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MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Precision nutrition and postprandial immune responses

A grand challenge for sustainable development in Europe is to improve public health through reducing incidence of non-communicable diseases, premature mortality and health costs. An unhealthy diet is one of the most important risk factors for the global burden of diseases. Therefore, changing the...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Past and Future High-resolution Global Glacier Mass Changes

World-wide glaciers are losing mass which affects global sea-level, river runoff, freshwater influx to the oceans, glacier-related hazards, and landscape changes, with implications for human livelihoods and ecosystems. Hence, accurate estimates of past, current and future glacier mass variations ...

Awarded: NOK 25.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Feminisms and the Mobilisation of Law in Gulf Countries

Abstract: Current literature have tended to analyze feminist activisms in MENA almost exclusively from the point of view of their effect on social change broadly defined, reemphasising the reifications of women as victims by sharia laws, the veil and repressive cultural and political systems. In ...

Awarded: NOK 14.7 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

HeaLS - Effects of the implementation of the interdisciplinary topic “Health and Life Skills” in schools

Awarded: NOK 19.5 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Comparative-historical analysis of the clausal structure in Reefs-Santa Cruz languages

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Ecocritical Approach to Land Subsidence in Italy's Po Delta region

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Scandinavian Digital Literature

The ScanDigiLit project will digitally investigate how the Italian-French discourse on Scandinavian authors and culture has been structured and evolved through articles that appeared in Italian and French cultural magazines between 1870 and 1914. Through a newly developed analytical method rooted...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Amber Worlds: A Geological Anthropology for the Anthropocene

The Anthropocene compels us to question established categories and binaries through which we understand the world and act in it: human and nonhuman, life and nonlife, biological and geological. What we still lack is a theoretical framework, methodological and storytelling tools, to analyse enviro...

Awarded: NOK 15.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Barents Sea Arctic Cenozoic Evolution and Paleogeographical Reconstructions

This project "Barents Sea Arctic Cenozoic Evolution and Paleogeographical Reconstructions (BRAVO)" aims to reconstruct the Barents Sea Gateway since the Cenozoic (the last 66 Myr). To do so, BRAVO’s objectives are to 1) reveal the effect of sediment loading–unloading, lithospheric strength, and...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Homological Invariants of Deformations of Groups and Algebras

The pervasive role of algebraic topology in mathematics is proof of the powerful effects that homological invariants produce in the development of the discipline. Extending these techniques beyond the category of topological spaces, in order to include "quantized" systems arising from dynamical s...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

PolyPro3: Ecology and evolution of the tripartite symbioses between polychaetes and their protistan parasites

Marine polychaete worms (Annelida) are key organisms in marine benthic ecosystems. They have important roles from decomposers to consumers and due to their burrowing lifestyle, they actively participate in oxygenation of sediments maintaining benthic ecosystem health. Polychaetes are known to hos...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

A Conceptual History of 'Tradition' in the Modern Arab World: Egypt and Greater Syria in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Tradition is a key analytical concept in the study of Islam, Muslims, and the Middle East in western academia. In late 19th and early 20th-century discourses, the concept elicited negative connotations, such as stagnation, backwardness, and irrationality. In recent decades, scholars revised the...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

CoFutures Literacy

People around the world imagine futures differently. These imaginations of the future are most clearly found in the fictions they produce (Future Fictions or Speculative Fiction; SF). SF acts as a repository of ideas related to societal change, technological change, climate change, and other kind...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Tool for the Analysis of Information Transfer in Manuscript Cultures

This PoC project aims to alleviate the hesitancy of scholars working on texts preserved in manuscripts or other handwritten media, to adopt advanced digital methodologies in their research, by developing a free, shareable, flexible, low-threshold research tool, which may be used as a starting poi...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Rationally-designed Turbo reagents for Innovative Organometallics

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Bioactive multiphase membrane for periodontal regeneration

Periodontitis is one of the world's most prevalent chronic dental and maxillofacial diseases that will ultimately lead to unwanted tooth loss. This disease was responsible for a significant loss of € 158.64 billion in Europe in 2018. Due to the complexity of the grafting treatment techniques, the...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Oslo

CL1-Health

Strengthening Clinical Trial Regulatory and Ethical review Oversight in East Africa

There is an increase in the number of drug development clinical trials conducted in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), including vaccine development studies for poverty-related diseases (PRDs) underway in SSA. These increases have not been matched with increase in regulatory support and ethical review for...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Unifying classicality and non-classicality

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Designing and Thin Film Engineering of Organic Plastic Ionic Ferroelectrics towards Multi-sensor Electronic Skin

Organic plastic ferroelectrics with inherent pyroelectric and piezoelectric properties have the potential to outperform traditional ceramic ferroelectrics, particularly in terms of sustainability and large area fabrication as flexible coatings. The latter is highly sought as means to continue the...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Akershus og 2 andre

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

State-dependent cloud phase feedbacks: enhancing understanding and assessing global effects

The ways in which clouds change with global warming remain elusive, as are the associated cloud-climate feedbacks that govern most of the spread in climate sensitivity simulated by current Earth System Models. This uncertainty in turn limits society's ability to take necessary action to avoid dan...

Awarded: NOK 22.9 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

From Stick to Screen: Digital Editions of Runic Inscriptions as Research Tools

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Norwegian Romantic Nationalisms

NORN seeks to uncover both the affective and ideological dynamics of romantic nationalism, examining how collective emotions related to the idea of the nation were harnessed, activated, and constructed through literature and theater, using Norway as a case study. NORN forges a highly innovative a...

Awarded: NOK 25.4 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION OF POLITICAL ECONOMICS

Awarded: NOK 19.4 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo

ERA-Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System

Beyond Bad Apples: Towards a Behavioral and Evidence-Based Approach to Promote Research Ethics and Research Integrity in Europe

Awarded: NOK 6.5 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

A methodology for integrating community acceptance of wind energy into energy system modelling (ESM)

Decarbonisation of the energy system is key to achieving the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global temperature rise to below 2°C which can be achieved by electrified and interconnected systems with a high share of variable renewables. This transition is shaped by uncertain factors, which includ...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Construction in the Formal Sciences

The notion of construction figures centrally in mathematics and other formal sciences. An idealized, infinitary constructional approach is successfully applied to set theory, which provides the foundation for contemporary mathematics. C-FORS aims to develop new, similarly groundbreaking applicati...

Awarded: NOK 20.6 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Causes and Consequences of Labor Market Flexibility

Globalization and technological change have transformed the workplace and the organization of labor. At the core of these major developments is the degree of flexibility in the labor market. Alternative work arrangements, e.g., outsourcing, sub-contracting, flexible scheduling, and flexible pay j...

Awarded: NOK 15.2 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Iraqi Cinema Beyond the Screen

In the beginning of the 20th century, Iraqi cities and urban environments changed and new public spheres and forms of work and leisure emerged. New neighborhoods, and institutions, cafés, and theaters changed the structure of urban life. In the process, modern leisure and entertainment began movi...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Market Access and Economic Development

A huge challenge for research and policy efforts to accelerate economic development is that firms in poor countries grow surprisingly slowly, making job creation in the “Global South” difficult to achieve. We don’t know why: the existing literature has focused on internal (or “supply-side”) deter...

Awarded: NOK 19.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Untangling Ediacaran Paleomagnetism to Contextualize Immense Global Change

The Ediacaran-early Cambrian (~635-520 Ma) was an interval of immense global change with fundamental state shifts occurring in the bio-cryo- and atmosphere. Such changes included the abrupt appearance and rapid diversification of modern metazoan life (the Ediacaran fauna and Cambrian ‘explosion’)...

Awarded: NOK 20.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Oslo

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