44,346 projects

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

SCOPE—Semantic Feature-based Communication and Control for Wireless Body Sensor-Actuator Networks

What if the biggest problem in modern technology isn’t a lack of data, but too much of it? Every second, billions of sensors collect and transmit information, draining energy, overloading networks, and slowing decisions. Today’s systems still treat all data as equally important, even though most ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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

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

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Academic Careers: Examining the Significance of Socio-Economic Background

Academics occupy a privileged position in society. They are experts in their fields, share knowledge with the public, train new generations of students, and hire future academics. While much research has explored how social background—such as parental education, income, or class—affects success i...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Resolving the Solar Convective Conundrum: A Full-Physics Approach to Solar Convection

The Sun looks calm from a distance, but its interior is boiling. Hot gas rises, cooler gas sinks, and this continuous churning – called convection – transports energy from the deep interior to the surface. These flows help drive the Sun’s magnetic field and, in turn, the solar activity that affec...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Multiphysics of salt precipitation during CO2 storage

When CO2 is pumped deep underground for safe and long-term storage, it can trigger a lesser-known challenge: salt crystals forming inside the rock pores. CO2 dries the salty water inside the rock pores. This water becomes more and more salty until the salt crystals form. These crystals can block ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Deep study reading in digitised classrooms: identifying factors affecting sustained focus, persistence, and stress

Good reading skills are required for active participation in society, and they are also fundamental to learning. Therefore, the current decline in reading and cognitive persistence is worrisome. Longform, deep reading – that is, the reading if longer and potentially complex texts – is particularl...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Rogaland

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

AI controlled fermentation for microbial lipid production

Microorganisms are nature’s tiny factories. Through fermentation, they turn renewable ingredients, such as plant sugars, into useful products ranging from biofuels and bioplastics to medicines, pigments, and food and feed. Norway and the EU view microbial biotechnology as a key tool for a greener...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Akershus

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Secure energy systems for a renewable future

The power sector is the backbone of modern Norwegian society and supports almost all critical functions, including healthcare, transport, communications and national defence. Today, this critical infrastructure faces increasing threats; cyberattacks, sabotage and intelligence operations. This cre...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

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

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

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Copepod based Feeds for Improved Salmon Health and aquaculture sustainability

Norway is the world’s largest producer of Atlantic salmon (salmon from here on), but the industry faces major challenges with fish health and welfare, both in land-based and seawater phases, leading to high mortalities. Farmed salmon often have poor resistance to stress and disease, resulting in ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Innovative Technologies for Monitoring Levels of Nitrosamines and Nitramines in Air and Water Near Amine-Based CO2 Capture Facilities

TechNAM is developing new technologies to verify that capturing CO2 from industrial processes does not contaminate the ambient air and nearby drinking water sources. The goal is to meet the safety standards set by the Norwegian Institute for Public Health (NIPH). A key concern is the possible for...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Responsive Space-based Maritime Surveillance using Multi-modal Active and Passive Sensing

Ships are required to transmit Automatic Identification System (AIS) signals to ensure safe voyage at sea. “Dark ships” are vessels that turn off or falsify their AIS signals. They do this to carry out illegal activities such as illegal fishing, evading sanctions, or conducting sabotage operation...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KSFF-KSFF

Driving sustainable health and social care reform in rural regions through empowered self-managing teams

The project SELFDRIVE – Driving sustainable health and social care reform through empowered self-managing teams (SMT) is based on the recognition that Norwegian municipalities face a rapidly increasing need for more sustainable organisation of health and social care services, particularly in smal...

Awarded: NOK 14.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Waters of Reconciliation: Local Governance and Environmental Peacebuilding in the Lower Nile and Yarmouk Basins (MENA Water & Peace)

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is experiencing one of the most acute water crises globally. Hosting over 5% of the world’s population but less than 1% of its renewable freshwater resources, the region is at the nexus of climate stress, urbanization, and protracted conflict. Water ...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Centre for Quantum Computing and Applications

The Centre for Quantum Computing and Applications (QSTAR) will strengthen Norway’s role in the global development of quantum computing. Quantum computers have the potential to solve problems that are impossible for today’s computers, but significant scientific challenges must be overcome before t...

Awarded: NOK 61.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Error Correction (NISQEC)

Quantum technologies are steadily moving beyond purely laboratory-based demonstrations toward systems with practical relevance, promising to solve some complex problems more efficiently than classical computing, such as factoring large numbers in cryptography. However, the quantum revolution is p...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

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

PESORDNING-PESORDNING

Reconstructing Democracies: Lessons from Afghanistan, Syria, and Ukraine

The PES funding will support the preparation of a project proposal in response to the HORIZON call on "Supporting post-conflict democracy and reconstruction". The preliminary analysis shows that the last two decades have exposed the limitations of international post-conflict reconstruction. Again...

Awarded: NOK 0.35 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

NorCollect - En nasjonal innsamlingsstrategi for fornyelse av Norges naturhistoriske samlinger

Natural history collections – such plants, insects, birds and fossils – are essential sources of knowledge about the living world. They help researchers understand how species live and change over time, and they provide authorities with the information needed to monitor environmental change and m...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

INNO-NAERING-INNO-NAERING

MultiBoard - Mekanisk masse som råvare for produksjon av containerboard

Norske Skog Skogn is working to develop an entirely new type of packaging paper based on mechanical pulp, which differs from today’s production where packaging paper is typically made from chemical pulp. This is technically demanding but also a major opportunity: the goal is to create a light, br...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Mitochondrial maintenance across eukaryotes via coupled physical, genetic, and social dynamics

In many ways, biological cells resemble cities. They need energy, waste management, communication, and transport infrastructure—and they must coordinate resources to meet these needs. Urban planning draws on mathematics, simulations, and real-world data to manage such systems. Could a similarly i...

Awarded: NOK 11.4 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Strength-based Pedagogies in Mathematics Education

SBPME examines the educational opportunities within mathematics education in the context of societal changes and movements. In many municipalities, including those in and around major cities, Norwegian classrooms today are characterized by a high level of diversity, so extensive that it can be de...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestfold

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

FME Northwind - Norwegian Research Centre on Wind Energy NorthWind Floating Array Design

This project will create improved methods for designing large farms of floating offshore wind turbines. It will build on open-source, state-of-the-art computer tools for simulating and optimizing floating wind farms. It will also integrate techniques from the multidisciplinary expertise in SINTEF...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Patterns in Arctic-Alpine Vegetation

Natur i Norge (further referred to as NiN) is a system for typification and description of Norwegian nature, covering all variation at given, specified scales. The current version 3.0 of the NiN system was launched in 2023. During the revision that lead to NiN 3.0, Arctic ecosystems were given pa...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove