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Implications of digital transformation for migrant labour

Accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, rapid digitalisation has fundamentally transformed European working conditions. While its positive consequences are well recognised, digital transformation also puts a sorely needed part of the European workforce at risk of unemployment, poverty and social exclusion. IDILAB (Implications of digital transformation for migrant labour) investigates the impacts that technological progress and subsequent structural changes have on the labour market integration of migrant workers. By developing a new methodological approach, IDILAB shall provide novel evidence on migrants’ exposure to the process of digitalisation, and formulate evidence-based and innovative policy options for the EU and national governments to improve on the scope and adequacy of national and European policy directed at encouraging a fair digital transition for all, including migrants. The proposed project will contribute with new knowledge on migrants’ own perspectives on barriers and enablers for a sustainable integration in a fast-changing labour market. I, the experienced researcher (Dr Olga Gheorghiev, the Czech Republic), will work with a European centre of excellence (the Research Centre for Digitalisation of Public Services and Citizenship (CEDIC, OsloMet, Norway), and the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI, Belgium) for intersectoral knowledge transfer, career development, and European added value.

CULTUral heritage in RurAL remote areas for creative tourism and sustainabilITY

The main objective of the project is to contribute to the promotion of cultural and creative tourism activities, considering the different capacities, resources, and specificities (material, creative, human...) of the territories, as a mean to help with the sustainable development of peripheral rural areas, favoring job creation and population settlement. For this, the potential of its cultural heritage will be researched, taking into account both the artisan material culture (techniques, materials, patterns and decorative elements), as well as the intangible culture (music, oral knowledge and culinary traditions) as a resource.
 
To promote non-seasonal tourism as a form of sustainable development with a stable population settlement we are going to research the crafts linked to the territory and their implications, but we will also carry out a documentation of the productive processes. First and foremost, we are going to cater to the necessities of the local communities and pay attention to aspects related to societal groups at risk of exclusion, such as women, the elderly and the youth.

All this will be developed from a multidisciplinary perspective, for which we will count on the various teams —most of them linked to different countries— that will be part of the consortium. Each of these partners will contribute to the development, as well as to the final result of the project through input directly related to their area of ??expertise: for example, among the collaborators we have intellectual teams specialized in the digitalization of heritage, research, or communication and dissemination, as well as as various institutions that will act as a testing ground for the more practical parts of the proposal. However, if something will characterize our work, it will be the constant collaboration between all parties, as well as the exchange of advice and experiences that will help to enrich collective knowledge and guarantee optimal results.

POWERING ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP TO DRIVE THE CLIMATE TRANSITION

PACESETTERS responds to the abstract challenge of the climate transitions by shifting from a model of entrepreneurship based on individual, short-term incentives to one that is driven by co-agency and new capacities to act together in sustainable ways. It does so by examining the concrete circumstances, investigating possible support mechanisms and stress-testing instruments that enable art and culture, creativity and heritage to drive the climate transition.
Therefore, PACESETTERS will set out to:
-Create knowledge from collaborative research to keep pace with the transition
-Propose and test creative business models to set the pace of the transition
-Assess strategies of valorisation to push the pace of the transition
 
This approach will identify and analyse advanced practices that run transversally across the cultural and creative sectors; contextualise the outcomes of co-research in real-world laboratories for social imagination; further develop and promote the preliminary results of experiments in iterative support and evaluation frames. The PACESETTERS approach centres on inclusion, participation and iteration in order ensure that gender equity and diversity inform it at every step and on every level.

The result will be a critical evaluation and all-encompassing demonstration of the actual potentials of the CCIs to drive the climate transition while systematically analysing their impact on micro-, meso- and macro-level:
-Understanding the climate transition as a triple transition: green, digital and inclusive
-Innovating aPACESETTERS responds to the abstract challenge of the climate transitions by shifting from a model of entrepreneurship based on individual, short-term incentives to one that is driven by co-agency and new capacities to act together. It does so by examining the concrete circumstances, investigating possible support mechanisms and stress-testing instruments that enable art and culture, creativity and heritage to drive the climate transition.

Strengthening resilience and mental wellbeing through the Support4Resilience toolbox for leaders in elderly care

European elderly care experiences labor shortages, lack of qualified workers and a mismatch between capacity and demands, causing stress, burnout, and reduced mental wellbeing among healthcare workers and informal caregivers. Leaders are crucial in promoting supportive working conditions but lack research-based measures to act upon these challenges.

Support4Resilience (S4R) will develop, implement, and evaluate a research-based Toolbox to support healthcare leaders in improving healthcare workers’ and informal caregivers’ resilience and mental wellbeing in elderly care. S4R will identify resilience and mental wellbeing factors among healthcare workers and informal caregivers; explore their perspectives and needs; develop new theory on the relationship between individual and organizational resilience, and mental wellbeing; and develop recommendations and cost-effective interventions. The Toolbox with tailormade resources for policy and practical use will be available through an open access S4R Resource Bank.

The S4R Toolbox includes three main tools: 1) Mapping and identification, 2) Reflection and education, and 3) Reorganization. Measures are initiated at the organizational level and effects on mental wellbeing and resilience transpire at the frontline of elderly care. The Toolbox covers different situational contexts, types of healthcare providers and health system levels. Elderly care settings in six European countries will implement and evaluate the Toolbox through a process evaluation, effectiveness evaluation, and cost-effectiveness evaluation. 

S4R provides policymakers, decisions-makers and leaders with solutions for taking action to solve specific risks for healthcare workers’ and informal caregivers’ resilience and mental wellbeing. Thus, pertinent to the work programme, S4R will support the development of resilient health systems in European elderly care through improved leadership capabilities, governance structures, and adaptive capacities.

Providing research infrastructure services to support Next Generation EU

This four-year project will harness outputs from key social science RIs in Europe and other reliable sources to support the aims of the ‘Next Generation EU’ programme and to inform EU youth policy. Virtual access will be provided to the outputs through special installations (portals) developed during the project. The core of the proposal is a set of existing research ‘services’, which will be re-purposed and customised to focus directly on the five themes: Make it Green; Make it Digital; Make it Healthy; Make it Strong; and Make it Equal. 

For each area, the consortium will work collaboratively to produce seven sets of resources:

i)	A searchable inventory of relevant variables drawn from multiple cross-national datasets; 

ii)	Analytical summaries, suitable for policy makers and analysts new to the field, as well as interactive resources available through the project portal;

iii)	Harmonised and merged extracts from these datasets that reduce the burden on analysts and increase sample sizes;

iv)	New data collected through the ESS’s established CRONOS web panel infrastructure. Eleven countries will field five waves of the panel, each one dedicated to a NextGenEU theme. Free and rapid access to the data will be available through the CRONOS portal alongside analytical summaries;

v)	In-person and virtual deliberative forums with young people (aged 18-34) in four countries covering the five Next Generation EU’ themes;

vi)	An educational tool (E-NextGen) channelling our data for use in classrooms and by the general public;

vii)	Comprehensive training materials related to all project outputs.


Mapping of Longitudinal data of Inequalities in Education

The MapIE project aims to identify mechanisms causing educational inequalities and policies or interventions compensating for them. We do a systematic review of how these have been studied internationally using longitudinal designs. We map existing longitudinal data that we describe in a public metadata database, and we analyse them to describe the mechanisms of inequalities and to identify effective policies and interventions in different local contexts. We focus on the contextual differences between the Nordic and Central European countries that have structurally different education systems. Within national contexts and using comparative research designs, we look at system-, regional- and school-level policies and practices and individual-level factors (e.g. socioeconomic status, immigrant background, gender, special educational needs) that are associated with the development of educational inequalities and the successful prevention of achievement gaps. We publish and disseminate the empirical results of the project through multiple channels to scientific audiences, policy makers and the wider public. At the end, we create a public framework for studying educational inequalities longitudinally in future studies, acknowledging the role of local contexts but aiming for comparability at the European level. 

We implement the project in seven work packages. Our consortium consists of internationally acknowledged experts in large-scale educational assessment research from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Hungary and Luxembourg/Germany. The partners have a long-standing history of collaboration with each other, European researchers, and national and international education policy makers, and they bring extensive longitudinal datasets to the project. The project will considerably strengthen the knowledge base of what shapes educational outcomes over time, how to best support the learning of all students and how to reduce education inequalities in the short, medium and long term.

Contextualized pathways to reduce housing inequalities in the green and digital transition.

The project Reducing housing inequalities in the green and digital transition (ReHousIn) is committed to better understand the impacts of recent crises on housing inequalities across different European regions, especially with regard to the implementation of the green transition launched by the EU. The overall aim is to explore the mechanisms affecting the (re)production of housing inequalities under recent crisis conditions, and the impacts of the EU induced green transition in different national contexts and along different degrees of urbanisation. Based on a contextualized and comparative understanding of the mechanisms (re)producing housing inequalities, ReHousIn inquiries into multi-level pathways and inclusive local housing initiatives to spark innovative EU, national and local policy solutions towards inclusionary and quality housing, mitigating the possible negative impacts of the EU induced green transition. It conducts a comparative, multi-level analysis in 9 European countries – Austria, France, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom – focusing on attractive metropolitan regions, middle-sized cities and rural areas by means of a mixed-method project design. A quantitative data analysis on recent trends in housing inequalities and their relation to crises across different levels of urbanization will provide the framework for 27 local cases studies in which the impact of multi-level trajectories of housing-system, welfare regimes and environmental policy instrumentations on the (re)production of local housing inequalities and the emergence of inclusive housing initiatives are analyzed. Based on this, ReHousIn compares mechanisms of differentiation feeding into policy labs, aiming to formulate recommendations on how to tackle negative social externalities related the EU green transition at EU, national and local levels.

Strategies for achieving equity and inclusion in education, training and learning in democratic Europe

STRIDE will provide a new, comprehensive and comparative knowledge-base on effective education reforms, policy initiatives and interventions aimed at reducing inequalities in education, training and learning outcomes in Europe. STRIDE will do this through analyses of education reforms in national and regional systems, existing large-scale educational assessment data and existing longitudinal data on the causal link between educational and other social policies and inequalities in educational achievements. In examining the learning progress of students over time, STRIDE will closely examine to the range of intersectional variables such as socio-economic background, gender, (dis)abilities, migration status, home language, early childhood education and care (ECEC) attendance, which may affect learning outcomes in different ways in different contexts. The project will combine diverse methods, data and disciplines (comparative education, political science, education science, sociology) in innovative ways: mapping at national and regional levels on (1) education reforms in the past 25 years by policy analysis, (2) longitudinal trends of inequalities in educational achievement by quasi-experiment analysis of existing large-scale educational assessment data, and (3) effect of education reforms and interventions by analysis existing longitudinal data and registry data following student cohorts over time combined with a qualitative inquiry into policymakers' perspective. Through the involvement of national and European stakeholders, STRIDE will develop methodology and assessment tools for policy learning offering policymakers a toolbox of enhanced knowledge of what shapes educational outcomes over time and demonstrating the usefulness of longitudinal data in policy-making to reduce educational inequalities in the short, medium and long term.

dialoguing@rts – Advancing Cultural Literacy for Social Inclusion through Dialogical Arts Education

d@rts is a catalyst for increasing social cohesion and inclusion, using embodied performing arts activities to develop cognitive and affective cultural literacy. We recognise that the performing arts encompass mass-market consumer goods, as well as non-linguistic, embodied and social activities, providing massive opportunities for inclusive participation.
Our target groups comprise actors of all ages and social positions, especially in the school system and in community arts initiatives. We will empower these groups to be artistically active, dialogically related and culturally literate, giving them tools and motivation to improve their own situations and those of others within the overall frame of a cohesive European society, informed by global perspectives.
Using the post-colonial insight that culture is necessarily heterogeneous, d@rts has four related objectives:
1. Understand how performing arts activities relate to cultural literacy in official discourse and documents across partner countries
2. Use this understanding to build dialogues and co-create physical and digital actions with heterogeneous groups within our target audience
3. Develop assessment tools for these actions, enabling measurable growth in cultural literacy
4. Use our findings in recommendations for cultural and educational policies that build long-term social cohesion and inclusion
Based on these objectives, the overall outputs comprise:
1. Documentary, survey and participatory research findings
2. Performative DIALOGART actions for cultural literacy
3. Policy and practice recommendations to increase social cohesion via cultural literacy actions inspired by the performing arts
d@rts imagines new futures and creates hope and social cohesion through performing arts education. By creating participatory spaces and facilitating dialogues, we empower voices seldom heard. d@rts thus advances cultural literacy, and enhances social cohesion and resilience, to build an inclusive future for Europe.

REGULAR AND UNPLANNED CARE ADAPTIVE DASHBOARD FOR CROSS–BORDER EMERGENCIES

During cross-border health emergencies, health and care services may be overwhelmed by high numbers of patients requiring unplanned care. Delays and backlogs in regular care, as a result of the stretched health care system, leave millions of patients with regular care needs unattended, resulting in disastrous healthcare outcomes. If poor healthcare outcomes across the population are to be avoided, healthcare systems must become more resilient and flexible and allow for rapid changes in the care delivery services. RAPIDE’s aim is to develop, validate and demonstrate a portfolio of powerful tools that enable healthcare systems to build in robustness of decisions, resilience of the health care professionals and patients and flexibility in the modalities of care delivery, thereby maintaining access to regular care during health emergencies. 

RAPIDE emphasises opportunities for optimising in-hospital care, but also for relocating care from hospitals to community and home environments without loss of care quality. Thus, the project focuses on two closely-linked challenges – 1: Identifying and predicting how much care, and which care, needs to be moved along the care chain; 2: Identifying and verifying effective, feasible and acceptable ways to make this reconfiguration of care a reality. This will be achieved by (a) resource modelling, which builds comprehensive foresight and forecasting solutions and links them to patient flows optimization, along the whole chain of care, (b) selecting and implementing the best available tools to deliver regular care in new ways. To ensure usability, acceptability and equitable real-world value, RAPIDE will be co-designed and co-validated with stakeholders, from patients, GPs, clinicians and hospital managers to health ministries, pandemic-management and public health agencies. A Table Top Exercise and extensive communication and dissemination will raise awareness of the project’s successes.

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Zeolites are the second largest class of industrial catalysts, and recent studies have pointed to a high potential for optimisation of such materials by a tailored synthesis approach. 
In this project, a rational approach will be taken to synthesise zeoli tes with tailored acidic properties and with a proper assembly of zeolite crystals (size and shape). We plan to use self-assembly techniques to vary the chemical composition, morphology and crystal orientation of medium-pore zeolites. 

A typical feedback  loop approach (iteration process) will be used for the improvement of zeolite molecular and microscopic properties with respect to their catalytic activity in methanol conversion. The self-assembly of zeolite nanocrystals and in contrast the use of "gian t" crystals will serve as a basis to develop peculiar zeolite catalysts, and we therefore seek to convert methanol into valuable C2-C3 olefins.

As part of the feed-back loop, direct exchange of information and ideas between the students working on synthe sis and testing of the materials is important. Therefore, we hereby apply for travel grants for one student from the Norwegian partner (this application) and one student from the French partner (parallel French application), so that each of them may spend  one month in the partner laboratory. Funding for the actual work to be carried out is already at place in each laboratory.

Design of environmental friendly catalysts for the conversion of methanol into light olefins and synthetic fuels

This research project focuses on a class of systems characterized by having components that communicate through a wireless sensor network and be composed of coupled subsystems that share certain variables. The behavior of these systems can be influenced b y the inherent problems to signal transmission: time delays, package losses, noises and uncertainties, among others. In many cases it is necessary to design decentralized controllers instead of a unique central one.
On the other hand, networked control sy stems (NCSs) are spatially distributed systems in which plants to be controlled, sensors, actuators, and controllers, are remotely positioned and communicate with each other through shared band-limited digital communication networks. Compared with traditi onal point-to-point control systems, the main advantages of network structured control systems come from their low cost, flexibility and easy re-configurability, natural reliability and robustness to failure, and adaptation capability. Consequently, NCSs  have been finding applications in a broad range of areas such as transportation networks, power grids, mobile sensor networks, water distribution networks, unmanned aerial vehicles and so on. However, there are also some drawbacks caused by the very natur e of communication networks such as transmission delays, packet dropouts, data quantization errors, data rate constraints, etc. Currently engineers, control engineers in particular, have to deal with many network-induced new and challenging issues arising  from analysis and synthesis of complex networked control systems. During the past few years, increasing attention has been paid to the study of networked control systems in terms of stability analysis, controller synthesis, state estimation, and performa nce optimization under various network-induced constraints.
However, analysis and synthesis of networked control systems are still in the early stage of development and many critical issues remain to be further inve

Stability analysis and control synthesis for Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy systems: application to networked control systems

In the continents, the main radioelements, U and Th, are concentrated in a few accessory minerals, like monazite and zircon. The behaviour of these minerals through geological processes is in the centre of several important questions in geosciences: the h eat budget of continents, the geochemical cycle of heavy metals, and the measurement of time in geology, i.e. geochronology. Two leading institutions in geosciences in France and Norway join force to address the mineralogy and geochronology of accessory m inerals in rocks that underwent uncommonly hot and dry metamorphism and now superbly exposed in Rogaland. The specific goals of this proposal are to exchange knowledge, meet in the field in Rogaland and provide an international environment for a PhD stude nt. 
The granulites in Rogaland are famous in that they formed in "ultra-high temperature" metamorphic conditions above 1000°C. They contain zircon and monazite with complex internal textures. These microtextures are attributed to a variety of post-growth  processes and complicate interpretation of U-Th-Pb geochronological data. We propose to study the transformations leading to these textures and to link them with the evolutions of pressure-temperature conditions, fluid activity, irradiation and petrology  of their host rocks. We will produce images and generate chemical and geochronological data at microscopic scale in monazite, zircon and their hosts, using microanalytical methods. The data will serve to solve a geological conundrum. The ultra-high tempe rature domain in Rogaland follows the contact of the Rogaland Anorthosite Complex in the field, and therefore it has been interpreted as contact metamorphism caused by anorthosite magmatism. However, recent data suggest that metamorphism is some 80 m.y. o lder than magmatism challenging this interpretation. The time relationship between magmatism and metamorphism will be established, as well as implications on what controls the heat budget in "ultra-hot" orogens.

Behaviour of uranium-thorium minerals in the ultra-high temperature granulites of Rogaland

Problems of drug resistance and side-effects necessitate the search for new and more specific anti-cancer drugs, whether by chemical synthesis or by screening of natural products. This project aims to use nanosized drug delivery systems to ensure maximum  therapeutic effect of anti-cancer drugs. We will benefit from two research groups who are leading in their respective fields: 1: The Translational Signalling group (TSG) at Dept. Biomedicine, Univ Bergen, working with leukaemia biology, drug targets and t heir effect on cancer cell signalling. 2: Institut Galien, Univ Paris-Sud (IGPS) who has worked with nanocarriers for decades, and is perhaps the leading institution in this field in Europe.
Specifically, the groups will work to enhance the bioavailabilit y of drugs with poor pharmacokinetics due to poor solubility in aqueous media. This is mandatory to demonstrate clinical potential of drug candidates. Also, a novel liposomal formulation carrying inhibitors of hsp90, which induces cancer cell death, will  be tested on a panel of cancer cell lines that can be transplanted into relevant rodent models of cancer.
The project thus takes advantage of the sophisticated drug delivery systems developed at IPGS, and the expertise in cancer cell biology at TSG. By jo ining forces, we believe that we will come closer to new therapies against cancer.

Nanocarriers for new anti-cancer drugs

Decompression sickness (DCS) has been recognized for over a century, with the main challenge being in the production of / generation of vascular gas bubbles as a result of gas coming out of solution upon decompressing from larger pressures than at the sur face. However, challenges still remains as to where the bubbles are formed, and which biological/physiological processes that are being altered as a result of the challenges when man submerges himself/herself in the water. Recently, new findings points at  the hyperoxia that the diver is exposed to as a releasing factor/trigger for inflammatory processes that precedes the formation of vascular bubbles/the reactions to the vascular bubbles. The present project will investigate whether the response to hypero xia might be masking a more subtle genetic response to diving and/or DCS by controlling for the hyperoxia during experimental diving.

The relationship between hyperoxia, oxidative stress and decompression sickness

The aim of the AURORA project CHARGE is to join the efforts of mathematicians in Norway and in France that have had a major impact in the last years in the applications of complex and harmonic analysis techniques to results on the time-frequency localizat ion. The problems CHARGE members address stem from applied analysis (PDEs, control theory, signal processing) as well as from recent developments in complex and harmonic analysis.

The main unifying theme of CHARGE is time-frequency localization. This is  an important problem in mathematical analysis with applications to signal processing as well as theoretical physics. The aim here is to obtain good concentration properties both in the direct domain (usually tagged as time) and simultaneously in the Fouri er transform domain (frequency). Of course there are strong limitation to this which can have various mathematical formulations and are generically named uncertainty principles (UP). There has been an important rebirth of interest in the UP in recent year s as it appears in many parts of applied science. As a first example, let us mention the blooming subject of compressed sensing in which discrete versions of UPs play a central role.
Another example comes from unique continuation properties 
of solutions  of PDE's. Here one typically assumes that the difference between two solutions of a given PDE (for example the heat equation) is small at two distinct times and one concludes that the two solutions are almost the same at all times (or even coincide).
As a  last example, let us mention the control theory of PDE's. The aim here is to obtain control of the solution of a PDE on a domain by fixing its values on a small part of that domain (or of its boundary). There are many approaches to such problems. It some  of them a key property takes the  form of the uncertainty principle (so called-annihilating pairs). The research started by some participants of CHARGE on UP gives interesting applications to control theory.

Complex and Harmonic Analysis Related to GEnerating Systems: phase space localization properties, sampling and applications (CHARGE)

The CertiSkatt project aims at launching a new partnership between two highly-rated scientific research teams from France and Norway in the area of Computer Science and more precisely the certification of Public Sector Informations, also called Open Data.  The project will establish a formal collaboration between the French CEDRIC-CPR research team (Conception et Programmation Raisonnées), led  by Professor Catherine Dubois (http://cedric.cnam.fr), and the Norwegian CERTUS research-based innovation center  (http://www.certus-sfi.no/) led by Arnaud Gotlieb, hosted by SIMULA RESEARCH LAB. The CertiSkatt project will initiate the development of a common platform for the formal certification of tax computations, in order to increase the quality of these critica l data and then facilitate their releasing and disclosing through the open data process. In total 9 researchers will be involved in this collaboration, among which 4 PhD students, 2 in France and 2 in Norway. The expected duration of the project is 12 mon ths, starting Jan. 2014. The project will be a starter for launching a larger initiative at the European level.

CertiSkatt

The study of fundamental breakup processes in nature is important and paves the way for further investigation of the role of correlation in few- and multiphoton multiple ionization processes in atoms and molecules. The investigation of multiphoton double  ionization processes by first principles is a relatively new research field stimulated by current progress in laser technology, and it is becoming increasingly clear that multi-electron effects play a decisive role. 

The aim of our project is to pursue t hese investigations in the direction of more complex processes involving quasi-resonant excitation of autoionizing states (AIS) and/or doubly excited states. We will here focus on the processes of two-photon double ionization (TPDI) of Li and He. Prelimin ary studies of direct TPDI of He in initial excited states and Li reveal that this process is extremely rich in physics but difficult to calculate due to the presence of quasi-resonant excitation of AIS. Joining our expertise in TPDI and high performance  numerical computations, our project is to tackle the problem of direct TPDI of asymmetric configurations for two- and three-active electron systems submitted to strong and short (fs) VUV fields.

Laser-induced break-up of helium and lithium

The subject of this proposal is a cooperation project between Norwegian and French scientists to study the luminous phenomena (LP) in Hessdalen Valley. Research into the LP in Hessdalen are progressing towards a better understanding of this mysterious phe nomenon, but further studies are needed in order to fully characterize the properties of the LP and to find the mechanisms and causes behind this phenomenon.

The first records of lights of unknown origin in Hessdalen date back several centuries, and the  population in the valley still observes such phenomena at a regular basis. The luminous phenomena vary in size from a few meters to dimensions that are ten times as large. They are sometimes static, and sometimes moving at high speed. They appear unevenly  over the hills of the valley, and the duration ranges from a few seconds to about one hour. Optical spectra suggest that the emissions mainly consisted of ultraviolet irradiation.

A possible source of the luminous phenomena is the generation of low atmo spheric plasmas. Previously known sources of atmospheric plasmas are related to atmospheric electricity such as lightning, sprites, or ball lightning. However, the cause of the LP in Hessdalen remains unclear, and the properties of the LP need to be furth er characterized. 

Understanding these phenomena could contribute to a better insight into plasma physics, and it might provide knowledge that could be used to produce and handle high energy sources.

Unknown Luminous Phenomena in Hessdalen Valley (Norway)

This research collaboration between the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies/Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural and Religious Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway and the Centre d Etudes des Mondes Africains (CEMAf) in Paris. Bot h centres have strong competence in the research on Islamic Africa, and particularly on the written sources to African history deriving from the Islamic and other scriptural traditions. Both also hold substantial collections of partly unique copied materi al deriving from different parts of Africa. These will form the core of the collaboration. Joint research and a series of seminars will particularly focus on three broad headings: 
1. Archives and libraries. What is the history of archives and libraries i n Africa? The researchers will address issues such as ownership, usage, location, cataloguing, but also the actual textual traditions in individual collections. 
2. Writing culture. What has been the culture of writing in times of changing religious and p olitical contexts. the participants will address issues of both materiality as well as text, and look at the arrival of Islam and - later - the emergence of colonial educational systems. 
3. Connectivities. How is a text collection influenced by other tra ditions? Researchers will focus on the translocal impacts on textual traditions (in the form of actual manuscripts transported from elsewhere, text produced elsewhere but copied locally, or impulses of translocal traditions emerging in locally produced te xt).

The collaboration will consist of visits which will focus on the collections in both places (Bergen and Paris). For each visit, a seminar will be held that will also be partly timed to co-incide with master seminars.

The African Archive. It's content, context and connections

The overall objective of this project is the development of a cutting-edge methodology for performing real-time, quantitative risk maps indicating probability of acquiring infectious agents in farmed animals. This method will subsequently be used for pred icting occurrences of outbreaks using pandemic influenza A (H1N1) pdm09 in swine population and salmon pancreas disease subtype 3 in marine fish farms of Norway. These two diseases have been selected as a model for diseases of terrestrial and aquatic anim als, respectively, given their importance regarding livestock economics and public health.
The real-time, quantitative risk maps will provide a precise prediction accounting for characteristics of diseases of interest together with current and historical  situations at the specific location as well as surrounding environment and evolutions of background susceptible population in a timely manner. Norway will directly benefit from the research findings. Methods developed in this project will also be applied  to animal diseases present in France. 
The research exchange will enable physical meetings between the Section for Epidemiology, Norwegian Veterinary Institute and the National Veterinary School (UMR ENVT-INRA 1225) of Toulouse, France. During the first p hysical meeting (one week), data sources and current methods for performing the real-time, quantitative risk map will be reviewed and discussed. Then, the pathway of data-flow and the structure for developing the map will be established. Expected outcomes  include innovative methods for real-time quantitative risk mapping of infectious diseases, and dissemination of the findings though scientific conferences and peer-reviewed journals.
A successful application for the Aurora mobility programme will enable  the initial development of the project, and strengthen the continuing collaboration between Norwegian and French research teams. Norway and France will both benefit from the findings and the knowledge exchange.

Real-time risk mapping for improving prevention and control of infectious diseases

New tools are necessary to manipulate objects on the nano-scale. It is far from obvious to pick up a nanowire and put it next to the transistor it should be connected to, even if you don't have big fingers. Optical waveguides have proven useful to trap an d propel nanowires, as Hellesø's work has demonstrated over the last few years. In this project, two different approaches to trapping nanoparticles with optical fibres will be coordinated and the co-operation will be of mutual benefit. Tapered optical fib res can be used to trap nanoparticles and position them in three dimensions, for characterisation, sorting or as building blocks. While Hellesø will focus on using a single fibre, Fick will focus on the use of two fibres. The aim is to develop the two met hods into tools for precise positioning of nanoparticles, for applications in nanotechnology and nanobiotechnology. It may be possible to use the methods to trap and characterize single viruses and strands of DNA.

The co-operation will give an opportunit y to work together in an international environment. In addition to the PIs, post-doc Jean-Claude Tinguely and MSc-student Petter Brox will participate from Norway and a PhD-student will participate from France.

Nanoparticle trapping with plasmonic fibre cavites

Cultural institutions have the crucial goal of storing, managing and disseminating knowledge
about our culture to a worldwide audience of people. Museums, libraries, archives and other
vendors of cultural heritage information are currently in the process  of exposing their data as
Linked Open Data (LOD) to encourage reuse of this information in semantic aware services
which utilize the synergy that can be achieved when combining and integrating complimentary
information resources. Linked Open Data is based  on the the standards and formats
that have been developed for the Semantic Web, but even though we have the technological
framework, there are many challenges that must be solved to achieve true automatic integration
and interoperability between a potent ially very large number of loosely connected
information sources.
The main objective of this project is to support the process of integration and alignment
of heterogeneous, but related information sources within the area of cultural heritage. This
projec t aims at proposing a novel communication protocol to support the process of semantic
mappings in order to ease the interconnection between a large number of semantic data
providers. The performance of this protocol will be evaluated and will be compared. 
The project includes partners from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and University of Lyon 1.

Knowledge Gardening in the Web of Data

Ecotoxicology is faced with great challenges when trying to predict the impact of environmental pollutants on wildlife, especially in species at the top of the food chain that are concomitantly affected by multiple, ongoing changes in their natural enviro nments. A proper ecotoxicological risk assessment relies on the ability to establish links between contaminants (i.e., anthropogenic stressors) and natural stressors. Here we propose a project that will use avian top predator raptors, the white-tailed sea  eagle, as a biological model for developing new methods to understand how multiple stressors affect different markers of physiological stress (feather corticosterone, heat shock proteins [stress proteins], plasma oxidative stress) and telomere attrition  that underlies the mechanisms of ageing rates. We will use existing data from different populations of Troms and Finnmark (Northern Norway) collected within the frame of the RAPTOR 2015 project.

Impact of natural and anthropogenic stressors on physiological stress and telomere dynamics of raptor chicks

The goal of this project is to start work on the design of an Internet transport-layer system underneath a protocol-independent API, that builds on the currently standardised transport technology, and that picks the best available transport protocols for  a given application. Such a system should embody functionality like: ensuring downwards compatibility with legacy end-points, signaling of available protocols between transport end-points, and easing the traversal of middleboxes that block new transport p rotocols.

The project is a collaboration between a Norwegian and a French team of researchers, involving a total of 7 researchers for whom short research visits should be funded.

Both the French and Norwegian teams have a strong expertise on Internet tr ansport-layer and congestion control issues, but they also bring each specialist knowledge and experience on particular aspects of the project. The ANT project will thus offer both partners a formal framework to bootstrap and sustain a long-term collabora tion. This will reinforce our current research efforts in the field of Internet protocols, not only from an academic standpoint (publications), but also in terms of both departments' increasing focus on standards-related activities (IETF).

A New Transport Framework for the Internet

The object of the present project is to investigate the relationship between the constrained control design methodologies and the theory of positive dynamical systems. 
The attractive feature of positive systems in automatic control is that it extrapolate s the understanding of simple first-order systems, which are positive systems. Further, an interesting control design problem is represented by the need to guarantee simultaneously the closed-loop stability and positivity of solutions under positive initi al conditions. Recently, the dual comparison principle provided design tools based on a description of sets in terms of a finite number of generator vectors. This approach offers a new perspective for the analysis and design of interconnected and/or state  and control constrained dynamical systems.

CONNECTIONS BETWEEN CONSTRAINED CONTROL DESIGN AND THE THEORY OF POSITIVE DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

The goal of the proposed project is to address the mechanics of multi-scale deformation as a result of magmatic intrusions, and particularly sills, in sedimentary basins. Such deformation have implications at: (1) large scale, as sills lift up their overb urden, forming dome structures that can act as traps for hydrocarbons; (2) at small scale, as local damage such as faults and joints is produced due to the propagation of sills, potentially generating a connected fracture network that can channel fluids.  The physical knowledge of these processes at both scales can thus have major implications on our understanding of petroleum systems in volcanic basins, such as offshore Norway. This project proposes an experimental collaboration between researchers of the  University of Oslo and the University of Maine, France. We propose to conduct join experimental activities to study the mechanics of (1) large-scale deformation associated with sill emplacement through a 3D experimental apparatus designed in Oslo, and (2 ) small-scale deformation associated with sill propagation through a 2D experimental apparatus designed in Le Mans. The proposed experiments will lead to (1) a mechanical model of large-scale magma emplacement in sedimentary basin, and (2) mechanical cons traints on the local-scale processes governing the propagation of magmatic sills. In addition, the key objective of the proposed collaboration is to coordinate in a systematic manner both experimental approaches, in order to integrate the results at diffe rent scales into a single coherent model. This integrating approach is the key for up-scaling small-scale processes to large-scale processes, which is a major challenge for many processes in Earth sciences.

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