302 projects

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GLOBVAC-Global helse- og vaksinasjonsforskn.

The Smartphone Pandemic: Mobile technologies and data in the COVID-19 response (SMARTCOVID)

COVID-19 is the first pandemic in the age of the smartphone. New digital technologies such as contact tracing apps and mobile localization data have been used to model, monitor, and control the pandemic, often building on experimentation in humanitarian contexts and low-income countries. The rapi...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2022

Location: Oslo

TRANSPORT-Transport 2025

SMART PLAN - bærekraftig samfunnsutvikling gjennom samskaping og visuell simulering i planprosesser

Decision-making for urban and societal planning requires a sound and solid knowledge base. Digital twins and related technologies are starting to mature but the technology is still underused in public planning processes. Gathering and processing data for a given planning process is very time-cons...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2023

Location: Møre og Romsdal

SAMRISK-2-Samfunnssikkerhet og risiki

Pandemic Rhetoric, Trust and Social Media: Risk Communication Strategies and Public Reactions in a Changing Media Landscape (PAR-TS)

Trust is contingent on, among other things, historical experience and delivered results. But the way the authorities communicate is also key. People assess competence, character, and the motives of the authorities. The coronavirus pandemic put the public's trust in the health authorities to the t...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2023

Location: Oslo

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

PluriLand: Theorizing Conflict and Contestation in Plural Land Rights Regimes

The PluriLand project examines land rights claiming in plural legal regimes through cross-regional research into judicialized conflicts over land affecting the land rights of marginalized rural communities. Marginalized rural communities encounter different legal and political opportunity struc...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Vestland

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Managing Ethical Norwegian Seascape Activities

Management of marine resources, globally and in Norway, strives to achieve sustainable development by balancing resource extraction, biodiversity conservation, and societal acceptability. However, these three philosophical paradigms tend to stand as monolithic pillars in their approaches to susta...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Vestland

DEMOS-Demokratisk og effektiv styring, planlegging og forvaltning

The Social Sustainable City - the Role of Strategic Planning for Local Housing Markets Heterogeneity

The cities are increasingly arenas for socio-economic inequality, and there is a need for increased understanding of the role housing policy plays in the cities' socio-economic development. In their plans, municipalities often aim for a housing market with a social profile, which accommodates off...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Oslo

SAMRISK-2-Samfunnssikkerhet og risiki

Emotional Contagion (EmotiCon): Predicting and preventing the spread of misinformation, stigma, and anxiety during a pandemic

Much misinformation, stigma, and anxiety spread in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 'Emotional Contagion' (EmotiCon) project aimed to explain how and why this occurs in Norway. The main goal was to develop a multi-agent artificial intelligence model designed to predict and prevent, or at le...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2022

Location: Agder

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

Planning, knowledge and collaboration for developing vibrant and attractive city centres

The purpose of the project has been to develop novel knowledge that will make small and medium-sized cities better able to plan and develop their cities and city centres in ways that contribute to more attractive and vibrant city centres, which many cities want. This will also contribute to other...

Awarded: NOK 9.2 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Legitimacy challenges - An analysis of mistrust in core institutions and the normative fundament of the welfare state.

In the project period from 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2025, the project has published several articles based on the survey material developed in the previous period, in addition to further publications (4 articles). There have been several academic dissemination activities (12). PhD fellow Lo...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Vestland

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Reaching Out to Close the Border: The Transnationalization of Anti-Immigration Movements in Europe (Anti-Mig)

European citizens increasingly see immigration as a major concern. Opposition to immigration is on the increase across the political spectrum and is a basis for forceful political mobilization. Anti-immigration movements tend to advocate for isolationism, nationalism and cultural traditionalism, ...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

Understanding the Role of Trust in the Institutions of the Welfare State

In the project, we investigated attempts to promote trust-based governance in Danish and Norwegian municipalities. In public discourse, the term “trust reform” is used to describe such efforts that aim to replace excessive control routines in public organizations with trust-based approaches that ...

Awarded: NOK 11.3 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

Ukjent-Ukjent

Governing transitions in the Norwegian outfields: Between agrarian traditions, modern consumption and green industrialisation

Throughout four years Govout has explored three outfield areas across Norway from the south to the north. In the south research has focused on the culling of wild reindeer in the wake of the outburst of CWD and the aftermath of the handling of Gyro in Lærdalselva. A key finding her is how the cum...

Awarded: NOK 9.9 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PROFESJON-Forskningskompetanse for utvalgte profesjonsutdanninger

Improving trust-based management in Nordic urban governance and management education

The ideas of trust-based management originate from reforms in Denmark from 2011 and particularly from experiments in the City of Copenhagen and have since spread to the public sector in Norway and Sweden. These ideas are perceived by some as an innovation, and often as different from traditional ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Oslo

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

MEATigation: Towards sustainable meat-use in Norwegian food practices for climate mitigation

MEATigation is a research and industry collaboration project investigating a key step in Norway's transition to a "low-emission society": transforming the food system. A reduction in Western meat consumption is critical for ensuring we have enough food for all the people on the planet, while resp...

Awarded: NOK 14.8 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

Cities confronted by protests: Democratic governance for efficient and socially just climate transformation

DEMOCLIM studied the development of new democratic forms of governance in response to climate protests in four Scandinavian cities: Oslo, Bergen, Stockholm and Gothenburg. The project's starting point was the observed, sharpened conflict over climate policy solutions in cities around the world....

Awarded: NOK 10.6 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Konsept for styrket demokratimedvirkning

Democracy is threatened. An important warning signal is the declining level of democratic participation. There may be several reasons for this, including a lack of trust in politicians and dissatisfaction with existing opportunities for participation. Yascha Mounk describes in the book «The Peopl...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2022

Location: Buskerud

KULMEDIA-Kultur- og mediesektoren

Source Criticism and Mediated Disinformation

The project Source Criticism and Mediated Disinformation (SCAM) has developed new knowledge and methods that are suitable for detecting and countering the spread of disinformation in democratic societies. Disinformation, such as fake news, conspiracy theories, propaganda, and media manipulation, ...

Awarded: NOK 9.4 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Oslo

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

Field of goals: Co-production and implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in regional and local planning

The collaborative project Field of Goals: From goals to meaning to action - Co-production and implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in regional and local planning has developed a framework for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals in local and regional planning. To achie...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

The Electoral Ramifications of Environmental Policy

The research project THERAPY examines how voters respond to environment, energy, and climate policies. Anecdotal evidence, such as the Yellow vests and Nok er nok! movements in France and Norway, suggests that such policies can cause rifts between citizens and politicians. Meanwhile, the window o...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Vestland

FRIPRO-Fri prosjektstøtte

The Anatomy of Resistance Campaigns

Why are some countries democracies while others are ruled by dictators? Why do some become democratic only to slide back to autocracy some years later? While most studies have focused on slow-moving economic and demographic factors, we look at the actors that organize resistance to authoritarian ...

Awarded: NOK 7.7 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

Immigrant inclusion in Norway: An analysis of immigrant adaption and native reaction

Immigrant inclusion is not only a question of how immigrants adapt, but also how natives react. The project falls into four parts. The first introduces Get-Out-the-Vote mobilisation campaigns as a potentially important tool to foster immigrant inclusion. The second scrutinises the effects of the ...

Awarded: NOK 10.6 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Vestland

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

The Crime-Reducing Effect of Education: Disaggregating Education and Impact on Violent Crime (CREED)

Can governments reduce violent crime by increasing education, and if so, under what conditions? These questions are of significant policy relevance since many low- and middle-income countries experience high rates of violent crime, contrasting with the long-term decline in armed conflict and comm...

Awarded: NOK 9.5 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo

KULMEDIA-Kultur- og mediesektoren

Rapids and backwaters. Adapting fast and slow to a digital cultural turn.

This project has investigated how digitization has affected different types of value creation in the cultural sector, and how regulation, copyright and cultural policy have adapted to the digital production and distribution of culture. What do we know about cultural production in the digital cult...

Awarded: NOK 11.3 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2023

Location: Telemark

FORSKNINGSINFRA-FORSKNINGSINFRA

National Microdata Platform for Norwegian and International Research and Analysis

The service microdata.no provides researchers and analysts with online, self-service access to link and analyze registry data from Statistics Norway (SSB) without the need to apply for access to the data itself and while maintaining privacy of the registered individuals. Users of microdata.no nev...

Awarded: NOK 42.3 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Oslo

SAMRISK-2-Samfunnssikkerhet og risiki

Voluntary organizations in local emergency management

When a crisis occurs, resources beyond those of public authorities are often needed, and cooperation with volunteer actors is usually necessary to deal with acute events such as floods, forest fires or the search for missing persons. The project has investigated how cooperation between voluntary ...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Oslo

SIKKERHET-SIKKERHET

THEORETICAL ADVANCES OF CYBER RESILIENCE – PRACTICE, GOVERNANCE AND CULTURE OF DIGITALIZATION

The project strengthens society's ability to build cyber security and reduce digital vulnerability through concepts from the field of "resilience". Resilience as a concept is central to e.g., EU policies and strategies in cyber security. The field however comprises many roots, with a focus on cha...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MARINFORSKFISK-Marine ressurser og miljø - fiskeri

PARTICIPATORY MODELLING OF INTEGRATED ECOSYSTEM-BASED MANAGEMENT REGIME FOR INVASIVE CRABS

Most people think of invasive species only as a nuisance with negative impacts on biodiversity and costs to society. However, some invasive species may also bring benefits, and this may prove challenging when deciding on the right management strategy. Both the red king crab and the snow crab are ...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Oslo

OFFPHD-Offentlig sektor - ph.d.

"Det er ikke nok å høre - alle må også gjøre"

What is needed for children to experience being heard in their matters following Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which guarantees a child capable of forming their views the right to express those views in all matters affecting the child and to have those views given due w...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Upscaling sustainable collaborative consumption using public libraries

In the UPSCALE project, we have aimed to explore the extent to which libraries can be a driving force for a more sustainable development based on their central function and long-term experience related to lending activities. This research focus comes out of a general understanding that in today'...

Awarded: NOK 9.3 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo

SIKKERHET-SIKKERHET

LAW22JULY: RIPPLES (Rights, Institutions, Procedures, Participation, Litigation:Embedding Security)

‘Northernizing’ transitional justice: legalism, the rule of law and the state as referent entity As a field of both practice and academic scholarship, transitional justice is expanding beyond the realm of post-conflict justice. Since 9/11, liberal democracies such as the UK, Spain, France, Belgiu...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Oslo

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