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S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Khoe-San Culture, Language and Memory in South Africa

The project has two main components. One component comprises networking and research collaboration with regional universities with research profiles addressing Khoe-San/indigenous issues (e.g. University of Namibia, University of Botswana and the Univer sity of the Western Cape) and the Univers...

Tildelt: kr 0,45 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Gobies and hake in the hypoxic waters of the Benguela up-welling current

Our aim is to investigate how the goby (Sufflogobius bibarbatus) and the shallow water hake (Merluccius capensis) cope with the hypoxic waters of the Benguela current. Both are key species of the ecosystem. They show a remarkable tolerance to the hypoxic conditions found in this up-welling area, ...

Tildelt: kr 0,85 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Industrial Applications of Metal Hydrides for Hydrogen Extraction, Storage and Compression

Introducing hydrogen as universal environment-friendly energy carrier demands efficient technologies allowing to extract it from industrial streams (products of coal gasification, process gases of refineries, etc.), to store it by a compact and safe way, and, finally, to deliver H2 to a consumer ...

Tildelt: kr 0,68 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

A Translational Effort to Develop Novel Magnetic Resonance Imaging Protocols and Sequences for Studying Myocardial Lethal Reperfusion Injury

Cardiovascular disease remains a leading cause of death worldwide. Impaired coronary circulation in the heart following a myocardial ischemic episode will lead to compromised hemodynamic function and ultimately cell death. Coronary reperfusion is the only means of limiting infarct size, provided...

Tildelt: kr 0,79 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Nutritional intervention and novel diagnostics to improve community-based control of tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem in developing countries as well as in the Republic of South Africa (RSA). Despite significant strides in case detection and treatment, the prevalence of TB continues to rise at an alarming, also in the RS A. More effective diagnostic methods are ...

Tildelt: kr 0,29 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

The WTO-Doha and the Economic Growth for The Rural Poor

Agricultural trade liberalization is high on the agenda for the World Trade Organisation, specifically underscoring the potential positive effects for the world?s poor. This project will study how better international market access will ?trickle down? to rural livelihoods in the developing world....

Tildelt: kr 0,51 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Southern Ocean Biogeochemistry: Education and Research

With extreme oceanographic variability over very short distances, the waters around South Africa provide a wealth of information on the mechanistic controls on marine biogeochemical variability. South African waters occupy a special niche in oceanography lying at the junction between western and ...

Tildelt: kr 0,66 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Springtail (Collembola) responses to changing, variable environments: a bi-polar approach linking individuals to ecosystems

The aim of this project is to investigate the way in which environmental variation cascades up through life history variation to effect species- and assemblage-level responses to habitat fragmentation and climate change. It builds on observations that cli mate change and habitat fragmentation are...

Tildelt: kr 0,55 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Metagenomics and Gene Discovery in Antarctic Terrestrial Habitats

We aim to use metagenomic methods to access portions of Antarctic low temperature crenarchaeotal genomes. Large insert metagenomic fosmid clones identified by colony hybridization with crenarchaeotal 16S rRNA gene probes will be sequenced and ORFs identif ied. The design of probes to terminal reg...

Tildelt: kr 0,75 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Conversion of salmon by-products to high-value ingredients of growth media for probiotic bacteria

Rest raw materials (by-products) from the marine aquaculture industry are a little utilized resource, with a vast potential due to the presence of valuable polyunsaturated lipids, rare anti-oxidants and large amounts of protein. Recent developments in the applicant?s and other European laborator...

Tildelt: kr 1,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2013

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Assessment of current and future emissions of mercury from anthropogenic sources in South Africa

Mercury is one of the most important contaminants emitted to the atmosphere due to its toxic effects on the environment and human health, as well as its role in the chemistry of the atmosphere. Although substantial information has been collected on enviro nmental effects of mercury and its behavi...

Tildelt: kr 0,22 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Assessment of estuary dependency and management of two important fishery species

The dependency on critical habitats, such as estuaries, represents a bottleneck in the life-history of many exploited fishery species. The proposed project aims to assess the management implications of estuarine dependency in two important South African c oastal fishery species, spotted grunter (...

Tildelt: kr 0,95 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Radiation hardness of some wide band gap materials used for daylight blind UV detectors

The performance of UV sensitive detectors has steadily increased over the last decades, and astronomical as well as terrestrial applications benefit from this evolution. These UV detectors have made possible the success of several solar missions and are n ow also finding application in the fabric...

Tildelt: kr 0,98 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Dating human occupations and reconstructing the palaeoenvironment in the Middle Stone Age, southern Cape, South Africa

We present a research, networking and training programme centered on the archaeology of the Middle Stone Age (MSA) in the southern Cape region of South Africa. We believe this research will contribute significantly to present knowledge of the MSA in this region and enable fine tuning of current d...

Tildelt: kr 0,57 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

From transmission of tradition to global learning: African Islamic education, c. 1800-2000

Researchers from the University of Cape Town and the University of Bergen will collaborate on a historically-grounded project focusing on the growth and transformation of a widespread form of basic traditional education in parts of Africa with large Musli m populations. A central concern of this ...

Tildelt: kr 0,68 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Levels and Implications of Persistent Organic Pollutants and other contaminants in South Africa

The lack of knowledge concerning organic pollutants in South Africa, within the context of the Stockholm Convention (SC) on POPs, is the reason for the thrust of this application. The three partners, the Norwegian School for Veterinary Science (project ow ner), Norwegian Institute of Air Research...

Tildelt: kr 0,66 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

The role of social capital in promoting community based care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

With the number of South Africans infected with HIV/AIDS soon exceeding 6 million, care and support for the people infected and affected is becoming increasingly more important. Most care and support is carried out in the communities, by community member s within a highly stigmatised environment...

Tildelt: kr 0,61 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Land at last - Criteria for success in South African land redistribution

The black population expected redistribution of land when the apartheid regime fell. However, ther land reform had a rather slow start but the redistribution program is now speeding up. Close to 15.000 households are now receiving grants each year, which is mainly used to buy land which was earli...

Tildelt: kr 0,68 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Characterization of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis phosphorylome and its role in pathogenesis

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global public health concern. Approximately 2 million people die per year from TB, with South East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Eastern Europe showing the highest levels of new cases and deaths. South Africa is one of the countries with the highest number of TB ...

Tildelt: kr 0,80 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

GLOBHELS-Global helse

Immunity towards mycobacteria - identification of avirulent vaccine strains and therapeutic targets

Tuberculosis (TB) kills nearly 2 million people each year, and, together with HIV, Mycobacterium tuberculosis top the WHO list of deaths caused by infectious agents. In HIV infected individuals, Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) is a major cause of second ary lethal infections. The only vaccine c...

Tildelt: kr 5,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2014

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosj.st. med.,helse,biol

Applying advanced computational and experimental tools to explore surface electrostatics in chitinases

Understanding how proteins work is a major challenge in the post-genome era. Traditionally proteins have been studied by the use of numerous biochemical techniques, but as the number of proteins that needs to be characterized has increased, so has the num ber of in computo techniques to study pro...

Tildelt: kr 2,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

KOSK-II-Katalyse og org.synt.kjemi II

Catalysis with Pd Complexes that have Chelating N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands

The Tilset research group has recently developed the first members of a new class of chelating ligands, iminocarbenes, that form well-defined homogeneous Pd complexes with hemilabile, 5- and 6-membered, chelate structures. The use of these Pd complexes in the catalytic transformation of organic ...

Tildelt: kr 2,2 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Benthic biodiversity ? function and toxicology of selected key Arctic organisms

The proposed project is a cooperation network between the Norwegian institutes Akvaplan-niva and University Centre on Svalbard and the Russian institutes Knipovich Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (PINRO) and Murmansk Marine B iological Institute (MMBI). The programm...

Tildelt: kr 0,59 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2009

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

An integrated study of stakeholders and living resources in relation to the potential effectiveness of MPAs as a management tool (MPAtool)

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are a promising tool for preventing overexploitation of marine biological resources. However, there are still few MPAs in temperate waters. Encouraged by the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries, the Institute of Marine Researc h and local commercial fishers, four MPAs...

Tildelt: kr 4,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

SAMF-Fagkomiteen for samfunnsvitenskap

Constructing Regional Advantage in Knowledge-based Industries - Norwegian Policy Approaches (ECRP-2007)

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Tildelt: kr 2,2 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

SAM-EU-Samfinansiering EU-kontoret

DAMOCLES Developing Arctic Modelling and Observing Capabilities for Long-Term Environment Studies

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Tildelt: kr 0,56 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

SFI-Sentre for forskningsdrevet innovasjon

Medical Imaging Laboratory

Sentre for forskningsdrevet innovasjon (SFI) er en nyskapning der flere industripartnere, universitet og sykehus arbeider sammen i et åpent forskningsmiljø. MI Lab var i stand til å skape et tverrfaglig miljø for åpen innovasjon og langsiktig industriell forskning med høy vitenskapelig kvalitet o...

Tildelt: kr 80,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2015

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

SAM-EU-Samfinansiering EU-kontoret

ECOOP European COastal-shelf sea OPerational observing and forecasting system

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Tildelt: kr 0,89 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

SFI-Sentre for forskningsdrevet innovasjon

Innovative Natural Gas Processes and Products - inGAP

Naturgass er Norges viktigste naturressurs, og inGAPs målsetting er å utvikle bærekraftige og konkurransedyktige prosesser for å omdanne naturgass til viktige forbruksvarer som drivstoff (bensin, diesel) og plast. Dette arbeidet har fått ny aktualitet etter skifergass-revolusjonen i USA, som har...

Tildelt: kr 80,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2015

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Hallgeir Herikstad - Engasjement som nasjonal ekspert ved Europakommisjonen - DG RTD, Directorate E.

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Tildelt: kr 2,6 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2009

Sted: Ukjent Fylke