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Nanoparticles helping to recover more oil
When petroleum companies abandon an oil well, more than half the reservoir’s oil is usually left behind as too difficult to recover. Now, however, much of the residual oil can be recovered with the help of nanoparticles and a simple law of physics.
Published: 14.06.2013 -
Ingen hadde tenkt på det
Et dyr som spiser mikroorganismer i havet. Som vi kan dyrke 200 kg av på hver kvadratmeter. Som kan bli etterspurt fôr for laks og bra drivstoff på bensintanken. Hvorfor har ingen gjort noe med dette før?
Published: 12.06.2013 -
Best budding researchers crowned
The top prize in this year’s annual, nationwide children’s Nysgjerrigper research contest went to pupils at a tiny school in Nordland county, where a combined class of seven children in grades 1-4 researched the question of why there are so few pupils at their school.
Published: 10.06.2013 -
Using salmon genome to adapt fish to warmer water
Researchers are studying precociously mature dwarf males for ways to selectively breed farmed salmon that better withstand higher ocean temperatures.
Published: 06.06.2013 -
Positive mid-term evaluation of Centres for Environment-friendly Energy Research
The eight initial Centres for Environment-friendly Energy Research (FME) received high marks from the panel of international experts that evaluated them half-way through their period of operation. There are, however, several areas where there is room for improvement.
Published: 06.06.2013 -
Recirculation technology improves smolt welfare
New knowledge is making land-based smolt production more efficient and improving fish welfare in the process. Recirculation technology is solving the problem of access to an adequate supply of fresh water for additional fry production.
Published: 06.06.2013 -
New funding opportunity to strenghten ties between education and research
UTFORSK is a new Norwegian instrument for strengthening the linkage between higher education and research in international collaboration, and to increase cooperation between Norway and Brazil, China, India, Japan, Russia and South Africa.
Published: 04.06.2013 -
Research cooperation between Norway and Japan gaining momentum
Norwegian and Japanese research stakeholders gathered together for their first co-hosted Science Week. Topics on the agenda included potential areas of collaboration, joint funding and the internationalisation of research in general
Published: 04.06.2013 -
Record number of applications for FRIPRO independent project funding
Nine out of 10 of all grant applications submitted for the 29 May deadline were directed to the funding scheme for independent projects (FRIPRO). Nearly one of four applicants sought funding under the new application category Young Research Talents.
Published: 04.06.2013 -
Enhancing international research cooperation on renewable energy
Most of the projects that have received funding under the Large-scale Programme on Clean Energy for the Future (RENERGI) and its successor, the Large-scale Programme for Energy Research (ENERGIX), incorporate active international collaboration.
Published: 03.06.2013 -
Mid-term evaluation: Successful national researcher schools
The mid-term evaluation of the scheme for national graduate-level researcher schools (FORSKERSKOLER) has concluded that the five national researcher schools launched in 2009 have been a great success. The Research Council of Norway is allocating a total of NOK 46 million to the schools for an additional three-year period.
Published: 03.06.2013 -
Graphene and semiconductor technology together: smaller, cheaper, better
Mobile phones that bend, self-powered nanodevices , new and improved solar cell technology and windows that generate electricity are but a few of the potential products from the union of semiconductors and graphene.
Published: 30.05.2013 -
Five RCN directors on the new white paper
How will the white paper on research affect the various divisions and scientific areas at the Research Council of Norway? Five of the Council’s directors have been asked to provide their views on the subject.
Published: 30.05.2013 -
A white paper promoting long-term perspectives in research
“For the first time, we have a white paper that is focused on long-term perspectives in research. Multi-year budgets may be a key instrument in these efforts,” says Director General Arvid Hallén of the Research Council of Norway.
Published: 30.05.2013 -
Fewer willing to participate in surveys
The percentage of respondents to many important research surveys is dropping sharply. Social science researchers are concerned that survey samples can be skewed, which can compromise the validity of results.
Published: 30.05.2013 -
New policy and research of the future
Norwegian research stands poised to meet the future. Forskning magazine examines the policy plans for the research sector as presented in the new white paper on research issued just this spring. The exciting developments in graphene research serve as a concrete example of future-oriented Norwegian research.
Published: 30.05.2013 -
Will study the effect of Norwegian development assistance
In the next three years Norway will spend NOK 30 million on research that explores the effect of Norwegian aid, particularly in the past decade.
Published: 29.05.2013 -
South Africa Norway call open
NOK 40 mill. and ZAR 10 mill. have been made available for the first and only call in the South Africa – Norway Research Co-operation on Climate, the Environment and Clean Energy (SANCOOP). Application deadline is 4 September 2013 at 13:00.
Published: 28.05.2013 -
Norway says yes to Horizon 2020
The Government has announced that Norway wishes to take part as a full member of the new EU framework programme for research and innovation, Horizon 2020.
Published: 27.05.2013 -
NOK 400 million for industrial research
The Programme for User-Driven Research Based Innovation (BIA), the Research Council of Norway’s key competitive arena for industry, has allocated a total of NOK 400 million over four years to 45 innovation projects in Norwegian companies.
Published: 27.05.2013 -
Norwegian Knowledge Centre for Education launched
The purpose of the centre is to compile systematic reviews of national and international research of relevance for all levels of the educational system: kindergarten, primary school, upper secondary school, higher education, and adult learning.
Published: 24.05.2013 -
Seeking new knowledge about the European crisis
The financial crisis in Europe also affects the countries that have been doing well up to now. What will the impact of the crisis be on democracy and employment in the longer term – both for the EU countries and for a country such as Norway?
Published: 23.05.2013 -
GLOBVAC contributes to Rotavirus vaccine
Scientists in India have unveiled a new low-cost vaccine against rotavirus that kills about half a million children around the world each year.
Published: 21.05.2013 -
SkatteFUNN reaches new heights
The Government has announced that it will increase allocations to the industry-oriented tax-deduction SkatteFUNN scheme by roughly NOK 100 million in 2014.
Published: 16.05.2013 -
Outcomes for all applications now in one place
The results of the application processing for all Research Council of Norway programmes and activities have now been consolidated on a designated website page. The list of approved grants for each programme will be published as soon as the assessment process has been concluded.
Published: 16.05.2013 -
New funding opportunity for international educational and research cooperation
The Research Council of Norway and the Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Education (SIU) are joining forces to create better links between bilateral research cooperation and cooperation in education.
Published: 08.05.2013 -
NOK 527 million for independent projects
The funding scheme for independent projects (FRIPRO) has issued a call for proposals with a deadline of 29 May. New elements in the application review process include a separate criterion for assessing boldness in thinking and scientific renewal in grant proposals, interviews with project managers of Young Research Talent projects, and a new approach to proposals for interdisciplinary projects.
Published: 06.05.2013 -
Important analysis of Norwegian welfare research
In 2011, just over NOK 1.1 billion was spent on Norwegian welfare research, corresponding to five per cent of R&D expenditures in the higher education sector.
Published: 30.04.2013 -
Conception of landscape shaped today’s transport routes
In the 1800s the natural landscape began to be seen as beautiful as opposed to primitive, wild and inaccessible. Researchers have shown how this changing public perception played a major role in the development of new travel routes in Norway.
Published: 29.04.2013 -
Learning platform uses quiz concept
Can university students, schoolchildren and employees play their way to knowledge? Can computerised games help to reverse worrisome school drop-out rates? Yes, say the researchers behind the Norwegian-developed Kahoot! learning platform.
Published: 26.04.2013
