222 projects

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Centre for Quantum Communication Networks and Applications

Digital communication underpins modern society, from government and healthcare to finance and national security. Emerging quantum technologies are set to transform how we communicate and process information. While large-scale quantum computers are likely to make today’s cryptographic mechanisms v...

Awarded: NOK 61.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Vestland

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Centre for Quantum Computing and Applications

The Centre for Quantum Computing and Applications (QSTAR) will strengthen Norway’s role in the global development of quantum computing. Quantum computers have the potential to solve problems that are impossible for today’s computers, but significant scientific challenges must be overcome before t...

Awarded: NOK 61.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Secure energy systems for a renewable future

The power sector is the backbone of modern Norwegian society and supports almost all critical functions, including healthcare, transport, communications and national defence. Today, this critical infrastructure faces increasing threats; cyberattacks, sabotage and intelligence operations. This cre...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Centre for Defects in Semiconductors for Quantum Sensing

The Centre for Defects in Semiconductors for Quantum Sensing (DSQS) explores the idea that tiny imperfections in crystals can enable novel sensing capabilities. These imperfections, known as color centers or quantum defects, can emit single photons and host quantum spins that can be extremely sen...

Awarded: NOK 61.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Practical Encrypted Machine Learning

Whenever you enter a prompt into one of the big AI services, the company owning the machine learning models can see your input. This prevents the use of such services if your data is confidential and must not be shared outside your own organisation. The PREMAL project aims to solve this problem u...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

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A dual use platform for AI driven protein design

AICAP is an extension of “MindTech,” a project funded by NFR TEKNOKONVERGENS that combines artificial intelligence and experimental validation to develop novel gene-based therapeutic proteins for brain disease, with a particular focus on overcoming the challenge of delivering genes across the blo...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

Smart antenna systems and edge processing for ship surveillance and interference monitoring from GNSS-R equipped microsatellites

Can we exploit the energy reflected from navigation signals that hit the Earth and the ocean to detect ships? This is one of the research questions in the project. The concept is called GNSS reflectometry (GNSS R), and it makes use of the illumination provided by all navigation satellites orbitin...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

High-resilience military edge AI and heterogeneous networking for command and control

The HERMES project aims to improve how we stay connected in the world's most difficult environments, such as military operations, search and rescue missions, and disaster relief zones. In these high-stakes scenarios, traditional communication systems often fail because they rely on fixed infrastr...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Artificial intelligence-guided point-of-care ultrasound for combat casuality care 2.0 - AI POCUS CCC 2.0

Modern medicine is characterized by the transportation of patients over long distances to access specialized units. New technology, in the form of handheld ultrasound devices combined with artificial intelligence (AI)–based guidance, lowers the threshold for moving diagnostic services to rural ar...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Intelligent Decision Support for Underwater Infrastructure Monitoring towards Higher Societal Security & REsilience

Beneath the ocean surface lies an invisible network of submarine cables and pipelines that power our lives. They carry electricity, data, and communication signals, connecting continents, enabling global trade, and supporting modern society. Yet these underwater lifelines are increasingly vulnera...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

An End-to-End Maritime Threat Detection System for Real-Time Object Recognition, Reasoning, and Response

Coastal surveillance is becoming more difficult as threats at sea grow more complex. Traditional systems often fail to detect when small vessels act together in deceptive or suspicious ways. This is especially true when sensor data is unclear or incomplete. Based on our research from previous Eur...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestfold

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International Conference on Digital Sovereignty

The International Conference on Digital Sovereignty (ICDS) addresses critical challenges in emerging technologies by exploring how digital sovereignty can foster trust, resilience, and autonomy in advanced digital ecosystems. The ICDS, established in 2024, focuses on technologies such as AI, data...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Akershus

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Understanding and Countering the Advance of AI-enabled Digital Authoritarianism in Asia

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming societies across the world. In Asia, these changes bring opportunities—but also serious risks. While AI can improve public services and support development, it can also be misused to monitor citizens, spread false information, and weaken democracy. Thi...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Reinforce silicon integrated quantum emitter strain detection

The ReSiQ project addresses how an emerging quantum sensing platform can be adapted to solve concrete defence-sector challenges, particularly underwater situational awareness and navigation when Global Navigation Satelite Systems (GNSS) is unavailable. It builds directly on the ongoing SiQUEST pr...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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AI Centre for the Empowerment of Human Learning

AI LEARN, the AI Centre for the Empowerment of Human Learning, is a national research centre dedicated to the empowerment of human learning through responsible, human-centred artificial intelligence. In today's world, where AI systems are reshaping how we learn, work, and participate in democracy...

Awarded: NOK 200.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2030

Location: Vestland

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Forskerpool Norsk Regnesentral (NR) on Threshold Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) schemes provide an ideal way to compute privacy-sensitive data such as biometrics and medical records in an encrypted domain. However, generating, distributing, and revoking private keys managed by users remains a persistent challenge; without a proper solution,...

Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Norwegian Centre for Embodied AI (NCEI)

Humanity has long envisioned a future in which autonomous robots can reason about their environment and take actions to serve our collective societal needs. Embodied AI represents the science that enables us to design artificial bodies and brains that can seamlessly integrate into our world, demo...

Awarded: NOK 200.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Inertial stabilization of robotic mechanism end-effector subject to coupling effects with the base dynamics.

Imagine you’re trying to hold the light beam of a large spotlight perfectly still while standing on the roof of a moving bus. Even if your hands are rock-steady, every jolt of the bus will shake the light beam. To keep the beam perfectly still you have to counteract the jolts of the bus. If you a...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Buskerud

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

Explosive legacy: Examining, preserving and communicating the contested industrial heritage of ammunition production in Raufoss

How should a society relate to an industry that manufactures weapons – products made for war? This is the starting point for the EXLEGACY research project, a collaboration between NTNU, Mjøsmuseet and Vestre Toten municipality. Raufoss has long been a centre for the Norwegian arms industry, and ...

Awarded: NOK 5.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NANOTEKNOLOGI-NANOTEKNOLOGI

Space Hackathons Oslo & Andøya

Vi ønsker å gjennomføre to ulike Hackathons for å fremme rominnovasjon, samarbeid og rekruttere til en bransje i sterk vekst. Et hackathon er en tidsbegrenset ideutviklingsworkshop og et verktøy for å fremme innovasjon gjennom tverrfaglig samarbeid. Vi ønkser nå å samle unge mennesker fra hele la...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Sikkerhet og Robusthet i Kunstig Intelligens

We live in a world where Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly accessible and more deeply integrated into our daily lives — from apps and automated work processes to advanced data processing. But as the technology evolves and is adopted, new types of security challenges and vulner...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Personellsikring og tiltak for å forebygge og avdekke innsiderisiko

Insiders are individuals who exploit otherwise legitimate access to a company's assets for serious unauthorised purposes. The aim of this project is to study how Equinor can effectively prevent and detect insider activities, as well as how the company can create a holistic system for personnel se...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Rogaland

BIOTEKNOLOGI-BIOTEKNOLOGI

9th International Symposium for Geotechnical Safety and Risk (ISGSR2025)

NGI, in collaboration with OsloMet, will organize the 9th International Symposium for Geotechnical Safety and Risk (ISGSR 2025), a highly successful biennial series of international conferences supported by the Geotechnical Safety Network (GEOSNet, https://www.geoengineer.org/geosnet/), ISSMGE T...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

HyLight – multifunctional camera for UAVs

The Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) has been working on hyperspectral imaging for several years. This technology goes beyond regular color vision by dividing light into hundreds of wavelengths, providing a detailed "color fingerprint" of materials. This makes it possible to detect ...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Akershus

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 - Oslove

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

PKC 2025: The International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography

PKC 2025 er en akademisk konferanse som arrangeres i samarbeid av NTNU og IACR med fokus på teoretiske og praktiske anvendelser av offentlig-nøkkel kryptografi. Konferansen arrangeres på Røros fra 12. til 15. mai 2025, og vil ta for seg 60 akademiske presentasjoner innen dette fagfeltet. Konferan...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Simula Seminar: Securing Critical Digital National Infrastructure

In this seminar, Simula brings together participants from research as well as practitioners from industry and the public sector in the field of security and critical infrastructure. This event is motivated by the report by the Lysne III-comission on national control of digital infrastructure (E...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove