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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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SPACEPROBE: Small-satellite Positioned ACcurate non-Equilibrium Plasma Resolving methodOlogy for particle-Bombarding Environments

How should we set up a satellite network of space weather stations around the Earth? What type of instrument is optimal for this task? Modern society relies heavily on electronic equipment. In space, this equipment can easily be disturbed or even damaged by intense bursts of particles or radiati...

Awarded: NOK 6.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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DETECT and PROTECT – surviving insults to intracellular compartments

To protect the cell interior from pathogens and other harmful agents, it is essential that our cells respond swiftly and with precision. One key defense mechanism in intracellular compartments like endosomes, lysosomes, and phagosomes is the process called “Conjugation of ATG8 proteins to Single ...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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POLARIS - evolution of the Arctic in deep time.

Beneath the ice, water, and tundra of the Arctic today lies a vast landscape of rocks. These rocks are different types and ages, and form part of Earth’s outer shell (the crust) which can be divided into tectonic plates. Today, the Arctic is located on either part of the North American or Eurasia...

Awarded: NOK 8.2 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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Linguistic Economy through transfer Source Selectivity (LESS): A neurocognitive investigation of linguistic transfer in multilingualism

You might have heard that our brains are powerful computational machines. They certainly are, but all that processing power would be useless in the constant overload of information we live in, were it not for the fact that they also do other things very well: predict, adapt, reuse - to do more wi...

Awarded: NOK 6.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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Climate Politics During Recessions: Examining Drivers of a Green Economic Recovery

Current emission reductions are insufficient to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, which requires net zero GHG emissions globally by 2050. CLIMREC maps out conditions for states to invest in decarbonization even in economic downturns. Researchers have pointed out that in recessions, states t...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 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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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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Air Quality Monitoring Exploiting Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Antennas

Air pollution is a major global health crisis. It is responsible for an estimated seven million deaths each year and severely impacts the health of millions more. Every minute, a child dies from an illness linked to air pollution, and ten adults lose their lives due to prolonged exposure to pollu...

Awarded: NOK 12.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Innlandet

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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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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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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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Phenotypic Drug Screening to support personalized medicine for colorectal cancer.

Coloring in the Details: Cellular Portraits for Precision Treatment Each colorectal cancer patient poses a challenge to their physicians. What appears as one disease is actually a collection of biologically distinct cancers, each responding differently to available therapies. Current precision ...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Thickness of Arctic sea ice Reconstructed by Data assimilation and artificial Intelligence Seamlessly

Satellites have been measuring the extent of the whole Arctic sea ice since the late 70’s. But only since 2010 are they also able to measure its thickness and thus monitor the decline of its total volume. This information would have been invaluable for climate studies had these new satellites bee...

Awarded: NOK 11.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

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Learning from Mistakes: A Longitudinal Neuroimaging-Cohort-Registry Study

Adolescence, the transitional period between childhood and adulthood, involves extensive developmental changes in the body, behavior, cognitive functions, and the brain. A key characteristic of this prolonged neurocognitive development is the maturation of self-regulation functions and underlying...

Awarded: NOK 12.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Exciting times: Extreme modelling of excitable tissue (EMIx)

The EMIx project was established to address a critical gap between the advances in structural brain imaging and the capabilities of biophysical simulation. While imaging technologies can now reconstruct neural tissue at extreme detail, modelling and simulating the coupled electrical, chemical, an...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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