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DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Internasjonalt Ozonsymposium i Tromsø 29. juni til 5.juli 2008

Symposiet arrangeres hvert fjerde år og har bred internasjonal deltakelse. Norge er valgt som arrangør på bakgrunn av den aktive rollen Norge har hatt i internasjonal ozonforskning og i arbeidet med tiltak for å redusere utslipp av ozonnedbrytende stoffer .

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

EVITA-eVitenskap

A JOint Numerical Sea MODelling conference, JONSMOD 2008, to be held in Bergen 23-26 June 2008

The JONSMOD, JOint Numerical Sea MODelling, conferences were originally formed out of research programmes in the 1970s for the North Sea involving both measurements and numerical modelling of flow and waves in the North Sea. In 1981, Phil Dyke became the chairman, and he has since then been chair...

Awarded: NOK 59,999

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Vestland

KULVER-Kulturell verdsetting

Ibsen Between Cultures

Being part of the global theatre-repertoire Ibsen´s plays are continually subject to localising acts, where the interplay between the local and the global may be studied as an interweaving of different cultures. The general aim of the project is to consid er the question of how one can account fo...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

PERMASOM - Organic matter in permafrost: molecular composition and associated response to increasing temperature

The release of CO2 to the atmosphere from the mineralization of soil organic matter (SOM) in thawing permafrost is one of the largest potential feedback mechanisms on the climate system. This positive feedback, i.e. it will aggravate climate changes, is d ue to the fact that SOM decomposes faster...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Genetic dissection of the reproductive ground-plan hypothesis of social evolution

It is debated if social behavior is controlled at the molecular level by evolutionary novelties or by ancestral regulatory pathways. Our proposal aims to resolve this controversy by testing the reproductive ground-plan hypothesis of social evolution at th e genome level. This universal hypothesis...

Awarded: NOK 10.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Akershus

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

The Effects of Labor Force Participation on Spouses, Children and Peers

Increased labor force participation has been an indisputable goal of developed economies. The main arguments have been that increased labor force participation promotes economic growth and reduces poverty. Surprisingly, despite the emphasis on increased l abor force participation as a policy goal...

Awarded: NOK 9.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Rogaland

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Digestion studies of fatty acids and proteins in milk from different species - Effect on gut health

Gastro-intestinal infections are increasing in industrial countries and for certain diseases, e.g. diarrhoea caused by bacterial and viral infections, there is an increase in incidences that is described as having epidemic proportions. Detection of natura l components in foods that can replace an...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus

FRIHUM-Fri prosjektstøtte humanistiske fag

"'From the Frontiers of Writing': Ekphrasis and transgressionality in contemporary Northern Irish poetics"

Recently, Northern Ireland has appeared as a tormented arena of historical atavism, community conflicts and individual perturbation. The poets of the place, e.g. the 1995 Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, interact imaginatively with the many predicaments of t heir urgent situation. In their plurality...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Joint Nordic Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (SCANCOR)

-Vi har skapt et stipendprogram for postdoktorer av ypperste kvalitet, som har hatt stor betydning for karrierene til yngre nordiske forskere innenfor samfunnsvitenskap og organisasjonsteori. Programmet har lagt til rette for at postdoktorer har fått veiledning av og har publisert artikler med se...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2016

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during interglacials (AMOCINT)

AMOCINT aims to decipher for the North Atlantic the spatial and temporal structure of the interglacial peaks and demises and their timing with forcing variations. It will provide multiproxy data sets to successfully correlate land and ocean climate recor ds and forcings, focussing in particular ...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Vestland

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Media systems, news content and public perception of political reality

Public opinion constitutes one of the cornerstones of democracy. Citizens are assumed to hold preferences for particular polices, know where parties and candidates for office are located on the relevant policy dimensions, and cast their votes accordingly. In other words: Democracy functions best...

Awarded: NOK 10.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SFF-Sentre for fremragende forskn

Centre for the study of Equality, Social Organization and Performance, ESOP

ESOPs ambisjon er å utfordre økonomiske teori - og samfunnsøkonomisk tenkning mer generelt - med erfaringer fra de nordiske land. I hvilken grad kan standard økonomisk teori forklare den nordiske utviklingen? Vi ønsker å forstå sammenhengene mellom økonomisk utvikling, fordeling og sosiale skille...

Awarded: NOK 95.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2017

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

The Dynamic Continental Margin Between the Mid-Atlantic-Ridge System (Mohns Ridge, Knipovich Ridge) and the Bear Island Region

A concentrated active and passive seismological experiment along the continental margin of the Barents Sea near Bear Island and the mid-Atlantic along the Knipovich Ridge is proposed. We will study the Earth´s structure and dynamics at this margin from it s top sedimentary cover to its imprint in...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Decadal variability on the North Atlantic Ocean/Nordic Seas

Project DEC-OCEAN aims at clarifying the origin behind decadal and multi-decadal variability in the North Atlantic and its influences on the transports and properties of Atlantic water to the Nordic Seas. Regionally induced oceanic variability to the nort h of the Greenland-Scotland Ridge will al...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Maternal mortality and morbidity in Malawi and the Gambia

This project is an expansion and continuation of an already ongoing program in maternal health research in Africa. One focus is the Gambia, a poor, muslim West African country with high maternal mortality, but relatively low HIV prevalence, and Malawi, a similarly poor country in Southern/Centr...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Norwegian-Russian Collaboration on Fast Ice Growth and Decay in Kongsfjorden and Grønfjorden (Svalbard)

We propose a combined observational and numerical study of atmosphere - sea ice - ocean interactions in Kongsfjorden and Grønfjorden by analyzing the processes driving the growth and decay of fast ice in this area in the seasons 2006/2007 and 2007/2008. A dditionally, we aim at fast ice scenario ...

Awarded: NOK 0.60 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

A comparison of data from atmospheric research stations at Summit, Greenland, and Zeppelin, Svalbard

Researchers from the U.S. and Norway have recently started an informal collaboration to share re-sources used to interpret atmospheric chemistry data and exploit data together from the Summit, Greenland and Zeppelin, Svalbard stations (Sjostedt et al., 20 06; Stohl et al., 2006). SUMSVAL shall st...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Contaminants in Polar Regions -Dynamic range of contaminants in polar marine ecosystems

This project is a part of the multinational IPY initiative "Fate, uptake and effects of contaminants in the Arctic and Antarctic ecosystem" (short name COPOL). The overall aim of this initiative is to improve the knowledge of the dynamic range of man-made contaminants in marine ecosystems of Pol...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

The Dynamic response of Arctic glaciers to global warming: A Norwegian contribution to the IPY-37 GLACIODYN

This project is a Norwegian contribution to IPY Activity 37 Glaciodyn. The goal is to investigate the role of ice dynamics in the response of Arctic glaciers and ice caps to global warming, to improve prediction of future changes and their impact on fresh water fluxes to the ocean and thus global...

Awarded: NOK 14.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Contact meeting for the Norwegian Biochemical Society

The annual meeting of the Norwegian Biochemical Society has a world-wide reputation as an excellent meeting place for scientists, both on the scientific and the social level. They have been a tremendous success and is arguably the one meeting in Norway wh ich has contributed the most to the conta...

Awarded: NOK 0.36 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Svalbard Ice-Ocean Studies (SIOS)

The project consists of three main types of activities: - Execution of field experiments in Svalbard - Joint analysis of data from Svalbard and elsewhere - Exchange of researchers and graduate students There will be two field seasons, winter/spring 2007 and winter/spring 2008. The main experim...

Awarded: NOK 0.73 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Current measurements north of Svalbard - An extension of the North Pole Environmental Observatory

The project consists of three parallell activities: technical capacity building, joint scientific studies and exchange of personell. The activies are built around the use of expendable current profiling in combination with other technologies to address ke y scientific issues. A capability for oce...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Vestland

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Norwegian-Russian glaciological activity on Austfonna Ice Cap, Svalbard

Russian scientists from Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences (IGRAS), Moscow, have been involved in glaciological research in Svalbard since end of 1960ies through former Soviet projects. On Austfonna Ice cap they carried out field investig ation in mid 1970ies both with ice core d...

Awarded: NOK 0.51 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Nettverk for Afrika-studier

Nettverket skal være et aktivt forum for formidling av kunnskap og utveksling av informasjon om Afrika for høyere undervisning og forskning, for derved å øke interessen for sammenlignende og flerfaglig tilnærming til afrikanske forhold. Nettverket skal: - Overvåke og formidle informasjon om int...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Regionalization, the private sector and governance for sustainable development in Latin America

As a parallel strategy to multilateral negotiations on trade and development issues, the United States is currently pursuing bi-lateral and regional strategies. In Latin America, the goal of the US is a hemispheric Free Trade Area (FTAA), but so far only two agreements with a more limited scope h...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Punctuated disintegration of the NW European Ice Sheet and rapid climate change

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Awarded: NOK 0.82 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Vestland

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

Landslide of the Norm: Linguistic liberalisation and literary development in Russia in the 1920s and 1990s

The proposed project will study interrelations between linguistic liberalisation and literary development in Russia in two periods of historical transition: the post-Revolutionary years of the 1920s and the post-Soviet period of the 1990s. Within the cont ext of the "language question" permeating...

Awarded: NOK 7.5 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Vestland

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Knockout zebrafish (KO-ZFISH) model

The genome projects – from microorganisms to vertebrates and mammals – create huge amounts of undeciphered genetic information. This cumulated DNA sequence bank needs intelligent, but as simple as possible, model systems to turn the currency of genomics into functional genomics. Only in one ver...

Awarded: NOK 11.0 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2009

Location: Akershus

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

FUGE- Midt-regionen Søknad om regional støtte (Tilleggsbev. til prosjekt 152324/150)

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Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SFF-Sentre for fremragende forskn

Center for the Study of Civil War, CSCW/Senter for borgerkrigsstudier

Borgerkrig er den vanligste formen for krig. Borgerkriger fører til enorme lidelser, både for ofre og flyktninger, og har i tillegg store samfunnsmessige skadevirkninger, både økonomisk og miljømessig. Borgerkrig forekommer oftest i fattige land og bidrr til ytterligere å svekke deres utviklingsm...

Awarded: NOK 90.0 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2013

Location: Oslo