42 projects

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

The Dark Side of Sustainability: Norway and the Rise and Fall of Salmon Farming in Chile. A transnational history of the future (1970-2030)

DARKLAX is the first interdisciplinary and transnational reconstruction of the history of salmon farming in Chile. We try to explain how a remote and impoverished spot in the South of Chile became a global hub for the experimentation with social, environmental, scientific and discursive technolog...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Labor Entanglements across the Atlantic: US-Scandinavian Activism, Networks and Visions for Society in the Twentieth Century

Scandinavia and the USA are often portrayed as contrasts, characterized by separate historical developments. Scandinavia seems to differ most from American society with its post-war development towards regulated capitalism and a large welfare state, a development often attributed to the strong Sc...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Documenting scientific expeditions and cultural heritage on Svalbard

This project will document the scientific itinerary of huts, field camps and cultural environments (protected, unprotected and partially protected cultural heritage) on Brøggerhalvoya. Although considerable efforts have been made to protect certain sites dating from the contemporary period, no fo...

Awarded: NOK 75,598

Project Period: 2022-2022

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

En historie om makt og myter: Fortellingen bak fortellingen om «Kielland»-ulykken

An important part of the theoretical basis of the thesis deals with the Norwegian oil state until 1980 and how it functioned. Here we also look at the authorities' framework, safety and working conditions for other key workers within the oil industry, which are discussed in the thesis. Here, a la...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Rogaland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Nuclear Nordics: Radioactive Waste Spatialities, Materialities and Societies in the Nordic Region, 1960s to 1990s

As Norway and other countries are decommissioning their nuclear installations, the question of how to cost-effectively and safely store nuclear waste for hundreds of thousand years becomes an ever more pressing concern. In May 2021, the Norwegian Institute of Energy Technology announced that 3 to...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Rogaland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Histories of Animals, Technological infrastructure, and making more-than-human Homes in the modern age

How do animals use the things that people build, and how do people react to animals making their homes near ours? The project ‘Histories of animals, technological infrastructure, and making more-than-human homes in the modern age’ (AtHome) examines animals as users of human-made things, from bir...

Awarded: NOK 12.4 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Rogaland

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Memory politics of the North, 1993-2023. An interplay perspective.

The project 'Memory politics of the North, 1993-2023. An interplay perspective' (NORMEMO) examines memory politics and memory culture in Northwest Russia and in Russia's relations with Norway throughout the post-Soviet period. The contemporary Norwegian-Russian borderland stands out as an intrigu...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FORSTERK-Forsterkningsmidler

Implementing RePAST in Norway through innovative tools for dealing with the past

The project "Implementing RePAST in Norway through innovative tools for dealing with the past" (RePAST-NOR) Background: The aim of RePAST-NOR has been to strengthen the impact of the Horistont2020 project RePAST (Revisiting the Past, Anticipating the Future) in Norway. As part of the research an...

Awarded: NOK 1.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Agder

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Comparing Histories of Antisemitism in Contemporary Europe

This project will compare histories of antisemitism in post-Cold War Europe, charting its trajectories and explaining temporal and geographical variation in its prevalence and intensity. The project asks two key questions: What characterizes the diverging paths of post-Cold War antisemitism in Eu...

Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SAMKUL-Samfunnsutviklingens kulturelle forutsetninger

Human Rights and Dignity in the Global Refugee Crisis

The international, interdisciplinary network HUMAN RIGHTS AND DIGNITY IN THE GLOBAL REFUGEE CRISIS: POLICIES AND TECHNOLOGIES TRANSFORMING THE HUMAN RIGHTS DISCOURSE ON REFUGEES (HUMDIG) was conceived by the need to better understand how the responses by Western democracies to the ongoing global ...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2020

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SAMKUL-Samfunnsutviklingens kulturelle forutsetninger

SHIFTING BOUNDARIES: Definitions, Expressions and Consequences of Antisemitism in Contemporary Norway

The research project "SHIFTING BOUNDARIES. Definitions, Expressions and Consequences of Antisemitism in Contemporary Norway" aimed to establish new empirical, methodological and theoretical insights into the manifestations, mechanisms and effects of anti-Jewish attitudes in Norway today. The enti...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2021

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SAMKUL-Samfunnsutviklingens kulturelle forutsetninger

CircumPolar Gender

Because of rapid changes in the circumpolar high Arctic and their dramatic ecological consequences, the polar region is moving from the margin to the centre of global consciousness. From a natural-science perspective the area is viewed as a laboratory for research on climate change, sustainabilit...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

EUI - 4. året Caught in the middle: Experts on European Integration in the Norwegian Civil Service, 1960-1972

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Awarded: NOK 0.17 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

EUI - 4. år - The Inter-Allied Reparation Agency and the dismantlement policy in occupied Germany

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Awarded: NOK 0.17 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Resistance narrative - Trigger of transnational memory conflicts?

The research project is based on the assumption that resistance and heroic narratives within the Danish and Norwegian society have triggered transnational memory conflicts after 1945. Over decades, their national culture of memory (Erinnerungskultur) were determined by the traumatic experience o...

Awarded: NOK 51,999

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

EUI - Caught in the middle: Experts on European Integration in the Norwegian Civil Service, 1960-1972

Throughout the 1960s Norway was one of four applicant countries trying to join the European Communities (EC). Three times Norway approached the EC, 1962, 1967 and 1970. The two first times Britain, and therefore Norway, Denmark and Ireland, was denied ent ry by French President Charles de Gaulle....

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2016

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Tvangsarbeidets politiske økonomi: Organisation Todt i Norge under andre verdenskrig

The project has worked up new knowledge about the decision-making process leading to the establishment of OT in Norway (Wiking Befehl), as well as on its institutional structure. Furher, it has reached new knowledge about the quantity and composition of forced labour under the OT. We also know th...

Awarded: NOK 9.3 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

EUI - 4 year grant - The ECA's battle against the militraization of American Foreign Aid

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Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

EUI - The British-German Struggle over Dismantling 1947-1951

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Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Globalized Help: American Non-Governmental Organizations and the Emergence of an International Relief Regime 1890 -1950

Exploring through a multi-perspective approach the interplay between U.S. based private non-governmental relief organisations such as the American Red Cross or the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) and the emergence of an international relief r egime during the core phase of America?s ...

Awarded: NOK 69,999

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Establishing Environmental History as an Academic Discipline in Norway

Norway has historically been the weakest Nordic country in environmental history research (with the exception of Iceland), which is unfortunate considering Norway's emphasis on environmental research in general. Although the Research Council has institute d a large environmental project funding s...

Awarded: NOK 0.24 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Smitte, språk og kultur. Tuberkulosearbeidet i Finnmark 1900-1960

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Awarded: NOK 70,000

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Vestland

FRIHUM-Fri prosjektstøtte humanistiske fag

Hiroshima: Representations of war in contemporary Japan

The main objective of this project is to show how Japan's many narratives of the bombing of Hiroshima in particular, and the experience of World War II in general, have contributed to a repression of other narratives, like those of Japanese wartime aggres sion. Narratives of Japan's war tend to b...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIHUM-Fri prosjektstøtte humanistiske fag

EUROCORES - Icing the Norwegian Nation: The Import, Transformation and Appropriation of Deep Freezing Technologies 1930-1970 (EUWOL)

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Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

EUI -The ECA's battle against the militarization of Amercian Foreign Aid: Institutional strategy and the Marshall Plan's impact on European

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Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

EUROCORES - From Systems to Complexes. Coping with Security and Efficiency in European Electricity Networks (EUROCRIT)

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Awarded: NOK 0.64 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo - Oslove

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

Law and Democracy between Security and Liberty. Debating Counter-Terrorism Law in the UK 1972-2005

The present project aims to shed new light on the interpretation of law and democracy in 'times of emergencies' by analysing public debates on counter-terrorism legislation. The increasing focus on the threat of global terrorism, particularly after the Se ptember 11 attacks, has led to the introd...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

The Norwegian Peace Tradition

The main goal for this projects is to analyze the assumed peace tradition, whether such a tradition actually exists in any meaningful way, and if so how far back in time it extends. The goal will be pursued by means of eleven separate sub projects. Nine o f them are basically historical in their ...

Awarded: NOK 14.3 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2014

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Aiding Palestinians. The Changing Role of United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA) 1949-2000.

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Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2012

Location: Vestland

ISP-Institusjonsforankrede strategiske prosjekt

Amerika i våre hjerter? USA-innflytelse i norsk samfunnsutvikling etter annen verdenskrig - Et prosjekt under Forum for Samtidshistorie

Akademisk kunnskap om amerikansk betydning for norsk samfunnsutvikling etter den annen verdenskrig er mangelfull. Det overordnete målet er å studere den amerikanske innflytelsen i Norge, via en rekke enkeltprosjekter som i varierende grad overlapper hvera ndre. Spesielt vil fokus rettes mot de si...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Oslo - Oslove