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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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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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Peace Positive Private Sector Development in Africa (P3A)

There is increasing interest around the private sector as a sustainable development actor, but the ways that they support or undermine peace-positive outcomes remain unclear. Recognising the importance in understanding this, P3A is a first of its kind comparative research project studying how the...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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ColdRein: Palaeo-genomics to reconstruct the evolutionary responses of endemic high-arctic reindeer to past environmental change

Understanding how—and how fast—organisms can respond to environmental change is key for predicting their resilience in facing global climate change. This is especially true in the Arctic, which is experiencing the most pronounced warming. Svalbard, an isolated, High-Arctic archipelago and the fas...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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UNLOCKING THE POTENTIAL OF PRECISION MEDICINE TO PROMOTE DRUG SENSITIVITY IN LUNG CANCER

Understanding and Combating Drug Resistance in Cancer: A Collaborative International Effort Personalized medicine has greatly improved the outlook for many cancer patients. Yet, one major challenge remains: the development of drug resistance. Many patients eventually experience relapse, with can...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Social dynamics and eco-evolutionary feedbacks in wild populations

Avoiding population collapse due to climate change is one of the biggest challenges for our generation. In order to effectively use the limited resources allocated to conservation efforts, we need to understand the characteristics of organisms affecting their vulnerability to changes in the envir...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Unveiling the evolutionary and functional impact of genomic structural variants of Atlantic salmon

This project explores how genetic variation shapes the diversity, evolution, and adaptation of Atlantic salmon, a species of great ecological and economic importance in Northern Europe. By combining large-scale genome analysis tools, we aim to understand how evolution and domestication have influ...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Akershus

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FJO2RD: The effect of climate change on the deep water renewal frequency of Norwegian fjords

The fjords of western Norway are breathtakingly beautiful – but ever so often, the media reports on the situation beneath the glittering fjord surface, and the image they share from the fjord depths is less pretty. Under the combined pressure of anthropogenic activity and climate change, many of ...

Awarded: NOK 12.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

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Advancing Causal Modeling with Coincidence Analysis

Many causal structures have one or both of the following features: (i) causes are arranged in complex bundles that only become operative when all of their components are properly co-instantiated, each of which in isolation is ineffective or leads to different outcomes, and (ii) outcomes can be br...

Awarded: NOK 12.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

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Causes, consequences, and life-course trajectories of personality pathology - a longitudinal extended children-of-twins study

Personality disorders affect the way a person thinks, feels, and acts, and can be destructive in many areas of life. They may manifest as extreme mistrust, intense mood swings, impulsive behavior, or paralyzing perfectionism. Such disorders affect not only the individual but also families and clo...

Awarded: NOK 12.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Understanding Oil Producers Responses to the Renewable Energy Transition (OPRET)

The OPRET project analyses how major oil producers are affected by, adapting to and preparing for the global energy transition from fossil fuels to clean energy. The project has produced 9 papers so far. Some findings: -- Petrostates may be willing and able to diversify as the global shift towar...

Awarded: NOK 11.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Perceiving voice and speaker - how we experience each other when communicating and what it does to us

How do we experience each other in spoken linguistic communication and what does it do to our social interactions? When listening to a speaker, we can come to understand what they say by perceiving the speech sounds they utter. But we also hear the speaker’s voice. Voice is an auditory face of th...

Awarded: NOK 7.7 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Innlandet

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Promoting Justice in a Time of Friction: Scandinavian Penal Exports

The Scandinavian states export criminal justice through their foreign policy and international aid on issues ranging from prison and judicial reform to women’s rights. Yet the role of ‘penal exports’ and what it says about Scandinavian penal power, foreign policy, and position(ing) in the interna...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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DYPOLE: Dynamics of polar confined basins - The Eurasia Basin from breakup in greenhouse to present in icehouse conditions

Through the DYPOLE project, we increase the understanding of the complex interplay between geological processes that have formed the continental margin north of Svalbard/Barents Sea and adjacent areas of the Arctic Ocean. Key questions include: (1) How did the continent split up between the Lomon...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Epigenetic mechanisms and cell-type specific gene expression during anoxia and re-oxygenation in crucian carp brain

Crucian carp (Carassius carassius) is a fish that, unlike most other vertebrates, can survive for a long time without oxygen (anoxia). This ability is necessary for the crucian carp to survive in Northern Europe in small ponds, where the oxygen disappears when ice and snow prevent oxygen to enter...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Phenotypic Drug Screening to support personalized medicine for colorectal cancer.

Every cancer patient poses a distinctive challenge to physicians. Colorectal cancer is not one but rather a collection of similar diseases of abnormal tissue growth in the colon. Due to the variable underlying disease biology, tumours targeted by a drug may respond well to the treatment in one pe...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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HYDROMORE – HYDROdynamic Mooring analysis for Ocean Renewable Energy

HYDROMORE seeks to establish new best-practice approaches for designing future mooring systems used in floating ocean renewable energy devices. This will ultimately enable the design of leaner and safer mooring solutions and reduce the cost of energy from these technologies. In line with the Pari...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Vestland

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The pulling power of Paris (PullP): Unpacking the role of ‘pledge & review’ in climate governance

The Paris Agreement provides the inter-governmental framework for coordinating international climate action. It does so through the so-called "pledge and review" system at the heart of the Agreement, whereby states are obliged to commit to a certain level of climate mitigation, adaptation or fina...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Women, Opera and the Public Stage in Eighteenth-Century Venice

What was the place of women in eighteenth-century European operatic culture? What was their role in constructing models for women in the eighteenth century? Did opera, and the opportunities for autonomy and social mobility, advance the process of women’s emancipation? The interdisciplinary proje...

Awarded: NOK 11.6 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Targeting Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor for Breast Cancer Treatment and Improved Immunotherapy

Breast cancers, like many other cancers, develop through a complex set of events, including DNA mutations and changes in the way the immune system fights cancer. The immune system plays an important role in protecting us from cancer, but these protective mechanisms are lost when tumours are forme...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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A Digital Edition and Analysis of the Auraicept na nÉces

Auraicept na nÉces ('The Scholars' Primer') is the richest surviving witness to Carolingian interest in the vernacular. The text is the earliest grammatical description of any European vernacular language. No comparable description of a vernacular is found in any European literature before we get...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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The logic of measuring, managing and governing ecosystems (EcoLogic)

The ‘ecological turn’ is the realization that ecosystems are vital for human life and subsequent public, political and scientific attention towards maintaining ecosystem 'health' at a sustainable level. The shift towards ecosystem-based management represents changes in the key principles – the lo...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Vestland

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Narrative Hierarchies: Minor Characters in Byzantine and Medieval History Writing

In medieval histories produced within and about the Byzantine (or Eastern Roman) Empire, emperors and other elite Byzantine/Roman men invariably occupy more prominent roles than labourers, eunuchs, slaves, soldiers, foreigners, and women of all social classes. The unevenness with which attention,...

Awarded: NOK 8.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Prediction of ignition and spread of wildfires in Scandinavia: from experiments to models

Global warming is giving rise to increasing temperatures, less rain, and longer periods with dry weather conditions. Such periods increase the risk of wildfires - large, destructive fires that spread quickly across woodland or brush. These fires now occur in regions where they were previously rar...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

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Dovdna: An Inquiry into Lullabies and Sámi Children’s Yoiks

This project tackles the diversity of lulling practices across cultures, through a comparative work based on the ethnographic literature as well as fieldwork inquiries in Sápmi. Lullabies have an age-old reputation of being a ‘universal’ – or even ‘primordial’ – practice. One first outcome of th...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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The Double-edged Sword of News Recommenders Impact on Democracy (NEWSREC)

The NEWSREC project investigates the promise and perils of recommender algorithms that are designed to influence people’s news selection. We focus on one of the most heavily debated consequences of recommender algorithms: the extent to which recommender algorithms lead people into “filter bubbles...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

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Digital Lives: Impact of Social Media Use on Psychological and Social Development from Childhood to Adulthood

Almost all adolescents use social media. How does social media use affect psychological and social development from childhood to adulthood? What characterizes social media use that promotes or hampers such development? This project aims to provide answers to these questions. To generate such know...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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