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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

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

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

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

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Pathogenic Vibrio spp. in Norway applying a One Health approach: current and future challenges

As our oceans heat up due to climate change, new risks are emerging to public health. One such risk is Vibrio bacteria—naturally found in marine environments, but capable of causing serious illness in humans. These bacteria can enter the body through open wounds in seawater or by eating raw seafo...

Awarded: NOK 12.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Adapting to climate risks via landscape-scale solutions: effects of peatland restoration on floods and water browning (ANTIPASTI)

Natural hazards like river floods and water browning caused by organic matter washed into aquatic environments are becoming more intense because of climate change. These changes threaten lives and properties, drinking water and ecosystems and local communities. Nature-based solutions such as pea...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Methods of resilience: examining the extent of driftwood exploitation on the west coast of Norway (INCIPIT-CSIC research stay)

The project explores a novel approach combining anatomical wood identification and microscopic analysis of fungal decay patterns, to establish an effective method for identifying driftwood in the archaeological record. The study focuses on the Viking Age and medieval period (c. 790-1450 CE), dete...

Awarded: NOK 85,999

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Rogaland

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Building resilience through urban agriculture and foraging: individual, collective and public preparedness

How can we strengthen societal preparedness through urban agriculture and foraging? This is the overarching question that the BestPrepared project seeks to answer. Urban agriculture can build social cohesion among participants and, over shorter periods, also contribute to food security in cities,...

Awarded: NOK 9.8 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Akershus

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Formal Techniques for Self-Adaptive Workflow Models

This project aims to contribute to the development of formal techniques to enable self-adaptive workflow models by automating the arrangement of task scheduling and resource allocation. We are targeting on workflows that span across organisations and are connected through dependent workflow task...

Awarded: NOK 82,999

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

NorMoSTFun Postdoc abroad stay at the Aquatic Microbial Interactions Group, University of Turku (UTU)

Aquatic fungi (AF) are important parts of biodiversity in freshwater and marine ecosystems and occupy ecosystem functions as decomposers, parasites and pathogens. In this way AF interacts and control animal and plant populations and affect carbon and nutrient cycling, and as a source of nutrients...

Awarded: NOK 0.87 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Transformative Peatland Governance - Exploring Pathways Towards Sustainable Peatland Land Use (PEATGOV)

In the PhD project, the candidate aims to investigate pathways toward transformative governance for the sustainable land use of peatlands. These carbon-rich ecosystems are at the center of conflicting goals in land use planning and sustainable development targets. Balancing the need for renewable...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Research stay at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po)

While repair is increasingly invoked as a central part of the solution to the environmental and material crisis, it remains marginal in practice. Over the past two years, I have followed what happens when circular economy (CE) ideals are translated into everyday efforts to extend the lives of ele...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Forest Opportunities, Risks and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate in Norway

Climate change is increasing the risk of drought, bark beetle outbreaks, windthrow, and snow damage in Norwegian forests. FORESIGHT will help us understand how these disturbances interact, and provide forest managers with practical tools to protect forest health and resilience across the 21st cen...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

FORSKNINGSINFRA-FORSKNINGSINFRA

NcNeutron-2 Norwegian Center for Neutron Research - phase 2

Neutron tools are invaluable for a large number of research topics in contemporary science and technology, by contributing to scientific discoveries, create new technology and addressing the greatest challenges of our society. Neutron-based techniques are essential to gain insight into the struct...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

Into the Fjords: Blue Museums as Arenas of Learning about Vulnerable Ecosystems

The project’s overarching aim is to equip museums with research-based knowledge to function as arenas of learning about vulnerable ecosystems in general and development of ocean literacy in particular. We define “blue” as the approach of seeing the world from an ocean-centred instead of terrestri...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Rogaland

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Sjøfjær som indikatororganisme for miljøpåvirking i norske fjorder – kunnskapsgrunnlag for tjenester rettet mot marin næring og forvaltning

The main purpose of the project is to build expertise on sea pens in Norwegian fjords and on their vulnerability to environmental impact in the form of oxygen deficiency and sedimentation. Sea pens are corals that live on marine soft bottoms. They can form sea pen communities, an important habita...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Møre og Romsdal

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Revealing ghost habitat loss: extent and dynamics of unmapped global habitat destruction from human land use (HABLOSS)

Every year, satellite images reveal vast areas of nature lost to farming, forestry, and urban development. But many habitat losses remain invisible—too small to show up on conventional maps. These “ghost” losses include narrow roads, scattered or small housing developments, and small farms—each s...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Strengthening national preparedness through local food systems (FOODprepared)

FoodPrepared explores how strengthening local food systems can improve Norway's food security and preparedness in the face of climate change, pandemics, and geopolitical tensions. We examine how communities can become more resilient to future crises through sustainable food production and consum...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

INFRAPOLITICS: Strengthening Critical Infrastructure Governance for Resilience and Security

INFRAPOL will explore how critical infrastructure – such as ports, data centers, subsea cables, and oil and gas pipelines – should be governed. Critical infrastructure is subject to complex political and economic pressures, often involving cross-border ownership interests. Public and private acto...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

INDICAVE: Synthesizing the Norwegian record of caves and rockshelters as an indicator-grid to reconstruct Holocene-wide Human Ecodynamics

Who were the cave dwellers? Understanding their lives and deaths is crucial for grasping how humans and the environment evolved during the Holocene period in Northern Europe. Caves and rockshelters along Norway's coast are perfect for studying this, as they were used as living spaces, for rituals...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Nano-MAP: Nanoplastic Monitoring for Risk Management in Aquaculture, Environment and Public Health

Plastic pollution is one of the greatest environmental challenges of our time. The tiniest plastic particles—micro- and nanoplastics—are now found in water, food, and even inside the human body. Research shows that they can cause inflammation, damage blood cells, and disrupt the gut microbiome. Y...

Awarded: NOK 12.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

PEDAID3 - Positive Energy District supported by AI and Data-Driven-Decisions

The PEDAID3 project - Positive Energy District supported by AI and Data-Driven Decisions, aims to enhance European cities shifting towards climate neutrality by making urban energy systems smarter, more efficient, and people-centered. The project develops new digital tools that use artificial int...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

STREET-15: School-Driven Transformation for Resilient, Engaged and Equitable Youth-Centric 15-Minute Neighbourhoods

What would our neighbourhood look like if children, parents, and neighbours designed their streets together? Can our streets and neighbourhoods become a place for everyone, from ages 8 to 80, to meet, play, and move, while reducing traffic and pollution? Right now, too many children face unsafe c...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

NATURE THRIVES - NATURE-based urban water Transitions for Healthy, Resilient, InclusiVE regional Scapes

Urban water systems face growing challenges from climate change, rapid urbanization, and aging infrastructure. To ensure cities remain livable and resilient, we must rethink how we manage water. The NATURE THRIVES project explores how Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) - like green roofs, rain gardens,...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

MicroMReg Pedestrian-Friendly Urban Spaces through Adaptive Micromobility Regulation

Cities were never built for electric scooters. Yet, in just a few years, e-scooters and other micromobility vehicles have flooded the streets, promising cleaner air, less traffic and faster ways to get around. And they do deliver - when things go well. But as anyone who’s walked through a busy pe...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Reviving reservoirs: creating biodiversity hotspots in aquatic deserts (REBIRTH)

Hydropower is a cornerstone of renewable energy—especially in Norway, where it supplies around 90% of the country’s electricity. However, hydropower reservoir operations cause dramatic water level fluctuations, which severely disrupt shoreline ecosystems. These fluctuations create drawdown zones,...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Nature-Integrated Norwegian energy system transition - Opportunities, Trade-offs and Strategies

Harmony is about identifying political feasible solutions that ensures that the Norwegian energy transition jointly minimize climate gas emissions and undesired nature impacts. Cutting greenhouse gas emissions is crucial to limiting the impacts of climate change. But there is a challenge. The ...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

MERMAID: Microbial Environmental Risk Management and Assessment of bIofouling Dispersal during in-water cleaning of international ships.

Biofouling is the accumulation of aquatic organisms, including micro- and macroorganisms, on submerged surfaces. While this phenomenon enhances biodiversity, it also presents significant challenges for maritime activities, particularly concerning the unintentional transport of non-indigenous spec...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Community-Centered Modeling of Housing Related Health Disparities

Climate change affects us all, but not equally. People who are already marginalized, such as low-income communities, the elderly, and those with pre-existing health conditions, are more vulnerable to extreme weather events like heatwaves, storms, and flooding. One key factor influencing this vuln...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Vestland

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Fate and Effects of Perfluoroalkyl Substances and Their Precursors and Alternatives in Norwegian Marine Environments and Seafood Species

The research planned during this stay will combine advanced analytical chemistry and ecotoxicological approaches to identify and characterize previously unknown PFAS-related compounds, particularly from aqueous film-forming foams (AFFF). Structural elucidation of isolated fractions will be perfor...

Awarded: NOK 0.23 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Vestland

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