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FRIPRO-Fri prosjektstøtte

Refugees and the Arab Middle East: Protection in States Not Party to the Refugee Convention

...in states facing extraordinary refugee influxes and who are not party to the key international...research project will: 1) study the historical and political circumstances related to why so many...to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol Relating to the...

Awarded: NOK 8.9 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Oslo

NEVRONOR-Nasjonal satsing på nevrovitenskap f

Interactions Between Evoked And Intrinsic Brain Activity. Electrophysiology, Hemodynamics, Behavioral Consequences.

...project brings together an international and interdisciplinary team of recognized...is influenced by intrinsic fluctuations of electrohysiologic and hemodynamic brian...recently been recognized as a relevant source of information in fMRI (5-7), most previous...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL2-Norge - global partner

Universal Energy Access: the role of Clean Cooking and Climate Change Impacts

...on biomass energy for cooking, indoor heating, and heating for sanitation. Firewood and charcoal...has direct negative impact on people’s health and their wellbeing, forest resources and global...addressed while also mitigating climate change and deforestation? The project 4CImpacts presents...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Oslo

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Unpacking climate impact chains: A new generation of action- and user-oriented climate change risk assessments

...is part of an international project involving partners...six countries in addition to Norway (the Netherlands, German, Austria, France, Spain and Sweden)...mechanism. UNCHAIN is led from Norway by Vestlandsforsking (VF). UNCHAIN take as reference point...

Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Vestland

IS-TOPP-Toppfinans. av M.Curie-stipend

Marie Curie Initial Training Network : Language, Cognition & Gender - Elisabeth Kuhn

...Initial Training Network - Language, Cognition, and Gender (ITN LCG) investigates European...perspective to expand current knowledge of how language influences and forms the cognitive...to investigate the impact of language and culture in establishing and maintaining gender...

Awarded: NOK 0.51 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-TOPP-Toppfinans. av M.Curie-stipend

Marie Curie Initial Training Network : Language, Cognition & Gender - Anton Öttl

...Initial Training Network - Language, Cognition, and Gender (ITN LCG) investigates European...perspective to expand current knowledge of how language influences and forms the cognitive...to investigate the impact of language and culture in establishing and maintaining gender...

Awarded: NOK 0.61 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Development of Processes for low cost and high efficiency solar cell based on Upgraded Metallurgical Silicon

...to develop processes for the fabrication of low cost and high efficiency silicon solar...Metallugical Silicon (UMG-Si). The price of UMG-Si is significantly cheaper compared to...material it would result in mass production of low-cost solar cells and make utilization of...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2014

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

UTENRIKS-Internasjonale forhold - utenriks- og sikkerhetspolitikk og norske interesser

Transcendence and Sustainability: Asian Visions With Global Promise?

...aims to explore the mobilization and recalibration of traditional Asian...with the observation that scholars, activists, and even politicians in India and China and Taiwan...knowledge and in premodern texts and practices of, for instance, Daoist, Buddhist, Hindu, and...

Awarded: NOK 12.2 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Risk management of imported plants and seeds: possibilities for improved pest detection to prevent the introduction and spread of new pests

...pathogens and invertebrates harmful to plants continue to...natural habitats. In Norway, the responsibility of performing plant health inspections on imported...currently responsible for internal pest control and must be registered with the Norwegian Food...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Akershus

NANO2021-Nanoteknologi og nye materiale

6TH NORWEGIAN ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY SYMPOSIUM (NETS)- Assessing and solving environmental challenges in a multiple stressor world

...nanoparticles (ENPs) is considered stressors of emerging concern as are being released into the...aquatic and terrestrial organisms. The ENPs are often present at the same time as other stressors...environment, where they may affect the presence and effects of each other, and thus enhance the...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2015-2017

Location: Oslo

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

Suprabasins – sedimentary response to growth of major extensional fault systems

...and rifted margins contain faults with...faults normally considered in rift basin studies. The down-dip and lateral evolution of these...project targets rift-margin highs with internal and fringing basins. Focus is on the development...

Awarded: NOK 13.8 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Oslo

IKTPLUSS-IKT og digital innovasjon

CESAR - Using Complex Event Processing for Low-threshold and Non-intrusive Sleep Apnea Monitoring at Home

...project performs interdisciplinary research, with three partners from the...in mobile systems, sensor data acquisition and processing, signal processing, data analysis,...medical experts that will also perform user studies. An extensible data acquisition system will...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2021

Location: Oslo

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Training in interdisciplinary and archival studies at the University of Bergen

...deals with Samuel Beckett's radio plays, and has two main objectives: on the one hand, to...ground-breaking, radiophonic articulation of certain issues of communication; and on the...as exemplary expe riments into the synthesis of art and technology, in which the artistic...

Awarded: NOK 52,000

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

Energy savings - from regulation to realization

...focus on developing knowledge on dimensions and factors of importance for understanding energy...policies for energy savings. As case studies, we will focus on analyses of some of the...- Energy Performance Contracts (EPC) and Automatic Metering Systems (AMS). The project...

Awarded: NOK 6.5 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2015

Location: Oslo

TRANSPORT-Transport 2025

Shared Mobility for Innovative and Inclusive Green Cities

...and in Norway, cities face challenges to reduce...increasing the accessibility and liveability of residential, work and living environments to...to these challenges, thanks to optimized use of vehicles, space, energy, financial and material...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2019

Location: Oslo

SHP-Strategiske høgskoleprogram

Homogenization techniques applied to structural analysis and tribology in extreme environment

...are many problem s where the fundamental understanding of the complex structures and tribological...requires advanced mathematical modelling and analysis. In lubrication, for example, it is a...model the interaction between surface roughness and lubricant, in particular in cold...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

Socioeconomic Consequences of Climate Change in Sub-equatorial Africa

...most noticeably with drying in the southern and in the northern parts of the continent and...the African regions south compared to north of the equator. Climate change is likely to have...since the projected climate changes ar e large and the vulnerability is increased due to other...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Machine learning for systems epidemiology in breast cancer

...are producing data that provide views of biological processes at different resolutions...medicine. An especially exciting aspect of such big data analysis is that it enables novel...requires developing novel statistical methods and implementing these for efficient processing of...

Awarded: NOK 41,000

Project Period: 2016-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Eco-values as product quality attributes in manufacturing of agricultural food ingredients

...a growing demand for green, healthy and ethically produced...markets is lately swayed such that both local and global food brand builders try to...ingredients. The insight on how to design and implement such ingredient brand posi tioning...

Awarded: NOK 16.2 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2016

Location: Vestland

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Climate change in Russia’s Arctic: Perceptions, response, implications

...with wide-ranging consequences for societies and human activities, has become an uncontested...In Russia, however, ambiguity on the causes of global warming and the further climate...Arctic – mainly involving resource extraction and associated maritime transportation – is...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Akershus

RISIT-Transportsikkerhet

Accident investigation and learning effects within transport organisations and across societal sectors.

...universities in Stavanger, Norway, Lund, Sweden and SINTEF, Trondheim. The project proposal...fro m the accident investigations are dependent of their specific societal contexts. A comparison...is sought in order to explain the significance of contributing facto rs in the learning processes...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Rogaland

FORINFRA-Nasj.sats. forskn.infrastrukt

National Surface and Interface Characterisation Laboratory

...and interfaces are essential parts of all...important navigation tool in the develo pment of next generation materials within all...groups within advanced mass spectrometry- and electron spectroscopy of solid surfaces and...

Awarded: NOK 25.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

PACES: The Air Pollution in the Arctic: Climate, Environment and Societies

...Pollution in the Arctic: Climate, Environment and Societies) in Oslo in September 2019. PACES is...initiative to coordinate international and interdisciplinary research on Arctic air...on improving our predictive capability of Arctic air pollution and impacts on local...

Awarded: NOK 57,999

Project Period: 2019-2019

Location: Oslo

FRIPRO-Fri prosjektstøtte

Intersecting flows of Islamophobia («INTERSECT»)

...a sharp rise in anti-Muslim sentiments and practices (Islamophobia) across the world....religiosity) have become a prominent feature of public debate in Europe and North America....‘West’. On the contrary, anti-Muslim sentiments and violence are high in other parts of the world...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Oslo

KIM-Kommunikasjon, IKT og medier

Convergence, Control, and Communications (C3)

...and control may be said to be central features of...will focus on the study of: issues of human and citizens’s rights such as freedom of...to privacy; the challenges to the principle of providing for equal access to information for...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2009

Location: Oslo

BIOTEK2021-Bioteknologi for verdiskaping

FP: Robust Atlantic salmon through fine-tuned genome editing

...further expansion of the Norwegian salmon aquaculture production of...problems with disease, escapees, smolt quality and sustainable feed supply. We and others have...important traits such as time of maturity and disease resistance. Further studies need to...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Vestland

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

Co-production of health- and welfare services between local governments and voluntary organizations in Norway and Germany

...object of this project is co-production between...drug care. The project will clarify the scope of such co-production; variations in co-production...for the involved actors including the end users of services; and finally what the potentials and...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Vestland

SAMKUL-Samfunnsutviklingens kulturell

Historicizing Intelligence: Tests, metrics and the shaping of contemporary society

...the widespread use of IQ and related mental abilities tests in...devices or on the conceptual apparatus of intelligence-related assumptions that...aim of this project is to study how these tests and varied understandings of intelligence have...

Awarded: NOK 13.7 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Adaptation to environmental changes in the Arctic

...systems, and in particular the high Arctic have been...its location right at the interface of Arctic and Atlantic systems, the Kongsfjorden area is a...site of the detection of environmental changes, and its ecosystems are considered early warning...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NANO2021-Nanoteknologi og nye materiale

Novel Nanomagnetic Oxide Composites: Giant Exchange Bias Storage Devices

...have studied the magnetic and chemical properties of the hematite-ilmenite...and synthetic samples. Our understanding of the properties of this solid solution is...et al. Nature 2002; Am Min. 2004) and giant exchange bias (McEnroe et al. Nature...

Awarded: NOK 5.8 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage