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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

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Multiphase flow in downward-inclined pipelines

Pipeline networks on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) are highly complex, including downward sections, undulating risers, and other non-standard geometries. These complexities strongly affect flow regimes, phase transitions, liquid accumulation, and overall pipeline performance. Despite thei...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Akershus

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Nature-Based Adaptation Targeting Urban Resilience and Economic Efficiency

Climate change will lead to more frequent and intense urban flooding and stormwater challenges in Norwegian municipalities. If no action is taken, these events will cause escalating damage costs to infrastructure, buildings, and public services. Managing these growing risks is a major challenge f...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2032

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

FORTRESS- FOResT land use management for REsilient and Sustainable Societies

Forests can protect us from natural hazards, but only if managed wisely. Poor logging practices can increase the risk of landslides and avalanches, while broader objectives like biodiversity conservation and climate change add pressure. In Norway, managing protection forests is challenging due to...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

BRAIGED: Building Responsible AI for Global Education – Towards Explainable AI for Chronic Kidney Disease Diagnosis Utilizing Scintigraphy

Doctors of the future will work with artificial intelligence (AI) just like pilots work with autopilot, useful, but only when understood and monitored by a trained human. Modern medicine produces a huge amount of information, scans, lab results, doctor’s notes, and medical students can feel empow...

Awarded: NOK 9.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Buskerud

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Harnessing innovative sustainable oil alternatives to traditional fish oil, ensuring uncompromised salmon health and fillet quality

Norway is a world leader in salmon farming but faces a major challenge: How can we ensure good fish health and high fillet quality without traditional fish oil? This is the goal of the InnoOil project. Fish oil has long been a key ingredient in salmon feed because it contains the omega-3 fatty ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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

FORSKSYSTEM-UTD-FORSKSYSTEM-UTD

Strengthening research-based teaching in engineering through studies of water treatment technology, water chemistry and fish health in RAS

How does water chemistry affect CO2 removal efficiency in aquaculture systems, and what are the interactions between water chemistry and CO2 on fish welfare and production? Land-based salmon farming offers improved environmental control but is challenged by CO2 accumulation in the water. This c...

Awarded: NOK 11.2 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

IMMERSE - Immersed in the museum experience: Underlying mechanisms and the influence of the social experiencescape

What happens when you lose track of time in a museum? When you become so absorbed in a story, a room, or an encounter with an object that you no longer feel like just a visitor? This feeling of being completely immersed lies at the heart of the IMMERSE project. Museums around the world seek to cr...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Rogaland

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

SAMISKTEMA-SAMISKTEMA

(Mis)trust: The Norwegianization of language, people and land in South Saepmie. Why reconciliation, how, and between whom?

South Sápmi is a region with a complex history. For generations, the Sámi people have lived under assimilation policies and colonial structures. These experiences have left deep scars and created mistrust, both between Sámi groups and between the Sámi and the majority society. When trust disappea...

Awarded: NOK 11.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Enhancing Gut Health and Welfare of Finishing Pigs: The Role of Physical Activity and Inclusion of Hay in the Diet.

How enrichment through physical exercise and provision of hay in the diet improves pig minds, guts, and welfare. FitPig is a research project exploring if and how two simple enrichments—daily physical activity and free access to hay—can make pigs healthier, smarter, and happier. The study invest...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

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

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

NANOTEKNOLOGI-NANOTEKNOLOGI

COOLCATCH: Advancing materials for energy- efficient cryogenic refrigeration

Cooling to extremely low temperatures – needed to liquefy hydrogen for environmentally friendly aviation at -252 °C and to reduce noise in quantum computers near -272 °C – is a major technological challenge. Traditional mechanical coolers – the same basic technology used in household refrigerator...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

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

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

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

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

NorSeMin: Unlocking Mineral Processes on the Norwegian Continental Shelf for Sustainable Exploration and Environmental Governance

Modern society depends on a steady supply of metals for renewable energy, electric vehicles, and digital technologies. Many of these metals are becoming harder to obtain from land-based mining, prompting growing interest in the deep ocean as a possible future source. However, the deep sea is one ...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Research Center for Innovative and Sustainable Underground Use

The underground (UG) is an important dimension in urban planning. It represents a large and untapped potential in urban development, especially considering major ongoing and future societal changes globally, nationally and locally. Urbanization and climate crisis are putting pressure on surface a...

Awarded: NOK 96.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2034

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Leveraging Protracted Refugee Situations: Comparing how Lebanon and Turkey have responded to Syrian displacement

The Syrian civil war (2011–2024) created the world’s largest refugee crisis, as over 14 million Syrians fled their homes. Syria’s neighbouring states took in most of those refugees. At its highest point, Turkey hosted over 3.5 million Syrian refugees and Lebanon hosted approximately 1.5 million. ...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

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

INNO-OFF-INNO-OFF

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

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