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Research to strengthen knowledge-based management of the Barents Sea

July 14, 2012 - Source: Read the full story on the website of the Research Council in Norway

A call for proposals has been issued by the Research Council of Norway for research projects to acquire more knowledge on the environment and resources of the Barents Sea.
International spotlight on freedom

July 12, 2012 - Source: Read the full story on the website of the Research Council in Norway

Safeguarding freedom is a key challenge inherent in any constitution. As part of the coming 200th anniversary of the Norwegian Constitution, top international researchers will provide ...
Positive towards gender points

July 10, 2012 - Source: Read the full story on the website of Gender Balance in Research - Norway

The question of whether gender points should be awarded to men who apply for female-dominated study programmes is a topic of much discussion these days. The KIF Committee has reviewed its ...
New cancer drug shows great promise

July 9, 2012 - Source: Aarhus University

Danish researchers at the University of Aarhus have developed a new drug against prostate cancer in collaboration with researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the biotech company Genspera ...
Vast protein data catalogue helps unravel disease mechanisms

July 9, 2012 - Source: The University of Copenhagen

Scientists at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research at the University of Copenhagen have used a new method to assemble a massive catalogue of data on proteins. This gives them ...
Norway leads charge against sea lice

July 9, 2012 - Source: Read the full story on the website of the Research Council in Norway

Norway’s seafood producers, resource management authorities and the population at large all need an active Norwegian aquaculture research community that maintains its focus on battling ...
Powering up a new energy programme

July 6, 2012 - Source: Read the full story on the website of the Research Council in Norway

The Research Council of Norway’s soon-to-be-concluded programme Clean Energy for the Future (RENERGI) will be handing over many valuable results to its successor. Preparations for the new ...
UiO says no to gender points for men

July 5, 2012 - Source: Read the full story on the website of Gender Balance in Research - Norway

"After a thorough discussion and consultation round, we have concluded that UiO will not introduce the use of two extra gender points for men," says Pro-Rector Inga Bostad. The ...
Backing Norway’s companies and research groups

July 5, 2012 - Source: Read the full story on the website of the Research Council in Norway

Kristin Danielsen is the new International Director at the Research Council of Norway.
Significance of the financial crisis - international conference on gender in academia

July 4, 2012 - Source: Read the full story on the website of Gender Balance in Research - Norway

Gender balance and gender equality in research is being discussed more often at research conferences.