627 projects

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

The impacts of land use conflicts on society and citizens: how local arguments shape democratic participation and lived experience

In recent years, Norwegian communities have seen a rise in contentious land use disputes. The green transition’s demand for land has triggered conflicts over mining, wind power, solar parks, and power lines — a development expected to intensify as society moves toward a low-emission future. Thes...

Awarded: NOK 10.5 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Vestland

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Urgency and pressures in critical mineral extraction - Potentials and pitfalls for just mining in Norway

The demand for critical minerals is increasing rapidly. These metals are used in green technologies such as electric vehicles, wind turbines and solar panels, and play a key role in the transition to a low-emission society. At the same time, the growing pressure for faster extraction creates new ...

Awarded: NOK 10.5 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

FOFORMIDLING-FOFORMIDLING

Trygg på nettet – praktisk forskning om digital sporing - for og av ungdom

Prosjektet "Trygg på nettet" - praktisk forskning for og av ungdom, skal forske på vaner, årsaker og konsekvenser av digital sporing overfor ungdom. Prosjektet og arrangementet der resultatet skal presenteres, er utarbeidet av forsker-elever ved Ålesund videregående skole. De har selv utarbeidet ...

Awarded: NOK 40,000

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Møre og Romsdal

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Beyond protection – Discussing the roles of nature conservation in Arctic borderlands

“Beyond Protection” addresses the shifting roles and emerging challenges of nature conservation in Norwegian Arctic borderlands, focusing on Svalbard and Øvre Pasvik (Eastern Finnmark). In this region, conservation has long been linked to geopolitical dynamics such as the politics of presence, th...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Youth sexuality and sexual risk in a digital era (DIGISEX)

Large-scale societal discussions have changed the sexual landscape recent years, such as the #metoo movement and public debates about consent laws. A shift that particularly has affected youth sexuality is how digital media plays into sexual relations. On a positive note, digital media offers ne...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Socioeconomic and Ethnic Inequality in Health and Intergenerational Mobility (HEALTHMOBILITY)

Economic inequality is growing in Norway and other high-income countries, and large-scale immigration is changing the demographic and socioeconomic landscape of these societies. As these shifts occur, there's a rising interest in understanding how various forms of inequality persist across genera...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Punishment as a Vehicle for Change? The Causal Impact of Norwegian Corrections on Reoffending and Reintegration in Norway and Beyond

The main goal of the NoReoffend project is to advance scientific knowledge on the intended and unintended consequences of punishment. More specifically, we will explore what happens to the continued offending, labor market attachment and family situation of people who serve different sentences or...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo

PESORDNING-PESORDNING

Intergenerational Solidarity in an Uncertain World

See attached project proposal. Work Package 4 on Civic Engagement will be led by Veronica Ski-Berg (NIFU). Dorothy Sutherland Olsen (NIFU) will participate, and both will participate in several of the work packages. Ski-Berg and Olsen are both experienced with the topic of intergenerational justi...

Awarded: NOK 69,999

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Oslo

KSFF-KSFF

OptiCare-AI: Optimizing Home-Based Healthcare Workforce: AI-Driven Solutions for Full-Time Culture and Competence Utilization

Addressing Norway’s Healthcare Workforce Shortage Norway has one of the highest ratios of healthcare personnel globally, yet many hospitals and municipalities face staffing challenges, often due to underutilized competence. For example, 43% of nurses and 72% of auxiliary nurses work part-time. ...

Awarded: NOK 15.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

KSFF-KSFF

Sosial innovasjon for å gi bedre sosial støtte til enslige kreftsyke i kommunen

Many persons diagnosed with cancer have few or no close relatives and often have limited access to social support during challenging phases of their illness. It is therefore important to develop solutions within municipalities to meet to the social support needs of single cancer patients. Strengt...

Awarded: NOK 15.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo

PESORDNING-PESORDNING

Re-assessing Climate Action Policies for Equity & Justice through Societal Readiness

The overall objective of the ReCAPS project is to enable explicit and systematic integration of equity and justice needs, processes, trade-offs, and impacts into policies for climate mitigation and adaptation at various governance levels, based on co-created knowledge from urban transitions in th...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

The Salmon Elite: Its politics, self-understanding, networks, and wealth

This project investigates the elites in Norway's booming salmon farming industry. Despite the industry's significant economic role, there is little research on those who hold elite positions within the sector. There are several reasons why the salmon farming industry is particularly interesting t...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Vestland

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Knowledge co-production for climate change transformation: Panacea or placebo?

COPP explores to what extent and how co-production, the collaborative production of science with stakeholders, is transforming the Norwegian climate research system and influencing two spheres of societal transformation: Climate services and adaptation; and energy transition. There is a push for ...

Awarded: NOK 7.6 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Vestland

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

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Integrating climate, environment, and public health in the Norwegian food system to assess efficient, safe, and acceptable policy options

Norway's food system faces significant challenges. Agriculture must reduce greenhouse gas emissions, halt nature loss, restore biodiversity. New dietary recommendations and other trends toward less meat consumption may shift dietary patterns. However, policies designed to address these issues oft...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

TRANSPORTFORSK-TRANSPORTFORSK

Sustainable Adventure GuidAnce

The tourism industry contributes significantly to national greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, the national tourism strategy aims to significantly reduce emissions from the sector despite an anticipated increase in tourism in the coming years. Achieving this ambitious goal requires innova...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Buskerud

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Enhancing Urban Sustainability for Environmental Quality and Human Well-being through Nature-Based Solutions Transformation Labs

Revolutionizing Urban Sustainability with NatureScape Led by NILU, NatureScape includes Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, University College Dublin, Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy w Lublinie, Lisboa E-Nova, Nodibinajums Baltic Studies Centre, and Politecnico di Milano as partners. Thi...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Akershus

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Improving social work environments on board: Antecedents and consequences of psychological safety and social support on Norwegian vessels

Over the last decade, there has been an increasing focus on improving the working conditions and the health and safety of crews on commercial fishing, cargo and passenger vessels, both in Norway and globally. To achieve these goals, creating a good social work environment on board is essential. T...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Making research useful. Aligning social challenges, researchers’ translation efforts, and users’ transdisciplinary problem-solving

This project aims to provide better insights into the interaction between research, the public sector, and industry by creating empirical knowledge about how research is actually used in problem-solving related to sustainability transformations and digitalization. The project will examine actors ...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Regional Electrification and key tensions in the Norwegian energy transition: Co-creating strategies and enabling better decisions

Electrification has emerged as a cornerstone of Norwegian climate- and energy policy. From an early focus on road and maritime transport, electrification policies now focus on large point-source measures to enable swift emission cuts for a net-zero society by 2050. Beyond transport, the goal is t...

Awarded: NOK 11.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Mat og muligheter: Læringsprosess og forskningsformidling om lokalmat

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Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

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

INTSAMARBEID-INTSAMARBEID

Norway Community of Users Civil Security for Society (Norge Brukernettverk for samfunnssikkerhet)

De komplekse utfordringene i vår tid - pandemier, cyberangrep, ekstremvær - krever koordinerte globale, nasjonale og lokale svar. Visjonen er å styrke Norges rolle i europeisk sikkerhets- og resiliensforskningssamarbeid. NoCoU-nettverkets overordnede ambisjon er å øke deltakelsen fra norske sikke...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

EUI - 1. og 2. halvdel av 4. år. Please mind the gender gap: A study of the women and men’s different attitudes toward green ideology

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Awarded: NOK 0.29 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Ukjent Fylke

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

The Potential of ‘GameChange’: Supplementary Educational Measures to Facilitate Secondary Education Completion Among At-Risk Youth

What can be done to enable more students to complete secondary school? The project GameChanger focuses on the impact that initiatives outside of school can have on students when they are in school. Flyt and Guttas Campus are two school-supportive programs designed to prevent dropout by enhancing ...

Awarded: NOK 19.7 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo

PESORDNING-PESORDNING

PES - Preparedness And Resilience Through an atlas for: Inclusive Citizen Engagement, learning from the Past, Awareness, Training and Educ.

NTNU Samfunnsforskning AS is applying for PES support in connection with writing and submitting a Horizon Europe proposal. The PES support will be allocated to the efforts of delivering a high quality proposal. The PARTICIPATE project will explore preparedness and adaptive response through inclus...

Awarded: NOK 0.45 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Health, education and labor market integration in refugees – a cross-country, longitudinal, mixed-method study

With notably increased rates of mental health problems and persistent lower employment than other migrant groups, refugees constitute a highly vulnerable group in today's society. Recent evidence suggests poor health, and in particular poor mental health, may play a key role in labor market marg...

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

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

New ways of evaluating research and researchers. CoARA in the Norwegian research system.

Ongoing reforms to science systems are directed at resolving research assessment. Current assessments are perceived to overly focus on publishing in scientific journals, and neglecting other types of contributions to research, teaching, societal interaction, and innovation. Moreover, there are co...

Awarded: NOK 7.6 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo