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ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

An Ecological History of Eurasian Art: Natural Resources, Aesthetic Practices, and Early Modern Globalization

Works of art are repositories of environmental knowledge. Paintings, sculptures, and artifacts preserve material evidence of the use of natural resources like mineral pigments, plant-based dyes, and precious metals, and contribute to a visual archive of human interaction with nature by providing ...

Awarded: NOK 22.8 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

The Survival of Damaged Medieval Polychromed Heritage in the Nordics

POLYCHROME will study the shifting fortunes of richly painted and gilded (polychromed) Christian images that have survived in the Nordic countries since the Reformation. How have wooden sculptures, panel paintings, shrines, and winged altarpieces transformed from potent objects of devotion to cul...

Awarded: NOK 30.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Icevoltaics: from the Workman-Reynolds Freezing Potentials to Electrical Energy

Water and aqueous solutions release a huge amount of thermal energy during freezing. Accessing energy utilizing the freezing process has never been attempted until today. It is known that orderly freezing of dilute aqueous solutions can result in electrical potentials as great as 230 volts at the...

Awarded: NOK 22.8 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Improving tropical forest conservation in Africa

The importance of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) for better balancing tropical forest conservation and poverty alleviation goals is increasingly recognised. Yet, in Africa, poor understanding of the impact of harvesting on species’ populations and forest carbon stocks, together with little in...

Awarded: NOK 20.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Akershus

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Nitric oxide-driven anaerobic oxidation of lignocellulose

In the riparian zone of eutrophic lakes and in field denitrification beds, microbial communities degrade lignocellulose, in anoxia, while maintaining a denitrifying lifestyle. During this process nitrate is converted to nitrogen gases via a series of reactions and intermediate products, fueled by...

Awarded: NOK 22.8 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Akershus

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Contested frontiers: Understanding the metapolitics of settler-state peripheries

Between Indigenous self-determination and settler colonization lie contested frontiers, subject to metapolitics – i.e., to competition over the framing of polities. In the past, settlers, using force, domesticated frontiers. Recent decades have seen an Indigenous resurgence, rekindling metapoliti...

Awarded: NOK 17.6 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Vestland

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Segregation of Opportunities: Pathways to Marginalization through Neighborhoods and Peers

Social and economic exclusion is a major challenge worldwide, attracting substantial research efforts across various disciplines. Yet, research has been largely unsuccessful in providing robust knowledge that can promote inclusion. One key reason is that marginalization is a multifaceted challeng...

Awarded: NOK 17.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

ETHME: The Ethics of Mortality Measurement

Awarded: NOK 17.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Map and manipulate sleep oscillations to reveal their role in healthy cognitive development

Sleep is essential to all animal life. But why are sleep needs greater in young mammals? Evidence points to a key role in cognitive development. Sleep correlates with brain immaturity, and sleep dysfunctions are frequent comorbidities of neurodevelopment disorders. As screens invade their bedroom...

Awarded: NOK 17.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Decoding Death and Dying in people with Dementia by Digital thanotyping

How can we recognize that a person with dementia is at the end of life? When we are dying, our physical, mental, and social abilities are gradually declining. No reliable method of predicting perceived dying currently exists although the technology is available (sensors, algorithms). The aim of...

Awarded: NOK 20.2 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Vestland

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Mapping and Direct Sequencing of the Non-Canonical Cap Code

From their creation to their degradation, mRNAs are under extensive regulation. This regulation is directed not only by their nucleotide sequence and their promoter but also by post- and co-transcriptional modifications attached to the RNA. One of the most ubiquitous of these modifications in euk...

Awarded: NOK 20.2 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Resilient northern overturning in a warming climate

Awarded: NOK 30.3 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Vestland

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Internal Fortress: Regulating European Freedom of Movement within the Nation-State, 1950-1980

Against the prevailing view that freedom of movement lowered internal barriers to movement while raising walls against outsiders to create a ‘fortress Europe,’ this project investigates how the introduction of freedom of movement may have strengthened national political authority over European mi...

Awarded: NOK 16.3 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Unraveling the fundamentals of transport across the vapor-liquid interface

Awarded: NOK 17.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Actively learning experimental designs in terrestrial climate science

While land-atmosphere exchanges of carbon, water, and energy are key to understanding changes in the Earth system, we still fundamentally lack a methodology to obtain representative estimates of these surface fluxes at the scale of a single grid cell of an Earth System Model (typically 10-100 km)...

Awarded: NOK 17.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Staging of Plasma Accelerators for Realizing Timely Applications

Awarded: NOK 17.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Literary Games, Poetics and the Early-Modern Novel

Literary games were a wide-spread practice in seventeenth-century France, and prominent novelists wrote fictions about a salon company playing the “game of the novel” (jeu du roman). While literary games were clearly defined, the novel was a genre that had yet to establish its standards. In order...

Awarded: NOK 20.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Learning the interaction rules of antibody-antigen binding

Antibody-antigen binding is the basis of two fundamental biotherapeutic pillars: monoclonal antibodies (1) and vaccines (2). To accelerate therapeutics discovery, we need to perform antibody (Ab) and antigen (Ag) design in silico. Specifically, we need to address a fundamental immuno-biotechnolog...

Awarded: NOK 22.8 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Self-Assembly: Shifting our View of Life

Awarded: NOK 20.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Dynamic Magnetosphere Ionosphere Thermosphere coupling

DynaMIT addresses a fundamental misunderstanding of how Earth is coupled to space in the polar ionosphere. Here, the neutral atmosphere collides with charged particles influenced by electromagnetic fields, profoundly impacting the dynamics of the atmosphere and its surroundings. Despite being the...

Awarded: NOK 20.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Vestland

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Past and Future High-resolution Global Glacier Mass Changes

Awarded: NOK 25.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Political Deification: Theorising from Asia

Awarded: NOK 15.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Feminisms and the Mobilisation of Law in Gulf Countries

Abstract: Current literature have tended to analyze feminist activisms in MENA almost exclusively from the point of view of their effect on social change broadly defined, reemphasising the reifications of women as victims by sharia laws, the veil and repressive cultural and political systems. In ...

Awarded: NOK 14.7 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

HeaLS - Effects of the implementation of the interdisciplinary topic “Health and Life Skills” in schools

Awarded: NOK 19.5 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Amber Worlds: A Geological Anthropology for the Anthropocene

The Anthropocene compels us to question established categories and binaries through which we understand the world and act in it: human and nonhuman, life and nonlife, biological and geological. What we still lack is a theoretical framework, methodological and storytelling tools, to analyse enviro...

Awarded: NOK 15.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Oslo

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Hibernation timing to reveal mechanisms of rheostasis

Awarded: NOK 21.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Arctic Summer Sea Ice in 3D

Arctic sea ice is diminishing with climate warming at a rate unmatched for 1000 years. As the receding ice pack changes rapidly and becomes increasingly mobile, the demand from academic and commercial stakeholders for accurate and timely sea ice forecasts is intensifying. Forecasting accuracy is ...

Awarded: NOK 20.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Eco-Evolutionary Rescue of Fragmented Populations

Awarded: NOK 25.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Making a choice for life – Cellular and molecular basis of coral larvae settlement and metamorphosis.

Awarded: NOK 15.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ERC-European Research Council (ERC)

Distributional Effects of Environmental Policies

Awarded: NOK 15.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Vestland

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