308 projects

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

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

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Punishment as a Vehicle for Change? The Causal Impact of Norwegian Corrections on Reoffending and Reintegration in Norway and Beyond

The main goal of the NoReoffend project is to advance scientific knowledge on the intended and unintended consequences of punishment. More specifically, we will explore what happens to the continued offending, labor market attachment and family situation of people who serve different sentences or...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo

HELSEFORSKNING-Helseforskning

Tailored Exercise Interventions for Dementia Prevention: bridging research evidence and primary care practice.

Dementia is a major cause of disability worldwide. The TEIDe project aims to prevent dementia by combining the following different approaches I) Predictive Medicine; At present models to predict dementia risk are based on factors like sociodemographic, cognitive, imaging, biomedical, and genetic ...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SIKKERHET-SIKKERHET

Protecting child rights and public safety: Premises for the integration of childs best interest and crime prevention

To an increasing degree, children engage in serious violent crimes that are perceived as threats to public safety, including violent extremism, and terrorism. A core problem for the Nordic welfare states is how to provide public safety and prevent crime and social exclusion, and at the same time ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2030

Location: Vestland

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Framing Reading Across Mediums (FRAME)

For centuries, reading meant flipping through printed books, newspapers, and magazines. But now, many of us read on laptops, tablets, and smartphones, or even listen to books being read aloud. While billions of people are adapting to this new way of reading, we still know very little about how it...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

SELFICON - Self-regulation In Context

Researchers in the SELFICON project will investigate factors that influence first graders' self-regulation. Today's children face an increasingly unpredictable future. Globalization, technological advances, and artificial intelligence will drive change at a pace never seen before. To navigate th...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Rogaland

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Improving social work environments on board: Antecedents and consequences of psychological safety and social support on Norwegian vessels

Over the last decade, there has been an increasing focus on improving the working conditions and the health and safety of crews on commercial fishing, cargo and passenger vessels, both in Norway and globally. To achieve these goals, creating a good social work environment on board is essential. T...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

SIKKERHET-SIKKERHET

Ethical Risk Management for AI-enabled Weapons: A Systems Approach (ERM)

There has been a steep increase in the reliance on AI tools for warfighting, fueling a push for weapon systems to perform more tasks without direct human intervention. This shift in the way wars are fought have rightly led to a range of ethical worries around the use of AI for life-or-death dec...

Awarded: NOK 11.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Improving causal inference for individual working life trajectories from registry data: studying interventions, estimands and heterogeneity

Interventions that facilitate a well-functioning, inclusive and adaptive working life, with high employment and reduced absence from work, is of high priority for employers and policymakers. In Norway, one such major intervention is the Agreement for a more inclusive working life (the IA agreemen...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo

SIKKERHET-SIKKERHET

Earth to Orbit - Building Bridges in Space Governance

DISCOVER: "Space - Our New Crowded Frontier" In an era where satellites connect us, track storms, guide ships and cars, and even aid in wars, space has become essential for life on Earth. The DISCOVER project is exploring how to keep this crowded frontier safe and cooperative, amidst growing r...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Temp Agency Work: Worker Welfare, Organization and Efficiency (TEMPO)

Temp agency work constitutes a small, but growing, part of the labor market in Norway, as in similar economies in the OECD. After the 2004 enlargement of the European Union, admitting several Eastern European countries, labor immigrants have contributed to increasing temp agency employment, which...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Oslo

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Ensuring a Competent and sustainable workforce of Midwives in Norway

Ensuring a well-educated, clinically competent, adequately resourced, and sustainable midwifery workforce is crucial for delivering high-quality care to women in maternity care. However, the serious shortage of midwives, globally and in Norway, currently inhibits midwives’ efforts to promote safe...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2030

Location: Vestland

SIKKERHET-SIKKERHET

Beredt! - Scalable Services & Risk-Based Governance for Climate-Driven Natural Hazards in Norway

Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of floods, landslides, and avalanches. This is placing increased strain on agencies responsible for preparedness and response in Norway. The Beredt! project will address this by developing solutions that enhance local preparedness and trans...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Oslo

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Discretionary suitability assessments in higher education

Judgements based on sets of criteria constitute an intrinsic part of higher education. They are particularly prevalent in academic assessment, where students' performances are assessed against pre-defined learning outcomes and grade descriptions. For certain groups of students, particularly those...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo

SIKKERHET-SIKKERHET

Protesting Controversial Climate Policies: Avenues of Opposition

In recent years, we have seen a rise in protests both for and against stricter climate policies. The public can use different strategies to express dissatisfaction with existing or proposed policies, both within the framework of the representative political system (using the legal apparatus or th...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Vestland

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

A circular educational framework to help solve healthcare challenges: interprofessional education and collaborative practice for the future

The world faces rapidly increasing challenges in delivering quality health and social care services: a global shortage of health workers, limited resources, and a rapidly aging population with complex needs. The "IPECP-future" project introduces an innovative solution: a Circular Educational Fram...

Awarded: NOK 11.6 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Vestland

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Negotiating Values in Norwegian Teacher Education

In a pluralist society, educational institutions are vital for the transmission of core societal values considered foundational to the constitution and continuation of democratic societies. In 2020, the Norwegian government launched a national educational reform: ‘Knowledge Promotion’ in Educatio...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Vestland

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Health, education and labor market integration in refugees – a cross-country, longitudinal, mixed-method study

With notably increased rates of mental health problems and persistent lower employment than other migrant groups, refugees constitute a highly vulnerable group in today's society. Recent evidence suggests poor health, and in particular poor mental health, may play a key role in labor market marg...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Helpful or harmful: The effects of criminal justice system contact on victims of sexual and physical violence

The impact of physical and sexual violence on victims and their families can be devastating and persistent, with long-run effects on physical and mental health, educational attainment, employment, and welfare uptake. While the criminal justice system (CJS) is held to play an important part in a v...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Improving care for traumatized children by building competency and collaboration of first- and second line services with stepped care models

Childhood trauma is a major public health challenge. If left untreated, trauma exposure increase the risk for all mental disorders, as well as school drop-out and unemployment. Many traumatized children need coordinated services, but there is currently insufficient collaboration between these ser...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Transitions in Late Careers: Obstacles and Opportunities

Vi står overfor store endringer i arbeidslivet, både endrede arbeidspraksiser, den grønne- og digitale omstillingen, og ved at befolkningen blir eldre. En voksende andel av arbeidsstyrken er over 55 år, og i framtiden må store utfordringer løses av arbeidstakere i 50-, 60- og 70-årene. Bærekrafte...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Doing cooperation: a co-study with Landsforeningen for barnevernsbarn and Sarpsborg to enhance support for vulnerable children and youth

Well-coordinated services are necessary to improve the situation for vulnerable children and youth. Research however shows that this often represents a challenge for the welfare services. The aim of this project is to investigate how child welfare services and other welfare services cooperate in ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Onboarding transitional housing as a center for collaboration in the mission of young inclusion (HOUSYOUNG)

HOUSYOUNG aims to generate new knowledge about municipal housing initiatives for young people transitioning from youth to adulthood. Despite the increasing number of children and young people in such housing in Norway, this field is under-researched. HOUSYOUNG is a collaboration between Norwegian...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Engagement, Growth And General Education in Norwegian folk high schools (ENGAGE)

ENGAGE investigates the impact and meaning of Norwegian Folk High Schools (FHS) on youth engagement and participation in society. It is the largest study on this subject to date, exploring a largely overlooked aspect in education research. The projects’ background concerns youth disengagement f...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Vestland

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

The Economics of Adult Education: Promoting Life-long Learning through information and financial incentives

This project investigates the existing gap between the perceived importance of lifelong learning and the low participation in adult education. The aim is to find out whether policy measures can increase participation in adult education, and what value this brings to society. We focus on adults wi...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Voluntary Initiatives and Nonprofit-Public Sector Collaboration for the Inclusion of Children and Youth in Norway

Voluntary low-threshold initiatives can fill the gaps in public service provision towards young people by helping outreach, support and engagement. Yet, their role in promoting social inclusion and how they supplement public services is underexplored. The project aims to find out how voluntary lo...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Firming Up Careers: Human Resource Policies and Inequality

Recent research from Europe and the United States identifies firms as key contributors to rising wage inequality—even within narrowly defined occupations or sectors. Despite growing interest and the increasing availability of administrative data, our understanding of how—and why—firms influence w...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

The Norwegian National Election Study of 2025 & 2029

The Norwegian National Election Studies (NNES) is an ongoing research project, the main purposes of which are to analyze elections, election results, voter behavior, and voter attitudes over time. The 2025 and 2029 NNES builds on the extensive amounts of previous research within the framework of ...

Awarded: NOK 38.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2032

Location: Oslo

HELSEFORSKNING-Helseforskning

Promoting mental health in young children – a sustainable dialogue based approach in kindergartens (PRO-DIALOG)

Around 7% of Norwegian 4-year-olds have such severe mental difficulties that they qualify for a diagnosis, but it often takes a long time from the difficulties arise, until they are discovered and the children get the right help. The authorities have therefore laid down clear guidelines so that t...

Awarded: NOK 14.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Vestland

INNO-NAERING-INNO-NAERING

ALPHAGLIO: Development of a novel treatment for glioblastoma

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a highly aggressive and common type of brain tumor, causing severe neurological issues and significantly reducing patients' quality of life. Unfortunately, the current standard of care (SoC) for GBM, which involves surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy, has...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Akershus