240 projects

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Causes and Consequences of Labor Market Flexibility

Causes and Consequences of Labor Market Flexibility

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: 2022-2026

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Market Access and Economic Development

Market Access and Economic Development

Awarded: NOK 19.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Untangling Ediacaran Paleomagnetism to Contextualize Immense Global Change

Untangling Ediacaran Paleomagnetism to Contextualize Immense Global Change

Awarded: NOK 20.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Generative idleness and gestures of reparation: the resurgence and promises of intentional fallowing practices in European regenerative agriculture

Generative idleness and gestures of reparation: the resurgence and promises of intentional fallowing practices in European regenerative agriculture

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

FRAME – Fungal Research in the Age of Museomic Exploration: revisiting historical lichen collections

With current projections of fungal diversity estimated at 2.2 to 3.8 million species, only 3-5% of those species are currently accepted. Within this group, lichen-forming fungi comprise c. 17% of known fungal diversity, playing fundamental roles in the world ecosystems. However, considering that ...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Post-Repatriation: Collaborative Methodologies to Enhance Multivocality

Post-Repatriation: Collaborative Methodologies to Enhance Multivocality

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku og 2 andre

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Before Copyright: Printing Privileges and the Politics of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

BE4COPY examines the long-term history of printing privileges from a cross-disciplinary and European perspective. These privileges provided exclusive rights for the production of books and images: they can be considered one of the precursors of what we now call ‘copyrights’. Introduced around 147...

Awarded: NOK 15.2 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

The PsychoGeography of Intergenerational Mobility: Early life socioeconomic position, mental health, and educational performance

Surging inequality is a defining feature of the world children grow up in today. The neighborhood they live in stages a primary developmental context where this feature of our present time plays out. Children’s demographic and socio-economic status (SES) is given by the status of their parents. P...

Awarded: NOK 21.9 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Moral residue - epistemological ramifications, ethical implications and didactic opportunities

This project is a contribution to moral philosophy, to the didactics of transformative reading and to medical ethics education. It examines moral residue (MR); the distress experience common among health care practitioners as well as other moral agents of recognizing what they take to be their ow...

Awarded: NOK 11.7 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Oslo

CL1-Health

OPTIMISING COLORECTAL CANCER PREVENTION TROUGH PERSONALISED TREATMENT WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

OPTIMISING COLORECTAL CANCER PREVENTION TROUGH PERSONALISED TREATMENT WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Awarded: NOK 32.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

T cell subsets underlying the rise, fall and recall of the Germinal Center

Follicular helper T cells (Tfh), through their cognate interactions with B cells, drive the Germinal Center (GC) reaction resulting in affinity matured memory B cells and Plasma cells, hallmarks of the adaptive immunity and underpinning our ability to counter pathogenic insults. For mounting a su...

Awarded: NOK 21.6 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Impact of Timanian faults on Arctic Tectonics

ArcTec proposes to study (1) the westward extent, kinematics and timing of formation, and (2) reactivation–overprint of Timanian (i.e., ca. 600 million years old) faults during subsequent tectonic events in the Arctic, and to (3) insert these faults into a detailed tectonic evolution model for Sv...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Petro-Ambiguity: Oil, Environment and National Identity in the Bruneian Imaginary

Petro-Ambiguity: Oil, Environment and National Identity in the Bruneian Imaginary

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

A Coupled Finite Element Framework for Multi-Physics Environmental Flows

HYDROCOUPLE proposes to develop (1) a new coupled finite element (FE) method for environmental flows, (2) goal-oriented adaptive mesh refinement strategies, and (3) to apply the new techniques to physical watersheds for verification of its capabilities as well as to demonstrate these. The project...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Histories of Reception of Photography in the Ottoman Empire

Histories of Reception of Photography in the Ottoman Empire

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Oslo

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Metallolinker-Functionalized MOF Catalysts for CO2 Hydrogenation

Metallolinker-Functionalized MOF Catalysts for CO2 Hydrogenation

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Cloud-Phase Feedback and Climate: bridging the gap between observation and simulation

Earth’s climate is rapidly changing, with major socioeconomic consequences. A key scientific challenge is to improve climate-model projections by reducing uncertainty in cloud-climate feedbacks. The proposed research will investigate a cloud-feedback mechanism that has a potentially powerful but ...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Oslo

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

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Poles and People: Geographical Societies, Statehood, and Civil Society in Transnational Perspective (1870-1925)

This project investigates the foundation of statehood, science popularisation, and (trans)national cooperation with specific regard to the Polar Regions and “inner Africa”. In the nineteenth century, geographical societies formed the institutional base for the rising field of geographical researc...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

EXamining how Past demography affects genetic LOad using Ancient DNA

DNA can survive millennia post-mortem, spanning ecological and evolutionary transitions and providing a unique window into the processes underlying biodiversity. As such sequencing ancient DNA from temporally spaced samples can allow the testing of hypotheses related to evolutionary responses to ...

Awarded: NOK 6.4 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Oslo og 2 andre

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Micro-level Politics of Peace

Peace settlements are elite pacts that ignore the views of the population, those most affected by the conflict, which leads to a lack of buy-in for sustainable peace. The project “Micro-level Politics of Peace” (MICROPOLPAX) puts individuals at the centre of the focus and asks what peace means to...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

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

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

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

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

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

Awarded: NOK 15.2 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Smart Planning, Operation and Control for Energy Internet

The planning, operation and control is of importance to the Energy Internet (EI). With large numbers of energy routers (ERs) integrated into EI, the EI system becomes more complex and variable. This state of affairs renders it is necessary to develop new architecture, modelling, optimization and ...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Oslo

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

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

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

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

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