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The Norwegian National Election Study of 2025 & 2029

The Norwegian National Election Studies (NNES) is an ongoing research project, the main purposes of which are to analyze elections, election results, voter behavior, and voter attitudes over time. The 2025 and 2029 NNES builds on the extensive amounts of previous research within the framework of ...

Awarded: NOK 38.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2032

Location: Oslo - Oslove

DEMOS-Demokratisk og effektiv styring, planlegging og forvaltning

The Annual Meeting of the European Network for Multi-locality Studies

Last decade brought radical changes that have affected both living and working multi-locally. Globalization processes, sharing and digital economy, artificial intelligence, information and communication technologies are among the influencing factors. The phenomenon of multi-local living (moving a...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Akershus

DEMOS-Demokratisk og effektiv styring, planlegging og forvaltning

Nettverk for organisasjonsforskning i Norge sitt årlige arrangement "NEON-dagene". 21-23 November, i Trondheim. 20-årsjubileum for NEON.

Årets NEON-dager markerer 20-årsjubileet for NEON og setter fokus på de store og komplekse samfunnsutfordringer. Tittelen på konferansen er «Organisering i skiftende landskap: Trusler, utfordringer og nye muligheter?». Planums- og sesjonsprogram er rettet mot utfordringer med økt risiko og sårbar...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2023

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Sustainable COASTal RECreation – the role and potential of voluntary organizations and civic engagement in coastal areas under pressure

The project is situated at the intersection of several disciplines, with the most important being outdoor recreation, planning studies, and civil society studies. Empirically, the project takes as its starting point the management of the Oslo Fjord area—an area under pressure. The project examine...

Awarded: NOK 8.5 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Telemark

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Democratic innovations and responsive politicians

In this project, we investigate the types of contact local politicians have with citizens and the kinds of contact they prefer the municipality to facilitate. The background is that a number of new ways for citizens to participate in local politics—so-called democratic innovations—have been devel...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

Exit and effective reintegration of violent extremists in Scandinavia

ight-wing and Jihadist extremism has been a growing problem over the last decades, also in Scandinavia, and it is expected to increase. Extremist activities create fissures in the consensus and trust-based Scandinavian society. Trust erodes through the polarization of public debates, through the ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

Improving Integration and Active Citizenship for Low-Literate Adult Refugees

INTERACT focuses on low-literate adult refugees and their challenges related to integration in the Norwegian society where literacy is the norm. As low-literate and as resettled refugees they are a vulnerable group at risk of marginalization, and this is also a democratic challenge. The overall a...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

Small city regions – development, resilience and sustainability

Norway is among the countries in Europe with the largest share of residents living in smaller city regions (SCRs). They have important roles to nation's high value creation based on natural resources, distribution of welfare services, decentralized settlement pattern and quality of life. The SCRs...

Awarded: NOK 8.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

DEMOS-Demokratisk og effektiv styring, planlegging og forvaltning

Is Degrowth the Key to a Sustainable Future? Imagining the World Without Capitalism

The 2023 Arne Næss chair has been granted to Jason Hickel, a reputable scholar of Goldsmiths, University of London. Hickel is a visionary, cutting edge environmental thinker. His international bestseller, "Less is More" - focused on "degrowth" as the way to combat environmental and climate crisis...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2023-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

DEMOS-Demokratisk og effektiv styring, planlegging og forvaltning

Lytt! Hvem får fortelle historien vår?

Den femte Memoarkonferansen er viet intervju av og med vanlige folk, og årets tittel er «Lytt! Hvem får fortelle historien vår?». Konferansen søker å fremheve kulturarvens betydning for menneskerettigheter og demokrati, og vi gjør dette ved å fokusere på menneskers rett til å delta i og dra nytte...

Awarded: NOK 29,999

Project Period: 2022-2023

Location: Vestland

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

The Planning and Building Act between market demand, land policy, sustainability, temporality, and intergenerational justice

LANDTIME is a collaborative project to develop the knowledge base concerning how planning according to the Planning and Building Act (PBA) together with relevant sector legislation promotes a sustainable societal development. LANDTIME will study the PBA, development of the act’s legislative room ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Akershus

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

The Political Executive: Cabinet Government Praxis Between Laws and Norms

POLITEX asks four fundamental and interrelated questions: What are the status and functions of the government cabinet? How does the cabinet make its decisions? What characterizes and shapes the role of the cabinet minister? And: How are norms about agenda setting, decision-making, and roles in th...

Awarded: NOK 10.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

The State as a Corporate Actor: Structural Choices, Historical Legacies, and Organisational Legitimation

Governments may create corporate entities outside of their central government organization that includes ministries and agencies. In Norway and Sweden, a variety of such "corporate entities" exists and they engage in very different sectors and services, ranging from public infrastructure such as ...

Awarded: NOK 10.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

Planning for sustainable second-home development

Second homes in Norway have undergone rapid growth and modernization in the past years. This increasingly represents an important sustainability challenge including both environmental protection and climate change. However, planning which has a great potential to steer the development towards bei...

Awarded: NOK 9.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Akershus

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

Welfare across borders: Solidarity, Equality and Free Movement (LEVEL)

Welfare across borders: solidarity, equality and free movement (LEVEL) Welfare services and benefits have a strong national dimension and constitute the core of the ‘welfare state‘. The provision of services and benefits is subject to the EEA Agreement and its fundamental principles of free movem...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

Crisis Management in a Polycentric Nordic Local Democracy: Different Governance Structures - Different Results?

The Nordic municipalities are important in dealing with crises in society. Strategies may be adopted centrally, but they are implemented locally. The POLYGOV project is a comparative study of the crisis management, organisation and functioning of local democracies in Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finl...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

DRIVKRAFT. Ungdom og næringsliv i klima-, miljø- og energiplanlegging for bærekraftige distriktskommuner.

The main idea of DRIVKRAFT is that planning and implementation is a lasting, interactive process, where co-creation is the most important tool. The project is aimed at engaging youth and businesses in climate, environmental and energy planning. The ambition is to organise the process for linking ...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

Nye anskaffelser for dokumentert avfallsreduksjon

Construction sites in Norway currently generate between 40 and 60 kilograms of waste per square meter. This represents a significant opportunity for environmental gains, resource efficiency, and cost savings. However, reducing construction waste has proven difficult under current practices. There...

Awarded: NOK 6.7 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

Municipalities in the European Multilevel Union Administration: Towards Multi-Hatted Local Governments?

Research focusing on the impact of the European Union (EU) on its member states has over the past couple of decades been increasingly oriented towards describing the numerous organizational couplings that emerge at the intersection between national and supranational levels of governance. A rich l...

Awarded: NOK 8.9 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

Co-Creation: Expectations, Challenges and Coping Strategies in Norwegian Local Governments

The project has studied "co-creation", which is a specific type of interaction between public, private and civil actors. The purpose of co-creation is to mobilize resources and ideas from citizens and other relevant stakeholders to create "public value", e.g. solve current collective problems or ...

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

Planning, knowledge and collaboration for developing vibrant and attractive city centres

The purpose of the project has been to develop novel knowledge that will make small and medium-sized cities better able to plan and develop their cities and city centres in ways that contribute to more attractive and vibrant city centres, which many cities want. This will also contribute to other...

Awarded: NOK 9.2 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

DEMOS-Demokratisk og effektiv styring, planlegging og forvaltning

The Social Sustainable City - the Role of Strategic Planning for Local Housing Markets Heterogeneity

The cities are increasingly arenas for socio-economic inequality, and there is a need for increased understanding of the role housing policy plays in the cities' socio-economic development. In their plans, municipalities often aim for a housing market with a social profile, which accommodates off...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

Cities confronted by protests: Democratic governance for efficient and socially just climate transformation

DEMOCLIM studied the development of new democratic forms of governance in response to climate protests in four Scandinavian cities: Oslo, Bergen, Stockholm and Gothenburg. The project's starting point was the observed, sharpened conflict over climate policy solutions in cities around the world....

Awarded: NOK 10.6 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

The Electoral Ramifications of Environmental Policy

The research project THERAPY examines how voters respond to environment, energy, and climate policies. Anecdotal evidence, such as the Yellow vests and Nok er nok! movements in France and Norway, suggests that such policies can cause rifts between citizens and politicians. Meanwhile, the window o...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Vestland

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

Field of goals: Co-production and implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in regional and local planning

The collaborative project Field of Goals: From goals to meaning to action - Co-production and implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in regional and local planning has developed a framework for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals in local and regional planning. To achie...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

The Norwegian Local Election Studies of 2019 and 2023

This project continues the Norwegian Local Election Studies, which have been carried out since 1995. A main renewal of the 2019-2023 project is increased internationalization. To date, there has been no international network of local election surveys. We have initiated such a network and invited ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

A Norwegian Regional General Equilibrium Modelling System NoReg

NOREG 2 is a spatial computable general equilibrium (SCGE) model based on data for Norwegian municipalities and counties. The model builds on the tradition of applied general equilibrium models, which have been used in Norwegian economic planning since the 1960s, but extends this framework to inc...

Awarded: NOK 20.0 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

DEMOS-Demokratisk og effektiv styring, planlegging og forvaltning

Democratic Urban Development in the Digital Age

The project Democratic Urban Development in the Digital Age (DEMUDIG) investigated the extent and impact of citizen participation through ICT and social media in urban governance. We have studied political participation in urban development projects that aim to improve specific districts of the c...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2022

Location: Oslo - Oslove

DEMOS-Demokratisk og effektiv styring, planlegging og forvaltning

Bureaucrats and group identity in local politics

Over-representation of public employees In Norway, almost all public employees are eligible for public office, and can be elected as representatives to municipal councils, county councils and the national parliament (the Storting). For example, the vast majority of municipal employees can be inc...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2022

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

Communication Power of Politicians in a Digital Age. Consequences for Participation and Democracy

Digitalization has challenged the traditional role of the media as gatekeepers and conveyors of political information, while simultaneously opening new opportunities for politicians to set the agenda in public debate and communicate directly with voters. These changes can be positive for democrac...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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