1,065 projects

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

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

FERTILITY INEQUALITY: Economic and social drivers of declining birth rates

Birth rates have been declining for a long time in Norway, as in the rest of the world. A t the same time, fertility inequalities have widened – both between men and women, and between individuals with higher and lower levels of income and education. What explains the growing inequality in the nu...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Health and Migration: A Multi-Country Study of Male African Migrants

Migration is one of the defining features of our time, and this project explores health and welfare challenges among migrating men who experience different forms of vulnerability, including sexual minority men, men living with HIV, and men with low incomes. The project is a collaboration between ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Turning the tables: Can ‘upstream’ social policy prevent child maltreatment?

UPSTREAM aims to improve our understanding of whether child maltreatment can be prevented through broader social policies tools, such cash benefits or services for families, and how. The project is motivated by the fact that many people who have been involved with child welfare services face poor...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Under pressure – Student achievement and wellbeing in a changing school environment

Recent decades have seen a concerning increase in the prevalence of mental health issues among children and adolescents. Mental health issues, which typically emerge during adolescence, are now among the leading causes of disability in young people. During the same period, everyday school life h...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Match effects and matchmaking in education

Which is the best school? In Norway, as in most other countries, students, parents, and policymakers ask this question every year. Schools are ranked by admission cutoffs and value-added models, and politicians pledge to improve the trailing schools. However, if different students thrive in diffe...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Deep study reading in digitised classrooms: identifying factors affecting sustained focus, persistence, and stress

Good reading skills are required for active participation in society, and they are also fundamental to learning. Therefore, the current decline in reading and cognitive persistence is worrisome. Longform, deep reading – that is, the reading if longer and potentially complex texts – is particularl...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Rogaland

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Mapping Care: Coordination, Gaps, and Barriers in Support for Refugee Children

Mapping Care: Rethinking Support for Refugee Children in Norway Imagine arriving in a new country as a child—learning a new language, adapting to new customs, while carrying memories of conflict or loss. For many refugee children in Norway, this is their daily reality. They are resilient, yet fa...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

In search of sustainability: Implementation of community financing mechanisms to accelerate reductions in maternal and newborn mortality

All seems calm but imagine: Just today, 6,500 newborn babies and 810 women will die because of pregnancy and childbirth complications. Yet it is known that these deaths are completely avoidable if mothers do not face barriers, both financial, informational, and behavioral, that make it impossibl...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Inclusive Educational Rights: Balancing Rights of Violent Children, Their Peers and Educators

Pupils who behave violently against classmates and school staff are an increasing problem in Norway, affecting safety, learning and long-term life chances. Around a quarter of primary teachers reported violence or threats in 2024. Early intervention is crucial to prevent social exclusion and futu...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Diversity as a battlefield? Majority and minority responses to organisational diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts

Diversity and inclusion have become a political battlefield. A wide range of policies and initiatives – so-called diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts – seek to improve the inclusion and status of disadvantaged groups, most notably in the labour market. Yet, we know remarkably little abo...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

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

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Skills Enhancement on the Move: Digital Pathways in Higher Vocational Education

Higher vocational education via distance education offers new opportunities for skills development. Higher vocational schools play an important role in providing education and knowledge that companies need, and in recent years there has been significant growth in both the number of higher vocatio...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Gender segregated educational choices, skill gaps and early career opportunities

Over the past fifty years, we've seen a remarkable shift in education: young women now earn more degrees and higher credentials than young men across most developed countries, including Norway and the United States. This educational advantage for women reached its peak around the year 2000, after...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

AHEAD: Addressing health knowledge gaps in zones of environmental harm and chronic disease

Climate change and pollution are reshaping human health in dramatic ways: infectious disease outbreaks, worsening hunger, and heat-related illnesses. But another crisis is unfolding more quietly: chronic and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) – such as cancer, diabetes, and kidney disease – are ris...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

Women among the Hansa in Bergen

Women among the Hansa in Bergen is a pioneering research project investigating the role of women in the lives and trade of members of the Hanseatic community in Bergen from the Middle Ages until the eighteenth century. The project aims to achieve a comprehensive and more nuanced understanding of ...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Tracking health-related underachievement in the first two decades of life (THRIVE)

How does health shape children’s chances in school? Some children fall behind in school not because they lack ability, but because their health holds them back. This project explores how different health conditions – both physical and mental – influence learning and school performance from child...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Can an enriched AI-chatbot strengthen writer identities in primary-school classrooms?

Can AI support young writers in learning to express themselves through writing? Since the arrival of large language models, teachers, parents, and policymakers have worried that artificial intelligence (AI) might take over the writing process for students. The concern is not unfounded – many tool...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Rogaland

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

EduGAP: Grading, Assessment and Pathways

There is an ongoing debate in many countries about assessment practices, in particular the use of external and centrally administered exams. This debate intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic, when national exams were often not conducted. At the same time, assessment practices vary widely acros...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HELSEFORSKNING-Helseforskning

HOMESICK: Co-creating Hospital-at-Home services for populations with migration backgrounds

How are the needs and experiences of populations with migration backgrounds considered when health systems transition towards home-based and digital solutions? HOMESICK approaches this question through an extended concept of home. Exploring home as a lived experience, HOMESICK aims to promote Hos...

Awarded: NOK 14.8 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

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

InferCan: Uncovering the infertility-cancer connection.

Infertility affects about one in six people worldwide and goes beyond the difficulty of having a baby—it’s increasingly seen as a crucial sign of overall health, with implications for future risks like cancer. Research reveals that infertility is linked to higher cancer risks, especially when exp...

Awarded: NOK 6.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Youth Outside work and education – Understanding Traits and Hurdles

What do we really know about youth exclusion? Far too many young people in Norway are outside employment, education, and training. This group–often referred to as NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training)–faces a high risk of long-term exclusion. But the NEET category is broad and imprecise...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

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

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

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

DRUGTREND: Youth cultures and emerging patterns of drug use in a digital age

Drug use patterns among young people in Norway are currently changing. While youth alcohol consumption witnessed a notable decline after the turn of the millennium, trends in illicit drug use have followed a different trajectory, with cannabis and cocaine use currently on the rise. Concurrently, ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Refugees’ Belonging and Participation for Inclusive Rural Areas

REMAIN’s aim is to address refugees’ participation and belonging in rural Norway, in the interest of maintaining sustainable municipalities across the whole country. We start from the Government’s policy of dispersed refugee settlement which allocates refugees to municipalities across the countr...

Awarded: NOK 11.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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