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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

Discovering vulnerabilities in colorectal cancer by measuring double stranded RNA

Only a small part of DNA is transcribed and converted into functioning molecules, or in other words, expressed. Healthy cells tightly control which regions are expressed, however, cancer cells lose this regulatory control to allow uncontrolled cell growth. Interestingly, loss of regulatory contro...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FINANSMARKED-FINANSMARKED

Enhancing Norway’s Financial Market through Improved Regulation of Covered Bonds and Mortgage Securitisation

Covered Bonds have become a key source of funding for Norwegian banks. While such bonds have long traditions in countries like Denmark and Germany, Norwegian regulation only emerged in 2002, with improvements in 2007. The regulatory framework has enabled Norwegian financial institutions to raise ...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

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

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

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

WP2 – Energy System modelling and Socioeconomic models

This work package will focus on addressing the complementarity aspects of using bottom-up technology-rich energy system modelling approaches in tandem with macro-economic analysis with CGE modelling. Namely, we will utilize results and data from the IFE-TIMES-Norway model, using socio-technical t...

Awarded: Hidden

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Akershus

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

The Nordic Energy Systems Programme - WP 2 – Energy System modelling and Socioeconomic models

This project addresses the Nordic region’s fossil-free transition by developing an advanced modelling framework that links the energy system model GENeSYS-MOD with the macroeconomic model REMES-EU. Traditionally, energy models assume fixed demand, limiting insight into economic feedbacks. By maki...

Awarded: Hidden

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Technological Change, Labor Representation, and Job Quality: A Comparative Historical Analysis, c. 1830–1980

TECHLABOR investigates how new technologies have changed the quality of jobs. Job quality includes aspects of work that affect wellbeing such as work intensity, safety on the job, and working hours as well as wages. Improving the quality of jobs is a global policy commitment, but early research o...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

HotSpot: Stress-induced mutations in evolution

Climate change is exposing plants, animals, and other organisms to stress such as heat and drought more frequently. Recent research suggests that such stress can influence the probability of certain mutations arising along the DNA sequence, but the biological consequences of these mutations remai...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Multiphase flow in downward-inclined pipelines

Pipeline networks on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) are highly complex, including downward sections, undulating risers, and other non-standard geometries. These complexities strongly affect flow regimes, phase transitions, liquid accumulation, and overall pipeline performance. Despite thei...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Akershus

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Nature-Based Adaptation Targeting Urban Resilience and Economic Efficiency

Climate change will lead to more frequent and intense urban flooding and stormwater challenges in Norwegian municipalities. If no action is taken, these events will cause escalating damage costs to infrastructure, buildings, and public services. Managing these growing risks is a major challenge f...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2032

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

BRAIGED: Building Responsible AI for Global Education – Towards Explainable AI for Chronic Kidney Disease Diagnosis Utilizing Scintigraphy

Doctors of the future will work with artificial intelligence (AI) just like pilots work with autopilot, useful, but only when understood and monitored by a trained human. Modern medicine produces a huge amount of information, scans, lab results, doctor’s notes, and medical students can feel empow...

Awarded: NOK 9.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Buskerud

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Harnessing innovative sustainable oil alternatives to traditional fish oil, ensuring uncompromised salmon health and fillet quality

Norway is a world leader in salmon farming but faces a major challenge: How can we ensure good fish health and high fillet quality without traditional fish oil? This is the goal of the InnoOil project. Fish oil has long been a key ingredient in salmon feed because it contains the omega-3 fatty ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

IMMERSE - Immersed in the museum experience: Underlying mechanisms and the influence of the social experiencescape

What happens when you lose track of time in a museum? When you become so absorbed in a story, a room, or an encounter with an object that you no longer feel like just a visitor? This feeling of being completely immersed lies at the heart of the IMMERSE project. Museums around the world seek to cr...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Rogaland

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

NANOTEKNOLOGI-NANOTEKNOLOGI

COOLCATCH: Advancing materials for energy- efficient cryogenic refrigeration

Cooling to extremely low temperatures – needed to liquefy hydrogen for environmentally friendly aviation at -252 °C and to reduce noise in quantum computers near -272 °C – is a major technological challenge. Traditional mechanical coolers – the same basic technology used in household refrigerator...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Green Industry and Land-use Governance: Interests, Power and Institutions

IndustryLand examines the relationships between industry, climate and land-use politics and policies in Europe. As the green transition intensifies pressure on scarce nature areas, the project will examine how evolving policies to promote green industries in the EU and Norway integrate land-use r...

Awarded: NOK 10.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

NANOTEKNOLOGI-NANOTEKNOLOGI

Selective Oxygen Carriers with Catalytic Function for Sustainable Ethylene: Innovating Redox Chemistry in Methane Conversion

SOCCER: A Game-Changer for Clean Ethylene Production The SOCCER project aims to revolutionize production of ethylene—a key building block in plastics—by turning methane into ethylene in a cleaner, more energy-efficient way. The aim: Reactor designs that achieve over 80% ethylene selectivity and m...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Cumulative effects of climate change and pollution - How climate region and local habitat shape biological responses and recovery

Global warming and pollution are major threats to nature and a sustainable future. In SoilStress we aim to understand the mechanisms underlying the combined effects of climate change and pollution on soil animals. The main questions are: •Why do populations react differently to pesticides and te...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Knowledge Integration in Teacher Education through Technology-Enhanced Simulation (KITES)

KITES is a research project that explores how advanced technologies such as virtual reality, 360-degree video, and artificial intelligence can support student teachers in integrating various knowledge sources to make professional decisions. Becoming a good teacher requires more than subject exper...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Østfold

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Co-developing an Evidence-Based Framework for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Physical Education Teacher Education

EquiPETE examines how teacher education and physical education can become more inclusive, giving all pupils opportunities to experience learning, mastery, belonging and joy. How can physical education teachers create learning environments where all pupils feel included and have equitable opport...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Asian Diffusion: China’s Governance Promotion and Vietnamese Adaptation (ADAPT)

China increasingly promotes its domestic development success as an example for others. How do these ideas travel, and how are they received in other countries? While most research on international diffusion has focused on how liberal democracies promote governance abroad, ADAPT explores how gover...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Resilience of polar ecosystems to the cumulative effects of physical and biological changes in Norway’s high Arctic (ROPES)

The Arctic is changing quickly, and Svalbard’s fjords are among the places where these changes are most visible. Warmer Atlantic water is reaching farther north, sea ice is disappearing, and new fish species such as cod and haddock are becoming more common. At the same time, the small polar cod, ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

MatSci-LLM: Accelerating Materials Science Research with Large Language Models

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in scientific discoveries, particularly in the natural sciences. These generative AI models, trained on vast amounts of web-crawled data, can process and analyze large volumes of scientific literature, enabling researchers to uncover novel insigh...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

Smart Precision for Quantum Resilience

Quantum computers promise breakthroughs in medicine discovery, climate-smart cities, and secure communications. But today’s machines are fragile: qubits are noisy, computations are short-lived, and reliable results often demand more hardware than we have. SPQR—Smart Precision for Quantum Resilien...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Copepod based Feeds for Improved Salmon Health and aquaculture sustainability

Norway is the world’s largest producer of Atlantic salmon (salmon from here on), but the industry faces major challenges with fish health and welfare, both in land-based and seawater phases, leading to high mortalities. Farmed salmon often have poor resistance to stress and disease, resulting in ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Innovative Technologies for Monitoring Levels of Nitrosamines and Nitramines in Air and Water Near Amine-Based CO2 Capture Facilities

TechNAM is developing new technologies to verify that capturing CO2 from industrial processes does not contaminate the ambient air and nearby drinking water sources. The goal is to meet the safety standards set by the Norwegian Institute for Public Health (NIPH). A key concern is the possible for...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Deciphering the crosstalk between autophagy and metabolic rewiring in cancer

Autophagy is a process that recycles damaged cellular components, helping cells survive stress. The role of autophagy in cancer is complicated: autophagy can stop early tumors from forming, but it can also help established cancer cells survive low oxygen, lack of nutrients, or treatment. A specif...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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