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INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Japan - bilateral cooperation in Arctic Climate Studies

Prosjektet vil bygge relasjoner til mellom Japan og Norge innenfor geofysikk/klima studier i arktiske strøk med tanke på en fremtidig søknad til NFR. Prosjektet vil arrangere en workshop våren 2007 diskusjon av fremtidige problemstillinger/muligheter for søknader innen klimaendringer, slik som ...

Awarded: NOK 75,000

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Buskerud

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USA - an open framework for future collaborative research in image guided surgery (IGS)

Applicant: SINTEF Health Research, Medical Technology: Over 10 years of experience in the field of image guided surgery within the National Center for 3D Ultrasound in Surgery (SINTEF, NTNU, St Olavs Hospital) in Trondheim, Norway. The unique collaboratio n between scientists and clinicians withi...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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USA - bilateral collaboration on connective tissue and biospectroscopy

Meat and fish farming industries have both a great challenge in producing high quality food products regarding human and animal health as well as eating quality as textural properties. In food research, it is established that intramuscular connective tiss ue contributes to fish and meat texture a...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Akershus

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USA - bilateral cooperation in dynamics and noise in nanodevices

We propose collaborative effort in studies of quantum dynamics and noise in novel devices for nanoelectronics, with focus on building blocks for future quantum computers ? quantum bits (qubits) and logical gates. The main obstacle in realizing quantum alg orithms is random time-dependent fields (...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

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USA - bilateral cooperation in the use of air bubble flotation in fisheries technology and related fields

Etablere samarbeid med Dr. Ira leifer ved Marine Sciences Institute ved USCB (USA), med tanke på anvendelser av bobler og flotasjon i fiskeriteknologi m.m. Samarbeidet det søkes støtte om vil foregå i Trondheim, i form av møter, diskusjoner og arbeidsgru pper for utarbeidelser av søknad.

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Japan-collaborative development of program systems with hierarchical quantum chemical methods.

State of the art treatment of phenomenon in bio-molecules and nanostructures are limited to the use of unsystematic computational methods, like density functional theory and effective fragment methods. They are mostly aiming at the structures and properti es of ground states. For improved theoret...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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KINA: Towards a viable social welfare system and a sustainable economic development of China.

Cooperation is planned with School of Social Development and Public Policy at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. 1. The Frisch Centre aims at conducting research at a high level. One of the mechanisms to achieve that aim is to develop an international n etwork of researchers. Over the last year...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Oslo

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USA - Starting a bilateral collaboration on coordinated experimental studies of wave heating in space relevant plasmas.

Vi søker om midler til å sette sammen et forskernettverk som vil danne basis for en Forskerprosjekt-søknad til Norges Forskningsråd under Frie Prosjekter (NATVIT) våren 2007. Forskerprosjektet vil omfatte koordinerte laboratorie-studier av bølger og insta biliteter og påfølgende oppvarming i magn...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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USA - bilateral cooperation for interdisciplinary research and methodology development in food safety

The Norwegian Institute of Gene Ecology, founded in 1998, has been an international leader in interdisciplinary food safety research, with particular emphasis on biosafety of genetically modified organisms. The establishment of a research cooperation in t he USA fits into our international strate...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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USA - bilateral cooperation: Speciation and Phylogeography of Soil Arthropods in the Mountains (SAPHARI)

The international collaborative project will target selected taxa within the insect order Coleoptera (beetles) to study speciation and phylogeography of soil arthropods in the mountains, using the Southern Appalachians as a model. The project will include the following objectives and address the...

Awarded: NOK 57,000

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Oslo

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USA and China - bilateral research on Ideology, Cultural Memory, and Canonization in cross disciplinary and cross cultural perspective.

(In Norwegian:) Det synes å være slik at en gitt kultur etablerer visse "ortodokse" måter å forstå seg selv og sin historie på. Denne "kulturens normalforståelse" knyttes svært ofte til ytre objekter som klassiske tekster, bestemte (kultiske) handlinger, klesdrakt, osv. Slike tekster, handlinger,...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Oslo

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USA, Japan and China, - scientific cooperation to ensure the safe use of novel food ingredients derived from gene technology.

The safety of novel food ingredients produced by modern biotechnology has been a concern raised by many consumers, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and scientists. Thus, the need for careful risk assessment of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) int ended for food and feed is recognized in ...

Awarded: NOK 80,566

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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USA-Determination of Molecular Descriptors of drug targets, anti-targets and counter targets for Cancer therapy

Many potent Matrix metalloproteinases inhibitors (MMPIs) have been developed for the treatment of cancer in recent years with great expectations. Many of them have been tested in clinical trials and discontinued. These inhibitors lack specificities betwee n cancer producing and cancer inhibiting ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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USA/Canada - Ice abrasion and frost deterioration of high performance concrete structures - service life

In the first phase the participants will review contributions to the objective of the project from their varying fields of expertise and possibilities for financial support for a main project. This will include brief overviews of expertise in the fields o f environmental loads (ice pressure, free...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Nord-Amerika - bilateralt forskningssamarbeid innenfor vinterdrift av veger.

Vinterdrift er et av de tunge innsatsområdene innenfor drift av veger i Norge, og årlig brukes det ca 1,2 milliarder NOK for å sikre framkommeligheten og gjøre vintervegene trafikksikre. Dette har stor samfunnsmessige betydning både for næringsliv og for den enkelte trafikant. Vinterdrift er e...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Kina - Norwegian-Chinese Media Research

Høgskolen i Oslo (HiO) inngikk i 2004 en samarbeidsavtale med Communication University of China (CUC). Dr. Wangyu, Associate professor, CUC, som arbeider innen feltet journalistikk, medier og kommunikasjon, skal oppholde seg i 10 mnd ved HiO, Avd. for jou rnalistikk, bibliotek- og informasjonsfag...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

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Russland - Promoting environmentally and socially sound oil and gas development in North West Russia

The Barents Sea lies makes up 7% of the Arctic Ocean and washing the shores of both Norway and Russia. Leading Norwegian companies like Statoil, Norsk Hydro and Aker Kvaerner that want to do business there, have accumulated an enormous technological poten tial and operational experience. This als...

Awarded: NOK 99,420

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Rogaland

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USA, Electrodeposition of silicon

The electrochemical processing group at National Institute of Standards and Technology has a lot of experience in electroplating for the electronics industry. The group worked a lot with electrochemistry in ionic liquids and molten salts. They are also hi ghly skilled in nano technology. Nano cr...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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USA-joint initiative in food safety: The development of a project proposal on LC-MS/MS for the determination of low levels of food allergens

I en normal populasjon lider 2-5% av befolkningen av matallergi, og blant barn er frekvensen enda høyere (5-7%). En matallergiker må unngå all mat med allergene proteiner og er helt avhengig av at innholdsdeklarasjonen til ferdigfabrikert mat er korrekt. Regelverket for deklarasjon av matallergen...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Akershus

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USA: Worldwide Heritage Media: Linking Scholars and the Public in the Search for Roots - establishing a seminar to explore collaboration

As the escalating pace of technological innovation and globalization continues to transform and disrupt peoples lives and communities around the planet, so do their yearnings for a sense of stability and rootedness. This dilemma is powerfully illustrated by a photograph in Thomas Friedmans book T...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Vestland

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Russland - Bilateral samarbeid innen petroleum spill renovering

Norut Teknologi bidrar med tekniske støtte til Arctic Spill Control A.S. i Narvik ved utvikling av teknologi for land og vann basert forurensing av petroleum produkter. Gjennom Barents initiativet har Norut Teknologi blitt koblet sammen med forskere hos Kola Science Centre (RAS), som har utvikle...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

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Russland - møte mellom russiske og norske bilder av hverandre i krysskulturelt samarbeide.

I Norut Samfunnsforsknings internasjonale strategier og prioriteringer står forskning på nordområdene og forskning i samarbeid med miljøer i nordområdene sentralt. Norut Samfunnsforskning søker å realisere disse strategiene og prioriteringene gjennom fler e tiltak. 1) Vårt strategiske instituttpr...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SKOGFOND-Utviklingsfondet for skogbruket

Nordisk standard for vibrasjonsmålinger på skogsmaskiner

EU og Norge har vedtatt grenser for vibrasjoner på skogsmaskiner, men det finnes ingen nordisk standard for måleprosedyre Skogforsk i Sverige og Helsinki Universitet har satt i gang ett arbeide for å utvikle en felles nordisk standard.Norsk institutt for Skog og Landskap er invitert til og ønsk...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Akershus

SKOGFOND-Utviklingsfondet for skogbruket

Økt rekruttering til skognæringen og skogfagsstudier

Søkningen til skogfag på høyere nivå har falt dramatisk de siste årene. I 2006 tilbyr UMB treårig bachelor og toårig master, og HiH treårig bachelor i skogfag. Opptaket i 2006 er historisk lavt og færre enn 10 studenter starter høyere utdanning i skogfag (3 ved UMB og 6-7 ved HiH). Rundt år 2000 ...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Akershus

SKOGFOND-Utviklingsfondet for skogbruket

Sikkerhet i skogen

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Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Vitenskapskafeen Oslo 2007

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Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HELSEVEL-Gode og effektive helse-, omsorgs- og velferdstjenester

Senter for omsorgsforskning i region øst, Høgskolen i Gjøvik

Senter for omsorgsforskning Øst har fått sitt mandat fra Helse- og omsorgsdepartementet, og skal bidra til økt kunnskap for og om de kommunale helse- og omsorgstjenestene. Sentrets kjerneaktiviteter speiler mandatet og omfatter forskning- og utviklings arbeid samt forvaltning og formidling av kun...

Awarded: NOK 28.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2024

Location: Innlandet

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Liberal Peace and the Ethics of Peacebuilding Towards the integration of ethics in peacebuilding research

An increasing amount of research is being done on the means of peacebuilding, but there is a lack of research and debate on its aims. This is unfortunate not only from a scholarly, but also from a political point of view. In recent years critique has been directed towards the political premises ...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2017

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Causes and consequences of a large-scale shift from sugar kelp (Saccharina latissima) to ephemeral algae and implications for management

The SACCHARINA project is based on the dramatic decline in the sugar kelp forest along the coast of Southern Norway. The sugar kelp normally dominates the sea-bed at 2 to 15 m depth in sheltered coastal areas of the Norwegian coast. Surveys have found tha t the sugar kelp forests have disappeared...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

SYMPOSIUM ON ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS IN THE NORWEGIAN SEA AND BARENTS SEA (ECONORTH)

Sub-Arctic seas support extraordinarily rich marine resources, which provide food and wealth to local communities. These seas include: the Okhotsk Sea, Oyashio shelf region, Bering Sea, Hudson Bay, Newfoundland/Labrador shelves, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Gree nland shelves. The Norwegian Sea and Ba...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa