63 projects

FOFORMIDLING-FOFORMIDLING

Researcher's Night Hessdalen

Vi planlegger et populærvitenskapelig foredrag om forskningen vår på lysfenomenene i Hessdalen. Dette vil bli etterfulgt av åpen natt i Forskningsstasjonen vår på fjellet Skarvan (975 m.o.h.). Vi vil også opprette en miniatyr telt/hytte-base som vil være tilgjengelig for publikum som av ulike års...

Awarded: NOK 97,000

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Østfold

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

The effectiveness of Småsteg on Socio-Emotional Learning in Kindergarten: a cluster randomized controlled trial

What does it cost to help young children develop social skills — and how does it work? Imagine you want to introduce a new play-based learning program in kindergartens. You know it works — but how does it work? And what does it really cost? In this project, we study a social-emotional learning pr...

Awarded: NOK 8.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Østfold

FOFORMIDLING-FOFORMIDLING

Forskerne kommer!

«Forskerne kommer» er et gratis formidlingsprosjekt under Forskningsdagene, arrangert av Høgskolen i Østfold. Formålet er å la forskere møte barn og ungdom på skoler, torg og kulturhus utenfor campus, og dele aktuell forskning på en engasjerende og lettfattelig måte. Prosjektet bygger på vellykk...

Awarded: NOK 50,000

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Østfold

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Knowledge Integration in Teacher Education through Technology-Enhanced Simulation (KITES)

KITES is a research project that explores how advanced technologies such as virtual reality, 360-degree video, and artificial intelligence can support student teachers in integrating various knowledge sources to make professional decisions. Becoming a good teacher requires more than subject exper...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Østfold

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

AI-Feedback Reach: Empowering Students and Teachers

The AI-Feedback Reach project aims to transform how students learn to write and how teachers support them. At the centre of the project is Essay Assessment Technology (EAT), an AI tool developed at Østfold University College that gives students immediate, research-based feedback on content, struc...

Awarded: NOK 0.17 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Østfold

PESORDNING-PESORDNING

VolantiLumine

We will mainly utilize the PES support for a physical meeting with the project partners on the ERC-2026-SYG application, in order to discuss the project application and to ensure good coordination of the application process.

Awarded: NOK 74,999

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Østfold

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Artificial Intelligence for Enhanced Cross-disciplinary Assessment for Learning (AI-EXCAfL)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) challenges traditional education by revealing the limitations of focusing primarily on summative assessments, which evaluate end results of students’ learning like essays, presentations, or reports. These have been traditionally emphasised, while formative assessments...

Awarded: NOK 14.7 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Østfold

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Controlling Energy Harvesting Operation in Wireless Devices (CEHOW)

Energy efficiency is a main concern for a wireless terminal (WT) to ensure its sustainable operation. To support mobility, the WTs are often powered by batteries, which require frequent charging or replacement. This not only disrupts the normal operation of the WTs but also is inconvenient for t...

Awarded: NOK 0.49 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Østfold

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Advancing Education: Commercialising AI-Driven Essay Assessment Technology (EAT) for Enhanced Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century

ACE-TL21 has aimed to further develop and commercialise a research-based technology for the assessment of pupils’ and students’ texts, Essay Assessment Technology (EAT), for use in schools and higher education. The technology builds on results from the AI4AfL research project and has been develop...

Awarded: NOK 0.32 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Østfold

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

The effectiveness of Småsteg on Socio-Emotional Learning in Kindergarten: a cluster randomized controlled trial

We investigate the emotional and social growth in young children through a social and emotional learning program, already implemented in more than 200 kindergartens in Norway, and compare this with children who will have extra playtime. The program, Småsteg, lasts 28 weeks and focuses on teaching...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Østfold

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

TTO-funksjon ved HiØ

Østfold University College (ØUC) has many exciting, publicly funded research projects with the potential to become valuable inventions and ideas. To ensure that our results benefit society, HiØ has initiated a project to develop the university college's technology transfer office (TTO), called "T...

Awarded: NOK 0.71 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Østfold

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

A Phonological and Reading RCT Intervention in Kindergarten and School for Children with Intellectual Disabilities who require AAC

The project aims to improve education for children with intellectual disabilities who require alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) in kindergartens and schools. Over a two-year period, we will conduct a comprehensive intervention study (randomized controlled trial) to test the effect ...

Awarded: NOK 14.2 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Østfold

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

CETP - Innovative bio-based building materials with thermal energy storage function

MYCOBUILD aims to make environmentally friendly building materials with superior thermal properties. We will only use bio-based masterials in our composite materials, which will contain mycelium (the root-like structure of mushrooms), fibers produced from wood, and bio-based phase change material...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Østfold

FORMIDLING-Allmennrettet formidling

Kultur på resept

Med arrangementet «Kultur på resept» har HiØ som mål å formidle hvordan man kan bruke kunst og kultur som en ressurs for å fremme bedre helse blant personer som vanligvis ikke har tilgang til kulturaktiviteter. Personer med demens bor ofte hjemme, og har et behov for å ha faste tilrettelagte og m...

Awarded: NOK 30,000

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Østfold

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Ledelseskompetanse som drivkraft for organisasjonsutvikling på vei mot et mangfoldig, inkluderende og likestilt akademia

How can leaders contribute to creating a more gender-balanced, diverse, and inclusive academic culture? Finding answers to this question is at the core of the project “Leadership Competence as a Driving Force for Organizational Development Towards a Diverse, Inclusive, and Gender-Equal Academia” ...

