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INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

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

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

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

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

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

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

USA - Regional Partnership for Carbon Sequestration Risk Assessment of Long Term CO2 Geological Storage

A number of demonstration scale CO2 geological storage projects are currently planned in New Mexico and Texas as part of the Partnership for Carbon Sequestration organised by the Department of Energy in the USA. These demonstration projects are described in detail in the second attachment to this...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Significance of scallop genetics and environment on juvenile viability in culture - a trans Atlantic research cooperation

University of Bergen has since the 1980s been one of the leading Norwegian organisations for development of scallop aquaculture. National and international research cooperation is an important component for developing a sustainable scallop industry. We wi ll therefore increase the collaboration w...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Vestland

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Citizenship and Local Development in the North

This project aims at re-establishing and expanding the close links that developed between Canadian and Norwegian social scientists operating in a multi-disciplinary mode, but with a clear focus on local level development processes in the Northern areas. T he works by Robert Paine, Ottar Brox and ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Strategic collaboration between SFA, UNH and NTNU

We propose a strategic collaboration between researchers within SINTEF Fisheries and aquaculture (SFA) aquaculture technology section, the University of New Hampshire's Open Ocean Aquaculture (OOA) and NTNU Department of cybernetics to solve some of the c hallenges of open ocean aquaculture. The ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Work and identity construction in a global context: A comparative anthropological proposal between NTNU and Univ. of Concordia,

The intended focus of the research proposal is a study of identity construction, how we create, recreate and express our ideas and interpretations about ourselves and our place in society - , as seen in relation to contemporary post-industrial work relati ons. It questions how the new ways of org...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Preparation for the North-Atlantic proportionally controlled multifunction arm prosthesis

Thirty years ago, the SVEN project achieved good results in controlling a multi-degree-of-freedom prosthetic arm. The system used a Bayesian EMG classifier, and the prosthesis motors were controlled in a simple on/off fashion. The poor hardware technology of that time effectively prevented the r...

Awarded: NOK 68,488

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Kina - Søknad om støtte til etablering av forskningssamarbeid omkring bruk av filterteknologi for rensing av avløpsvann i Kina

En søker om prosjektetableringsstøtte ifm etablering av et samarbeidsprosjekt som beskrevet under. Prosjektetableringen vil innkludere: gjennomføring av mer inngående diskusjoner med kinesiske forskningsmiljøer, skaffe seg oversik over kinesiske rensekra v samt opplysninger om forskjellige avløp...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

USA - Establishing long-term research cooperation with Water Resources Research Group led by Prof VP Singh at Louisiana State University

The main aim of this proposal is to establish a long-term concrete cooperative relation between the hydrology group at UiO and the world's most prominent research groups in the United States. The Louisiana State University (LSU), Baton Rouge, USA, is a fl agship university of Louisiana and has a ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Prosjektetablering på ville bær - kommersialisering av blåbærdyrking og revegetering av arktiske myrområder

Høsten 2005 besøkte forskere fra Planteforsk (Holt, Kise og Kvithamar) ulike forskningsinstitusjoner i Canada. Hensikten med reisen var å bygge et nettverk på ville bær mellom Norge og Canada. Vi besøkte FoU miljø og næringsliv i statene New Foundland, No va Scotia og Quebec. Nå ønsker alle parte...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - The role of exocyst protein/glutamate receptor interactions in postsynaptic receptor trafficking

The concept of excitotoxicity covers the process of harmfull overstimulation of glutamate receptors in neurons. It is integral to neurodegenerative diseases such as stroke, seizures, brain trauma, etc. We have recently started a new EU funded collaborativ e project ("GRIPANNT") on the role of glu...

Awarded: NOK 28,000

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Carbon monoxide as an antioxidant in lipids and heme pigments of meat and fish

The interest for research on CO for meat and fish has grown substantially over the past 3-4 years, much because of the recent legislative developments in the USA and EU. Norway and the USA have been pioneers in the utilisation of CO for muscle foods. We p ropose to evaluate new research areas of ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Kina - SINO-NORWEGIAN CENTRE FOR ECO-ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

China is facing a large number of environmental challenges and seeks international scientific assistance in how to deal with these issues. The importance of meeting these requests are reflected in statements issued from the Norwegian government (Soria-Mor ia erklæringen), from Ministry of Educati...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

USA - PepTalk- Project establishment support for studies on peptide nutrition, growth and development of larval fish between Norway and USA

This application for project establishment support for a bilateral research cooperation (PepTalk) between the participating collaborators in Norway and in the US is based on the complementary approach of the research groups that has developed and has been obvious for many years. Because there is...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Vestland

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - New Paradigms for Speech Technology - Pilot

The current paradigm for speech modeling, in particular for automatic speech recognition (ASR) is based on statistical pattern recognition where model parameters are learnt from large collections of speech and text data. The performance of these systems a re, in spite of several decades of resear...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Samarbeid innen studier av sykdom på trær ved bruk av molekylærbiologiske metoder

Min kontakt i Canada er Dr. Armand Séguin (www.arborea.ulaval.ca/en/who/armand-seguin.php) . Dr. Séguin arbeider med å øke vår molekylære forståelse av de molekylære mekanismer bak hvordan trær reagere på sykdom og annet stress forårsaket av miljøet. Ve d Laval Universitetet har de som et hoved...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Establishment of collaborative Fish Health research projects involving USA, Canada and Norway

Based on the recommendation from a trilateral (USA-Canada-Norway) workshop in Washington D.C. November 2005, proceed the establishment of trilateral collaborative research projects within the field of Fish Health. It is suggested to establish projects wit hin the fields of (i) basic immunology of...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Vestland

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Forskernettverk - Biomembran

Universitetet i Stavanger ved Institutt for naturvitenskap og matematikk (prof. Torleiv Bilstad) har i lengre tid vært engasjert i utvikling og anvendelse av en biomembran. Biomembranen som er utviklet regulerer bakketemperatur og vannhusholdning i jorda. Den hindrer også sandflukt og erosjon. B...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Rogaland

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Modelling risks in the salmon industry and markets

The project proposes developing a trade model for salmon to assist in discussions and negotiations of current international salmon trade issues and major risks problems facing the salmon industry. Two modeling approaches are discussed either: 1) developin g a traditional equilibrium trade model d...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Recruitment dynamics of the herring stocks in the western North Pacific and Norwegian Sea

Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) and Pacific herring (Clupea pallasi) are closely related but biologically distinct species, residing mainly in the Northern parts of the two oceans. Both species are pelagic plankton-feeders and contain both migratory as well as quite stationary stocks. Many st...

Awarded: NOK 55,000

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Stratospheric ozone depletion and climate change in the Arctic region

Ozone is the third most important greenhouse gas according to IPCC. Its distribution in the stratosphere and the troposphere is affected by human activity and has therefore changed significantly over the last decades. Emission of ozone precursors has lead to ozone increases in the troposphere, w...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA -Neuroscience of memory-development of a general linear model of brain structure (MRI), white matter microstructure (DTI), ERP and memory

De siste 3 årene har vår gruppe hatt et fruktbart samarbeid med ledende forskere ved HMS. Dette har bidratt til at vårt miljø holder et metodologisk og analytisk nivå i verdensklasse, og foreløpig ført til 7 sampublikasjoner i topp internasjonale tidsskri fter. Nylig har også gruppen ved HMS tatt...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Development of a metabolomics project to study biomarkers in psychotic disorders as part of the TOP study

Metabolomics is a new technology platform allowing the comprehensive study of small molecules present in cells and body fluids. It has been earmarked as an important area to develop under the NIH Roadmap Initiative. The technology provides the examinatio n of the comprehensive metabolome, as wel...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Japan - Fostering international cooperation in renewable energy

The Centre for Renewable Energy aims to works closely with a number of domestic and international partners to build effective long-term partnerships and synergies, and to advance the work in collaboration with other leading institutions and initiatives su pporting renewable energy deployment. T...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - DEVELOPING JOINT USA - CANADA - NORWAY COLLABORATION ON ECOTOXICOLOGICAL RISKS FOR FISH EXPOSED TO MULTIPLE STRESSORS

Assessment of ecotoxicological risks associated with biological responses in fish exposed to multiple stressors (contaminants, radiation or other stressors) is a key international research issue. The understanding of the underlying mechanisms for lethal/s ub-lethal effects in fish induced by a mi...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

USA - Cooperation between University of Maryland (UMCP) and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) within Energy Technology

A MoU has been signed by the Presidents of UMCP and NTNU to develop cooperation within the energy area, to support the MOU entered between Department of Energy and Ministry of Petroleum and Energy in May 2004 on bilateral cooperation within the Energy Sec tor. On a strategy meeting at UMCP in Oc...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Kina - Kulturminnevern og verdisyn. Etiske dilemmaer i møtet mellom internasjonale og lokale verdioppfatninger i Tibet.

Finansiert av Nettverk for Universitetssamarbeid Tibet-Norge, arbeider NTNU (ved Institutt for byggekunst, historie og teknologi, Sosialantropologisk institutt og Vitenskapsmuseet i Trondheim) med Tibet Universitetet (ved Department of Tourism and Foregn Language) i prosjektet "Lhasa Meets the Wo...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage