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Coastal Lives in Flux: Environmental Crisis, Resistance, and Ritual Innovation Across Asia (CLiF)

Coasts and beaches in East and Southeast Asia face several challenges today. They experience erosion and species loss due to logging, infrastructure development, and tropical storms, which are getting stronger and more frequent because of climate change. They also face problems such as widespread...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

GIANTS: Giant Impact Accretion of Terrestrial Systems

The terrestrial planets (Earth and Mars, for instance) are thought to have formed by a process known as collisional accretion, growing two by two in huge mergers and partial-mergers and almost-mergers. The idea is that Earth was built out of ~10 Mars-sized planets, each merger more violent than t...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Scribes of the North: Latin Manuscripts in Medieval Iceland

Scribes of the North is an interdisciplinary research project that examines the understudied fragments and palimpsests of Latin manuscripts written in medieval Iceland to bridge the gap between Icelandic manuscript studies and Nordic fragment studies. The project integrates methods from palaeogra...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

Coding History: An experiment in the computer-assisted qualitative analysis of medieval historiographical narratives

Our knowledge of many periods and aspects of the pre-modern past depends on the analysis of historiographical narratives, which are often long, rhetorical, and partisan. While the past has been narrated in idiosyncratic forms across medieval western Eurasia (from Old Norse sagas to Byzantine hist...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Intensionality and Forcing: A New Model-Theoretic Synthesis

Imagine trying to explain what a belief or the meaning of a sentence really is. We use them constantly—when we say “I think it will rain” or when we understand a joke—but they are surprisingly hard for science to pin down. Even simple ideas can fool our theories. Two sentences might always be tru...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Denying harm? Neocolonial conservation through trophy hunting and zoos

Denying Harm? Neocolonial conservation through trophy hunting and zoos (HARZOTROPH) will explore the legitimacy of the industries of trophy hunting and zoos as this is presented by the industries themselves and experienced by people who hunt trophies and visit zoos. HARZOTROPH hypothesizes tha...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Category shifts, the periphery, and the structure of linguistic categories

Linguistic categories, like noun, verb, and adjective, are key to any kind of language description. Yet, it remains debatable what exactly a linguistic category is. Does a word’s category derive from its position (distribution) and how it looks (form)? Or from what it means (semantics) and how it...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Agder

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Rule of Law and the Public Sense of Justice in Norway - International Conventions and National Norms in a Time of Crisis (PublicJustice)

We currently find ourselves in the middle of a global rule of law crisis. Fundamental principles of the rule of law, which are often taken for granted in democratic countries, are increasingly being questioned and, to some extent, abandoned. This is true not only in remote autocracies, but also i...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

GROOVE: Mapping, Modeling, and Perceiving the Combinatorics of Groove-Based Rhythms

GROOVE asks a simple question with wide implications: why do certain rhythmic patterns—and especially specific combinations across instruments—move us more than others? We study the musical “engine” behind that impulse and what it reveals about how people organize patterns in time, experience ple...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Labor Market Power, Institutional Structures, and Social Consequences

The balance of power between employers and workers affects much more than paychecks and job prospects—it also shapes the basic conditions that hold society together. This project starts from a simple but powerful idea: who holds power in the labor market plays a central role in social well-being,...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Unravelling the microbial diversity within halite

Imagine peering into tiny pockets of water trapped inside salt crystals for 250 million years. These microscopic “time capsules” may hold living cells from Earth’s distant past. The "Salty" project explores these fluid inclusions in Zechstein halite, a massive salt deposits stretching across Euro...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Con-TEki: Conifer transposable elements as key drivers of regulatory innovation

In 1947, Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl set out on a wooden raft to prove that Polynesia could have been settled by South Americans drifting westward across the Pacific. In this project, we are on an exploratory journey of our own: into conifer genomes, to uncover how some of Earth’s most resi...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Akershus

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Digital Status and Its Social and Technological Construction

Digital technologies such as social media, generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems and mobile apps shape how we see and evaluate each other. Likes, ratings, followers, badges and other visible or hidden status markers affect opportunities and sometimes even livelihoods. Yet we know surpri...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Developing inert anodes for manganese deposition by molten oxide electrolysis

Manganese is a metal needed for many of the materials we use every day, primarily as alloying element in steel. For decades, it has been produced by a reaction between carbon and manganese ore (manganese oxide) releasing large amounts of carbon dioxide and contributing significantly to global war...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Technology-Enhanced Cognitive Resilience Toolkit for Disinformation Detection, Vulnerability Profiling, and Digital User Empowerment

Generative AI has made it easy to produce convincing fake news, deepfakes, and tailored scams at scale. That changes the information landscape. People are exposed to more misleading content, faster, and often in forms that are hard to spot at a glance. Much of the current response has focused on ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Vestland

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

REPUTATION: Reconstruction of past virus and phytoplankton interactions using sedimentary ancient DNA

In REPUTATION we aim to test the idea that we can detect viruses of phytoplankton in marine sediments going back around 100, 000 years in time. Phytoplankton are essential parts of marine ecosystems, sitting at the base of the food web, producing roughly 50% of global oxygen, and controlling glob...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

SyncMe: Understanding cardiac function through myocardial dyssynchrony

We typically picture the heart as a perfectly synchronized pump, with every part contracting in unison. The SyncMe project challenges this view — and aims to transform how we understand the heart, and how we diagnose and treat heart disease. Using mathematical models, we have discovered that the...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Solid Fuel Regression in Ramjet Combustors

Solid fuel ramjets (SFRJs) are advanced jet propulsion systems with strong potential for next-generation missiles and artillery rounds. At first glance, these engines are surprisingly simple, consisting of three main components: an air inlet, a cylindrical combustor containing cast fuel, and a no...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Innlandet

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Nettverksbasert og økologisk inspirert metode i arbeidet med fremtidsrettet forvaltning av kyst- og sjøareal.

Coastal and marine areas are facing increasingly complex climatic and environmental challenges, accompanied by growing friction and frustration within current planning and management systems. Local and regional authorities must simultaneously navigate biodiversity concerns, social and economic in...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Møre og Romsdal

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Objektorientert modellering og bruk av kunstig intelligens for analyse og beslutningsstøtte i ingeniørprosjekter

In the engineering consultancy industry, many technical analyses and assessments are carried out every day. Many of these analyses are similar, yet models, calculations and data are often developed from scratch in each individual project. This makes the work more time-consuming, more dependent on...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Akershus

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

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Models and Methods for Cybersecurity Risk Quantification

This PhD project aims to make cybersecurity risk management more accurate, explainable, and data-driven. Today, many organizations assess cyber risk in a largely qualitative way, especially when estimating how likely a cyber incident is to impact its infrastructure. This project focuses on improv...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Forsoning som politisk idé: En analyse av begrepets innhold og betydning for forsoningspolitikken overfor urfolk og nasjonale minoriteter

This project examines what “reconciliation” means in the context of the state’s efforts to address historical injustices committed against Indigenous peoples and national minorities. In many countries, truth and reconciliation commissions have been used to shed light on and document the consequen...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Automating language description

Almost half of the world’s 7000 languages are endangered (Campbell & Belew 2018). Linguists try to combat this loss of human heritage by documenting languages. They do this by recording words, sentences and stories in the original language, accompanied by transcriptions, translations and grammati...

Awarded: NOK 8.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

OpenHFI: End-to-end Bayesian analysis of Planck HFI

As we look farther and farther out into space, the light we are seeing has travelled longer and longer to reach our telescopes, and we call the oldest light that we can see from our Universe the Cosmic Microwave Background (or CMB). Originating from just a few hundred thousand years after the Uni...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Multilectal Individual Differences in Reading: Neurocognitive and Behavioral Effects of Dialect Exposure on Literacy Development

MInDReading investigates how exposure to dialect variation affects literacy and reading comprehension. In Norway, speakers grow up with regional dialects while learning to read and write in two written standards, Nynorsk and Bokmål. Although these varieties are easily mutually intelligible, they ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Møre og Romsdal

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Forecasting Antibiotic Resistance by Understanding the Evolution of Resistance Enzymes

Antibiotic resistance has become one of the major global health threats and is already responsible for millions of deaths each year. This crisis is largely driven by the widespread overuse of antibiotics, which forces bacteria to evolve increasingly effective defense mechanisms. But what if we co...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Deciphering Nutrient Uptake Mechanisms in Salmon Louse Oocytes for Gene Editing and Treatment Development

The salmon louse is a small parasite that causes big problems for salmon farming and wild salmon. It feeds on the fish’s skin and blood, leaving wounds that lead to stress and subsequent infections. Current medical treatments are losing effectiveness because lice have developed resistance, while ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

Winter-is-coming – But do soil microorganisms know and prepare accordingly?

Microorganisms—invisibly to our naked eyes—quietly run the Earth’s life support system. Among many so-called ecosystem services they provide, they produce oxygen for us to breathe and recycle nutrients for plants to grow. Furthermore, microorganisms are not as simple and primitive as we often dep...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Decoding Developmental Convergence: Mapping Genetic Risk Across Neural and Cardiac Lineages

Many children born with heart defects at birth later develop conditions such as autism or developmental delay. Today, doctors and families often do not know, early in life, which children are at highest risk for problems with brain development. Genetic studies suggest that heart and brain develop...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

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