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NANOMAT-Nanoteknologi og nye materialer

Interdisciplinary Studies of Ethical and Societal Implications of Nanotechnology

...project will study long-term and broad-scoped ethical and societal issues...Its mode of work consists of combining ethical and philosophical analysis with a workshop...from ethics; post-empiricist philosophy of science (i ncluding the idea of post-normal...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Vestland

ELSA-Etiske,rettslige og samf.m. as

Developing an ISO standard for nanotechnology ethics? A status report.

...is insufficient regulation of nanotechnology. Regulation of nanotechnology...public authorities, but may also take the form of voluntary standards, for instance, as developed...most organisations. ISO is now developing new standards for nanotechnology.However, several...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Oslo

HELSEFORSKNING-HELSEFORSKNING

Caring Futures: Developing Care Ethics for Technology-mediated Care Practices (QUALITECH)

...population with a greater disease burden and a corresponding resource deficit in health,...are put forth as solutions to these demands. Implementation of new Technology is part of...moral imperative. Hence, the assumed benefits of new technology in future care are not clear. We...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Rogaland

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Reflexive Systems Biology: towards an Appreciation of Biological, Scientific and Ethical Complexity

...ambitions of systems biology and synthetic biology are often...fabrication of organisms. If possible, the ethical and social aspects involved may be huge,...project combining Science and Technology Studies with theoretical biology/ complexity theory...

Awarded: NOK 4.9 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Vestland

NANOMAT-Nanoteknologi og nye materialer

NANOTRUST: Ethical conditions for a socially robust use of nanobiotechnology in aquaculture

...prerequisite for social robust development and application of nanotechnology. New...are framed by scientific uncertainty and igno rance both regarding positive and...of the technology. Independent research and development is only possible if politicians...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

EWS Security in an Age of Cyber War - Nordic Answers to Global Challenges

...the last couple of decades, a new man-made domain of war has...few state actors have actually already made use of computer network operations (CNO) - as did...Russia during the war with Georgia in 2008 and the United States and Israel in their attempt...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Ukjent Fylke

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Socially Robust Nanotechnolocy in Latin-America: Ethics and Governance from a "Southern" Perspective

...an established collaboration between the Univ of Bergen and the Univ Nacional Autónoma de...and social science (so-called ELSA research, ethical, legal and social aspects of technology) to...shed light upon the poorly understood concept of the "nano-divide" between the North and South,...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Vestland

SAMKUL-Samfunnsutviklingens kulturelle forutsetninger

Negotiating Values: Collective Identities and Resilience after 22/7

...confronting the attacks of 22 July 2011, Norwegian society has had to...in the wake of the attacks, this project studies core soc ietal values that were drawn upon...in post-22/7 Norway. In doing so, we explore if and how their sense has changed, been...

Awarded: NOK 8.7 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2023

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Hereditary diseases: An empirical approach to ethical and psychosocial challenges

...with an increased risk for diseases, and rapid development in gene technology will...research is making rapid progress, empirical studies of the psychosocial and ethical consequences...between advanced DNA technology, public understandi n g of gene technology and its clinical...

Awarded: NOK 5.4 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2008

Location: Vestland

BIOBIOT-Biologi, bioteknologi, Mat. Nat.

In vitro reprogramming of gene expression

...in nuclear function. Nuclear transplantation studies indicate that nuclear reprogramming is...limi tations for investigating mechanisms of reprogramming. Based on recent preliminary...technology to modulate the cell program and investigate how nuclear reprogramming takes...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

SAMFUNN: Bringing STS into Environmental History

...Trondheim in August 2010 on the intersection of science and technology studies and...and Finn Arne Jørge nsen (both from Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Norwegian University...Pritchard (Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell) -- plan to bring together leading...

Awarded: NOK 74,999

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

FUGE- Bergen Regional Application (tilleggsbev 158792)

...funding within the FUGE program. Five professor II positions are requested to bring...microarray, marine functional genomic research, and studies in the ethical implications of...support for a series of workshops, seminars, and user courses to improve collaboration between...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2009

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Nordic Interdisciplinary Conference on Discourse and Interaction

...Nordic Interdisciplinary Conference on Discourse and Interaction...in 2010 to bring together researchers and doctoral students in the Nordic and Baltic...research on the organization, structures and constitution of texts, talk, discourse and...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Oslo

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Innovation, Welfare and Policy: Scientific development and renewal of TIK’s research group in innovation studies

...group in innovation studies at the TIK Centre (Faculty of Social...Oslo) is one of the two research groups at TIK, and it has been active since 1999. It investigates...The group is a main hub for innovation studies in Norway, and it has a strong international...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo

GLOBVAC-Global helse- og vaksinasjonsforskn.

The Smartphone Pandemic: Mobile technologies and data in the COVID-19 response (SMARTCOVID)

...as they seek to establish the effectiveness of Covid-19 countermeasures like physical...such questions seemed unfathomable outside of authoritarian regimes. However, the COVID-19...have created a ‘data governance crisis of international concern’ that seems set to...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2022

Location: Oslo

SAMRISK-2-Samfunnssikkerhet og risiki

Societal security in the European Union new protection policy space: adaptation, development and compatibility

...proposal builds on the studies in societal safety and security and civil...has been missing is an approach that takes societal security as a transversal concept inside a...its adaptation at national level, as a result of the EU influence, (b) its development at the EU...

