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Kina - Collaboration on marine biopolymers between NTNU and Wuhan University, China

Tildelt: kr 25 000

The Norwegian Biopolymer Laboratory (NOBIPOL) at NTNU has extensive ongoing research activities within marine biopolymers such as alginates, chitosans and fish gelatin (see www.biotech.ntnu.no/nobipol). China and Norway have large and renewable biological resourcces for production of alginates, chitosans and other biopolymers with a larger potential for commercial exploitation than currently exploited. We have initiated a cooperation between China and Norway by visiting professor Yumin Du at Wuhan Univers ity in May 2005. Wuhan University is one of China's largest and best universities, and professor Du's group is China's leading group within alginate/chitosan (more than 50 per revieweed articles 1999-2004). Our groups have complementary competence as the chinese group works are targetted towards derivatization of biopolymers to achieve specific biomedical properties while NOBIPOL's strength is on detailed chemical and physical-chemical characterization of polymer properties. The cooperation will include e.g. exchange of students and employees, seminars, a common research strategy within a selected area, and arrangement of an international conference related to biopolymers. We now apply for funding of travel and subsistence costs for visiting Wuhan Univer sity in order to: 1. Formalize the cooperation between NTNU and Wuhan University in relation to biopolymer engineering and marine biopolymers by signing an agreement of academic and scientific cooperation between the universities 2. Evaluate different opt ions for an application for research fundings involving NTNU and Wuhan University. This includes fundings from national research councils, EU-projects or other sources. We will also coordinate the visit so that NTNU's rector(or a representative from recto rs office and/or the Faculty) could visit Wuhan University in relation to signing documents related to the cooperation. This project will be coordinated with NOBIPOL's Center of Innovation application,if funded.

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