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REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Bruk av KI-baserte oversettelsesverktøy i Utlendingsdirektoratet: muligheter, begrensninger og etiske vurderinger

...Utlendingsdirektoratet (UDI) skal iverksette og bidra til å...og oversettelse, noe UDI og offentlig sektor generelt har et stort potensial for å dra...Samtidig mottar og behandler saksbehandlere store mengder dokumenter på en rekke ulike språk,...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Unravelling the microbial diversity within halite

...as the Zechstein formation in Europe, date back to the Late Permian (~250 million years ago) and...remain poorly quantified. Our project aims to statistically determine the number of microbial...and novel DNA amplification techniques to avoid contamination and enhance detection...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Phage-Engineered Capture and Reporter Toolkit for Rapid Diagnosis of Viable Listeria monocytogenes in Food Systems

...monocytogenes is a major foodborne pathogen associated...industry, particularly in seafood and ready-to-eat products. Current legislative gold...enrichment and require 48–72 hours to deliver results, limiting their usefulness for...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

UAV remote sensing of permafrost degradation and vegetation community changes after snow manipulation

...in polar regions is reaching critical thermal limits leading to small changes in environmental...on the overall system. In this project, we aim to investigate the impact of a snow fence...degradation using UAV remote sensing. We want to fly a UAV over a snow fence experiment that has...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

Measuring glutamate distribution in cellular and sub-cellular compartments with non-invasive imaging

...brain Glutamate is the brain’s main excitatory messenger and an important actor key actor...vesicles, or engaged with mitochondria. This limits our ability to track neurotransmission and...these two “fingerprints,” MultiGlu aims to disentangle glutamate contributions from a...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Stable and Efficient Training for Spiking Neural Networks

...energy efficiency, providing a clear path toward the sustainable AI systems that the Center...heuristics, such as the straight-through estimator (STE), are mathematically tenuous, leading to...Furthermore, existing training methods fail to fully exploit the asynchronous, temporal...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

BioPrecise Protons: Advancing physical and biological precision to enhance efficacy and reduce toxicity in proton therapy

...Proton therapy is a cancer treatment modality with...anticipated in the years ahead. However, to fully utilize the potential of proton therapy...i) The radiobiological properties of protons remain insufficiently understood and clinical...Proton therapy is an advanced form of radiation...

Awarded: NOK 40.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2034

Location: Vestland

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Breaking the Time-Scale Problem in atomistic simulations

...and biology, which are currently impossible due to the large timescales that need to be simulated....rather than just the thermodynamics. In order to do this, we will integrate path sampling...events with a novel approach that allows us to parallelize “non-parallelizable” algorithms by...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Genomic adaptions in kelp to Arctic environments (BlueArc Field Sampling, RiS 12373)

...kelp forests provides a rare opportunity to uncover the genetic mechanisms that enable...comparative investigation of genetic adaptation to polar environments in kelp species, with direct...species Laminaria solidungula, and temperate to sub-Arctic species Laminaria hyperborea...

Awarded: NOK 59,999

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Vestland

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

FibreEyes: Enhancing Transmission Grid Capacity and Resilience with Fibre-optic Sensing

...the capacity of the power grid is required to grow fast. Building new power lines is...in addition, we need innovative solutions to utilize the existing power grid more...lines are operated with conservative power limits based on worst-case weather assumptions. This...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Akershus

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

SINERGY - Secure Integration of Neuron Sensors into distribution Grid systems.

...energy sector is rapidly digitalizing, and Distribution...sensors, already widely deployed by operators such as Elvia, provide high-resolution...cybersecurity risks that limit its use for automated grid operations. Direct integration of...

Awarded: NOK 1.00 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NANOTEKNOLOGI-NANOTEKNOLOGI

Ammonia Production via Electrochemical Reduction of Nitrogen

...research institutes, and SMEs across Europe to advance electrochemical ammonia production....input, limiting theoretical energy efficiency to ~27% and practical efficiency to below 10%,...increasing cost and reducing sustainability due to extensive use of platinum-group metals (PGMs)....

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NANOTEKNOLOGI-NANOTEKNOLOGI

Predictive Uncovering of Next-gen protonic Ceramics for Hydrogen and ammonia electrolysis

...and ammonia are expected to play an important role in a low-carbon society....causing significant CO2 emissions. PUNCH aims to make green hydrogen and ammonia production...is electrolysis, where electricity is used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Current...

