352 projects

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Fremtidens arealforvaltning i sjø: Rettslige rammer for helhetlig og økosystembasert planlegging på regionalt nivå

Coastal and marine areas are under pressure. Human activity has long shaped the ocean and coastal zone, often based on the belief that “the sea can withstand anything”. We now understand that activities have impacts, yet we still lack sufficient knowledge about their combined effects and tipping...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Møre og Romsdal

SAMISKTEMA-SAMISKTEMA

(Mis)trust: The Norwegianization of language, people and land in South Saepmie. Why reconciliation, how, and between whom?

South Sápmi is a region with a complex history. For generations, the Sámi people have lived under assimilation policies and colonial structures. These experiences have left deep scars and created mistrust, both between Sámi groups and between the Sámi and the majority society. When trust disappea...

Awarded: NOK 11.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

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

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

Struggling Women and Men: Political-Democratic Gender Gaps in a High-Trust Welfare State

Political-democratic differences between women and men are emerging as a societal challenge in Western societies. Which life experiences and grievances—among women and men—generate these differences? How do experiences and grievances affect institutional trust, democratic involvement, and welfare...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Navigating growth and sustainability: Co-creating local climate resilient development practice in the Oslofjord region

The project CO-CRD: Navigating between growth and sustainability examines how local communities can cut emissions, adapt to climate change and safeguard nature and quality of life. It assumes that such “climate resilient” development pathways cannot be decided from above, but must be tested local...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Akershus

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

NORCIE - The Norwegian Centre for International Economics

The Norwegian Centre for International Economics (NORCIE) brings together four leading research communities to strengthen Norway’s capacity to respond to major transformations and policy shifts in the international economy. It is an interdisciplinary centre, rooted in economics, political science...

Awarded: NOK 60.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2034

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Health, Opportunities, and Poverty Eradication: India’s Democracy-Healthcare Paradox and Global Impact

HOPE examines how and to what extent the interplay of democratic governance, socio-economic exclusion, and comparative development strategies shapes health policy in India. It focuses on the impact of democratic governance on overall health policy, the socio-economic consequences of underinvestme...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Building resilience through urban agriculture and foraging: individual, collective and public preparedness

How can we strengthen societal preparedness through urban agriculture and foraging? This is the overarching question that the BestPrepared project seeks to answer. Urban agriculture can build social cohesion among participants and, over shorter periods, also contribute to food security in cities,...

Awarded: NOK 9.8 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Akershus

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

INTRUST: Establishing causal links between institutional quality and social trust

Trust is central to our social and economic wellbeing. Consider how much we rely on trust every day: From self-checkout systems at the grocery store, to participating in donation-based hobbies or paying membership fees to organizations, trust is the invisible thread tying people together. In the ...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

The Power of Parties (PoPs): The Origins of a Nordic Welfare State

The research project “Power of Parties (PoPs): The Origins of a Nordic Welfare State” studies how political parties helped shape the Nordic welfare state model. The project provides new historical insights: It looks at the differences between socialist (left-wing) parties and non-socialist (right...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Buskerud

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

SAMISKTEMA-SAMISKTEMA

Knowledge for Reconciliation: Truth and Contestation after Norway’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (RECON)

RECON investigates the promises and pitfalls of knowledge in reconciliation efforts. We ask: What role do truth and reconciliation commissions play? What does reconciliation mean in the Norwegian South Saami area? And can dissemination of knowledge strengthen reconciliation? In June 2023, Norway’...

Awarded: NOK 11.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Understanding and Countering the Advance of AI-enabled Digital Authoritarianism in Asia

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming societies across the world. In Asia, these changes bring opportunities—but also serious risks. While AI can improve public services and support development, it can also be misused to monitor citizens, spread false information, and weaken democracy. Thi...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

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

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Dynastic Finance: Formation, Management and Taxation of Dynasties

Why does wealth persist in some families, while others lose it within a generation or two? This project investigates how family fortunes are built, maintained, and passed on, and how these processes shape inequality in the long run. The central aim is to understand the role of families in econom...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

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

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Strengthening national preparedness through local food systems (FOODprepared)

FoodPrepared explores how strengthening local food systems can improve Norway's food security and preparedness in the face of climate change, pandemics, and geopolitical tensions. We examine how communities can become more resilient to future crises through sustainable food production and consum...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

INFRAPOLITICS: Strengthening Critical Infrastructure Governance for Resilience and Security

INFRAPOL will explore how critical infrastructure – such as ports, data centers, subsea cables, and oil and gas pipelines – should be governed. Critical infrastructure is subject to complex political and economic pressures, often involving cross-border ownership interests. Public and private acto...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Capacities for Energy Transition Governance

The CAPACITIES project examines how the energy transition is governed at state and municipal levels. In the decades when the administration and institutions in the energy sector were developed, their mandate was more limited and focused than it is today, where complex societal challenges must be ...

Awarded: NOK 11.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SIKKERHET-SIKKERHET

Prepare, support and comply: The public as a critical resource in times of crisis

In the years ahead, Norwegian society must be prepared to handle a wide range of adverse events, spanning the spectrum from peace to war, including natural disasters, extreme weather, major accidents, hybrid threats and, in the worst case, armed conflict. In such situations, the population is a c...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

PLAY2TRANSFORM: Gaming to enhance climate mitigation in Norwegian municipalities

PLAY2TRANSFORM is an innovative serious game service that helps municipalities think differently about climate mitigation. Through a physical board game, we simulate climate mitigation in a municipality to stimulate discussions about local emission-reducing measures. The game focuses on consumpti...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Vestland

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

The impacts of land use conflicts on society and citizens: how local arguments shape democratic participation and lived experience

In recent years, Norwegian communities have seen a rise in contentious land use disputes. The green transition’s demand for land has triggered conflicts over mining, wind power, solar parks, and power lines — a development expected to intensify as society moves toward a low-emission future. Thes...

Awarded: NOK 10.5 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Vestland

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

The powers of visual representations in shaping and mediating land-use conflicts in Norway (VISUALS)

VISUALS investigates how visual representations, such as images, photos, maps, media reports, and artworks, influence conflicts related to land-use and management of natural resources in Norway. If municipalities continue to favour roads, cabin villages, wind power development, and green industri...

Awarded: NOK 10.5 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

SIKKERHET-SIKKERHET

Towards detecting AI-generated disinformation: Fakespeak in the age of large language models

The EU, NATO and UN in addition to 1500 experts consulted by the World Economic Forum perceive disinformation and fake news, and the subsequent erosion of trust in newly elected governments, as one of the biggest current threats to democracy. This is so not least due to the rapid development of g...

Awarded: NOK 11.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

RENOVATE: Regional Energy Transition Vulnerabilities and Adaptation Strategies in Norway

RENOVATE: How Norway's oil and gas regions can meet the energy transition The effects of the energy transition in Norway will be wide-ranging, it will reshape jobs, communities, and local economies. Coastal regions that rely heavily on oil and gas, now face profound structural change. RENOVATE de...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Rogaland

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

InterAct utenlandsopphold ved Toronto Metropolitan University for phd stipendiat Astrid Espegren

Prosjektet Interact har fokus på voksne flyktninger med lite eller ingen skolebakgrunn, hvorav en del i praksis er analfabeter. Tjenestetilbud, språkopplæring, osv. er i liten grad tilpasset denne gruppens behov, noe som kan føre til sosial og økonomisk marginalisering og utenforskap. Formålet ...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SIKKERHET-SIKKERHET

NOKIOS 2025 - Norsk konferanse for IKT i offentlig sektor

NOKIOS - Norsk konferanse for IKT i offentlig sektor er en årlig konferanse som arrangeres i Trondheim. Konferansen er hybrid, og arrangeres på Clarion Hotel Trondheim samt digitalt. NTNU og medarrangør Digitaliseringsdirektoratet er hovedarrangørene av konferansen, som sammen med 23 samarbeids...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Artificial Intelligence: Growth, Inequalities and Public Policies

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming economies, but its effects are still uncertain, and the subject of a vivid debate. Will AI drive innovation, productivity, and economic growth? Or will it lead to job losses, rising income inequality, and more concentrated markets? Public polic...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2031

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

EUI - 1. og 2. halvdel av 4 år - Visions of Europe in Scandinavia 1900 - 1939: The Media, Intellectuals, and Politics

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Awarded: NOK 0.29 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

TRUST - The Norwegian Centre for Trustworthy AI

TRUST is a Norwegian research centre dedicated to building the foundations of trustworthy AI. Its mission is to enable AI systems that are accurate, interpretable, inclusive, fair, safe, sustainable, and well-governed. By uniting expertise from the fields of computational and data science, law, s...

Awarded: NOK 200.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove