40,340 projects

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Consultants in the Welfare State (CONSULT): Consequences for Governance and Legitimacy

Knowledge and expertise are fundamental to the governance of the welfare state. In recent decades, a new type of commercial knowledge provider has rapidly emerged as key advisers to governments worldwide, including in Norway. Consulting firms are frequently used as experts in policy development, ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

MatSci-LLM: Accelerating Materials Science Research with Large Language Models

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in scientific discoveries, particularly in the natural sciences. These generative AI models, trained on vast amounts of web-crawled data, can process and analyze large volumes of scientific literature, enabling researchers to uncover novel insigh...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Green Industry and Land-use Governance: Interests, Power and Institutions

IndustryLand examines the relationships between industry, climate and land-use politics and policies in Europe. As the green transition intensifies pressure on scarce nature areas, the project will examine how evolving policies to promote green industries in the EU and Norway integrate land-use r...

Awarded: NOK 10.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

NANOTEKNOLOGI-NANOTEKNOLOGI

Selective Oxygen Carriers with Catalytic Function for Sustainable Ethylene: Innovating Redox Chemistry in Methane Conversion

SOCCER: A Game-Changer for Clean Ethylene Production The SOCCER project aims to revolutionize production of ethylene—a key building block in plastics—by turning methane into ethylene in a cleaner, more energy-efficient way. The aim: Reactor designs that achieve over 80% ethylene selectivity and m...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Academic Careers: Examining the Significance of Socio-Economic Background

Academics occupy a privileged position in society. They are experts in their fields, share knowledge with the public, train new generations of students, and hire future academics. While much research has explored how social background—such as parental education, income, or class—affects success i...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

Smart Precision for Quantum Resilience

Quantum computers promise breakthroughs in medicine discovery, climate-smart cities, and secure communications. But today’s machines are fragile: qubits are noisy, computations are short-lived, and reliable results often demand more hardware than we have. SPQR—Smart Precision for Quantum Resilien...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Vocational-Oriented Sustainability Education Across Museums and School (VOSEAMS)

Does it matter to you which products your hairdresser uses on your hair? Or what materials the carpenter uses to build your house? And what about the food in the cafeteria – are local ingredients important to you? Professionals use products, materials, and services that have impacts on climate, ...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Resolving the Solar Convective Conundrum: A Full-Physics Approach to Solar Convection

The Sun looks calm from a distance, but its interior is boiling. Hot gas rises, cooler gas sinks, and this continuous churning – called convection – transports energy from the deep interior to the surface. These flows help drive the Sun’s magnetic field and, in turn, the solar activity that affec...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

Nordic NOIR - Nordic Network of IBD Researchers

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)—Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis—affects about 50,000 people in Norway and often requires lifelong, advanced care. Despite many new therapies, a substantial proportion of patients experience primary non-response or loss of response, increasing the risk of bo...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Simulation of High-Temperature Multiphysics in Complex Subsurface Formations (Simplex)

The Simplex project at the University of Bergen is dedicated to improving our understanding of deep subsurface environments, particularly those influenced by high temperatures and complex geological settings. By developing mathematical models and computational methods, the project aims to explore...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Sea Ice Forecasts -in a box- for Informed Arctic Navigation

As human activity in the Arctic continues to grow, ships are increasingly exposed to dangerous and rapidly changing sea-ice and weather conditions. From commercial shipping and tourism to search-and-rescue operations, safe navigation in polar waters depends on having accurate, timely, and locally...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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

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

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

The Norwegian Quantum Software Center

Quantum computers promise to solve complex problems that are too difficult for today’s classical computers, with potential benefits for industry and the public sector across many domains, including healthcare, climate, and security. Major companies and governments worldwide are investing heavily ...

Awarded: NOK 61.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Rettslige rammer for balansen mellom arbeid og fritid ved hjemmekontor.

Prosjektet undersøker hvordan arbeidsrettslig regulering kan bidra til å ivareta balansen mellom arbeid og fritid i et stadig mer digitalisert arbeidsliv. Økt bruk av hjemmekontor og fleksible arbeidsformer utfordrer tradisjonelle grenser for arbeidstid og tilgjengelighet, og reiser nye rettslige...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Centre for Quantum Computing and Applications

The Centre for Quantum Computing and Applications (QSTAR) will strengthen Norway’s role in the global development of quantum computing. Quantum computers have the potential to solve problems that are impossible for today’s computers, but significant scientific challenges must be overcome before t...

Awarded: NOK 61.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

EMPOWERED – Empowering students as future digital citizens

EMPOWERED aims to develop innovative practices, methods and tools that promote digital empowerment in schools and teacher education. Being ‘digitally empowered’ involves understanding technology and algorithms, exercising critical thinking and digital judgment, and awareness of digital inclusive ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Validation of a Sea Ice Prediction Model using Buoy Observations

The project aims to join the SvalMIZ2026 campaign onboard the KV Svalbard Coast Guard vessel to operationally test an AI-based sea-ice model for safe Arctic navigation around Svalbard and deploy 10 OpenMetBuoys to collect sea-ice drift, wave, and temperature data for model validation. This work i...

Awarded: NOK 50,999

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

(In)visible Changes: Glacial Methane and its Impacts on Fjord Ecosystems

Arctic marine-terminating glaciers are retreating rapidly due to climate change, creating new methane emission hotspots in shallow fjord waters. In Svalbard, where warming exceeds twice the Arctic average, methane once trapped beneath glaciers is now being released. Yet, the ecological impacts of...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Svalbard

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

The Big 5 Norway project - increasing public mental health through micro-interventions

How Small Daily Actions Can Strengthen Public Mental Health Around the world, millions struggle with anxiety, depression and stress—and research shows that even small daily actions can make a big difference. This idea lies at the heart of The Big Five project, an international initiative led by d...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Vestland

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

Havet - under overflaten

Havet – under overflaten skal utvikle en sanselig og forskningsforankret formidlingsopplevelse som gjør det mulig for publikum å erfare havets betydning for livet på jorden. Prosjektet tar utgangspunkt i at havet ikke bare er et geografisk rom, men et levende system som regulerer klima, produsere...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

AGROECOL2 Promoting AGROecology through co-creating value chain innovations and improved multi-level POLIcieS in a beyond-growth Europe

The term "agroecology" has been around for around a hundred years, aiming to make our food systems more sustainable and holistic. However, awareness and adoption of agroecology in Europe is still quite low, with estimates suggesting that less than three percent of farms on the continent operate f...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

HELSEFORSKNING-Helseforskning

Strategies for antiplatelet management following acute coronary syndrome (STREAMLINE)

STREAMLINE is a clinical research study about improving care after a heart attack (also called acute coronary syndrome, ACS). After a heart attack, most patients are recommended to take two blood-thinning drugs (dual antiplatelet therapy or DAPT) to lower the chance of another heart attack or str...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

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

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Multiphysics of salt precipitation during CO2 storage

When CO2 is pumped deep underground for safe and long-term storage, it can trigger a lesser-known challenge: salt crystals forming inside the rock pores. CO2 dries the salty water inside the rock pores. This water becomes more and more salty until the salt crystals form. These crystals can block ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Secure energy systems for a renewable future

The power sector is the backbone of modern Norwegian society and supports almost all critical functions, including healthcare, transport, communications and national defence. Today, this critical infrastructure faces increasing threats; cyberattacks, sabotage and intelligence operations. This cre...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage