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POLARIS - evolution of the Arctic in deep time.

Beneath the Arctic today lies a vast landscape of rocks that record the deep-time history of the region - from present-day to over thousands, millions, and even billions of years into the past. The geological history of the Arctic was complex and ever-dynamic, often times turbulent and explosive....

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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New principle for production of layered three-dimensional multi-material products

The project aimed to develop a multi-material production process for creating geometrically complex parts. These parts could be built with the desired materials in the correct locations, such as a knee implant. The knee implant partially contacts bone and partially tissue, where one metal is comp...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Innlandet

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Sex determination in a heterochiasmy setting - functional studies in Atlantic halibut and European plaice

In contrast to the highly conserved mammalian and avian sex determination systems, fish species generally display much more variation in both sex chromosomes and sex determination mechanisms. We have shown that Atlantic halibut recently acquired a new genetic sex determining system, due to a tran...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

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Targeting lung cancer cells by selective translation of mRNA therapeutics

Many of the cellular functions are carried out by proteins. mRNA therapeutics are man-made molecules which - when introduced into cells - act as a blueprint to make these proteins. Virtually any protein of choice can be made using this technique, but the current methods to predesignate which cell...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Large Offshore Wind Turbines (LOWT):structural design accounting for non-neutral wind conditions

Floating offshore wind is a technology that promises to unlock a huge potential in deeper waters. However, it is more than a simple extension of the current offshore wind industry, constituting a new technology on its own right. Despite the many advances already made - and where Norway is driving...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Rogaland

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Nuclear shapes and resonances

The atomic nucleus is a many-body quantum system that is bound together by the strong nuclear force. Many properties of nuclei can be understood by describing them as electrically charged droplets of nuclear matter. Other properties indicate that nuclei have a microscopic structure in which the p...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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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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THE ROLE OF HIPPOCAMPAL CAJAL-RETZIUS CELLS IN THE MATURATION OF THE HIPPOCAMPAL REGION

We aim to understand the role played by different cell types in the formation of cortical circuits in physiological as well as pathophysiological conditions. In fact, alterations in the mechanisms guiding the differentiation and migration of neurons as well as synaptogenesis can lead to severe ne...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Voices on the Edge: Minuscule Texts in Early Medieval Latin Culture (c. 700–c. 1000)

Early medieval Latin Europe lacked easy access to writing materials such as paper. Parchment, the main medium of written culture, was quite expensive. Thus, readers and scribes often used blank spaces in early medieval manuscripts to make casual records, copy excerpts, and record small texts that...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Emotion Crafting: A Proactive View on Adolescents’ Pathways towards Desired Emotions

The purpose of the EMOCRAFT project is to gain more insight into how young adults can actively contribute to their own emotional functioning which we call ‘emotion crafting’ (EC). Specifically, EC entails both noticing opportunities (e.g., activities, situations, people) that could initiate, main...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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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

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Reactions to state regulation of Islam in times of Daesh (STATEISLAM)

An important and so far underestimated consequence of ISIS’s rise has been that authorities in various Middle Eastern countries have increased control over the religious sphere—over mosques, religious leaders, religious activities, and their funding. For example, in Egypt, President Abdel Fattah ...

Awarded: NOK 8.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Epidemic traces. Remains of infectious disease control in Africa, and how they shape future health.

Epidemics are experienced as events that suddenly come and go. But disease outbreaks – and measures taken to combat them – leave traces. For example, we live with cemeteries, hygiene rules and water supplies, which were created during the cholera epidemics of the 19th century; tropical diseases w...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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AutoCSP: Self-Supervised Neuro-Symbolic Solvers for Constraint Satisfaction

The AutoCSP project addresses problems where the solution is a combination of multiple decision variables, so-called combinatorial optimization problems. The goal is to find a combination that fulfills all constraints that the problem has while optimizing an objective function. Examples of these ...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

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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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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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

The pace of emission reductions is insufficient to meet the Paris Agreement’s temperature target, which requires net-zero global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Researchers have suggested that in recessions, governments often prioritize renewed economic growth over climate. Yet recessions also ...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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In-situ quantification of CO2 flow and mobility control for improved carbon utilization and storage

Fast upscaling of CO2 storage capacity is necessary to reach climate goals, and requires utilization of a range of reservoirs, where heterogeneities may influence storage efficiency. Even in close-to-ideal reservoirs the CO2 displacement may be less-than-ideal; due to poor CO2 sweep efficiency th...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Vestland

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Weaving the fabric of Elite Bonds (WEB)

Elites are back on the agenda in the social sciences. The centrality of inheritance and kinship in attaining high wealth has been an important finding in the burgeoning studies of economic elites. Yet, the sociological emphasis on the institutional underpinnings to elite power and the emphasis pl...

Awarded: NOK 8.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Degradation of lignin by bacteria

The DeLignoBact project aims at identifying bacterial enzymes that are able to degrade lignin. Lignin is one of the main components of non-edible plant materials but is not utilized in an optimal way today. By gaining a better understanding of the enzymatic systems involved in lignin degradation ...

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Akershus

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Lifespan Memory Imaging Redux – Can Change in Activity Reconfigurations Be an Early Marker of Future Memory Decline?

Memory abilities decline in normal aging and particularly in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), at great personal and societal costs. Using repeated measures of brain activity while we remember, I aim to predict early in adulthood who will show memory decline and who will maintain good function. A major c...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Moving archaeology to a 4d-science: A novel interdisciplinary approach to the study of resilience in prehistoric marine coastal environments

The PastCoast project studied how people in the past reacted to changes in the nature around them. By studying coastal and near-coastal sites, especially those discovered through the use of metal detectors, the project provided new and important insights into past landscape changes and people's u...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Enabling Highly Automated Cross-Organisational Workflow Planning

Automating workflow planning is one of the most crucial digital transformation activities. Planning cross-organisational workflows requires knowledge from multiple domains. In addition, it requires an overview of how these workflows interact with each other. Existing computer-assisted tools usual...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

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Methanotrophic communities in ice

The terrestrial seasonal ice, which covers sub permafrost greenhouse gases springs in the Arctic, is expected to host a microbial community that can use these dissolved gases as a source of energy and carbon. Therefore, these microorganisms have the potential to decrease the natural greenhouse ga...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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