228 projects

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SAMISKTEMA-SAMISKTEMA

SKILL: How ethnic contexts affect Sámi and Kven children and adolescents’ Identity, Language use, and well-being in Life

‘The language has been a tremendous loss for me, [...] I heard my father speak South Sámi with some friends for the first time in the 80s. […] I just stood there looking at him. He had never spoken it with us at home. I couldn’t blame him […] I have reconciled with it, and learned to live with it...

Awarded: NOK 11.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FORSKSYSTEM-UTD-FORSKSYSTEM-UTD

ARCTIC Youth: Research Centre for Children and Youth at Risk

The aim of the Arctic Youth Research Center is to create research that answers the positive question of what can be done to increase the well-being of children and youth. Children who grow up in families with scarce resources have a higher risk of experiencing a reduced quality of life, violence,...

Awarded: NOK 30.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Patterns of Environment-making: the Arctic and its Global Contexts

This workshop gathers a group of international humanities scholars (Indigenous and Western) from Europe, Canada and the USA and 2-3 Arctic Indigenous visual artists to build and disseminate critical research on the historic and ongoing causes of climate and environmental change in the Arctic. Thr...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

SKJØNN: Sunn fornuft og moralske overveielser i akademias inkluderingspraksiser

Discretion is the space for judgment and flexibility that people with decision-making power use in their daily work. It comes into play when interpreting existing regulations, adapting to practical constraints, or responding to situations where the rules are incomplete and allow for different way...

Awarded: NOK 1.00 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

Arctic Auditories – Hydrospheres in the High North

Arctic Auditories – Hydrospheres in the High North (AA) is an interdisciplinary project based in the Humanities, which seeks to develop strategies for understanding environmental change through sound. The project focuses on water environments and draws on feminist and other knowledge systems to r...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Linguistic Economy through transfer Source Selectivity (LESS): A neurocognitive investigation of linguistic transfer in multilingualism

You might have heard that our brains are powerful computational machines. They certainly are, but all that processing power would be useless in the constant overload of information we live in, were it not for the fact that they also do other things very well: predict, adapt, reuse - to do more wi...

Awarded: NOK 6.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Multilingualism in Transitions

Learning new languages may influence individuals’ lives on short- and long term. MultiTrans’ objective is to explore the interplay between individual language choices, language policy and social contexts by investigating how multilingual individuals explain and experience choices they make during...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Good Integration (GOODINT): Goals and bottlenecks of successful integration and social cohesion

What is good integration of migrants in Norway and Europe? How can we achieve it? GOODINT is a research project that examines these two questions. In particular, the project focuses on three values – equality of opportunity, cultural integration, and social cohesion – and their relation to good i...

Awarded: NOK 13.7 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Memory politics of the North, 1993-2023. An interplay perspective.

The project 'Memory politics of the North, 1993-2023. An interplay perspective' (NORMEMO) examines memory politics and memory culture in Northwest Russia and in Russia's relations with Norway throughout the post-Soviet period. The contemporary Norwegian-Russian borderland stands out as an intrigu...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

FUGLAN VEIT - safeguarding diversity in times of climate change and biodiversity loss

FUGLAN VEIT is a transdisciplinary, collaborative research project that aims to examine and understand shared human-avian histories and create new lines of thought and action that ensure co-existence in times of alarming declines in seabird populations. Seabirds are part of coastal cultural heri...

Awarded: NOK 12.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Arctic Voices in Art and Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century

Arctic Voices gathers stories from the Arctic that places Arctic Indigenous peoples and animals at the centre. The starting point for these stories is local places in the Arctic (Sápmi, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), Inuit Nunangat, Canada and Alaska) between about 1789 and 1914, a period when peo...

Awarded: NOK 8.4 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SAMISKTEMA-SAMISKTEMA

How can language technology make a difference? An investigation of the impact language-aware computer programs have upon Saami literacy

During the last decades, the Saami languages have to an increasing degree been put into use in school and the civil society. In parallel with this, keyboards, proofing tools and other computer programs for the Sami languages have been made, to an extent that the Saami languages are relatively wel...

Awarded: NOK 6.5 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Experimental approaches to syntactic optionality

One of the most remarkable properties of humans is our complex language: a tool for communicating thoughts and ideas of a potentially endless richness and complexity. People around the world and from all cultures spend several hours each day engaged in linguistic activities, notably speaking to f...

Awarded: NOK 10.8 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Early intervention for children at risk of reading disorders in Northern Norway: A cluster randomised trial

Background and Objectives: The ReadWell study examined how an educational programme combining language comprehension with word reading can enhance pupils’ reading skills. The aim of the intervention, called "UiT-ReadWell," was to improve reading comprehension by strengthening language understand...

Awarded: NOK 14.2 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Urban Transformation in a Warming Arctic: The Continued Effects of Nordic Colonialism in Urban Development and Planning

UrbTrans is a radically interdisciplinary project that examines the development of Nuuk, the capital city of Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland). The aim with the project is to learn with and from Nuuk about the connections between urbanization, colonialism and decolonization. By studying the city's dev...

Awarded: NOK 8.4 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

From Nunavik to Iceland: Climate, Human and Culture through time across the coastal (sub)Arctic North Atlantic

The project has studied “Cultural Images and Perceptions of the North Atlantic” with the climate at the center. It has shown how the influence of the climate, its variations and its perception are translated differently according to the speaker and his motive of enunciation. Whether it is long-te...

Awarded: NOK 0.65 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SAMISKTEMA-SAMISKTEMA

Truth and Reconciliation in a Democratic Welfare State: The Indigenous Sami, the Kven/Norwegian Finns Minority and the majority in Norway

The TRUCOM project was concluded on October 1, 2024. The project researched how the Norwegian Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Commission to Investigate the Policy of Norwegianization and Injustice towards the Sami, Kvens, and Norwegian Finns, which was established to investigate the stat...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

FINNUT-Program for forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren

Learning, Assessment and Boundary crossing in Teacher Education

Reforms of teacher education in Norway from 2010 have emphasized the development of methodological competence for student teachers when working on research and development (R&D) assignments in their third year of study designed to improve their own practice. Subsequently, from autumn 2017, furthe...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Seminar on academic writing in Sami

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2019-2020

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SAMKUL-Samfunnsutviklingens kulturelle forutsetninger

Vandreutstilling med lokal forankring: Formidling, samhandling og flerstedlig dialog om forskning på kvensk/norskfinsk kulturarv (IMMKven)

The traveling exhibition which has been named Tuulessa-In the wind is based in the research project IMMKven. The IMMKven research deals with how Kven cultural heritage is expressed today, and the traveling exhibition presents research findings and stimulates to dialogue around the project field w...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2022

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BALANSE-Kjønnsbalanse i toppstillinger og forskningsledelse

Prestisje: Kjønnsbalanse i forskningsledelse ved UiT Norges arktiske universitet

The Prestige Project: Gender Balance in Research Leadership at UiT was a five-year-long, research and action-oriented initiative based at the Center for Women's and Gender Research, in collaboration with the Department of Philosophy and the Equality Committee at UiT The Arctic University of Norwa...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2023

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ISPHUM-ISP - Humaniora

Forskningssabbat ved UiT-HSL

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Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2018

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Public Workshop on Indigenous Internationalism in Context

The “Public Workshop on Indigenous Internationalism in Context” will gather international scholars who focus on Indigenous internationalism and its history. This may include research on global Indigenous organizations (like the World Council of Indigenous Peoples - WCIP), transnational Indigenous...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Forskergrupper ved Universitetet i Tromsø

Awarded: NOK 7.5 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2022

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Kunnskap, fiksjon og fakta - utfordringer for antropologien. Norsk antropologisk forenings årskonferanse 2018

Kommunikasjon er en forutsetning for fellesskap i verdi- og virkelighetsoppfatninger og dermed for integrasjon i kultur og samfunn. Lenge tenkte mange at begreper som «modernisering» og «globalisering» sammenfatter generelle og homogeniserende utviklingstendenser der veksten av kommunikasjonsromm...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Modal Concepts and Compositionality: New Directions in Experimental Semantics

Modality is found in all human languages. It poses a special kind of interest because it concerns meanings where we reason about the `non-actual' or the hypothetical. This is something unique to human communication systems within the animal kingdom. Words where modal meanings are traditionally...

Awarded: NOK 8.2 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2022

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

The 27th Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research

Arrangementet gjennomføres av Institutt for reiseliv og nordlige studier (IRN), Alta og Institutt for sosiologi, statsvitenskap og samfunnsplanlegging (HSL), Tromsø. Symposiet, som arrangeres for 27 gang, er i hovedsak en møteplass for reiselivsforskere fra de fem nordiske landene. Hvert femte år...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

SAMKUL-Samfunnsutviklingens kulturelle forutsetninger

Working Multilingually

"Hva språk har å si" ('What language has to say') is a film about language, diversity and work. Linguistic diversity in the workplace entails both advantages and challenges. Linguistic diversity is closely connected to the recruitment of workers, international collaboration, and the needs of cust...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2018

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Indigenous Citizenship and Education

This project is about Indigenous education and citizenship. Our center of attention is the politics of Indigenous education to be put into practice. In the project, we emphasise the processual aspects of both education and citizenship. We investigate how having both Indigenous and non-Indigenous ...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2022

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SAMKUL-Samfunnsutviklingens kulturelle forutsetninger

BYFORSK - Sustainable diverse cities: Innovation in integration

Sustainable Diverse Cities: Innovation in Integration How can cities develop their capacity to deal with increased immigration and living with difference? Sustainable diverse cities: Innovation in integration has explored new initiatives in integration. The research project has in different ways ...

Awarded: NOK 10.8 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2022

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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