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Structural inspection motion planning using cooperative autonomous robots

In today's complex environment, surveillance, patrolling and area assessment activities in coastal and maritime environments are becoming ubiquitous. The explosive growth and the consequent cost reduction of electronic devices have led to affordable unmanned aerial, surface and maritime vehicles....

Awarded: NOK 17,672

Project Period: 2017-2018

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Modulators of the Synthesis and Activity of Annexin A2

The prevalence of cancer is expected to increase. Thus, the need for effective anti-cancer therapy is increasing. The progression of aggressive cancer occurs via angiogenesis and metastasis making these processes important targets for the development of anti-cancer drugs. However, recent studies ...

Awarded: NOK 24,832

Project Period: 2017-2018

Location: Vestland

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

re-establishing a functional urinary bladder using technology

The aim of our collaboration is to allow integration of a micro-pressure sensor for implantion in the urinary bladder with a neurostimulation system. The symptomatology of what is called a «neurological bladder» is dominated by abundant urine leakage and/or by incapacity to empty the urinary blad...

Awarded: NOK 34,000

Project Period: 2017-2017

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Wearable biosensor to track and quantify limb dysfunction in multiple sclerosis patients

While progresses have been made in medications to treat Multiple sclerosis (MS), there are difficulties in assessing the multifaceted evolution of the disease. Sensitive, reliable capture of disability is critical for developing early stage trials aimed at stopping neuronal loss and progressive d...

Awarded: NOK 65,000

Project Period: 2017-2019

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Pre- and postnatal exposure to a mixture of dietary contaminants and child development.

Associations between fetal and the first months of life exposure to environmental factors and long-term health and chronic diseases have been established. For more thorough investigation several big birth cohorts have been established worldwide. In Norway the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Stu...

Awarded: NOK 49,382

Project Period: 2016-2016

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Materials research for chromogenic device applications

In the modern world, around 40% of all energy is consumed in buildings. The energy needs tend to increase together with the standards of living and can thus be expected to further increase in the future. Smart windows that adjust the light transmission have the potential to combat this trend. By ...

Awarded: NOK 65,000

Project Period: 2016-2016

Location: Akershus

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Children at 'risk' - Negotiating risks in early childhood education and care

The main project aims at exploring the notion of 'risk' in a broad context of ECEC. In order to highlight the cultural values and norms embodied in practices in Norway, we have chosen to implement a comparative study with kindergartens in France. The project will explore how everyday life in k...

Awarded: NOK 49,000

Project Period: 2016-2016

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Novel magnesium-based materials for energy storage

The project MAGSTORE aimed at strengthening a collaboration between the University of Bordeaux and Institute for Energy Technology in energy storage. This goal will be achieved by educating young researchers, particularly by establishing a common PhD project. The project teams benefit from con...

Awarded: NOK 45,000

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Akershus

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

DynAdapt

Nowadays, software systems are leveraging upon an aggregation of dedicated solutions, which leads to the design of large scale, distributed, dynamic systems. The need to evolve and update such systems after delivery is often inevitable, for example, due to changes in the requirements, maintenance...

Awarded: NOK 41,168

Project Period: 2016-2016

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Humanitarian Logistics Performance

This Aurora application will focus on Humanitarian Logistics. Answering to the calls for more multi-disciplinary and empirically grounded research, the research centres at CIEM and in Albi bring together their individual competences to build up a collaboration dedicated to Humanitarian Logistcs t...

Awarded: NOK 48,050

Project Period: 2016-2016

Location: Agder

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Hydraulic fracturing within source rocks for fluids in sedimentary basins

In several systems in the Earths crust, fluids are self-produced inside a rock (dehydration of sediments in the subduction channel, migration of hydrocarbon from a source rock) and escape by creating their own paths. This is a process of reaction-induced fracturing. Primary migration i.e. the tra...

Awarded: NOK 28,188

Project Period: 2016-2016

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Structural studies of a plastid phosphate transporter from Toxoplasma gondii

Plastids are plant-specific cell organelles, which perform many specialized and essential functions. Interestingly, plastids called apicoplasts were also found in Apicomplexa, a large group of parasites causing severe diseases like malaria (Plasmodium) or toxoplasmosis (Toxoplasma), providing evi...

Awarded: NOK 35,950

Project Period: 2016-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Deoxynivalenol - nervous effects reconnaissance

Data on neurotoxicological effects of the mycotoxin deoxynivalenol (DON), also called vomitoxin, are limited. Orally exposed laboratory (mice, rats) and domestic animals (pig, chicken) show behavioural changes such as feed refusal, increased locomotor activity and aggressive behaviour, and DON pl...

Awarded: NOK 52,000

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Akershus

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

On-the-fly Real-Time Capturing and Streaming Dynamic 3D Objects

Technical advancements have allowed us to experience space in the way that the controller on the recording side allows us. However, for many applications, it is desirable that the observer retains control of its view's spatial location. In ORCAD3, we aim at combining our existing expertise to al...

Awarded: NOK 21,111

Project Period: 2016-2016

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Machine learning for systems epidemiology in breast cancer

Recent advances in omics technologies are producing data that provide views of biological processes at different resolutions and conditions opening a new era in molecular biology and molecular medicine. An especially exciting aspect of such big data analysis is that it enables novel approaches, m...

Awarded: NOK 41,000

Project Period: 2016-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Appetite regulation in fish; a transcriptomic approach

Knowledge on the mechanisms regulating appetite in fish, and the relationship between this regulation and their seasonal biology, is scarce. The high-latitude, highly seasonal fish species Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) utilize the rich marine environment for feeding, and lose appetite when th...

Awarded: NOK 32,000

Project Period: 2016-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Plasmonic metamaterials

This project aim at developing a collaboration between CRPP (MaFIC team,Bordeaux) and the NTNU (Applied Optics,Trondheim), that will allow for improved synthesis and characterization of optical properties of plasmonic metamaterials. On the one hand, chem ical synthesis of plasmonic particles (si...

Awarded: NOK 49,912

Project Period: 2015-2016

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

MAC SCOP Mixed Anion Compounds - Spin, Charge and Orbital Physics

Funding is requested for (re)establishing strong scientific links between the NAFUMA Research Group at the Centre for materials science and nanotechnology, UiO and the CRFISMAT centre, Caen. A main objective is to assure establishing scientific exchange t hat may lead to concrete collaborative pr...

Awarded: NOK 50,000

Project Period: 2015-2015

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Toward Proactive Sewer Asset Management (TPSAM)

Sewer systems form one of the most capital-intensive infrastructure systems in the developed countries. Hence to safeguard proper functioning of the sewer systems over time, they need to be managed cost-effectively. Traditionally, municipalities have addr essed the design, construction, maintenan...

Awarded: NOK 65,356

Project Period: 2015-2016

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

DARK ENERGY AND MODIFIED GRAVITY: FROM THEORY TO SIMULATIONS

We will study the impact of these nonstandard scenarios on observations such as the galaxy clustering, weak lensing cosmic shear, and Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies. We also wish to make detailed forecasts for future missions such as Euclid, to study how/whether these observations can ...

Awarded: NOK 41,401

Project Period: 2015-2016

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Orientation selectivity in chromatic contrast sensitivity of the human visual system and its consequences on display quality

Contrast is important in our visual system. Contrast sensitivity is a measure of our ability to discern between different luminance levels in an image. It is well-known that contrast sensitivity various between individuals, changes over time, and at spati al frequencies. To a human observer horiz...

Awarded: NOK 50,000

Project Period: 2015-2015

Location: Innlandet

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Functional symmetry of endomembranes

In this project we will to apply various cellular imaging and molecular biological techniques (light and electron microcopy, live cell imaging, fluorescent protein constructs) to investigate the spatial and functional organization of endomembranes and tra ffic routes in mammalian cells. This join...

Awarded: NOK 39,979

Project Period: 2015-2016

Location: Vestland

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Role of PARP3 in normal continuos and stress-induced neurogenesis in brain.

Poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation is a post-translational modification of proteins mediated by Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerases (PARPs). PARPs catalyse the transfer and polymerisation of ADP-ribose units from NAD+ to form a ramified polymer, the poly(ADP-ribose) (PAR), covalently linked to acceptor proteins or...

Awarded: NOK 50,000

Project Period: 2015-2015

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Statistical modelling in Epigenetics: a pan-species study of distributions of CpG o/e ratios and DNA methylation patterns

The project is located in the field of epigenetics, which is defined as the study of heritable changes in gene expression changes without DNA mutation. Epimutation can contribute to allow rapid adaptation to changing environmental conditions (Danchin 2011 ). Epigenetic modifications on the level ...

Awarded: NOK 60,000

Project Period: 2015-2015

Location: Vestland

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

IMAGE GUIDED NEUROSURGERY

Både SINTEF Medisinsk Teknologi og TIMC-IMAG har ekspertise innenfor bildeveiledet kirurgi og spesielt innen nevrokirurgi. SINTEF har utviklet en forskningsplatform for navigasjon og intraoperativ ultralydavbildning under hjerneoperasjoner. Dette systemet inkluderer navigasjon ved hjelp av MR bi...

Awarded: NOK 13,133

Project Period: 2015-2016

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Earth-Mars Analogues: Origination and Distribution of Clay Minerals in Impact Crater Environments

The goal of the project is to study the alteration of rocks on Earth and Mars is driven by geochemical and mechanical processes. On Earth these processes can be tested and evaluated in laboratory conditions, as well as in nature, while for Mars we rely on remotely detected mineral distributions ...

Awarded: NOK 39,155

Project Period: 2015-2016

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Investigation of weaker and stronger obliquity responses during the Pliocene and the Pleistocene

In this AURORA DIFFOBRES project, together with the French LSCE team led by Gilles Ramstein, we will collaborate to develop a new project under the structure of Pliocene Model Intercomparsion Project (PlioMIP), in order to investigate the warm Pliocene cl imate. We intend to understand the mechan...

Awarded: NOK 48,197

Project Period: 2015-2016

Location: Vestland

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Genetic architecture

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Awarded: NOK 64,655

Project Period: 2015-2016

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Matching of Knowledge : Distribution and Large Scale

The tasks we plan to handle during the MODALS project are defined as follows: The task "Scalability of matching processes" aims to study and to propose an original solution to execute the entity/ontology matching processes in a distributed and a collabora tive. Two sub-tasks will be defined: A fi...

Awarded: NOK 49,234

Project Period: 2015-2016

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Design of environmental friendly catalysts for the conversion of methanol into light olefins and synthetic fuels

Zeolites are the second largest class of industrial catalysts, and recent studies have pointed to a high potential for optimisation of such materials by a tailored synthesis approach. In this project, a rational approach will be taken to synthesise zeoli tes with tailored acidic properties and w...

Awarded: NOK 23,567

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Oslo