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VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Inclusive Educational Rights: Balancing Rights of Violent Children, Their Peers and Educators

Pupils who behave violently against classmates and school staff are an increasing problem in Norway, affecting safety, learning and long-term life chances. Around a quarter of primary teachers reported violence or threats in 2024. Early intervention is crucial to prevent social exclusion and futu...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

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

FORSKNINGSDATA-FORSKNINGSDATA

Galactic Recipe for Exo-Planets

We discover steadily new planets around other stars. Many of these exoplanets orbit their host star much closer than Mercury. The most common type of exoplanets does not exist in the Solar System. These exoplanets have a size between Earth and Neptune and a range of masses that makes it difficult...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Cumulative effects of climate change and pollution - How climate region and local habitat shape biological responses and recovery

Global warming and pollution are major threats to nature and a sustainable future. In SoilStress we aim to understand the mechanisms underlying the combined effects of climate change and pollution on soil animals. The main questions are: •Why do populations react differently to pesticides and te...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Knowledge Integration in Teacher Education through Technology-Enhanced Simulation (KITES)

KITES is a research project that explores how advanced technologies such as virtual reality, 360-degree video, and artificial intelligence can support student teachers in integrating various knowledge sources to make professional decisions. Becoming a good teacher requires more than subject exper...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Østfold

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Co-developing an Evidence-Based Framework for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Physical Education Teacher Education

EquiPETE examines how teacher education and physical education can become more inclusive, giving all pupils opportunities to experience learning, mastery, belonging and joy. How can physical education teachers create learning environments where all pupils feel included and have equitable opport...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Asian Diffusion: China’s Governance Promotion and Vietnamese Adaptation (ADAPT)

China increasingly promotes its domestic development success as an example for others. How do these ideas travel, and how are they received in other countries? While most research on international diffusion has focused on how liberal democracies promote governance abroad, ADAPT explores how gover...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Resilience of polar ecosystems to the cumulative effects of physical and biological changes in Norway’s high Arctic (ROPES)

The Arctic is changing quickly, and Svalbard’s fjords are among the places where these changes are most visible. Warmer Atlantic water is reaching farther north, sea ice is disappearing, and new fish species such as cod and haddock are becoming more common. At the same time, the small polar cod, ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Vocational-Oriented Sustainability Education Across Museums and School (VOSEAMS)

Does it matter to you which products your hairdresser uses on your hair? Or what materials the carpenter uses to build your house? And what about the food in the cafeteria – are local ingredients important to you? Professionals use products, materials, and services that have impacts on climate, ...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

NANOTEKNOLOGI-NANOTEKNOLOGI

High-performance thin film piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems, Enhanced for Realistic Operating conditions

Since the mid 70’s, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), have had a major impact on our modern, high-technological society. Thin film piezoelectric MEMS (TFPMEMS), carries on this MEMS-legacy, currently finding its way into factual technological applications, such as 3D cameras, gas-detectors, ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Simulation of High-Temperature Multiphysics in Complex Subsurface Formations (Simplex)

The Simplex project at the University of Bergen is dedicated to improving our understanding of deep subsurface environments, particularly those influenced by high temperatures and complex geological settings. By developing mathematical models and computational methods, the project aims to explore...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Rettslige rammer for balansen mellom arbeid og fritid ved hjemmekontor.

Prosjektet undersøker hvordan arbeidsrettslig regulering kan bidra til å ivareta balansen mellom arbeid og fritid i et stadig mer digitalisert arbeidsliv. Økt bruk av hjemmekontor og fleksible arbeidsformer utfordrer tradisjonelle grenser for arbeidstid og tilgjengelighet, og reiser nye rettslige...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

Nordic NOIR - Nordic Network of IBD Researchers

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)—Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis—affects about 50,000 people in Norway and often requires lifelong, advanced care. Despite many new therapies, a substantial proportion of patients experience primary non-response or loss of response, increasing the risk of bo...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Towards Matching Bounds in Large Deviations

Unlikely, but possible, events are everywhere, from extreme heatwaves to mechanical failure or stock market crashes. In such systems, the rare events may have catastrophic outcomes, and it is therefore crucial to understand exactly how unlikely (or not) they are. The mathematical framework to qu...

Awarded: NOK 7.3 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Licenses to appropriate land for societal ends

The goal of this research project is to get a thorough understanding of how the Norwegian licensing system for land and natural resource management works, and how it can be improved. To achieve this, two main cases – aquaculture and wind power – will be analyzed in relation to the broader context...

Awarded: NOK 10.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Forskaropphald ved Universitetet i Helsingfors – klimarisiko og maladapsjon i omstilling til fornybarsamfunnet

Prosjektet SUSFIN er eit forskingsopphald ved Universitetet i Helsinki som skal vidareutvikle teoretisk kunnskap om klimarisiko i energiomstillinga. Formålet er å undersøkje korleis tiltak for å redusere utslepp og klimatilpasse samfunnet av og til kan gi utilsikta konsekvensar, som aukar sårbarh...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

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

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Pathogenic Vibrio spp. in Norway applying a One Health approach: current and future challenges

As our oceans heat up due to climate change, new risks are emerging to public health. One such risk is Vibrio bacteria—naturally found in marine environments, but capable of causing serious illness in humans. These bacteria can enter the body through open wounds in seawater or by eating raw seafo...

Awarded: NOK 12.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Diversity as a battlefield? Majority and minority responses to organisational diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts

Diversity and inclusion have become a political battlefield. A wide range of policies and initiatives – so-called diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts – seek to improve the inclusion and status of disadvantaged groups, most notably in the labour market. Yet, we know remarkably little abo...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SAMISKTEMA-SAMISKTEMA

Reshaping linguistic spheres in Sápmi: language policy, linguistic atmosphere, and namescapes in the multilingual North (ReLing)

Who Owns Languages at the Local Level? How is language policy developed in municipalities where Sámi languages are threatened? A research project investigates how local language policy, attitudes, and political actions influence the revitalization of Sámi languages. In several municipalities in N...

Awarded: NOK 11.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

Struggling Women and Men: Political-Democratic Gender Gaps in a High-Trust Welfare State

Political-democratic differences between women and men are emerging as a societal challenge in Western societies. Which life experiences and grievances—among women and men—generate these differences? How do experiences and grievances affect institutional trust, democratic involvement, and welfare...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

Software Engineering Hub

Norway’s digitalisation depends on software that works reliably every day. Software is crucial in everything from health and safety to banking, energy and public administration. Achieving this requires sound methods for developing and operating IT systems, and strong research environments that ca...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

SongGesture: Co-singing gesture and vocal performance across three musical traditions

In many music traditions, vocalists tend to gesture with hand, head and other body movements as they sing. SongGesture will investigate expert vocalists’ use of gestures in three contrasting vocal styles: beatboxing, karnatak music from South India and European art song. While there has been scie...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Oslo - Oslove

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Exploring the implications of power dynamics for food system change and sustainability outcomes across food, environment, health and climate

Changing the food system in a sustainable direction requires more than scientific knowledge on climate and environmental issues. This is just as much a social and political task. Thus how, in which ways and by whom the food system is governed will greatly affect how the connections between food, ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Adapting to climate risks via landscape-scale solutions: effects of peatland restoration on floods and water browning (ANTIPASTI)

Natural hazards like river floods and water browning caused by organic matter washed into aquatic environments are becoming more intense because of climate change. These changes threaten lives and properties, drinking water and ecosystems and local communities. Nature-based solutions such as pea...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Deciphering integrin-specific autoantibodies in ulcerative colitis

Ulcerative colitis is a serious chronic condition that is characterized by inflammation and tissue damage in the large intestine. The exact cause of the disease is unknown, but part of the explanation is likely autoimmunity. That is, an attack of the immune system on the body's own structures. Re...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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