136 projects

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UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Asian Diffusion: China’s Governance Promotion and Vietnamese Adaptation (ADAPT)

China increasingly promotes its domestic development success as an example for others. How do these ideas travel, and how are they received in other countries? While most research on international diffusion has focused on how liberal democracies promote governance abroad, ADAPT explores how gover...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Rebundling sovereignty over local nature in global governance (RESOLVING)

The RESOLVING project asks: How does global governance of nature transform the exercise of sovereign power? Scientific evidence of the environment as a complex system of planetary dimensions has elevated several natural resources as objects of global governance. Primary forests and maritime biome...

Awarded: NOK 0.56 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Understanding and Countering the Advance of AI-enabled Digital Authoritarianism in Asia

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming societies across the world. In Asia, these changes bring opportunities—but also serious risks. While AI can improve public services and support development, it can also be misused to monitor citizens, spread false information, and weaken democracy. Thi...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

EUI - 1. halvdel av 4 år - Visions of Europe in Scandinavia 1900 - 1939: The Media, Intellectuals, and Politics

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Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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 - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

What is the Purpose of Responsible Business? Bringing Society to Stakeholder Theory

We are witnessing a dramatic change in how businesses see themselves in society. Top firms now claim that they no longer aim just to make profit, but to also deliver social value in an era of crisis and grand societal challenges. However, critical voices believe that corporate efforts for social ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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 - Oslove

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Russian Indigenous peoples organizations and their diplomatic agencies in the Arctic and beyond

The focus of this study is the engagement of Indigenous peoples’ organizations (IPOs) with their respective states and how they have become integral to the changing geopolitical and geoeconomic landscape. RINDIP examines the diplomatic performance of IPOs from Russia through their actions and di...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SIKKERHET-SIKKERHET

Earth to Orbit - Building Bridges in Space Governance

DISCOVER: "Space - Our New Crowded Frontier" In an era where satellites connect us, track storms, guide ships and cars, and even aid in wars, space has become essential for life on Earth. The DISCOVER project is exploring how to keep this crowded frontier safe and cooperative, amidst growing r...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Recording Explosive Munitions for the analysis of WAR crimes

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has resulted in large-scale loss of life, war crimes, and material destruction. With this conflict ongoing and potential wars looming in the Middle East and East Asia, it is crucial to understand the military conditions under which war crimes are more likely to occur....

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

PESORDNING-PESORDNING

PRIO PES Horisont Europa rammebevilgning 2025-2027

The purpose of the grant is to support PRIO's work towards development of project proposals to the European Commission's 9th framework program for research (Horizon Europe)

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Rebundling sovereignty over local nature in global governance

How does the global governance of nature transform the exercise of sovereign power? Multiple hurdles in global environmental governance stem from the contradiction between the fragmentation of our political world, divided into sovereign states, and the intertwined nature of our planetary ecosyste...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research Summer School Svalbard 2024.

This proposal is for partial funding of the Polar Academy's 2024 summer school in Svalbard aimed at international Phd students and postdocs. The summer school provides a venue for internatiional scholars to discuss how what happens in the Arctic and Antarctic has global implications. Modern pheno...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Power Politics and Security in the Arctic

Power Politics and Security in the Arctic (POPSARC) asks two overarching questions. First, what characterises Western allies’ current approaches to security in the Arctic? Second, how are allied interactions in the Arctic sphere materialising – in statements, strategies, and observable material p...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Unpacking Arctic Security Dynamics: A 3D approach to geopolitics in the Barents and Bering Seas

Arctic security relations are fraught. State-to-state security relations are the tensest they have been since the end of the Cold War. Hotlines between military command centres exist, but confidence-building measures and dialogue are absent. Arctic tension does not primarily come about because...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Akershus

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Arctic Security Conference 2024

Arktiske sikkerhetsforhold blir stadig mer spent. I tiden etter Russlands invasjon av Ukraina har avskrekking i stor grad tatt over for dialog og samarbeid i nordområdene, noe som har resultert i økt militær aktivitet og tilfeller av sabotasje og provokasjon. Samtidig har debatten om de geopoliti...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Akershus

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Nordic Space Infrastructures - Environment, Security, and Future Imaginaries of Outer Space in the High North

Over the last decade, a rapidly increasing number of public and private actors are seeking a place in the exclusive ‘space club’. Private bodies and states - including the Nordic countries - are developing launch sites in the Arctic region. The development of the space sector has long been of mar...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Akershus

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Next Arctic Rush? Critical Materials for the Energy Transition

If the Paris Agreement is to be fulfilled, 80% of the world’s energy production must be zero-emission by 2030, and all energy must be zero-emission by 2050. The technologies needed to achieve this dramatic shift depend on certain critical materials (lithium, copper, rare earths, etc.). If these a...

Awarded: NOK 9.9 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Peace as a continuation of war by other means? Russian Approaches to Peace Processes (RAPP)

Russia engages in a number of peace processes. This project is designed to investigate why, how and to what end Russia engages. It examines both conflicts in which Russia is a belligerent party (e.g., Ukraine), conflicts where it is involved as a mediator (e.g., Afghanistan), and conflicts where ...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Norwegian Centre on Geopolitics

GEOPOL brings together five premier Norwegian research institutions: The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) (host), the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI), the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS), the University of Oslo (UiO) as an educational and competence-building partn...

Awarded: NOK 45.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Joint Fisheries Management in the Barents Sea after Russias Invasion of Ukraine

Since the mid-1970s, Norway and Russia have managed the rich fish resources of the Barents Sea jointly, including the world’s largest cod stock. The achievements of the Joint Norwegian–Russian Fisheries Commission are widely regarded as a golden standard for international fisheries management. Ho...

Awarded: NOK 6.4 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Akershus

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Making use of Arctic science - The Case of the Arctic Council

On February 24, 2022, Russian forces invaded Ukraine. At the time, Russia was in the middle of its chairmanship period of the Arctic Council. The member states of the Arctic Council recognised the importance of a united response, and work with Russia was temporarily paused. Since then, the degree...

Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Akershus

PESORDNING-PESORDNING

FNI PES Horisont Europa rammebevilgning 2023 - 2024

The Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI) is an independent foundation engaged in research on international environmental, energy and resource management politics and law. FNI will strengthen its position as a relevant collaboration partner for joint proposals to Horizon Europe and seeks to develop a n...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Akershus

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Developmental Peace? Perceptions of China’s Engagement in Pakistan and Afghanistan [AsiaPeace]

The AsiaPeace project (2023 - 2026) explores local perceptions of China's dual role as a development actor and peacebuilder in Pakistan and Afghanistan. It aims to provide new insights into how China handles conflicts in areas it engages. Although China has traditionally claimed to pursue a forei...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

Exit and effective reintegration of violent extremists in Scandinavia

ight-wing and Jihadist extremism has been a growing problem over the last decades, also in Scandinavia, and it is expected to increase. Extremist activities create fissures in the consensus and trust-based Scandinavian society. Trust erodes through the polarization of public debates, through the ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Security and preparedness in the changing north – research perspectives.

De 5 temaene vil fokusere på følgende: Theme 1: Conditions for livelihoods, health, and ecosystems Northern and Arctic regions experience more rapid warming than the global average, with impacts threatening livelihoods, health, and ecosystems, for example by thawing permafrost, melting glaciers,...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2023

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

STIM-OA-Stimuleringstiltak for åpen tilgang

NUPI STIM-OA

NUPI jobber for åpen publisering i sine prosjekter, bl.a. er det utarbeidet en policy som oppfordrer forskerne til å publisere mest mulig åpent. Flere forskere publiserer artikler i Gold Open Access tidsskrifter. Dette er en kontinuerlig prosess ettersom mange tidsskrifter innen vårt fagområde i...

Awarded: NOK 9,000

Project Period: 2022-2022

Location: Oslo - Oslove

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

A comparative analysis of Chinese and Russian espionage and cyber operations

Intelligence services do not usually act independent of political guidance. Instead, they tend to be integrated with the political leadership and the development and implementation of political objectives. This argument is apparent in the two states that this proposed research will focus on: Chin...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Innlandet

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Geopolitics, Security and Military Power in the Arctic

The research exchange will facilitate activities that will improve knowledge production on the role of Military Power in the Arctic. In time of this application, a research cooperation between the NDUC and the MCU has already started. The cooperation aims at producing new peer-review articles, bo...

Awarded: NOK 0.26 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2022

Location: Innlandet

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC-søkere som oppnår god evaluering

Conceptual revolutions in international relations (COURIER). ERC CoG2023

Why do we struggle to understand past international relations, existing international challenges and future possible international transformations? The starting assumption of COURIER is that this struggle stems from incomplete ways of thinking about the subject matter of “International Relations”...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2023

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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