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UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Academic Careers: Examining the Significance of Socio-Economic Background

Academics occupy a privileged position in society. They are experts in their fields, share knowledge with the public, train new generations of students, and hire future academics. While much research has explored how social background—such as parental education, income, or class—affects success i...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Resilience of polar ecosystems to the cumulative effects of physical and biological changes in Norway’s high Arctic (ROPES)

The Arctic is changing quickly, and Svalbard’s fjords are among the places where these changes are most visible. Warmer Atlantic water is reaching farther north, sea ice is disappearing, and new fish species such as cod and haddock are becoming more common. At the same time, the small polar cod, ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Vocational-Oriented Sustainability Education Across Museums and School (VOSEAMS)

Does it matter to you which products your hairdresser uses on your hair? Or what materials the carpenter uses to build your house? And what about the food in the cafeteria – are local ingredients important to you? Professionals use products, materials, and services that have impacts on climate, ...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

(In)visible Changes: Glacial Methane and its Impacts on Fjord Ecosystems

Arctic marine-terminating glaciers are retreating rapidly due to climate change, creating new methane emission hotspots in shallow fjord waters. In Svalbard, where warming exceeds twice the Arctic average, methane once trapped beneath glaciers is now being released. Yet, the ecological impacts of...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Svalbard

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Safe subsea pipelines exposed to hydrogen from cathodic protection

Norway’s petroleum sector relies on an extensive network of subsea pipelines, stretching over 8,900 kilometers, to safely and efficiently transport oil and gas from offshore fields to onshore facilities in Norway and Europe. Ensuring the safety and reliability of these pipelines is critical, as a...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

CONNECTIONS – Impact of bonding time on welfare and productivity of cow and calf

In the Connections project, we will explore how keeping cows and calves together for an extended period after calving, as opposed to separating them soon after birth, can be incorporated in practical settings on dairy farms. The practice of keeping cows and calves together for longer is becoming ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Clamping forces in transformers – Online monitoring and predictive modelling

Power transformers are an essential part of our electric power system. The transformer’s active part is the core and the windings, which consist of metal wires insulated with paper and pressboard. The paper, pressboard and an insulation liquid, often mineral oil, constitutes the transformers insu...

Awarded: NOK 13.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

IncluEdS: Keystroke-Based Language Proficiency Profiling for Inclusive Education and Society

Language is a vital tool for developing and expressing thoughts and knowledge. In second language (L2) research, it is widely assumed that learners' L2 knowledge is reflected in their writing. Yet proving this empirically has been difficult since the pauses and revisions that occur during writing...

Awarded: NOK 9.7 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

INTPARTORDNING-INTPARTORDNING

From Waste to Wisdom: Accelerating Circular Biowaste Solutions through North-South Partnerships

Every year, large amounts of agricultural, household, and industrial waste end up polluting the environment instead of being reused as valuable resources. From Waste to Wisdom (WaWi) connects researchers, innovators, and students from Norway, Ethiopia, Namibia, South Africa, Sweden, and the Unite...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

SIKKERHET-SIKKERHET

Resilient Citizenship

In its 2025 Global Risks Report, the World Economic Forum in 2025 ranks natural disasters and extreme weather events as the most severe global risk over the next decade. We are already experiencing the effects - more frequent and more severe than before. Storms like Hans (2024) and Amy (2025) not...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

EchoGuard: protecting porpoises

How can we save the ocean’s smallest whale? The harbour porpoise is Norway’s most common whale. Small and elusive, it lives along the coast but, like all marine mammals, must surface to breathe. Every year, thousands of porpoises die after becoming entangled in fishing nets. Trapped underwater, t...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

INVISEA Charting the Seabed Multiple. Knowledge and Values of Norwegian Seabed Areas

Seabed areas around the world are under increasing pressure, and managing the ocean floor in a fair, sustainable, and democratic way is a major challenge. But how do different people actually understand the invisible underwater nature? What values do they associate with it? And to what extent do ...

Awarded: NOK 10.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Batteries as flexibility provider for the Norwegian Electric Power System – drivers, opportunities and challenges

How Can Batteries Support Norway’s Green Energy Transition? Rapid cuts in emissions through electrification based on renewable energy is one of the biggest challenges of our time. But Norway’s electricity grid lacks the capacity needed – and that makes the transition harder. To balance electrici...

Awarded: NOK 12.8 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

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

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Environmental impacts and mitigation measures for pumped storage hydropower in Norwegian reservoirs

Norway has several large hydropower reservoirs at different elevation separated by few km. This makes it not so complicated or costly to install pumped storage hydropower between such pairs of reservoirs. The future power system will be more dependent on weather conditions, impacting both generat...

Awarded: NOK 13.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SIKKERHET-SIKKERHET

BRACE - Balancing Resources Anticipating Compound Events

As the climate becomes more extreme, the risk of major disasters such as large landslides or multiple forest fires increases. Across Norway, fire and rescue services are the first to respond when disaster strikes. But these services are mainly set up to handle everyday emergencies in their own ar...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

INNO-NAERING-INNO-NAERING

8775 HALT-AMR, Hospital-Acquired Lung infection Treatment with novel Anti-Microbial Resistance beta-lactamase-inhibitors

Antibiotic resistance is an ever-increasing threat to our modern healthcare system. Antibiotics are used to treat life-threatening infections and prevent infections in e.g. cancer treatment and major surgery. Due to poor earnings, there are far too few new antibiotics being developed by private c...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Urgency and pressures in critical mineral extraction - Potentials and pitfalls for just mining in Norway

The demand for critical minerals is increasing rapidly. These metals are used in green technologies such as electric vehicles, wind turbines and solar panels, and play a key role in the transition to a low-emission society. At the same time, the growing pressure for faster extraction creates new ...

Awarded: NOK 10.5 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Route to Zero Emission public transport

The transport sector accounts for approximately 30 percent of national greenhouse gas emissions. Public transport is the main source of greenhouse gas emissions related to regional governments' service provision. Hence, the central government has introduced zero-emission requirements in public pr...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Sustainable Norwegian Data Center Industry

In our increasingly digitalised society, data centers are fundamental service providers for key sectors such as health care, energy and transport. Norway needs a robust digital infrastructure to function effectively and is well positioned for data center establishments due to cold climate and ava...

Awarded: NOK 13.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Research stay - HERPOPS

The research stay will contribute directly to the HERPOPS project’s objectives of resolving the spatiotemporal structure of herring populations in the Northeastern Atlantic and developing environmental DNA (eDNA)-based tools for monitoring their occurrence and mixing. The stay is divided into two...

Awarded: NOK 0.29 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Vestland

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

Senter for norsk fagspråk

Centre for Norwegian Professional Language – Knowledge to Strengthen Norwegian as a Societal Language Participation in education, working life, and a democratic public debate, requires a well-functioning Norwegian professional language. The Centre for Norwegian Professional Language aims to deve...

Awarded: NOK 80.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2033

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Socioeconomic and Ethnic Inequality in Health and Intergenerational Mobility (HEALTHMOBILITY)

Economic inequality is growing in Norway and other high-income countries, and large-scale immigration is changing the demographic and socioeconomic landscape of these societies. As these shifts occur, there's a rising interest in understanding how various forms of inequality persist across genera...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

The Nordic Research School for Museums and Cultural Heritage

The Nordic Research School for Museums and Cultural Heritage (NorMus) will offer training for students who are pursuing PhD’s with topics related to museum and heritage studies. By offering thematic courses, facilitating scientific networks, and building research communities, NorMus will elevate ...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2033

Location: Oslo - Oslove

INNO-NAERING-INNO-NAERING

7238 Innovative computational models for ceramic materials for impact events

The ICOCE project tackles a critical challenge in material science: the limitations of current methods for simulating the behavior of brittle materials like ceramics under dynamic loads. This project proposes a novel approach that will lead to the development of a material digital twin ecosystem,...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Agder

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Norwegian Research School in Global Health for Sustainable Futures

In the efforts to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it is crucial that Norway enhances its broad competence in global health research, including by advancing research into interventions and global health initiatives that Norway support through its development cooper...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2033

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

GYRE-induced variability in North Atlantic circulation - Dynamics and impacts on overturning

The large-scale circulation in the North Atlantic Ocean plays a key role in regulating climate by transporting warm, salty waters northward along the borders of the subtropical gyre and the subpolar gyre within the extended Gulf Stream system. The role of variable gyre circulation in modulating t...

Awarded: NOK 10.6 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Vestland

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Formation and prevention of ulcer – skin-on-a-chip approach

Given the high incidence and occurrence of skin ulcers in Norwegian salmon aquaculture, the fish welfare is compromised. At the same time, the fish producers´ and subcontractors´ economic viability is under distress, and the public perception is lowered which impair the reputation of the industry...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

From combatants and war supporters to peacemakers? Women’s participation in political violence and political transitions

In the “Gendered Transitions”-project, the researchers will study how women’s participation in political violence translates into their participation in peace processes. After many years of international activism to advance the Women, Peace and Security agenda, women are still marginalized in pea...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

ELTERM: Kombinerte Elektriske og Termiske Mikrogrid

In Norway, a goal has been established to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. In addition, the Norwegian Parliament has adopted a goal for Norway to be "climate neutral" by 2030. To meet this goal, this project aims to develop technical system solutions that combine electrical and ...

Awarded: NOK 16.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Akershus

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