2,449 projects

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Academic Careers: Examining the Significance of Socio-Economic Background

Academics occupy a privileged position in society. They are experts in their fields, share knowledge with the public, train new generations of students, and hire future academics. While much research has explored how social background—such as parental education, income, or class—affects success i...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Knowledge Integration in Teacher Education through Technology-Enhanced Simulation (KITES)

KITES is a research project that explores how advanced technologies such as virtual reality, 360-degree video, and artificial intelligence can support student teachers in integrating various knowledge sources to make professional decisions. Becoming a good teacher requires more than subject exper...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Østfold

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Co-developing an Evidence-Based Framework for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Physical Education Teacher Education

EquiPETE examines how teacher education and physical education can become more inclusive, giving all pupils opportunities to experience learning, mastery, belonging and joy. How can physical education teachers create learning environments where all pupils feel included and have equitable opport...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Vocational-Oriented Sustainability Education Across Museums and School (VOSEAMS)

Does it matter to you which products your hairdresser uses on your hair? Or what materials the carpenter uses to build your house? And what about the food in the cafeteria – are local ingredients important to you? Professionals use products, materials, and services that have impacts on climate, ...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

EMPOWERED – Empowering students as future digital citizens

EMPOWERED aims to develop innovative practices, methods and tools that promote digital empowerment in schools and teacher education. Being ‘digitally empowered’ involves understanding technology and algorithms, exercising critical thinking and digital judgment, and awareness of digital inclusive ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

BRAIGED: Building Responsible AI for Global Education – Towards Explainable AI for Chronic Kidney Disease Diagnosis Utilizing Scintigraphy

Doctors of the future will work with artificial intelligence (AI) just like pilots work with autopilot, useful, but only when understood and monitored by a trained human. Modern medicine produces a huge amount of information, scans, lab results, doctor’s notes, and medical students can feel empow...

Awarded: NOK 9.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Buskerud

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

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Skills Enhancement on the Move: Digital Pathways in Higher Vocational Education

Higher vocational education via distance education offers new opportunities for skills development. Higher vocational schools play an important role in providing education and knowledge that companies need, and in recent years there has been significant growth in both the number of higher vocatio...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Gender segregated educational choices, skill gaps and early career opportunities

Over the past fifty years, we've seen a remarkable shift in education: young women now earn more degrees and higher credentials than young men across most developed countries, including Norway and the United States. This educational advantage for women reached its peak around the year 2000, after...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference 2026

The conference is non-profit and will be organized at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. The team has previously organised SCIA 2017, and NLDL 2018/2019/2020/2021/2022/2023/2024/2025, which received support for the events from NFR and were successes. The group has several projects ongoing relat...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Den menneskelige faktoren i digital sikkerhet: definisjon, måling og effekt av tiltak

We need an increased understanding of the interaction between people and technology, to promote a human-centered approach in building digital security in businesses. The workday at Bane NOR looks different for each employee. Some have a traditional "office job", some work with train management sy...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Innlandet

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Developing leadership principles in support of innovative, future-oriented organisations: the case of UNESCO World Heritage

How can we lead and collaborate when everyone holds a certain kind of authority, but without each other, no one really holds power? This PhD project explores new ways of understanding and practicing leadership in public partnerships where traditional hierarchies are not applied — using the nation...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Telemark

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Harald Sæverud: Natur, sted og musikk i modernismen

Harald Sæverud (1897–1992) is regarded as one of the most prominent and influential figures in Norwegian musical life throughout the 20th century. He made an early mark with compositions in a quite radical musical language and was recognized as a distinctive voice both in Norway and international...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Can (A)I Trust My Government: AIs Impact on Compliance and Trust in the Norwegian Tax Administration

Can algorithms detect when you've entered incorrect information in your tax return? Can machine learning models predict which tax returns the Norwegian Tax Administration (NTA) should take a closer look at? The NTA already uses such a model, and in 2021 it helped increase the success rate of our ...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Teori og praksis – hypoteser og bevisvurdering i komplekse drapssaker

"The police are investigating based on several hypotheses" is a common response from the police in the media after serious incidents. But what does it mean to investigate several hypotheses? Investigation textbooks suggests that the investigator is supposed to develop hypotheses ("Jon killed Bjø...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

BryoNiN - Moseøkologi og moser i Norge

Precise classification and mapping of nature are dependent on good knowledge of the diversity and distribution of bryophytes. As of today, knowledge of bryophytes is good in some nature types, while for other types there are, in part, significant knowledge gaps. Bare rock is found almost everywh...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Deep Learning for Subsurface Characterization: Advancing Reservoir Property Estimation and CO2 Storage Assessment.

Knowing what kinds of rock lie deep below the seabed is costly and uncertain, yet crucial for storing CO2 to help mitigate climate change and extracting oil and gas safely. This project uses artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the accuracy, reliability, and cost-efficiency of subsurface prope...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

InterGenerasjonell læring ved MUSeer: samskaping av nye praksiser [IGMUS]

Our time is marked by multiple crises, such as social isolation among the elderly and concern about the climate and nature crisis among children. In the IGMUS project, museum practices will be explored through the following three main concepts: Worldcare, inclusion and intergenerational learning....

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Preparing for the unforeseen - developing teachers and student teachers practical knowledge through researching emotional experiences

PREP will reduce emotional stress among teachers and newly qualified teachers in order for them to stay in the profession. More and more people are leaving the teaching profession because of the emotional challenges they face in everyday school life. Previous studies show that teachers and studen...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Buskerud

SAMISKTEMA-SAMISKTEMA

Sustaining National Minorities in Education: Kven/Norwegian Finnish and Forest Finnish Experiences and Needs in Mainstream Schools

The NAMED Project explores how Kven/Norwegian Finns and Forest Finns in Norway are represented in the education system. Pedagogies that sustain these minorities' cultural and linguistic heritage through mainstream education will be developed within the project. Through a survey and interviews, w...

Awarded: NOK 11.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

IncluEdS: Keystroke-Based Language Proficiency Profiling for Inclusive Education and Society

Language is a vital tool for developing and expressing thoughts and knowledge. In second language (L2) research, it is widely assumed that learners' L2 knowledge is reflected in their writing. Yet proving this empirically has been difficult since the pauses and revisions that occur during writing...

Awarded: NOK 9.7 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

RESONATE - Reducing School Dropout and Enhancing Pupils’ Sense of Belonging and Participation through Co-created Music-based Activities

Why do so many young people struggle to stay in school, and how can music help create a place where more of them feel they belong? This question is at the heart of RESONATE, a Nordic project now being introduced in nine upper-secondary schools in Vestland. Together with NAV, the Bergen Public Lib...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Observation Tools to Support Excellence and Responsiveness in Teaching

OTER Project – Better Teaching for All Students The OTER project (“Observation Tools to support Excellence and Responsiveness in teaching”) aims to give teachers the tools they need to increase teaching quality and to meet the needs of individual students – in a sustainable way that can reach man...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Industrial PhD on Ice Detection with LiDAR

In the future, we may see small, quiet, and electric aircraft transporting people and goods across cities and remote areas — a concept known as Advanced Air Mobility (AAM). These aircraft include drones and electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles. But there’s one major obstacle st...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Elgforvaltning i et nytt klima

Moose hunting has long traditions and is an important part of rural culture in Norway. At the same time, moose is Scandinavia's economically most important game species. The moose is adapted to life in the boreal forest biome, characterized by cold winters and mild summers. The recent changes in ...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Exploration of AI Techniques with LIRA Technology

Power cables are the critical links that bring electricity from offshore wind farms to shore. Unfortunately, these cables are vulnerable to damage from harsh marine environments and operational stress. When they fail, the consequences are severe – power generation stops, leading to massive financ...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Akershus

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Dietary adjustments to improve the performance of high-yielding finisher pigs

Exploring Fiber for Healthier, More Cost-Effective Pig Feed One way to reduce feed costs in pig production is by using fiber-rich by-products from cereal processing. Several of these fibrous materials can potentially be included in pig diets, but before doing so, we need a clear understanding of ...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Rogaland

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Små barns mektige opplevelser

The project is a collaboration between Eventus Barnehage AS and Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. Being moved by love is one of the fundamental emotions we have. We are moved by the hero defeating the villain, a cute cat acting silly, and by witnessing our childhood friend getting ma...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Vestland

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Comparison of short and long occupational rehabilitation and effects on work-related factors and RTW: Quantiative and qualitative approach

Work is one of the most important pillars in life. We spend large parts of our lives, at work. Work is not important just because we spend time in the workplace, or because it gives us a reward in terms of wages. Work is important for our health, both physical and mental. Work is also connected t...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Innlandet

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Omnivibrance: Choreographing Rhythmic Futures Through Decolonial Practice

Omnivibrance is a practice-based PhD project that explores how rhythm and vibration can be used as dramaturgical and compositional tools in dance and storytelling. By challenging traditional Western dance structures, I aim to develop new methods that centre bodily experience, collective knowledge...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Møre og Romsdal