92 projects

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UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Investments, Goals and Outcomes for Children Living with HIV (IGOHI)

Worldwide, nearly 2 million children are living with HIV, with 160,000 new infections annually. Untreated, HIV progresses to AIDS, which kills 100,000 children annually, mainly in African countries (UNAIDS 2022). These deaths are now largely preventable due to the widespread availability of free ...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

The Economics of Adult Education: Promoting Life-long Learning through information and financial incentives

This project investigates the existing gap between the perceived importance of lifelong learning and the low participation in adult education. The aim is to find out whether policy measures can increase participation in adult education, and what value this brings to society. We focus on adults wi...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

What is driving the increasing youth disability insurance receipt in Norway?

There is there a concerning trend in Norway: the proportion of 30-year-olds receiving disability benefits has more than doubled in the past 25 years. This increase coincides with various societal changes, including a rise in mental health diagnoses among youth, heightened competition in education...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Refugee Settlement Locations and Long Run Outcomes

How to successfully integrate refugees is an important task for governments, for which efficient policy solutions are in high demand. While there is a fairly large literature on the efficiency of various labor market and education policies, we know much less about the importance of initial settle...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Labor market inclusion and labor productivity

Policies for economic growth are guided by two aims: i) to enhance productivity per unit of labor, and ii) to ensure maximum utilization of the accessible labor resources. There is a potential tradeoff between these two objectives. Productivity per unit of labor can be improved by laying off the ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Oslo

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Improving the monitoring, treatment and prevention of population drug abuse

Illegal drugs are a major public health concern and a top-ten cause of death and disability in Norway. The problem is hard to manage. Administrative registers identify only the users that have been unable or unwilling to to hide their use, there is only weak and limited data available regarding t...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Oslo

GRUNNBEVILGNING-GRUNNBEVILGNING

Grunnbevilgning - Frischsenteret

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Awarded: NOK 14.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo

RETUREU-RETUREU

RETUR-EU Frischsenteret

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Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2030

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Nordic comparative micro-data laboratory for analyses of common shocks: The case of Covid19

The Nordic countries have for many years been leaders in the use of administrative data for research. Such data have to a lesser extent been used for comparative studies across countries. We believe there is great potential for learning more by using register data from several countries in conjun...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Developing value chains for CO2 storage and blue hydrogen in Europe (Device)

While prominent international organizations have argued that Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is pivotal in ensuring a cost-efficient solution to the climate change problem, to date there is no market for CO2 storage. CCS may be linked to power stations or manufacturing plants in a selection of i...

Awarded: NOK 9.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

The corona crisis and its economic consequences

The project's ambition was to document the magnitude, dynamics and socio-economic characteristics of the corona crisis and its recovery, the impact of the various government crisis measures, along with analyses of the economic recovery across individuals, families, businesses, and regions. It is...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2022

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

Field Experiments to improve integration, trust, and gender equality

Hovedprosjektet vil bygge kunnskap om hvordan sosiale interaksjoner henger sammen med gruppedynamikk og tillit, og hvilken rolle de spiller når det gjelder diskriminering av kvinner og etniske minoriteter. Prosjektet er basert på et tett samarbeid med Forsvaret, og nærmere bestemt rekruttskolen K...

Awarded: NOK 29,624

Project Period: 2020-2020

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Successful Workforce Transitions in a fast-CHanging labor market (SWiTCH)

The project aims to identify factors that enable effective and inclusive transitions in the labor market, with a particular focus on the shift toward a low-emission economy. By learning from various transitions over recent decades, we seek to highlight both the opportunities and challenges of fut...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Intergenerational Mobility and Labor Market Inclusion

The main goals of this project are to contribute to increased knowledge about factors that are important for intergenerational mobility, to characterize the last decades' changes in mobility patterns, and possibly to identify the mechanisms behind such changes. In particular, we want to focus on ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Field Experiments to Identify the Effects and Scope Conditions of Social Interactions

The project addresses theoretical and empirical challenges related to the study of social interactions. Using field experiments, the project identifies causal effects of exposure to out-groups on prejudice, discrimination, political attitudes, and behaviors. Together the experiments allow for the...

Awarded: NOK 8.2 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Oslo

HELSEFORSKNING-Helseforskning

Effects of Child Welfare Services

The child welfare services (Barnevernet) aim to ensure good living and development conditions for children who live under circumstances that may harm their health and development. In Norway, child welfare measures primarily consist of various types of family assistance and placements outside the ...

Awarded: NOK 15.0 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2025

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

The decline in employment and the rise of its social gradient

The project's main aim has been to identify and analyze the mechanisms behind reduced employment rates in younger age groups, including the strengthened connection between social background and employment. Since the mid-1980s, employment rates among young and middle-aged people in Norway have fal...

Awarded: NOK 10.2 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2023

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

Inequality and social sustainability of the Norwegian pension system after the reform

Efficiency and equity The Norwegian 2011 pension reform repealed the earnings test in the private sector and introduced flexible and actuarially neutral claiming of public pension, thereby increasing work incentives and prolonging working life. A new study focusses on distribution and equity (An...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2022

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

Sustaining the welfare and working life model in a diversified society

The project goals were to (i) investigate the effects of exposure to ethnic diversity on trust, (ii) examine the role of ancestry culture in integration across generations, with particular focus on the transmission of gender norms, and (iii) evaluate the effectiveness of certain integration polic...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2022

Location: Oslo

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

Driving towards the low-emission society

The project aims to provide accurate and reliable knowledge on the effects of existing and potential future policies to support the transition to zero and low-emission automobiles in Norway. The project has studied how different policies affect how many cars households own, by type of car (electr...

Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2021

Location: Oslo

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Sustainable transformation to sustainability

Good climate policy has to be effective and efficient. This project investigates several aspects of climate policy, including obstacles and challenges for design and implementation. One such obstacle is the behavioral response to policies. People might react to new policies in unexpected and ...

Awarded: NOK 10.9 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2022

Location: Oslo

STIM-EU-Strat.Instituttsats.EU-prosj

STIM-EU Frischsenteret

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Awarded: NOK 0.51 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2022

Location: Oslo

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

Incentives, Efficiency and Quality of Care in Long Term Care For The Elderly

This project examines how financial incentives and the organization of long-term care for the elderly affect their mortality, health and quality of life. We do this by connecting patient data from various registers, including information on institutional and home-based services from the Nursing H...

Awarded: NOK 14.3 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2024

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

New causal evidence on the effects of activation- and workplace intervention policies for reducing sickness absence

This project contributes to the scientific literature on sickness absence. It has two main topics: 1) Causal effects of dialogue meetings to promote return to work: We investigate the causal effects of dialogue meetings (DMs) for different types of people using a large-scale randomized field e...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2019

Location: Oslo

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

Security of supply in a green power market - The challenges and opportunities of intermittent power

Security of electricity supply in the long run is both a question of a) having sufficient energy and power capacity, and b) whether the system can deliver electricity efficiently where and when it is needed. This project concerns how to organize the power market in order to avoid system breakd...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2021

Location: Oslo

BEDREHELSE-Bedre helse og livskvalitet

Values, beliefs and policy options: Beyond prevalence-centric prohibitions

Which values and concerns matter for drug policy, and what kind of regulatory regime do they point towards? To assess this, we convened a decision analysis workshop with a group of researchers and drug policy experts. The workshop had three goals: List relevant concerns and values, define a set o...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2020

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

Understanding retirement decisions

Within the Understanding Retirement Decisions project, various issues related to the effects of the Norwegian pension reform were dealt with. Here is a brief summary of a selection of the research contributions: Pension reform and labor supply, by Erik Hernæs, Simen Markusen, John Piggott and Kn...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2019

Location: Oslo

FINNUT-Program for forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren

Long-term effects of school-wide interventions and school environment using longitudinal register data

The project's ambition is to investigate the long-term effects of two school-wide programs: School-Wide Positive Behavior Support (PALS in Norway) and the Olweus Anti-Bullying Program. PALS is a model for preventing behavioral and coping problems and improving the learning environment. PALS has b...

Awarded: NOK 8.9 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2021

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

Egalitarianism under pressure? New perspectives on inequality and social cohesion

This project has evaluated societal forces that challenge the Norwegian egalitarian welfare state model. It identifies three important arenas for change: i) the Labor market, ii) the distribution of health conditions, and iii) the composition of families. Below, we present a brief summary of som...

Awarded: NOK 11.3 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2018

Location: Oslo

PES2020-Prosj.etabl.støtte H2020

Veien mot lavutslippssamfunnet: modellering av energimarkedene

Prosjektet tar utgangspunkt i utlysningens (LCE 21-2015) scope: "Proposals should cover one or several of the following aspects: - Comparative assessment of the impacts and the sustainability performance of all relevant energy technologies, including r enewable, fossil, and nuclear technologie...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Oslo

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