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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

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EUI - 1. og 2. halvdel av 4 år. Navigating the Atlantic Crossing: A study of the role US influence played in Scandinavian..............

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Awarded: NOK 0.28 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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DRIP - DRought ending in Intensified Precipitation

This project aims to estimate the change in frequency and intensity of Droughts ending in Intensified Precipitation - DRIP events with global warming due to changes in the water cycle. These compound events can cause greater damage to infrastructure and crops than single droughts or heavy precipi...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Oslo

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EUI - 1. og 2. halvdel av 4 år. Diasporic formations in motion: (re)mobilising transnational communities, the case of Chile.

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Awarded: NOK 0.28 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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Firming Up Careers: Human Resource Policies and Inequality

Recent research from Europe and the United States identifies firms as key contributors to rising wage inequality—even within narrowly defined occupations or sectors. Despite growing interest and the increasing availability of administrative data, our understanding of how—and why—firms influence w...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo

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SHRINK – Is Global Warming Shrinking Soil Microorganisms?

Global warming affects all life on Earth, including the tiniest organisms - microorganisms. In our project (SHRINK), we study how temperature changes are affecting microbial cells and their ability to carry out different functions. Soil microorganisms, for example, are responsible for the release...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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Porous electrode charging

In the PoreCharge project, researchers will work to increase supercapacitors' ability to store energy by charging electrodes. Supercapacitors are energy storage devices that can deliver higher power than batteries and degrade more slowly. Now that the world urgently needs to move from fossil to ...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Akershus

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Sticking stones: rediscovering medieval wood tar adhesives for stone conservation

What can we learn from medieval craftspeople to help preserve our cultural heritage in an uncertain future? Medieval northern European stone churches are at increased risk of damage due to climate change, and forgotten historical materials and techniques may provide the key to saving our architec...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Rogaland

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High-Temperature Gasification for Material Recycling of Municipal Plastic Wastes

Did you know that only 9% of all plastic ever produced has been recycled? Today, the global recycling rate remains at a mere 9%, and even in Norway, a recycling leader, it's only 21%. This means that only about every fifth item we toss into the plastic recycling bin gets a new life. Why is plasti...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Relational deep learning for energy analytics

RELAY advances foundational machine-learning methods for relational, spatio-temporal data—signals that evolve over time and interact over networks of sensors. Rather than being tied to a single application, we design general-purpose tools that make models more scalable, robust, and interpretable....

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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Substance use disorder treatment: the role of comorbid chronic pain and post-traumatic stress in maintaining substance use

Patients in treatment for alcohol and substance use disorders often have other physical and mental health concerns that can contribute to the development of dependence, and make it more difficult to treat the dependence. Chronic pain and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are two conditions th...

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Akershus

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EUI - 1. og 2. halvdel av det 4 år. Global Security, Gender, Politics and the Countering of Violent Extremism (CVE)

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Awarded: NOK 0.28 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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LysoDARE - Mechanisms and therapeutic application of lysosome repair

In the intricate world of cells, tiny membrane-enclosed spherical organelles termed lysosomes stand as guardians of waste recycling. Lysosomes house a cocktail of enzymes, which break down worn-out cellular organelles, other debris and eliminate toxic components. In this way, lysosomes maintain c...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo

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Political Parties and Climate Change: Positions, Polarisation and Policy Relevance (PARTYCLIM)

Political parties lie at the heart of climate change politics, yet their strategies and influence are understudied, especially in a comparative perspective. The goal of the project is to address the lack of systematic and comparative data on parties’ climate change positions and provide the most ...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Vestland

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Media Bias and Political Polarization

The project tries to understand how different reporting strategies by newspapers affect news demand, belief updating, and political polarization. The research employs cutting-edge methods like large-scale information provision experiments, app data on news consumption linked to survey responses, ...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Vestland

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Cellulose based block polymers for self-assembling layered structures

Coatings are used in many industries as a protective layer against external stress. Ships need protection against algae, cars against weather and scratches, and in fiber-based packages for food, a well-functioning packaging is dependent on a coating that provides a barrier against water, grease a...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Greening Achilles heel sectors: Understanding environmental policy change in Latin American Primary industries

Latin America’s unique biodiversity and rich natural resources make climate and environmental policies in this region essential for achieving global environmental and climate goals. Both the Paris Agreement and the Kunming-Montreal Framework for Biodiversity emphasize the responsibility of states...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo

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PlAsTic effecTs on the Exchanges of nutRients and biological informatioN in aquatic ecosystems

Plastic pollution is a global environmental issue. Freshwaters are particularly exposed to the accumulation of plastic waste and microplastics. In these environments the continuous increase of plastic amount makes it an abundant and new component of the water ecosystem. As such, plastic may play ...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Oslo

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Lipoprotein(a) – impact on cardiovascular disease, public health and potential as preventive health measure

Lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease and may be responsible for much of the cardiovascular risk that cannot be explained by other risk factors. Lp(a) levels are mainly determined by genes, and approximately 20% of the population has elevated levels of Lp(a...

Awarded: NOK 6.6 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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From the ocean to sustainable biorefinery: the dormant potential of seaweed

The historical dependence on oil and other fossil fuels has led to significant environmental challenges, which are exacerbated by the rapid growth of the global population. Additionally, biotechnology processes that require cultivating microorganisms depend on the utilization of sugars and other ...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Data-driven optimization of industrial processes in time-varying environments

Industry is responsible for a large part of the global energy consumption and emissions. To help meet energy demands and reduce climate change, Extreme Efficiency aims to make industrial processes more energy efficient. By measuring the effect of small changes in operating conditions, known as p...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Disentangling the effects of evolutionary and ecological processes on population growth

Climate change and human activities can strongly impact wild populations, which may need to acclimate, adapt through genetic changes, or move to more suitable habitats to persist. However, these ecological and evolutionary processes are rarely studied simultaneously, which can lead to biases when...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Research Network on Regulatory Developments in Cybersecurity

The increasing digitalisation of vital public and private services has led to enormous societal gains, but it has also expanded the cyberthreat landscape, increasing the number and sophistication of such attacks. Cyberattacks targeting critical sectors such as health, finance, and energy have bec...

Awarded: NOK 0.89 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo

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Intestinal epithelial cells: Central coordinators in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and targets for treatment

The main aim for this project is to is to provide molecular insights into the pathobiology of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and bring forward detailed mechanistic understanding about the role of intestinal epithelial cells in IBD that can facilitate precision medicine for this patient group. T...

Awarded: NOK 9.5 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Assessing the presence of covert consciousness in unresponsive dying patients. A translational research project.

In the final hours, days, or even weeks before passing away, many patients slip into an unresponsive state where they are unable to communicate with their caretakers. Because such patients are unable to communicate, their caretakers must rely on indirect information to judge the patient’s state o...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Buskerud

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Visuopathy of Prematurity - Is Retinopathy of Prematurity just the tip of the iceberg?

Preterm birth (birth<37 weeks of gestation) occurs in 15 million children per year (11%). ~1-2% are very preterm (VP; <32 weeks) or very low birth weight (VLBW; <1500 g). There have been improvements in VP/VLBW survival in high-income countries since the 1960s. In Europe only, over 1 million surv...

Awarded: NOK 8.7 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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A sucker for taste – Octopus chemotactile sense as a model for molecular evolution and ecological adaptations in marine chemosensory systems

Octopuses are fascinating animals and with their unique body plan, elaborate nervous system and advanced behavior, they can easily adapt to complex environments, outsmart predators and compete for food resources with large vertebrates. Their adaptability is fueled by the fact that they are incred...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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The illusion of empty blind zones: How things may seem to appear out of nowhere in magic shows and road accidents

In previous investigations, we have described a novel recently discovered illusion that evokes a strong feeling that the blind spot behind an obstruction of view is empty. This illusion of empty blind spots plays a pivotal role in stage magic and the art of conjuring. Because the blind zone behin...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

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Pathogenesis of autoimmune Addison’s disease and polyendocrine syndromes – identifying pathologies and pathways for future treatment

Autoimmune adrenal insufficiency (Addison's disease) leads to destruction of the adrenal cortex and deficiency of the essential hormones cortisol and aldosterone. The disease affects individuals in their most productive years with a majority of females. Addison's disease is fatal if left untreate...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Vestland

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Chronic wasting disease prions from Norwegian cervids: Assessing the pathogenesis, shedding, spillover and zoonotic potential

The persistent spread of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) still represents a threat for cervid populations in North America, and its uncertain zoonotic potential is a public health concern. Since the first case of CWD detected in Norwegian reindeer and moose in 2016, the disease is found in several ...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2029

Location: Akershus

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