Awarded: NOK 90,579

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Rogaland

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

When choice determines circumstances

...to screen for certain undesirable traits and select away embryos with these traits. The...they believed to be desirable. The possibility of genetic enhancement of embryos introduces some...circumstances", is not primarily on the ethical permissibility of such manipulations, but...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2006

Location: Vestland

NANOMAT-Nanoteknologi og nye materialer

Governance of the precautionary principle and the nano-consumer: A comparison of ethical aspects in nano-products in Norway and the UK

...theme of this proposal is the increasing marketing of...are textiles, sp ort equipments, cosmetics and information technology. We will focus on how...develop a positive connotation to the concept of nano, the dif fusion of nano-products will be a...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Oslo

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

Convergence of nanofabrication, nanoscopy, transcriptomics, and algae technologies for sustainable fish feed

...enabling technologies, biotechnology, nanotechnology and nanoscopy to have a key positive...Converse aims to develop sustainable production of marine biomass as feed and is therefore highly...to enabling technologies should solve societal challenges (e.g., green transition)....

Awarded: NOK 15.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NANO2021-Nanoteknologi, nanovitenskap, mikroteknologi og avanserte materialer

Performing ELSA.Governance of and governmentality in biotechnology and nanotechnology research

..., the project aims to increase the understanding of the practices and constraints of...research questions: 1. What are scientists and innovato rs? accounts of the ethical, social...with respect to what facilitates good conduct and what hinders it? 2. Where do interactions...

Awarded: NOK 5.6 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2018

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

ACT on Offshore Monitoring

...proposed in ACTOM will work for the advancement of offshore monitoring to ensure alignment of CO2...national and international regulations and societal concerns. An interdisciplinary consortium...for designing optimal monitoring programs for offshore geological storage sites. Routines...

Awarded: NOK 6.7 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Vestland

SIKKERHET-SIKKERHET

Protecting child rights and public safety: Premises for the integration of childs best interest and crime prevention

...worldwide challenge and core problem for the Nordic welfare states is...to public safety, including violent extremism, and terrorism. Two key institutions play pivotal...group of children: the child protection system and the criminal justice system. Each system...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2030

Location: Vestland

SAMKUL-Samfunnsutviklingens kulturelle forutsetninger

Algorithmic Cultures and the Digitalization of the public sector

...project addresses the emergence of algorithmic cultures of decision making in the...governance which assume that complex societal problems can be treated as technical...devices. Rather, digital technologies and the algorithms they embed, filter what can be...

Awarded: NOK 0.17 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Oslo

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Make Taxation Fair

...project investigates three understudied issues of taxation, which recently emerged in the public...for rising inequality. First, the project studies the pros and cons of capital income vs...has highlighted the importance of heterogeneity and endogeneity of returns to investment and their...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

SAMANSVAR-Ansvarlig innovasjon og bedriftenes samfunnsansvar

NanoRedux - Perspectives on Reduction in Nanomedicine

...will investigate reduction in Nanomedicine and its possible implications for conceptualizing...phenomena such as disease, health, life and personhood. The project aims to provide a...scientific assumptions, visions, metaphors and values that are relevant for setting the...

Awarded: NOK 1.00 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2015

Location: Oslo

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

Exploring Social Politics, Inclusive Education, and Cultural Democratization Through the lens of Norwegian Hip Hop Music

...project will investigate the multiple functions and implications of hip hop music in contemporary...especially on the aesthetic, pedagogical, and sociopolitical dimensions of the performance...of hip hop in various cultural, educational, and social contexts. Striving for a holistic view...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Innlandet

BEHANDLING-God og treffsikker diagnostikk, behandling og rehabilitering

Sustainable development in healthcare and science: The NORdic DOCtoral (NorDoc) education conference 2022

...the publication of the Brundtland report, 1987 Norway has had a...generation scientists to commit their research and innovative ideas to fulfilling the goals of...agenda. Current global challenges to healthcare and science demonstrate that bold...

Awarded: NOK 0.28 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

An Ethical Reading and a Reading in Ethics. A Study of De la Gardie 4-7 fol

...manuscripts, with their materiality and textuality, are the primary sources for...De la Gardie 4-7 fol, as a source to textual and ideological tr anslatio in the 13th century....They are written in Old Norse language, but two of them are translations from Latin and two from...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Oslo

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

PowerPlay: Complementarity Formation and Trade-offs of the Nordic Battery Value Chain

...in the Nordic battery ecosystem (Norway, Finland, and Sweden) given that this sector is the...also aims to investigate the local impacts of battery activities in 3 Norwegian regions in...levels: First, it aims to facilitate faster and fairer just transition at the local level by...

Awarded: NOK 11.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Rogaland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Prisons of Note: Mapping music and nuances in penal exceptionalism from the periphery

...is an integral and vital part of human life in times of joy and...music education, music therapy, music-making and listening initiatives – and the sociocultural,...research, the project maps the nuances and asymmetries in penal exceptionalism from...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo