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FFLJA-FFLJA

Enhancing Energy Efficiency and Sustainability in Horticulture with LED Flash Lighting Systems (FLASH-LED)

Strawberry is one of the most important small fruit crops in Nordic countries including Norway. The annual production volume of Norwegian strawberries was 7,052 metric tons in 2022, which can cover only about 30% of the market demand (Statistic Sentralbyrå). There is an increasing demand for loca...

Awarded: Hidden

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo

FFLJA-FFLJA

BREADVANCE: Novel sourdough from Norwegian grains for sustainable bread advancement and optimized for wheat-sensitive individuals.

This project is a collaboration between food scientists, clinicians, artisanal bakeries, farmers, an ingredient supplier and a national patient organization. Together, we aim to develop high-quality sourdough bread that can be tolerated by wheat-sensitive people. To achieve this, we will develop ...

Awarded: Hidden

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

HESTEFORSK Antibiotics in horse breeding- a double-edged sword threatening horses in the future?

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a slow threat not only to human health but also to equine health and the horse breeding system of today. It is a slow but steadily growing problem that, in the future could potentially render antibiotics ineffective, leading to untreatable infections. We will con...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Akershus

FFLJA-FFLJA

Healthy Animals’ Meat: Novel Genetics for Improved Meat Quality and Muscle Health in Pigs

The project aims to maintain high meat quality and good animal health in pig production. New meat quality defects in pigs, affecting the ham muscle, has been reported in several countries, including Norway. These defects lead to lower meat prices and issues with cured ham products. Defects can oc...

Awarded: Hidden

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Innlandet

BIOTEKNOLOGI-BIOTEKNOLOGI

Food4Cells: Developing sustainable cell culture media for cultivated meat (CM) production based on Norwegian plant-based agri-food.

As the global population grows, it’s estimated that food production will need to increase by over 60% by 2050. This puts immense pressure on the livestock sector to meet the rising demand for high-value animal protein. Additionally, from a circular economic perspective, recycling plant-based by-p...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FORSKNINGSINFRA-FORSKNINGSINFRA

Norwegian Plant Phenotyping Infrastructure

Advanced research facilities are needed to meet the needs for increased food production under the challenging Norwegian climate conditions. By adopting new plant phenotyping technologies, we can make more precise measurements of the growth, development and stress responses of plants under differe...

Awarded: NOK 69.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2032

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Soil carbon in Norwegian outfield and infield grazing areas: Plant-soil-herbivory feedbacks on plant production and soil carbon dynamics

The main objective of this project is to quantify and predict grazing effects on soil organic carbon stocks and dynamics. Our goal is to come up with management recommendations that ensure nature-based solutions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, mitigating climate change while promoting biod...

Awarded: NOK 15.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Cultivating sustainable changes in livestock feed production and feeding practices (Feed&Feeding)

The project will evaluate various strategies for feed production and feeding practices to enhance the sustainability of Norway's food system and support national agricultural policy goals. These strategies include adjusting livestock diets, improving breeding and animal health, and introducing ne...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Akershus

FFLJA-FFLJA

Boosting Healthy Oat Feed Production in Norway

The project will reduce the risk of mycotoxins in oats and improve the nutritional value of oats. This will ensure oats a quality feed used to produce food with high nutritional quality, ensuring oats as an important crop in Norwegian agriculture. The project will generate a knowledge base to ens...

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Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

HESTEFORSK - Raskere og bedre sårheling hos hest med autologe hudkomponenter

Limb wounds in horses are common and are notoriously difficult to treat due to their slow healing rate and the frequent occurrence of healing complications such as infection and exuberant granulation tissue formation. Consequently, limb wounds cause significant animal suffering, as well as repres...

Awarded: NOK 0.98 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Akershus

BIOTEKNOLOGI-BIOTEKNOLOGI

The 60th contact meeting for the Norwegian Society for Biosciences (NBS) - Røros 2025

The 60th yearly contact meeting will be organised by bioscience researchers at NTNU to take place in Røros January 23 – 26th 2025. The meeting will gather a major part of Norwegian resarchers within biosciences and biotechnology, from students to experienced professors. These yearly meetings allo...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Verification of the FORDETECT Technology for fast Detection of Pathogenic Bacteria

FORDETECT is a new microfluid-based method for rapid, on-site, automatic detection of selected pathogens in a liquid sample. The method makes use of single-use recyclable cartridges with precise control over liquid flows and parallel detection of multiple pathogens in one sample. The application ...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Vestfold

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

PigStick - Diagnostic of bacterial-caused lameness in pigs

Lameness is a type of arthritis that makes pigs not being able of standing up short after infection. Since arthritis can be caused by different bacteria or even not having a bacterial cause, a correct diagnosis of bacterial-caused lameness is important for further treatment, such as using or not...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Rogaland

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Green ERA Hub - Uncovering Legume Soil Fatigue for Sustainable Expansion of European Grain Legume Cultivation

Over the past decades, efforts have been made to promote the cultivation of legumes, especially grain legumes, to reduce the use of mineral N fertilisers, increase biodiversity, reduce dependence on imported feed proteins and improve soil biological properties and humus content. However, grain le...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Green ERA Hub - DAiry Waste and REsidues upCYCLing into Microbial ProtEin

