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INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Satellite Altimetry-Gravimetry Derived Geoid and Circulation of Ice-Covered Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans for Climate change Studies

The partners in this project have already started discussions within the framework of the "Working Title". This cooperation will result in a joint project within the framework of the proposed title in this application. However, the "Working Title" could b e supplemented with the additional inform...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Kina - Prevention of type 2 diabetes in Oslo, Pakistan, Bangladesh and China

The Jiangsu Provincial Centre for Disease Control (Jiangsu CDC) in Nanjing has already collected data from a random sample of about 5000 urban individuals aged 20 years and above for a diabetes study. The epidemiological situation of T2DM in China is very little studied yet. We are now going to ...

Awarded: NOK 54,000

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

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NA - Prosjektetablering: Nominale former i norsk; deres bruk og betydning

Dette prosjektets formål er å etablere et forskningssamarbeid mellom lingvister ved Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet og en forskergruppe ved Universitetet i Minnesota (USA). Emnet vi ønsker å etablere et forskningsprosjekt rundt, er bruken av, og betydningen til, ulike nominale f...

Awarded: NOK 55,000

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Kina - Measuring foliar mass and crown density using airborne laser scanning as a measure of forest health

The project shall initiate a research co-operation on remote of forest health between leading forest research institutes in Norway (Norwegian forest research institute, Skogforsk and University of life sciences, UMB/INA) and China (Chinese academy of Fore stry, CAF). The idea is to use airborne l...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

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NA - Research Establishment At Level with Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security

The project objective and sub-goals will be achieved by the following means: a) Contact: The intial essential contact with the director of CERIAS, Professor Spafford, is already established, by his visit to NTNU autumn 2005. b) Agreement: The long-term institutional cooperation will be sougth b...

Awarded: NOK 66,899

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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USA - Validering av norskutviklet metodikk for biomasse- og skoginventring basert på fjernmåling med bruk av laser for N-A forhold.

Prevista er i dag Nordens ledende leverandør av skogrelaterte geografiske data og planprodukter til skogbruket. Dagens produksjon baserer seg i stor grad på manuell arbeidsinnsats - feltarbeid og fysisk håndtering av data. Det er gjennomført flere vellykk ede leversanser i Norge og metoden er vit...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Buskerud

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NA - Norwegian Plant Science Centre - establisment of bilateral research cooperation

The idea of development of a Norwegian Plant Science Centre was initiated about one year ago. On a global scale plants have never been as important to people as at the beginning of the 21th century. We are facing lack of food security, lack of land suita ble for agriculture, demands for alternat...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

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NA - Effects of fish oils/proteins and contaminants on obesity-linked insulin resistance

Insulin resistance (i.e. where a given concentration of insulin does not show the expected magnitude of effects on target cells) is a hallmark of Type 2 diabetes and obesity, two metabolic diseases reaching today epidemic proportions. Both the amount and type of nutrients (fat, carbohydrate or ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Vestland

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Kina - Doing Business in China - a Study of Norwegian SME's in China

The short term objective (2006) is to plan and conduct an empirical study of the experiences of Norwegian SME's which are trying to do business in China. In 2005, preliminary contacts were established between Sogn og Fjordane Unversity College and Beiji ng Normal University. Professor Songbai L...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Vestland

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NA - NTNU/UW collaboration on regional climate change and built infrastructure sustainability

Sustainability is a general concept that relates to the ability of humankind to continue to grow and thrive on a planet with limited resources. Focusing on built infrastructure can narrow the scope of sustainability research to a degree, but it is still a formidably broad theme. No single resear...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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NA - Utvikling av computer-baserte prosedyrer for å effektivisere regional kartlegging av biomasse i skog med flybåren LiDAR

Flybåren LiDAR (LIght Detection and Ranging) er den mest lovende fjernmålingsbaserte teknikken for kartlegging av biomasse i skog fordi den er i stand til å beskrive den 3-dimensjonale strukturen av trær og vegetasjon. Som første land i verden, er teknikk en nå tatt i operasjonell bruk i Norge ve...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

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NA - Establishment of joint research projects between Norway and USA/Canada in the field of turfgrass science

The rapid increase in the number of golf courses in Scandinavia is parallelled with an increase in the demand for turfgrass research. The Scandinavian Turfgrass Research Foundation (SFG) was established in 2002 by the national golf unions in the Scandinav ian countries. SFG supports high-quality...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

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USA Network and program for Process Intensification

Process intensification (PINT) and related activities such as Process Analytical Technology (PAT) are becoming important areas for many chemical, petrochemical and oil companies with respect to optimal control of their large scale production processes. Wi th increasing focus on the environmental ...

Awarded: NOK 14,250

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Japan - Electrolysis for sustainable development - New techn. for molten salts and for restoration of Lake Biwa in collaboration with Japan

The main purpose of the project is to establish collaboration between research groups in Japan and NTNU. Contact between scientists at NTNU and Doshisha University and Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan has been made through the KIFEE activities; a symposiu m in 2004 and a workshop in 2005. We have...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Japan - Social Science Research with Japan

The search for an appropriate partner department includes two stages. In the first stage, three representatives from ISS, the chair or deputy chair, the head of the Japan program, and another scholar will visit candidate universities in Japan. In the se cond phase, a researcher from each of the...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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USA - Sea ice modelling and assimilation of satellite data, cooperation with the Canadian Ice Service and US National Ice Centre

The Norwegian Meteorological Institute, met.no, is running the national sea ice service. Met.no is also responsible for EUMETSAT High Latitude Ocean & Sea Ice SAF which operationally provide satellite based automatic sea ice analysis to European users. Th e research department at met.no is engage...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Oslo

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NA - Effects of snow conditions on the predator-prey interaction between hare and lynx

It is believed that snow conditions influence the predator-prey interaction between hare and lynx, but empirical evidence is needed to confirm this assumption. Two very promising data sources are already available. First, the 10-year dataset consisting of snow-tracking records of predators from ...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

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Kina - Disability, living conditions and rehabilitation in the community: Establishing research collaboration between China and Norway

Det søkes om prosjektetableringsstøtte til et samarbeidsprosjekt om funksjonshemmedes levekår og rehabiiliteringsbehov i tre provinser i Kina - hvorav den ene er Tibet. De involverte parter har allerede etablert kontakt gjennom tidligere reise, praktisk s amarbeid og utveksling av studenter/fagfo...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

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NA - Establishment and participation of the R&D-program: Bug to Drug

PubGene was established in August 2001 by researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway), and the Norwegian Radium Hospital (Norway). During 2002-2004, the core organization was built up both in USA and Norway covering all majo r roles in the company. PubGene provides ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

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USA - Scientific seminar in Oslo with participants from Johns Hopkins Medical School and Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo

The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Oslo will organise a scientific seminar in Oslo in 2006 on the subjects of neurobiology, cardiology, and cancer research, and has invited fellow colleagues from Johns Hopkins University. The seminar is a based on the existing Agreement of Cooperation b...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

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NA - Chloroplast genetic engineering of turfgrass (creeping bentgrass) --Modify the plant and protect the environment simultaneously

Chloroplast genetic engineering offers a number of unique advantages, including high-level transgene expression, multi-gene engineering in a single transformation event and transgene containment by maternal inheritance. More than 40 transgenes have been s tably integrated and expressed in the tob...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

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Kina - Collaboration on marine biopolymers between NTNU and Wuhan University, China

The Norwegian Biopolymer Laboratory (NOBIPOL) at NTNU has extensive ongoing research activities within marine biopolymers such as alginates, chitosans and fish gelatin (see www.biotech.ntnu.no/nobipol). China and Norway have large and renewable biological resourcces for production of alginates, ...

Awarded: NOK 25,000

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Kina - China's climate change policy: through the prism of energy policy

The project proposal to be developed (should funding be obtained) concerns China's energy and climate policy. China is a key country in climate change affairs, and improved knowledge of China's domestic energy and climate policy is of great importance for global environmental politics. One main ...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

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NA - Degradation of PEM fuel cells

Proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells for electrochemical conversion of hydrogen to electric energy are considered to be a viable technology in a future energy system, due to the potential of obtaining high efficiencies. Fuel cell technology is, howev er, still at a pre-commercial stage. High...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Kina - Regional disparities in maternal and child mortality in China

Både Verdensbanken gjennom sitt prosjekt ?Reaching the Poor? og WHO i sin årsrapport har tydelig signalisert betydningen av å identifisere barriærer barn og mødre møter i helsevesenet globalt. Forskning og tiltak må i større grad ha et fattigdomsperspekti v. Som det hevdes holder det ikke å si at...

Awarded: NOK 90,000

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

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Canada - Palaeobiogeography, palaeoecology and stratigraphy of bryozoan faunas and sediments, Ca and Norw Upper Palaeozoic boreal realm

Bryozoans are among the most diverse and most common fossils in Carboniferous and Permian rocks of the present day Arctic. They are rivaled only by brachiopods and echinoderms, and have been extensively studied in the stratigraphic type areas of Russia an d elsewhere. In recent years stratigraphi...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

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NA - Synchronizing Holocene Land-Ocean Climatic Records Utilizing Icelandic Tephra Horizons

The aim is to establish a transatlantic group of researcher to develop strong interdisiplinary research on refining the tephra chronology and testing of its utilty to study centennial and higher frequency climate variability in marine and terrestrial core archives. In order to obtain a better pi...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Vestland

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NA - Ocean Waves: Dynamics, Hazards, Currents and Utilization

Norway, surrounded by the North, Norwegian and Barents Seas with a rich endowment of offshore petroleum resources, has been an international leader in scientific and technological research essential to the exploration, exploitation and management of ocean resources. Interactions and collaboratio...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

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USA - Cooporation Marine Science North America - Norway

To organise a workshop during March 2006 in Woods Hole, USA, with the obejective to bring together scientists from the Insiture of Marine Research (Norway) and National Marine Fisheries Service (USA) to discuss four identified topics, to write proposals t o meet the deadlines for the Norwegian Re...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Vestland

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NA - Kunnskapsoverføring innen akvakultur gjennom et felles forskningsprosjekt mellom UTMSI og RF - akvamiljø, i Belize

Bakgrunn IC2 institute er involvert i etablering av en forskningspark i Belize (mellomamerika). Et sentralt element i forskningsparken er fokus på akvakultur som er den hurtigst voksende industrien i landet utenom turisme. Instituttet UTMSI som er Univers ity of Texas sitt akvakultur - instituttt...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Rogaland