40,311 projects

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Time-Dimension of Islet Regeneration: Mastering ß-Cell Plasticity

Diabetes is an umbrella term for a group of metabolic diseases characterized by chronically elevated blood sugar caused by the inability of the body to produce/use sufficient insulin, a hormone synthesized by the pancreatic ß-cells. Previous research exposed the high regenerative potential of the...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Student Employment: Does it Affect Academic Performance and Later Labour Market Success?

Dette prosjektet undersøker sammenhengen mellom studiestøtte, deltidsarbeid under høyere utdanning og akademiske resultater, gjennom tre empiriske studier basert på norske registerdata. Det er artikkel 2 og 3 kandidaten vil arbeide med under utenlandsoppholdet. I artikkel 1 undersøker kandidate...

Awarded: NOK 0.36 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

CancER-phagy: Unravelling and targeting ER-phagy in cancer

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) can be considered the factory of the cell where important cellular components such as proteins and lipids are assembled. In cancer cells, these factories are running beyond their normal capacity to generate components required for tumour growth and spread. To preven...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Regional downscaling of eco-physiological theory. The contribution of talented researcher NN

Global models based on advanced eco-physiological theory predict that fish populations at high latitudes, such as Atlantic cod and herring, are vulnerable due to physical and physiological constraints that are difficult to avoid under climate change. This project aims to downscale these predictio...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Scattering Amplitudes: Linking particles and black holes Effectively

What happens when black holes collide? These spectacular events release enormous amounts of energy, which bends space and time. The ripples of the aftermath are measured here on Earth. The detection of these gravitational waves have unlocked a new way to study Nature. To observe black holes direc...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Rogaland

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

Network dynamics during encoding and recall of episodic memories in humans

Remember your last birthday party: the guests at the door, the tasty food, the small pile of presents. Those memories are called episodic memories. They are memories of events that happen in a particular place (“where”) and in a particular order (“when”). To form these memories, the brain must s...

Awarded: NOK 22.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Tectono-stratigraphy of Forlandsundet Graben

This project investigates the tectonic evolution of the Forlandsundet Graben in western Svalbard, with a focus on understanding the transition from contractional deformation to extensional rifting. The study area offers a rare geological setting where both the Paleogene rift basin and its Neoprot...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Digital Forlandsundet: Integrated geoscientific data modelling of the Forlandsundet basin, Western Svalbard

Digital Forlandsundet: Integrated geoscientific data modelling of the Forlandsundet Basin, Western Svalbard The Forlandsundet region in western Svalbard provides an exceptional natural laboratory for investigating how the Earth’s crust evolves from compressional to extensional deformation – a ke...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Svalbard

INNO-OFF-INNO-OFF

Å forske med småbarn: Sammen på vei mot barns medvirkning

'Sammen på vei' er et workshop-basert samarbeidsprosjekt mellom en personalgruppe på en småbarnsavdeling og forskere ved forskningsgruppen BarneKraft ved Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge (USN) og forskningsgruppen Barn, barnehage, barndom ved Høgskolen i Østfold (HiØ). Prosjektets mål er å legge grun...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Telemark

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

The Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research summer school in Svalbard 2026.

The term - The Global Arctic, is gaining currency in contemporary debates about how the Arctic and the rest of the world are interconnected. Modern phenomena such as globalization, climate change and transboundary pollution have brought the Arctic into global webs of science, commerce, security a...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

National research school in epidemiology: Building competence, networks and data-driven insights for future health research in Norway

Norway is home to some of the world’s most valuable health data in our national registries, biobanks, and long-term studies that offer unique insights into public health. To fully unlock this potential, we need researchers equipped with advanced skills and strong networks. That’s the mission of t...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2034

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Dynamics: Noncommutativity, Groupoids, Homotopy theory (DyNGH)

In this project I will study topological dynamical systems: configurations of points that evolve over time according to a fixed rule. The key feature is continuity: if two states start out very similar, they remain similar after the rule is applied, there are no sudden jumps. This may sound abstr...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Meaning-Centric Bio-Inspired Communication Systems

Tiny biological and artificial components inside the human body have been conceptualized to talk to each other with the exchange of signals, including molecules. Such future intra-body networks could allow doctors to connect to cells, monitor their condition, diagnose disease, and deliver treatme...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Differentiable Fracture Simulation

Introduction Fractures in the Earth's subsurface are crucial for operations such as geothermal energy extraction and CO2 storage. Changes to fluid pressure and rock temperature during operation may cause fractures to form and evolve, in turn affecting fluid flow. Understanding this interplay is e...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Harmonic Analytic and Quantum Metric Aspects of Rapid Decay (HAQMARD)

In classical metric geometry we study metric spaces, which are sets equipped with a notion of distance known as a metric. Of importance when studying metric spaces are the continuous functions on the space. In fact, it turns out that the metric can be characterized solely in terms of a subset of ...

Awarded: NOK 4.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

MattNorVeg: Algebra-Geometri-Analyse med anvendelser

MattNorVeg: Mathematics Connecting Norway The project MattNorVeg: Algebra–Geometry–Analysis with Applications aims to strengthen collaboration among mathematicians across Norway. We work with some of the most fundamental building blocks of mathematics: analysis, algebra, geometry, topology, and ...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Vestland

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Diet variation in Arctic Snow buntings (Plectrophenax nivalis) through DNA-metabarcoding of fecal samples, RiS ID 2272

The project "Diet variation in Arctic Snow buntings (Plectrophenax nivalis) through DNA-metabarcoding of fecal samples" is a continuation of the snow bunting long-term monitoring project conducted yearly since 1998, assessing the reproductive success of snow buntings breeding in Adventdalen (RiS ...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Sedimentary response to climatic and tectonic forcing in the Forlandsundet Graben and related basins

This project focuses on the Cenozoic (Eocene to Oligocene?) deposits in the Forlandsundet Graben, a fault-bounded sedimentary basin along the west coast of Svalbard. The aim is to better understand the basin's formation, sediment sources, and its role in past global climate change, particularly t...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Hybrid Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Real-Time End of Life Prediction of Sodium-Ion Batteries

Norway needs more than just lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) to meet its 2050 climate change act targets, because LIBs rely on expensive materials like lithium, cobalt and nickel that come from a few risky places and can cause environmental and social problems. Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) are a promi...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

Norwegian Structures in Topology, Algebra and Geometry (NORSTAGE)

NORSTAGE is a national research network aimed at strengthening Norway’s research in algebra, geometry, and topology. These are central areas of pure mathematics with deep roots in Norwegian mathematics going back to Niels Henrik Abel and Sophus Lie. The fields explore everything from geometric sp...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Protecting wild salmon through computer vision: Lifelong AI tools for ecological monitoring & differentiating between wild & escaped salmon

Escape of domesticated salmon from farms is considered a major environmental impact resulting from aquaculture: Not only can escapees compete with wild populations, but they can breed with wild fish, resulting in a loss of genetic biodiversity. This is damaging as these fish were modified through...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

Strategic collaboration for long-term increase in research quality

LØFT is a network in computer science with partners from the Universities of Oslo, Bergen and Tromsø and Simula Research Laboratory. The network's purpose is to establish long-term collaborative relationships between academic research communities, industry and public administration in the field o...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Technological Change, Labor Representation, and Job Quality: A Comparative Historical Analysis, c. 1830–1980

TECHLABOR investigates how new technologies have changed the quality of jobs. Job quality includes aspects of work that affect wellbeing such as work intensity, safety on the job, and working hours as well as wages. Improving the quality of jobs is a global policy commitment, but early research o...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

High-throughput analysis of immune gene networks in autoimmune disease

Autoimmune diseases occur when the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues and leads to tissue damage. This can happen when developing immune cells, the T-cells, in the thymus fail to learn self-tolerance. Thymic epithelial cells (TECs) are critical for this process, as they express tissue-r...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Ny-Ålesund winter Precipitation Experiment

The project consists of bringing new precipitation instruments to Ny-Ålesund to study the impact of the wind on their measurements. Collecting data in the field is necessary to develop corrections tailored to a specific location, as the wind influence is dependent on the local climate. The projec...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Akershus

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Genomic adaptions in kelp to Arctic environments (BlueArc Field Sampling, RiS 12373)

Fieldwork in Svalbard’s kelp forests provides a rare opportunity to uncover the genetic mechanisms that enable seaweeds to thrive in extreme polar environments while assessing their vulnerability to predicted warming. Arctic kelp species Alaria esculenta, Saccharina latissima, Hedophyllum nigripe...

Awarded: NOK 59,999

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Vestland

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Kelp - Urchin Transitions and Carbon Dynamics in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard (BlueArc field sampling).

Kelp forests are key Arctic habitats that support biodiversity, carbon storage, and essential ecosystem services. In Kongsfjorden, Svalbard, warming waters and changing ice regimes are altering these ecosystems, with increasing grazing pressure from sea urchins driving transitions from kelp fores...

Awarded: NOK 59,999

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Vestland

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Kelp forest consumptive rate and urchin predator community in the Arctic

Kelp forests are vital Arctic habitats that support biodiversity and provide essential ecosystem services. In Svalbard, these ecosystems have undergone significant changes over the past three decades, driven by rapid climate change. However, future warming may also enhance kelp productivity, depe...

Awarded: NOK 59,999

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Vestland

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Norse Impact - Continuous digital care in mental health - Utenlandsopphald stipendiat Hege Tvedt

Overordnet formål med Norse Impact er å videreutvikle feedback- verktøyet "Norse- Feedback" med digitalt innhold tilpasset mennesker med rus og psykiske helseutfordringer. Stavanger Universitetssjukehus har ansvar for ett kvalitativt PhD-prosjekt der målgruppen er unge pasienter mellom 16 og 25 å...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Den «tekno-innovative» vendingen i eldreomsorgen – tvingende nødvendighet eller bidrag til en omsorgskrise i velferdsstaten?

Utenlandsoppholdet vil berike ISP-prosjektet ved å gå i dialog med et forskningsmiljø fra en annen kontekst, med andre empiriske og teoretiske perspektiver på teknologisk innovasjon i helse- og omsorgssektoren. Prosjektet vil innta et komparativt blikk på hvordan ulike velferdsregimer møter demog...

Awarded: NOK 0.27 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland