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FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Intensionality and Forcing: A New Model-Theoretic Synthesis

Imagine trying to explain what a belief or the meaning of a sentence really is. We use them constantly—when we say “I think it will rain” or when we understand a joke—but they are surprisingly hard for science to pin down. Even simple ideas can fool our theories. Two sentences might always be tru...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Automating language description

Almost half of the world’s 7000 languages are endangered (Campbell & Belew 2018). Linguists try to combat this loss of human heritage by documenting languages. They do this by recording words, sentences and stories in the original language, accompanied by transcriptions, translations and grammati...

Awarded: NOK 8.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Technological Change, Labor Representation, and Job Quality: A Comparative Historical Analysis, c. 1830–1980

TECHLABOR investigates how new technologies have changed the quality of jobs. Job quality includes aspects of work that affect wellbeing such as work intensity, safety on the job, and working hours as well as wages. Improving the quality of jobs is a global policy commitment, but early research o...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

SongGesture: Co-singing gesture and vocal performance across three musical traditions

In many music traditions, vocalists tend to gesture with hand, head and other body movements as they sing. SongGesture will investigate expert vocalists’ use of gestures in three contrasting vocal styles: beatboxing, karnatak music from South India and European art song. While there has been scie...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Inclusive AI Emerging Fellowship

This project centers on a research stay within the Inclusive AI Lab at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, an institution devoted to developing socially informed and globally representative approaches to artificial intelligence. The lab advances a humanities-led view of AI that treats cultural...

Awarded: NOK 78,999

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Valuing Animals

Every year, we raise and kill over 80 billion farm animals and trillions of aquatic animals. In addition, many animals more are harmed by infrastructure projects and business activities. These sentient creatures have interests that matter morally, yet our economic and political systems largely ig...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Modelling Human Happiness: Exploring Enabling and Restrictive Factors to Wellbeing across Culture

The individual exchange project aims to foster research collaboration between the ModHap project and the Oishi Lab at the University of Chicago. Using prediction and validation methods in machine learning, we seek to identify which factors are most central to the prediction of wellbeing and which...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

Welfare under scrutiny: Precarious life in contemporary Norwegian literature

Contemporary Norwegian literature contains many depictions of people in precarious situations. We can read about mothers without social networks, young adults in temporary jobs, teenagers on the verge of becoming criminals, and children with ill parents. Portrayals of vulnerable and marginalized ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

INVISEA Charting the Seabed Multiple. Knowledge and Values of Norwegian Seabed Areas

Seabed areas around the world are under increasing pressure, and managing the ocean floor in a fair, sustainable, and democratic way is a major challenge. But how do different people actually understand the invisible underwater nature? What values do they associate with it? And to what extent do ...

Awarded: NOK 10.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

Women among the Hansa in Bergen

Women among the Hansa in Bergen is a pioneering research project investigating the role of women in the lives and trade of members of the Hanseatic community in Bergen from the Middle Ages until the eighteenth century. The project aims to achieve a comprehensive and more nuanced understanding of ...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Indigenous language reclamation in the family: the role of parenthood when becoming a Sámi speaker.

Fokusgruppen i dette prosjektet er foreldre som har lært seg, eller er i prosessen med å lære seg et samisk språk. De fleste av dem bor utenfor samiske kjerneområder, har få fellesskap å praktisere språket i, og har barn som lærer seg samisk på barnehagen eller skolen. Familien er en viktig are...

Awarded: NOK 0.19 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

The Nature of Museums: On the Interweaving of Nature and Culture in Museums

The distinction between nature and culture has been a predominant trait of modern Western thought. This sharp divide is also articulated in many scientific disciplines, knowledge practices and institutions such as the museum. In the museum sector the distinction between museums of natural history...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

SIKKERHET-SIKKERHET

Towards detecting AI-generated disinformation: Fakespeak in the age of large language models

The EU, NATO and UN in addition to 1500 experts consulted by the World Economic Forum perceive disinformation and fake news, and the subsequent erosion of trust in newly elected governments, as one of the biggest current threats to democracy. This is so not least due to the rapid development of g...

Awarded: NOK 11.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

Senter for norsk fagspråk

Centre for Norwegian Professional Language – Knowledge to Strengthen Norwegian as a Societal Language Participation in education, working life, and a democratic public debate, requires a well-functioning Norwegian professional language. The Centre for Norwegian Professional Language aims to deve...

Awarded: NOK 80.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2033

Location: Vestland

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

Senter for norsk fagspråk i bruk

How can humans and machines become better at using Norwegian as an academic and specialized language? What are the conditions for using Norwegian specialized language in an international academic context? How is Norwegian academic and specialized language applied in teaching materials, in adminis...

Awarded: NOK 40.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2033

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

The Nordic Research School for Museums and Cultural Heritage

The Nordic Research School for Museums and Cultural Heritage (NorMus) will offer training for students who are pursuing PhD’s with topics related to museum and heritage studies. By offering thematic courses, facilitating scientific networks, and building research communities, NorMus will elevate ...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2033

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

The Dark Side of Sustainability: Norway and the Rise and Fall of Salmon Farming in Chile. A transnational history of the future (1970-2030)

DARKLAX is the first interdisciplinary and transnational reconstruction of the history of salmon farming in Chile. We try to explain how a remote and impoverished spot in the South of Chile became a global hub for the experimentation with social, environmental, scientific and discursive technolog...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Vestland

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

The Impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Political Knowledge, Opinion Formation, and Democracy

Generative AI (GenAI) is transforming society in exciting yet potentially worrying ways. One fear is that AI could increase societal divisions by creating misinformation, deepening polarization, and eroding trust. The KnowAI project aims to tackle these challenges head-on by exploring how GenAI a...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Photography as a Survival and Diaspora-Building Tool in the Aftermath of 1915

Armenians are often regarded as the pioneers of photography in the Middle East in the 19th century, as they were among the first native inhabitants of the region to open studios in major cities. They also ran some of the region’s most famous local studios that achieved international acclaim in th...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

Artificial Intelligence in Real Life: Human-LLM Communication

Large Language Models (LLM) are becoming ubiquitous. New applications are introduced every week, the great majority of which rely on untested assumptions about human-LLM interaction. This project aims to explore how people actually interact with LLMs. Do we interpret the 'utterances’ of LLMs the ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Deconstructing "home" in crisis: understanding intersecting crises through the lens of "home"

Home in Crisis aims to reveal diverse understandings of home in the context of the climate crisis. It will advance the protection of home for those affected, strengthen academic understanding, and be of concrete value to policy makers, legal practitioners, and the judiciary. Emerging jurisprudent...

Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

The Fora of Rome and their Christian Graffiti (4th-8th centuries)

The world was changing between the 4th and the 8th century. It was a time when the Roman Empire faced many challenges. Old truths were questioned as Christianity gradually influenced all levels of society. In this world, Rome’s central fora, with their political, historical, and religious monumen...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

ICONIC - The Emergence and Stabilisation of Iconicity in Human Speech

Linguists traditionally believe that a word's form doesn't relate to its meaning. For example, the Norwegian word “tre” or the German word “Baum” don’t sound like a tree. Iconicity, which refers to the perceived resemblance between the form and meaning of a linguistic form, has been thought as on...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Uncovering the paths to pragmatic resilience

One of the most prevalent yet understudied barriers to healthy ageing is communicative decline. In particular, a large segment of the ageing population struggles with pragmatic skills, such as the ability to read between the lines or tailor utterances in partner-specific ways. To illustrate, imag...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

muScribe: Automated tranScription of muSic

muScribe aims to transform music transcription by utilizing advanced AI to convert audio recordings into detailed music scores, making music more accessible to the public. Conducted at the RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time, and Motion at the University of Oslo, the projec...

Awarded: NOK 0.49 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Designing with/out Extractive Materials

Consumer society’s manufacturing industry has taken on such a massive scale and reach as to make it abundantly clear that designing as an activity and a profession has decisive impact on ecological systems both locally and globally. Designing entails crucial decisions on which and how much materi...

Awarded: NOK 9.7 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

Ansvarlig Radikal Innovasjon: Nettverk og læringsArena

ARINA is a competence and learning arena for the Research Council of Norway's technology convergence portfolio. The network continues and deepens the portfolio projects' own work on responsible radical innovation. In this way, the work for transformative processes in Norwegian R&D is coordinated ...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Vestland

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Extraction and Aesthetics: Considering the past, present and future of mining on a local scale

Bakgrunn: I januar 2023 ble NorWhite en global snakkis. Fox News, New York Post og andre verdensledende medier fremstilte NorWhite-prosjektet både upresist og dels feilaktig. I norske medier oppsto en metadebatt om forskning og ideologi. Gjennom denne mediedekningen ble det tydelig for NorWhite-t...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

ARCREATE. An Archaeology of Creative Knowledge in Turbulent Times

What happens to technological knowledge and daily practice in times of turbulence, social stress and extraordinary mobility? Are craftspeople and their network connections challenged, or is their creativity rather nourished by turbulence? ARCREATE is driven by a deep discomfort with archaeology...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Labor Entanglements across the Atlantic: US-Scandinavian Activism, Networks and Visions for Society in the Twentieth Century

Scandinavia and the USA are often portrayed as contrasts, characterized by separate historical developments. Scandinavia seems to differ most from American society with its post-war development towards regulated capitalism and a large welfare state, a development often attributed to the strong Sc...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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