1,340 projects

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Supporting adaptive management of Chronic Wasting Disease

The outbreak of chronic wasting disease (CWD) among wild reindeer in Norway represents a major challenge for wildlife management. There is considerable uncertainty regarding the prevalence of the disease and the effects of different management measures. It is challenging to balance the need for e...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

NordForsk: Land use justice for green transitions

JUSTGREEN focuses on conflicts that often arise in relation to land use changes driven by the green transition. This project has developed a framework to strengthen and deepen the democratic processes of the green transition with the aim to reduce such land use conflicts. Renewable energy is a c...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

DRIP - DRought ending in Intensified Precipitation

This project aims to estimate the change in frequency and intensity of Droughts ending in Intensified Precipitation - DRIP events with global warming due to changes in the water cycle. These compound events can cause greater damage to infrastructure and crops than single droughts or heavy precipi...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Oslo

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Overshoot: Communicating the risks of exceeding and returning to a 1.5°C level of global warming

Effective communication is crucial in preparing researchers and policymakers for decisions related to global warming. As exceeding the 1.5°C threshold becomes inevitable, it's vital that all stakeholders understand the implications and act swiftly. The toolkit will explain the implications of ove...

Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Oslo

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Seminarer med internasjonale forskere om økonomi og klima ved Universitetet i Stavanger

Prosjektet går ut på å invitere forskere fra norske eller utenlandske universiteter til å presentere sin forskning om økonomi og klima ved Handelshøyskolen ved Universitetet i Stavanger (HHUiS). Dette skjer i form av et seminar som vanligvis finner sted en gang i uken. En kjent forsker fra et an...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Rogaland

MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

Det 38. møtet i Skandinavisk forening for pollineringsøkologi

SCAPE (Scandinavian Association for Pollination Ecology) er en årlig konferanse for forskere og studenter innen pollineringsøkologi. Det forventes deltagere fra særlig Skandinavia og resten av Europa. Men vi forventer også deltagelse fra andre deler av verden som Nord-Amerika og Asia. Konferansen...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Akershus

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Synthesizing fifteen years of research on climate change impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across a boreal landscape

Climate change impacts biodiversity and ecosystem functioning by altering plant, animal and microbial distributions, composition, and food webs, as well as affecting complex interactions and feedback between organisms and functional groups. Most climate change studies to date explore single focus...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Vestland

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Urban Resilience Symposium for Climate Transition: Bridging South-North Narratives on Land and Culture

Although climate change is a global problem, approaches towards urban resilience are varied and uncoordinated between the Global North and South. This gap in approaches therefore calls for urgent action-based, just transitional approaches to create resilient urban environments as outlined in the ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Naturmangfold og næringsliv – Verdiskapning og teknologiutvikling på naturens premisser – Hva skal til?

SINTEF i samarbeid med NINA ønsker å lage en arena og en åpen møteplass for å få til "veridiskapning og teknologiutvikling på naturens premisser". Dette er tredje året SINTEF i samarbeid med NINA arrangerer et symposium for naturmangfold og arealbruk. De første to årene har det vært fokus på inte...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

NFRF: Climate Change Adaptation, Dispossession and Displacement: Co-constructing Solutions with Coastal Vulnerable Groups in Africa and Asia

This project is funded through the International Joint Initiative for Research in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation from The New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF), Canada. This is a collaboration between eight funding agencies from Brazil, Canada, Germany, Norway, South Africa, Switzerland...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Mitigation and Adaptation in Cultural Heritage Landscapes: Lessons from Transhumant Pastoral Systems for Managing Novel Climate Risks

Cultural landscapes provide important ecosystem services, including experience-based knowledge on how to adapt to and limit negative effects of climate change. This is because the landscapes themselves are vulnerable to climate change and other negative impacts. By investigating transhumant pasto...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Akershus

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

MOMENTUM: Moment-Resisting Connections for Timber Constructions

The MOMENTUM project is a promising initiative that aims to extend the construction industry by introducing a new, efficient, versatile, and cost-effective connection for timber constructions. Driven by the urgent need for greener buildings, this groundbreaking connection developed by the Departm...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

NFRF- Co-developing Decision Support System for Coastal Mangrove-based Socio-ecological Systems in Eastern and Western Africa (CoastMan)

This project is funded through the International Joint Initiative for Research in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation from The New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF). Mangroves provide a wealth of benefits, including a wide range of ecosystem services, fostering biodiversity and carbon storag...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Akershus

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Synthesing the roles of High-latitude eRicaceous dwarf shrubs: Underappreciated Biodiversity, ecological functions and ecosystem Services

Ericaceous dwarf-shrubs are dominant in the boreal, alpine and arctic ecosystems of the Nothern hemisphere, including Norway, and they are strongly affected by global changes. Thanks to their high functional diversity, unique mycorrhiza associations and many plant-animal interactions, ericaceous ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Vestland

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Designing with/out Extractive Materials

Consumer society’s manufacturing industry has taken on such a massive scale and reach as to make it abundantly clear that designing as an activity and a profession has decisive impact on ecological systems both locally and globally. Designing entails crucial decisions on which and how much materi...

Awarded: NOK 9.7 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Oslo

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Harmonizing plant metabarcoding pipelines to support monitoring activities in the field of plants and their functional organismic networks

Plants are the driving force behind terrestrial ecosystems as autotrophs. Alarmingly, two out of five plant species are facing the threat of extinction, which may affect other organisms. Plant metabarcoding, which involves analyzing environmental DNA (eDNA) to identify taxa, can be standardized a...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

DEciphering temporal trends and safe operating spaces for river biodiversity within the context of multiple STRESSors (DESTRESS)

Human activities are putting pressure on rivers and streams—polluting them and altering their flow regimes. These changes threaten freshwater biodiversity. As a result, biodiversity in stream ecosystems is declining, although scientists still debate how widespread and severe the loss really is. I...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

sCENTsor - Ultra-sensitive and compact gas sensor

Sensitive trace gas detection at the parts-per-billion (ppb) level with high selectivity is critical in fields such as environmental monitoring, oil and gas, research, and aerospace. Today, this performance is achievable only with bulky and costly high-end sensors, restricting their use largely t...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Biocultural Heritage in Arctic Cities: Resource for Climate Adaptation?

Climate change is a serious challenge everywhere, but nowhere more visible than in the Arctic. Temperatures here are rising at twice the global average. Ice is melting, landscapes are shifting, and communities that have long depended on the cold face profound changes. Yet alongside these challeng...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Vestland

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Monitoring and mapping Fungal Diversity for nature conservation

Fungal diversity can be explored in many ways, including classic fruit body surveys, as well DNA-based analyses of environmental DNA (eDNA). These two approaches have run side by side for many years, but has to a limited extent been combined. Our overarching objective in FunDive is to bring the t...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Oslo

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Isotope-aided assessment and forecasting of hydroclimatic extremes in Scandinavia through stakeholder co-design

Floods and droughts have large consequences for society and economy in Scandinavia. Knowledge about if and how such extreme events are connected to snow on the ground is limited. This lack of knowledge imparts our ability to predict how much water will run through rivers and is stored in dams wit...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Vestland

FORNY20-FORNY2020

PhosBoard: High-end fibreboards produced with renewable resources and a low energy process.

PhosBoard is a new environmentally friendly low-density fibreboard developed from low-value residual materials from the wood industry. Novel component combinations and processing methods to produce PhosBoards with different attributes and potential applications will be explored in this project. C...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Akershus

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Winged ghosts wandering the oceans: the spatial ecology and conservation of the world’s smallest and elusive seabirds, the storm petrel

Storm petrels are excellent indicators of the marine ecosystem, but their small body size and secretive behaviour has made it almost impossible to study well. There is so little knowledge about these species. Few people have seen them, and they are associated with many myths. Hence, we have entit...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Towards a Transnational Acoustic Biodiversity MOnitoring Network

The "Towards a Transnational Acoustic Biodiversity Monitoring Network (TABMON)" project is a pioneering initiative aimed at enhancing biodiversity monitoring across Europe. It leverages innovative autonomous acoustic sensing technology to observe and analyze biodiversity, especially focusing on b...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Developing data management and analytical tools to integrate and advance professional and citizen science camera-trapping initiatives

Monitoring the development of the environment in the face of rapid global change requires massive amounts of data collected over large spatial scales. Processing these massive amounts of data requires the adoption of a wide range of digital tools because it is not possible to do this work manuall...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Innlandet

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

GINAMO: Genetic Indicators for Nature Monitoring

Context: Genetic diversity is the foundation of biodiversity and essential for long-term survival, adaptation, and resilience for populations, species, and ecosystems. While genetic diversity has long been neglected in biodiversity policy and management, the current Convention on Biological Diver...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Extraction and Aesthetics: Considering the past, present and future of mining on a local scale

Bakgrunn: I januar 2023 ble NorWhite en global snakkis. Fox News, New York Post og andre verdensledende medier fremstilte NorWhite-prosjektet både upresist og dels feilaktig. I norske medier oppsto en metadebatt om forskning og ideologi. Gjennom denne mediedekningen ble det tydelig for NorWhite-t...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Vestland

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Post Consumption Citizenship: Conditions for and practices of engagement in sustainable well-being.

Post-Consumption Citizenship: Conditions for and practices of engagement in sustainable well-being. As of September 2025, the PostCC project has been running for one and a half years and is scheduled for completion in spring 2027. This text begins by outlining the project’s themes, research quest...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

A scalable WILDlife monitoring system - integrating camera sampling and artificial INTELligence with Essential Biodiversity Variables

Accurate information on biodiversity is needed to address environmental problems. Technologies like remote cameras, image classification, citizen science, and machine learning can help monitor wildlife cost-effectively, but there are challenges like high costs for manual image review. The goal of...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Vestfold

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Mobilising, harmonising and incentivising forest biodiversity and environmental monitoring data through Web 3.0 technology.

Forests are vital for sustaining life on earth. They harbour the majority of terrestrial biodiversity and play a major role in buffering climate change impacts. Protection of forests and assessment and monitoring of biodiversity are therefore extremely important for mitigating the dual climate an...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage