A successful continuation of the KIFEE platform

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Kyoto International Forum for Environment and Energy (KIFEE) was initiated in 2003 and quickly recognised as a valuable contribution to the Research Agreement between Norway and Japan. Since then, an extensive activity has taken place in the KIFEE communi ty of universities, research institutes, and industry. The activities include meetings, exchange of students and researchers, publications, and sharing results from research projects. The most important role of KIFEE has been to provide an arena for shari ng ideas and results across the institutional and national borders and to act as a market place for nurturing collaboration. This has given birth to specific research projects. Part of the attachment to this document is a review of the activities. In ord er to continue the KIFEE platform, we need further financial support from the Norwegian partners and the Research Council of Norway (RCN). This application concerns the Norwegian contribution to KIFEE for the period from 2013-07-01 until 2015-06-30. A sim ilar contribution is applied for at the Japanese side. For this two-year period, we have estimated a total cost of approximately 2.6 mill NOK. We ask RCN to cover approximately 57 % of this (1.475 mill NOK for the two-year period, with approximately 1/3 c overed by NANO2021).