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IMod. Partial differential equations, statistics and data: An interdisciplinary approach to data-based modelling

In this interdisciplinary project we combine knowledge from mathematics and statistics, with data from fields such as fluid mechanics and neuroscience, to build, analyse and apply models that can be used both to forecast and understand new situations. Classical models for understanding the world...

Awarded: NOK 6.5 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Understanding melanin-based visual signalling in Atlantic salmon: A multi-disciplinary exercise

Distinct pigmentation patterns formed by black spots or stripes are common in a range of species throughout the animal kingdom – from insects to mammals, birds, and fish. This project is about the characteristic black spots on the otherwise silvery skin of salmon. These spots consist of the black...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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The underappreciated roles of dwarf-shrubs in responding to and influencing global climate change (DURIN)

Dwarf-shrubs are a dominant plant functional group across the boreal, arctic, and alpine biomes, and cover 58% of the Norwegian land area. They play important roles for biodiversity, ecology and ecosystem functioning in the habitats in which they occur. Dwarf-shrubs, such as bilberry or heather, ...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Vestland

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Multiple breast malignancies in dogs; improved understanding of disease progression by human-canine comparison

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in dogs and humans. Mammary gland tumors in dogs and humans are remarkably similar at several levels: Clinically, morphologically and molecularly, and there is a great potential in comparative studies that can benefit both dogs and humans suffering from bre...

Awarded: NOK 9.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Akershus

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Words and violence. Literary intellectuals between democracy and dictatorship 1933-1952

The Words and Violence research group analyzes the democratic resilience and vulnerability of cultural life in the 1930s and ’40s, using statistical and qualitative approaches drawn from a range of disciplines. This is done by comparing the Norwegian experience with that of other countries under ...

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

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Sustainable Stable Ground

Soft and sensitive soils, such as quick clay, present challenging conditions for infrastructure development in many parts of the world. For instance, it is estimated that more than 80 percent of all cultivated land, settlements, and infrastructure in Trøndelag and Østlandet are located below the ...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Observational Pyramid with Hyperspectral Nano-Satellites for Ocean Science

The HYPSO-1 satellite was launched into a polar orbit on 13 January 2022. The satellite is designed and operated by NTNU, and carries a hyperspectral imager that is custom made for better imaging of ocean color. Our hypothesis is that HYPSO-1 (and its successor HYPSO-2 launched 16 August 2024) wi...

Awarded: NOK 12.9 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Unravelling fundamental mechanisms of bacterial exopolysaccharide catabolism for use in food and health applications

Bacteria produce many chemical compounds, including carbohydrates that play key biological roles. Exopolysaccharides (EPS) make bacteria smooth and slimy and are crucial for both bacteria and humans. Pathogens use EPS in biofilms to evade immunity and antibiotics, while in food production EPS imp...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Akershus

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Enforcing the Rule of Law: What can the European Union do to prevent rule of law deterioration from within?

ENROL studies what the European Union (and its Member States) may legally and politically do effectively and legitimately to contain, reverse and prevent regression in rule of law and democratic standards in its midst. Respect for the rule of law and democratic standards have significantly deteri...

Awarded: NOK 12.7 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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A climate for spruce? New forest management to mitigate bark beetle risks under climate change

Gran er et av de viktigste treslagene i Europa, både i økonomisk forstand og fordi gran bidrar med viktige økosystemtjenester slik som karbonbinding og produksjon av karbonnøytrale råvarer. Fremtiden til kommersielt granskogbruk trues imidlertid i mange land av enorme utbrudd av stor granbarkbill...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Akershus

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Habitable Air: Urban Inequality in the Time of Climate Change

“Habitable Air” is a project that addresses the under-analyzed relationship between three urgent issues: (1) the rapid growth of urban inequality; (2) the ongoing amplification of political divisions in major democracies; and (3) the increasing impact of pollution and global warming. Our project’...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Vestland

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Aberrant Oxidative DNA Modifications and DNA Structures in Genome Regulation

DNA glycosylases are enzymes that initiate the repair of minor damage to DNA bases, which are the building blocks of our genetics. If the damaged DNA bases are not removed, they can cause cell death or mutations and eventually cancer. However, DNA glycosylases are also used in innate and adaptive...

Awarded: NOK 6.5 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Mid-IR ultra-short pulsed laser technology for science and green industry (MIR)

The MIR project develops next-generation mid-infrared (mid-IR) laser systems as tools for both fundamental science and green industry. These lasers enable ultra-precise 3D micro-structuring of advanced materials, with direct applications in renewable energy, electronics, and medicine. In the past...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Credit and creditability - a new approach to Norwegian economic history c. 1250-1570

The aim of the project has been to shed new light on economic development in Norway c. 1250-1600 through an analysis of credit activity. To do so, the project proceeded from the hypothesis that credit played a crucial economic and social role in medieval society. Through an analysis of why, how a...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Fragaria defence mechanisms and domestication of wild resistance genes

Both cultivated and wild plants can be attacked by microorganisms (pathogens) that cause disease, which is of great scientific and economic importance. Infections involve complex biological mechanisms with numerous gene products and signals in both the plant and the pathogen. To combat disease, w...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Akershus

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The Invention of the Lottery Fantasy: A Cultural, Transnational, and Transmedial History of European Lotteries

The project aims to produce new knowledge of the cultural, political, and financial impact of what we call "the lottery fantasy", the idea of a sudden, life-changing wealth through the big prize in the lottery. We will examine the lottery fantasy as a cultural figure as it circulated between coun...

Awarded: NOK 13.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Prisons of Note: Mapping music and nuances in penal exceptionalism from the periphery

Music is an integral part of human life both in times of joy and triumph and in times of crisis and isolation. The PRISONS OF NOTE project investigates the experiences, circumstances, and approaches related to music and imprisonment in the lives of people in custody, prison staff, and stakeholder...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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New concepts of protein regulation in health and disease

All aspects of the life of a human cell are controlled by proteins. Proteins can be modified by different chemical groups functioning as tags controlling protein function. One particular chemical group, acetyl, is coupled to nearly every single protein in our cells. Our research group at UiB has ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

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Investigating Contested Theories on Extreme-Right Terrorism

This project investigates how political violence is shaped by shifting political climates. Donald Trump’s performance as President of the United States gave momentum to two of the most contested theories on the causes of extreme-right terrorism and violence: representation and repression. Represe...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Enhancing optimal exploitation of solar energy in Nordic cities through the digitalization of the built environment

A large portion of solar energy remains unexploited. This is also the case in the Nordic countries, where climate challenges, legal and cultural barriers, and economic constraints prevent optimal exploitation of solar energy. In this context, the project HELIOS aims to turn the Nordic conditions ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Criminalized Peace: Are Transnational Crime-Fighting and Peace Processes Compatible?

‘Combat[ing] all forms of organized crime’ has become a priority for international policy enshrined in United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 16.4. The assumption underpinning this objective is that organized crime is a spoiler of peace, security, and development, and therefore combating org...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Climate Politics During Recessions: Examining Drivers of a Green Economic Recovery

Current emission reductions are insufficient to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, which requires net zero GHG emissions globally by 2050. CLIMREC maps out conditions for states to invest in decarbonization even in economic downturns. Researchers have pointed out that in recessions, states t...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Unravelling the role of oxytocin in behavioural flexibility

Behavioural flexibility, which is the ability to appropriately adjust one’s behaviour in response to a changing environment, is associated with improved quality of life and a higher resilience to stressors. Conversely, behavioural inflexibility is linked with several psychiatric illnesses, such a...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Randomized clinical trial assessing balloon occlusion of the aorta for controlling life-threatening postpartum bleeding in Africa

The leading direct cause of maternal mortality worldwide is heavy bleeding after birth or postpartum haemorrhage (PPH). Every day, over 150 women are dying in the world because of PPH, equivalent to one plane crash per day. Many of these deaths happens in low- and middle-income countries. Many ti...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Vestland

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SPACEPROBE: Small-satellite Positioned ACcurate non-Equilibrium Plasma Resolving methodOlogy for particle-Bombarding Environments

How should we set up a satellite network of space weather stations around the Earth? What type of instrument is optimal for this task? Modern society relies heavily on electronic equipment. In space, this equipment can easily be disturbed or even damaged by intense bursts of particles or radiati...

Awarded: NOK 6.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Does sleep duration affect the brain?

There is concern that insufficient sleep is a negative factor for physical, mental, and cognitive health in society. Some have even argued that our modern world suffers from a “sleeplessness epidemic.” After reviewing the scientific evidence, we find no convincing research showing that short slee...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Tracking cancer growth by intelligent displacement biomaps

Brain tumors are one of the deadliest forms of cancer and the primary goal of treatment is simply to decelerate tumor growth. Still, after decades of research, the survival outcome for this patient group has hardly improved. A reason for this paradox is a one-size-fits-all approach to diagnosis a...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Global glacier modeling: Do non-linear feedbacks matter for century-scale projections?

Glaciers around the world are retreating and thinning due to global warming; this directly impacts sea-level rise, streamflow and glacier related hazards. Results from numerical models that simulate the glacier changes into the future have shown that substantial glacier mass losses will continue ...

Awarded: NOK 9.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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EATWELL: A Comparative Material-Semiotic Ethnography of Food Systems and More-than-Human Health in Bhutan

Food systems bring socio-ecological environments into our guts through farming, herding, foraging, processing, buying, cooking and eating practices, all shaped by the different contexts in which they take place. These food-related practices, shaped by the organization of society, socio-cultural p...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Agder

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The Kantian Foundations of Democracy (KanDem)

This is the first large scale study of the theory of democracy of Kant and his followers in the 1790s. Kant’s political philosophy has recently been the subject of a surge of scholarly interest, yet scholars have ignored that he was the center of a large and productive research group known at the...

Awarded: NOK 15.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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