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LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Cities against poverty: Brazilian experiences

Large cities in Latin America play an important and independent role in efforts to reduce povertyand social inequality. While monetary poverty can be reduced quite effectively through federal government programs such as cash transfer schemes, the improvement in poor people's housing conditions an...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Oslo

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Healthy Schools: Reducing dengue and diarrheal diseases in primary schools in Colombia

A scientific, educational collaborative platform between Norway and Colombia was developed to promote innovative scientific research, capacity building, and student exchange on water, environment, sanitation, epidemiology, and health. Focus was on exploring ways to integrate control of water-rela...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Akershus

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Natural Resource Management in Amazonian Indigenous Reserves

Urfolksterritorier står i dag for 54% av reservatarealer på tvers av alle ni Amazonas land, og dekker omtrent 50% av skogarealet i colombiansk Amazonas. Slike reservater spiller en nøkkelrolle i å beskytte og bevare biologisk mangfold i tropisk skog mot hogst, landbruk konvertering og skogbranner...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2017

Location: Akershus

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Reconceptualising Transitional Justice: The Latin American Experience

Reconceptualising Transitional Justice: The Latin American Experience (project # 201412) is a three-year international research project (2010-2013) analysing national experiences with transitional justice in Latin America. It has used a comparative approach to examine trajectories in truth, justi...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Vestland

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

SOCS: Energy conversion from renewable sources in solid oxide cells (EULANEST66)

The overall objective of this joint project was to develop a network and collaboration between Latin-American and European partners to develop high efficient technologies of energy conversion based on solid oxide cells from renewable sources based on. The use of renewable energy has attained incr...

Awarded: NOK 0.36 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Violence and child rights in Brazil: Can the cycle of violence be broken?

The proposed study aims at examining the impact of exposure to different types of violence (domestic, school and community) in the lives of Brazilian children. It will also ascertain what types of care children exposed to violence are receiving from existing agencies. The conducted Epidemiologica...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

e-SOFC: Direct Ethanol Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (EULANEST 69)

The prospective use of ethanol in high temperature fuel cells opens up new perspectives to the use of biomass derived liquid renewable fuels in decentralised and remote electricity production. The possibility of performing the direct oxidation of an alcohol on the SOFC anode without pre-processin...

Awarded: NOK 0.80 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Contested Powers: Towards a Political Anthropology of Energy in Latin America

Energy is essential for national development, but there is no easy correlation between production capacity and social well-being. As our project's results demonstrate, the development outcomes of energy resources in Latin America, both renewable and non-renewable, are as dependent on social and p...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Akershus

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Dealing with the past: Victims' experiences of transitional justice in Argentina and Peru

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Oslo

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Confronting Transnationalization: the Economic, Environmental and Political Strategies of the Central American Economic Groups

Central America is often viewed as a region governed by small, economic elites that created theirfortunes and the basis for their political power through the control with production and export ofagricultural goods like coffee, sugar, cotton and cattle. Many diversified into industry with theprote...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Oslo

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Does a rights based approach to development contribute to social inclusion?

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Awarded: NOK 0.28 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2011

Location: Oslo

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

How formalization closed the gender land gap in Peru and the impact on women's empowerment

In under a decade, Peru has given title deeds to six million land parcels. While the area istraditional male dominated, our research has uncovered that the reform's gender component hascaused 58 per cent of all land to now be jointly owned between husband and wife. This success isunprecedented in...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Oslo

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Linguistic Identity and Attitudes in Spanish-speaking Latin America

"Linguistic Identity and Attitudes in Latin America and Spain" (LIAS) is a research project wherecognitive, affective and pragmatic attitudes Spanish speaking people were studied and described,not only towards the way Spanish is spoken in their own country, but towards how Spanishvariants belongi...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Vestland

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

The effect of migration and remittances on land use change in rural Guatemala and Mexico: is there a forest transition?

Results from our research project, indicate that international migration has important effects onland tenure and patterns of land distribution in the areas of origin of migrants in Chiapas andGuatemala, as well as on land use. Excluded groups like women and indigenous peoples have insome few case...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Oslo

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Can waste emissions from fish farms change the structure of marine food webs ? Acomparative study of coastal ecosystems in Norway and Chile

In the third mesocosm experiment the response of the phytoplankton to nutrient addition wassignificantly lower than in both our previous experiments in Chile. There seems to be a difference in the balance between phytoplankton production and the efficiency of the predators keeping hebiomass of th...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Cultural-sensitive health care combining traditional and conventional medicine in Meso-America

Background: There is currently no initiative in Guatemala and Mexico to coordinate appropriate research programs in the field of coexistence and mutual understanding between western health workers and practitioners of traditional indigenous medicine. Sinc e a majority of the population in these a...

Awarded: NOK 0.35 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Indigenous peoples' rights to consultation (ILO169) and development interventions: comparing experiences in Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil

The ILO Convention # 169 (C169) is unique, as it is the only legally binding instrument in international law that distinctly deals with indigenous peoples' rights. It covers a range of issues, including land rights and access to natural resources. C169 is directed to governments, recognising the...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Akershus

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

A Norwegian-Chilean Cooperation project as a step to develop novel bio-based materials and sustainable energetic solutions in Latin America

Latin America is rich in natural resources, including oil, mineral, sea products and forests. Within the forest industry, several countries are emerging with great potential. In the short term, Brazil and Chile will be in the best position to expand their forest production. Chile is one of the m...

Awarded: NOK 0.35 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Human rights and state-formation in Latin America: Dilemmas in consolidating democracy and the rule of law

As discursive, social and legal practices, human rights do play a role in current processes of state formation in Latin America. Human rights relate to all aspects of state formation: institutional development, interest mediation, and legitimacy. The aim of this project is to explore the relatio...

Awarded: NOK 0.35 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Oslo

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Latin American dance as heritage, intellectual property and merchandise

For this pre project the research environment at NTNU will invite a specialised postdoc researcher and a Latin American researcher to assist us in writing the main project, PhDs will also be included. The main task will be to map Latin American research more in depth. It will be to develop theo...

Awarded: NOK 0.23 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Building an intercultural state: social movements and competing perceptions of democracy in Bolivia

This pre-project is geared towards planning for the realization of a full research project on the role of social movements in building an intercultural nation state in Bolivia. It involves University of Agder (UiA) and Gimlekollen School of Journalism and Communication (MhG). Both institutions h...

Awarded: NOK 0.35 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Agder

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Energy boom in Brazil: Blessing or Curse? Policy and Development

This pre-research proposal originates from the fact that energy issues have returned to the top of the international agenda. The rise in energy prices, the increased demand for energy in China, the conflicts in Africa and Middle East, the financial crisis and the growing concerns with climate ch...

Awarded: NOK 0.34 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Rogaland

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Payments for Ecosystem Services in Latin America (PESILA)

The Millenium Ecosystem Assessment documents the trends in losses of ecosystem services, especially on lands outside traditional protected areas and proposed payments for ecosystem services (PES) among the policy mechanisms to mitigate these losses. The core idea of PES is that external ecosys...

Awarded: NOK 0.18 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Indigenous peoples, democratization and everyday political practices

The project will develop a comprehensive project proposal for the planned call for proposals. Main objectives: 1. Coordinate cooperating institutions 2. Discuss proposals with Latin-American partners in Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua This will be done i n close cooperation with all partyners. K...

Awarded: NOK 80,000

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Cities against poverty: Brazilian experiences

The key issues to be dealt with in this Project Establishment (PE) is the "combined and uneven" social development of Brazil: reduced poverty, but persistent extreme inequality. How can this be best explained? The PE will design a bottom-up approach, fo cusing on the role of the cities: First,...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Does a 'rights based' approach to development contribute to social inclusion? The case of Guatemala

The main project for which pre-project funding is sought seeks to examine the case of Guatemala and whether and how civil society activity, and especially activities based on a rights based approach, contributes to social inclusion. A rights based approac h is advocated by Norwegian development f...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Arrange a Norwegian - Chilean workshop on modern techniques for monitoring of the aquatic environment

National monitoring programmes for marine and freshwater quality constitute the fundament for a sustainable use of these resources. For the two main producers of farmed Atlantic salmon Norway and Chile, knowledge on water quality and its effects on fish h ealth is a key factor to achieve a sustai...

Awarded: NOK 74,578

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

People versus Parks: Can indigenous peoples coexist with tropical forest biodiversity?

Indigenous territories currently account for 54% of all reserves by acreage across all nine Amazonian countries, and overall cover 100 million hectares. Indigenous reserves may therefore play a key role in future climate change scenarios by stemming defor estation and preventing biodiversity eros...

Awarded: NOK 90,000

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Akershus

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Technology, Economic Change, Heterogeneity and Internationalisation in Latin America

The changing global dynamics provides new opportunities and challenges for Latin American economies. The rapid pace of technological development, increasing trade and FDI flows, and the rapid growth of large emerging economies in Asia (e.g. China and Indi a) are transforming the global economic l...

Awarded: NOK 0.24 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Socially Robust Nanotechnolocy in Latin-America: Ethics and Governance from a "Southern" Perspective

This project will build upon an established collaboration between the Univ of Bergen and the Univ Nacional Autónoma de México. We will perform research at the interface between ethics and social science (so-called ELSA research, ethical, legal and social aspects of technology) to study the introd...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Vestland

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