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FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

OptoSeason: decoding seasonal reproduction in vertebrates using a next-gen optogenetic tool

Artificial light at night (ALAN) is throwing nature out of sync. Many animals rely on the length of daylight (photoperiod), to time their reproduction for when conditions are just right. Disrupting this natural signal, whether through urban lighting or aquaculture practices, can have serious cons...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Akershus

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Dragon Kings in the Molecular Realm: Accelerated Sampling of Chemical Outliers

As if seen by a powerful microscope, Molecular Dynamics (MD) is a computational simulation method that enable molecular insight into the dynamics of complex systems. Encapsulating a broad range of fields like biomolecular, chemical and physical sciences, MD simulations has become a commonplace bu...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Like Islands in a Sea of Sand. Understanding the Silk Roads of Late Antiquity as a layered network model.

The project “Like Islands in a Sea of Sand” (SilkRoMo) proposes to change the way we understand the Silk Roads. The Silk Roads are frequently held up as a prime example of ancient globalization, envisioned as a vast system of trade routes and networks spanning across Eurasia since at least antiqu...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Vestland

HELSEFORSKNING-Helseforskning

Interdisciplinary perspectives on functional maintenance and frailty in people living with moderate to severe dementia

Dementia is one of the most important causes of functional loss and disability. Besides cognitive decline, people with dementia in moderate to severe stages are in a vulnerable situation due to many different stressors, including other diseases, social vulnerability, malnutrition, and geriatric s...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Rogaland

BIOTEKNOLOGI-BIOTEKNOLOGI

Accelerated genetic improvement of key traits in farmed Atlantic salmon via transplantation of in vitro propagated germline stem cells

We have identified conditions that favor germ cell recovery/survival after cryopreservation, as well as germ cell proliferation in culture. Experiments are ongoing to confirm these findings. We also have ongoing experiments aiming at achieving germ cell differentiation in culture. Furthermore, se...

Awarded: NOK 15.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Safety and Integrity of Hydrogen Transport Pipelines

The subsea pipeline network on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) is increasingly being recognized as an opportunity for the large-scale transport of hydrogen from Norway to Europe. Utilizing existing natural gas pipelines for transportation of hydrogen gas brings several challenges, especiall...

Awarded: NOK 14.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

DISTRIBUTE: Do Fundamental Resource Distribution Principles of Need, Effort & Coalition Size Manifest Even in the Infant Mind ?

DISTRIBUTE seeks to reveal which meaningful mechanisms for coordinating resource distribution are so basic that they manifest even in the preverbal mind. The distribution of resources, help, territory and priority decision rights are central dilemmas for group- living species and the core of poli...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2029

Location: Oslo

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

JUST GROW: Co-designing justice-centric indicators and governance principles to intensify urban agriculture sustainably and equitably

Growing Justice in Urban Agriculture As cities face climate challenges, social inequality, and the need for more local food, urban agriculture is becoming increasingly important. But how can we ensure that everyone has a fair chance to participate? The JUST GROW project explores how urban agric...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

INTPARTORDNING-INTPARTORDNING

Sociomaterial transformations in Norway and East Asia

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Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

DISCo: Digital infrastructures for sustainable consumption: Redirecting, reorganizing, reducing and reimaging consumption

The overall goal of DISCo is to produce both theoretically informed and applied-oriented knowledge about how sustainable consumption – i.e. consumption that is less resource- and carbon-intensive and/or less environmentally harmful – can be enabled through digital technologies. Previous research ...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Visions and the consequences - analysing visions for Norwegian agriculture and its consequences for food security

Norway’s food security may be and are to some extent threaten by international conflicts, trade sanctions, breakdown of international distribution systems, climate changes, outbreak of crop and animal diseases and major shifts in global demand and supplies of food globally that hinder adequate fo...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

SUStainability development & cost-reduction of hybrid renewable energies powered Hydrogen stations by riskbased multidisciplinary approaches

The SUSHy project (SUStainability development & cost-reduction of hybrid renewable energies powered Hydrogen stations by risk-based multidisciplinary approaches) focuses on developing efficient, reliable, and low-cost hydrogen technologies powered by hybrid renewable energy sources (HREP), like w...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

GLOBALBÆREKRAFT-Forskning for global bærekraft

Propaganda and disinformation in social media: Global reach, regional challenges? (Conference)

In the past decade non-democratic states and fringe political groups have used unmoderated, freely available, social media in efforts to covertly influence people in ways that are detrimental to democratic values. Russia’s interference in the US election in 2016 (and later) showed the ease with w...

Awarded: NOK 79,375

Project Period: 2022-2023

Location: Akershus

INTPARTORDNING-INTPARTORDNING

Strengthening Environmental Anthropology Research and Education Through Interdisciplinary Methods and Collaborations

The UiO Department of Social Anthropology (SAI) has in recent years emerged as a world-leader in environmental social science research and education. It has developed novel approaches for environmental anthropology that combine and expand anthropological scholarship through creative interdiscipli...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

INTPARTORDNING-INTPARTORDNING

Collaboration in MicroBial Fuel Cell Research and Innovation Driven Graduate Education

A presentation on the introduction to MFC as emerging technolgy in WW was presented to the students (from bachelor to PhD ) and interested faculty members.

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Next Generation 3D Machine Vision with Embedded Visual Computing

This project has the goal to initiate an automated process deploying high-precision 3D sensing and online (embedded) visual learning engines that operate in natural environments and are able to adapt in a holistic lifetime manner to changes during operations. It targets establishing a groundbreak...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Agder

INTPARTORDNING-INTPARTORDNING

Circular Manufacturing research and educational collaboration with India and Japan

The main purpose of the CIRMAN-project is to develop world-class research and education in Norway on the role of manufacturing in a sustainable Circular Economy dominated by the 9 r’s: Repair, Reuse, Remanufacture, Recycle, Recover, Redesign, Reduce, Recondition, and Repurpose. An area is also kn...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INTPARTORDNING-INTPARTORDNING

Climate-induced geohazards mitigation, management, and education in Japan, South Korea, and Norway (GEOMME)

Climate-driven geohazards, including landslides, floods, and snow avalanches, are escalating challenges in the GEOMME partner countries of Japan, South Korea, and Norway. Climate change is expected to increase the frequency of future geohazard events, while demographic shifts and infrastructure d...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Bias Attribution Linking Moist Dynamics of Cyclones and Storm Tracks

We commonly use weather and climate models to predict the atmospheric behavior in the short and long term. These models rely on description of physical processes, especially related to cloud and rain formation, that feedback onto the atmospheric evolution. These descriptions often underly assumpt...

Awarded: NOK 13.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

INTPARTORDNING-INTPARTORDNING

Connect and Infect - An interactive network to advance research and education in viral ecology and evolution

1- We have presented the film “The Universe in a Drop of Seawater”, a 20-minute documentary produced by Warholm Film. The film features interviews with the two Principal Investigators of ConFect, Selina Våge and Ruth-Anne Sandaa, as well as former PhD candidate Marius Langvad from the VirVar proj...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

China in the Arctic: External Influence on Regional Governance (ArcGov)

The impacts of climate change in the Arctic include melting sea ice, coastal erosion, and changes in the social structures of Arctic communities. New governance structures have been established, and existing mechanisms rejuvenated to tackle the region’s pressing needs. To understand how society i...

Awarded: NOK 9.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Governance of Marine Litter in the Arctic (GOMPLAR). Comparing international governance and legal frameworks to inform Arctic governance

xResearchers from institutions in Norway, South Korea and China compare governance regimes regulating marine pollution in two regions: the Northeast Atlantic and Northwest Pacific. Elements from conventions and agreements in these regions provide experiences and knowledge that can inform the pre...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Improve Atlantic salmon robustness in freshwater phase through training and feeding to a successfully timed sea transfer

Smoltification is a crucial developmental process in Atlantic salmon that involves morphological, physiological, and behavioral changes, enabling the fish to transition successfully from freshwater to marine environments. Current commercial practices aimed at producing large smolts in recirculati...

Awarded: NOK 8.5 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

LandValUse: Integrated welfare assessment of climate and biodiversity impacts of land use: From promise to policy solutions

Norwegian natural and semi-natural areas are important for biodiversity, carbon sequestration/ storage and other ecosystem services- some with a market price and some without. Many sectors of society demand land use changes, increasing the pressure on natural areas and causing a sharpening of tra...

Awarded: NOK 12.6 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Phonon-Magnon Pumping in Oxide Nano-structures - Creating condensates for Boson based computing

In ordinary life we are always surrounded by energy in the form of heat. Heat in solid matter are vibrations of the atoms from their equilibrium positions. At absolute zero temperature there are no such vibrations, while at higher temperatures they start to move in a way that are described as pho...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBRUK2-Stort program for havbruksforskning

Appetittstyrt fôringskontroll i oppdrett av laks

Feed constitutes a key component in commercial salmon farming, representing over 50% of total operating costs. Achieving optimal growth with minimal feed wastage and environmental impact necessitates precise feed utilization. The NoFood2Waste project aimed to refine salmon feeding practices by in...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Vestland

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Centre for Geophysical Forecasting (CGF)

The centre for geophysical forecasting has a vision of turning geophysical data into knowledge and understanding. Our three main applications of geophysical monitoring are connected to geohazards such as landslides and earthquakes, CO2 sequestration and natural resources. In 2023 we have started...

Awarded: NOK 90.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INTPARTORDNING-INTPARTORDNING

Collaboration on Intelligent Machines 2 (COINMAC-2)

Technology is transforming society and the way we work and interact. We are surrounded by technology and computer interfaces that have recently become more intelligent and are able to adapt to our needs and preferences. Thanks to progress in machine learning and artificial intelligence, we see a ...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Oslo

INTPARTORDNING-INTPARTORDNING

International Network for Image-based Diagnosis

INID will focus on networking at international level for training students, researchers and academic staff members acting in the fields of AI, Medical imaging and decision making. The outcomes of INID will lead to long-term top-class research in the field, turning Norway into a frontrunner in app...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INTPARTORDNING-INTPARTORDNING

iFOODnet: Towards a Norway-Japan Innovative Research & Training Network Driving Next-Generation Food Systems

Coordinated by Nofima, iFOODnet aimed to establish world-class research and education in food science—in marine and agricultural sectors—through a robust, long-term international partnership with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and two leading universities in Japan: Toky...

Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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