44,138 projects

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Intensionality and Forcing: A New Model-Theoretic Synthesis

Imagine trying to explain what a belief or the meaning of a sentence really is. We use them constantly—when we say “I think it will rain” or when we understand a joke—but they are surprisingly hard for science to pin down. Even simple ideas can fool our theories. Two sentences might always be tru...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Discovering vulnerabilities in colorectal cancer by measuring double stranded RNA

Only a small part of DNA is transcribed and converted into functioning molecules, or in other words, expressed. Healthy cells tightly control which regions are expressed, however, cancer cells lose this regulatory control to allow uncontrolled cell growth. Interestingly, loss of regulatory contro...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Technology-Enhanced Cognitive Resilience Toolkit for Disinformation Detection, Vulnerability Profiling, and Digital User Empowerment

Generative AI has made it easy to produce convincing fake news, deepfakes, and tailored scams at scale. That changes the information landscape. People are exposed to more misleading content, faster, and often in forms that are hard to spot at a glance. Much of the current response has focused on ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Vestland

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

AGROECOL2 Empowering Young Farmers to Coordinate Agrifood Transformations through Engaged RIs and Agroecological LLs

EMPOWERALL builds four youth-led “Agroecological Living Labs” across Europe i.e. real places where young farmers team up with researchers, advisors, civil society and public authorities to figure out what sustainable farming looks like on the ground, not just on paper. These labs are hosted insid...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Rule of Law and the Public Sense of Justice in Norway - International Conventions and National Norms in a Time of Crisis (PublicJustice)

We currently find ourselves in the middle of a global rule of law crisis. Fundamental principles of the rule of law, which are often taken for granted in democratic countries, are increasingly being questioned and, to some extent, abandoned. This is true not only in remote autocracies, but also i...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

GROOVE: Mapping, Modeling, and Perceiving the Combinatorics of Groove-Based Rhythms

GROOVE asks a simple question with wide implications: why do certain rhythmic patterns—and especially specific combinations across instruments—move us more than others? We study the musical “engine” behind that impulse and what it reveals about how people organize patterns in time, experience ple...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Cancer Resistance of arctic Species

The proposed CAREaS 4-year project aims to acquire a unique accurate descriptive database collected simultaneously at the inter-specific level and in a cohort of individuals within a species, on cancer-related proxies and the link with body mass. Such a dataset is presently inexistent for most bi...

Awarded: NOK 52,999

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Automating language description

Almost half of the world’s 7000 languages are endangered (Campbell & Belew 2018). Linguists try to combat this loss of human heritage by documenting languages. They do this by recording words, sentences and stories in the original language, accompanied by transcriptions, translations and grammati...

Awarded: NOK 8.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

Winter-is-coming – But do soil microorganisms know and prepare accordingly?

Microorganisms—invisibly to our naked eyes—quietly run the Earth’s life support system. Among many so-called ecosystem services they provide, they produce oxygen for us to breathe and recycle nutrients for plants to grow. Furthermore, microorganisms are not as simple and primitive as we often dep...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

DidactiQC – Teaching and Learning the Mathematics of Quantum Computing

Quantum computing is rapidly emerging as a transformative scientific and technological paradigm, reshaping fields ranging from cryptography and optimization to materials science and machine learning. As this development accelerates, the demand for a new generation of students who possess both a s...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Evolution of cold adaptation through independent origins of fructan synthesis in plants

Evolution of cold adaptation through independent origins of fructan synthesis in plants Fructans are storage carbohydrates that buffer frost and drought stress and support winter survival when photosynthesis ceases. They occur in about 15% of flowering plants but have evolved multiple times, ofte...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Akershus

FINANSMARKED-FINANSMARKED

Enhancing Norway’s Financial Market through Improved Regulation of Covered Bonds and Mortgage Securitisation

Covered Bonds have become a key source of funding for Norwegian banks. While such bonds have long traditions in countries like Denmark and Germany, Norwegian regulation only emerged in 2002, with improvements in 2007. The regulatory framework has enabled Norwegian financial institutions to raise ...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Multilectal Individual Differences in Reading: Neurocognitive and Behavioral Effects of Dialect Exposure on Literacy Development

MInDReading investigates how exposure to dialect variation affects literacy and reading comprehension. In Norway, speakers grow up with regional dialects while learning to read and write in two written standards, Nynorsk and Bokmål. Although these varieties are easily mutually intelligible, they ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Møre og Romsdal

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

UAV remote sensing of permafrost degradation and vegetation community changes after snow manipulation

Permafrost in polar regions is reaching critical thermal limits leading to small changes in environmental conditions to have substantial impacts on the overall system. In this project, we aim to investigate the impact of a snow fence manipulation experiment on vegetation and permafrost degradatio...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Student Employment: Does it Affect Academic Performance and Later Labour Market Success?

Dette prosjektet undersøker sammenhengen mellom studiestøtte, deltidsarbeid under høyere utdanning og akademiske resultater, gjennom tre empiriske studier basert på norske registerdata. Det er artikkel 2 og 3 kandidaten vil arbeide med under utenlandsoppholdet. I artikkel 1 undersøker kandidate...

Awarded: NOK 0.36 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

CancER-phagy: Unravelling and targeting ER-phagy in cancer

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) can be considered the factory of the cell where important cellular components such as proteins and lipids are assembled. In cancer cells, these factories are running beyond their normal capacity to generate components required for tumour growth and spread. To preven...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Regional downscaling of eco-physiological theory. The contribution of talented researcher NN

Global models based on advanced eco-physiological theory predict that fish populations at high latitudes, such as Atlantic cod and herring, are vulnerable due to physical and physiological constraints that are difficult to avoid under climate change. This project aims to downscale these predictio...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Scattering Amplitudes: Linking particles and black holes Effectively

What happens when black holes collide? These spectacular events release enormous amounts of energy, which bends space and time. The ripples of the aftermath are measured here on Earth. The detection of these gravitational waves have unlocked a new way to study Nature. To observe black holes direc...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Rogaland

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

Network dynamics during encoding and recall of episodic memories in humans

Remember your last birthday party: the guests at the door, the tasty food, the small pile of presents. Those memories are called episodic memories. They are memories of events that happen in a particular place (“where”) and in a particular order (“when”). To form these memories, the brain must s...

Awarded: NOK 22.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Digital Forlandsundet: Integrated geoscientific data modelling of the Forlandsundet basin, Western Svalbard

Digital Forlandsundet: Integrated geoscientific data modelling of the Forlandsundet Basin, Western Svalbard The Forlandsundet region in western Svalbard provides an exceptional natural laboratory for investigating how the Earth’s crust evolves from compressional to extensional deformation – a ke...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Tectono-stratigraphy of Forlandsundet Graben

This project investigates the tectonic evolution of the Forlandsundet Graben in western Svalbard, with a focus on understanding the transition from contractional deformation to extensional rifting. The study area offers a rare geological setting where both the Paleogene rift basin and its Neoprot...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Svalbard

INNO-OFF-INNO-OFF

Å forske med småbarn: Sammen på vei mot barns medvirkning

'Sammen på vei' er et workshop-basert samarbeidsprosjekt mellom en personalgruppe på en småbarnsavdeling og forskere ved forskningsgruppen BarneKraft ved Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge (USN) og forskningsgruppen Barn, barnehage, barndom ved Høgskolen i Østfold (HiØ). Prosjektets mål er å legge grun...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Telemark

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

The Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research summer school in Svalbard 2026.

The term - The Global Arctic, is gaining currency in contemporary debates about how the Arctic and the rest of the world are interconnected. Modern phenomena such as globalization, climate change and transboundary pollution have brought the Arctic into global webs of science, commerce, security a...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Differentiable Fracture Simulation

Introduction Fractures in the Earth's subsurface are crucial for operations such as geothermal energy extraction and CO2 storage. Changes to fluid pressure and rock temperature during operation may cause fractures to form and evolve, in turn affecting fluid flow. Understanding this interplay is e...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Harmonic Analytic and Quantum Metric Aspects of Rapid Decay (HAQMARD)

In classical metric geometry we study metric spaces, which are sets equipped with a notion of distance known as a metric. Of importance when studying metric spaces are the continuous functions on the space. In fact, it turns out that the metric can be characterized solely in terms of a subset of ...

Awarded: NOK 4.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Ny-Ålesund winter Precipitation Experiment

The project consists of bringing new precipitation instruments to Ny-Ålesund to study the impact of the wind on their measurements. Collecting data in the field is necessary to develop corrections tailored to a specific location, as the wind influence is dependent on the local climate. The projec...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Akershus

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

Strategic collaboration for long-term increase in research quality

LØFT is a network in computer science with partners from the Universities of Oslo, Bergen and Tromsø and Simula Research Laboratory. The network's purpose is to establish long-term collaborative relationships between academic research communities, industry and public administration in the field o...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Technological Change, Labor Representation, and Job Quality: A Comparative Historical Analysis, c. 1830–1980

TECHLABOR investigates how new technologies have changed the quality of jobs. Job quality includes aspects of work that affect wellbeing such as work intensity, safety on the job, and working hours as well as wages. Improving the quality of jobs is a global policy commitment, but early research o...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

Norwegian Structures in Topology, Algebra and Geometry (NORSTAGE)

NORSTAGE is a national research network aimed at strengthening Norway’s research in algebra, geometry, and topology. These are central areas of pure mathematics with deep roots in Norwegian mathematics going back to Niels Henrik Abel and Sophus Lie. The fields explore everything from geometric sp...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Diet variation in Arctic Snow buntings (Plectrophenax nivalis) through DNA-metabarcoding of fecal samples, RiS ID 2272

The project "Diet variation in Arctic Snow buntings (Plectrophenax nivalis) through DNA-metabarcoding of fecal samples" is a continuation of the snow bunting long-term monitoring project conducted yearly since 1998, assessing the reproductive success of snow buntings breeding in Adventdalen (RiS ...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Svalbard