Awarded: NOK 1.00 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Østfold

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Positive EneRgy diStrIctS driven by ciTizens

The project PERSIST is focussed on the involvement of citizens who are not engaged yet. One of the innovations of PERSIST lies in aiming at a combined appraisal of actors engaged and not yet engaged to better understand both the factors that are favorable for models of efficient, sustainable and ...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Østfold

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Online video training for teachers to improve reading skills in children using augmentative and alternative communication

Online video training for teachers to improve reading skills in children using augmentative and alternative communication: the “Reading for all” trial Reading skills provide access to information, social interaction, education, and employment. For pupils with intellectual disabilities, reading ...

Awarded: NOK 9.9 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Østfold

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

Tunable and Durable Seawater Adhesives

Gluing things together under water poses a significant challenge. In seawater this is even more difficult due to the salt content, and currently the performance and durability of seawater adhesives is very limited. This is a problem for applications in marine industry such as underwater robotics,...

Awarded: NOK 14.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Østfold

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Reducing alcohol use among adolescents through a community-based, multicomponent intervention: an implementation research approach

New findings from the project: Parental substance use is a consistent predictor of adolescent initiation and escalation of substance use. Mechanisms include: modeling of behaviors, increased access/availability at home, normalization of substance use as acceptable behavior, and strong evidence ex...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Østfold

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Assessment for Learning (AfL) to Improve Learning and Teaching in 21st Century (AI4AfL)

The understanding of learning to learn is a key competence for pupils in the 21st century. Since 2010, Norwegian schools have prioritised Assessment for Learning (AfL) as a strategy to promote this competence, but experience shows that implementation is demanding. AfL requires teachers to have de...

Awarded: NOK 11.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Østfold

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Enhanced Access to Norwegian Cultural Heritage using AI-driven Handwriting Recognition

Norway’s libraries, archives, and museums house millions of pages of handwritten documents that remain largely inaccessible for digital analysis. The HUGIN-MUNIN project set out to change that by building one smart computer system that can: • Read Norwegian word images it’s never seen before....

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Østfold

BALANSE-Kjønnsbalanse i toppstillinger og forskningsledelse

Fra "best i klassen" til systematisk arbeid for kjønnsbalanse

Østfold University College (HiØ) has, with funding from the Research Council's Balansemidler, worked on the project From "best in class" to systematic work for gender balance (BESK) from 2020 to 2022. Work on gender balance in research is nothing new for HiØ. KvinnForsk, a network for female rese...

Awarded: NOK 1.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Østfold

FINNUT-Program for forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren

pARTiciPED. Empowering student teachers for cross-sectorial collaborations with The Cultural Schoolbag (TCS) in Norwegian Schools

External providers of learning experiences increasingly seek and gain access to schools. These activities, organized by partners such as The Technological Schoolbag, Young Entrepreneurship and The Cultural Schoolbag, takes time from curricular activities already planned for by teachers in schools...

Awarded: NOK 10.1 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Østfold

SAMRISK-2-Samfunnssikkerhet og risiki

Advancing Cyber Defence by Improved Communication of Recognized Cyber Threat Situations (ACDICOM)

Cyber threats are becoming more complex, affecting every aspect of society. ACDICOM was launched to address the human factors in cybersecurity, focusing on improving information exchange during cyber incidents. By applying cognitive-behavioral research methods, ACDICOM aimed to enhance situationa...

Awarded: NOK 9.7 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Østfold

PES2020-Prosj.etabl.støtte H2020

Rammebevilgning til H2020-søknader - 2020

Det har vært en gradvis økende interesse for å søke EU-midler ved HiØ. I 2019 var vi inne i 10 søknader, hvorav 4 som koordinator. I 2020 ser det ut til å bli tatt 6-8 søknadsinitiativ, hvorav 1 eller 2 COST-søknader. Forskningsadministrasjonen (tidligere kalt forskningsenheten) er HiØs støtteap...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2021

Location: Østfold

PES2020-Prosj.etabl.støtte H2020

Rammebevilgning til H2020-søknader - 2019

Det har vært en gradvis økende interesse for å søke EU-midler ved HiØ. I 2015 var vi ikke involvert i noen søknader, i 2016 3 søknader, og i 2017 var vi involvert i 9 søknader. I 2018 var vi nok litt for optimistiske og skrev i søknaden av vi ville delta på 14 søknader, mens resultatet ble at vi ...

Awarded: NOK 0.46 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2019

Location: Østfold

ISPHUM-ISP - Humaniora

Forskningssabbat ved Høgskolen i Østfold

...

Awarded: NOK 0.29 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2018

Location: Østfold

PES2020-Prosj.etabl.støtte H2020

Rammebevilgning til H2020 aktiviteter, 2018

Resultater kan allerede framvises: Høgskolen hadde ingen H2020 søknader i 2015, i 2016 ble innlevert tre søknader, i 2017 ni søknader, mens det for 2018 er planlagt 14 søknader. Tilbakemeldinger fra involverte forteller at produskjon av H2020 søknader løfter det faglige nivået for de som er invol...

Awarded: NOK 0.60 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2018

Location: Østfold

HELSEVEL-H-Gode og effektive helse-, omsorgs- og velferdstjenester

Integrated Services for Patients with Dual Diagnosis

This project addresses one of the most difficult questions in the modern welfare state: how to organize services for people with concurrent addiction and mental health problems, also referred to as dual diagnosis, in ways that make these services more coordinated. People with dual diagnosis are ...

Awarded: NOK 10.6 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2021

Location: Østfold

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksling Norge-Tyskland

Contesting Schengen: Effects of border enforcements on economic and social cohesion in European border spaces

The free movement of people, goods, capital and services within the Schengen area is one of the major achievements of the European integration process and provides economic opportunities for businesses and residents in the Schengen area. "Schengen" not only stands as a symbol of the process of ec...

Awarded: NOK 29,605

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Østfold