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ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

An Ecological History of Eurasian Art: Natural Resources, Aesthetic Practices, and Early Modern Globalization

Works of art are repositories of environmental knowledge. Paintings, sculptures, and artifacts preserve material evidence of the use of natural resources like mineral pigments, plant-based dyes, and precious metals, and contribute to a visual archive of human interaction with nature by providing ...

Awarded: NOK 22.8 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

The Survival of Damaged Medieval Polychromed Heritage in the Nordics

POLYCHROME will study the shifting fortunes of richly painted and gilded (polychromed) Christian images that have survived in the Nordic countries since the Reformation. How have wooden sculptures, panel paintings, shrines, and winged altarpieces transformed from potent objects of devotion to cul...

Awarded: NOK 30.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Nonlocal integrable equations: blow-up phenomena and beyond

I will carry out this fellowship at the University of Oslo, under the supervision of Professor Kenneth Karlsen at the Department of Mathematics. The project is devoted to study existence and blow-up properties of the solutions of initial value problems (IVPs) for nonlocal nonlinear integrable PD...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Borderline Personality Disorder: Memory and Identity in Adolescence

Borderline Personality Disorder: Memory and Identity in Adolescence

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Monkey Troubles: Confronting Control in Contemporary Singapore

Monkey Troubles: Confronting Control in Contemporary Singapore

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Linguistic and acoustic properties of infant-directed speech in Hindi-learning infant’s (Hindi-BabyNet)

Recently it showed that the research in infant language acquisition is highly skewed towards English and other well-studied Indo-European languages. Therefore, most of the evidence regarding IDS helps in infant's language development stems from the families living in WEIRD (Western, Educated, I...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

BALancing Craton thickness by self-cOmpression, graiN size evolution and viscous anisotropY

Cratons, the oldest lithosphere on Earth, have survived for more than 3 billion years due to their neutral buoyancy, high viscosity, and thickness. The geologic record shows that, in the presence of external agents (e.g., mantle plume eruptions), most cratons have experienced partial destruction ...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Public Trust in Contemporary Europe: Trusting the Antitrust (PROTRUST)

Public Trust in Contemporary Europe: Trusting the Antitrust (PROTRUST)

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Segregation of Opportunities: Pathways to Marginalization through Neighborhoods and Peers

Social and economic exclusion is a major challenge worldwide, attracting substantial research efforts across various disciplines. Yet, research has been largely unsuccessful in providing robust knowledge that can promote inclusion. One key reason is that marginalization is a multifaceted challeng...

Awarded: NOK 17.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

ETHME: The Ethics of Mortality Measurement

ETHME: The Ethics of Mortality Measurement

Awarded: NOK 17.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Map and manipulate sleep oscillations to reveal their role in healthy cognitive development

Sleep is essential to all animal life. But why are sleep needs greater in young mammals? Evidence points to a key role in cognitive development. Sleep correlates with brain immaturity, and sleep dysfunctions are frequent comorbidities of neurodevelopment disorders. As screens invade their bedroom...

Awarded: NOK 17.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Reconstructing the environmental, biological, and societal drivers of plague outbreaks in Eurasia between 1300 and 1900 CE

Synergy-Plague is a multi-disciplinary project to bring our knowledge and understanding of plague, past and present, to new heights. Focussing on the environmental, biological, and societal aspects of plague outbreaks in Eurasia between circa 1300 and 1900 CE, it will address four main questions:...

Awarded: NOK 36.7 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2030

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Using museum specimens to understand mushroom population genomics.

Using museum specimens to understand mushroom population genomics.

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Just Carbon Transitions

As carbon taxes are set to extend in depth and scope it will be critical to follow them from policymaking to implementation. Just Carbon Transitions (JUSTCARBON) spotlights the role of legal expertise in translating carbon taxation ideals into action. Tax systems and national legal jurisdictions ...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Elite Politics in Electoral Autocracies

Today most dictators exploit democratic institutions such as multiparty elections or legislatures to cover their autocratic rule. To carry out this form of rule, dictators need a loyal coalition of politicians to gather supporters, advance policies and win elections. While this loyalty is central...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Actively learning experimental designs in terrestrial climate science

Actively learning experimental designs in terrestrial climate science

Awarded: NOK 17.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Staging of Plasma Accelerators for Realizing Timely Applications

High-energy physics is headed for an impasse: the next particle collider will cost several billion euros, and while designs have been ready for a decade, they are so expensive that no host country has come forward—a problem that will soon impact progress in the field. Plasma acceleration is a no...

Awarded: NOK 17.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo

CL4-Digital, Industry and Space

Crystalline Oxides for Next Generation Computing and Emerging Photonic Technologies

Continued evolution of ICT is stalling as a result of inherent limitations in traditional silicon semiconductor technology. Still, the need for more powerful and less energy-hungry electronic devices remains fast-growing. At the same time, new technology needs to adhere to a higher standard of su...

Awarded: NOK 17.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Mapping and Direct Sequencing of the Non-Canonical Cap Code

From their creation to their degradation, mRNAs are under extensive regulation. This regulation is directed not only by their nucleotide sequence and their promoter but also by post- and co-transcriptional modifications attached to the RNA. One of the most ubiquitous of these modifications in euk...

Awarded: NOK 20.2 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

DSTrain - Data Science Postdoctoral Training Programme

DSTrain - Data Science Postdoctoral Training Programme

Awarded: NOK 52.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Buskerud og 12 andre

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Literary Games, Poetics and the Early-Modern Novel

Literary games were a wide-spread practice in seventeenth-century France, and prominent novelists wrote fictions about a salon company playing the “game of the novel” (jeu du roman). While literary games were clearly defined, the novel was a genre that had yet to establish its standards. In order...

Awarded: NOK 20.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Archaeological Coastal Heritage: Past, present and future of a hidden prehistoric legacy

Archaeological Coastal Heritage: Past, present and future of a hidden prehistoric legacy

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage og 3 andre

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Learning the interaction rules of antibody-antigen binding

Learning the interaction rules of antibody-antigen binding

Awarded: NOK 22.8 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

The Novel and the Refugee: Contemporary Global Fiction and the Imaginary of Border Regimes

The Novel and the Refugee: Contemporary Global Fiction and the Imaginary of Border Regimes

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Oslo

CL5-Climate, Energy and Mobility

From solar energy to fuel: A holistic artificial photosynthesis platform for the production of viable solar fuels

From solar energy to fuel: A holistic artificial photosynthesis platform for the production of viable solar fuels

Awarded: NOK 21.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus og 2 andre

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Self-Assembly: Shifting our View of Life

Self-Assembly: Shifting our View of Life

Awarded: NOK 20.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Female Prophecy in Early Modern European Religion

This project is the first attempt to create a theoretical account of female prophecy in sixteenth century Italy, Spain and England as a key to understanding crucial political concepts such as authority, discipline, spirituality, agency and expectation. It identifies sixteenth-century Italian ‘liv...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Female Bodies in Sacred Spaces: Re-evaluating Women’s Agency in the Greek World.

Female Bodies in Sacred Spaces: Re-evaluating Women’s Agency in the Greek World.

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Synchronization of Physiological Rhythms between Musicians and Audiences in Live Concerts

Synchronization of Physiological Rhythms between Musicians and Audiences in Live Concerts

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo og 2 andre

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Modernist Occupations: Time in the Work of Literary Imagination

Modernist Occupations: Time in the Work of Literary Imagination

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo