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Will boost innovation in the public sector
The Research Council of Norway’s new policy for innovation in the public sector is scheduled to be launched in spring 2012. The public sector employs 30 per cent of Norway’s labour force and represents a very large segment of the national economy.
Published: 20.12.2011 -
Testing nasal vaccine for HIV treatment
Thirty years after AIDS was first described, there is still no effective vaccine against the virus. Worldwide, roughly 33 million people are HIV-positive. Researchers are working to find out whether a HIV vaccine developed by a Norwegian biotech company can be administered nasally.
Published: 19.12.2011 -
Season's Greetings 2011
With all our best wishes for a joyful holiday season and a Happy New Year - for you and for research!
Published: 19.12.2011 -
Planning climate research for the post-NORKLIMA era
The Research Council of Norway’s 10-year Large-scale programme on Climate Change and its Impacts in Norway (NORKLIMA) will draw to a close in 2013. Planning for continued activities in Norwegian climate research is underway.
Published: 16.12.2011 -
First national strategy for biotechnology
Biotechnology will lead to new tools for enhancing value creation, improving health, and protecting the environment. This is the vision of the first strategy for biotechnology, presented by the Norwegian Government.
Published: 16.12.2011 -
Less blood clot damage with extra treatment
Roughly half the people who get a serious blood clot in the leg experience lasting damage. Norwegian researchers are the first to show that a little-used supplementary treatment can help to prevent such complications.
Published: 15.12.2011 -
The RCN Innovation Strategy in English
An English version of the Innovation Strategy for the Research Council of Norway has now been published. The strategy was adopted in October.
Published: 15.12.2011 -
Towards a bio-based society
Enough food for everyone, adaptation to climate change, and sustainable closed-loop systems are some of the benefits of the bioeconomy. The Research Council of Norway is proposing a substantial budget increase for boosting bioeconomy-related industrial development.
Published: 14.12.2011 -
Health science research growing fastest
Medical and health science research is the largest research field in Norway, and activities have increased dramatically in recent years. About NOK 7 billion is invested annually in this type of research.
Published: 13.12.2011 -
Better prepared for an E. coli outbreak
New methods speed up the process of identifying the subgroup of E. coli bacteria responsible for an outbreak of illness. At the same time, Norwegian researchers are on the trail of a disinfectant that will inhibit the growth of pathogenic bacteria in food.
Published: 09.12.2011 -
Easier access to Norway’s registry data
New infrastructure will provide Norwegian and international researchers with simpler, faster and better access to Norway’s registry data.
Published: 08.12.2011 -
Norwegian ash camera in new passenger planes
The ash cloud resulting from the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland is estimated to have cost Europe NOK 50 billion. When at some point in the future her big sister Katla volcano erupts, airlines may be much better prepared. In summer 2012, the fourth-largest airline in the world – easyJet – will begin using a new Norwegian gadget.
Published: 08.12.2011 -
Research at Norwegian university colleges gets a boost
The Research Council of Norway’s funding scheme known as Strategic Projects – University Colleges (SHP) will be continued with NOK 40 million annually as from 2012. NOK 10 million will be earmarked for the field of health and social care.
Published: 06.12.2011 -
ERC grants for studies of global crises and Arctic conditions
Two more Norwegian researchers have earned Advanced Grants from the European Research Council (ERC). Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen will receive funding for his research project on global crises, while Professor David G. Anderson has been granted funding for his research on the relationship between animals and humans in the Arctic.
Published: 05.12.2011 -
The chaotic current that warms Norway
The North Atlantic Current – popularly known as the Gulf Stream – warms Norway and Northern Europe. It is the chaos of the seas that warms the country, researchers have discovered. If its waters flowed smoothly north along the Norwegian coastline, the current would deliver far less warmth.
Published: 02.12.2011 -
Sound solutions for offshore power plants
Building wind turbines that withstand salty storms at sea is relatively straightforward – but doing it on a large scale while keeping costs in check is a far less simple proposition. Together, Norwegian researchers and engineers are working out the best possible solutions.
Published: 01.12.2011 -
High quality global health research in Norway
Global health research is characterized as one of the country’s “particularly strong research areas” in the recent evaluation of biology, medicine and health research in Norway.
Published: 01.12.2011 -
Improved tools for maximising offshore wind power
Wind farms can get the most out of nature’s forces when the wind turbines are optimally aligned relative to each other, and when designers can simulate the effects of wind and waves on turbines and their foundations. A Norwegian research project has provided wind farm developers with some valuable new tools.
Published: 01.12.2011 -
Ambitious new biotechnology programme being launched
The new BIOTEK2021 programme is designed to further the development of the field of biotechnology and provide a foundation for new value creation in Norwegian trade and industry.
Published: 01.12.2011 -
Gearing up for cheaper wind power
Norwegian company Angle Wind and its partners have developed a new type of eccentric gear configuration for offshore wind turbines. A marked improvement over conventional planetary gearboxes, the new solution will be able to cut the cost of wind farms substantially.
Published: 01.12.2011 -
National marine research strategy underway
A report proposing a collective strategy for future Norwegian marine research will be completed by the end of 2012. A strategy committee has begun the process of drawing up the strategy report, which has been dubbed Hav21.
Published: 30.11.2011 -
Research on living with climate change
As the climate changes, individuals and society at large must learn to adapt. The Research Council of Norway is stepping up the level of activity in climate research as part of the effort to better cope with coming climate change, both nationally and globally.
Published: 28.11.2011 -
Stronger integration of gender perspectives in all research
Gender research is a well-established field of research in Norway. In the future the Research Council of Norway will give priority to integrating gender perspectives more dynamically into all of its programmes and activities.
Published: 28.11.2011 -
Taking cancer research from lab to patients
The Technology Transfer Office in Bergen was instrumental when a cancer test developed by Norwegian researchers was made available to US physicians in August 2010.
Published: 25.11.2011 -
Active and healthy for many years
The proportion of elderly people in the Norwegian population is growing, and the number requiring health and care services will increase accordingly. The Research Council of Norway has designated a new priority area targeted towards tackling coming challenges.
Published: 25.11.2011 -
Full HD in a pill
Cameras ingested in the form of a pill make it possible to examine areas of the stomach and intestines that cannot be reached using traditional equipment. Norwegian researchers are busy developing the next-generation camera pill.
Published: 25.11.2011 -
An eye for commercialising research results
In the university city of Bergen, the prevailing view is that world-class products, services or companies may just as easily spring from the brainpower of local researchers as from anywhere else.
Published: 24.11.2011 -
Norway invests in the Arctic
Knowledge, activity and presence are the key words that will guide Norway’s activities in the Arctic and northern areas in the coming decades. This is according to the Government’s white paper on the High North which was recently presented.
Published: 24.11.2011 -
International focus on the northern areas
Growing international interest in the abundant natural resources in the northern areas is giving rise to challenges as well as opportunities for Norway. Sound knowledge will play a critical role in Norway’s efforts to manage the areas responsibly on behalf of the international community and to the benefit of Norwegian trade and industry.
Published: 24.11.2011 -
Commercialising research findings that benefit society
Many promising research results never make it to market, so their full potential is never realised. Forskning magazine takes a look at the scheme for Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs), designed to increase value creation based on research.
Published: 23.11.2011
