44,512 projects

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

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

StrawberryWalls – integrating plant parasitology, ecology and biomechanics to support crop adaptation to climate change

Global warming has been most pronounced north of 60°, with the Arctic warming four times faster than the rest of the world. This will open up around 1.5 billion hectares of new agricultural land in northern latitudes. At the same time, it will allow many pest and pathogen species to spread northw...

Awarded: NOK 25.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2032

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

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

HELSEFORSKNING-Helseforskning

Farmer Health: Assessing Risks and Mitigation Strategies for Rodent-borne Zoonoses in Food Production under Climate Change

With a One Health approach, RoBoZoo investigates how climate change and agricultural practices influence interactions among small rodents, humans, and food production—and the risks these dynamics pose for zoonotic disease transmission, including potential links between exposure to zoonotic microb...

Awarded: NOK 12.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Innlandet

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Leveraging Protracted Refugee Situations: Comparing how Lebanon and Turkey have responded to Syrian displacement

The Syrian civil war (2011–2024) created the world’s largest refugee crisis, as over 14 million Syrians fled their homes. Syria’s neighbouring states took in most of those refugees. At its highest point, Turkey hosted over 3.5 million Syrian refugees and Lebanon hosted approximately 1.5 million. ...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Centre for Defects in Semiconductors for Quantum Sensing

The Centre for Defects in Semiconductors for Quantum Sensing (DSQS) explores the idea that tiny imperfections in crystals can enable novel sensing capabilities. These imperfections, known as color centers or quantum defects, can emit single photons and host quantum spins that can be extremely sen...

Awarded: NOK 61.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Environmentalized Peace: Community-Based Approaches to Water and Air Security in Jordan and Palestine

What happens when pollution from war doesn’t stop at the border? Environmentalized Peace is a groundbreaking project exploring how communities in Jordan and Palestine can work together to confront a new and invisible threat: conflict-driven air pollution drifting across borders. For decades, muni...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

INNO-OFF-INNO-OFF

Bærekraftig radikal oppgavedeling i helse og omsorgssektoren

The BRO project (Sustainable Radical Division of Tasks) addresses two major societal problems. One is the coming capacity crisis in health and care services; the other is the large number of people of working age who are outside of work and education. BRO will meet these challenges by developing ...

Awarded: NOK 21.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KSFF-KSFF

Randomized controlled trial of tailored and sustainable health care solutions for home-dwelling individuals with high healthcare utilization

HighHealthCare (HøyHelseOmsorg) aims to strengthen the sustainability of municipal health services by developing and testing a digital home follow-up intervention tailored to people with high health service use. The goal is to increase health literacy, self-management, quality of life and user ...

Awarded: NOK 14.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

INNO-OFF-INNO-OFF

Maritim havovervåkning og beredskap

The risk landscape at sea is becoming increasingly complex with increased shipping traffic, new threat actors, the effects of climate change and increasing digital vulnerability and cyber-attacks. This creates need for more advanced surveillance at sea. Existing solutions are largely static and s...

Awarded: NOK 21.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

ReinAir: Seasonal airborne mapping and modelling of Svalbard reindeer habitat in Reindalen

It is urgent to predict the effects of climate change on Svalbard reindeer, since population dynamics have been driven by the contrasting effects of summer and winter warming over the past 30 years: Winter warming has led to an increase in the frequency of rain-on-snow (ROS) events, which alters ...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Svalbard reindeer spatial ecology - from individuals to populations

Populations’ dynamics and distributions change in response to climate and habitat changes, yet our current knowledge is based mostly on correlational evidence. What each animal does depends on its physiological state and immediate environment, meaning that the processes by which climate change af...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Svalbard

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

SFS-project: Accelerating plant-based protein emulsion design with microfluidics and intelligent software tools for sustainable foods

Many foods are made up of small droplets of oils or fats in a liquid. These are known as emulsions and can include drinks, sauces, and even chocolate. Oil does not mix with many liquids, so other substances are added to stabilise the droplets. Otherwise, they will separate like a vinaigrette does...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HELSEFORSKNING-Helseforskning

Strategy to Target Acquired Resistance in Melanoma Brain Metastasis (STAR-MBM)

Melanom er en aggressiv kreftform som ofte sprer seg til hjernen, der dagens behandling med BRAF-hemmere har begrenset og kortvarig effekt. Et stort problem ved denne behandlingen er at de fleste pasienter utvikler resistens innen seks måneder. Dette prosjektet skal utvikle nye behandlingsstrateg...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

REHSYS PhD Research Collaboration with AIST in Japan

The main objective of the REHSYS PhD project is to develop and validate dynamic system simulation models that can be used to study and optimize the operation of industrial scale water electrolysis systems based on proton exchange membrane (PEM) technology. The PhD at UiO is part of the KSP REHSYS...

Awarded: NOK 0.18 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Akershus

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Support for the Event of the International Conference of Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK'26) in Bergen.

The project concerns the organisation and delivery of The 16th International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK26), a leading international conference focused on enabling ICT technologies at the intersection of data science, artificial intelligence, and education. Hosted by the Uni...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Norsk Kryptoseminar 2026

The Department of Informatics at UiB and Simula UiB will jointly organise Norsk kryptoseminar in Bergen on the 23rd of October. The seminar is made up of sessions with talks from academia, industry and the public sector, covering the breadth of cryptography in Norway. The event will last for the ...

Awarded: NOK 60,999

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

HELSEFORSKNING-Helseforskning

Female Heart Workshop 2026

Hjerte og karsykdom er den viktigste dødsårsaken hos både kvinner og menn på verdensbasis. Til tross for en betydelig sykdomsbyrde er disse sykdommene fortsatt understudert, underdiagnostisert og underbehandlet hos kvinner. Det er kjente kjønnsforskjeller i både prevalens av og utvikling av risik...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Centre for Personalized Digital Health Promotion

Lifestyle-related diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, overweight, and mental health problems are among the main public health challenges in Norway. They reduce the quality of life and place significant pressure on the healthcare system. Research shows that many of these conditions ...

Awarded: NOK 96.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2034

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Human-AI Teaming Framework in Cyber Security for Critical Infrastructures: Enhancing Resilience and Autonomy

HAT-CI introduces a new paradigm for cyber defense, which is built on human-AI teaming that is adaptive, resilient, and ethically aligned. Critical Infrastructures such as energy grids are increasingly exposed to sophisticated and evolving cyber threats. While AI provides the ability to detect pa...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

SYNAPSE: SYnergetic Network-AI Platform for Semantic Efficiency

A cardiac arrest alert should reach a doctor in milliseconds. An AI system monitoring patients should learn instantly which patterns are dangerous. But today, networks do not understand urgency, and AI cannot see network problems. A life-critical medical alert competes for space with cat videos. ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Unlocking the Power of Spatial Computing using Tile-Centric AI Accelerators

The AI revolution has led to an unprecedented demand in compute power with modern datacentres consuming more electricity than entire cities. Consequently, it is necessary to reduce their power consumption. Until recently, computer chips were simply to get faster because their structure was gett...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

The puzzle of nerve aging: unravelling the trinity of fat, chondral proteoglycans, and fibroblast growth factors.

As we get older, our muscles naturally lose strength. This can lead to a more sedentary lifestyle, which increases the risk of developing various health problems. These health issues not only lower our quality of life but can also shorten our lifespan. When it comes to understanding why we lose ...

Awarded: NOK 11.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

The Big 5 Norway project - increasing public mental health through micro-interventions

How Small Daily Actions Can Strengthen Public Mental Health Around the world, millions struggle with anxiety, depression and stress—and research shows that even small daily actions can make a big difference. This idea lies at the heart of The Big Five project, an international initiative led by d...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Vestland