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POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Disentangling land-coast-ocean connections at Bouvetøya, the most remote marine ecosystem hotspot in the Southern Ocean

Sub-Antarctic islands such as Bouvetøya host some of the world's richest ecosystems. They are hotspots for abundant marine life including sea birds and marine mammals, but very little is known regarding what makes these islands so rich in life. This is mainly due to lack of observations caused by...

Awarded: NOK 25.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Copepod based Feeds for Improved Salmon Health and aquaculture sustainability

Norway is the world’s largest producer of Atlantic salmon (salmon from here on), but the industry faces major challenges with fish health and welfare, both in land-based and seawater phases, leading to high mortalities. Farmed salmon often have poor resistance to stress and disease, resulting in ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

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

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

TO KILL AN EMPIRE? RUSSIAN MUSICAL EXILE IN TIMES OF WAR

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, many Russian musicians have been forced into exile due to censorship and repression. Some have been labeled “foreign agents,” banned from performing in Russia, and pushed to rebuild their careers abroad. Yet exile has not meant silence. Inste...

Awarded: NOK 5.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Inclusive Educational Rights: Balancing Rights of Violent Children, Their Peers and Educators

Pupils who behave violently against classmates and school staff are an increasing problem in Norway, affecting safety, learning and long-term life chances. Around a quarter of primary teachers reported violence or threats in 2024. Early intervention is crucial to prevent social exclusion and futu...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Match effects and matchmaking in education

Which is the best school? In Norway, as in most other countries, students, parents, and policymakers ask this question every year. Schools are ranked by admission cutoffs and value-added models, and politicians pledge to improve the trailing schools. However, if different students thrive in diffe...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Centre for Defects in Semiconductors for Quantum Sensing

The Centre for Defects in Semiconductors for Quantum Sensing (DSQS) explores the idea that tiny imperfections in crystals can enable novel sensing capabilities. These imperfections, known as color centers or quantum defects, can emit single photons and host quantum spins that can be extremely sen...

Awarded: NOK 61.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Environmentalized Peace: Community-Based Approaches to Water and Air Security in Jordan and Palestine

What happens when pollution from war doesn’t stop at the border? Environmentalized Peace is a groundbreaking project exploring how communities in Jordan and Palestine can work together to confront a new and invisible threat: conflict-driven air pollution drifting across borders. For decades, muni...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

INNO-OFF-INNO-OFF

Bærekraftig radikal oppgavedeling i helse og omsorgssektoren

The BRO project (Sustainable Radical Division of Tasks) addresses two major societal problems. One is the coming capacity crisis in health and care services; the other is the large number of people of working age who are outside of work and education. BRO will meet these challenges by developing ...

Awarded: NOK 21.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KSFF-KSFF

Randomized controlled trial of tailored and sustainable health care solutions for home-dwelling individuals with high healthcare utilization

HighHealthCare (HøyHelseOmsorg) aims to strengthen the sustainability of municipal health services by developing and testing a digital home follow-up intervention tailored to people with high health service use. The goal is to increase health literacy, self-management, quality of life and user ...

Awarded: NOK 14.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MARITIMFORSK-MARITIMFORSK

Maritim havovervåkning og beredskap

The risk landscape at sea is becoming increasingly complex with increased shipping traffic, new threat actors, the effects of climate change and increasing digital vulnerability and cyber-attacks. This creates need for more advanced surveillance at sea. Existing solutions are largely static and s...

Awarded: NOK 21.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

AquaWatch - Soft Sensors and Data Fusion for Precision Fish Farming

Aquaculture is Norway’s second largest export industry and make sustainable protein for the world. The sector is moving toward more data driven operations, yet fish farmers continue to face challenges related to feeding efficiency and sea lice management. Although monitoring technologies exist, m...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Forskaropphald ved Universitetet i Helsingfors – klimarisiko og maladapsjon i omstilling til fornybarsamfunnet

Prosjektet SUSFIN er eit forskingsopphald ved Universitetet i Helsinki som skal vidareutvikle teoretisk kunnskap om klimarisiko i energiomstillinga. Formålet er å undersøkje korleis tiltak for å redusere utslepp og klimatilpasse samfunnet av og til kan gi utilsikta konsekvensar, som aukar sårbarh...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

ReinAir: Seasonal airborne mapping and modelling of Svalbard reindeer habitat in Reindalen

It is urgent to predict the effects of climate change on Svalbard reindeer, since population dynamics have been driven by the contrasting effects of summer and winter warming over the past 30 years: Winter warming has led to an increase in the frequency of rain-on-snow (ROS) events, which alters ...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Svalbard reindeer spatial ecology - from individuals to populations

Populations’ dynamics and distributions change in response to climate and habitat changes, yet our current knowledge is based mostly on correlational evidence. What each animal does depends on its physiological state and immediate environment, meaning that the processes by which climate change af...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Svalbard

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Advancing transformative governanCe through Transboundary conservation and collaborative learning

Nature does not stop at international boundaries, but governance often does. ACT examines how transboundary cooperation in nature conservation can help reverse and halt biodiversity loss. The project aims to lay the groundwork for improving how countries work together to protect shared landscapes...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Deciphering the crosstalk between autophagy and metabolic rewiring in cancer

Autophagy is a process that recycles damaged cellular components, helping cells survive stress. The role of autophagy in cancer is complicated: autophagy can stop early tumors from forming, but it can also help established cancer cells survive low oxygen, lack of nutrients, or treatment. A specif...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Next-generation digital twins for biological cell environments

Can we predict how a heart cell reacts to a new medicine using only a computer? DigiCells aims to create "digital twins" of biological cells and their surroundings to revolutionize how we understand the heart and brain. Objective Modern microscopy allows us to see biological cells in breathtakin...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Centre for Personalized Digital Health Promotion

Lifestyle-related diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, overweight, and mental health problems are among the main public health challenges in Norway. They reduce the quality of life and place significant pressure on the healthcare system. Research shows that many of these conditions ...

Awarded: NOK 96.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2034

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Mitochondrial maintenance across eukaryotes via coupled physical, genetic, and social dynamics: Researcher mobility

In many ways, biological cells resemble cities. They need energy, waste management, communication, and transport infrastructure—and they must coordinate resources to meet these needs. Urban planning draws on mathematics, simulations, and real-world data to manage such systems. Could a similarly i...

Awarded: NOK 6.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Human-AI Teaming Framework in Cyber Security for Critical Infrastructures: Enhancing Resilience and Autonomy

HAT-CI introduces a new paradigm for cyber defense, which is built on human-AI teaming that is adaptive, resilient, and ethically aligned. Critical Infrastructures such as energy grids are increasingly exposed to sophisticated and evolving cyber threats. While AI provides the ability to detect pa...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

SYNAPSE: SYnergetic Network-AI Platform for Semantic Efficiency

A cardiac arrest alert should reach a doctor in milliseconds. An AI system monitoring patients should learn instantly which patterns are dangerous. But today, networks do not understand urgency, and AI cannot see network problems. A life-critical medical alert competes for space with cat videos. ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Unlocking the Power of Spatial Computing using Tile-Centric AI Accelerators

The AI revolution has led to an unprecedented demand in compute power with modern datacentres consuming more electricity than entire cities. Consequently, it is necessary to reduce their power consumption. Until recently, computer chips were simply to get faster because their structure was gett...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Arctic-Subarctic Ocean Fluxes Workshop 2026

The 24th Arctic-Subarctic Ocean Fluxes (ASOF) workshop will be hosted in Bergen on April 21-23, 2026. The workshop will welcome about 100 researchers in different fields, and the special theme of the 2026 workshop is “Celebrating 150 years of Nordic Seas Research”. The venue for the workshop will...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Methods for enhanced utilization of the regional distribution grid system (DSO) in the interplay with the transmission system (TSO)

With the ever-increasing demand for electrical power in the electricity grid in Norway, the capacity of the existing electric grid is no longer sufficient. The electrification of the transport sector, support for the development of electro-intensive industries, and the facilitation of new initiat...

Awarded: NOK 0.21 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Telemark

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Aligning Corporate Purpose with Local Needs in the Coral Triangle Tuna Industry

Oceans are among our most vital global commons, supporting food systems, livelihoods, and climate resilience, yet they face accelerating degradation from overexploitation, warming, and habitat loss. Nowhere are these pressures more visible than in the Coral Triangle, a region that covers just 1–2...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Towards Matching Bounds in Large Deviations

Unlikely, but possible, events are everywhere, from extreme heatwaves to mechanical failure or stock market crashes. In such systems, the rare events may have catastrophic outcomes, and it is therefore crucial to understand exactly how unlikely (or not) they are. The mathematical framework to qu...

Awarded: NOK 7.3 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FORSKNINGSDATA-FORSKNINGSDATA

Galactic Recipe for Exo-Planets

We discover steadily new planets around other stars. Many of these exoplanets orbit their host star much closer than Mercury. The most common type of exoplanets does not exist in the Solar System. These exoplanets have a size between Earth and Neptune and a range of masses that makes it difficult...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

FERTILITY INEQUALITY: Economic and social drivers of declining birth rates

Birth rates have been declining for a long time in Norway, as in the rest of the world. A t the same time, fertility inequalities have widened – both between men and women, and between individuals with higher and lower levels of income and education. What explains the growing inequality in the nu...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Cumulative effects of climate change and pollution - How climate region and local habitat shape biological responses and recovery

Global warming and pollution are major threats to nature and a sustainable future. In SoilStress we aim to understand the mechanisms underlying the combined effects of climate change and pollution on soil animals. The main questions are: •Why do populations react differently to pesticides and te...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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