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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: Ukjent Fylke

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: Ukjent Fylke

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

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: Ukjent Fylke

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 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SAMRISK-2-Samfunnssikkerhet og risiko

LAW22JULY: RIPPLES (Rights, Institutions, Procedures, Participation, Litigation:Embedding Security)

...July 2011, Anders Behring Breivik massacred 77 people in a...as '22 July'. The State responded with a rule of law approach to rebuild societal security. Yet...responses, including bureaucratic practices and regulatory techniques, have not been...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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: Ukjent Fylke

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: Ukjent Fylke

SAMKUL-Samfunnsutviklingens kulturell

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: Ukjent Fylke

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 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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: Ukjent Fylke

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: Ukjent Fylke

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 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

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: 2020-2024

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

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: Ukjent Fylke

SAMRISK-2-Samfunnssikkerhet og risiko

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: Ukjent Fylke

GLOBVAC-Global helse- og vaksin.forskn

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: Ukjent Fylke

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

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: Ukjent Fylke

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

EU Climate Policy Implications for Land Use in Norway: Managing Trade-offs and Achieving Policy Coherence

...not only in Norway but in all EU member states and affiliated countries. Responding to the need...policies to address the intertwined problems of climate change, land-use change, and...knowledge about how EU climate policy affects land-use in Norway, and how Norway can achieve its...

Awarded: NOK 12.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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: Ukjent Fylke

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: Ukjent Fylke

TEKNOKONVERGENS-Teknologikonvergens - grensesprengende forskning og radikal innovasjon

Aluminum Carbon Battery as Next Generation Battery

...view of the predicted exponential growth of the global...value chain, in particular securing the supply of raw materials. The research proposed within the...battery concept based on abundant, low cost, and recyclable materials, namely aluminum and...

Awarded: NOK 12.6 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NANO2021-Nanoteknologi og nye materiale

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: Ukjent Fylke

CLIMIT-Forskning, utvikling og demo av 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: Ukjent Fylke

SAMKUL-Samfunnsutviklingens kulturell

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: Ukjent Fylke

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: Ukjent Fylke

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

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: Ukjent Fylke

SAMKUL-Samfunnsutviklingens kulturell

Non-safety assessments of genome-edited animals: ethical and regulatory challenges and solutions

...debate has mainly been centered around risk and safety assessment, while the potential ethical...non-safety assessments. Second, the academic and political debate on the promises and...they might not be fit to address the questions of genome-edited animals, which have separate...

Awarded: NOK 11.4 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SAMKUL-Samfunnsutviklingens kulturell

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: Ukjent Fylke

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: Ukjent Fylke