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H20-ERC-European Research Council

Minuscule Texts: Marginalized Voices in Early Medieval Latin Culture (c. 700–c. 1000)

Awarded: NOK 26.7 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Coupled cluster theory for polaritons: changing molecular properties with quantum light

Awarded: NOK 26.8 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Break-Through Rocks

Deformation in Earth’s crust localizes onto faults that may rupture rapidly producing earthquakes or undergo slow aseismic slip. The detailed mechanisms that control the transition between the seismic and aseismic regimes and the onset of earthquakes remain unknown. These mechanisms control the g...

Awarded: NOK 27.6 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Looking for Super-Massive Neutron Stars

The astrophysics field of compact binary millisecond pulsars is thriving. This growing class of rapidly spinning neutron stars – also known as "spiders"– constitutes the most promising place to find massive pulsars. Super-massive neutron stars, with a mass significantly higher than two Solar mass...

Awarded: NOK 21.4 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Gender-Gap in Political Endurance: a novel political inclusion theory

Democracies are under pressure worldwide: The political landscape is rapidly changing, with new parties emerging and old ones suffering, as voters turn away from established parties. We also witness a significant gender-gap in political endurance, meaning that women’s careers as elected represent...

Awarded: NOK 25.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Fluid Inclusion Microthermometry in Speleothems

Ongoing global warming is rapidly moving us away from the climate states we are used to and understand from observational time series. This poses the urgent need to extend our “climate memory” by deciphering climate information stored in geologic archives. However, obtaining quantitative estimate...

Awarded: NOK 21.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Good attention: Attention norms and their role in practical reason, epistemology, and ethics

What is good attention? Much public discussion about social media, public health, and political debates is focused on versions of this question. What deserves our attention and how we should regulate attention in the face of distraction occupies the debate. What is missing is a philosophical inve...

Awarded: NOK 21.4 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Evolution of Cognitive Tools for Quantification

Exact quantification, including the ability to count, depends on both conceptual breakthroughs and cognitive tools such as numeral systems. These tools appear in striking diversity across cultures and manifest in different modalities (verbal, body-based, written, or material). To address the tant...

Awarded: NOK 28.6 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Vestland

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Openings to the Inclusion of Muslim Minorities in Today’s Democracies

At the heart of contemporary politics in the old democracies in Europe and North America is a significant puzzle. How come the far right, advocating a nativist agenda particularly opposed to Muslims and Islam, is advancing at a time when public opinion research documents stability or decline in i...

Awarded: NOK 21.4 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Evolution and mechanisms of thermal performance – answers through artificial selection in zebrafish

Awarded: NOK 21.4 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

H20-ERC-European Research Council

The changing relationships between digital technologies, DNA and evidence

The relationship between digital technologies, DNA and evidence is changing so rapidly and profoundly that in-depth and creative analyses of the links between them are urgently needed. Digital innovations within forensic DNA analysis affect the making of DNA evidence. For example, new computer pr...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Control of light vehicle-manipulator systems

Awarded: NOK 26.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Mathematical and Numerical Modelling of Process-Structure Interaction in Fractured Geothermal Systems

In the development and production of high-temperature geothermal resources, large induced gradients in pressure and temperature during injection operations results in complex dynamics. This includes boiling of geothermal fluids and deformation of the fractured rock, dynamics that are currently no...

Awarded: NOK 21.4 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Human History of Marine Life: Extraction, Knowledge, Drivers & Consumption of Marine Resources, c.100 BCE to c.1860 CE

4-OCEANS aims to assess the importance of marine life for human societies during the last two millennia. We contend that the harvest of marine resources played a critical, but as yet underappreciated and poorly understood, role in global history. To bridge this gap in our understanding, the four ...

Awarded: NOK 34.6 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove og 2 andre

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Innocent Children or Security Threats? European Children Born of War

How can we ensure that children born of war do not pay for the sins of their parents? Political debates about how to address the plight of children born of foreign fighters to ISIS/Daesh make this an acute concern in Europe today. The European debates are polarized; some argue that socialization ...

Awarded: NOK 19.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-ERC-European Research Council

MechANIsms and actors of Feasible Energy Transitions

The technologies needed to decarbonize the electricity system are already commercially available. There are mathematical models of how these technologies can be deployed sufficiently fast and at a large enough scale to displace fossil fuels to meet climate targets. Yet there is no scientific meth...

Awarded: NOK 0.80 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Migration rhythms in trajectories of upward social mobility in Asia

Ninety percent of the global increase in the size of middle classes is occurring in Asia. What is driving this tremendous middle-class expansion and how is it related to the unprecedented levels of internal and international migration in that region? Specifically, what roles does migration play i...

Awarded: NOK 16.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Exploring the Limits of Mass Transport in Electro-Chemical Energy Converters ThRough uncOnstrained Design and Interface Engineering

A promising option to store and transport clean energy are electrochemical fuels that can be converted to electricity on demand. Fuel cells, electrolysers and flow batteries are used for conversion to and from fuel and have advantages over batteries as storage capacity is cell size independent. R...

Awarded: NOK 16.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Detection and Speciation of Gas-Phase Atmospheric Peroxy and Criegee Radicals

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Adapted to War

Have humans evolved psychological adaptations to war? This question has generated major scientific debate involving anthropologists, archaeologists, economists, primatologists, psychologists, and political scientists. It has shaped popular perceptions of human nature and influenced the views of p...

Awarded: NOK 16.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-ERC-European Research Council

War and Fun: Reconceptualizing Warfare and Its Experience

Awarded: NOK 21.4 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Population Codes for Space in the Mammalian Cortex

Awarded: NOK 77.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Dissecting the paradox of stasis in evolutionary biology

There is something deeply disconcerting about the current state of knowledge on rates of morphological evolution across different timescales: Why do most species in the fossil record exhibit negligible morphological change when contemporary populations often respond rapidly to selection? The ROCK...

Awarded: NOK 16.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Protection without Ratification? International Refugee Law beyond States Parties to the 1951 Refugee Convention

Many of the world’s top refugee-hosting countries have neither signed nor ratified the 1951 Refugee Convention. So do international conventions make a difference? The Refugee Convention represents a paradigmatic – and exceptionally timely – test of this theoretical and empirical puzzle, for refug...

Awarded: NOK 14.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Understanding the causal nature of the relationship between infertility and cardiovascular disease

Awarded: NOK 15.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Anthropologies of Extortion

Extortion had come to occupy a quintessential position in the global imaginary of mafia-type-criminal organizations. Yet it is also increasingly present beyond clandestine criminal networks and is becoming a normalised profitable source of livelihood and governance and a key visible social relati...

Awarded: NOK 0.51 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Dynamic Territory: A Normative Framework for Territory in the Post-Holocene

Awarded: NOK 16.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Social Resilience, Gendered Dynamics, and Local Peace in Protracted Conflicts

How can ‘resilient communities’ remain resilient in protracted conflicts and contribute to sustainable peace rather than to increased vulnerability to renewed conflict? How do local conflicts link to national conflicts and what are the implications for peacebuilding? What are the gender dimension...

Awarded: NOK 14.8 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Quantifying the impact of major cultural transitions on marine ecosystem functioning and biodiversity

Awarded: NOK 0.38 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Vestland

H20-ERC-European Research Council

Creating building blocks for atomic-scale electronics

Awarded: NOK 18.2 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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