0 antall prosjekter

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

ICT and poverty - a community-based user approach

The digital challenges ahead for a country like South Africa can be met with different types of action. So far the emphasis has been on increased fixed line and mobile telephony access for disadvantaged communities. There are two major concerns : 1. The efforts have been main carried out in s...

Tildelt: kr 0,92 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Oslo

SAM-EU-Samfinansiering EU-kontoret

Improved bio-traceability of unintended microorganisms and their substances in food and feed chains

...

Tildelt: kr 0,46 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2014

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Farmers' Rights related to Agrobiodiversity as a Means of Poverty Alleviation: Strategies of Civil Society Organisations

This post-doctoral project examines conditions for effective implementation of the provisions on farmers' rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA), which is crucial for maintaining the global plant g enetic heritage and for poverty alleviati...

Tildelt: kr 2,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2017

Sted: Akershus

MILPAAHEL-Miljøpåvirkning og helse

Health Effects of Dietary DNA from Novel foods

The major fraction of DNA present in the food (dietary DNA) is degraded in the gastrointestinal tract. However, it is a recent and novel finding that a substantial fraction of intact dietary DNA, several hundred base pairs long, is taken up from the gastr ointestinal tract and distributed to bloo...

Tildelt: kr 2,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Akershus

SAM-EU-Samfinansiering EU-kontoret

A Micro Level Analaysis of Violent Conflict, MICRCON, Fafo AIS participation in and Integrated Project, EU Sixth Framework Programm

...

Tildelt: kr 1,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2014

Sted: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Pre- and postharvest quality optimisation of organic vegetables that can stimulate an increased consumption

Norwegian consumers purchase less organic foods than consumers in most other European countries and important obstacles for consumption of organic vegetables are said to be quality, availability and price. The main objective of this project is to achieve better knowledge on how certain pre- and p...

Tildelt: kr 5,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2013

Sted: Akershus

SFI-Sentre for forskningsdrevet innovasjon

CREATE - Centre for Research-based Innovation in Aquaculture Technology

CREATE, Senter for forskningsbasert innovasjon i Aquaculture Technology, ble etablert i 2006. Senteret ble grunnlagt av industrien og Norsk Forskningsråd gjennom finansieringsplan fra Senter for Forskningsbasert innovasjon (SFI) og ble drevet i åtte år til og med 2014. CREATE utførte forskning ...

Tildelt: kr 80,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2015

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SAM-EU-Samfinansiering EU-kontoret

Improving the quality of pork and pork products for the consumer:

...

Tildelt: kr 0,81 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2016

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Predator-prey interactions and how they influence the behaviour and morphology of the queen conch Strombus gigas for sea ranching

The doctoral study conducted by Ellen Sofie Grefsrud was carried out to investigate the defence capabilities in P. maximus of cultured and wild origin to better understand predator-prey interactions between crabs and scallops in culture (funded by The Res earch Council of Norway -project 137326)....

Tildelt: kr 0,47 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Vestland

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

The optimal choice and timing of agricultural policies in the presence of uncertainty

Agricultural policy analysis has traditionally focused on the optimal choice of policy instruments for a given set of policy objectives. Less attention has been paid to the fact that the timing of policy implementation is another choice variable to policy makers. This choice is reflected in the ...

Tildelt: kr 1,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Oslo

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Påvirker avlsarbeidet for økt sjukdomsresistens forekomsten av vaksineskader, immunrespons og effekten av vaksinering ?

I de norske avlsprogrammene for laksefisk har det gjennom flere generasjoner blitt selektert for økt resistens mot infeksjonssjukdommene furunkulose og ILA og metoden, smittetest med uvaksinert presmolt, har blitt tatt i bruk for flere arter andre steder i verden. Det er vist at slik seleksjon øk...

Tildelt: kr 7,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Learning ability, cognitive capacity and welfare of farmed fish

This project will give new knowledge and basic understanding about learning ability and cognitive capacity in farmed fish and the function of their motivational systems. This knowledge has high relevance for the assessment of welfare, since only sentient (conscious) beings are considered as moral...

Tildelt: kr 0,81 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2009

Sted: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Poverty reduction strategies in a public health pespective. Social grants, HIV/AIDS and the role out of HAART in South Africa

Despite high levels of unemployment South Africa?s welfare system is premised on full employment. HIV prevalence is highest among majority black African population, which also has the highest rate of unemployment (especially women) and the lowest per capi ta income. Low levels of schooling, few ...

Tildelt: kr 3,6 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2017

Sted: Oslo

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Welfare of Farmed Fish from Harvest to Killing- Meeting the Future Challenge

For salmon, cod and halibut, the fish are often live chilled prior to exsanguination with or without a stunning. From 2007 a new slaughter directive will act demanding that fish are stunned and killed unconsciously. Furthermore the welfare under CO2 suppl ement and chilling is questioned involvin...

Tildelt: kr 6,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Rogaland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Heart and skeletal muscle inflammation (HSMI) in Atlantic salmon: diagnosis, pathogenesis and epidemiology

Heart and skeletal muscle inflammation (HSMI) is a transmissible disease of viral aetiology affecting farmed Atlantic salmon. The disease appears to be spreading rapidly into new areas, and it is important to limit further spread. HSMI is characterized by severe inflammation in heart and red ske...

Tildelt: kr 4,2 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Akershus

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

ONTOGENY OF LIPID DIGESTION AND EFFECTS OF FEEDING PRE-DIGESTED LIPIDS TO ATLANTIC COD (GADUS MORHUA) LARVAE

Lipids provide cod larvae with energy and essential fatty acids, the latter being structural components of biological membranes and precursors for the eicosanoids; signalling molecules which participate in regulation of a range of biological processes. Un til now, research on dietary lipids for m...

Tildelt: kr 2,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2009

Sted: Vestland

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...

Tildelt: kr 4,2 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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...

Tildelt: kr 3,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

GLOBHELS-Global helse

LAYVAC: Lay health worker programmes for vaccine uptake in low and middle income countries: Developing a global knowledge-base

Background: Lay health workers (LHWs), who carry out healthcare functions but have no professional healthcare qualifications, are used widely and have the potential to improve vaccination uptake in low and middle income countries (LMICs). However, data on their effects, cost-effectiveness and su...

Tildelt: kr 10,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Oslo

GLOBHELS-Global helse

New rotavirus vaccines: targeting childhood morbidity and mortality in low- and middle-income countries in Central Asia

The current project is aimed at reducing morbidity and mortality caused by rotavirus (RV) disease among young children in low- and middle-income countries in Central Asia. RV is the most common cause of severe acute gastroenteritis in young children and a major cause of childhood death in develo...

Tildelt: kr 8,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Oslo

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

Comparative Ethics of War

This project aims to develop a better understanding of how just war theories have been assessed within the world's leading religious traditions, including Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. None of these traditions are static; each has undergone significant transformations over...

Tildelt: kr 5,2 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

The moderation of Islamist movements

Research on Islamism tends to give precedence to the violent and militant movements. The argument developed in the recent literature is that Islamist rebellion and violence is a product of political exclusion accompanied by repression from the state. To o ur knowledge, there have not been systema...

Tildelt: kr 4,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2017

Sted: Vestland

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

Remittances from immigrants in Norway

Prosjektet vil frembringe ny kunnskap om pengeoverføringer fra innvandrere i Norge til deres opphavsland. Dette er et viktig element i varige transnasjonale bånd i etterkant av internasjonal migrasjon. På verdensbasis mottar utviklingsland dobbelt så mye i overføringer fra sine utvandrere som i o...

Tildelt: kr 5,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Oslo

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Interna.trade regulating organisations and Sout-East Asian regionalisation of trade agreements. Implications for Norwegian seafood industry

The study focuses on two overall questions: 1) What are the main trends of development of the WTO and regional trade organisations? and 2) What are the consequences for the Norwegian seafood industry? The region of South-East Asia is of strategic interes t to the Norwegian seafood industry, both...

Tildelt: kr 5,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2009

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Agriculture and Fisheries Policies between International Regimes on Trade and the Environment

This project examines how international obligations emanating from environmental and trade regimes, and the interaction between them, affect selected aspects of Norwegian domestic and foreign policy making on agriculture and fisheries and Norwegian positi ons in WTO negotiations in those two sect...

Tildelt: kr 3,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Market orientated production of Norwegian greenhouse tomatoes

Quality parameters like taste, positive health impact, safety and freshness become more and more important to preserve and increase consumers preference for tomatoes. While 80% of the Norwegian population prefers Norwegian food, the percentage of Norwegia n tomatoes sold in our stores has been de...

Tildelt: kr 12,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2013

Sted: Akershus

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Efficient green support

Dismantling of trade barriers under WTO regulation is expected to have a large impact on Norwegian agriculture. Apart from food and raw materials production, agriculture contributes many external benefits to society in the form of valued scenery, bio-dive rsity, flood control and health and nutri...

Tildelt: kr 3,6 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2009

Sted: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

The use of rheotactic and optometry responses in order to slaughter salmon at a rested state

New legislations regarding slaughter practices of farmed fish in Norway are expected to be enforced by 2007. The directive is expected to ban the current use of carbon dioxide to anaesthetise the fish before bleeding, and only stunning methods which rende r the fish unconscious immediately (e.g. ...

Tildelt: kr 2,2 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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...

Tildelt: kr 99 999

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2009

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in Urban and Peri-Urban Horticulture in Bénin

Urban and peri-urban (UPU) horticulture provides an increasingly important source of income in many African countries. A major factor driving the importance of UPU gardening is an increasing marketing opportunity for a growing population of unemployed and unskilled youths in the cities. However,...

Tildelt: kr 5,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2014

Sted: Akershus