502 projects

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POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Resilience of polar ecosystems to the cumulative effects of physical and biological changes in Norway’s high Arctic (ROPES)

The Arctic is changing quickly, and Svalbard’s fjords are among the places where these changes are most visible. Warmer Atlantic water is reaching farther north, sea ice is disappearing, and new fish species such as cod and haddock are becoming more common. At the same time, the small polar cod, ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Methods of resilience: examining the extent of driftwood exploitation on the west coast of Norway (INCIPIT-CSIC research stay)

The project explores a novel approach combining anatomical wood identification and microscopic analysis of fungal decay patterns, to establish an effective method for identifying driftwood in the archaeological record. The study focuses on the Viking Age and medieval period (c. 790-1450 CE), dete...

Awarded: NOK 85,999

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Rogaland

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Formal Techniques for Self-Adaptive Workflow Models

This project aims to contribute to the development of formal techniques to enable self-adaptive workflow models by automating the arrangement of task scheduling and resource allocation. We are targeting on workflows that span across organisations and are connected through dependent workflow task...

Awarded: NOK 82,999

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

NorMoSTFun Postdoc abroad stay at the Aquatic Microbial Interactions Group, University of Turku (UTU)

Aquatic fungi (AF) are important parts of biodiversity in freshwater and marine ecosystems and occupy ecosystem functions as decomposers, parasites and pathogens. In this way AF interacts and control animal and plant populations and affect carbon and nutrient cycling, and as a source of nutrients...

Awarded: NOK 0.87 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

Into the Fjords: Blue Museums as Arenas of Learning about Vulnerable Ecosystems

The project’s overarching aim is to equip museums with research-based knowledge to function as arenas of learning about vulnerable ecosystems in general and development of ocean literacy in particular. We define “blue” as the approach of seeing the world from an ocean-centred instead of terrestri...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Rogaland

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Sjøfjær som indikatororganisme for miljøpåvirking i norske fjorder – kunnskapsgrunnlag for tjenester rettet mot marin næring og forvaltning

The main purpose of the project is to build expertise on sea pens in Norwegian fjords and on their vulnerability to environmental impact in the form of oxygen deficiency and sedimentation. Sea pens are corals that live on marine soft bottoms. They can form sea pen communities, an important habita...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Møre og Romsdal

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Fate and Effects of Perfluoroalkyl Substances and Their Precursors and Alternatives in Norwegian Marine Environments and Seafood Species

The research planned during this stay will combine advanced analytical chemistry and ecotoxicological approaches to identify and characterize previously unknown PFAS-related compounds, particularly from aqueous film-forming foams (AFFF). Structural elucidation of isolated fractions will be perfor...

Awarded: NOK 0.23 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Vestland

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

FLoating Offshore Wind Effect on the pelagic system, knowledge base for impact assessment and monitoring

Norway has ambitoius plans for the future of renewable energy: by 2040, the country aims to install 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power. To meet this goal, floating offshore wind farms (FOWFs) will need to be built far out at sea, in deep waters where traditional wind turbines cannot be installed...

Awarded: NOK 10.6 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

Bergen Bathysphere Science Symposium 2025 - Deep-sea Workshop

Deep-sea science has been one of Bergen´s historically strong research and expertise areas with a number of institutions in the city operating world-class platforms and leading the charge in the exploration and understanding of these environments. However, there has been a need to bridge the wide...

Awarded: NOK 74,999

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Vestland

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

Development of knowledge base for acoustic data analysis describing predator-prey relations in offshore wind development areas

The Norwegian government's ambition is to establish 30 gigawatts offshore wind farms (OWF) on the Norwegian continental shelf by 2040, with potential big impacts for the marine environment. Norway has identified multiple areas in the Norwegian Sea for OWF development, two of which are currently u...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Understanding cumulative human impacts in a marine ecosystem with computational experiments

People affect marine ecosystems in many ways, such as climate change, pollution, and overfishing. Cumulative impacts refer to the combined effects of such stressors. They pose one of the biggest threats to ecosystems and biodiversity worldwide. Yet, we know little about how stressors act togethe...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Research stay - HERPOPS

The research stay will contribute directly to the HERPOPS project’s objectives of resolving the spatiotemporal structure of herring populations in the Northeastern Atlantic and developing environmental DNA (eDNA)-based tools for monitoring their occurrence and mixing. The stay is divided into two...

Awarded: NOK 0.29 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Vestland

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

Unlocking Ocean Health Through Citizen Science: A Collaborative Event for the Oslofjord

Citizen Science projects can be a cornerstone in Ocean stewardship, bridging the gap from research to social awareness and policy making. Citizen science projects, also called “community science projects” to be inclusive towards non-citizens, involve the engagement of the general public in scient...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

PEAK: Plasmid Evolution and Antimicrobial resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a serious threat to human health which is predicted to increase in the future. One of the most common ways that bacteria evolve resistance to antibiotics is by acquiring resistance genes; these are often carried on pieces of DNA called plasmids. Plasmids carrying...

Awarded: NOK 5.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

SBEP - PalmariaPlus, Unlocking the potential of two high value seaweed species, Dulse and Irish moss, in Europe.

Seaweed farming is one of the most sustainable forms of aquaculture, and this emerging industry is expanding rapidly in Norway and beyond. Currently, most seaweed farms in Norway and Europe focus on cultivating brown macroalgae (kelp) because of its rapid growth and ease of reproduction. Red seaw...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

Sunne hav og vann innen 2030 – Norsk Mission Ocean dag

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

CORRASBlue: Coastal Corrosion Risk Management through Digital twin model for a Sustainable Blue Economy

Our oceans are home to a large number of structures – such as wind turbines, pipelines, offshore platforms – that are under constant threat from corrosion. This slow but destructive process would yield loss on the order of billions of euros. Application of corrosion inhibitors and coatings proved...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Vestland

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

Gjennom Nordvestpassasjen i kjølvannet av Roald Amundsen

Havet er helt essensielt for alt liv på jorda. Det er derfor svært viktig å forstå de marine økosystemene og hvilke virkninger det får når det skjer endringer i havet på grunn av klimaendringer. En synlig konsekvens av klimaendringene er at isen i Arktis smelter, noe som gjør det mulig for seilsk...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Regional downscaling of eco-physiological theory. Confronting global predictions with local observations.

In the face of current and future global warming, we need predictive models that forecast ecological consequences. For marine systems, such models typically consist of a global climate projection model coupled to various temperature-dependent functions that represent biological and physiological ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2030

Location: Vestland

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

Lightscapes ALANIS - ALANIS: Impacts of Artificial Light At Night on pelagIc ecosystems in European Seas

Light plays a huge role in ocean life — not just for powering photosynthesis, but also for guiding how animals find food, avoid predators, and move through the water. But human activities are changing these natural light patterns. Coastal darkening, caused by things like pollution and algae bloom...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

IndicatorS Of changing Lightscapes in Underwater Marine Ecosystems

The ISOLUME project will investigate how changes in light affect our oceans. Responding to a call from JPI Oceans, this international effort aims to understand the impacts of coastal water darkening and artificial light at night (ALAN) pollution on marine environments. Led by the Leibniz Institut...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Vestland

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Assessing the environmental impacts of deep-sea mining of polymetallic nodules and seafloor massive sulphides

The Mining Impact project was selected as part of the third phase of the successful JPI Oceans Joint Action on the ecological aspects of deep-sea mining. The research consortium brings together experts from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, and the Unite...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Vestland

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

Oslofjordens fantastiske skapninger og hvorfor vi må passe på dem

Oslofjorden står overfor betydelig press fra omkringliggende industri, menneskelige aktiviteter langs kysten, klimaforandringer og utbyggingsprosjekter. Arbeidet beskrevet i søknaden vil bidra til å øke kunnskapen om dyrelivet i Oslofjorden samtidig som det vil fremhever hvor avgjørende bevaring ...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BIOTEKNOLOGI-BIOTEKNOLOGI

Novel functional textiles from red and brown seaweed

Today's global textile and garment industry is characterized by overproduction and little reuse in so-called "fast fashion", accompanied by an increased use of synthetic materials that are non-renewable and contribute to 35% of microplastics pollution in the Oceans, along with toxic and non-degra...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

SEDNA: Assess Seasonality in Pelagic Diversity and Carbon Export within the Central Arctic Ocean

Since the last decades, warmer Atlantic waters are penetrating deeper into the Central Arctic Ocean (CAO), weakening the typical extreme cold conditions. This change is altering the diversity and role of marine life, as well as affecting how carbon is transported from the surface to the deep ocea...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

Sea-ice lead dynamics in the new Arctic and their impact on primary production

Global warming is changing the Arctic, especially the sea ice, which affects the marine ecosystems that depend on it. Sea ice algae and phytoplankton (primary producers that capture CO2 and transform it to organic carbon) are important microorganisms in the Arctic food web, initiating a spring bl...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

The hidden role of copepods in coastal macroalgae for marine ecosystem functioning

Coastal ecosystems harbor most of the marine life on the planet, but they are under increasing pressure from urbanization, industrialization, pollution, and overfishing. This, along with the effects of climate change, leads to the degradation and loss of coastal habitats, with dramatic declines i...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Reducing impacts of Wind energy on Nocturnal flyers to aid Green transition and Sustainability

Wind energy is an important tool for combating climate change. Unfortunately, it can have negative consequences for wildlife, in part due to the risk of collisions between flying animals and the rotor blades of the wind turbines. The Oslo-based startup Spoor is working to reduce this conflict by ...

Awarded: NOK 18.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

Skagerrakseilasen - Kunnskap for Hav og Fjord

Sammen med partnere i Norge, Sverige og Danmark, vil vi fra Universitetet i Agder og Havforskningsinstituttet legge ut på en 14-dagers seilas med S/S Sørlandet 9.-2i. juni 2025 i Skagerrak og tilgrensende områder (se https://www.skagerrakseilasen.no/ ). Formålet med prosjektet er å skape oppmerks...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Agder

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

Det blå universet: Fra plankton til matfat

Formidlingen vil foregå i to separate bolker med to hovedtemaer: Livet i havet, ledet av Vitensenteret, og mat fra havet og bærekraftig havbruk, ledet av NTNU. Vitensenteret har erfaring med å formidle om livet i havet og NTNU bidrar med informasjon om mulighetene for å studere og forske på temae...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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