43,979 projects

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

From Queues to Telehealth: Digital Care, Health Inequalities and Healthcare Worker Mental Health in Ghana

This pre-project will prepare a joint application from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the University of Ghana for the 2026 call “Researcher Project for Early Career Scientists on Global Health and Development Research”. The project focuses on a very practical quest...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Postdoc research stay Actionable: Adaptive co-management to enhance biocultural diversity and sustainable development in coastal communities

This project will develop an indicator framework to monitor biocultural conservation effectiveness of Biosphere Reserves. The framework will be social-ecological and provide an evidence-based toolkit of indicators that is widely applicable and adaptable to different contexts depending on specific...

Awarded: NOK 0.34 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Paving the way for rational RNA ligand design

The vast majority of targets for approved drugs are proteins. In recent years, it has been increasingly realized that also RNA molecules constitute promising targets. However, compared to protein targets, RNA targets are vastly underexplored. By targeting RNA, the functions of currently undruggab...

Awarded: NOK 0.38 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

AGROECOL2 Accelerating the agroecological transition with multi-strata agroforestry systems, from root to fork

Agroforestry systems, where trees are integrated into agricultural fields, are recognised as the most advanced and effective forms of regenerative agriculture. By combining trees, shrubs, and food crops, these systems can restore soils, store carbon, and strengthen resilience to climate change. D...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

AGROECOL2 Bio-Based Agroecosystem Transitions in the Baltic and Nordic Regions through Integrated Relay Cropping Systems

Farming is key for our societies’ food security, but comes at environmental costs. Intensive crop production depletes soil health, and risks contaminating oceans, lakes and rivers with nutrient leaching, and endangering biodiversity by simplified landscape and use of chemical pesticides. In short...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

PISA: Platform for Integrated Separation and Absorbance-based organoid drug analysis

Animal testing has long been an essential step in drug development. The challenge is that animal testing is time-consuming and raises ethical concerns. One potential solution is organoids – small tissue models that mimic the human body more accurately than animals and can be cultivated in laborat...

Awarded: NOK 9.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

Biopol-nett: Nettverk innen responsive biomaterialer

Traditional biomaterials have static properties, which limits their application areas. Responsive biomaterials can adapt to their environment and change their properties as needed. “Biopol-nett” aims to gather Norwegian expertise in biopolymers and biomaterials to exploit the potential of respons...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

NorMoSTFun Postdoc abroad stay at the Aquatic Microbial Interactions Group, University of Turku (UTU)

Aquatic fungi (AF) are important parts of biodiversity in freshwater and marine ecosystems and occupy ecosystem functions as decomposers, parasites and pathogens. In this way AF interacts and control animal and plant populations and affect carbon and nutrient cycling, and as a source of nutrients...

Awarded: NOK 0.87 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Tittel hovedprosjektet: Elevens stemme i transfaglig undervisningsdesign Prosjektnummer hovedprosjektet: 352177

Dette forskningsoppholdet ved Brock University tar utgangspunkt i et ønske om å styrke internasjonalt samarbeid innen transfaglig skoleforskning. Prosjektet retter seg mot utvikling av kunnskap om hvordan ulike fagdisipliner kan integreres i undervisning for å møte komplekse utfordringer i utdann...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Buskerud

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Gender segregated educational choices, skill gaps and early career opportunities

Over the past fifty years, we've seen a remarkable shift in education: young women now earn more degrees and higher credentials than young men across most developed countries, including Norway and the United States. This educational advantage for women reached its peak around the year 2000, after...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Research stay at the University of Padua

Performing statistical inference in particle physics often relies on asymptotic results such as Wilks’ theorem, which assume that all model parameters lie within the interior of their parameter spaces. However, this assumption frequently fails in realistic models, leading to inaccurate statistica...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

The ideological production, policy outcomes and practices of wartime Putinism

WARPUT investigates the role and impact of ideology on Russia’s personalist electoral autocracy. Ideology may be the glue that holds together a post-Putin transition, or a factor in future regime change – whether to harsher authoritarianism or a more pluralist and open system. Building on existin...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Research stay abroad for PhD candidate in CyWalk

The proposed research stay will enable PhD-student Katrine Karlsen to spend the spring semester of 2026 at the University of Groningen, a leading institution in traffic psychology research. The stay will strengthen her PhD project by connecting her to an academic psychology environment with exper...

Awarded: NOK 0.26 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Transformative Peatland Governance - Exploring Pathways Towards Sustainable Peatland Land Use (PEATGOV)

In the PhD project, the candidate aims to investigate pathways toward transformative governance for the sustainable land use of peatlands. These carbon-rich ecosystems are at the center of conflicting goals in land use planning and sustainable development targets. Balancing the need for renewable...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Modelling Human Happiness: Exploring Enabling and Restrictive Factors to Wellbeing across Culture

The individual exchange project aims to foster research collaboration between the ModHap project and the Oishi Lab at the University of Chicago. Using prediction and validation methods in machine learning, we seek to identify which factors are most central to the prediction of wellbeing and which...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

BYEAST: Better yeast based protein through strain development.

Sustainable protein production for animal feed is one of the major challenges facing global agriculture, aquaculture, and meat industries. Among the most promising solutions is single-cell protein (SCP): protein derived from microorganisms. SCP offers a way to produce high-quality feed ingredient...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Exploring Social Politics, Inclusive Education, and Cultural Democratization Through the Lens of Norwegian Hip Hop Music

The NORHOP project will investigate the multiple functions and implications of hip hop music in contemporary Norway, focusing especially on the aesthetic, pedagogical, and sociopolitical dimensions of the performance and reception of hip hop in various cultural, educational, and social contexts. ...

Awarded: NOK 0.26 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Innlandet

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference 2026

The conference is non-profit and will be organized at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. The team has previously organised SCIA 2017, and NLDL 2018/2019/2020/2021/2022/2023/2024/2025, which received support for the events from NFR and were successes. The group has several projects ongoing relat...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Den menneskelige faktoren i digital sikkerhet: definisjon, måling og effekt av tiltak

We need an increased understanding of the interaction between people and technology, to promote a human-centered approach in building digital security in businesses. The workday at Bane NOR looks different for each employee. Some have a traditional "office job", some work with train management sy...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Innlandet

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Developing leadership principles in support of innovative, future-oriented organisations: the case of UNESCO World Heritage

How can we lead and collaborate when everyone holds a certain kind of authority, but without each other, no one really holds power? This PhD project explores new ways of understanding and practicing leadership in public partnerships where traditional hierarchies are not applied — using the nation...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Telemark

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Harald Sæverud: Natur, sted og musikk i modernismen

Harald Sæverud (1897–1992) is regarded as one of the most prominent and influential figures in Norwegian musical life throughout the 20th century. He made an early mark with compositions in a quite radical musical language and was recognized as a distinctive voice both in Norway and international...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Can (A)I Trust My Government: AIs Impact on Compliance and Trust in the Norwegian Tax Administration

Can algorithms detect when you've entered incorrect information in your tax return? Can machine learning models predict which tax returns the Norwegian Tax Administration (NTA) should take a closer look at? The NTA already uses such a model, and in 2021 it helped increase the success rate of our ...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Research stay at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po)

While repair is increasingly invoked as a central part of the solution to the environmental and material crisis, it remains marginal in practice. Over the past two years, I have followed what happens when circular economy (CE) ideals are translated into everyday efforts to extend the lives of ele...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Teori og praksis – hypoteser og bevisvurdering i komplekse drapssaker

"The police are investigating based on several hypotheses" is a common response from the police in the media after serious incidents. But what does it mean to investigate several hypotheses? Investigation textbooks suggests that the investigator is supposed to develop hypotheses ("Jon killed Bjø...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

BryoNiN - Moseøkologi og moser i Norge

Precise classification and mapping of nature are dependent on good knowledge of the diversity and distribution of bryophytes. As of today, knowledge of bryophytes is good in some nature types, while for other types there are, in part, significant knowledge gaps. Bare rock is found almost everywh...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Deep Learning for Subsurface Characterization: Advancing Reservoir Property Estimation and CO2 Storage Assessment.

Knowing what kinds of rock lie deep below the seabed is costly and uncertain, yet crucial for storing CO2 to help mitigate climate change and extracting oil and gas safely. This project uses artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the accuracy, reliability, and cost-efficiency of subsurface prope...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Analysing violent variations in ancient Jewish narrative

Narrated violence is presently treated as a self-evident phenomenon in ancient Jewish literature (c. 500 BCE – 300 CE). Violence as a concept is reduced to a physical act of harm, understood by ancient authors in the same way modern readers. Framing violence in this way creates interpretative pro...

Awarded: NOK 9.8 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Agder

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

InterGenerasjonell læring ved MUSeer: samskaping av nye praksiser [IGMUS]

Our time is marked by multiple crises, such as social isolation among the elderly and concern about the climate and nature crisis among children. In the IGMUS project, museum practices will be explored through the following three main concepts: Worldcare, inclusion and intergenerational learning....

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

The interplay between mental health, well-being and social transitions

A relative small segment of the population shows social problems and ills not just in one specific domain, but in multiple life arenas. However, complex pathways to marginalization across multiple domains remain largely unexplored. This project addresses this issue by examining the dynamic intera...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Forest Opportunities, Risks and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate in Norway

Climate change is increasing the risk of drought, bark beetle outbreaks, windthrow, and snow damage in Norwegian forests. FORESIGHT will help us understand how these disturbances interact, and provide forest managers with practical tools to protect forest health and resilience across the 21st cen...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus