBM, SINTEF, ...) devoted to p-health and health 2.0 for the identification of user profiles and more meaningful participation (i.e. chronic informal caregivers ) will be analysed. Special  attention will be paid to telemonitoring devices, the engagement drivers, models of content generation (as patientslikeme), how to offer a quality service and content based on labels, and models for automatic content evaluation. Finally, identify the late st trends in p-health to create a standard modular platform scalable to provide 2.0 health care services.
The major result of this goal will be a proposal for a new paradigm of health care services patient based through the use of Web 2.0 tools.
Outputs o f this work will be reflected in 
-a paper in the Journal of Internet Medical Research
-some articles for congresses 
-and a chapter on a SCI book

Definition of a new paradigm of health care services patient based through the use of Web 2.0 tools

Colorectal cancer is a common form of malignancy in developed countries, and its incidence keeps increasing every year. Many are the factors that contribute to its development. However, food habit seems to play a very important role in this type of cancer . Because of the importance on colorectal cancer, I have performed an animal experiment, using the APCmin/+ mouse model, which is one of the most used models to assess effects of diet.

One of the objectives of my study is to analyze the effects of the di ets on inflammatory markers. Moreover, inflammation has been implicated in tumorigenesis, which increases susceptibility to colorectal cancer.  The biggest challenge is to find out if there are significant changes on inflammatory state, and afterwards fin d out where the inflammation is locally or systemic. Also, identifying the specific inflammatory molecules will give us a clue of the possible mechanisms in which diet may be affecting, or not, the tumours development.

If the results are promising, and s how that specific nutrients may prevent the development of colorectal cancer, the present study will be relevant to give base and important insights in order to design human interventions in the future. Until we get there, there is a lot of basic scientif ic to be achieved, and understanding inflammation related to colorectal cancer is an essential step.

Moreover, the exchange of expertise between United Kingdom and Norway will contribute to consolidate knowledge on colorectal cancer prevention, and stren gthen scientific links for future research cooperation.

Effects of fatty acids and phytochemicals on inflammation in APCmin/+ mice, a model of colorectal cancer.

Vertebrate Muscle Segment homeobox genes (Msx) control development. Their functions in post-natal growth and homeostasis remain unexplored. The present project is dedicated to Msx2 in post-natal tooth and bone oral physiopathology. 
Arjeta Agailiu thesis  (directed by Pr. Ariane Berdal) aims to provide the molecular phenotype profiles of forming cells for dental tissues and associated bone, as well as their regulatory pathways relied to Msx2. A transgenic Msx2 knock-in mouse line is used. Msx2-/- mice exhi bit pleiotropic defects in the skull, tooth, alveolar bone and several epithelial mesenchymal systems. Msx2 targets will be identified by comparing alveolar bone transcriptome in Msx2 -/-, Msx2 +/- and Msx2 +/+ mice. In Paris, a dozen of effectors (enamel  proteins, RANK ligand, BMPs) have been identified as Msx2-targets by a « gene by gene » strategy.  But, this method does not permit to discover unknown pathways. This project will provide original results with cDNA microarrays and bioinformatic analysis  of affected pathways, routinely performed by the Oslo group.
Indeed, nowadays, the global transcriptome approach is the gold standard strategy to delineate molecular basis of distinct biological processes. Oslo team has already applied this strategy to de velopment in oral cells (mouse molars germs and salivary glands). This bilateral project is focused on overlapping Paris/Oslo team interests (transcription factors, non coding RNAs, oral physiopathology). In Paris, we have developped microdissection proto cols. Oslo team is interested in developping this approach to cellular subpopulations (ameloblasts, odontoblasts, alveolar bone osteoblasts) issued from Paris skill.
Our overall aim is to facilitate mutual exchanges and built-up a collaborative program to  be submitted to EEC funding application. A one-month support is required for analysis of Msx2 pathways in the Institute of Oral Biology, under the direction of Pr. Harald Osmundsen.

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IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Crime, police corruption and development: evidence from victimization data

Awarded: NOK 85,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Isolation and characterization of crocetin derivatives from wild Crocus species and alternative total synthesis of crocetin and analogs

Awarded: NOK 55,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Definition of a new paradigm of health care services patient based through the use of Web 2.0 tools

Awarded: NOK 40,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Effects of fatty acids and phytochemicals on inflammation in APCmin/+ mice, a model of colorectal cancer.

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Global approach of transcriptome in the alveolar bone of a knock-in Msx2-/- murine model.

Awarded: NOK 21,999

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke