10,619 projects

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COMAP: Mapping the teenage universe with carbon monoxide

Since the discovery of the cosmic microwave background in 1965, modern cosmology has been an uninterrupted success story of one ground-breaking experiment after the other that have revolutionized our understanding of the physics of the Universe, from the hot Big Bang to dark energy and black hole...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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MultiSCORE: Multi-Scale structure of the coronal environment

The solar corona, the outermost layer of the solar atmosphere, is responsible for some of the most energetic space weather events, which can disrupt technology and communication systems on Earth. The structure of the corona spans a vast range of scales, which makes it difficult to capture its co...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Machine Learning in Real World (MLReal)

Machine learning (ML) has transformed our world with technologies such as cancer detection in medical diagnostics, generative AI that creates text, images, videos, and music, and self-driving cars. Our current ML algorithms struggle with the challenges in the real world. They are mainly designed ...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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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 - Oslove

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Statistical Methods for Online Detection of Anomalies

The primary objective of this project is to develop groundbreaking statistical and machine learning methods for real-time anomaly detection. Additionally, the project aims to pioneer novel applications of these algorithms, including monitoring AI systems for anomalous behavior. Anomaly detectio...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Integer Factorization and Related Cryptographical Problems

In a world increasingly reliant on digital communication, the security of our data hinges on mathematical problems that are surprisingly hard to solve. One of the most important is integer factorization—the task of breaking large numbers into their prime divisors. Factorization is the process of...

Awarded: NOK 9.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Vestland

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Reproductive Interfaces: Politics, Power, and Patient Care in Second Trimester Abortion in a Scandinavian welfare state

The Reproductive Interfaces project explores how reproductive governance operates in Scandinavia, focusing on the regulation and experience of second-trimester abortions in Norway. Through ethnographic research, the project examines how national policies, decision-makers, and the lived experience...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Vestland

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Validating fatty acid synthesis enzymes as targets for antibiotics against Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other Gram-negative bacteria.

Antibiotic resistance is becoming a serious global health threat. As bacteria evolve to resist our current medicines, infections that were once easy to treat are becoming deadly again. The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified a list of dangerous bacteria where we urgently need new antib...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Vestland

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HAIRY: Equilibrium, dynamics and flow control of droplets on soft hairy surfaces and channels

Hairy surfaces can be found on plants leaves, in the lining of blood capillaries and in a wide range of engineering processes. Common to all these surfaces is that they often interact with soft interfaces. In this project, we will discover the movement pattern of droplets on hairy surfaces and ho...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Meat replacement and systems of edibility in Asia and beyond

Alternative proteins can replace meat. Given that meat-intensive diets have significant health, environmental, climate and animal welfare impacts, this idea is generating hype, optimism and substantial investment. Whether involving insects, plants, lab-grown meat or other ingredients, alternative...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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A New Approach to Supply Chain Capitalism and Emerging Infectious Diseases

CAPIDEMIC explores the political dimensions of transnational supply chains and how they respond to sustainability challenges brought on by emerging infectious diseases (EIDs). Our research is centered on the poultry industry, which is currently under threat from the global spread of highly pathog...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Multiplicative Analysis

A prime number is a positive integer that is divisible only by 1 and itself: the first five prime numbers are 2, 3, 5, 7, and 11. The prime numbers are the building blocks needed to construct the other positive integers using multiplication. In the same way that a water molecule consists of two h...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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What makes “Flickering Gamma-ray Flashes” Flicker ?

In the project we want to uncover the hidden secrets of thunderstorms by studying mysterious, flickering bursts of high-energy radiation—what we call Flickering Gamma-ray Flashes. These flashes are brief, lasting only tens of milliseconds, yet they reveal surprising energetic processes occurring ...

Awarded: NOK 11.7 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Vestland

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Dragon Kings in the Molecular Realm: Accelerated Sampling of Chemical Outliers

As if seen by a powerful microscope, Molecular Dynamics (MD) is a computational simulation method that enable molecular insight into the dynamics of complex systems. Encapsulating a broad range of fields like biomolecular, chemical and physical sciences, MD simulations has become a commonplace bu...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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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 - Oslove

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Mechanisms of Help and Suppression Shaping Germinal Center B Cell Quality

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted a fundamental vulnerability in human health: our inability to consistently generate durable immunity against rapidly mutating pathogens like SARS-CoV-2, HIV, and Influenza. The solution to this biological bottleneck resides within the Germinal Center, a specializ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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DERISK: How firms navigate de-risking regimes

The global economic paradigm in the West is undergoing a significant shift from a focus on integration and prosperity to one centered on economic security and risk management. This change is driven by concerns that economic interdependence can lead to vulnerabilities and coercive power dynamics. ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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The Great Oxygenation Event and Planetary Habitability

Oxygenation of the atmosphere and upper layers of the oceans during the early Paleoproterozoic (2.5-2.0 billion years ago) is named the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE). GOE defines one of the most important positive tipping points in Earth's history in terms of planetary habitability and paved the ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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EUI - Evolving Identities and Expanding Feminist Networks: The IFBPW and Its Influence on Nordic Politics and Economic Gender Equality.

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Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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Superconducting orbitronics in hybrid systems

Quantum mechanics was initially developed to understand the laws of nature at the scale of single particles. However, it turned out to also provide a very accurate description of the behavior of bulk materials: intriguing phenomena such as superconductivity and magnetism have a fully quantum-mech...

Awarded: NOK 8.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Unconventional Thermoelectric Quantum Transport in Novel 2D Magnetic Heterostructures

Imagine a future where your smartphone is more powerful, faster, and energy-efficient than anything we know today. How? Through a revolutionary field of physics called two-dimensional (2D) Quantum Spintronics. This cutting-edge research could transform the way we store, process, and communicate d...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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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 7.1 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Flexible Superconducting Spintronics: Geometric control of low-dissipation, long-distance information processing

We will examine how some materials’ ability to conduct currents without heat loss (superconductivity) combines with other materials. Specifically, we will explore the role of geometry and strain/torsion, and how these can be used to generate and control signals that can be used for computation. I...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Symmetries of derived module categories via higher tau-tilting- and almost T-Koszul theory

Derived module categories are central mathematical objects since they can appear in many seemingly quite different fields of pure mathematics. Indeed, a given derived module category can sometimes be seen to be essentially the same as a very different kind of category arising in e.g. commutative ...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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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 - Oslove

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Tuneable and Earth Abundant Solid-State Electrolytes for Li-ion Batteries

Rechargeable Li-ion batteries are becoming increasingly necessary in modern society, present in portable electronics, electric vehicles, in addition to paving the way for a fully renewable energy grid. A typical Li-ion battery consists of positive (cathode) and negative (anode) electrodes separat...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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From Extremal Combinatorics to Algorithms and Back

This project bridges two foundational fields in computer science and mathematics: Theory of Algorithms and Extremal Combinatorics. Algorithms are the cornerstone of modern computing, providing precise, step-by-step methods to solve complex problems efficiently. Extremal Combinatorics, a classical...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Vestland

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Senter for norsk fagspråk i bruk

How can humans and machines become better at using Norwegian as an academic and specialized language? What are the conditions for using Norwegian specialized language in an international academic context? How is Norwegian academic and specialized language applied in teaching materials, in adminis...

Awarded: NOK 40.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2033

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Photonic integrated ultra-broadband nonlinear optical amplifiers and quantum light sources

The PHOTONS project focuses on developing photonic integrated circuits that guide light instead of electronic circuits on minituarized semiconductor chips. Using emerging thin-film ferroelectric materials like lithium niobate (LN) and lithium tantalate (LT) and advanced optical integration method...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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On the Technological (Im)Possibility to Enforce Data Protection Laws

GDPR has been characterized as “the toughest privacy and security law in the world”. However, practice shows that enforcing GDPR is challenging. The demand for its lifelong enforcement on personal data is particularly strong: GDPR should “travel with the data”, and thus, follow the data as it is ...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa