18 495 antall prosjekter

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: Vestland

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: Oslo - Oslove

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: Oslo - Oslove

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: Oslo - Oslove

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: Vestland

SFF-Sentre for fremragende forskning

Center for Biomedical Computing, CBC

CBC har som formål å bruke matematikk, fysikk og datamaskiner for å oppnå en dypere naturvitenskapelig forståelse av problemstillinger innen medisin. Forskningen i senteret kan deles i to hovedkategorier. Den første er utvikling av beregningsmetoder og programvare for simulering av fysiske proses...

Tildelt: kr 77,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2017

Sted: Oslo - Oslove

NANOMAT-Nanoteknologi og nye materialer

Multifunctional Particulate Systems for Nanomedicine

The following NANOMAT project represents the Norwegian part of the MATERA project called NANOMEDPART. The aim of the MATERA project is to develop effective methods for the preparation of nanosized particles and nanosized capsules built of metallic, polyme ric, inorganic and composite materials ap...

Tildelt: kr 5,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Oslo - Oslove

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

A study of HIV and AIDS in relation to people with disability in South Africa

This project aims to look at different aspects of HIV/AIDS and disability in South Africa. It is hypothesized that people with disabilities face a higher risk of HIV infection. To understand the effects of HIV on people with disabilities one must look at the status society awards them in relatio...

Tildelt: kr 0,65 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Oslo - Oslove

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: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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: Vestland

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: Akershus

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: Vestland

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: Vestland

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: Vestland

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Integrated Health Information Systems for Public Health in South Africa

This is a proposal for a multi-disciplinary research project involving the academic fields of public health and informatics that will link two universities in South Africa (University of Pretoria, Department of Informatics, and the University of Western Cape, School of Public Health), and the De...

Tildelt: kr 0,60 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Oslo - Oslove

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Prospecting probiotics and antimicrobials in indigenous fermented milks for improved health

The project will study various aspects of health-promoting organisms in indigenous fermented milk. Some probiotic lactic acid bacteria have great potential in the preparation of functional foods. Their potential health benefits include protection against infections caused by diarrhoeagenic microo...

Tildelt: kr 0,72 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Akershus

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 - Oslove

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: Akershus

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Seeds for growth - Identification of transcriptional programs controlling seed growth and development from Arabidopsis to rice

The last decades have brought about a tremendous increase in our understanding in molecular mechansims of seed development. However, further progress appears to be haltered by three major constraints. First, seeds are compound structures that harbour many tissues and cell types. Currently, a rel...

Tildelt: kr 1,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Oslo - Oslove

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

FUGE II - Region West Application

This application is a response to the call for regional funding within the FUGE II program. Five professor II positions are requested to bring specific areas of expertise in support of systems biology, organelle biology, proteomics, microarray technology and marine functional genomic research. ...

Tildelt: kr 4,6 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2013

Sted: Vestland

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Global metabolic switching in Streptomyces coelicolor

Systems Biology aims at understanding and predicting the properties of a biological system under targeted perturbations (e.g. genetic changes or changes in the external environment) with the use of integrated data analyses and mathematical modelling. It r equires a multidisciplinary approach incl...

Tildelt: kr 3,2 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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: Oslo - Oslove

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Petroleum related FDI, local conditions and poverty reduction - the Macae region of Brazil

The main aim of my study is to determine if petroleum related foreign direct investments (FDI) in the Macaé region of Brazil can be characterized as a "tool for poverty reduction". The theory section discusses FDI, local conditions and poverty reduction. Regarding the effects of FDI on host regio...

Tildelt: kr 2,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

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

Synthesis Directed towards Development of Potential Antituberculosis Drugs with Novel Mechanism of Action

Tuberculosis (TB) is the major cause of death from a single infectious agent among adults in developing countries. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections have further increased TB morbidity and mortality. It has been estimated that ca. 30 million p eople will die from tuberculosiswithin th...

Tildelt: kr 3,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Oslo - Oslove

FRIMED-Klinisk medisin og folkehelse

Immunopathogenic mechanisms in coronary artery disease

Despite state of the art cardiovascular treatment, coronary artery disease (CAD) with development of acute coronary syndromes are still common manifestations of atherosclerosis, suggesting that important pathogenic mechanisms remain active and unmodified by the present treatment modalities. Based...

Tildelt: kr 2,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Oslo - Oslove

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

Sanselighet og transcendens. Det hellige og det sublime i et religionsestetisk perspektiv

I protestantisk sammenheng er religionsestetikk et svært forsømt fagområde. En viktig årsak til dette er protestantismens konsentrasjon om "ordet og troen" som teologisk grunnprinsipp. Prinsippet er blitt oppfattet både som et krav om entydighet og slik a t alle andre uttrykksmidler må underordne...

Tildelt: kr 4,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Oslo - Oslove

FRIHUM-Fri prosjektstøtte humanistiske fag

Linking global cities; Tracing local practices. Islamic Literature and Networks in the South-Western Indian Ocean

Our knowledge about the history of Islam in South-Eastern Africa ca. 1800-2000 has many lacunas. Very little is known about the spread, social structure and the writings of the Muslim communities in Northern Mozambique. Furthermore, only a handful of stud ies exist on the interconnections between...

Tildelt: kr 4,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Vestland

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: Agder

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: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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: Oslo - Oslove