1,539 projects

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Frost Cleaning of Sea Lice 2

Sea lice are tiny parasites that cause big problems in fish farming. Traditional methods to remove them, like using chemicals, are becoming less effective due to resistance. Plus, these methods can harm the fish and the environment. Mechanical removal, which involves flushing the fish with seawat...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

DERISK: How firms navigate de-risking regimes

The global economic paradigm in the West is undergoing a significant shift from a focus on integration and prosperity to one centered on economic security and risk management. This change is driven by concerns that economic interdependence can lead to vulnerabilities and coercive power dynamics. ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

AlgFlavor, Enhancing algal biomass consumer acceptance for food markets

We wish to investigate how and if algae can be used for food. Coming from way down low in the food chain, ie. at a low trophic level, the usage of them can be more eco-friendly than other food sources. In Europe, algae remain a poorly used resource. Perhaps this is related to taste, aroma and the...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

SBEP - PalmariaPlus, Unlocking the potential of two high value seaweed species, Dulse and Irish moss, in Europe.

Seaweed farming is one of the most sustainable forms of aquaculture, and this emerging industry is expanding rapidly in Norway and beyond. Currently, most seaweed farms in Norway and Europe focus on cultivating brown macroalgae (kelp) because of its rapid growth and ease of reproduction. Red seaw...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

A MOSAIC Foundational Cross-Functional ECS Technologies Fostering Productivity and Sovereignty in Europe Across Versatile Industrial Domains

MOSAIC addresses a significant challenge to European competitiveness: technological dependence in the rapidly evolving field of automated systems. By fostering innovation in Electronic Components and Systems (ECS), MOSAIC aims to propel Europe to a leadership position. The project achieves this t...

Awarded: NOK 7.3 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

The ideological production, policy outcomes and practices of wartime Putinism

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, a consensus formed that political ideologies were no longer central to world politics. In contrast to the infamous Marxist and National Socialist regimes, ideology was not viewed as central to the new wave of authoritarianism that emerged and consolidat...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Religious gender justice activism (GenderJustice)

Rights related to gender equality and non-discrimination are increasingly under attack, with significant backlash against women’s rights, sexual and reproductive health rights, and LGBTIQ+ rights, both globally and locally. The debates have become highly polarized, often influenced by religious a...

Awarded: NOK 11.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Developing inclusive business model (BM) concepts for solar food drying in the Himalaya region

Recent global crises related to both climate change and human conflict have illustrated an acute vulnerability of the global food system to food shocks. Most evident are the effects where poverty and food insecurity already are prevalent. While challenges with preserving and storing food after ha...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Trade-offs in Blended Finance for Development

Governments and international organizations are increasingly using public funds to attract private investments for development projects. This approach, called "blended finance," aims to reduce risks for private investors and draw more money into socially beneficial projects. However, we lack soli...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Private and Efficient Distributed Learning

How can organizations leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to collaborate effectively without compromising privacy or sensitive data? Traditional AI systems often require centralizing data for training, which raises significant privacy concerns and may not be feasible with sensitive information....

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Vestland

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

From combatants and war supporters to peacemakers? Women’s participation in political violence and political transitions

In the “Gendered Transitions”-project, the researchers will study how women’s participation in political violence translates into their participation in peace processes. After many years of international activism to advance the Women, Peace and Security agenda, women are still marginalized in pea...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Promoting responsiveness and equity for primary health care decisions through voice

Strong primary health care (PHC) can save lives and money. ProtEqt Voice aims to strengthen PHC services, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, through increasing people’s voice in budgeting decisions. Partnering with KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Ifakara Health Institute...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Simula Seminar: Securing Critical Digital National Infrastructure

In this seminar, Simula brings together participants from research as well as practitioners from industry and the public sector in the field of security and critical infrastructure. This event is motivated by the report by the Lysne III-comission on national control of digital infrastructure (E...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Oslo

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Wildfire safety of homes and other vulnerable establishments in the wildland-urban interface

Wildfires are becoming more common and intense due to climate change, urban growth, and changes in how land is used, posing new risks for communities in areas where wildlands meet towns and cities (the Wildland-Urban Interface, or WUI). The goal of the WildfireSafe project is to help protect home...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Participatory pathways for resilient, healthy, prosperous, and equitable food and land systems under climate change

Food and land use systems are impacted by global warming but also contribute to warming and ecosystem challenges. Climate impacts are already noticeable, and increasingly serious with continued warming. Consequences include challenges to food production, ecosystem functioning, and human, animal a...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo

SIKKERHET-SIKKERHET

Ethical Risk Management for AI-enabled Weapons: A Systems Approach (ERM)

There has been a steep increase in the reliance on AI tools for warfighting, fueling a push for weapon systems to perform more tasks without direct human intervention. This shift in the way wars are fought have rightly led to a range of ethical worries around the use of AI for life-or-death dec...

Awarded: NOK 11.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Expanding the search for new ways of working along the Humanitarian-Development-Peace nexus (EXPAND)

We live in an age defined by uncertainty, where increasing numbers of people are displaced. Humanitarian needs in protracted displacement situations are rising due to ongoing and escalating conflicts, often in intersection with increased economic inequality and the effects of climate change. Amid...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

HESTEFORSK Antibiotics in horse breeding- a double-edged sword threatening horses in the future?

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a slow threat not only to human health but also to equine health and the horse breeding system of today. It is a slow but steadily growing problem that, in the future could potentially render antibiotics ineffective, leading to untreatable infections. We will con...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Akershus

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Tracing Health Impacts of the Plastic Value Chain on Vulnerable Populations in Kenya

Human health impacts associated with the plastics value chain are only beginning to be understood. Vulnerable groups—such as formal and informal workers across the plastic value chain including waste pickers, as well as women, children, and persons with disabilities—often bear the brunt of these ...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Oslo

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Eritrean diaspora engagement and its impact on European democracies

In early September 2023, violent clashes involving the Eritrean community in Bergen, Norway, caught the public's eye. These incidents highlighted the impact of events in Eritrea on Eritreans living in Norway. The events in Bergen weren't isolated - similar violent protests had taken place across ...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Vestland

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Micro-Foundations of Peace: Bureaucrats, Civilians, and Peacebuilding in Colombia (MicroPeace)

Peace accords aim to end wars and create lasting peace, but they often fall short. The MicroPeace project explores why this happens by focusing on two often-overlooked groups critical to peacebuilding: bureaucrats, who make decisions on implementing peace measures, and civilians, who react to the...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Oslo

SIKKERHET-SIKKERHET

Resource Enhancement, Strategic Planning, Optimization, and Novel Data-driven methods for safety and security at SEA

The main objective of RESPOND-SEA is to advance knowledge for improving cross-sectoral interaction, cooperation and coordination in the management of critical societal functions related to activities in Norwegian sea areas. The maritime domain is critical for Norwegian society, both for transpor...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FFLJA-FFLJA

Advancing adaptation and adoption of new forages in Norway: An innovative farmer-led research approach via citizen science

A stable supply of high-quality forage is essential for the economic output and sustainability of milk and meat production, the economically most important agricultural production in Norway. Further successful forage production in Norway depends on species, cultivars, and seed mixtures that can ...

Awarded: Hidden

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Cultivating sustainable changes in livestock feed production and feeding practices (Feed&Feeding)

The project will evaluate various strategies for feed production and feeding practices to enhance the sustainability of Norway's food system and support national agricultural policy goals. These strategies include adjusting livestock diets, improving breeding and animal health, and introducing ne...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Akershus

FFLJA-FFLJA

HealthyCucumber: Sustainable plant health management in modern greenhouse cucumber production

The HealthyCucumber project aims to find plant health solutions for challenges related to modern greenhouse production of cucumber in Norway. Implementation of new technology in greenhouse production, such as semi closed production, LED-lighting, and water recirculation systems, create changes in...

Awarded: Hidden

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Akershus

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Multi-scale analysis of the health attributes of plastic recycling in India

Efforts to combat plastic pollution by increasing recycling rates are gaining prominence globally. Yet, the health impacts of plastic recycling in low- and middle-income countries remain poorly understood. To avoid shifting the burden of the “green transition” onto vulnerable populations, it is c...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Locating and utilizing Norway’s lost and underused agricultural land reserves

While agricultural land is crucial for self-sufficiency and food security, this is a scarce resource in Norway. It is also an endangered resource because it is often demolished for housing development and infrastructure. At the same time, it is more difficult to establish new agricultural land wh...

Awarded: NOK 11.6 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

ArcticCrypt 2025 - The World's Northernmost Cryptography Conference

ArcticCrypt, the world’s northernmost cryptography conference, will take place in Longyearbyen, Svalbard in the period 6th - 11th of July 2025. The conference provides a unique venue for cryptography experts to network, discuss, and disseminate the latest results in cryptography and cyber securit...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Vestland

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Reducing societal risk in a changing climate using nature-based solutions in sustainable urban area development

A rapidly increasing proportion of the Norwegian population lives in urban areas, causing increased pressure on urban land use. Urban municipal policy places further pressure on land use in urban areas by favouring population densification and industrial development in existing areas rather than ...

Awarded: NOK 11.6 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SIKKERHET-SIKKERHET

Beredt! - Scalable Services & Risk-Based Governance for Climate-Driven Natural Hazards in Norway

Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of floods, landslides, and avalanches. This is placing increased strain on agencies responsible for preparedness and response in Norway. The Beredt! project will address this by developing solutions that enhance local preparedness and trans...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Oslo