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Inclusive Educational Rights: Balancing Rights of Violent Children, Their Peers and Educators

Pupils who behave violently against classmates and school staff are an increasing problem in Norway, affecting safety, learning and long-term life chances. Around a quarter of primary teachers reported violence or threats in 2024. Early intervention is crucial to prevent social exclusion and futu...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

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Turning the tables: Can ‘upstream’ social policy prevent child maltreatment?

UPSTREAM aims to improve our understanding of whether child maltreatment can be prevented through broader social policies tools, such cash benefits or services for families, and how. The project is motivated by the fact that many people who have been involved with child welfare services face poor...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Mapping Care: Coordination, Gaps, and Barriers in Support for Refugee Children

Mapping Care: Rethinking Support for Refugee Children in Norway Imagine arriving in a new country as a child—learning a new language, adapting to new customs, while carrying memories of conflict or loss. For many refugee children in Norway, this is their daily reality. They are resilient, yet fa...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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FERTILITY INEQUALITY: Economic and social drivers of declining birth rates

Birth rates have been declining for a long time in Norway, as in the rest of the world. A t the same time, fertility inequalities have widened – both between men and women, and between individuals with higher and lower levels of income and education. What explains the growing inequality in the nu...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Consultants in the Welfare State (CONSULT): Consequences for Governance and Legitimacy

Knowledge and expertise are fundamental to the governance of the welfare state. In recent decades, a new type of commercial knowledge provider has rapidly emerged as key advisers to governments worldwide, including in Norway. Consulting firms are frequently used as experts in policy development, ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Diversity as a battlefield? Majority and minority responses to organisational diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts

Diversity and inclusion have become a political battlefield. A wide range of policies and initiatives – so-called diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts – seek to improve the inclusion and status of disadvantaged groups, most notably in the labour market. Yet, we know remarkably little abo...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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From Refugee to Co-Creator: Navigating Integration of Youth Amid Uncertainty

Where does the future of young Ukrainian refugees lie? Will they return to Ukraine, or will they build their lives in Norway? While the answer remains uncertain, these young newcomers must make critical decisions about their education, further studies, careers, and social lives. They are navigati...

Awarded: NOK 11.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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CiYouth: Collaboration to promote social inclusion for youth with complex psychosocial needs

This project is a collaboration between different services and research environments. It includes participants from mental health services, the Child Welfare Services (CWS), the educational sector, to co-create and evaluate an intervention that aims to support social inclusion for young people wi...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

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Refugees’ Belonging and Participation for Inclusive Rural Areas

REMAIN’s aim is to address refugees’ participation and belonging in rural Norway, in the interest of maintaining sustainable municipalities across the whole country. We start from the Government’s policy of dispersed refugee settlement which allocates refugees to municipalities across the countr...

Awarded: NOK 11.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Welfare society as a moral system: Boundaries and borders of sustainable management of collective goods in the Norwegian welfare state

WELBOUND: Welfare society as a moral system: Boundaries and borders of sustainable management of collective goods in the Norwegian welfare state The recently published bestseller “The Country That Became Too Rich” (Holte, 2025) criticizes a welfare state that is growing disproportionately. Norwe...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

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RESONATE - Reducing School Dropout and Enhancing Pupils’ Sense of Belonging and Participation through Co-created Music-based Activities

Why do so many young people struggle to stay in school, and how can music help create a place where more of them feel they belong? This question is at the heart of RESONATE, a Nordic project now being introduced in nine upper-secondary schools in Vestland. Together with NAV, the Bergen Public Lib...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

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To facilitate for self-organised sport and physical activity – an arena to include young people

Many of today's meeting places for young people are linked to organized sports and other leisure activities. Those who do not find their place within these communities may experience a lack of belonging. This project addresses this challenge by focusing on young people who do not participate in o...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Buskerud

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Attachments as mode of regulation: migrant inclusion in the welfare state

Over the past few decades, migration policies in Nordic welfare states have gradually weakened the security of residence and rights once granted to legal migrants. A key part of this shift is the growing focus on migrants’ “attachments” to the state ('tilknytning' in Norwegian). These attachments...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

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Tangible welfare costs & hidden welfare gains: unveiling the counterfactual in the evaluation of social programs

The WelGain project studies why the public debate about welfare often focuses more on the costs than on the benefits. This imbalance, which can be labeled as visibility bias, arises because the fiscal expenses of welfare programs are easy to see and discuss, while many of their positive effects r...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

[SEFYR] – Seamless follow-up services for youth at risk

SEFYR – Seamless follow-up for youth at risk From fragmented services to coordinated support Many young people with mental health challenges, substance use problems, school absenteeism, or risk of criminal behaviour encounter a fragmented support system. When services fail to collaborate effecti...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Youth Outside work and education – Understanding Traits and Hurdles

What do we really know about youth exclusion? Far too many young people in Norway are outside employment, education, and training. This group–often referred to as NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training)–faces a high risk of long-term exclusion. But the NEET category is broad and imprecise...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

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Included After School – After-school programs as an arena for inclusion and collaboration

Our study investigates the potential of the after-school program (ASP) as an arena for initiatives targeting inclusion, particularly for vulnerable children. In Norway, 77% of children aged 5-9 spend 12-20 hours weekly in the ASP. The ASP is specifically included in government strategies and leg...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Automating Technologies and the Future of Meaningful Work

The primary objective of this project is to investigate the influence of workplace automation on meaningful work. Automation involves employing machines instead of humans to perform work-related tasks and has been a feature of the workplace since the early days of the industrial revolution. What’...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Improving social work environments on board: Antecedents and consequences of psychological safety and social support on Norwegian vessels

Over the last decade, there has been an increasing focus on improving the working conditions and the health and safety of crews on commercial fishing, cargo and passenger vessels, both in Norway and globally. To achieve these goals, creating a good social work environment on board is essential. T...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Improving causal inference for individual working life trajectories from registry data: studying interventions, estimands and heterogeneity

Interventions that facilitate a well-functioning, inclusive and adaptive working life, with high employment and reduced absence from work, is of high priority for employers and policymakers. In Norway, one such major intervention is the Agreement for a more inclusive working life (the IA agreemen...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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A circular educational framework to help solve healthcare challenges: interprofessional education and collaborative practice for the future

The world faces rapidly increasing challenges in delivering quality health and social care services: a global shortage of health workers, limited resources, and a rapidly aging population with complex needs. The "IPECP-future" project introduces an innovative solution: a Circular Educational Fram...

Awarded: NOK 11.6 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Vestland

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Temp Agency Work: Worker Welfare, Organization and Efficiency (TEMPO)

Temp agency work constitutes a small, but growing, part of the labor market in Norway, as in similar economies in the OECD. After the 2004 enlargement of the European Union, admitting several Eastern European countries, labor immigrants have contributed to increasing temp agency employment, which...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Health, education and labor market integration in refugees – a cross-country, longitudinal, mixed-method study

With notably increased rates of mental health problems and persistent lower employment than other migrant groups, refugees constitute a highly vulnerable group in today's society. Recent evidence suggests poor health, and in particular poor mental health, may play a key role in labor market marg...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Transitions in Late Careers: Obstacles and Opportunities

Vi står overfor store endringer i arbeidslivet, både endrede arbeidspraksiser, den grønne- og digitale omstillingen, og ved at befolkningen blir eldre. En voksende andel av arbeidsstyrken er over 55 år, og i framtiden må store utfordringer løses av arbeidstakere i 50-, 60- og 70-årene. Bærekrafte...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Improving care for traumatized children by building competency and collaboration of first- and second line services with stepped care models

Childhood trauma is a major public health challenge. If left untreated, trauma exposure increase the risk for all mental disorders, as well as school drop-out and unemployment. Many traumatized children need coordinated services, but there is currently insufficient collaboration between these ser...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Doing cooperation: a co-study with Landsforeningen for barnevernsbarn and Sarpsborg to enhance support for vulnerable children and youth

Well-coordinated services are necessary to improve the situation for vulnerable children and youth. Research however shows that this often represents a challenge for the welfare services. The aim of this project is to investigate how child welfare services and other welfare services cooperate in ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Onboarding transitional housing as a center for collaboration in the mission of young inclusion (HOUSYOUNG)

HOUSYOUNG aims to generate new knowledge about municipal housing initiatives for young people transitioning from youth to adulthood. Despite the increasing number of children and young people in such housing in Norway, this field is under-researched. HOUSYOUNG is a collaboration between Norwegian...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

The Economics of Adult Education: Promoting Life-long Learning through information and financial incentives

This project investigates the existing gap between the perceived importance of lifelong learning and the low participation in adult education. The aim is to find out whether policy measures can increase participation in adult education, and what value this brings to society. We focus on adults wi...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Voluntary Initiatives and Nonprofit-Public Sector Collaboration for the Inclusion of Children and Youth in Norway

Voluntary low-threshold initiatives can fill the gaps in public service provision towards young people by helping outreach, support and engagement. Yet, their role in promoting social inclusion and how they supplement public services is underexplored. The project aims to find out how voluntary lo...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Making the green shift work for regions

Our project aims to develop a new understanding of how regional labour markets are adapting to the grand challenge of Green Shift. We will go beyond national and industry forecasts by recognising that responding to this challenge will be region specific processes of adaptation and change. Labour...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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