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NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Ethics, Rights and Poverty: Global Theory and National Practice

Severe poverty is now seen by many as the most burning ethical issue of our time. In recent years, human rights-based approaches (HRBA) to poverty reduction have become particularly popular among UN agencies, bilateral donors and NGOs. Behind this increas ed interest, however, lies a multitude of...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2017

Location: Oslo

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

FRANCISELLA SP. INFECTION IN ATLANTIC COD (Gadus morhua) - STUDY OF PATHOGEN AND HOST IMMUNE CELLS INTERACTIONS

A new bacterial disease affecting cultured cod has been causing serious and increasing number of disease outbreaks at Norwegian sea cage facilities since summer of 2004. This bacterium has recently been identified as Francisella sp., a fastidious facultat ive intracellular pathogen. The propose...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Japan -bilateral cooperation for classification, documentation and promotion of high quality frozen fish.

The project has a background from a demonstration of quality advantages by freezing and transportation of fish from Florø to Tokyo at - 60 degree C, compared to standard freezing temperatures. Containers from Maersk, the ULT, for freezing and transportat ion were demonstrated in terms of quality...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MAROFF-Maritim virksomhet og offshore operasjoner

State of the art for avgassrensing ved SCR ombord i skip

SCR (selektiv katalytisk reduksjon) er en av flere metoder for å redusere NOX utslipp fra skip. SCR teknologien skiller seg fra de andre ved at dette er en ren etterbehandling av eksos der NOx reduseres til nitrogengass ved bruk av et reduksjonsmiddel (ur ea). Denne teknologien gir den høyeste re...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Ukjent Fylke

MAROFF-2-Maritim virksomhet og offsh-2

Utvikling av operasjonell treningsarena for opplæring av personell, utvikling og utprøving av skip, utstyr og operasjoner - ekstreme forhold

Et forskningsengasjement for å redusere risikoen for skader på mennesker, miljø og materiell og bidra til å styrke norske operatører og utstyrsleverandørers konkurranseevne ved avanserte maritime operasjoner under ekstreme situasjoner og forhold. Prosje ktet vil videre resultere i ny kunnskap f...

Awarded: NOK 12.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Møre og Romsdal

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Japan-bilateral-cooperation- The relationship between postpartum depression, breastfeeding, DHA and seafood consumption

Background: A healthy diet is important, particularly during pregnancy and the postpartum period.The prevalence of postnatal depression is increasing. There is a demand for empirical research that will generate knowledge about the stress involved in child bearing and postpartum period. Previous r...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Rogaland

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Reduksjon av utslipp fra ildsteder og neste generasjon forbrenningskammer

Prosjektet har som hovedmål å utvikle beregningsmetoder og teknologi for miljø-, brukervennlige og kostnadseffektive forbrenningskammer. Arbeidet vil gi: - nye metoder for bestemmelse av virkningsgradsberegning og utslipp basert på norske forhold og fyr ingsvaner sett i forhold til europeiske o...

Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Oslo

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Predator-prey interactions and how they influence the behaviour and morphology of the queen conch Strombus gigas for sea ranching

The doctoral study conducted by Ellen Sofie Grefsrud was carried out to investigate the defence capabilities in P. maximus of cultured and wild origin to better understand predator-prey interactions between crabs and scallops in culture (funded by The Res earch Council of Norway -project 137326)....

Awarded: NOK 0.47 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Personlig utenlandsstipend for Ane Sandtrø for besøk ved professor Vikram N. Vakharias laboratorium ved Universitetet i Maryland

Utenlandsoppholdet er en del at et stipendiatprosjekt kalt "The surface structure of IPN virus -role of central VP2 amino acids on epitope formation and development of persistent infection". Innen dette prosjektet satser vi på kompetanseutvikling innen st rukturstudier av ikosahedriske virus, hvi...

Awarded: NOK 51,999

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Oslo

PES-INST-Prosjektetablererstøtte EU (FoU)

megaCITY - Zoom for the ENvironment

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Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

THORPEX-IPY: Improved forecasting of adverse weather in the Arctic region - present and future

We propose here a Norwegian contribution to the International Polar Year (IPY) project THORPEX-IPY. THORPEX-IPY is the Arctic component of the international program THORPEX (The Observing System Research and Predictability Program), which is a part of the WMO World Weather Research Program (http...

Awarded: NOK 30.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Norwegian-US Antarctic IPY Traverse (TASTE-IDEA)

The objectives will be accomplished through a coordinated program of field observations, remote sensing, and modeling. The core of the work is two overland traverses in Dronning Maud Land (DML), East Antarctica: 1) from Norwegian Troll Station (72º 0? S, 2º 32? E) to Amundsen-Scott South Pole Sta...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

DOC turnover in polar microbial food webs.

Microbial communities, including phytoplankton, protozoa, bacteria, archaea, fungi and virus, are by far the most abundant and the most taxonomic and genetically diverse group of organisms in marine pelagic ecosystems. Biological activity, biomass, produc tion and remineralization in these system...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Geohazards and the transport sector under climate change

This project is based on the ongoing work in the Geoextreme project, funded by NORKLIMA, and aims at extending the usage of Geoextreme results by deriving consequences of a change in the frequencies of geohazards for the transport sector. The transport al ong key roads and for railway within two ...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Paleoceanagraphic and climatic variability on decadal to millennial timescales across the Drake Passage

Paleodrake requests support to recover cores at marine sites in order to portray the decadal-millennial scale climate and ocean variability in the Drake Passage region of Antarctica through the Holocene and the last glacial period. These records will ult imately provide the quantitative reconstr...

Awarded: NOK 0.18 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Vestland

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

PPS Arctic Norway - the Norwegian contribution to the internationally endorsed IPY project #151; PPS Arctic

The PPS Arctic Norway project is the Norwegian contribution to the circumpolar IPY core project PPS Arctic (Present day processes, Past changes, and Spatiotemporal variability of biotic, abiotic and socio-environmental conditions and resource components a long and across the Arctic delimitation z...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Monitoring of Development in Traditional Indigenous Lands of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Northwestern Russia

Urfolkenes tradisjonelle landområder i Nenets autonome område opplever alvorlige miljøpåvirkninger gjennom moderne industriell utvikling. Tundra og reinbeite ødelegges eller forurenses i stor skala. Urfolkenes (nenetsernes og izhma-komiernes) tradisjonell e næringer og kulturelle overlevelse er t...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Climate knowledge on the road? Scientific knowledge, transdisciplinarity and the performance of expertise

Assumptions about climate changes may have considerable impact on investments in and the management and maintenance of transport infrastructure and the transport industry in Norway. Thus, the development and diffusion of knowledge about climate changes an d their potential impact on the transport...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Quantifying the Effects of Sediment Deposition, Compaction and Pore Fluid on Rock Properties and Seismic Signatures

Primary sediment compositon (provenance), depositional environments and mechanical and chemical compaction have strong impact on the physical and seismic properties of the subsurface. By trying to quantify relations between geological processes and geophy sical (seismic) parameters, we will incre...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Recruitment study on North Sea fish stocks

Recruitment to several of the ecologically and commercially important fish stocks in the North Sea has been strongly reduced during the recent years, causing concern for fishers, managers and scientists alike. This includes herring, cod, haddock, sandeel, and Norway pout. We propose an applied a...

Awarded: NOK 7.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

The moderation of Islamist movements

Research on Islamism tends to give precedence to the violent and militant movements. The argument developed in the recent literature is that Islamist rebellion and violence is a product of political exclusion accompanied by repression from the state. To o ur knowledge, there have not been systema...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2017

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

ARCTREC: Arctic records of climate change - dynamics, feedbacks and processes

The aim of ARCTREC is to investigate past warm and cold periods with different forcing and boundary conditions than at present to determine the influence of atmosphere and ocean dynamics and key Arctic feedbacks on Arctic climate variability, from a wider range of conditions than available at pr...

Awarded: NOK 17.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

GLOBHELS-Global helse

Preparing for tuberculosis vaccine efficacy trials: Baseline epidemiology, improved diagnosis, markers of protection and phase I/II trials

This collaboration between scientists in Denmark, India, Norway, South Africa and the U. S. will conduct 3 large cohort studies of tuberculosis (TB) in Palamaner, India, using state of the art immunology to identify correlates of protective immunity and i ncipient disease. These cohorts will be a...

Awarded: NOK 18.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2014

Location: Vestland

GLOBHELS-Global helse

Integrated Health Information Systems (HIS) for vaccination in developing countries

Improving immunisation coverage is seen as a cost effective and efficient means for improving the health of populations. However, increasing focus is being directed at populations where coverage is poor, and to populations who are marginalised and therefo re at risk. Identifying these groups is n...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Oslo

GLOBHELS-Global helse

Novel vaccine candidates and delivery systems for HIV and influenza

Aim: We wish to generate novel vaccines for important infectious diseases such as HIV (FRIBIOMOL)and influenza (GLOBVAC). Background: Vaccination has had an enormous impact on health and longevity of humans world-wide. However, for some important diseases such as HIV, there are no available vacc...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Property, Possession and Conflict in Re/Building Settlement

In a world in which there is an increasing need for re/settle people torn apart by conflict, it is critical to create the basis for durable development, by providing a sustainable physical settlements and a socially and economically viable community. The challenges involved with this situation ...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2017

Location: Oslo

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Measurements of Black Carbon aerosols in Arctic snow - interpretation of effect on snow reflectance

Snow covered surfaces have relatively high albedo and most of the incoming solar radiation is reflected. Consequently, the temporal evolution of surface albedo in the Arctic is of high relevance for the surface energy balance, melting processes and climat e. BC particles emitted by fossil fuel an...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2014

Location: Oslo

FORNY-3-Kommersialisering av FoUresultater

Improved process of using chitosan as wood-preserving agent

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Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Akershus

FORNY-3-Kommersialisering av FoUresultater

Verifisering av metode for restrukturering (sammenliming) av fiskestykker

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Awarded: NOK 0.76 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FORNY-3-Kommersialisering av FoUresultater

Verification of technology - nanoparticle-additives for improved curing of thermoset polymer systems

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Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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