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RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Småskala reformere for on-site hydrogen produksjon

Statoil i samarbeid med Hydro søker NFR om finansiering av SINTEFs oppgave som Operating Agent i en nyetablert Task i IEA-HIA - Small-scale reformers for on-site hydrogen supply. Industripartnerne ser det som viktig å sikre norsk prosjektledelse i en Tas k med bred deltagelse world wide. Industr...

Awarded: NOK 0.60 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Rogaland

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

HYBRID HYDROGEN STORAGE SOLUTIONS

Hydrogen, in combination with electricity/electric grid, is by many predicted to become the future choice as energy carrier. One especially foresees the possibility to use hydrogen as energy vector based on renewable energy. These are solutions that in th eory totally prevent emission of greenhou...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2014

Location: Vestland

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Norsk deltagelse i IEAs Implementing Agreement for Ocean Energy Systems

Forum for marin fornybar energi (FFMFE) er dannet av Norske kraft- og oljeselskaper som ønsker at fornybare energikilder til havs blir tatt i bruk. Forumet består per i dag av Statoil, Shell Technology Norway, Statkraft, BKK, Lyse Produksjon, Agder Energi Produksjon, Fred. Olsen & Co, Hafslund o...

Awarded: NOK 0.46 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

STAMCELLER-Stamcelleforskning

Tissue engineering in bone defects: Development of porous copolymer scaffolds stimulating stem cell growth and bone regeneration

For repair of bone defects, tissue engineering would be to combine cells capable of osteogenic activity with an appropriate scaffold. Mesenchymal stem cells are multipotential cells that are capable of differentiating into different type of cells dependin g on culture condition. The selection of ...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

STAMCELLER-Stamcelleforskning

Genome plasticity of somatic stem cells

Chromatin organization in stem cells arises from distinct combinations of epigenetic marks resulting in genomic plasticity. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have received intense attention due to their perceived potential use in regenerative medicine. Nothin g is known, however, on epigenetic marks ...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

ISP-Institusjonsforankrede strategiske prosjekt

Snow avalanche research

The research program is divided in four themes: A) Avalanche warning, B) Protection structures, C) Avalanche hazard zoning and D) Dissemination of snow avalanche information. The themes will continue over the three-year period. Each theme is subdivided in a number of work packages. A) Avalanche...

Awarded: NOK 10.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Preparing for a rainy day: Configuring climate science for future society

The project will investigate how climate change issues are being understood and appropriated in different strategically important sectors of society, both on local, regional and national level and with a broad geographical diversification. The project wil l focus on climate change management in t...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Liberal Peace and the Ethics of Peacebuilding Towards the integration of ethics in peacebuilding research

An increasing amount of research is being done on the means of peacebuilding, but there is a lack of research and debate on its aims. This is unfortunate not only from a scholarly, but also from a political point of view. In recent years critique has been directed towards the political premises ...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2017

Location: Oslo

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

Structure and history - Social Stability and Change in the Stone Age of Eastern Norway

KHM (Museum of Cultural History) has conducted extensive Stone Age excavations at Svinesund, Halden parish in Østfold, due to the construction of a new highway between Oslo and Gothenburg. The results from these excavations will be the starting point of t his project. The excavations have reveale...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Property, Possession and Conflict in Re/Building Settlement

In a world in which there is an increasing need for re/settle people torn apart by conflict, it is critical to create the basis for durable development, by providing a sustainable physical settlements and a socially and economically viable community. The challenges involved with this situation ...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2017

Location: Oslo

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Metabolic scaling in teleosts

Metabolic scaling is a widely recognised problem in biology. The underlying causes for the disproportionate relationship between the metabolic rate of an organism and its body size have long puzzled scientists, and continue to be controversial. In recent years this fascinating subject has been tr...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Measurements of Black Carbon aerosols in Arctic snow - interpretation of effect on snow reflectance

Snow covered surfaces have relatively high albedo and most of the incoming solar radiation is reflected. Consequently, the temporal evolution of surface albedo in the Arctic is of high relevance for the surface energy balance, melting processes and climat e. BC particles emitted by fossil fuel an...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2014

Location: Oslo

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: Viken

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Decontamination of persistent organc pollutants in fishmeal and fish oil

Fishmeal and fish oil are the most heavily contaminated materials used in feed production, with products of European fish stocks more heavily contaminated than those from South Pacific stocks. The fish stock of concern for the north European industry is s prat and herring in the Baltic Sea and he...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku - Tromssa ja Finmarkku

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Vertical distribution: hybridisation barrier between escapee and wild cod?

Most farmed cod are produced in net-pens in sheltered coastal areas used as habitat by coastal cod. As future expansion of the industry is expected, interactions between farmed escapees and local coastal stock are inevitable. Genetic introgression from es capees has caused fitness depression in w...

Awarded: NOK 0.60 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Variation in developmental rate at early life stages of Atlantic salmon: applications for aquaculture

Normally in the production cycle, initiation of first feeding is based on the average developmental stage of the reared larva. There is, however, large variation in metabolic and developmental rate between individual fish, and early variation in metaboli c rate predicts a number of other trait c...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Viken

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

The impact of pancreas disease (PD) on flesh quality of Atlantic salmon

PD is a serious and infectious disease. In 2005, PD was diagnosed in salmon at 35 seawater locations as compared to 11 in year 2000. Most Norwegian salmon farms with a PD diagnosis are located in Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordene but PD is unfortunately spre ading to new geographic areas. The indust...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku - Tromssa ja Finmarkku

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Conversion of natural gas to hydrocarbons over acidic zeolite type catalysts.

The high oil price and concern for CO2 emission make processes for conversion of natural gas to fuel and chemicals highly desirable. First generation catalysts and processes exists, UOP/Hydros MTO, Exxon/Mobile?s MTG, Haldor Topsøes TIGAS. All processes h ave a large potential for improvement, pa...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

SFI-Sentre for forskn.drevet innov

SIMLab - Structural Impact Laboratory

App for borerigger neste Ved årsskiftet er forskningssenteret SIMLab på NTNU historie. Målet er nådd: Å bli best i verden på beskyttelse. Nå vil partnerne videre. De ser for seg apper for biler og borerigger. I tur og orden banket de på døra: Renault, Audi, BMW, Toyota, Honda og GM. Alle de...

Awarded: NOK 80.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

Integrating psychotherapy research and research on psychotherapy training

A promising line of research to improve the general effectiveness and efficacy of psychotherapy and to reduce dropout is to focus on the investigation of alliance formation and repair of alliance ruptures. This study draws upon five essential components: (1) focus on interpersonal process; (2) th...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2015

Location: Oslo

ISPJUS-ISP - Satsing på juridisk forskning

Rettsstatlege utfordringar ved internasjonalisering av strafferettspleia, med særleg fokus på europeisk integrasjon

Både den materielle strafferetten og dei straffeprosessuelle reglane om etterforsking og domstolsbehandling har tradisjonelt hatt eit sterkt nasjonalt særpreg. Men dei siste åra har det skjedd hyppige endringar av regelverket, som i stor grad har vore ini tiert av eller påverka av det internasjon...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Vestland

SFI-Sentre for forskn.drevet innov

COIN - Concrete Innovation Centre

Populærvitenskapelig fremstilling Siden produksjonsprosessen for vanlig sement medfører et betydelig bidrag til verdens CO2-utslipp (5-10 %), er utvikling av sementer som kan produseres med vesentlig redusert CO2-utslipp en viktig aktivitet i COIN. Det k an være å bytte ut deler av vanlig sement...

Awarded: NOK 76.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Regulatory pathways of skeletal development in teleost fish: The impact of genetic, dietary, and environmental factors.

This proposal addresses the necessity to establish collaborative projects between Norwegian and North-American research institutions working in the field of fish skeletal development and malformation. A workshop, organised in Canada (Halifax) by scientist s from AKVAFORSK, NRC and Univ. of Dalhou...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku - Tromssa ja Finmarkku

NEVRONOR-Nasjonal satsing på nevrovitenskap f

Non-invasive in vivo imaging of neural stem cells

Stem cell biology is one of the most closely followed developments in biomedicine today, since stem cells may provide the foundation for rational regenerative therapeutics with far-reaching implications in the health sector. The use of stem cells to gener ate new nerve cells has received particul...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

NEVRONOR-Nasjonal satsing på nevrovitenskap f

The Norwegian Multiple Sclerosis Registry and Biobank

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an immune-mediated, inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS) in genetically susceptible individuals. It is a disabling disease of young adults, with no curable treatment available. There is growing knowledge of s everal aspects of the disease, but the et...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

DualPET-MR

The main objective for this project is to develop dual-modality PET-MR for molecular biology and medicine which will allow for the combined and simultaneous use of positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance (MR). In such a combined machine the PET provides information from molecula...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Investigation of equiaxed dendritic alloy solidification by in-situ synchrotron X-radiography and phase-field modelling

Important aspects of alloy solidification is poorly understood due to lack of means to observe the microstructure formation processes in situ during solidification. A new method, developed by the applicant, for in-situ acquisition of high resolution sync hrotron X-radiograms will be used to obta...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

NucPro: Epigenetics of nuclear programs - from genome-wide landscapes to individual factor mechanisms

This Proposal outlines research plans for global epigenetic and transcription factor studies at an already established Functional Genomics (FUGE) Consortium for studies of nuclear programs at the University of Oslo (UiO). The consortium is a joint effort from four independent research groups to e...

Awarded: NOK 11.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

SFI-Sentre for forskn.drevet innov

NORMAN - Norwegian Manufacturing Future

I en ustabil global verden er det avgjørende å fortsette å utvikle konkurransekraften til den Vareproduserende industrien. I forskingssenteret Norwegian Manufacturing Future (SFI Norman) har bedrifter og forskere fra NTNU og SINTEF forsket fram resultater for å bidra til styrket konkurranseevne ...

Awarded: NOK 80.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Polar Study using Aircraft, Remote Sensing, Surface Measurements and Models, of Climate, Chemistry, Aerosols, and Transport - Norway

To address the above objectives, POLARCAT will carry out four major (and a few smaller) co-ordinated measurement campaigns in the Arctic. These will involve about 12 different aircraft (some involved in more than one mission), a ship, and all the major Ar ctic surface stations, for which long-ter...

Awarded: NOK 17.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Viken