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HELSEFORSKNING-Helseforskning

Developing KNOWledge on needs and MEasures aimed at children experiencing parental problem gambling

Problem gambling is a global public health concern with serious consequences for individuals and their families. Shame and stigma often lead to underreporting, and for each person with severe gambling problems, an estimated six close relatives are significantly affected—children being especially ...

Awarded: NOK 9.7 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Akershus

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Dressing the Saints: Gendering and Othering in Netherlandish Art at the Dawn of a Globalised World

How would you dress a saint in art? Royal saints, bishop saints and saints from religious orders had their prescribed clothing. But the many Early Christian martyrs did not, meaning that the artist depicting them had choices to make departing from the Bible’s sole guideline positing that “the fin...

Awarded: NOK 11.7 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Moral values and political reconfiguration in Western democracies, 1975–2025

The MORALCHANGE project investigates how shifts in moral values have shaped political and cultural divides in Scandinavia over the past 50 years. The project draws on social psychologist Jonathan Haidt's studies of moral values. According to Haidt, these values form two dimensions: universalism, ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Youth sexuality and sexual risk in a digital era (DIGISEX)

Large-scale societal discussions have changed the sexual landscape recent years, such as the #metoo movement and public debates about consent laws. A shift that particularly has affected youth sexuality is how digital media plays into sexual relations. On a positive note, digital media offers ne...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo

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

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

WaCoMacro: wage contracts and macroeconomics

From April 2021 to April 2024, prices rose by 17.6 percent in both the Euro area and Norway. Central banks have responded to this inflationary episode and price inflation is now subsiding. Meanwhile, wage inflation is picking up pace. What does this mean for the economic prospects of Norway in th...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

The ideological production, policy outcomes and practices of wartime Putinism

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, a consensus formed that political ideologies were no longer central to world politics. In contrast to the infamous Marxist and National Socialist regimes, ideology was not viewed as central to the new wave of authoritarianism that emerged and consolidat...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Religious gender justice activism (GenderJustice)

Rights related to gender equality and non-discrimination are increasingly under attack, with significant backlash against women’s rights, sexual and reproductive health rights, and LGBTIQ+ rights, both globally and locally. The debates have become highly polarized, often influenced by religious a...

Awarded: NOK 11.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo

SAMISKTEMA-SAMISKTEMA

Singing Maps: developing online music communities to support Sámi adolescent cultural resilience.

Sámi vocal traditions, among the oldest in Europe, have faced challenges due to historical suppression and marginalization by majority cultures in the Nordic region. Despite a resurgence in Sámi commercial music, traditional practices have become endangered, and are almost entirely absent from fo...

Awarded: NOK 11.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Vestland

SIKKERHET-SIKKERHET

Protecting child rights and public safety: Premises for the integration of childs best interest and crime prevention

To an increasing degree, children engage in serious violent crimes that are perceived as threats to public safety, including violent extremism, and terrorism. A core problem for the Nordic welfare states is how to provide public safety and prevent crime and social exclusion, and at the same time ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2030

Location: Vestland

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Improving social work environments on board: Antecedents and consequences of psychological safety and social support on Norwegian vessels

Over the last decade, there has been an increasing focus on improving the working conditions and the health and safety of crews on commercial fishing, cargo and passenger vessels, both in Norway and globally. To achieve these goals, creating a good social work environment on board is essential. T...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Outside-Inside: Young people`s experience and knowledge with outsiderness and inclusion

The project explores knowledge from youth with experiences of outsiderness related to substance abuse, mental health, and criminality. The proportion of young people in outsiderness is increasing, and challenges related to substance abuse, mental health, and criminality during adolescence are mar...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Oslo

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

The Potential of ‘GameChange’: Supplementary Educational Measures to Facilitate Secondary Education Completion Among At-Risk Youth

What can be done to enable more students to complete secondary school? The project GameChanger focuses on the impact that initiatives outside of school can have on students when they are in school. Flyt and Guttas Campus are two school-supportive programs designed to prevent dropout by enhancing ...

Awarded: NOK 19.7 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo

FORSKNINGSINFRA-FORSKNINGSINFRA

Infrastructure for Sámi metadata enrichment and access to Sámi photographs and audiovisual collections

Preserving Sámi Cultural Heritage: A Digital Future for Photographs and Film Sámi photographs and audiovisual collections are critical for understanding Norway’s history and culture. While these collections have long been stored in archives and libraries, they continue to be underutilized in rese...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

A circular educational framework to help solve healthcare challenges: interprofessional education and collaborative practice for the future

The world faces rapidly increasing challenges in delivering quality health and social care services: a global shortage of health workers, limited resources, and a rapidly aging population with complex needs. The "IPECP-future" project introduces an innovative solution: a Circular Educational Fram...

Awarded: NOK 11.6 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Vestland

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Temp Agency Work: Worker Welfare, Organization and Efficiency (TEMPO)

Temp agency work constitutes a small, but growing, part of the labor market in Norway, as in similar economies in the OECD. After the 2004 enlargement of the European Union, admitting several Eastern European countries, labor immigrants have contributed to increasing temp agency employment, which...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Oslo

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Ensuring a Competent and sustainable workforce of Midwives in Norway

Ensuring a well-educated, clinically competent, adequately resourced, and sustainable midwifery workforce is crucial for delivering high-quality care to women in maternity care. However, the serious shortage of midwives, globally and in Norway, currently inhibits midwives’ efforts to promote safe...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2030

Location: Vestland

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Negotiating Values in Norwegian Teacher Education

In a pluralist society, educational institutions are vital for the transmission of core societal values considered foundational to the constitution and continuation of democratic societies. In 2020, the Norwegian government launched a national educational reform: ‘Knowledge Promotion’ in Educatio...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Vestland

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Retention Evaluation - Teacher Attrition and Incentives in Norway

Norway may face a future teacher shortage due to several factors: high dropout rates from teacher education programs, graduates opting out of teaching careers, and nearly a third of new teachers leaving the profession within five years. The RETAIN project (Retention Evaluation - Teacher Attrition...

Awarded: NOK 7.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Health, education and labor market integration in refugees – a cross-country, longitudinal, mixed-method study

With notably increased rates of mental health problems and persistent lower employment than other migrant groups, refugees constitute a highly vulnerable group in today's society. Recent evidence suggests poor health, and in particular poor mental health, may play a key role in labor market marg...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Helpful or harmful: The effects of criminal justice system contact on victims of sexual and physical violence

The impact of physical and sexual violence on victims and their families can be devastating and persistent, with long-run effects on physical and mental health, educational attainment, employment, and welfare uptake. While the criminal justice system (CJS) is held to play an important part in a v...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Oslo

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Veiledning i institusjonsbarnevernet: Hvordan øke inntoning og refleksjon hos veiledere og miljøpersonale?

The Norwegian Child Welfare Service (Bufetat) is investing in supervision to promote competence development for environmental staff at child welfare institutions and care institutions (EMA). With this doctoral thesis, Bufetat Region East wants to gain more in-depth knowledge on how supervision ca...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Vestfold

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Transitions in Late Careers: Obstacles and Opportunities

Vi står overfor store endringer i arbeidslivet, både endrede arbeidspraksiser, den grønne- og digitale omstillingen, og ved at befolkningen blir eldre. En voksende andel av arbeidsstyrken er over 55 år, og i framtiden må store utfordringer løses av arbeidstakere i 50-, 60- og 70-årene. Bærekrafte...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Improving care for traumatized children by building competency and collaboration of first- and second line services with stepped care models

Childhood trauma is a major public health challenge. If left untreated, trauma exposure increase the risk for all mental disorders, as well as school drop-out and unemployment. Many traumatized children need coordinated services, but there is currently insufficient collaboration between these ser...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo

FORSKSYSTEM-UTD-FORSKSYSTEM-UTD

Centre for Research on Children and Young Peoples Vulnerable Institutional Pathways

PATHWAYS research centre studies children and young people’s movements in, between, and out of institutions and services such as the Child Welfare Services, Services for Children and Youth with Disabilities, Health Services for Children and Youth, Correctional Services and the welfare and employm...

Awarded: NOK 30.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Oslo

FORSKSYSTEM-UTD-FORSKSYSTEM-UTD

The Centre for Children & Youth, Vulnerability, and Social Preparedness

Despite relatively high prosperity and good social services in Norway, many Norwegian children and young people live in vulnerable life situations. Many are also at risk of falling outside school and social communities. The Centre for Children and Young People and Social Preparedness bring togeth...

Awarded: NOK 30.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Doing cooperation: a co-study with Landsforeningen for barnevernsbarn and Sarpsborg to enhance support for vulnerable children and youth

Well-coordinated services are necessary to improve the situation for vulnerable children and youth. Research however shows that this often represents a challenge for the welfare services. The aim of this project is to investigate how child welfare services and other welfare services cooperate in ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo

INNO-OFF-INNO-OFF

Optimalisering av Back2School tiltaket for bruk i Norge

Dette prosjektet er et nasjonalt samarbeid mellom fire kunnskapssentre for barn og unges psykiske helse og barnevern (RKBU Midt-Norge, Vest, Nord og RBUP Øst Sør), fire universiteter (NTNU, UIB, UIS og UIT), to kommuner (Stjørdal og Bjørnafjord kommune) og en brukerorganisasjon (ADHD Norge). Inte...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Onboarding transitional housing as a center for collaboration in the mission of young inclusion (HOUSYOUNG)

HOUSYOUNG aims to generate new knowledge about municipal housing initiatives for young people transitioning from youth to adulthood. Despite the increasing number of children and young people in such housing in Norway, this field is under-researched. HOUSYOUNG is a collaboration between Norwegian...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

FORSKSYSTEM-UTD-FORSKSYSTEM-UTD

ARCTIC Youth: Research Centre for Children and Youth at Risk

The aim of the Arctic Youth Research Center is to create research that answers the positive question of what can be done to increase the well-being of children and youth. Children who grow up in families with scarce resources have a higher risk of experiencing a reduced quality of life, violence,...

Awarded: NOK 30.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

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