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RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Innovativt konsept for kostnadseffektivt distribuert energiproduksjon fra biomasse og bioslam - Fase 2

Norsk Inova ønsker å utvikle et brenselfleksibelt små-skala konsept for energigjenvinning av lavaverdig biobrensel slik som GROT, returvirke og sortert bygningsavfall samt bioslam. Denne type anlegg skal anvendes for distribuert energiproduksjon (nærvarme /fjernvarme). Prosjektet er en videreføri...

Awarded: NOK 5.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Telemark

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

An integrated process for hydrogen production and separation WBS E.RDC.00010

The main objective of this proposal is the innovation of compact and sustainable technology for synthesis gas and H2 production based on catalytic catalytic partial oxidation (CPO) including integrated separation of H2. The research areas of the projec t have been divided into two groups, one ...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Rogaland

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Prosjekt utprøving av ny teknologi for produksjon av biodrivstoff

I prosjektet "Cost efficient production of renewable liquid biofuel and biochemicals from Scandinavian wood materials", er det lagt ned en omfattende innsats for å utvikle teknologi for omdanning av trevirke til biodrivstoff. Her har arbeidet vært konsen trert om masseproduksjon med dampeksplosj...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Tipping Point Norway/The Art of Adaptation 23.- 24. juni 2008

Hovedmotivasjonen for "Tipping Point Norway" er delvis et ønske om å skape et sterkere engasjement fra kunstverdenen i klimadebatten, samt å imøtekomme behovet fra klimaekspertene om nødvendigheten av å finne et nytt pubikum som er mer effektiv i sin resp ons og uttrykk enn samfunnskritikere, akt...

Awarded: NOK 0.49 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN: BOK OM FORVALTNINGSRELEVANT VILLAKSFORSKNING

Villaksprogrammet startet opp i 2001 og har, når det går inn i storprogrammet Miljø 2015 vært i virksomhet i noe over 5 år. Både som en del av sluttrapporteringen fra Villaksprogrammet, og som en generell refleksjon av nyere kunnskapsproduksjon om vill At lantisk laks, og de utfordringene vi står...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Innlandet

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Detection of gene products in cells; An advanced imaging FUGE2 platform node

We here propose the establishment of a FUGE node in Imaging. This node is based on the imaging expertise in the research groups at the Department of Molecular Biosciences (IMBV), the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences (IMB), and the Department of Biochem istry, the Radium Hospital, DNR/RH at the...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Hydrogenaktiviteter i Norge

Dette prosjektet vil bidra sterkt til koordinering av norske hydrogenaktiviter. En norsk hydrogenguide vil bli vedlikeholdt og oppdatert i en webbasert og trykt form. En årlig oppdatering av kartlegging av produksjon og bruk av hydrogen skal også utføres . Prosjektet vil også bidra til at norske...

Awarded: NOK 0.26 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Akershus

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

A FUGE Proteomics node at DMF, NTNU

Proteomics has become increasingly important within functional genomics to assess gene expression analyses, to identify biomarkers for disease, to understand how proteins functionally interact, and to identify post-translational modifications that drive the interactions and modify protein functi...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

A NATIONAL SERVICE PLATFORM FOR GLOBAL ANALYSIS OF GENOME STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION: THE NORWEGIAN MICROARRAY CONSORTIUM

The FUGE Microarray Platform is run by the Norwegian Microarray Consortium (NMC), based on a formal institutional collaboration between RR/UiO, NTNU, and UiB. We offer in-house production of standard and custom arrays, expression and genomic profiling ser vices (RNA or DNA in-DATA out) with diffe...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

The Bioinformatics Platform in the FUGE2 programme

The FUGE 2 Bioinformatics platform is designed in direct response to the demand for increased use of bioinformatics from the FUGE 1 evaluation. The platform will provide state of the art research based services in theoretical and applied bioinformatics to Norwegian research groups, in close coll...

Awarded: NOK 26.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

SAMFUNN: Voices of Nature - Representing nature in environmental policy negotiations

This project "Voices of Nature" proposes to examine how different actors portray nature and the natural in three case studies using a combination of environmental history and Science, Technology, and Society Studies (STS) approaches. Through this approach , we will show how listening to actors' r...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

SAMFUNN: Leisure and Sustainable Development: part of the problem or part of the solution?

The overall focus of the project is the relationship between leisure time consumption and sustainable development in post industrialised countries, and how policies can influence on this relationship. Our proposed project is very much based on the finding s from the project "Environmental aspects...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Vestland

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

A proteomics node at Ås campus

As part of the NorProteomics FUGE network, Ås campus will develop expertise in the areas listed below and make this expertise available to on-campus and off-campus projects. Our key areas are: 1. Proteomics in difficult matrices, primarily related to food chemistry (meat, cereals; i.e. analysis ...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Comparing, contrasting and integrating large carnivore predation and hunter harvest into sustainable ecosystem management

This project aims to bring together data from a range of ongoing projects on the ecology of large carnivores and wild ungulates and the sociology of human interest groups to focus on a set of topics that cut across the different species. These are the top ics of human harvest and carnivore predat...

Awarded: NOK 8.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Policy for harmonising national park management and local business development

The role and legitimacy of large protected areas (LPA) is questioned in most countries in the world, and there is a quest for new management models and policy regimes capable of integrating regional development and conservation goals. The project will rev iew how conflicts in connection to PA hav...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Long-term ecological effects of sheep grazing in alpine ecosystems and its integration with management

We propose to further develop two unique experimental studies in contrasting alpine ecosystems (running from 2000 in Setesdal Vesthei and 2002 in Hol) to address several important new research questions: The overall aim is to facilitate sustainable manage ment of sheep grazing in alpine habitats ...

Awarded: NOK 7.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

SAMFUNN: Consistency in Environmental Law

Økt bevissthet rundt miljøutfordringene har resultert i en forholdsvis omfattende utvikling av miljølovgivning både nasjonalt og internasjonalt. Til tross for denne utviklingen er miljøproblemer som blant annet forurensning av luft, vann og land, tap av biologisk mangfold og forringelse av våre v...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2015

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

SAMFUNN: Norms, green agents and environmental policy

Economic theory and policy prescriptions traditionally rely on the assumption of selfish, rational agents. Clearly, this approximation is descriptively inaccurate in the context of environmental issues. Recent advances in theory and methodology now allow economists to rigorously treat social norm...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Conservation Covenants in Norway (CoCoviN) - moderating conflicts, reducing bio-diversity loss and improving resource management?

Our main aim is to study the use of voluntary, but formally binding private-public partnership in nature conservation and management. Our hypotheses are: 1) Conflicts around designation of nature conservation areas are seldom founded on disagreement abo ut preservation goals; meaning: The confl...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Innlandet

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Norwegian Structural Biology Centre (NorStruct) Proposal for a continuation of the Centre for 2008-12

NorStruct will continue to offer state of the art services and collaboration in structural biology techniques to the Norwegian research community. The expertise and services will have a solid foundation in in-house research and national and international partners. The services will be organized i...

Awarded: NOK 23.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

A node of the FUGE platform for proteomics at the Biotechnology Centre of Oslo

Specialized proteomics service will be provided by the node at the Biotechnology Centre of Oslo for i.) quantitative proteomics ii.) clinical proteomics, and iii.) cell death proteomics. Quantitative proteomics will be performed either in cell culture by stable isotopic labeling of amino acids du...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

FORURENS: Effects of catchment processes and forest management in boreal forests on Hg and MeHg in surface waters

Mercury (Hg) pollution is becoming an environmental problem of great concern in boreal areas across the entire northern hemisphere, especially because of bioaccumulation of methylmercury (MeHg) in fish and consequences of this toxic substance for human he alth. There is an urgent need for better ...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Norwegian Proteomics Consortium - Bergen

PROBE, the Norwegian proteomic platform, was established in 2002 by the Norwegian Research Council under the Functional Genomics Initiative (FUGE) to provide the Norwegian scientific community access to the best in proteomic technologies and competence. Located within the Institute of Biomedicine...

Awarded: NOK 9.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

A FUGE Nor-MIC Node in Live Cell Imaging and Protein-Protein Interaction Analysis in Plants

There is a growing need to understand fundamental plant processes at the subcellular level. With respect to this it is of paramount importance to the Norwegian research community that a National Imaging Service and Training facility exists to meet these f uture demands. In addition a Molecular Im...

Awarded: NOK 1.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Rogaland

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Multiple instruments and the design and implementation of effective energy and climate policy

This project analyses the economic consequences of using multiple instruments towards energy and climate policy targets. The project studies the main political causes for deviating from the simple cost efficient recommendations. A key objective of the pro ject is to identify effective policy meas...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Detailed studies on biomass gasification in a TGA coupled with advanced gas analysis

Conversion of biomass to a producer gas has many advantages. A gas is easier to handle and transport, it can be cleaned before combustion (i.e. compact cleaning), and it can then be used directly in e.g. engines, gas turbines and fuel cells for electricit y generation. Alternatively, it can be pr...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

The nature, design and feasibility of robust climate agreements

This project aims to contribute internationally to the knowledge and understanding of the current climate regime, the climate negotiations, international environmental agreements more generally, and those aspects having to do with compliance, enforcement, participation, and regime design in part...

Awarded: NOK 7.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

MILPAAHEL-Miljøpåvirkning og helse

Hearing loss and tinnitus: genetic and environmental effects

Depending on the criteria used 1/3 - 1/6 of the population experience hearing impairment. Tinnitus is defined as the sensation of sound without any outer sound stimulus present. Environmental risk factors such as noise exposure are frequently described fo r both the diseases. A genetic component ...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2015

Location: Oslo

SIP-NHD-Strategiske instituttprogram finansiert av NHD

Modelling of Solar Grade Silicon Crystallization Processes

The usage of crystalline silicon in solar cells to convert sunlight directly into electricity is one of the fastest growing industries worldwide. A major challenge of all solar cell research is that electricity from solar cells currently is too expensive for being competitive. An essential issue ...

Awarded: NOK 7.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Akershus

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

SUP: Offshore Wind Energy in Norway: Setting the Basis

Norway has massive offshore energy resources. Offshore wind energy by means of floating structures may open a third energy era in Norway, following hydropower and petroleum. The resource is renewable and lasting. The project objective is to improve the ex isting knowledge in the design, interconn...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage