The INTPART funding scheme is given by the Research Council of Norway and DIKU, and aims to help Norwegian higher education and research institutions to develop lasting relationships with strong academic communities and institutions in prioritized countries. It is emphasized that the support shall link research and higher education.
The MN-faculty, UiO, receives funding for four projects from 2019. One of them is Adriano Mazzini, a researcher at CEED / Department of Geosciences. Mazzini who gets support for the project: From hydrothermal systems to mud volcanoes: Planet-scale impacts of piercements in sedimentary basins.
The project is a collaboration between the Norwegian partners CEED-UiO and CAGE-UiT in cooperation with research and education communities in Russia, Japan and the United States, respectively: Russia; Moscow State University (MSU) and Limnological Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (LIN), Japan; Kitami Institute of Technology, and US; University of California, Berkeley (UCB).
Mazzini, as before, has an ERC start up grant for the Lusi Lab project for exploration of the Indonesian mud volcano Lusi (completed 2017/18), has been working with research on hydrothermal systems and slam volcanoes for a long time, bringing this thematic work forward. Now in collaboration with academic communities in Norway, Russia, Japan and the US.
Congratulations from Department of Geosciences and CEED!
About the INTPART-funding
INTPART will fund partnerships between Norwegian higher education and research institutions and excellent partners in prioritized countries. Special emphasis is on integrating higher education- and research, and may include business partners.
The funding scheme is developed and run by The Research Council of Norway in collaboration with The Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education (DIKU).
Source: The Research Council of Norway