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BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

Network dynamics during encoding and recall of episodic memories in humans

Remember your last birthday party: the guests at the door, the tasty food, the small pile of presents. Those memories are called episodic memories. They are memories of events that happen in a particular place (“where”) and in a particular order (“when”). To form these memories, the brain must s...

Awarded: NOK 22.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

StrawberryWalls – integrating plant parasitology, ecology and biomechanics to support crop adaptation to climate change

Global warming has been most pronounced north of 60°, with the Arctic warming four times faster than the rest of the world. This will open up around 1.5 billion hectares of new agricultural land in northern latitudes. At the same time, it will allow many pest and pathogen species to spread northw...

Awarded: NOK 25.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2032

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Disentangling land-coast-ocean connections at Bouvetøya, the most remote marine ecosystem hotspot in the Southern Ocean

Sub-Antarctic islands such as Bouvetøya host some of the world's richest ecosystems. They are hotspots for abundant marine life including sea birds and marine mammals, but very little is known regarding what makes these islands so rich in life. This is mainly due to lack of observations caused by...

Awarded: NOK 25.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Upcycling fish sludge to sustainable feed material: From environmental waste problems to sustainable feed solutions (Up-Sludged)

Norway produces large volumes of Atlantic salmon, also in freshwater facilities like hatcheries and smolt land-based farms. This generates a substantial amount of waste, in the form of fish sludge – a product consisting of feed spills and fish feces. This biomass is rich in nutrients and is consi...

Awarded: NOK 24.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Norway’s carbon sink under climate change

Norway has historically maintained a robust carbon sink, vital for meeting net-zero climate targets in Norway and Europe. However, terrestrial carbon uptake in Norway has unexpectedly declined 40% over a decade. While increased harvest and aging forests partly explain this decline, a significant ...

Awarded: NOK 25.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Norwegian Earth System Modeling for CMIP7

The NorESM4CMIP7 project is an ambitious scientific endeavor aimed at elevating our comprehension of climate dynamics and the Earth system using the new NorESM3 climate model. Driven by the multidisciplinary efforts of the NorESM Climate Modeling Consortium (NCC), this project targets to play a d...

Awarded: NOK 25.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

Self-healing lithium-ion batteries enabled by fiber/nano optic sensing and convergent data-driven analytics

The importance and impact of lithium-ion batteries in the early 21st century has been profound. However, despite the concurrent interest in sustainable living, the fact that lithium-ion batteries cannot be repaired or serviced during their lifetime results in a growing dilemma: should we, as a so...

Awarded: NOK 15.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

LUBRIBOT: A sustainable soft robot facilitating non-contact adhesion and directed locomotion by vibration induced lubrication flow

Robots are currently a direct or indirect part of most people's lives; they clean homes, transport and process biological material for the food industry, assist in enhancing the quality of life for the elderly, and sort waste intended for recycling, to mention just a few examples. The technologic...

Awarded: NOK 15.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

SecureIoTM: Ultra-low-energy IoT Intrusion Detection Systems using Logic-based Tsetlin Machines

The SecureIoTM project seeks to transform the cybersecurity paradigm for interconnected devices. As devices, from smart fridges to trackers, join the IoT ecosystem, their security becomes vital. At its core is the Tsetlin Machine, a machine learning approach combining computational strength with ...

Awarded: NOK 15.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Agder

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

The Hidden Toll of Lice

Wild Atlantic salmon is declining throughout its range and is believed to be at a historic low. In Norway, this coincides with a tremendous increase in farmed salmon production. These opposing trends have sparked controversy as the association between fish farms and wild salmonids has become incr...

Awarded: NOK 45.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Vestland

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

Tunable and Durable Seawater Adhesives

Gluing things together under water poses a significant challenge. In seawater this is even more difficult due to the salt content, and currently the performance and durability of seawater adhesives is very limited. This is a problem for applications in marine industry such as underwater robotics,...

Awarded: NOK 14.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Østfold

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

Enabling natural photonics through genetic manipulation of diatoms

Photonics, the manipulation of light at nanoscale, is a key enabling technology with potential to address a number of societal and global challenges. Photonic crystals (PhCs) are key components of photonic technologies facilitating light manipulation even in three dimensions; however, the nanofab...

Awarded: NOK 15.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

Super Selective Separators for Battery Applications

Rechargeable Lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries, with a theoretical energy density five times that of Lithium-ion batteries (LiBs), exhibit great potential as a low-cost, sustainable, and high-energy-density alternative to LiBs. However, serious challenges caused by polysulfide shuttling and lithium...

Awarded: NOK 15.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

The Freedom to Choose

Summary of Research Contributions: The FREE Project The FREE project explores how perceptions of freedom and responsibility shape economic behavior. It is organized into three work packages (WPs), each addressing distinct but complementary dimensions of the relationship between freedom, fairness,...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2029

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection: An interdisciplinary observational and interventional study program

Long-term effects of COVID-19 have become increasingly recognized. Acute lung damage may be followed by chronic impairment of lung function. COVID-19 may also be associated with increased risk of chronic cardiac and vascular injury, and persistent shortness of breath may be a symptom of both pulm...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Actin acetylation in cancer metastasis: a tale of a forgotten tumor suppressor

All aspects of the life of a human cell are controlled by proteins. Proteins can be modified by different chemical groups functioning as tags controlling protein function. One particular chemical group, acetyl, is coupled to nearly every single protein in our cells. Our research group at UiB has ...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2028

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Hub Molecules Of Life

The previously established workflow among all partners has been further consolidated during the present project period. Besides regular online meetings, all partners have met in person end of September 2025 in Tromsø in conjunction with a Marie Skladowska Curie Action that three of the four partn...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2028

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Polygenic and psychosocial interplay in brain development across mental disorders

Mental disorders are caused by inherited vulnerability interacting with environmental factors. While most mental disorders are diagnosed in early adulthood, the disease processes emerge during childhood and adolescence. Nevertheless, most studies have focused on adults after the onset of the illn...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Supporting teachers’ enactment of classroom practices critical to students’ learning engagement

Interdisciplinary research on engaging learning environment It is known that student engagement is essential for the students’ well-being and learning, however, during primary and lower secondary school, student engagement declines. The problem of declining student engagement is a major challeng...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2028

Location: Rogaland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Escaping the Combinatorial Explosion: Expert-Enhanced Heuristic Navigation of Chemical Space (eHACS)

The number of molecules that can be made by combining atoms of different elements is unfathomably large and it is impossible to make and test all these molecules when searching for new pharmaceuticals or other functional molecules. In fact, the possible molecules are even too many to be tested vi...

Awarded: NOK 12.4 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2028

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Developing solvents for unclogging the calculational bottleneck in high-energy physics

To uncover the building blocks of the universe and answer such fundamental questions as "What is dark matter?" or "Why is there more matter than antimatter in the universe?", physicists today must perform expensive calculations on supercomputers in order to compare theoretical predictions with ex...

Awarded: NOK 14.2 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Anthropogenic Soils: Recuperating Human-Soil Relationships on a Troubled Planet

Human survival depends on the invisible and largely unknown world below our feet. Yet, planet Earth has reached “peak soil”, the point at which we are destroying soils faster than they can recover naturally. The project Anthropogenic Soils responds to a global crisis of soils with an innovative f...

Awarded: NOK 12.9 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

SmartSense: Decoding metabolic and epigenetic disorders caused by adolescence sleep deprivation

Obesity and bad sleep habits among teenagers are two rising health concerns that seems intertwined. Indeed, many studies trace obesity to poor sleep hygiene. This is especially concerning because (i) adolescents get less and less sleep as screens invade their bedroom and (ii) obese children have ...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Machine Intelligence in HEADaches - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Diagnostics and Treatment of Primary Headaches

Headache disorders such as migraine, tension-type headache and cluster headache are some of the most burdensome diseases worldwide. Yet, they are often neglected, and patients suffer in pain for a long time before they get a correct diagnosis and effective treatment. The headache disorders have...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Child Protection Systems Across the World

In the project period from 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2025, the project has published several articles based on the survey material developed in the previous period, in addition to further publications (5 articles). There have been several academic dissemination activities (13). Project membe...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2029

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Biogeochemical processes governing boreal C cycling

Positive feedbacks will have a decisive impact on the climate by potentially amplifying the formation of greenhouse gases such as CO2 and CH4 (methane). BioGov focuses on the carbon cycle in northern boreal areas by examining the significance of forests, soil, and permafrost thawing for the trans...

Awarded: NOK 12.1 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Mathematics for quantum computation and many-body theory (QOMBINE)

Quantum computing is an impending technology with a huge potential to solve important societal and technological problems. At present major theoretical and technological obstacles need to be overcome to fully realize the potential of quantum computing, since in a quantum computer components inadv...

Awarded: NOK 12.9 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

AHeadForLife - Societal and environmental determinants of brain and cognition

Cognitive function – how we attend, remember, and reason – is critical to all aspects of human life. Cognitive function affects how we handle daily tasks, but also how we make sense of the world around us and build social relationships. Cognitive function has biological underpinnings, but is also...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

FUTURES4Fish: Adaptive socio-technological solutions for Norwegian fisheries and aquaculture

In these times of change, the world is looking for alternatives to petroleum. What seems more certain is that fisheries and aquaculture (F&A) in different forms will become Norway’s leading export industries with a green profile. This is what the markets ask for nowadays. However, there are chall...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Move-play-explore in early childhood education

Giving every child the best start in life must be the highest priority to promote equality, life opportunities, and a sustainable society. “Schoolification” within early childhood education and increased levels of physical inactivity in young children are worrisome trends that are not in the best...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2028

Location: Vestland

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