Joint Nordic Use of Research Infrastructure

Research Infrastructure
Research infrastructures are defined as research facilities, resources or services of a unique kind. The definition covers both single-sited and distributed infrastructures and comprises major equipment or sets of instruments, e-infrastructures and knowledge resources such as collections, archives, and databases, including the associated human
resources needed to exploit the services.


Aims
The aims of the NordForsk initiative for joint Nordic use of research infrastructure are:

Contact person at NordForsk
Maria Nilsson, Senior Adviser
E-mail: maria.nilsson@nordforsk.org
Phone: +47 99 38 02 64

The NordForsk Initiative : Joint Nordic Use of Research Infrastructure
A total of 19 infrastructure projects received NordForsk funding in 2007. The infrastructure collaborations include participants from all the Nordic countries,
and from Russia and the Baltic states. The project titles and main applicants are:


Efficient and accurate characterization techniques for small antennas
Pertti Vainikainen
Helsinki University of Technology
FINLAND

Sensor networks of Nordic Lakes, Sensor-Lakes
Thorsten Bleckner
Uppsala University
SWEDEN

Advanced spectroscopy using MAX-laboratory in Lund
Svante Svensson
Uppsala University
SWEDEN

Enhancing Nordic access to the JYFL Accelerators Laboratory and FAIR
Rauno Julin
University of Jyväskylä
FINLAND

Nordic Infrastructure for Mouse Models
Taina Pihlajaniemi
University of Oulu
FINLAND

LHC and beyond
Paula Eerola
Lund University
SWEDEN

Promoting New Generation Sequencing Technology in Nordic Countries
Leena Peltonen
Helsinki University
FINLAND

A Nordic Functional Genomics Initiative: New tools for discovery biology
Outi Monni
University of Helsinki
FINLAND

Spatial categorization and language across populations
Mila Vulchanova
NTNU
NORWAY

Scandinavian Dialect Infrastructure: Corpus, Database and Dialect Maps
Janne Bondi Johannessen
University of Oslo
NORWAY

Nordic Signals: an omics network for cell signaling in health and disease
Garry Corthals
Turku Centre for Biotechnology
FINLAND

Research and Training for Nordic Astronomy. Part 1: Submm
Hans Olofsson
Onsala Space Observatory
SWEDEN

Research and Training for Nordic Astronomy. Part 2: Optical
Johannes Andersen
Nordic Optical Telescope Scientific Association
DENMARK

E-Infrastructure for organism names to facilitate data sharing
Hannu Saarenmaa
Finnish Museum of Natural History
FINLAND

The Nordic Canine Bio-bank
Göran Andersson
SLU
SWEDEN

Joint use of high-throughput SNP assay infrastructure in Atlantic salmon
Craig Primmer
University of Turku
FINLAND

Joint Nordic use of WAB Bergen and VWA Helsinki (JNU VWAB)
Alois Pichler
University of Bergen
NORWAY

Construction of the Nordic Prenatal Stress Cohort
Jørn Olsen
University of Aarhus
DENMARK

Nordic link to the Pan-European Research Infrastructure for Nanostructures
Andrej Kuznetsov
University of Oslo
NORWAY