240 projects

HELSEFORSKNING-Helseforskning

Caring Futures: Developing Care Ethics for Technology-mediated Care Practices (QUALITECH)

The global population is ageing. In the coming decades, the proportion of elderly persons will increase dramatically, leading to a corresponding increase in the disease burden to society. Policy makers in public welfare are concerned about the resulting resource deficit and pressure on the welfar...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Rogaland

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

New Frontiers of Speech: Linguistic Meaning and Communication in the Information Age

Rapid advances in information and communication technology (ICT), and in artificial intelligence (AI), and their subsequent rapid uptake by society at large, have changed linguistic communication in a variety of ways. The project explored how these technologies have substantially altered speech a...

Awarded: NOK 8.6 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. mellom Norge og Frankrike

Knowledge quality assessment as a sense-making device: an enquiry into uncertainties, agency and climate change

The “Knowledge quality assessment as a sensemaking device: an enquiry into uncertainties, agency and climate change” (KQA-SMD) project is an enquiry into the ability for climate change knowledge assessment to strengthen local communities through sensemaking. Climate change adaptation lies at the...

Awarded: NOK 20,000

Project Period: 2020-2021

Location: Vestland

MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

Arne Næss Symposium 2020 with Anthony Giddens as Arne Næss Professor: "Nature and Humanity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence"

Project description: The Arne Næss Symposium is part of the Arne Næss programme at the University of Oslo established in 2007. Based at the Center for Development and the Environment at UiO, the Arne Næss Chair and Symposium are today the only ongoing project that preserves and critically develop...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2020-2021

Location: Oslo

SAMKUL-Samfunnsutviklingens kulturelle forutsetninger

Warring with Machines: Military applications of AI and the relevance of Virtue Ethics

The project's primary research focus is on the people - military personnel throughout the command structure - who serve in combat settings with AI-enabled machines. In a battlespace where machine autonomy is increasingly assuming functions once restricted to human beings, maintaining clear lines ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2023

Location: Oslo

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Hvordan vil bruk av AI i kunderelasjonen påvirke Sparebanken Sør sin evne til å opptre som en etisk, samfunnssansvarlig relasjonsaktør

Several key technologists, technology companies and societal actors are now pointing out that technological development must to a greater extent than before focus on what what we want to achieve with technology - what the overall goal for the technology should be - rather than what we can do with...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Agder

OFFPHD-Offentlig sektor - ph.d.

Competence development in changed conditions.

The project is based on Report No. 21 to the Storting (2016-2017) Desire to learn - Early intervention and quality in schools, which provides guidelines for major changes in Norwegian schools. The State will not be responsible for quality development in schools anymore, this task is now transfere...

Awarded: NOK 45,740

Project Period: 2019-2020

Location: Agder

PES2020-Prosj.etabl.støtte H2020

Ansvarlig Forskning og Innovasjon (RRI) i Horizon Europe

Ansvarlig Forskning og Innovasjon (Responsible Research and Innovation, RRI) har blitt en viktig tilnærming til forsknings- og innovasjonspolitikk både i Norge og Europa de siste 8 årene. I Norge har dette nylig kulminert med finansieringen av det nasjonale AFINO-nettverksprosjektet gjennom SAMAN...

Awarded: NOK 0.65 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2022

Location: Østfold

STIM-OA-Stimuleringstiltak for åpen tilgang

Open access for regnskapsåret 2018

Delfinansiering av open access artikler.

Awarded: NOK 23,000

Project Period: 2019-2019

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

13th International Kant Congress: The Court of Reason

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) var opplysningstidens største filosof. Han arbeidet på alle filosofiens områder. Interessen for hans ideer og innflytelsen av disse i dag er bare økende. Hans syn på menneskeverd og autonomi, hans argumenter for demokrati og mot adelsordningen, samt hans kritikk av slave...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2020

Location: Oslo

FRIPRO-Fri prosjektstøtte

Mathematics with a Human Face: Set Theory within a Naturalized Wittgensteinean Framework

The project investigates the reasons why concepts such as 'set', 'number', 'infinite' have remained philosophically obscure - nobody really knows what these things are - despite the immense success of mathematics over centuries. The idea is to approach this issue from a perspective never attempte...

Awarded: NOK 9.8 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Vestland

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC-søkere som oppnår god evaluering

Moral residue – epistemological ramifications, emotional implications, and didactic opportunities.

I revideringen av prosjektsøknaden vil fokus være på de fire punktene nevnt under hovedmål og delmål nevnt ovenfor.

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2019

Location: Oslo

HAVBRUK2-Stort program for havbruksforskning

Genome editing - a game-changer in aquaculture: Conditions for social and moral acceptance

Fish farming is the most important Norwegian bioeconomy industry, but it is also controversial for ethical and environmental reasons. The basis for this food production is the salmon, an iconic animal in Norwegian culture. One promising approach to solving some of aquaculture?s production challen...

Awarded: NOK 9.3 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

Arne Næss Symposium 2019 - Global Justice Today: How to Fight the Power of Oligarchs and Tax Havens?

Project description: The Arne Næss Symposium is part of the Arne Næss programme at the University of Oslo established in 2007. Based at the Center for Development and the Environment at UiO, the Arne Næss Chair and Symposium are today the only ongoing project that preserves and critically develop...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2019-2020

Location: Oslo

BIOTEK2021-Bioteknologi for verdiskaping

FP: Bioøkfelles -Assessment of econ. and bio. implications, prospects and risks by implementation of new gene tools in modern bio-production

The EcoGene project has explored the possibilities and challenges of using new gene-editing tools in Norwegian bio-production, such as salmon and pig production. The project has combined biological and socio-scientific perspectives to assess risk and how technology can be used in a beneficial way...

Awarded: NOK 10.2 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Akershus

HAVBRUK2-Stort program for havbruksforskning

Recycling of rest raw materials from bio-based industry by production of low trophic Crustaceans (Gammaridae) for new marine ingredients

The basis of a modern bioeconomy is high resource efficiency and recycling of nutrients. A large portion of bio-based organic residues are currently deposited, used for low value applications or for energy production. Cultivation of low trophic organisms is a highly relevant approach to increase ...

Awarded: NOK 9.5 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PES2020-Prosj.etabl.støtte H2020

PES2020 for NTNU

PES2020 for NTNU har som mål å øke antall søknader til Horisont 2020 i 2019. Som del av dette vil NTNU jobbe med å øke kvaliteten på søknader, mobilisere nye fagmiljøer og aktivt posisjonere NTNU inn i retningsgivende nettverk og konsortier i Europa. NTNU deler PES2020 i PES Åpen (støtte til enk...

Awarded: NOK 9.5 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2019

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SAMKUL-Samfunnsutviklingens kulturelle forutsetninger

ReWrite: New knowledge to navigate the rewriting of human/nature relations through genome editing in the search for sustainable food

Our time is characterized by social unrest, climate change and environmental degradation. Finding sustainable ways to produce food has become a significant societal challenge and efforts are being made to breed new varieties of animals and plants that have increased resistance to drought, floods ...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2023

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Language, Meaning & Conscious Experience

Our societies are founded on various communicative acts (private, public, legal). What others tell us is our fundamental social source of information. Until recently, investigations of linguistic communication have largely ignored the role of conscious experience. Upon listening to an utterance i...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2021

Location: Oslo

MSCA-TOPP-UT-Toppfinansiering av MSCA utgående kandidater

DEPART toppfinansiering

Type: MSCA-IF Who should have a right to participate in the making of political decisions? Political theorists have thus far approached this important moral question in two ways. Theorists of territorial rights argue that the right to make laws on particular territories belongs to groups, such t...

Awarded: NOK 0.36 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2020

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Perceiving Representations: A Study of Structural Commonalities between Language, Pictures and Music

Some of the things we perceive let us experience something other than themselves. They stand for something or represent something. The project will study the perception of representations, aiming to explain how representations let us see or hear something other than the object we have sensory con...

Awarded: NOK 9.1 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2026

Location: Oslo

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Political Philosophy Looks to Antarctica: Sovereignty, Resource Rights and Legitimacy in the Antarctic Treaty System

Global pressure over natural resources in Antarctica will mount in the coming decades. Three pressing factors might motivate states to claim exclusive rights to Antarctica: climate change, dwindling natural resources in occupied territories, and the fact that, by virtue of Article IV of the Antar...

Awarded: NOK 6.7 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2021

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

6th Nordic Conference on Philosophy of Religion

Konferansen i Oslo 2017 er den sjette i rekken, og konferansen har nå etablert seg som et ledende forum for filosofi, religion og sosiologi i Nord-Europa, med deltagelse av kolleger fra hele Europa og andre kontinenter. Konferansen arrangeres over tre dager, og programmet legger stor vekt på å gi...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2020

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Expressing Validity by Revision: Formal and Philosophical Aspects

Philosophical logic as discipline is about clarifying what is logical for various concepts, and a logical theory is a collection of arguments that are supposed to be (logically) valid for one or more concepts. Since validity is itself a concept for which arguments may be valid, a logical theory c...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2020

Location: Vestland

SAMKUL-Samfunnsutviklingens kulturelle forutsetninger

Forskningskommunikasjon i nye digitale medier

As part of this project, on research communication in new media, we have created and run for one year a podcast and a blog associated with the research project "What should not be bought and sold"? at University of Oslo. The podcast and the blog are both published at www.moralistene.no During the...

Awarded: NOK 78,999

Project Period: 2017-2018

Location: Oslo

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Norsk filosofisk tidsskrift årgang 2017

Se vedlegg A.

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2017

Location: Oslo

SAMKUL-Samfunnsutviklingens kulturelle forutsetninger

Globalizing Minority Rights: Cosmopolitanism, Global Institutions, and Cultural Justice

A number of central rights are universal (or near-universal) individual rights, such as the right to freedom of expression or the voting rights of adult citizens. However, most liberal states, including Norway, also recognize certain rights that are not individual rights. Minority rights are grou...

Awarded: NOK 10.2 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2021

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SAMKUL-Samfunnsutviklingens kulturelle forutsetninger

What should not be bought and sold?

While most of us have no objections to things such as pets, books, and childcare being bought and sold, many feel uncomfortable when it comes to pregnancies and sexual services. When we consider the buying and selling of friendships, babies, human organs, and political votes, the vast majority wo...

Awarded: NOK 8.2 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2022

Location: Oslo

FRIPRO-Fri prosjektstøtte

Autonomy and manipulation: Enhancing consent in the health care context

Nudging is a concept in behavioural science, political theory and economics that refers to the usage of indirect psychological strategies to achieve non-forced compliance and to influence the decision making and behaviour of groups and individuals. Researchers in medical ethics are currently disc...

Awarded: NOK 8.3 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2024

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Conceptual engineering

In any inquiry, whether scientific or practical, we use concepts to frame questions about reality. An obvious way in which the inquiry can be successful is by yielding answers to the resulting questions. A far less obvious form of success has to do with asking the "right" questions, formulated us...

Awarded: NOK 11.6 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2023

Location: Oslo