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INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

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

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

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

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Descision dilemmas in the Oil and Gas industry in meeting resource rights of indigenous people in the Arctic

In preparing and planning for oil and gas exploration and production in the Arctic oil and gas companies are expected to take into account the resource rights and the cultural rights of indigenous peoples. Through international regulations the rights of i ndigenous peoples are to some extent prot...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Rogaland

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Japan - Oil Spill Detection System - Sea Surface Radar Monitoring

- Tar utgangspunkt i eksisterende OSD-system. - Fremme samarbeid med universitets-/forskningsmiljø i Norge og Japan med tanke på videre forskning, f.eks bestemmelse av oljeflakets tykkelse, klima, radarbildekvalitet, - Det vil være naturlig å inkludere doktorgrads- og post.doc.-stipendiater i...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

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Kina - Collaboration between Tsinghua University and NTNU in CO2 management

Initials talks between the parties interested in CO2 management were held in Beijing at Tsinghua University in late October 2005. Further plans are as follows: Submission of application to EU FP6 within January 20 for a STREP on collaboration with a few CASTOR partners, selected partners from CS...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Kina - Samarbeid mellom kinesiske og norske bedrifter - utfordringen i å identifisere og utnytte hverandres sterke sider

Dette forprosjektet har som utgangspunkt at både populær-og akademisk litteratur peker på at mange internasjonal samarbeid mislykkes, og at det derfor er mer behov for forskning på dette feltet. Den viktigste hensikten med forprosjektet er å få en oversik t over relevant teori, utbredelsen av fen...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Large-Scale 3D Transient Hydraulic Tomography Using Parallel Computers

The capability of characterizing heterogeneous hydraulic parameters in the subsurface is essential for monitoring and predicting groundwater resources. Investigating such heterogeneity by the technique of hydraulic tomograph in basin-scale presents a for midable challenge. The size of computatio...

Awarded: NOK 77,000

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Japan - Advanced Biological Materials International collaboration between NTNU and Japan

Development of materials from natural resources are important in transforming into a sustainable and technological advanced society. The project focuses on developing international research projects between Japan and Norway within materials based on biol ogical resources. Focus areas include dev...

Awarded: NOK 86,471

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Kina - Energy Conservation in Buildings - Chinese/Norwegian Cooperation

NTNU has established "Energy and Petroleum/Resources and Environment" as a principal strategic multidisciplinary R&D activity (see Project Description Attachment). International cooperation is a major part of this effort, with main focus on Japan, USA an d China. NTNU's university rector and a l...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Japan - Use of new, less corrosive steel in shipping and offshore industry

Steel manufacturers have always been looking into ways of producing ship-grade steels with improved corrosion resistance properties and a competitive price. After studying publications and patent applications that have been published in the last years in this area we have to conclude, that it is ...

Awarded: NOK 83,668

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Akershus

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

USA - Samarbeid på forsknings - og næringsnivå innen økonomisk utvikling og innovasjonssystemer mellom Stavanger og Texas

Dette prosjektet har to nivåer, et forskningssamarbeid og et samarbeid på næringslivsnivå som inkluderer samarbeid mellom teknologi-inkubatorer. Begge prosjektene involverer i høyeste grad kunnskapoverføring - og utvikling. I forskningssmarbeidet tenker en en ?tradisjonelt? ved at en gjennomfø...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Rogaland

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Algorithms and Software Libraries for Large-scale Computational Science

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Awarded: NOK 35,000

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Vestland

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

USA - Phosphoproteomics in Bergen and Stanford applied on acute myeloid leukemia

The major cause of fatalities in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is disease relapse, resulting in no more than 50% five-year survival even when the most intensive chemotherapy is used. These relapses reflect de novo or developed chemoresistance of the cancer cells. Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cell...

Awarded: NOK 75,000

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Vestland

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

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

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

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

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

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

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Cold climate modelling

A weakness in the Swat-model is its rather poor ability to simulate water balances during prolonged periods with winter and frozen soils. The data collected through the Agricultural Environmental Monitoring Programme in Norway (JOVA) offers excellent oppo rtunities to do so as they represent agri...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

USA - Operativ Psykologi: Kontaktmøter med samarbeidspartnere i USA med sikte på utarbeidelse av søknad for hovedprosjekt

Based on preliminary results from previous research at the U.S. Military Academy/ Norwegian Naval Academy and University of Bergen we propose to develop a new research collaboration between researchers at the University of beregn Norway and significant U. S. institutions involved in research and ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Vestland

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

India - Utvikling av F&U-prosj og tjenester innen helse, miljø og sikkerhet i et samarb mellom SINTEF og det indiske statsoljeselskapet ONGC

I september 2005 undertegnet SINTEF en intensjonsavtale (MOU) med det indiske, statseide oljeselskapet The Oil & Natural Gas Corporation LTD (ONGC). Formålet med avtalen er FoU og opplæring på områder som Helse, miljø og sikkerhet. Fra SINTEFs side er vi interesserte i å vokse internasjonalt på o...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Antigen and immune cell dynamics characterising protective immunity in salmonids - basis for improved vaccine strategies

The aim of the present Project Establishment Support application is to establish collaboration between important research communities in the USA and Norway. The collaboration will initially manifest itself as a joint research project application to the No rwegian Research Council, aiming to addre...

Awarded: NOK 70,000

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Preparation of a large Petromaks project: Investigation of Hydrate Plugging and Non-Plugging Properties of Oils

For 2006 we have received funding from the DeepStar consortium in Houston for a smaller project. That project is a cooperation between three partners: 1. The Ugelstad Laboratory, NTNU, 2. Colorado School of Mines, USA, 3. Institut Francais du Petrole (IFP ), France. However, we want to iniate a l...

Awarded: NOK 80,000

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Kina - Initialisation of Project Co-operation with the Xinning Environmental Protection Bureau and its affiliated Research Institutes, China

NIVA has established project activities in China in 1995, and since then, carried out 10 R&D projects in various provinces in China. Through the Chinese counterparts in these projects, we have been introduced to the Xinning Env protection Bureau, which is keen on establising a project in water a...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Canada - Bilateral research cooperation between ITEM (NTNU, Norway) and SITE (University of Ottawa, Canada)

We intend to establish a formal research cooperation between the Institutt for Telematikk (ITEM), at NTNU, and the School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE), at the University of Ottawa, Canada. As a step forward to achieve the abovemention ed main goal, we aim at inviting Prof. Gr...

Awarded: NOK 45,872

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Electrooxidation of biofuels in Fuel Cell Processes - an advanced study

Fuel cells are emphasized as a breakthrough technology. There is a number of scientific problems that need to be addressed to make it a robust and competitive energy technology. Hydrogen is the ultimate fuel. A major introduction of hydrogen will be heavi ly delayed because of lack of infrastruct...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Kina - Paternity and social structure in small passerines of the Tibetan Plateau

The pre-project will lay the foundation for a larger research collaboration between the bird research group at Natural History Museum, UiO, and the research group of a chinese bird ecologist, Dr. Lu Xin at Wuhan University. Dr. Lu Xin has worked for sever al years with the breeding ecology and be...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Canada - Etablering av samarbeid med Carleton University, Canada om Prediksjon av residiv og rehabiliteringsbehov blant lovbrytere

Det er en utfordring for kriminalomsorgen i mange land å redusere nye lovbrudd etter soning. Gjentagagelsekriminaliteten er høy, 60% av innsatte i norske fengsler begår nye lovbrudd. Alminnelig fengselssoning har svært liten individualpreventiv effekt. De t finnes i dag teknikker for å kartlegge ...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

USA - Corporate Responsibility in US and Norway

"Management Systems of CSR" will serve as the umbrella topic under which the supporting suggested sub-projects will reside. The purpose of the following suggested sub-projects will exhibit to industry the tangible project examples that may be conducted. Enterprises ranging from small and medium...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Kina - Industrial Ecology in China

China?s rapid development has made China one of the world?s most important economic powers and has increased wealth, employment, and business opportunities inside China. At the same time, Chinese economic development has caused resource depletion, environ mental degradation, and a rapidly changin...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Escaped Farmed Fish - A Trilateral Cooperation Initiative between Norway, Canada and USA

A trilateral network on escaped farmed fish was established during a workshop in Washington DC, 1-3 November 2005. The first meeting developed fruitful discussions, and managed to establish a framework for future work. Both the preventive approach (how to hinder escapement, either by improved te...

Awarded: NOK 35,258

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Vestland