467 projects

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MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

GEAK workshop: Assessing the value and function of the world’s kelp forests

The world’s kelp forests are extensive vegetated marine ecosystems that cover over a quarter of the world’s coastlines. Kelp forests provide extensive benefits to humans, including 14 of the 18 contributions of nature to people identified by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiv...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2022-2023

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

The Atlantis Ecosystem Modelling Summit: progressing tools and networking for marine ecosystem science and management

We apply for financial support under the Oceans theme for the second Atlantis Ecosystem Modelling Summit, which aims to aid the testing and development of the Atlantis marine ecosystem model as a tool for Ecosystem-based management (EBM), and advance global partnerships for living marine resource...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2022-2022

Location: Vestland

MSCA-TOPP-UT-Toppfinansiering av MSCA utgående kandidater

Toppfinansiering av ESR-12: Employing ISIMIP projections to model the phenology, production and distribution of diadromous fish populations

Personal top-financing for the project leader in relation to a MSCA ITN-project.

Awarded: NOK 0.45 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Verdiskaping av små kongekrabbe gjennom levendelagring og oppforing

Red king crab is one of Norway’s most valuable seafood exports. In 2024, Norway exported 825 million NOK worth of red king crab, with the United States as the largest market. However, only crabs larger than 1.6 kilograms are sold commercially. So, what happens to the smaller ones? In a new resear...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

FORSTERK-Forsterkningsmidler

ILIAD SUPPLEMENTARY – Dissemination and outreach to stakeholders with focus on Norwegian SFI, NCE and their industry partners

The EU project Iliad aims to develop the technological foundation for so-called 'Digital Twins of the Ocean', i.e., virtual representations of marine areas based on data from observations (satellite data and ocean sensors), modelling (ocean, ecosystem, and climate models), and digital infrastruct...

Awarded: NOK 0.80 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Marine Forests of animals, plants and algae: nature-based tools to protect and restore biodiversity

Underwater environments such as seagrass beds, kelp forests and deep-sea corals are ecosystems with high biological diversity, important for many organisms through spawning grounds, protection and food access, protect coastal areas and store carbon from the atmosphere. Conservation and restoratio...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Vestland

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

EJP SOIL - SoilsalAdapt Preadapting soil biology for increased tolerance to elevated salinities due to climate change

Salinization is a major cause of agricultural land degradation in arid areas, as well as in regions threatened by climate-driven sea level rise, where reduced crop yields are a common consequence. If soil as an ecosystem can "learn" to tolerate saline irrigation through the gradual adaptation of ...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Akershus

FORSKNINGSINFRA-FORSKNINGSINFRA

Troll Observing Network

Antarctica and the surrounding Southern Ocean are key drivers of Earth’s oceanic and atmospheric systems. Our entire planet is interconnected with, and greatly influenced by, processes originating in the far south. We will not be able to fully understand how the Earth system works without compreh...

Awarded: NOK 156.9 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2031

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FORSKNINGSINFRA-FORSKNINGSINFRA

Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System -Knowledge Centre, operational phase 2022

SIOS is a Norwegian-initiated international cooperation to exploit Svalbard’s research infrastructure for the purpose of increasing knowledge about global climate and environmental changes. Its members are Norwegian and foreign institutions with research focus relevant to interdisciplinary earth ...

Awarded: NOK 64.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Svalbard

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

CANNOR-START 2.0: Initiating a Project on the Blue Economy in the Canadian and Norwegian Arctic

Maritime issues have been climbing the political agendas of Arctic states like Canada and Norway since the early 2000s. With the rapid changes underway across the Arctic and interlinked maritime domains such as the North Atlantic, questions are being asked about the profitability and sustainabili...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2022-2022

Location: Akershus

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Digitalt læringsunivers for de blå skoger

Increased ocean literacy, closer connection to marine life, and a stronger voice for the ocean BLÅUNIVERS aims to increase the youth's understanding of the ocean, its processes and how we as humans are influenced by and influence the ocean. In addition, the project will help children raise their...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2022

Location: Oslo

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Modelling pathways, transport and fate of Organic Contaminants in Marine Environments (MOCME)

Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and many other hazardous organic contaminants (HOCs) bioaccumulate in marine food webs. While many models have been developed for predicting HOC behavior in the marine environment, most such models do not explicitly account for the quantitative link between (i...

Awarded: NOK 0.44 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Akershus

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Climate change and impact on critical contaminants and lipids in Arctic Seafood.

Food from the ocean will become even more important in the years to come as the world human population is projected to reach over 10 billion people by 2050. Already, the climate changes are affecting us globally and locally. One of the goals for the ocean decade is to resolve the link between cli...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

FJO2RD: The effect of climate change on the deep water renewal frequency of Norwegian fjords

The fjords of western Norway are breathtakingly beautiful – but ever so often, the media reports on the situation beneath the glittering fjord surface, and the image they share from the fjord depths is less pretty. Under the combined pressure of anthropogenic activity and climate change, many of ...

Awarded: NOK 12.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Vestland

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Effects of polyploidization during adaptive evolution in yeasts (PloidYeast)

What if the leftovers from food production — the peels, stalks, and sugars we usually throw away — could be transformed into valuable products like biofuels, sweeteners, or even ingredients for cosmetics and pharmaceuticals? That’s the vision behind our research, and the key to unlocking it lies ...

