251 projects

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Which building blocks for coordinating resource distribution are so basic that they manifest even in infancy?

Which building blocks for coordinating resource distribution are so basic that they manifest even in infancy?

Awarded: NOK 15.2 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

EXamining how Past demography affects genetic LOad using Ancient DNA

EXamining how Past demography affects genetic LOad using Ancient DNA

Awarded: NOK 6.1 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Micro-level Politics of Peace

Micro-level Politics of Peace

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

SUITCASES – Adaptive photobiont community assemblage as a process of lichen response to changing environments

Lichens – are complex and dynamic symbiotic entities formed by fungi living together with algal photobionts. They are key organisms for alpine, tundra and taiga biomes. They are famous for their tremendous adaptive ability to a wide range of environments and also to the harshest conditions such ...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Lacewing venom: Linking the molecular and phenotypic evolution of adaptive traits

Understanding the ability of species to adapt to their environment, or their evolvability, is central to evolutionary biology. Most traits are complex in that their phenotype results from the contributions of many genes with small, sometimes non-additive effects. While quantitative genetics has b...

Awarded: NOK 15.2 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Smart Planning, Operation and Control for Energy Internet

Smart Planning, Operation and Control for Energy Internet

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-ERC-European Research Council

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

MINiTEXTS seeks to systematically study early medieval minuscule texts, i.e. short texts of which large numbers were added to blank spaces of Latin manuscripts from c. 700 to c. 1000 and which manuscript scholars refer to as “microtexts,” “guest texts,” or “additions.” Unlike such manuscripts’ ma...

Awarded: NOK 26.7 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Soviet Ellipses: Omissions as Techniques of Border Transgression in Photography, Literature, and Everyday Life

Soviet Ellipses: Omissions as Techniques of Border Transgression in Photography, Literature, and Everyday Life

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Investigation of Climatic Events - Cooling and Ash in the Palaeogene

The Palaeogene period in the early Cenozoic (66 – 23 million year ago) saw the transition of the Earth’s climate state from Greenhouse (with no polar ice-caps, as characterised the entire Mesozoic) to Icehouse (as we see today with Polar ice caps). Understanding the dynamics in climate during suc...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Nezam and Nazm: Iran's Concept of International Order

Nezam and Nazm: Iran's Concept of International Order

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

A Deep Learning approach for boulder detection –The key to understand planetary surfaces evolution and their crater statistics-based ages

Many planetary surfaces are heavily cratered as they witnessed the early stages of Solar System evolution during which impact cratering was a frequent process. Upon impact, rock fragments are ejected from the crater cavity and deposited elsewhere on the surface, where they potentially form second...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Ethnicity-Based Parenting for Child’s Online Safety/Risks

Ethnic vulnerability to risk factors, such as stigmatisation, is inhibitory to parental self-efficacy, either inflating or deflating their confidence in how much they are aware of their child’s online safety/risks. Confident parents tend to underestimate how frequently their child has experienced...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Rethinking Mary in Early Modern Italy: Men's and Women's perspectives on the Virgin Mary (1450-1650)

RethinkingMary aims to explore the cultural impact of the literary representations of the Virgin Mary on the construction of women's identity in early modern Italy. Using methodological approaches from philology, history of ideas, history of women and gender studies, Dr Carinci will build and eva...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Socially Distanced Solidarity: Far Right Recruitment and Enrolment During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Socially Distanced Solidarity: Far Right Recruitment and Enrolment During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-ERC-European Research Council

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

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

Awarded: NOK 21.4 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

A Gendered History of Emotions in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy

WomenThinkingLove will provide the first History of Emotions of Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy, with regard to the system love/marriage/adultery, from a gender perspective. As Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy are still under-investigated from the perspective of the History of ...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Combining Machine Learning and Quantum Chemistry for the Design of Homogeneous Catalysts

Combining Machine Learning and Quantum Chemistry for the Design of Homogeneous Catalysts

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

COllective ROBOtics through Real-time Entrainment of Evolved dynamical Systems

COllective ROBOtics through Real-time Entrainment of Evolved dynamical Systems

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Index of Middle English Prose: Digital Cotton Catalogue Project

The Index of Middle English Prose (IMEP) is the most important reference tool for Middle English non-verse texts. It seeks, for the first time, to locate and identify all surviving English prose texts composed between c. 1200 and 1500. In this project I will aim at developing and testing an innov...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Becoming Indigenous language speakers and writers in higher education

Becoming Indigenous language speakers and writers in higher education

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

The Division of Ethics from Political Philosophy: Kant and Baumgarten on Right, Virtue, and Justice

The Division of Ethics from Political Philosophy: Kant and Baumgarten on Right, Virtue, and Justice

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Digital Folklore as Critical Heritage Production and Participation in Contemporary Norway

Digital Folklore as Critical Heritage Production and Participation in Contemporary Norway

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

The neoMONSTERS Within: The Others in India’s Science Fiction

The Science Fiction (SF) of a spatio-temporal location is a window into the soul of a people. It manifests the “cultural unease” that specific identities evoke in the national imagination. SF not only demonstrates how contesting ideologies slug it out within the ring of the popular but also inter...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Novelties, Biases, and Landscapes in Evolution

Several challenges undermine our ability to predict the course of evolution: the likelihood of evolutionary novelties, the impact of the adaptive landscape, and the influence of developmental biases. NOBLE (NOvelties, Biases, and Landscapes in Evolution) will make use of cutting-edge machine lear...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Incremental Sound Change in Oslo (ISC-Oslo)

Incremental Sound Change in Oslo (ISC-Oslo)

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

A probabilistic framework for assessing polar wander – Constraining paleolongitude in deep time

A probabilistic framework for assessing polar wander – Constraining paleolongitude in deep time

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo - Oslove

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

TraCS - Training in Computational Science

The use of computing is revolutionizing research, industry, government and society, and new skills are needed to be competitive. The COMPSCI doctoral program will train science researchers and innovators with disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transferable skills and a foundation in computationa...

Awarded: NOK 25.7 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Made in Sweatshops. Worker, technology and Gender (comparison Paris-Shanghai, Late 19th c.-Late 20th c.)

Made in Sweatshops. Worker, technology and Gender (comparison Paris-Shanghai, Late 19th c.-Late 20th c.)

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Oslo - Oslove