588 projects

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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

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

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Sustainable urban SNOW management within tighter frames for nature, the environment and LAND use (SNOWLAND)

Climate change and population growth make managing snow in cities more difficult and unpredictable. SNOWLAND researchers and partners will work together to create new knowledge and easy-to-use tools to better evaluate and improve how cities handle snow, benefiting people, nature, and the economy....

Awarded: NOK 12.5 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

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Data-driven methods for urban drainage deterioration modelling

In the project “Data-driven methods for urban drainage deterioration modelling”, researcher will collaborate with municipalities to develop a new asset management tool to support Norwegian municipalities in planning of inspections and rehabilitation of sewer pipe networks. The tool is a part of e...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

B15M. Beyond 15-Minute: Embracing an Adaptive and Inclusive N-Minute City

Imagine what your life would be like if you lived just 15 minutes away from everything you need—work, school, parks, shops—if this were a reality adaptable to your lifestyle, your neighbourhood, and your city. The Beyond 15-Minute (B15M) project is an international research initiative that explo...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Rogaland

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

REV:EU - REgenerative Vital water for EUropean cities

Wastewater systems help keep people healthy and protect the environment. But the way we manage wastewater today is outdated and cannot handle new challenges like climate change, pollution, and rising costs. As weather becomes more extreme, water supplies and old infrastructure come under pressure...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Akershus

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Urgency and pressures in critical mineral extraction - Potentials and pitfalls for just mining in Norway

The demand for critical minerals is increasing rapidly. These metals are used in green technologies such as electric vehicles, wind turbines and solar panels, and play a key role in the transition to a low-emission society. At the same time, the growing pressure for faster extraction creates new ...

Awarded: NOK 10.5 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Circular products resource efficient production methods and societal roles in transformation and adoption of circular practices in Innlandet

This PhD project investigates how smarter policy and governance can accelerate the shift to a circular economy—where waste becomes a resource and local industry becomes part of the climate solution. With a political science and economic lens, the project explores how public policy, regulation, an...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Innlandet

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Sustainable Norwegian Data Center Industry

In our increasingly digitalised society, data centers are fundamental service providers for key sectors such as health care, energy and transport. Norway needs a robust digital infrastructure to function effectively and is well positioned for data center establishments due to cold climate and ava...

Awarded: NOK 13.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

The impacts of land use conflicts on society and citizens: how local arguments shape democratic participation and lived experience

In recent years, Norwegian communities have seen a rise in contentious land use disputes. The green transition’s demand for land has triggered conflicts over mining, wind power, solar parks, and power lines — a development expected to intensify as society moves toward a low-emission future. Thes...

Awarded: NOK 10.5 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Vestland

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

The powers of visual representations in shaping and mediating land-use conflicts in Norway (VISUALS)

VISUALS investigates how visual representations, such as images, photos, maps, media reports, and artworks, influence conflicts related to land-use and management of natural resources in Norway. If municipalities continue to favour roads, cabin villages, wind power development, and green industri...

Awarded: NOK 10.5 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Hvordan kommunen gjennom bruk av sin eierrådighet kan øke takten i omstillingen til et lavutslippssamfunn.

The project is about how municipalities can use their right to control their own assets, also known as "ownership authority," to cut greenhouse gas emissions and protect nature. The project will explore the possibility of setting requirements and enforcing them. Clarifying where the boundaries li...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Rogaland

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

INCLUCity+: Youth and Logistics Integration in the 15-Minute City

The “15-minute city” is a vision for more sustainable and human-centered urban environments. It proposes neighborhoods where people can access most of their daily needs within a 15-minute walk or bike ride from their homes. By reducing car dependency, the 15-minute city aims to lower emissions, s...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

The Norwegian Research School for Climate-Informed Innovation and Decision-Making

Climate change affects most parts of society, from our economy, environment and health to the way we produce energy. But the lack of active collaboration and knowledge exchange between climate scientists and the public and private sector impedes our ability to manage climate risks effectively. Co...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2033

Location: Vestland

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

TRUST - The Norwegian Centre for Trustworthy AI

TRUST is a Norwegian research centre dedicated to building the foundations of trustworthy AI. Its mission is to enable AI systems that are accurate, interpretable, inclusive, fair, safe, sustainable, and well-governed. By uniting expertise from the fields of computational and data science, law, s...

Awarded: NOK 200.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Effektivisering av byggesøknadsprosessen - hvordan kan man redusere antallet mangelfulle søknader?

Many building permit applications are full of errors – and it's costly. Norwegian municipalities are losing millions because they spend too much time processing building permit applications. A significant reason for this is that 35% of applications are incomplete. When this happens, case officer...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Ny naturkunnskap i nye planleggingsprosessar: Kva meirverdiar kan areal- og naturrekneskap og politiske verkstader gi til arealplanlegging?

What impact can political workshops and land and nature accounts have on Norwegian land use? Norwegian municipalities are in the process of adopting land and nature accounts as tools for planning land use. Several municipal councils are now discussing what this new knowledge should mean for deci...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Ta i bruk infrastruktur i avløpsnettet for å redusere nitrogen tilført renseanlegget.

Midtre Romerike Wastewater Company (MIRA IKS) and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) are working together with the municipalities of Lillestrøm and Gjerdrum to find innovative methods to reduce nitrogen levels in wastewater. Nitrogen emissions from human activity have reached level...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Akershus

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Arealeffektiv og samf.øk. lønnsom klimatilpasning, - utvikling av metodikk for beregning av merkostnad ved flerfunksjonelle overvannstiltak

Global temperatures are rising, leading to more extreme weather such as cloudbursts and flooding. Urban densification and development—like stream enclosure and housing in low-lying areas—make it difficult to manage stormwater in cities. Mismanaged water causes damage to buildings and infrastructu...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Akershus

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

JustUrban: Sustaining urban nature for environmental justice in the face of urban growth

As cities grow, the demand for land intensifies. Cities can either densify internally, or sprawl outwards with unknown impacts on urban ecosystems and social wellbeing. The little nature that remains in cities is often sacrificed under urban densification, and minority or disadvantaged population...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Enhancing Urban Sustainability for Environmental Quality and Human Well-being through Nature-Based Solutions Transformation Labs

Revolutionizing Urban Sustainability with NatureScape Led by NILU, NatureScape includes Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, University College Dublin, Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy w Lublinie, Lisboa E-Nova, Nodibinajums Baltic Studies Centre, and Politecnico di Milano as partners. Thi...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Akershus

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Actionable budgets for sustainable climate and nature governance

The world has to make stronger progress on stopping climate change and on stopping the destruction of nature. Some municipalities and counties are now hopeful that a budgeting-approach can help. This project – ECOBUDGETS – will look at how the budgeting approach can lead to political decisions th...

Awarded: NOK 11.6 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Vestland

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Wildfire safety of homes and other vulnerable establishments in the wildland-urban interface

Wildfires are becoming more common and intense due to climate change, urban growth, and changes in how land is used, posing new risks for communities in areas where wildlands meet towns and cities (the Wildland-Urban Interface, or WUI). The goal of the WildfireSafe project is to help protect home...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Regional Electrification and key tensions in the Norwegian energy transition: Co-creating strategies and enabling better decisions

Electrification has emerged as a cornerstone of Norwegian climate- and energy policy. From an early focus on road and maritime transport, electrification policies now focus on large point-source measures to enable swift emission cuts for a net-zero society by 2050. Beyond transport, the goal is t...

Awarded: NOK 11.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INNO-OFF-INNO-OFF

Energiforbruk og miljøpåvirkning av brakkerigger i bygge -og anleggsplasser

Det har vært en stigende oppmerksomhet rundt bærekraft på norske bygge og anleggsplasser den siste tiden, hvor tiltak som elektrifisering av anleggsmaskiner, optimalisering av logistikk og implementering av strategier for avfallsreduksjon har blitt prioritert. Disse tiltakene har ført til utvikli...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Akershus

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

Nordforsk: Transformative environmental justice

Climate mitigation measures often fail to include small(er) countries, Indigenous people, and local citizens by not incorporating their social systems, values, and ways of knowing in policy development. Current power imbalances and unequal representation make a just energy transition extremely ch...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Locating and utilizing Norway’s lost and underused agricultural land reserves

While agricultural land is crucial for self-sufficiency and food security, this is a scarce resource in Norway. It is also an endangered resource because it is often demolished for housing development and infrastructure. At the same time, it is more difficult to establish new agricultural land wh...

Awarded: NOK 11.6 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

FME InterPlay - Integrated Hub for Energy System Analyses

InterPlay aims to contribute to holistic and long-term planning of the energy system, in order to meet our climate goals while conserving nature and biodiversity. In order to prevent global warming, emissions must be reduced. Emissions reductions from sectors such as industry and transport requi...

Awarded: NOK 120.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2032

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

PowerPlay: Complementarity Formation and Trade-offs of the Nordic Battery Value Chain

PowerPlay aims to provide a comprehensive examination on the extent to which complementarities are formed in the Nordic battery ecosystem (Norway, Finland, and Sweden) given that this sector is the recipient of substantial public investment. In addition, PowerPlay also aims to investigate the loc...

Awarded: NOK 11.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Rogaland

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