171 projects

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FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Label-free on-chip morpho-molecular tomography for decoding real-time intracellular dynamics of organelles in autophagy

Imagine being able to watch living cells at work - seeing their tiny structures, tracking how they change from one moment to the next, and identifying what molecules they are made of - all without adding dyes, chemicals, or labels that could disturb their natural behavior. Today, scientists can u...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference 2026

The conference is non-profit and will be organized at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. The team has previously organised SCIA 2017, and NLDL 2018/2019/2020/2021/2022/2023/2024/2025, which received support for the events from NFR and were successes. The group has several projects ongoing relat...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

Quantum Oscillator Networks for Optimisation and Machine Learning

From Standstill to Oscillation: Solving Society’s Complex Puzzles Optimization is crucial for society—from transport to finance. But what happens when problems become so complex that even supercomputers give up? The QONOMICS project develops quantum algorithms designed to find the "needle in the...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Quantitative Differential Interference Microscopy for organoids

A completely new way to look inside living mini-organs Small, living “mini-organs,” often called organoids, are grown from stem cells and are becoming an important tool for understanding diseases and developing new medicines. However, studying these complex structures is challenging, as they ar...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Precision Jet Quenching to Unravel Heavy-ion Collisions

This project explores how ultrafast particles, called jets, interact with an extraordinary state of matter known as the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). The QGP is created at CERN when atomic nuclei smash together at nearly the speed of light, recreating conditions that existed just moments after the Bi...

Awarded: NOK 5.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Vestland

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Transforming Cancer Drug Discovery: Nordic Innovation Meets Silicon Valley

For many cancer patients, the hardest truth is that a treatment can appear to work, only for the disease to return or spread. This happens because the most dangerous cancer cells are often the ones that survive treatment, adapt, and escape. Today’s drug testing methods rarely detect this early en...

Awarded: NOK 0.17 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

What makes “Flickering Gamma-ray Flashes” Flicker ?

In the project we want to uncover the hidden secrets of thunderstorms by studying mysterious, flickering bursts of high-energy radiation—what we call Flickering Gamma-ray Flashes. These flashes are brief, lasting only tens of milliseconds, yet they reveal surprising energetic processes occurring ...

Awarded: NOK 11.7 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Vestland

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Mesoporous Sensor for Protein Ultra-Sensitive Detection and Analysis

MesoSens is a novel technology developed at UiT The Arctic University of Norway that enhances Raman spectroscopy for detecting and analysing protein biomarkers at ultra-low concentrations. The core idea is to use a transparent nanomaterial to immobilise proteins for the following study without al...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

AI-Based Sperm Filtration System

The Spermotile project addresses the growing issue of male infertility, which affects approximately 1 in 6 couples globally. Male infertility is responsible for 40% of fertility challenges and has been increasingly prevalent due to various environmental, genetic, and lifestyle factors. Assisted R...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

Convergence of nanofabrication, nanoscopy, transcriptomics, and algae technologies for sustainable fish feed

Sustainability is becoming more and more important to the growing aquaculture sector than ever. Integrating marine microalgae biomass as a feed ingredient in Norway's aquaculture industry achieves a double gain: It provides a sustainable, high-quality marine feed alternative that supports the gro...

Awarded: NOK 15.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference 2025

The conference is non-profit and will be organized at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. The team has previously organised SCIA 2017, and NLDL 2018/2019/2020/2021/2022/2023/2024, which received support for the events from NFR and were successes. The group has several projects ongoing related to...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Norwegian ICARP IV Coordination Workshop

The Fourth International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP IV) is a multi-year (2022-2026), community-wide coordinating planning process convened by the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) in collaboration with many partners worldwide. ICARP IV represents a collective effort...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

21st International EISCAT Symposium 2024 and 48th Annual European Meeting on Atmospheric Studies by Optical Methods

The conference is dedicated to research into the upper polar atmosphere carried out with EISCAT and similar radars in combination with other observations. EISCAT is an international organization with research infrastructure based in the northern polar and auroral regions in Fennoscandia and on Sv...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Fiber Resolution Targets for Optical Nano and Microscopes (FiRsT)

Microscopes are the windows to everything small in our world. They are indispensable in pharmaceuticals, hospitals, life sciences, material sciences, and even education. With recent advances, microscopes can now visualize structures as small as tens of nanometres. But the smaller we go, the blurr...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FORSKNINGSDATA-FORSKNINGSDATA

DynAMIC (Detecting episodes of Arctic sea ice Mass Imbalance)

The Arctic Ocean's sea ice cover has shrunk 75% in volume since the 1980s. This reduction hasn't happened gradually but in rapid periods of sea ice loss lasting between one and a few years. Years of rapid summer ice loss are preconditioned by the state of the ice cover in the preceding winter, an...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IKTPLUSS-IKT og digital innovasjon

Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference 2024

The conference is non-profit and will be organized at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. The team has previously organised SCIA 2017, and NLDL 2018/2019/2020/2021/2022/2023, which received support for the events from NFR and were successes. The group has several projects ongoing related to ICT ...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

5D quantitative microscopy for real-time monitoring of Engineered Heart Tissue

A hidden universe exists beneath the reach of the human eye - the world of cells and tissues. To uncover its secrets, scientists rely on advanced optical technologies such as microscopy and tomography. These tools act like portals into the micro-world, transforming the invisible into something vi...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FORSKNINGSDATA-FORSKNINGSDATA

EISCAT_3D-Based Reconstruction of Ionosphere-Thermosphere Electrodynamics

The E3D-BRITE project tackles one of the most exciting and challenging areas within ionospheric physics: Understanding the ionosphere and atmosphere over our heads at ~80–200 km altitude as a truly 3D system. Our current understanding is mostly based on conceptual models that treat the ionospher...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Gamma-ray-glow Effects on Atmospheric Electricity and Chemistry

A gamma ray glow is an x-ray and gamma radiation generated in thunderclouds, lasting from seconds to several minutes. This energetic radiation produces (1) chemical effects which modify the ozone layer and change the aerosol content in the stratosphere; and (2) electrical effects, i.e., modify cu...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

FORNY20-FORNY2020

Label-free single-shot, 3D quantitative differential interference microscopy for clinics

In vitro fertilization (IVF) is a process of fertilization where an egg is combined with sperm outside the body. IVF is a successful treatment for infertility, which is a global health problem affecting around 50 million couples. Until today, over 8 million IVF children have been born, which is c...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2024

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FORSKSYSTEM-UTD-FORSKSYSTEM-UTD

HySchool - Norwegian research school on hydrogen and hydrogen-based fuels

Norwegian Research School on Hydrogen and Hydrogen-based Fuels (HySchool) is a joint initiative from seven Norwegian universities: University of Bergen (UiB), University of Oslo (UiO), University of Tromsø (UiT), University of Stavanger (UiS), University of South-East Norway (USN), Norwegian Univ...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2030

Location: Vestland

NANO2021-Nanoteknologi, nanovitenskap, mikroteknologi og avanserte materialer

Weak Interactions in complex Photonic Systems

We plan to implement a workshop on nanoscale composite materials, which is a topic involving researchers from a wide range of scientific fields. Research projects on this topic are usually represented at different conferences and an exchange across the different research fields do not have a stag...

Awarded: NOK 77,428

Project Period: 2022-2022

Location: Vestland

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. mellom Norge og Frankrike

Advanced processing of SAR images for the Arctic

For the characterization of Arctic scenario, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensing plays a key-role. SAR satellites provide measurements regardless of weather conditions and natural illumination with high spatial resolution. In particular, the Sentinel-1 mission is considered an important operat...

Awarded: NOK 40,000

Project Period: 2022-2023

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIPRO-Fri prosjektstøtte

In-situ quantification of CO2 flow and mobility control for improved carbon utilization and storage

Fast upscaling of CO2 storage capacity is necessary to reach climate goals, and requires utilization of a range of reservoirs, where heterogeneities may influence storage efficiency. Even in close-to-ideal reservoirs the CO2 displacement may be less-than-ideal; due to poor CO2 sweep efficiency th...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Understanding the link between lightning, terrestrial gamma-ray flashes and gamma-ray glows

Thunderclouds can act as the most energetic natural particle accelerators on earth, producing radiation with energy up to 500 times that of a normal chest X-ray radiography. Radiation is related to the most common type of lightning and is then produced in very short bursts, less than one millisec...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Reducing toxicity in proton therapy through biological optimization

Radiotherapy is one of the most widely used types of cancer treatment, and typically half of all cancer patients receive radiotherapy as a part of their treatment. Proton therapy has been established as a new alternative to traditional X-ray therapy with potential to improve the treatment signifi...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Temperature-dependent properties of 2D materials:Direct measurements of electron-phonon coupling and bending rigidity with helium scattering

In this project, we study fundamental properties of 2D materials using beams of atoms and light. These materials, only one or a few atomic layers thick, can span up to several square centimeters, or even meters. They hold great significance for the development of new technologies such as flexible...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Hydrogen Storage in Subsurface Porous Media - Enabling Transition to Net-Zero Society

The transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources is essential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and secure a sustainable energy system. Electricity production from wind and solar naturally fluctuates with weather and seasons, creating imbalances between supply and demand. Energy stor...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Development of Real Volumetric Microscopy through Single Objective Light-Sheet Imaging System (SOLIS)

In this project, a completely new type of optical microscope is being developed that combines the best aspects of traditional confocal with lightsheet microscopy. Confocal microscopy is one of the most successful imaging methods in biomedicine and suitable to visualise the structure of cells and ...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IKTPLUSS-IKT og digital innovasjon

Midnattssolkonferansen for pasientnær kunstig intelligens 2021

Midnattssolkonferansen er den 4. konferansen i en nasjonal stafett med mål om å øke kompetansen innenfor kunstig intelligens i helsesektoren. Konferansene som har blitt arrangert tidligere er “Kunstig intelligens i helsesektoren” (Bodø, 2019), “BigMed 2020” (Oslo, 2020), og “MMIV - Enabling imagi...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2021-2021

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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