Awarded: NOK 11.4 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Exchanging local narratives and scientific understanding of climate changes in indigenous communities of Greenland and the southwest Pacific

ClimateNarratives is a large interdisciplinary research project at the University of Bergen, funded by the Research Council of Norway. The project explores how coastal communities in Greenland and island nations in the Pacific experience and respond to climate change, with a focus on risk, vulner...

Awarded: NOK 24.6 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

SEATIMES: How Climate Change Transforms Human-Marine Temporalities

Fish and other marine creatures shape the life of coastal people around the world. What happens then, when marine ecosystems transform radically and people are forced to find new ways to live together with life below water? In SEATIMES we study how relations between humans and marine life change ...

Awarded: NOK 9.7 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Maritime Modernities: Formats of Oceanic Knowledge

Lack of scientific knowledge and environmental awareness in the past is often blamed for the life-threatening ecological crises facing the oceans today. How can a historical approach provide a deeper understanding of knowledge dynamics, environmental awareness and the decline in ocean health? Mar...

Awarded: NOK 11.7 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

Impact of Climate-driven habitat LOss in Norwegian fjords on ecosystem STructure and functional ecology of cartilaginous fishes (LOST)

Norwegian fjords play a central role for industry, tourism, and recreation. The most well-known ecosystem services are linked to fisheries and aquaculture, which can at times be in conflict with one another. In addition, the fjords are home to a diversity of species and ecosystems, some of which ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

Vulnerability of overwintering Arctic zooplankton to multiple stressors

The Arctic is warming faster than any other region, raising critical questions about how environmental stressors like ocean warming, acidification, and marine heatwaves (MHWs) affect key species such as Arctic copepods. MHWs, characterized by extreme warming periods, are increasing in frequency, ...

Awarded: NOK 8.4 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

Arctic Auditories – Hydrospheres in the High North

Arctic Auditories – Hydrospheres in the High North (AA) is an interdisciplinary project based in the Humanities, which seeks to develop strategies for understanding environmental change through sound. The project focuses on water environments and draws on feminist and other knowledge systems to r...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

INNO-NAERING-INNO-NAERING

Produksjonsprosess for artsselektivt agn som forhindrer bifangst av truede arter av hai innen kommersielt line- og teinefiske

Nationally and globally, natural baits currently used for commercial line and trap ??fishing also attract protected / endangered shark species. Ecobait develops processed bait based on little used residual raw material from the fishing industry, and small-scale pilot studies in coastal ??waters ...

Awarded: NOK 13.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Vestland

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

Bottom-sea ice Respiration and nutrient Exchanges Assessed for THE Arctic

Global warming is transforming Arctic sea ice; impacting the communities of specialised microorganisms like algae that live within it. Sea ice algae are vital members of the marine ecosystem. They supply organic carbon to grazing organisms and they influence the biogeochemical cycling of elements...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Eco-Safe Ridge Mining - Environmental risk studies towards sustainable seabed mineral mining on the Mid-Ocean Ridge in Norway

The Norwegian continental shelf hosts mineral resources of potential interest to an emerging deep-sea mining industry. Prospective mining sites are often associated with highly diverse, rare and vulnerable deep-sea habitats including hydrothermal vents and sponge grounds . We lack knowledge of t...

Awarded: NOK 13.4 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Vestland

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

How can fisheries contribute more to a sustainable future?

The ocean contributes with only 2% of human food and 6% of dietary protein, despite harbouring half the global primary production. The relatively low contribution has been used to justify that food should mainly be produced on land, while sea food production should be reduced and the ocean protec...

Awarded: NOK 23.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

BIOTEK2021-Bioteknologi for verdiskaping

Arr: Dialogmøte om genteknologiens rolle i framtidig matproduksjon

Utvikling og nyttegjøring av ny genteknologi vil endre hvordan vi produserer mat fra land og hav, og åpne opp for nye produkter viktig for utvikling av norsk bioøkonomi. Genteknologi har dermed potensiale til å endre vårt forhold til matproduksjon og til naturen. På grunn av dette trenger vi en b...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2021-2022

Location: Akershus

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

Sharks on the Move: species distribution modelling of migratory sharks to inform ecosystem-based management under global change

Sharks play a key role as predators in the structure and functioning of marine communities. Three of the largest species in Norway, the basking shark, porbeagle and spurdog are considered endangered. However, some of the most fundamental and critical information about their distribution and the d...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Vestland

BEDREHELSE-Bedre helse og livskvalitet

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the marine-human interface: A One Health approach

The overall aim of the AMR-Aqua project is to elucidate the complex dynamics of AMR in and between human, animal and the environmental interfaces of the aquaculture setting of the two most predominant suppliers of farmed salmon in the world, and to design and demonstrate a strategy for environmen...

Awarded: NOK 43,999

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Vestland

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

Computer vision to expand monitoring and accelerate assessment of coastal fish

It is now common to use underwater cameras to study and monitor coastal fish populations. Currently, human experts manually identify, size and count fish, frame by frame. This represents a bottleneck for upscaling deployment and data analysis. CoastVision will apply deep learning to develop auto...

Awarded: NOK 12.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Vestland

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Breeding and Evolution of Complex Traits in Phytoplankton Cells

Project Aims and Objectives Phytoplankton are key primary producers that in nature drive entire ocean ecosystems. In the future, cultivated microalgae will also play increasingly important roles in the production of sustainable foods, feeds, and low-carbon renewable materials. Microalgae strains...

Awarded: NOK 9.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

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