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ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

WP2 – Energy System modelling and Socioeconomic models

This work package will focus on addressing the complementarity aspects of using bottom-up technology-rich energy system modelling approaches in tandem with macro-economic analysis with CGE modelling. Namely, we will utilize results and data from the IFE-TIMES-Norway model, using socio-technical t...

Awarded: Hidden

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Akershus

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

The Nordic Energy Systems Programme - WP 2 – Energy System modelling and Socioeconomic models

This project addresses the Nordic region’s fossil-free transition by developing an advanced modelling framework that links the energy system model GENeSYS-MOD with the macroeconomic model REMES-EU. Traditionally, energy models assume fixed demand, limiting insight into economic feedbacks. By maki...

Awarded: Hidden

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NANOTEKNOLOGI-NANOTEKNOLOGI

Ammonia Production via Electrochemical Reduction of Nitrogen

Ammonia is one of the most important chemicals produced today. It underpins global food production through fertilizers and is emerging as a potential carbon free energy carrier. At present, almost all ammonia is made using the Haber–Bosch process, an energy intensive technology that requires high...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

FrucTitan: Precision NGT Reprogramming of Fructan Metabolism for Climate-Ready Cereals

As the climate becomes less predictable, farmers in northern Europe and North America face a growing problem: droughts, sudden cold snaps, and erratic weather make cereal harvests less reliable, raising costs and putting food security at risk. FrucTitan, a collaboration between the Norwegian Univ...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Akershus

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

StrawberryWalls – integrating plant parasitology, ecology and biomechanics to support crop adaptation to climate change

Global warming has been most pronounced north of 60°, with the Arctic warming four times faster than the rest of the world. This will open up around 1.5 billion hectares of new agricultural land in northern latitudes. At the same time, it will allow many pest and pathogen species to spread northw...

Awarded: NOK 25.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2032

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Enhancing Gut Health and Welfare of Finishing Pigs: The Role of Physical Activity and Inclusion of Hay in the Diet.

How enrichment through physical exercise and provision of hay in the diet improves pig minds, guts, and welfare. FitPig is a research project exploring if and how two simple enrichments—daily physical activity and free access to hay—can make pigs healthier, smarter, and happier. The study invest...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Contributions to Animal Welfare in Pig Production: Developing and employing Diagnostic Tools for investigations of Lameness Pathogens

Lameness in pigs is a major welfare challenge in pig farming. Lame pigs often experience pain, and reduced mobility leads to difficulty in reaching food and water. For farmers, this leads to extra work, higher treatment costs, and lost production. Bacterial arthritis is an important contributor t...

Awarded: NOK 11.2 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

AGROECOL2 SAGE: Agroecological Synergies through Ruminant Integration for Enhanced Environmental and Economic Benefits

As demand for renewable energy grows, solar parks are expanding into agricultural landscapes. This creates a challenge: How can we produce clean energy without losing valuable farmland, biodiversity, or animal welfare? The SAGE project tackles this challenge by exploring a practical solution: com...

Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

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

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

AGROECOL2 Agroecological Pathways for sustainable, resilient and diversified dairy farming systems in Europe and multicriteria assessment

Livestock farming, and dairy production in particular, is crucial for global food security, rural development, and the provision of ecosystem services. Dairy production delivers highly nutritious food and can support biodiversity and soil health. At the same time, intensive, input-dependent agric...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

From regional relevance to transnational value: How regional food systems can boost resilience and self-sufficiency in Nordic and Baltic ctr

Food systems are constantly changing. They are shaped by people, nature, technology, and culture, creating complex “foodscapes.” Many studies focus on only one part of this picture, often overlooking the vulnerabilities and interdependencies that make food systems difficult to change. RegioFoodS...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

AGROECOL2 Accelerating the agroecological transition with multi-strata agroforestry systems, from root to fork

Agroforestry systems, where trees are integrated into agricultural fields, are recognised as the most advanced and effective forms of regenerative agriculture. By combining trees, shrubs, and food crops, these systems can restore soils, store carbon, and strengthen resilience to climate change. D...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

AGROECOL2 Bio-Based Agroecosystem Transitions in the Baltic and Nordic Regions through Integrated Relay Cropping Systems

Farming is key for our societies’ food security, but comes at environmental costs. Intensive crop production depletes soil health, and risks contaminating oceans, lakes and rivers with nutrient leaching, and endangering biodiversity by simplified landscape and use of chemical pesticides. In short...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

EUROSTARS-EUROSTARS

E10232 Dont Waste, Fertigate!

Every year, vast amounts of organic waste are discarded, while farmers remain dependent on expensive synthetic fertilizers derived from fossil fuels. A new European R&D project, Don't Waste, Fertigate!, aims to change that. The project unites three companies, Norway's Wastech, Bulgaria's ONDO, a...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Vestland

FFLJA-FFLJA

Maximizing the production of Norwegian grain legumes

Cultivation of grain legumes such as faba bean and field pea has increased in Norway in the last decade and is expected to continue to do so due to several benefits. The grain legumes do not require nitrogen fertilization due to their symbiosis with N-fixing bacteria and leave behind N that can b...

Awarded: Hidden

Project Period: 2026-2029

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: 2026-2030

Location: Rogaland

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Nature-Integrated Norwegian energy system transition - Opportunities, Trade-offs and Strategies

Harmony is about identifying political feasible solutions that ensures that the Norwegian energy transition jointly minimize climate gas emissions and undesired nature impacts. Cutting greenhouse gas emissions is crucial to limiting the impacts of climate change. But there is a challenge. The ...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

A Virtuous Cycle of Phytoremediation, Pyrolysis and Biochar Applications towards Safe PFAS Levels in Soil, Feed and Food

PFAS—often called “forever chemicals”— are found in soil, water, animals, and humans These substances pose a serious environmental and health challenge. Used in products ranging from waterproof coatings and Teflon to firefighting foam and ski wax, PFAS hardly degrade in nature. In Norwegian sewag...

Awarded: NOK 12.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

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

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

CONNECTIONS – Impact of bonding time on welfare and productivity of cow and calf

In the Connections project, we will explore how keeping cows and calves together for an extended period after calving, as opposed to separating them soon after birth, can be incorporated in practical settings on dairy farms. The practice of keeping cows and calves together for longer is becoming ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

FFLJA-FFLJA

Soil2Milk: Enhancing Soil to Milk food chain Sustainability- A Novel Approach for Higher Productivity and Lower Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Norway is launching Soil2Milk, a major interdisciplinary research project led by the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), to reduce greenhouse gas emissions throughout the entire feed value chain, from soil and fertilizer use to forage crops, dairy cows, and milk production. High-yield ...

Awarded: Hidden

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

CRISPR-redigering av salat for økt sykdomsresistens

Fungal diseases destroy an estimated 10–30% of global food production grown in open-field systems. The most common strategies to combat these diseases are chemical fungicides or conventional breeding, where susceptible varieties are crossed with resistant ones carrying dominant resistance genes. ...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

EUROSTARS-EUROSTARS

AI-Powered Livestock Wellness: Revolutionizing Animal Health and Farm Productivity with Innovative Real-Time Monitoring and Detection (9823)

AI4LIVESTOCK is a new AI-powered platform designed to transform animal welfare and modern farming. Using RealTimeID’s smart ear-tags, animals “communicate” through data, allowing early detection of lambing, calving, and diseases such as preeclampsia and milk fever. This means healthier animals, f...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Early prediction software for winter survival and yield in forage and cereal crops

Early prediction software for winter survival and yield in forage and cereal crops Farmers across the Nordics face one recurring challenge: harsh and unpredictable winters. Ice, snow, and sudden thaws can severely damage crops, but the real impact often becomes visible too late for effective act...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Rogaland

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

RapsAI: Sensorbasert ugrassprøyting i raps

Rapeseed is an important oilseed crop with significant potential in Norwegian agriculture. The authorities aim to increase rapeseed production, both to strengthen national self-sufficiency and because rapeseed fits well into sustainable crop rotations. With its deep taproots, the crop improves so...

Awarded: NOK 7.8 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Ecology of Pathogenic Streptococcus Suis and their interactions with Microbiota and Pig Immunity

Streptococcus suis is one of the most important bacterial pathogens causing disease in piglets around weaning. Outbreaks can lead to pain, reduced animal welfare, and significant economic losses, and treatment often involves the use of antibiotics. The bacterium can also infect humans and cause s...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Innlandet

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Landbrukskonferansen i Nordland 2025

Landbrukskonferansen i Nordland 2025 er en tverrfaglig møteplass som skal styrke samarbeid, kunnskapsutveksling og innovasjon i det nordnorske landbruket. Konferansen arrangeres i Bodø 29.–30. oktober 2025 og samler aktører fra hele verdikjeden herunder bønder, studenter, elever fra naturbruk, fo...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

AGROECOL 1 SAFER Strengthening Agricultural landscape multiFunctionality through expansion of agroecological farming in EuRope (SAFER)

Across Europe, it has become clear that current farming practices are unsustainable, and that farming systems must be re-designed to sustain food production while protecting biodiversity, ecosystems and the many benefits they bring to society. One solution to this is agroecology. Agroecological...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

A New Approach to Supply Chain Capitalism and Emerging Infectious Diseases

CAPIDEMIC explores the political dimensions of transnational supply chains and how they respond to sustainability challenges brought on by emerging infectious diseases (EIDs). Our research is centered on the poultry industry, which is currently under threat from the global spread of highly pathog...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Energy Systems modelling under uncertainty applied to analyze the resilience of energy transition scenarios

The Nordic countries are leaders in the global energy transition, yet critical uncertainties—such as geopolitical instability, technological disruption, and shifting societal values—pose significant risks to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. This project addresses two key gaps: (A) the lack o...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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