650 projects

RETUREU-RETUREU

RETUR-EU Norsk Polarinstitutt

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Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2030

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

RETUREU-RETUREU

RETUR-EU NVE

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Awarded: NOK 0.94 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2030

Location: Oslo

VITENSENTRE-VITENSENTRE

Driftstøtte til Vitensenteret i Sogn og Fjordane AS

ViteMeir, eit vitensenter på Kaupanger i Sogndal kommune, vil bli eit vitensenter med høg attraksjonsverdi regionalt, med fokus på natur- og ressursgrunnlaget i regionen, og dei teknologiske moglegheiter og utfordringar som ligg i vårt samspel med naturen. Berekraftig utvikling er den overordna f...

Awarded: NOK 24.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Vestland

STIPINST-Stipendiatstillinger i instituttsektoren

Stipendiatstilling 3 NIVA (2021-2023)

Literature suggests a Kuznets relationship between plastic pollution and economic growth, where plastic pollution will grow as income levels per capita grows, before it starts decreasing at a certain point, corresponding to an inverse U-shaped relationship. However, expecting economic growth in t...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Oslo

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Seaweed Cultivation as a Climate Positive Solution

Title: Seaweed Cultivation as a Climate Positive Solution - The role of seaweed farms in the production of recalcitrant organic carbon with implications for carbon sequestration and carbon markets By Luiza Neves, NTNU Department of Chemistry and SINTEF Ocean This PhD project investigated how sea...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

STIPINST-Stipendiatstillinger i instituttsektoren

Stipendiatstilling 1 NILU (2020-2023)

Satellites are incredible tools for studying the atmosphere, offering a global perspective on air quality. However, most satellite instruments measure the total amount of a pollutant across the entire atmosphere, making it difficult to estimate air quality directly at the ground level—where it im...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Akershus

STIPINST-Stipendiatstillinger i instituttsektoren

Stipendiatstilling 1 NIVA (2020-2023)

The production and use of plastic and rubber products have resulted in growing amounts of waste entering the environment, where these materials break down into smaller particles over time. While the problem of plastic debris is well recognized, less is known about the impacts of the chemical addi...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Oslo

VITENSENTRE-VITENSENTRE

Driftstøtte til Vitensenter Nordland

Vitensenter Nordland skal ha hovedtema knyttet til Nordlands naturressurser, teknologi og digitalisering. Interaktive utstillinger og pedagogiske undervisningsopplegg vil bli valgt ut fra disse temaene. I dialog med de øvrige regionale vitensentrene skal det etableres et vitensenter som er unikt ...

Awarded: NOK 36.7 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2025

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

VITENSENTRE-VITENSENTRE

Driftstøtte til Atlanterhavsparken vitensenter

Vitensenteret skal være et populærvitenskapelig opplevelses- og læringssenter innen matematikk, naturvitenskap og teknologi hvor de besøkende lærer ved å eksperimentere selv og kan utforske fenomener knyttet til natur, miljø og teknologi gjennom egen aktivitet og i samarbeid med andre. Vitensente...

Awarded: NOK 37.6 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2025

Location: Møre og Romsdal

GENDERNETPLUS-GENDER NET Plus Cofund

The combined role of genetic and environmental risk factors in the gender-specific development of severe tinnitus

Tinnitus is the most frequent phantom sensation, affecting 70 million individuals in Europe. It dramatically increases with age, with near 40% of the elderlies experiencing tinnitus. It can be severely debilitating, increasing the risk for sick leave, disability pension and even suicide. While p...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Vestland

FORSKNINGSINFRA-FORSKNINGSINFRA

Norwegian Bioprocessing & Fermentation Centre-NBioC

Many commodity products such as medical products, cosmetics and plastics are presently derived from non-sustainable resources. The green shift is a global challenge that requires major technological developments, yet offers exciting opportunities for the frontrunners towards a bio-based economy. ...

Awarded: NOK 40.0 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2028

Location: Rogaland

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Past changes in inter-annual climate variability: linking tropical and high latitude processes.

Funds are requested for a visiting Professor Mary Elliot to spend a duration of 10 months (Feb 2019-Nov 2019) at Uni Research. During her time at Uni Research, Professor Elliot will work with Carin Andersson Dahl and colleagues. One of the primary aims will be to derive information about past ch...

Awarded: NOK 0.36 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2020

Location: Vestland

FORKOMMUNE-Forskning og innovasjon i kommunesektoren

Innovativ forvaltning av luft og miljø i norske kommuner

Many municipalities in Norway would like to measure air quality (AQ) in their local environment and share this information with their citizens. However, official monitoring stations are quite expensive in acquisition and maintenance, therefore only a limited number of these stations are set up in...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2021

Location: Oslo

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

The Role of Atmospheric Waves in Arctic-midlatitude Linkages

The Arctic is warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the globe. This warming is accompanied by profound changes in polar regions, including a shrinking sea ice cover, the loss of permafrost, and a moistening of the atmosphere. Coincident with this period of Arctic change, there has been ...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL2-Norge - Global partner

LeapAgri: Small Fish and Food Security: Towards innovative integration of fish in African food systems to improve nutrition

The SmallFishFood consortium is a multidisciplinary research team from Norway, the Netherlands, Germany, Ghana, Kenya and Uganda, covering the fields of fish stock assessment, processing, marketing, nutrition, risk assessment and governance. We will renew the food security discourse by focusing o...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2022

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Ultra-High-Resolution Marine and Terrestrial Records - Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (ULTRA-INSTAAR)

The ULTRA-INSTAAR project is a mobility stipend to enhance research and collaboration focused on reconstructing and understanding the long-term (century to millennial scale) development of key aspects of ocean-ice-atmosphere dynamics at annual to sub-annual resolution. In ULTRAMAR, we aim to quan...

Awarded: NOK 87,999

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Vestland

FORINFRA-Nasjonal sats.på forskningsinfrastrukt.

Infrastructure for Norwegian Earth System modelling

A climate model solves mathematically formulated natural laws on a three-dimensional grid. The climate model divides the soil system into components (atmosphere, sea, sea ice, land with vegetation, etc.) that interact through transmission of energy, motion and moisture. When the climate model als...

Awarded: NOK 69.7 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2026

Location: Vestland

INTPART-International Partnerships for Excellent Education and Research

Landscape & infrastucture dynamics of frozen environments undergoing climate change in Canada, Norway and Svalbard

The project started with a kick- off workshop at UNIS in Svalbard with 10 participants from all project partners on 22-23 October 2018. We also carried out a field trip as part of this workshop. Throughout the entire project period, we have had regular online Steering Committee meetings with all ...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2023

Location: Svalbard

FORINFRA-Nasjonal sats.på forskningsinfrastrukt.

NorSOOP: Norwegian Ships Of Opportunity Program for marine and atmospheric research

The oceans account for about ~3/4 of the Earth's surface and produce about 1/2 of the oxygen that we breathe. The oceans are also important because they provide protein for human consumption through wild and farmed fisheries, they have a strong control on weather and climate, and they influence o...

Awarded: NOK 26.9 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2026

Location: Oslo

PROFORSK-Skole og samfunn

"Stopp Kreftcellen Fråtse Frida" og "Kristine Kreftcelle - Kroppens Sosiopat"

Stop the Cancer Cell Gloria Glutton! The cancer cell Gloria Glutton has built herself a little home in a corner somewhere in the class room. She is a demanding resident who never gets enough: she wants more food, more attention and more comfort. From her fortress she manipulates passers-by to c...

Awarded: NOK 89,999

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Vestland

OFFPHD-Offentlig sektor - ph.d.

Tunneler, sikkerhets- og beredskapsopplæring i brann- og redningstjenesten

Tunnels are a key element of the Norwegian road transport infrastructure. The road tunnel system consists of more than 1200 tunnels with a large variety of safety designs and standards. Although incident rates are lower in road tunnels than on open roads, the potential consequences of incidents i...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2023

Location: Rogaland

INTPART-International Partnerships for Excellent Education and Research

Partnership on Sustainable Hydropower in Canada and Norway

HYCANOR is a partnership between three Norwegian and three Canadian scientific institutions, aiming at educating excellent scientists within the topic of sustainable hydropower. Through this partnership, MSc and PhD students from Norway and Canada got access to supervision from and collaborations...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2022

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Climate Science and Climate Services in Practice

The overseas research grant is to support Jana Sillmann to spend up to 4 months at the Pacific Climate Impact Consortium (PCIC) at University of Victoria, BC, Canada. This will enable her to closely collaborate with a climate service provider challenged with similar geographical and climatologica...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Oslo

GENSTIM-Gen. stim.tiltak/nettv.bygging

Forskningsrådets pris for unge fremragende forskere i 2017 til Øivind Wilhelmsen

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Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2018

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PROFORSK-Skole og samfunn

Researcher App- Become a researcher and investigate how climate change affects animals, plants and society.

Climate change is quickly affecting ecosystems and will have far reaching impacts on the environment, regional economies, and society at large. Today, children are highly influenced by the media when it comes to knowledge of conservation and climate change. However, the global perspective to clim...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Akershus

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Mitigation of societal risks imposed by geohazards in a changing climate through digitalization

Recent climate trends have caused the Norwegian society to witness unprecedented challenges. One of which is frequent, large-scale geohazards events, such as landslides, snow avalanches, and debris flow. Climate projections for Norway indicate an increase in the frequency of triggering events for...

Awarded: NOK 7.6 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2022

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINATEK-Fri prosjektstøtte for matematikk, naturvitenskap og teknologi

Modified 2D van-der-Waals materials for advanced bio-applications

2D materials such as graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) have excellent functional properties for applications in information and communication, and medical technology. h-BN has been intensively studied for its characteristics as the only electrical insulator in the 2D family, with a crys...

Awarded: NOK 9.3 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2022

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INTPART-International Partnerships for Excellent Education and Research

Plastic pollution; a global Challenge Towards harmonised understanding, education and methodology in Europe, USA and China (PlastPoll)

We know that plastic waste is found everywhere in the marine environment. At the same time, we still know too little about geographical distribution and sources, the effects of plastics on the ecosystem and which methods work best for identifying and measuring plastic pollution. The Arctic Ocea...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2021

Location: Akershus

PROFORSK-Skole og samfunn

"Hvorfor det?" for ungdomstrinnet

"Science fair" is a widely used concept in the United States, where school children are conducting a science project in their spare time and then present their projects at a research exhibition featuring the best ideas. A Norwegian project; "Why?" has developed a similar arrangement adapted to No...

Awarded: NOK 56,626

Project Period: 2018-2021

Location: Rogaland

INTPARTORDNING-INTPARTORDNING

India - Norway partnership for research and education in materials for energy and environment

The project INNOREM is funded under the INTPART program and is led by the University of Oslo. It collaborates with three Indian research/educational institutions: JNCASR in Bangalore, Anna University in Chennai, and CUTN in Thiruvarur. The scientific focus of INNOREM is on "materials for energy a...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2025

Location: Oslo