176 projects

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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

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Knowledge in Crisis: The Dynamics of Environmental Expertise amidst Rural Change

RURALEX addresses the cumulative crisis of environmental expertise across rural Europe and investigates how this relates to broader processes of societal disenfranchisement. In recent years, many rural parts of Europe have struggled with the local effects of large demographic and associated ecolo...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Human-Environment-Animal Relations in Deep Time

Human-Environment-Animal Relations in Deep Time (HEART) examines human relations with animals over a long-time perspective. HEART has three parts. First, it will investigate how South African extinction histories can be narrated. Second, it create digital representations of existing natural histo...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Rogaland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Viking to Christian Landscapes across the Norwegian Sea: Agricultural Trajectories and Resilience using sedaDNA and Fecal Lipids

Over several centuries from about 1400 years ago to about 900 years ago, Norway and the Northern Isles of Britain went through a major cultural, social and economic transition. This was from Viking or Norse pagan to Christian societies. This did not just involve religious conversion but a new pow...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Social Complexity and Population Entanglements in Norway 2500-1000 BCE: Understanding new biomolecular datasets through a humanist lens

SCAPES is a cross-disciplinary project anchored in archaeology, applying a unique and innovative combination of methods and theories from both the natural sciences and the humanities to explore the population history of Norway 2500-1000 BCE. This time period saw a shift towards agriculture and, c...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Thawing Arctic permafrost, emerging risks: managing critical infrastructure, cultural heritage, and mountain slopes under climate change

Temperatures in the Arctic have risen nearly four times faster than the global average over the last few decades, leading to a cascade of consequences. Longyearbyen (LYR), the largest settlement in Svalbard, represents a critical case study for understanding these effects as it is located at a ho...

Awarded: NOK 11.5 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Svalbard

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Participation workshop Hiorthhamn (PwH)

We are facing a looming danger of losing the Cable car station in Hiorthhamn (Taubanestasjonen i Hiorthhamn) due to coastal erosion and decay. Why should it concern us? What can be done? And is there even a desire to save it? A participatory workshop will be organized to bring together the kay st...

Awarded: NOK 74,077

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Climate Changes and Scent Heritage: The Urgent Need for Capturing and Preserving Olfactory Landscapes in a Changing World

Scents and flavours are a powerful but often overlooked part of our cultural heritage. They are tied to natural environments, local festivities, or social customs in everyday life, and they play a unique role in shaping memory and identity. However, many of these meaningful aromas and flavours ar...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

ResilienceS to climate risks: lessons from Arctic and Pacific communities

The RETRACE project, unfolding over three years, confronts the escalating threat of natural disasters, impacting over 2.3 billion people since the 2000s. Concentrating on communities in the Arctic and Pacific regions, like the Marquesans in French Polynesia, the Sámi and Kven in Norway, and the A...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Advancing Cultural Heritage Governance for Resilient Climate Adaptation

Project AGREE, led by the University of Leeds in the UK, focuses on addressing climate change impacts on cultural heritage through interdisciplinary methodologies and societal collaboration. The project aims to understand and respond to the complex relationship between cultural heritage governan...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Multiscale approaches and scalability within climate change-heritage risk assessments

The SASCHA project, led by University College London (UCL), aims to develop practical tools and methods for assessing and managing climate change's risks to cultural heritage sites worldwide. The consortium includes academic partners such as the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Research (NIKU), A...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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

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

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Sticking stones: rediscovering medieval wood tar adhesives for stone conservation

What can we learn from medieval craftspeople to help preserve our cultural heritage in an uncertain future? Medieval northern European stone churches are at increased risk of damage due to climate change, and forgotten historical materials and techniques may provide the key to saving our architec...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Rogaland

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

MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

Urfolksskonferansen NAISA Bådåddjo 2024. 6 til 8 juni 2024

Nord universitet dekker geografisk de tradisjonelle pite- og umesamiske områdene i Sápmi. Senter for samisk og urfolksstudier ved universitetet har som hovedformål å koordinere, synliggjøre og styrke samisk- og urfolksrelatert forskning og utdanning og står som ansvarlig for gjennomføring av konf...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Marine resource gathering and infrastructure in the Norse North Atlantic

Gathered marine resources such as driftwood, seaweed, shellfish, coastal plants, and eiderdown were key elements of past subsistence, but are often overlooked by archaeologists. However, there has been increased interest recently in how such resources may benefit modern societies. MARGAIN uses hi...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Rogaland

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Pollinator-friendly agricultural landscapes: Solutions for management of habitats under pressure

Wild pollinators are threatened which has consequences for both biodiversity and food security. In WINGS we will develop solutions for creating pollinator-friendly agricultural landscapes. Pollinators, such as bees and hoverflies, are essential for plants that reproduce through seed setting. This...

Awarded: NOK 13.9 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

ArcHeritage: Commodification, Identity, and Revitalisation in the Anthropocene

This project explores the commodity chains of three iconic heritage artefacts in the Arctic: reindeer antler, the conical tent, and mammoth and walrus ivory. It will trace the oral histories and new market and social entanglements of these artefacts across several sites in Sápmi, Canada, and Gree...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

Eidsborg rock – production and trade of whetstone in the Viking Age

Hell is to cut with a dull knife—to harvest with a blunt scythe or to fight with an unsharpened sword. By the 9th century, the ‘hell-averting’ whetstones from Eidsborg, Telemark, are found in Viking Age towns and centres throughout Northern Europe. Paradoxically, less is known about the surplus p...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Destructive Exploitation and Care of Cultural Objects. Professional/Public Education for sustainable heritage management

DECOPE: Destructive Exploitation and Care of Cultural Objects – Professional/Public Education for Sustainable Heritage Management. In the DECOPE project, researchers from Norway, Scotland, and Spain have investigated how cultural heritage is cared for in areas of armed conflict, focusing on Russi...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

GRUNNBEVILGNING-GRUNNBEVILGNING

Grunnbevilgning - NIKU

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Awarded: NOK 89.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

GRUNNBEVILGNING-GRUNNBEVILGNING

Grunnbevilgning - IFE

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Awarded: NOK 358.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Akershus

GRUNNBEVILGNING-GRUNNBEVILGNING

Grunnbevilgning - NR

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Awarded: NOK 63.1 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

GRUNNBEVILGNING-GRUNNBEVILGNING

Grunnbevilgning - Vestlandsforsking

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Awarded: NOK 23.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Vestland

GRUNNBEVILGNING-GRUNNBEVILGNING

Norsk senter for berekraftig klimatilpassing - Noradapt

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Awarded: NOK 22.1 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Vestland

RETUREU-RETUREU

RETUR-EU NILU

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Awarded: NOK 53.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2030

Location: Akershus

GRUNNBEVILGNING-GRUNNBEVILGNING

Grunnbevilgning - NILU

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Awarded: NOK 145.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Akershus

GRUNNBEVILGNING-GRUNNBEVILGNING

Grunnbevilgning - RURALIS

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Awarded: NOK 37.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

GRUNNBEVILGNING-GRUNNBEVILGNING

Grunnbevilgning - NGI

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Awarded: NOK 245.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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