Europe is facing a significant challenge in securing enough protein to meet the growing global demand. Current production does not cover the needs for food, animal feed, and biobased materials. For example, the European feed industry is heavily dependent on imported protein, which is not sustaina...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Green ERA Hub - Reducing sheep methane emissions: sustainability in practice via new breeding goals

What if we could breed sheep that emit less methane and are more feed efficient? That’s the core idea behind SustainSheep. Researchers from Ireland, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, France, Uruguay and Norway are collaborating to explore how animal breeding can reduce the carbon footprint of she...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Green ERA Hub - Harnessing African Microbial Diversity to mitigate Green House Gas emissions in maize production

Food security of Africa’s growing population strongly depends on closing the yield gap for cash crops like maize. This can be achieved by increasing the input of N and P fertilizers and applying artificial irrigation, which, however, could substantially increase greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Th...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Akershus

FFLJA-FFLJA

NrfTwin: Advancing Sustainable Breeding of Norwegian Red Dairy Cattle through Digital Twin

This project aims to optimise the Norwegian Red (NR) dairy cattle breeding program through the integration of NrfTwin, a digital twin of NR breeding program. NrfTwin enables simulations of various changes in the breeding program to achieve significant and sustainable advancements in the genetic g...

Awarded: NOK 0.36 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Innlandet

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

Ansvarlig Radikal Innovasjon: Nettverk og læringsArena

ARINA is a competence and learning arena for the Research Council of Norway's technology convergence portfolio. The network continues and deepens the portfolio projects' own work on responsible radical innovation. In this way, the work for transformative processes in Norwegian R&D is coordinated ...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Vestland

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

CellDisrupt – enzymatic yeast cell disruption

CellDisrupt is an enzyme technology to open yeast cells and thus contribute to a broader application of microbially produced oils for food, feed and fuel. The patentable CellDisrupt technology, currently developed to TRL 2, offers the possibility to lyse oil-producing yeast cells, with possible e...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

NoMyPro - scaling circular mycoproteins for more sustainable aquafeeds

Food production today has a massive environmental footprint, contributing significantly to greenhouse gas emissions, freshwater usage, and deforestation. In Norwegian aquaculture, feed accounts for nearly 80% of greenhouse gas emissions. Less than 1% of current feed uses sustainable ingredients, ...

Awarded: NOK 8.5 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Oslo

FFLJA-FFLJA

Sustainable potato production in Norway by precision breeding (GE-Sustain)

The GE-Sustain project focuses on developing potato varieties with improved resilience to late blight disease and industry quality through the use of CRISPR genome editing. Late blight is the main challenge for Norwegian potato farming, demanding extensive pesticide use and management resources. ...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Innlandet

FFLJA-FFLJA

Identifying genes and mutations related to health and disease resistance in Norwegian pigs

The aim of this project is to identify genes and mutations that make pigs healthier and more resistant to diseases. Breeding for disease resistance is difficult because it is hard to measure how healthy a pig is, and we do not know much about the genes that affect this. Increased knowledge on gen...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Innlandet

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

HESTEFORSK EHV-1 in Sweden and Norway

Equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) is a viral disease affecting horses, causing both economic losses and reduced animal welfare. Recent outbreaks in Europe have highlighted the significant impact this virus can have on the equine industry. Although we know that EHV-1 is present in horse populations in ...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

HESTEORSK Inbreeding depression in Coldblooded trotters – cold truths on a hot topic

The Coldblooded trotter has successfully been bred for trotting performance, and the intense selection has led to a rapid increase not only in genetic merit but also in relatedness and inbreeding. This project aims to increase our knowledge about inbreeding depression in Coldblooded trotters to p...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Akershus

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

Nano4CRISPR: Novel nanocarrier reagents for environmental delivery of CRISPR/Cas

Gene-editing is the new generation of genetic engineering that can be applied to food through the production of plants, animals and microorganisms with agronomic traits of interest. Nano4CRISPR advances from ‘laboratory-based gene-editing approaches’ to ‘on-site approaches’ in which CRISPR/Cas9 g...

Awarded: NOK 15.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

EJP SOIL - Biochar-compost composites for supporting site-specific soil agro-ecosystem functions and climate change mitigation

Due to intensified agricultural practices and the impacts of climate change, soils are rapidly degrading worldwide and becoming increasingly nutrient deficient. With the rising cost of commercial fertilizers, there is a pressing need to develop sustainable solutions that can maintain soil fertili...

Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Akershus

FFLJA-FFLJA

Improving the nitrogen use efficiency of Norwegian dairy cattle

Nitrogen is an essential component of human food and animal feeds, but the nitrogen losses during agricultural production are substantial causing environmental problems and economic losses. Ammonia volatilization from faeces and urine increases the eutrophication of surface water bodies, degrades...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus

FFLJA-FFLJA

From Gene to Bread: Building knowledge and exploiting technology to achieve high wheat self-sufficiency in Norway

The Gene2Bread project aims to increase knowledge contributing to a higher degree of self-sufficiency in Norwegian bread wheat. Stable and adequate qualities are crucial for the industry to utilize more Norwegian wheat. Research activities will range from the identification of genes to the baking...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FFLJA-FFLJA

Strategies and methods to manage major insects and diseases of onion

Onions are susceptible to a range of pests and diseases, both in the field and during storage, which can significantly diminish their yield and quality. Among the most pressing challenges for sustainable onion production in Norway are the onion fly and Fusarium basal rot. QualityOnion project aim...

Awarded: NOK 20,000

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus

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