200 projects

FFL-JA-Forskningsmidlene for jordbruk og matindustri

Vitamin K2 i meieriprodukter

Vitamin K2 has several positive health effects. Dairy products like cheese and fermented milks are our main sources of vitamin K2, but this is not well known among the public. The European and Norwegian food safety authorities permit labelling of such products with the health claim that K2 is goo...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2019

Location: Rogaland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Opprinnelsestesting av fiskemel

The project was based on an existing service provided by ORIVO AS to producers of omega-3 fish oils where the origin of the oil can be traced through a laboratory test. The service is sold as a certification for honest producers and brand owners who wish to document the authenticity of their prod...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2018

Location: Møre og Romsdal

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Det beste fra to verdener;Optimal blanding av Nordatlantisk Pelagisk olje og Norsk Dodreolje for nasjonalt og internasjonalt helsekostmarke

Globally, there are currently a lack of omega-3 fatty acids and it is important to utilize new and existing sources in an optimal way. Seeds from camelina (Camelina Sativa) might be a new omega-3 source with high value creation potential used as a supplement to marine omega-3 fatty acids. High qu...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2019

Location: Østfold

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Fremtidens konsumentprodukter av norsk salt- og klippfisk

Salted and salted and dried fish (hereafter clipfish) are among the most important export products in Norwegian seafood industry. Before consumption these products must be soaked in water (desalted) for several days. Different types of ready-to-use desalted products are becoming more and more nor...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2018

Location: Møre og Romsdal

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Bioeconomic production of fresh greenhouse vegetables in Norway - BIOFRESH

Bioeconomy is creating value based on biological resources. Greenhouse production provides the best conditions to maximize photosynthesis, and thus crop and product quality, as well as to minimize resource use per unit of product. It is also a prerequisite to supply the market with fresh, healthy...

Awarded: NOK 34.0 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2021

Location: Akershus

STIM-EU-Strat.Instituttsats.EU-prosj

STIM-EU Stiftelsen RURALIS

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Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2019

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Screening marine microalgae and terrestrial bacteria; in search of novel compounds of potential medicinal and other industrial values

In this project, twelve different algae species/strains have been cultivated, upscaled, extracted and analyzed. I.e 112 different extracts from 56 different batches of biomass have been tested for anticancer effects in six different cell lines including cells from virally induced cancer as well a...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Akershus

FFL-JA-Forskningsmidlene for jordbruk og matindustri

Anticoccidial resistance, development of immunity and alternative control strategy in Norwegian lambs

Coccidiosis in Norwegian lambs Protozoan parasites in genus Eimeria may cause severe clinical disease (coccidiosis (syn. eimeriosis)) in Norwegian lambs, typically 2-3 weeks after turnout on spring pasture. The present project investigated possible anticoccidial drug resistance (ACR), by describ...

Awarded: NOK 0.87 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2022

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Enhancing local wool value chains in Norway

From its initiation in 2015 to the end in 2019, KRUS had two goals: to improve the market for and the value of Norwegian wool, and survey the opportunities for local production in a move towards a goal of sustainability in the fashion sector. On a larger scale, KRUS has looked at how we can reest...

Awarded: NOK 20.9 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Gender and the sustainable intensification of agriculture

There is a renewed interest to close the agricultural productivity gap in Africa. Donors and African governments alike share this enthusiasm with the African Union declaring 2014 as the year of agriculture and food security, and for feeding Africa through new technologies. The call for an African...

Awarded: NOK 0.21 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2015

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Sustainable path creation for innovative value chains for organic waste products

Waste and other residual materials from industries and households are of increasing value in today's economy. Substances that have long represented a cost to the economy are becoming a valuable resource, due to changes in technology that enable a greater share of their potential to be extracted. ...

Awarded: NOK 40.0 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Oslo

STIM-EU-Strat.Instituttsats.EU-prosj

STIM-EU Nofima AS

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Awarded: NOK 57.3 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2022

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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

Quinolone resistant Escherichia coli in Norwegian poultry and their impact on humans

Antimicrobial resistance has been recognized by the WHO as a global threat to public health. Fluoroquinolones are considered one of the critically important antimicrobial agents that are to be reserved for treatment of bacterial infections in humans. Food contaminated with resistant bacteria may ...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2017

Location: Akershus

FFL-JA-Forskningsmidlene for jordbruk og matindustri

Bacterial flora and dynamics in Norwegian milk and dairy products: Potential for spoilage and disease

High microbiological quality characterizes a large proportion of Norwegian milk and milk products. Nevertheless, a continuous focus and increased competence on the milk microbiota is important, as reduced milk quality results in significant economic losses to the dairy industry. Bacteria can redu...

Awarded: NOK 1.00 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Akershus

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Agricultural Carbon Finance, Food Security, and the World Bank's Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project (KACP)

Recognizing the challenges that interrelated fuel, environmental, and financial crises pose to the global food system, a range of actors have begun to explore possibilities for promoting the 'sustainable intensification of agriculture'. Specifically, and in acknowledgement of the risks for smallh...

Awarded: NOK 0.18 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2016

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

hyperBio - using new technology to reduce costs and improve the accuracy of forest inventory mapping

The goal of this project was to develop a method for forestry mapping to enable better accuracy and efficiency in forest inventory, based on airborne laser scanning (lidar) and hyperspectral imaging. Lidar data consists of a point cloud in 3D describing tree heights, crown structures and underlyi...

Awarded: NOK 7.5 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Rogaland

HAVBRUK2-Stort program for havbruksforskning

PROMAC: Energy efficient PROcessing of MACroalgae in blue-green value chains

PROMAC (Energy-efficient PROcessing of MACroalgae in blue-green value chains) is a project funded by the HAVBRUK2 program from the Norwegian Research Council (35 million NOK, 2015-2018). The project, coordinated by Møreforsking AS, draws on key expertise from both Norwegian (SINTEF, NIBIO, NTNU a...

Awarded: NOK 35.0 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Møre og Romsdal

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Riktig Emballering for Redusert Matsvinn

Develop packaging technologies for increased product quality and optimal shelf life. Vegetables Two trials are conducted with cauliflower and broccoli packaged in different packaging materials, stored at two conditions. Unpackaged cauliflower and broccoli had a weight loss between 7 and 27% ...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2017

Location: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

HYGENEA - Risk based hygiene control in European Abattoirs

The European regulations require that the meat industry monitor the hygiene and food safety of their products by bacterial tests. The methods of sampling and analyzing are (almost) optional. This means that there are many methods used and it is difficult to compare results between abattoirs and c...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2017

Location: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Ny bruk av grønnsaker i sunne og bærekraftige kjøttprodukter

The overall idea of the GRØNTiKJØTT (Greens-in-meat) project is to develop sustainable and healthy everyday products consisting of minced meat with a high proportion of vegetables. We are now seeing a trend where consumers are becoming more conscious of what they eat and where institutional house...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2017

Location: Rogaland

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

JPI HDHL: The Food Biomarkers Alliance

Food frequency questionnaires, food diaries, and 24 h recall represent the most commonly used dietary assessment tools in human studies on nutrition and health. Because food intake biomarkers represent a more objective reflection of intake compared to selfreported data, food intake biomarkers ma...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2018

Location: Oslo

KINA-Kina-programmet

Evaluation of alternative feed ingredients for farmed fish - kinesisk statsstipend

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Awarded: NOK 0.18 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Ukjent Fylke

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Decision support system on optimized waste collection by vacuum technology with simultaneous production of bioenergy from wastes

The Biosuck project: Decision support system on optimized waste collection by vacuum technology with simultaneous production of bioenergy from wastes is an ERAnet project. The project has been coordinated by Fraunhofer Umsicht in Germany and has had industry partners from Norway (NTNU), Poland (I...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2021

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KINA-Kina-programmet

The Norwegian minke whale genetic database/Tracing farmed escapees to cage of origin - kinesisk statsstipend

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Awarded: NOK 0.18 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HAVBRUK2-Stort program for havbruksforskning

Traders in the food value chain: Firm size and international food distribution

This was an interdisciplinary research project (2014-2019, BIONÆR/HAVBRUK2, 233836) in cooperation between NUPI, SNF/Bergen og Ruralis/Trondheim, with international partners in the UK (ODI og NRI, University of Greenwich) and India (ISEC, Bangalore). The final conference of the project was arrang...

Awarded: NOK 10.8 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2019

Location: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Consumers in a sustainable food supply chain: understanding barriers and facilitators for acceptance of visually suboptimal foods

A lot of food gets wasted that is still fine to eat, but doesn't look perfect: it may have an odd shape, unattractive colour, breaks or dents, or with a best-before date that is close by or even past. These "suboptimal foods" may account for a large share of food waste: around 25% of foods that a...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2017

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Friske granplanter til foryngelse av skog (FriskGran)

The main objective of the project "Healthy spruce transplants for forest regeneration" (FriskGran) was to reduce the losses in forest nurseries during production and storage. To get an overview of the causes and range of losses, we conducted a survey through the systematic collection of samples f...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2017

Location: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Nettverksstøtte: Next generation's food production for a healthy life

The network is largely representing a new alliance consisting of partners from the newly established Faculty of Bio- and Veterinarian Sciences (FBVS)at The Norwegian University of Life Science at Ås and the Faculty of Medicine at the The Norwegian Univers ity of Science and Technology, Trondheim....

Awarded: NOK 0.21 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2018

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Nettverksstøtte: Bikuben-En nettverkspådriver for utvikl. og formidling av forskn. som bidrar til et innovativt og bærekraftig jordbruk

Utgangspunktet for nettverket er norsk landbrukspolitikk som har ambisiøse mål for norsk jordbruk, samt at målene må sees i lys av den globale situasjonen for matproduksjon og matvarehandel med økende befolkning og økt etterspørsel etter mat, knapphet på energi og større klimaendringer. Det vil ...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Nettverksstøtte: NTP Food for Life 2014-2015

NTP food for life består at norske matbedrifter og bransjeorganisasjoner. Nettverket er organsiert med en styringsgruppe og arbeidsgrupper. Det gjennomføres årlige prosesser for å identifisere medlemmenes FOU behov for å synliggjøre dette for virkemiddela pparatet og departementer. Det jobbes for...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2016

Location: Oslo