Awarded: NOK 5.8 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

A new and modular tool for meiofauna research

...ecosystems and are increasingly used as indicator organisms in environmental monitoring because...important both for new scientific insight into biodiversity and ecosystem function, and for...the field still depends on fragile, hand-made tools for isolating and transferring these...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Error Correction (NISQEC)

...computers are expected to solve some complex problems more efficiently...the NISQ era playing an important stepping stone towards fully fault-tolerant quantum...challenge, as quantum information is notoriously error-prone when any quantum system...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Nature-Based Adaptation Targeting Urban Resilience and Economic Efficiency

...urban flood risks, yet municipalities struggle to implement nature-based solutions (NBS) with...long-term performance hinder adoption, leading to reliance on conventional flood management. To...identifies institutional and financial barriers to NBS adoption. Using hedonic pricing models and...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2032

Location: Oslo - Oslove

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Unlocking the Power of Spatial Computing using Tile-Centric AI Accelerators

...was the rise of tile-centric AI accelerator hardware for machine learning applications...have evolved from the experimental state into market-ready products, and they have the...irregular problems and some of these accelerators are already being incorporated into existing...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

INSPIRE - Inclusive Networks for Research Excellence

...project Inspire aims to strengthen diversity and gender balance in...in senior academic positions. This imbalance limits both the quality of research and its societal...plays a central role in shaping policies on topics such as welfare, labor markets, and climate...

Awarded: NOK 1.00 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Vestland

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Deep study reading in digitised classrooms: identifying factors affecting sustained focus, persistence, and stress

...goal of DEEPREAD is to map salient factors affecting deep reading for...digitally vs. in a print textbook), and text factors (e.g., length; complexity; genre) on...video observations, focus groups and interviews to explore students’ reading experiences in depth....

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Rogaland

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Innovative Technologies for Monitoring Levels of Nitrosamines and Nitramines in Air and Water Near Amine-Based CO2 Capture Facilities

...Norway, full-scale CO2 capture is scheduled to start in 2025 at the Heidelberg cement plant in...of carcinogenic nitrosamines and nitramines to the nearby environments. National safety limits...must conduct baseline studies and develop monitoring programs. TechNAM will develop the...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Under pressure – Student achievement and wellbeing in a changing school environment

...research questions: 1. How is wellbeing related to educational outcomes across gender and...digitalisation–in and outside school–contribute to students’ wellbeing and school achievement?...own mental health, and how is this related to school achievement? We will address the...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Green Industry and Land-use Governance: Interests, Power and Institutions

...nature areas. How and why do evolving policies to promote green industries in Norway integrate...such as clean hydrogen, batteries and digitalization/data centres are energy intensive and...but also indirectly through access to renewable energy and critical raw materials....

Awarded: NOK 10.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

“AINA”:Artificial Intelligence that controls microbial consortia

...industrial biotechnology will incorporate digitalization, automation to improve bioprocess...genetic modifications have turned bacteria into micro production units that can convert...over other sugars, which prevents bioprocesses to deploy new bioresources, e.g. seaweed, that...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Resilience of polar ecosystems to the cumulative effects of physical and biological changes in Norway’s high Arctic (ROPES)

...prevalence of Atlantic species, fisheries, tourism, and shipping. In the high Arctic of...marine ecosystem is shifting from polar species towards a more temperate fish community with...from Norway, Germany, Canada, and Sweden to study the ecosystem of Svalbard as it teeters...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Efficient bioconversion of poultry feather into highly digestible protein products for fish and animal feed

...bioconversion process for poultry feathers into highly degestable protein product. Europe and...of feather waste, with the EU poultry sector alone producing 3.6 million tons annually, of...industry generates approximately 7,500 metric tons of feather waste each year, most of which is...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Akershus

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Methods for enhanced utilization of the regional distribution grid system (DSO) in the interplay with the transmission system (TSO)

...The electrification of the transport sector, support for the development of...of new initiatives such as battery factories and data centers are pushing the grid...a widespread blackout or major disruption to the power grid, is one of the primary factors...

Awarded: NOK 0.21 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Telemark

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

FME Northwind - Norwegian Research Centre on Wind Energy NorthWind Floating Array Design

...researcher in floating offshore wind design, to SINTEF Ocean for a three-year period within the...experience with the NREL’s OpenFAST simulation tool. By combining this expertise with SINTEF...FME NorthWind—spanning marine technology, digitalization, geology, energy systems, and...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

DataMines: Governing data infrastructures and clouds in digitally mediated natural resources extraction and exploitation

...data mining technology is rapidly expanding into all kinds of natural resource prospecting...the technology, policy and the law. It sets out to establish a research program in digital...is an advanced case. By studying the turn to Digital Sequence Information (DSI) in...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2032

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Decoding the novel role of the dynamic 3D genome in mechanotransduction

...cells in the human body receive and respond to mechanical inputs. For example, as cells...confinement which they sense and respond to. Emerging evidence identifies the genome as a...response is executed is not known, which limits our basic understanding of how cells adapt to...

Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

Law & Geopolitics: Governing Frontier Spaces Through Soft Law? (FrontierLaw)

...spaces—those beyond the limits of national jurisdiction, where access to...agendas. However, questions have been raised as to whether these legal governance structures can...in managing the potential for conflict related to specific geographic characteristics, namely,...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus