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MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Bystander Interventions in Attentional Shifts and Trends in Bullying Contexts

Bullying is a pervasive social issue that severely impacts mental health, as underscored by the European Commission's comprehensive approach to mental health in 2023. Despite ongoing prevention efforts, bullying remains widespread in Europe and globally. As bullying is a social phenomenon, the ro...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Rogaland

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Pioneering physics-based design of two-phase flow in energy materials via wettability control

We are at a pivotal time in climate action. To fight climate change, we need to accelerate scale-up of clean energy technologies, like fuel cells, electrolyzers, and batteries, which underpin our energy transition. A major bottleneck in accelerating rational design of next-generation devices is t...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Fostering Multilingualism through LAnguage TEacher COllaboration

The European Union advocates learning multiple languages in school as a cornerstone for addressing challenges and opportunities of increased linguistic and cultural diversity in Europe. However, teachers often struggle to adopt multilingual approaches, and effective collaboration across language ...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Vestland

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

RESilient DEMocracies: Rethinking Democratic Resilience through Citizens' Public Connection in Societies Under Pressure

Democratic societies face a critical challenge: Addressing combined global pressures like climate change, economic instability, and disinformation while preserving democratic norms. As governments work to tackle these issues, the burden of change often disrupts citizens lives, leading to democrat...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Vestland

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Multilingualism or Relative Engagement (MoRE): Neurocognitive Outcomes Beyond Bilingualism

This project aims to elucidate whether and how true multilingualism would induce different neurocognitive adaptations from bilingualism. While it may be intuitive to think that managing more than two languages would result in further and/or distinct adaptations, limited available research on mult...

Awarded: Hidden

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Priests’ Books and the Popularisation of the Contemplative Life in England, 1300–1550

PopLatin aims to write a new history of lay contemplative spirituality in the Middle Ages. Medieval people understood contemplation as the highest religious experience: a revelation of divine love that could only occur, rarely, for those most committed to God. PopLatin offers a novel account of m...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Vestland

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

High-order geometric derivatives with multilevel coupled cluster theory

Spectroscopy involving molecular vibrations is an important class of experimental techniques, and accurate simulation tools based on computational quantum chemistry can greatly enhance our understanding and interpretation of the observed phenomena in these experiments. The most accurate quantum c...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Studying hybrid speciation and introgression using a natural fungal model system

Hybridisation, mating between distinct species or divergent populations, can lead to a variety of different outcomes. Many hybrid offspring will have low fitness or be inviable, while others may increase fitness under extreme conditions by producing transgressive hybrids with phenotypes outside o...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Proglacial lake impacts on the export of Organic carbon and Nutrients to Downstream ecosystems

Glacier retreat is accelerating in response to climate warming, leading to an increase in the number and total area of proglacial lakes globally. Proglacial lakes have the potential to modulate glacial runoff via sediment immobilization and in-lake biogeochemical cycling, with implications for th...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Oslo og 2 andre

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Rethinking medieval and modern sexualities through the ‘harlot saint’ Thais

This project examines the uses, abuses, and controversies of the early Christian figure of Thais, sex worker turned saint, as a transformative lens onto the complex cultural intersection of sex and religion in the Middle Ages. THAISIS aims to answer two questions: how did this severe, shocking na...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Vestland

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Wide bandgap semiconductor TiO2 isotope battery

Long-life and maintenance-free energy sources for Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) in extreme environments is a research challenge in the field of micro-energy worldwide. One of the most promising solutions to this challenge is the development of micro-energy batteries that utilize isotope...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Vestfold

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Native vs. Borrowed Morphologies: The Case of Trojan Horse Participles in Senhaja Amazigh (Berber)

Understanding how morphologies from different languages co-exist in the bilingual brain is a central testing ground for theories of language in the brain. NABOR investigates the differences in interpretation and processing of native vs. borrowed morphologies in the context of language contact amo...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

FUNCTUMUS: The Functional Turn in Music

Streaming, now the dominant format for music consumption, has fundamentally altered musics role in daily life. With platforms encouraging users to engage with music as a tool for mood regulation and activity enhancement through curated playlists and streams, this shift has created whit might be t...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Deciphering Evolutionary Innovations: Comparative genomics of the origin and loss of venom in marine snails

Deciphering Evolutionary Innovations: Comparative genomics of the origin and loss of venom in marine snails

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Multilingual Transmission in Indigenous Languages in the Diaspora

Multilingual Transmission in Indigenous Languages in the Diaspora

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Chemosensation in Holothruoids

Chemosensation is a critical signalling process for sea cucumbers which relies on the interaction between their chemosensory receptors and various ligands for foraging and reproduction. Although there is a vast amount of research on the chemistry of secreted specialized metabolites of sea cucumbe...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Vestland

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Extending Techniques in Wall-Crossing and Enumerative Sheaf Theory

Extending Techniques in Wall-Crossing and Enumerative Sheaf Theory

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Virtual Immersion for Student Awareness of Climate Change

The Virtual Immersion for Student Awareness of Climate Change project (VISTA) is a design-based research initiative aimed at enhancing lower-secondary school students awareness of climate change and its global consequences. Climate change and its adverse effects on individuals are among the most...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Geometric and Numerical Analysis of Dynamical Control Systems

This multidisciplinary project bridges differential geometry, optimal control, and numerical analysis, with practical applications in robotic engineering. It introduces a novel approach to path-planning for dynamical control systems on Riemannian manifolds, simplifying many challenges of modern g...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Health, European Muslims and Gender: Medical Authority and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Sunni Islam

Infertility is estimated to affect an average of 14% people worldwide. It is an issue that affects equally both men and women, although it is often associated with a women’s social burden and the case of Islam is not an exception. While religion influences Muslims’ health beliefs, behaviours and ...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Phages against MDR Enterococcus faecium

Due to its multidrug resistance (MDR), Enterococcus faecium (Efm) poses a challenge to the healthcare system and renders most standard antibiotics useless. Bacteriophage (phage) therapy has resurfaced as a treatment strategy for bacterial infections due to increasing antibiotic resistance. Its a...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

High Performance Half Heusler Thermoelectrics for Waste Heat Recovery

This project aims to develop high-performance, low-cost and environmentally-friendly Half Heusler (HH) thermoelectric (TE) materials for waste heat recovery in mid-temperature applications. It is an interdisciplinary research program, combining research actions from five different scientific fiel...

Awarded: Hidden

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Rogaland

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Flashback and Thermoacoustic Instabilities in Hydrogen/Ammonia Flames

Carbon-free fuels, such as hydrogen (H2) and ammonia (NH3) can be produced from renewable energy, holding vast potential to develop carbon-free combustion technology and ensure a secure energy supply. Significant differences in the characteristics of the two fuels compared with traditional hydroc...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Development of an Innovative Tilted Counter-Rotating Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (TCR-VAWT) Optimized to Operate Tilted on Spar-Buoy Floating Platforms

Offshore wind power is set to be a key driver in the global shift towards renewable energy. The EU Green Deal aims to boost offshore wind capacity by 300 GW by 2050. However, 80% of the world's offshore wind potential is located in deep waters where traditional fixed-bottom turbines are impractic...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Akershus og 2 andre

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Unravelling the Role of Interfacial Effects on Corrosion Thermodynamics in CCS

Corrosion has enormous economic, safety, and environmental impacts. In CO2 capture and storage (CCS), CO2 and acidic impurities can significantly accelerate corrosion when water is present. When the water composition is below the solubility limit in the CO2-rich phase, water can still form thin f...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

MIGRANTS IN THE POLITICS OF ENERGY DECARBONISATION

Migrants In the Politics of Energy Decarbonisation (MIPED), a research project conducted by Roco Hiraldo under the supervision of David Jordhus-Lier at the University of Oslo (UiO), will study the place of migrant workers in the politics of energy decarbonisation, a question underexplored in the ...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

The influence of pregnancy on maternal osteology in marine amniotes

Placentotrophy (delivery of nutrients to the fetus throughout pregnancy) is a highly derived reproductive strategy present in most mammals and some other vertebrates, including a handful of reptiles. Even though many different viviparous (life-birthing) reptiles are known in the fossil record, th...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

PrepApp: An Embodied Scenes approach for the teaching and learning of English prepositions

Prepositions play a critical role in communicating spatial relations that involve real-world physical entities (e.g., The keys are on the dresser) and abstract concepts (time after time), yet teaching their usage patterns can be tricky (Tyler, 2012). The research question addressed by this projec...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

The Immunological Puzzle of Atlantic Cod: Thriving Without MHC II

Title: The Immunological Puzzle of Atlantic Cod: Thriving Without MHC II Francisellosis is a bacterial infection caused by Francisella noatunensis subsp noatunensis (F.n.n) in teleosts such as Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua). These vulnerable Atlantic cods are crucial for sustainability of the North...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Closely Related Languages: Processing, Attrition and Exposure

Mainland Scandinavian (MSc) marks a fascinating linguistic scenario: relying on mutual intelligibility, speakers use their native language (L1) when conversing with foreign MSc-interlocutors and keep doing so even if immersed in the target speech community for years. This raises the question if n...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa