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MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

1-2-TRE-STEG: Steps towards circularity in wood-based building

Wood, as a building material, has a long tradition in Norway. Most of Norway's residential projects, as well as an ever-increasing number of larger buildings, are constructed using wooden materials. However, at the end of their service life, when buildings are demolished, the wooden materials are...

Awarded: NOK 14.9 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Innlandet

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

Non-safety assessments of genome-edited animals: ethical and regulatory challenges and solutions

Genome editing is a powerful biotechnological method, enabling targeted changes in the genes of animals. Technologies such as CRISPR can enable more efficient use of research animals, make production animals disease resistant and make wild animals threatened by extinction better adapted to climat...

Awarded: NOK 11.5 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HELSEFORSKNING-Helseforskning

Systematic detection and mitigation of antimicrobial resistance in soil environment and animal health contributing to human health

The threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to human, animal, and environmental health has become widely recognised globally. Since 1 October 2024, the SiNorAMR consortium partners in Norway and China have developed methodologies and produced results contributing to effective detection and bioch...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Akershus

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

SPORE NANOFIBER: Exploring novel extremely heat and chemically resilient nanofibers expressed on bacterial spores

SPORE NANOFIBER – when microscopic fibers make a big difference Spores are the survival capsules of bacteria, tiny but extremely robust structures that enable them to withstand heat, cold, drought, and even strong disinfectants for years. For the food industry, this is a major challenge: bacteria...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Food security through better sanitation: the case of urine recycling

Turning Waste into Resource: The FoodsecURe Project Rich in essential nutrients, human urine is a largely untapped resource in our domestic wastewater systems. If properly treated and reused, it could meet about a quarter of the world’s agricultural demand for nitrogen and phosphorus. But the jo...

Awarded: NOK 10.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Interventions for improved knowledge and awareness of antimicrobial resistance using a One Health approach in Tanzania

This four-year project aims at reducing the AMR in Tanzania from a OneHealth perspective. The proposed plans are to perform interventions such as awareness-raising campaigns, develop and distribute training materials as well as perform surveillance activities in particular focusing on specific cr...

Awarded: NOK 15.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Agricultural mitigation measures and the value of water quality improvements

Access to clean water is a necessity for all living organisms, and without water, it is not possible to produce food. In Norway, agriculture is one of the largest sources of water pollution. The main objective of the project is to identify which measures agriculture can implement to prevent nutri...

Awarded: NOK 14.9 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Progress to environmentally safer rodenticides

Control of rodent pests worldwide relies heavily on the use of anticoagulant rodenticides. However, due to their widespread use and environmental persistence, they have demonstrated adverse effects to non-target animals, like foxes, cats, dogs, wolves, wolverines, and predatory birds like owls an...

Awarded: NOK 11.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus

HAVBRUK2-Stort program for havbruksforskning

ERA-NET: (FORSTERK) SIDESTREAM_DISS

SIDESTREAM_DISS aims at disseminating SIDESTREAM results during the most important meeting of key players in the European aquaculture business, research, and policy. The annual conference of the European Aquaculture Society is the largest gathering of professionals active in European aquaculture....

Awarded: NOK 0.22 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2023

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Boosting the bee: Leveraging the structural capabilities of the lipoprotein Vitellogenin to support honey bee (Apis mellifera) health.

Vitellogenin (Vg) is an important protein: it is as old as multicellular animal life on Earth, about 700 million years old. Today, it is present in almost all animals that lay eggs. Vg is essential for eggs to be viable. But what is more: Our previous work revealed that it also can be a major pla...

Awarded: NOK 10.1 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Cascading recycling of organic N-sources with next-generation biochar fertilizer for Norwegian agriculture

Recycling waste nitrogen into valuable fertilizer is a priority for sustainable and climate-smart agriculture. A major nitrogen loss from agriculture occurs through the volatilization of ammonia (NH3) from animal wastes and composting processes, which contributes to respiratory disease, soil acid...

Awarded: NOK 11.7 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus

BIOTEKNOLOGI-BIOTEKNOLOGI

KSP: ARRIVAL of cellular agriculture- Enabling biotechnology for future food production

ARRIVAL aims to produce milk, egg, and meat proteins using fermentation and cell cultivation with Norwegian feedstocks as inputs, while also exploring societal opportunities and barriers of new food technologies. We have held five project meetings (three in person, two digital), five digital man...

Awarded: NOK 20.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FORNY20-FORNY2020

Healthy soil with symbiotics (SYMBIOTICS)

The business concept of Smartsoil, and the aim of Smartsoil product development is to apply the functional properties of microbes to improve soil health and thereby plant health, and ultimately planetary health. Our approach will simultaneously help reduce climate change and the environmental imp...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2023

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

EJP SOIL - ClimateCropping: Climate Smart Management for Resilient European Cropping Systems

Ruralis leads a work package (WP6) in the international EJP Soil Project Climate Cropping. The overall aim of the WP is to develop cross-country implementation guidelines for adopting alternative soil management practices (SMPs) in EU cropping systems. Social acceptance of new farm management pra...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MARINFORSKFISK-Marine ressurser og miljø - fiskeri

ERA-NET: (FORSTERK) Workshop in the use of FT-IR for evaluating humification in marine-based composts

Humic substances, including humic acid (HA) and fulvic acid (FA), are beneficial for soil and plant health and act as carbon sinks. They are found naturally in soil and water and are formed through a combination of chemical and biological processes as organic matter is decomposed. Humic substance...

Awarded: NOK 0.22 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2024

Location: Møre og Romsdal

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Building an evidence-base for deforestation-free landscapes: supporting equitable outcomes in and beyond commodity supply chains (BEDROCK)

Global food systems contribute to climate change, biodiversity and natural habitat loss, and fail to provide sufficient food for all. A key example is the expansion of palm oil, soy, beef and cocoa production driving the loss of tropical forests. In response, companies, finance actors and governm...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Akershus

BIOTEK2021-Bioteknologi for verdiskaping

ERA-NET:(FORSTERK) BlueBio Sumafood_BCOM Commercial production of marine ingredients from Rest Raw Material

Residual raw material occurs wherever we refine or process food, and in the fishing industry it is largely about offal and trimmings after gutting and filleting fish. In Norway, we have long traditions of taking care of residual raw material, also on an industrial scale, but very little of the re...

Awarded: NOK 0.22 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2024

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBRUK2-Stort program for havbruksforskning

ERA-NET: (FORSTERK) Amplifying SeaSoil: Demonstrating seaweed fertilisation effects on perennial ley

Seaweeds contain important plant nutrients, and have traditionally been applied as fertilisers along the coast. Seaweeds can also be used for many other applications, such as animal feed. In this project, residues from processing seaweeds are tested when they are applied to a grass-clover ley in ...

Awarded: NOK 0.22 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2024

Location: Møre og Romsdal

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

JUST GROW: Co-designing justice-centric indicators and governance principles to intensify urban agriculture sustainably and equitably

Growing Justice in Urban Agriculture As cities face climate challenges, social inequality, and the need for more local food, urban agriculture is becoming increasingly important. But how can we ensure that everyone has a fair chance to participate? The JUST GROW project explores how urban agric...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Innovative Timber Construction with Tailored Laminated Timber

The InnoTLT project will develop today's cross-laminated timber (CLT) towards tailored laminatet timber (TLT). The project has three main partners, KIT - Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, LTH - Lunds Tekniska Högskola and Omtre AS. The TLT concept includes areas of use such as walls and floor ...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Buskerud

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Wood Artificial Intelligence — Knot modeling by Computed Tomography

Wood can serve as long-term carbon sink, and increased use in buildings is a means to reduce the negative effects of climate change. Consequently, it is important to produce sawn timber suitable for buildings, furniture and other products with long lifespans. As more wood is used, it is even mo...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Akershus

FFLJA-FFLJA

Videreutvikling av N2 Applieds nitrogenanrikede gjødsel ved hjelp av en oppgradert produksjonsprosess

N2 Applied is developing a technology that uses plasma to fix nitrogen from the air and absorb the resultant nitrogen oxides in organic waste. The product after the treatment, NEO, is enriched with nitrate and nitrite, which increases the fertilization value of the organic waste and replaces the ...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Akershus

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Grassland conservation across European landscapes protecting biodiversity and ecosystem services with ecological networks

Mowed and grazed grasslands are an important land resource and landscape type in European protected areas. These areas have often been shaped over long periods of time by traditional farming practices and are highly valued for their biodiversity and other ecosystem services. At the same time, the...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

CIOL - product expansion towards a larger market

CIOL® is a new, low cost, non-toxic wood modification system, needed to replace traditional and non-sustainable alternatives with great potential for CIOL AS. It’s now the right moment to find sustainable, environmentally friendly replacements to heavy metals and biocide treatment of wood. Author...

Awarded: NOK 4.9 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Akershus

FFLJA-FFLJA

Moove–Preparing Norwegian livestock against new threats: implications of cattle movements for antimicrobial resistance and emerging diseases

Large amounts of data are collected throughout the value chain in Norwegian cattle production, with a substantial unused potential. In the Moo-ve project we are utilizing multiple source data from the cattle industry. All movements of livestock are mandatory to report. Nevertheless, these movemen...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Protecting agricultural lands from plastic pollution

There are several sources of plastic pollution in agricultural soils. Four main sources are expected to be important for Norwegian agricultural soils: atmospheric deposition, sewage sludge, plastic residues from biogas plants, and plastic products used in crop production. Based on findings from o...

Awarded: NOK 14.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo

FFLJA-FFLJA

Siderspråk og produktdifferensiering

Norwegian cider is rapidly evolving, and with that comes the need for a dedicated language to describe its taste and aroma in a way that makes sense to producers, customers, restaurants, and sales personnel. The goal of this project is to develop a tool – an aroma wheel – that makes it easier to ...

Awarded: NOK 1.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Transformative wildlife management to enhance biodiversity protection and ecosystem services provision in shared and protected landscapes

The controversy around the role of killing wild animals has come to a head during the last year of the project as both the Bern Convention (administered by the Council of Europe) and the Habitats Directive (administered by the European Union) have changed the conservation status of the wolf from ...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FFLJA-FFLJA

Vitrification of pig embryos for the worldwide dissemination of genetics using embryo technology

The objective of the VitriPig project is to establish and optimize pig embryo vitrification and thawing protocols that can be used on farm, so that genetics can be distributed internationally through vitrified embryos. In 2024 we achieved a milestone; we obtained our first piglets born after tra...

Awarded: NOK 0.78 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Innlandet

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Enabling synergies among value creation, climate adaptation, biodiversity, and sustainable use of temperate broadleaf forests

The forests of the future must be used sustainably and adapted to the changing climate. Forestry in southern Norway is dominated by the value chain for spruce with extensive planting, felling and processing of spruce, mainly for paper production and lumber. However, spruce is sensitive to climate...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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