Research in Norway - Research Strategy for North America

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Research in Norway- Research Strategy for North
America

• Hans M Borchgrevink MD MHA
• Senior adviser
• The Research Council of Norway

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Increased internationalization a main priority
in Norwegian RD

• Europe participation in the EU framework
  programs (FP) since 1988, full member since 1994
• Participation in several large facility programs
  and organizations (CERN, EISCAT, EMBL, EISCAT
  etc)
• Long traditions in Nordic RD-cooperation
• Increased focus on bilateral RD-cooperation with
  selected countries USA, Canada, France, Germany,
  Japan and China

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International RD-cooperation

• Between scientists
• Between institutions
• Between research programmes and directed
  internationalisation measures
• Between countries
• Europe the main route
• North-America the strongest RD-region
• Asia the coming economic region

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Norways newStrategy for Scientific and
Technological Cooperation with North
Americalaunched Oct 2004 by the Government

• Trans-atlantic RD cooperation has long
  traditions
• The strategy intends to
• contribute to long-term escalation of RD
  collaboration
• increase researcher mobility between Norway and
  the USA and Canada
• help enhance the quality of research and improve
  entrepreneurship and stimulate knowledge-based
  economic development in Norway

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Which areas of RD should be addressed?

• Potential RD areas include
• Energy, including hydrogen, CO2-sequestration,
  and new forms of energy
• Oil gas
• ICT
• Materials and nanotech
• Maritime technology
• Biologi and biotechnology, including genomics,
  epidemiology and health
• Food quality and safety
• Marine technology, seafood

• Climate research
• Polar research
• Sustainable development and environmental impact
• Social sciences including migration and
  multi-cultural societies
• Humanities and culture
• International politics, conflicts and peace
  processes
• Defense and terrorism
• Space, including satelite and telecomunications

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Whats in it for the USA and Canada?

• Norway offers
• high-quality research
• frontline infrastructure
• in several of these fields that might be of
  potential interest to US and Canadian
  researchers
• Norway offers
• outstanding registries and databases

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Areas focused in Norwegian RD

• Basic science
• RD for Innovation
• ICT
• Marin science
• Medicine and health
• Environment and energy
• Biotechnology
• Materials
• Petroleum

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13 Norwegian centres of Excellence
Theoretical Linguistics
Quality of Service in Communication Systems
Ships and ocean structures
Molecular biology and neuroscience
Biology of memory
Mathematics for applications
Study of Civil wars
Climate Research
Physics of geological processes
Centre and perifery in medieval Europe
Geohazards
Integrated petroleum research
Aquaculture protein
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RCN large-scale programmes

• 100 mill. NOK or more per year for a 10-year
  period
• Comprise basic and applied research and stimulate
  to innovation, value creation and
  commercialisation
• Long-term a ten-year perspective
• Support the national research policy including
  the thematic priorities
• Promote multi- and interdisciplinarity, involve
  the divisions and be embedded in several sectors
  of society
• A strong international approach

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RCN large-scale programmes

• Functional genomic research (FUGE)
• Nanotechnology and materials (NANOMAT)
• Oil/gas- increased recovery and efficient
  exploration (PETROMAX)
• Clean energy technology of the future (RENERGI)
• ICT (VERDIKT)
• Aquaculture (HAVBRUK)
• Climate change and impacts in Norway (NORKLIMA)

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FUGEFunctional Genomics in Norway2002-2011
http\\www.fuge.no
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Foundation
Medical research
Basic biological research (incl. bioinformatics)
Marine research
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FUGE 13 Technology platforms

• Biobanks for health (2 plattforms)
• Bioinformatics (CBU)
• SNP technology (CIGENE)
• Microarrays (NMC)
• Proteomics (PROBE)
• Structural analysis (NORSTRUCT)
• Molecular imaging (MIC)
• Model organisms
• Transgene mice
• Microbiology (CAMST)
• Arabidopsis (NARC)
• Zebrafish
• Genomics (Salmon, Cod Bovine)

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Which areas of RD should be addressed?

• Norway is a small country with limited RD
  resources.
• To get substantial impact, targeted funding
  should therefore operate in close cooperation
  with large programmes, CoEs and other established
  funding instruments
• Scientific quality should be an essential
  criterion
• The Research Council of Norway looks forward to
  increased RD cooperation with USA and Canada