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INDNOR-India-programmet

Bhopal2011: Requiem & Revitalisation,Towards sustainable Development & Community Management of industrial heritage at the Bhopal Gas Tragedy

Bhopal's legacy has the potential to create awareness and contribute to research across disciplines as an investment towards promoting is sustainable and equitable development which is a core concern in India's emergence as a nation of rising economic and geopolitical significance. NTNU is a UN ...

Awarded: NOK 0.35 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

INDNOR-India-programmet

Climate Change, Reproductive Health and Environmental Contaminants. A Child Cohort Study in three Regions of India.

Three regional birth registries will be established; one in the capital of New Delhi, another in the Nagpur District and the third in Shivgar. The Nagpur district is a rural area in central India whereas Shivgar is located in the rural district of Rae Bar eli of Uttar Pradesh state in Northern In...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2016

Location: Ukjent Fylke

INDNOR-India-programmet

Fracture propagation through disordered porous media: A safety issue for CO2 storage and petroleum production

In this INDNOR pre-project we develop networks (between India & Norway) & necessary competence to work on a big research project in near future - which will be complementary to the ongoing SINTEF-NTNU activities in BIGCCS project. Safe storage of CO2 is a big issue now and natural underground re...

Awarded: NOK 0.85 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

INDNOR-India-programmet

Impact of Climate Change on Hydropower Development: Water Resources Management for Multiple Uses in the Godavari River Basin, India

CLIMHYD will focus on hydropower development and its impacts on environment, society and other water uses in the perspective of climate change. Extensive plans to develop renewable energy including hydropower exist in India to meet the increasing demand o n energy in a growing economy. However, h...

Awarded: NOK 0.95 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

INDNOR-India-programmet

Climate Change as an opportunity towards ADaptive sustaINable AquacuLture

It is now widely accepted that at least part of the earth's 0.6 C deg warming during the 20th century is caused by human activities, and the research effort on the impacts of climate changes has increased the last 15 years. In the same period the importa nce of aquaculture for food production an...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

INDNOR-India-programmet

Responding to Local Poverty - On what the affluent ought to do and what the poor are permitted to do

This pre-project will plan a three year research collaboration between top scholars in India and Norway, which will investigate the responsibilities affluent citizens and governments in the two countries have to address poverty in India. Three types of m oral reasons are often invoked to support...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

INDNOR-India-programmet

Prepare for advanced analysis of reservoir-triggered seismicity, Koyna Dam, India

The Koyna dam in India is one of the world?s largest reservoirs (Figure 1) and experiences every year an abundance of earthquakes since it was first filled in 1962. This is caused by the annual increase and reduction of the waterlevel, changing the load a nd thereby the stress field. The earthqua...

Awarded: NOK 0.73 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

INDNOR-India-programmet

ZnO thin films for Advanced Photovoltaics

The main purpose of this pre-project is to establish a scientific collaboration between IITM in India, and IFE and UiO in Norway. This collaborative effort will lead to the development of important research on using ZnO as TCO in a heterojunction solar ce ll device, as well as detailing a larger ...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

INDNOR-India-programmet

International Cooperation on Biohydrometallurgy

The overall objective of the pre-project is to develop long term research cooperation with India on the topic of biohydrometallurgy, processing of rare earth elements (REE) and remediation of metal contaminants. Simultaneously, establishing a network with in Nordic countries shall also be address...

Awarded: NOK 0.94 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

INDNOR-India-programmet

Sustainable development of geothermal energy in North Western Indian Himalayas

Indian Himalayas are promising area for geothermal utilization containing geothermal spring areas and high heat flow provinces. Development of the geothermal resources has the potential to supply the region with electric power, heat and cold which may i ncrease industrial efficiency and product...

Awarded: NOK 1.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

INDNOR-India-programmet

Conceptualizing and Contextulizing climate change and migration -Developing a Future Research Agenda

Conceptualizing Climate Change and Migration study aims to adress: 1. Challenges associated with definitions and terminologies 2. Given the persistent lack of data and frequent questions raised on often quoted estimates, what are the factors that constra in the collection of data for climate cha...

Awarded: NOK 1.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

INDNOR-India-programmet

Air pollution exposure assessment by land-use regression (LUR) - A pilot study aiming for health effects of air pollution in India

Large-scale studies on health effects of air pollution are seldom conducted in India and are compromised by challenges in assessing air pollution exposure at individual level. Due to the rapid economic development including industrialization and increasin g demand for motor vehicles, several citi...

Awarded: NOK 0.87 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

INDNOR-India-programmet

Climate Change and Water-Related Security Challenges on the Indian Subcontinent

The current political discourse about links between climate change, water resources, and conflict has run ahead of the scientific community, and assessments and recommendations are often based on unsubstantiated assumptions and narratives of single events , in lack of more systematic, rigorous re...

Awarded: NOK 0.53 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

INDNOR-India-programmet

Economic Growth and Sustainable Development in India

In our project we plan to explore both environmental and social issues related to economic development and societal transformation. Both issues are highly relevant to Indian development discussions. The country is presently experiencing record high econom ic growth and it is an ambition of the go...

Awarded: NOK 1.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

INDNOR-India-programmet

Cosmopolitanism and its Paradoxes: Diversity, Development and the Divine

This pilot project spearheads a large research collaboration into social inclusion, exclusion and development in India. By studying cosmopolitan practices, values and attitudes as they unfold in a variety of contexts, we aim to generate a fresh perspectiv e from which India's enormous diversity a...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

INDNOR-India-programmet

Dislocation Removement from Silicon

The proposed project addresses the development of improved materials properties of Silicon for production of solar cells. The proposal aims at investigating the effect of dislocation density (in-cluding grain size) on the light conversion efficiency of mu lticrystalline and monocrystalline solar ...

Awarded: NOK 0.85 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

INDNOR-India-programmet

India and globalisation: Regional disparities, industrial development and inclusive growth (INGRID)

The main ambition of the project is to develop high-quality cooperation between Indian and Norwegian researchers related to the social impact of globalisation and related international policies. There is one Norwegian partner (NUPI) and two Indian (ISEC, Bangalore and NIPFP, New Delhi). It is a ...

Awarded: NOK 1.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

INDNOR-India-programmet

Nanophase materials for hydrogen storage applications

Hydrogen storage is a major challenge for future use of hydrogen as an energy carrier. The long-term solution is considered to be hydrogen storage in solid compounds. However, even after extensive research for several years, the present materials do still not fulfil the requirements for vehicula...

Awarded: NOK 0.81 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

INDNOR-India-programmet

Politics of Security in India

India is an aspiring global superpower. Her international importance is rising fast in a number of areas, from global economy and international relations to environmental issues and security concerns. To understand India's conception of her security polic y and how international affairs of India ...

Awarded: NOK 0.87 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

INDNOR-India-programmet

Sunbelt-located optimized solar modules made in India of solar grade silicon from Elkem Solar AS.

A sun-belt location like India is a specially intersting place for testing solar modules made from silicon from the Elkem Solar metallurgical route. This is due to the potential regarding solar irradiation, but also highly because performance of solar mod ules in high-temperature areas is an impo...

Awarded: NOK 1.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

INDNOR-India-programmet

Predicting biodiversity responses on tropical mountaintops and in forest canopies under climate change

2010 is the United Nation's International Year of Biodiversity. The focus on biodiversity is extremely timely, as we face a critical shortage of biodiversity data needed to meet the primary challenges facing conservation - particularly in light of current climate change projections. A number of ...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

INDNOR-India-programmet

Extending a Climate Change Impact Assessment Project with India

Climate change issues are global in nature, yet they are quite variable at regional scale and affect most the developing and under-developed regions. Due to its diversified socio-economic and climatic regions, India is prominently vulnerable to the ensuin g climate changes and related impacts. To...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

INDNOR-India-programmet

Social Entrepreneurship: A Catalyst for Sustainable Development

The NSE Social Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development initiative will establish an international research consortium with Indian partners and develop a joint research agenda which can make entrepreneurs more effective and efficient as carriers of ne w solutions for a more sustainable and ju...

Awarded: NOK 0.60 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

INDNOR-India-programmet

Transformation and Friction in Globalizing India

India, like China, is the other 'sleeping giant' that is rapidly globalizing. What are the consequences of the massive social transformations currently occurring within the economy and polity? Studies on globalization's effects on social conflict are mixe d. While some believe that greater exposu...

Awarded: NOK 1.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

INDNOR-India-programmet

Indo-Norwegian Workshop on Solar Cell Techonology 3. February 2009, Delhi, India

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Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke