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First ever European-African joint call for proposals
In January, the first ever joint European-African call for proposals will be issued. Norway will participate in the thematic area of renewable energy.
Published: 20.12.2012 -
Season's Greetings 2012
Season's Greetings 2012 With all our best wishes for a joyful holiday season and a Happy New Year - for you and for research! Our English website will be back with more news items and other content on 3 January 2013.
Published: 17.12.2012 -
Nanoscale impulse radar measures depth of snow and ice
Snow is the be-all and end-all for alpine ski resorts. Now a tiny sensor has been developed to determine how much cold gold there is on the slopes and how much more should be produced. The sensor is based on Norwegian radar technology and is no larger than a match head.
Published: 17.12.2012 -
Cutting CO2 emissions with innovative technology
Researchers are testing a variety of technological solutions in the battle to reduce CO2 emissions. On this technological front, there is room for not just one but many winners
Published: 17.12.2012 -
Better opportunities for talented young researchers
The Research Council of Norway has allocated funding for ten new national graduate-level researcher schools. The researcher schools will receive a total of NOK 218 million as part of the effort to enhance doctoral programmes.
Published: 17.12.2012 -
Enormous interest in Polish-Norwegian research cooperation
The Polish-Norwegian Research Programme, funded under the scheme for EEA and Norway Grants, received a total of 269 joint project proposals for the November application deadline. This is almost four times the number received in the previous programme period.
Published: 17.12.2012 -
Big-data research spurs industrial development
One of the world’s largest specialist groups within the field of big-data analytics is being assembled in Norway. The centre for Information Access Disruptions (iAD), with its head office in Tromsø, is at the core of this activity.
Published: 13.12.2012 -
New report will influence Norwegian energy research
The Global Energy Assessment Report (GEA) provides policymakers around the world with a variety of pathways they can follow to solve global energy challenges. Research will play an important role in achieving the goals set out in the report.
Published: 06.12.2012 -
Funding instruments for regional R&D and innovation evaluated
An evaluation of the Research Council of Norway’s Programme for Regional R&D and Innovation (VRI) has been carried out midway through the programme period. The evaluation shows that the programme is on the right track, but would benefit from further development.
Published: 05.12.2012 -
Promotes greater innovation in the public sector
The Research Council of Norway is expanding its efforts to promote innovation in the public sector. A new policy in this area has been drawn up. The objective is to stimulate the public sector to invest in and use research that produces new and better solutions.
Published: 05.12.2012 -
Many seeking a research stay in Norway
Upwards of one-fourth of the grant applications submitted for the 28 November deadline were addressed to the Research Council of Norway’s guest researcher programme, the YGGDRASIL mobility programme. The largest call for proposals was issued by the Research Programme on Sickness Absence, Work and Health (SYKEFRAVAER).
Published: 04.12.2012 -
The petroleum sector: Interplay between governance and industry
Insight into the interplay between policy, economics and petroleum activities is critical for Norway as a major oil and gas-exporting nation. Over the past six years, activities under the Programme on Social Science Petroleum Research (PETROSAM) at the Research Council of Norway have resulted in new knowledge in this field.
Published: 03.12.2012 -
NOK 100 million for projects on cultural conditions underlying social change
The Research Council of Norway has awarded a total of NOK 100 million in funding to 15 projects under the Programme on Cultural Conditions Underlying Social Change (SAMKUL). This is the first round of grant allocations under the new programme.
Published: 03.12.2012 -
Revision of Research Council’s disqualification practice
Friendship and collaboration in a work situation are not in themselves sufficient grounds to render employees, referees and members of the Research Council of Norway’s governing and advisory bodies disqualified from taking part in activities such as the assessment of grant applications.
Published: 28.11.2012 -
Priorities for Norwegian research for 2014
The Research Council of Norway is recommending an increase of NOK 1 billion for research in its proposal to the national budget for 2014. Close to half of this increase would be distributed among eight main priority areas.
Published: 26.11.2012 -
Found the brain’s GPS
The husband-and-wife team of Edvard and May-Britt Moser have put Norwegian neuroscience research on the international map. “We could never have achieved this without the Centres of Excellence scheme (SFF),” they assert.
Published: 26.11.2012 -
Fish feed for sustainable aquaculture
Norwegian researchers have been leading an international effort to make aquaculture more sustainable. In 10 years they have revolutionised fish feed.
Published: 26.11.2012 -
Using computing power to develop science disciplines
Applied mathematics is making its mark in more and more areas, thanks in great part to impressive new high-performance computers. Norway’s first and only Centre of Excellence (SFF) in mathematics so far is helping to realise the scientific opportunities of these powerful new tools.
Published: 26.11.2012 -
Combining disciplines yields more oil
The idea ten years ago was to integrate four classical disciplines in order to enhance petroleum research. Today, this collaboration between mathematicians, geologists, physicists and chemists has laid the foundation for recovering more oil and gas.
Published: 23.11.2012 -
Mitigating damage from landslides, tsunamis and earthquakes
Where are the risks of landslide greatest? What makes a tsunami dangerous? Why are some people harder hit by earthquakes than others? Norway is home to an international research centre for geohazards that is providing the answers needed to better deal with these types of risks.
Published: 23.11.2012 -
Supplying tools to counteract civil war
For ten years, prominent researchers have combined their efforts to uncover key perspectives characterising the groups that are engaged in civil war and the causes behind the onset and development of these wars.
Published: 23.11.2012 -
Nutrients from farmed salmon waste can feed new marine industry
Waste from salmon production is currently being discharged into Norwegian coastal waters. Researchers say this is a resource – worth NOK 6 billion each year – that should be exploited for new biological production.
Published: 23.11.2012 -
Elite research centres are here to stay
Ten years ago, 13 Norwegian research groups were awarded the status of Centre of Excellence (SFF) with generous funding to provide fruitful conditions for research over a ten-year period. At the time, the scheme represented an entirely new kind of research funding in Norway. “And it really has led to change,” says Director General of the Research Council of Norway, Arvid Hallén.
Published: 22.11.2012 -
Language designed for thinking
Language did not evolve to facilitate human communication; it developed as a tool for humans to use in their thinking process. This has been confirmed by exciting research carried out by Norwegian linguists.
Published: 22.11.2012 -
Helping Internet users demand more from communication systems
Users should be the focal point when defining and assessing the quality of Internet services, believe top Norwegian researchers.
Published: 22.11.2012 -
Studying the forces in rock
Activities at the research centre Physics of Geological Processes (PGP) at the University of Oslo have been specifically set up for cooperation between physicists and geologists. Without this inter-disciplinary approach, the findings that are gaining the PGP international notice would not have been possible.
Published: 22.11.2012 -
Important brain discoveries
Ten years after the Norwegian Centre for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience was established it now stands an innovative institution whose interdisciplinary research on DNA repair mechanisms in the brain is at the very forefront of the field.
Published: 22.11.2012 -
Norway to take over as Chair of EUREKA
In the summer of 2013, Norway will assume the chairmanship of the EUREKA innovation network.
Published: 21.11.2012 -
Fruitful research collaboration between Norway and the US
Norway’s research activities make up just one per cent of the world’s total while the US towers above all others. Nonetheless, the two countries collaborate closely in many areas, and their cooperation both can and should be expanded.
Published: 20.11.2012 -
Darkened fjord waters mean fewer fish, more jellyfish
The seawater in the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, and Norway’s coastal waters and fjords is gradually getting darker. Researchers are observing signs similar to those from overproduction of organic compounds. The result may be fewer marine areas with fish, and more jellyfish.
Published: 19.11.2012
