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H20-ERC-European Research Council

The changing relationships between digital technologies, DNA and evidence

The relationship between digital technologies, DNA and evidence is changing so rapidly and profoundly that in-depth and creative analyses of the links between them are urgently needed. Digital innovations within forensic DNA analysis affect the making of DNA evidence. For example, new computer pr...

Tildelt: kr 16,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2021-2026

Sted: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Migration rhythms in trajectories of upward social mobility in Asia

Ninety percent of the global increase in the size of middle classes is occurring in Asia. What is driving this tremendous middle-class expansion and how is it related to the unprecedented levels of internal and international migration in that region? Specifically, what roles does migration play i...

Tildelt: kr 16,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2021-2026

Sted: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Exploring the Limits of Mass Transport in Electro-Chemical Energy Converters ThRough uncOnstrained Design and Interface Engineering

Exploring the Limits of Mass Transport in Electro-Chemical Energy Converters ThRough uncOnstrained Design and Interface Engineering

Tildelt: kr 16,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2021-2026

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

H20-ERC-European Research Council

MechANIsms and actors of Feasible Energy Transitions

The technologies needed to decarbonize the electricity system are already commercially available. There are mathematical models of how these technologies can be deployed sufficiently fast and at a large enough scale to displace fossil fuels to meet climate targets. Yet there is no scientific meth...

Tildelt: kr 0,80 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2021-2026

Sted: Vestland

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Adapted to War

Have humans evolved psychological adaptations to war? This question has generated major scientific debate involving anthropologists, archaeologists, economists, primatologists, psychologists, and political scientists. It has shaped popular perceptions of human nature and influenced the views of p...

Tildelt: kr 16,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2021-2026

Sted: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Dynamic Territory: A Normative Framework for Territory in the Post-Holocene

Climate change will disrupt current political, societal and economic paradigms. What should a just territorial arrangement be for countries that will partially or totally disappear due to sea level rise, or whose main productive activities—like farming—will be lost due to changed weather patterns...

Tildelt: kr 16,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2021-2025

Sted: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Understanding the causal nature of the relationship between infertility and cardiovascular disease

Understanding the causal nature of the relationship between infertility and cardiovascular disease

Tildelt: kr 15,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2021-2025

Sted: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Protection without Ratification? International Refugee Law beyond States Parties to the 1951 Refugee Convention

Many of the world’s top refugee-hosting countries have neither signed nor ratified the 1951 Refugee Convention. So do international conventions make a difference? The Refugee Convention represents a paradigmatic – and exceptionally timely – test of this theoretical and empirical puzzle, for refug...

Tildelt: kr 14,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2021-2025

Sted: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Dissecting the paradox of stasis in evolutionary biology

There is something deeply disconcerting about the current state of knowledge on rates of morphological evolution across different timescales: Why do most species in the fossil record exhibit negligible morphological change when contemporary populations often respond rapidly to selection? The ROCK...

Tildelt: kr 16,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2021-2025

Sted: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Social Resilience, Gendered Dynamics, and Local Peace in Protracted Conflicts

How can ‘resilient communities’ remain resilient in protracted conflicts and contribute to sustainable peace rather than to increased vulnerability to renewed conflict? How do local conflicts link to national conflicts and what are the implications for peacebuilding? What are the gender dimension...

Tildelt: kr 14,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2020-2025

Sted: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

How Work Organizations Shape Ethnic Stratification across Immigrant Generations: Assimilation, Segregation, and Workplace Contexts

Large-scale immigration has introduced salient new dimensions of ethnic stratification in Europe’s rich, liberal democracies—successful incorporation of disadvantaged, newcomer immigrant minorities now poses a critical challenge for the 21st century. Despite a vast literature on labor market ineq...

Tildelt: kr 14,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2020-2025

Sted: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

The Developing Communicator: Pragmatics, Sense Conventions and Non-Literal Uses of Language

The Developing Communicator: Pragmatics, Sense Conventions and Non-Literal Uses of Language

Tildelt: kr 14,6 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2020-2025

Sted: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Inequality in 3D – measurement and implications for macroeconomic theory

This project will contribute toward a better understanding of inequality and its macroeconomic implications. We will study inequality and its dynamics along three dimensions: Consumption, Income and Wealth, “3D Inequality.” With novel microdata we can measure the entirety of the economy down to t...

Tildelt: kr 13,6 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2020-2025

Sted: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Whales, waste and sea walnuts: incorporating human impacts on the marine ecosystem within life cycle impact assessment

Whales, waste and sea walnuts: incorporating human impacts on the marine ecosystem within life cycle impact assessment

Tildelt: kr 14,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2020-2025

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Between Sea and City: Ethnographic explorations of infrastructure, work, and place around leading urban container ports

How to study the turbulent transitions and risky mobilities of global capitalism today? An illuminating, but often overlooked site that lends itself to explorations into the changing nature of our economic system can be found at the interface between sea and city, i.e. at the port. Container port...

Tildelt: kr 14,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2020-2025

Sted: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

CoFutures: Pathways to Possible Presents

This project investigates future fictions from five distinct traditions: Afrofuturism, Sinofuturism, Arab/Gulf-futurism, Latin@futurism, and Indofuturism. All these fictions respond to the burning issues of the present, the transnational discourses of demographic change, climate change, and techn...

Tildelt: kr 13,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2020-2024

Sted: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Transoceanic Fishers: Multiple mobilities in and out of the South China Sea

In recent years, China’s and Vietnam’s militarized and subsidized fishing fleets have begun to shift their radical marine harvesting techniques, and accompanying trade, from the South China Sea to Africa and Oceania. Scholarly analysis has largely assumed that fishers are instruments of their st...

Tildelt: kr 14,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2019-2024

Sted: Vestland

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Brains and minds in transition: The dark side of neuroplasticity during sensitive life phases

Brains and minds in transition: The dark side of neuroplasticity during sensitive life phases

Tildelt: kr 13,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2019-2024

Sted: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Label-free 3D morphological nanoscopy for studying sub-cellular dynamics in live cancer cells with high spatio-temporal resolution

Label-free 3D morphological nanoscopy for studying sub-cellular dynamics in live cancer cells with high spatio-temporal resolution

Tildelt: kr 14,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2019-2024

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Uncovering and engineering the principles governing evolution and cellular control of bioenergetic organelles

Complex life on Earth is powered by bioenergetic organelles -- mitochondria and chloroplasts. Originally independent organisms, these organelles have retained their own genomes (mtDNA and cpDNA), which have been dramatically reduced through evolutionary history. Organelle genomes form dynamic pop...

Tildelt: kr 13,6 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2019-2024

Sted: Vestland

H20-ERC-European Research Council

How distress alters opioid drug effects and abuse liability

How distress alters opioid drug effects and abuse liability

Tildelt: kr 14,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2019-2024

Sted: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Recurrent disease in the liver transplant: window to identify and stop gut signals driving autoimmunity

Recurrent disease in the liver transplant: window to identify and stop gut signals driving autoimmunity

Tildelt: kr 14,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2019-2024

Sted: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Effects of stakeholder consultations on inputs, processes and outcomes of executive policymaking

Consultations with stakeholders (citizens and interest organizations) are frequently used by executive bureaucracies to design policies and formulate legislation. National ministries, regulatory agencies and the European Commission employ a variety of consultation designs that combine different p...

Tildelt: kr 13,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2019-2024

Sted: Vestland

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Exposing nature’s view of ligand recognition in ionotropic glutamate receptors

Exposing nature’s view of ligand recognition in ionotropic glutamate receptors

Tildelt: kr 14,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2019-2024

Sted: Vestland

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Brokering China’s Extraversion: An Ethnographic Analysis of Transnational Arbitration

Chinese global engagements are deepening across sectors and geographic regions. The objective of BROKEX is to fill specific gaps in knowledge about how China’s extraversion advances. The project takes an original approach by examining brokers who mediate in transnational fields. It opens the “bla...

Tildelt: kr 14,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2019-2024

Sted: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Value Judgments and Redistribution Policies

Heterogeneity and diversity are a pervasive aspect of modern societies. Differences in individuals’ preferences, needs, skills, and information are key to explain variation in individuals’ behavior and to anticipate individuals’ responses to policy changes. There is no consensus, however, about h...

Tildelt: kr 9,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2019-2024

Sted: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

The Lorax Project: Understanding Ecosystemic Politics

The Lorax Project: Understanding Ecosystemic Politics

Tildelt: kr 14,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2019-2023

Sted: Oslo

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Oral bacteria as determinants for respiratory health

Oral bacteria as determinants for respiratory health

Tildelt: kr 14,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2019-2023

Sted: Vestland

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Co-production of seasonal representations for adaptive institutions

Climate change may be undermining the stock of seasonal representations that society draws on to understand and live according to the weather. The CALENDARS project studies how modern society represents seasons, and how these representations shape institutions and help people live with seasonal c...

Tildelt: kr 10,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2019-2023

Sted: Vestland

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Whales of Power: Aquatic Mammals, Devotional Practices, and Environmental Change in Maritime East Asia

In various parts of East Asia, aquatic mammals are associated with divine power, and serve as objects of devotion. In south and central Vietnam, cetaceans are worshipped as life-saving deities. In some Japanese coastal areas, the spirits of whales are venerated during ritual ceremonies. In China,...

Tildelt: kr 14,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2019-2023

Sted: Oslo