1,248 projects

INNO-NAERING-INNO-NAERING

BetongHUB - Bærekraftig betongproduksjon

BetongHUB is an innovation project aiming to develop climate-friendly and sustainable concrete through collaboration across the entire concrete value chain. The goal is to increase the use of recycled materials and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A key focus is the reuse of recycled concrete fr...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Ekstrudert XLPE-Isolasjon under Temporære Overspenninger

Cables for transmitting electrical energy as high-voltage direct current (HVDC), for example across the North Sea, may in the future be exposed to "new" types of overvoltages. In the EXITO project, Nexans Norway, Statnett, and SINTEF Energy will determine whether the cable insulation (extruded an...

Awarded: NOK 9.5 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo

MARITIMFORSK-MARITIMFORSK

LNGameChanger - Making LNG a Permanently Viable Fuel Under the 2050 Maritime Transport Emission Constraints

International shipping carries around 80 percent of traded goods and accounts for around 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions. While liquefied natural gas (LNG) only accounts for about 4 percent of the fuel supply, the number of LNG-powered ships is predicted to increase as global shipping is em...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Møre og Romsdal

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

INTERPALL: Increased Temperature Resistant Palladium-based membranes

Hydrogen (H2) and hydrogen carriers, such as ammonia (NH3), are viewed as key components in the roadmap towards a net zero carbon society. They can replace fossil fuels in various processes in the industrial and transport sector. Stable and cost-effective methods for obtaining hydrogen is essenti...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Reducing impacts of Wind energy on Nocturnal flyers to aid Green transition and Sustainability

Wind energy is an important tool for combating climate change. Unfortunately, it can have negative consequences for wildlife, in part due to the risk of collisions between flying animals and the rotor blades of the wind turbines. The Oslo-based startup Spoor is working to reduce this conflict by ...

Awarded: NOK 18.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Nature Based Systems Mission for Aquatic Biodiversity Enhancement: Reducing Pharmaceutical Products Pollution in Urban & Rural Environments

The NBS4AQUAMISSION project intends to enhance aquatic biodiversity and protect water resources from contamination with pharmaceutical products (PP) through implementation of innovative nature-based systems (NBS). It aims at leveraging the NBS in a combined triad solution of treatment wetlands, i...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Akershus

INNO-NAERING-INNO-NAERING

Ultra high-temperature heat pump and Circular Energy Units unique integration for highly efficient and circular industrial drying processes

When we bake bread or dry laundry on an industrial scale, we're using enormous amounts of energy and losing water to evaporation. The CircleDRY project aims to change this by creating a smarter, more sustainable approach to industrial drying. When industries dry products, they typically burn foss...

Awarded: NOK 5.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Vestland

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Robust og Effektiv Magasindisponering

The power system in Norway is undergoing rapid changes due to increased exchange capacity with neighboring countries and the introduction of new technologies on both the production and consumption sides. Additionally, there are already plans for extensive capacity and pumped-storage developments ...

Awarded: NOK 5.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Agder

FORSKNINGSINFRA-FORSKNINGSINFRA

Sustainable Processes Advancement from Norwegian Research: an integral Bio-, Thermo-, Electro- chemical effort (SUPRANO)

SUPRA.NOfocuses on creating the tools to support the rapid deployment of sustainable process technologies, addressing gaps in the national R&D infrastructure by targeting research at higher Technology Readiness Levels (TRL). The sustainable production of fuels, chemicals and feed from underutiliz...

Awarded: NOK 29.2 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

MAPLES: Multi-fidelity and Probabilistic Lifetime Estimation for Slender Marine Structures

The oceans, with their relentless waves, strong currents, and floating platforms, pose significant challenges for slender marine structures like risers and dynamic power cables. One critical issue is Vortex-Induced Vibrations (VIV), which can affect their safety and longevity. VIV occurs when wat...

Awarded: NOK 10.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Solar photovoltaic power output and loss analysis

Solar energy is growing rapidly and is expected to account for 80% of new renewable power by 2030. To ensure profitable operations, effective monitoring and optimization of production are crucial. This project focuses on enhancing these processes to improve reliability and production efficiency. ...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Østfold

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Ageing mechanisms, performance and reliability of extruded HVDC cables

The rapid planned development of offshore wind projects and estimated increase in power transfer between European regions, requires efficient transported of power across vast distances. This will require a significant increase in High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) links as HVDC transmission offer...

Awarded: NOK 13.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INNO-NAERING-INNO-NAERING

SolCru - New formulation and method for material doping of high purity quartz sand for enhanced viscosity and thermal stability.

Solar Photovoltaics (PV) is predicted to grow until 2030 at about 8% creating a strong competition and new technologies which significantly reduces prices of PV panels. During the production of monocrystal silicon ingots for solar wafers quartz glass crucibles are used to hold the silicon melt ...

Awarded: NOK 7.5 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Regional Electrification and key tensions in the Norwegian energy transition: Co-creating strategies and enabling better decisions

Electrification has emerged as a cornerstone of Norwegian climate- and energy policy. From an early focus on road and maritime transport, electrification policies now focus on large point-source measures to enable swift emission cuts for a net-zero society by 2050. Beyond transport, the goal is t...

Awarded: NOK 11.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INNO-NAERING-INNO-NAERING

6747 Supercapacitors with carbon nanotubes for electronic locks

We are developing a technology for supercapacitors electrodes using interconnected cross-linked carbon nanotubes as the active electrode creating a porous film with effective electrode area from 10 000 to 100 000 larger than a flat electrode area. The starting point of the R&D work is the achieve...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Akershus

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

REFRESHING - An optimized thawing process for “fresher than fresh” fish products

REFRESHING aims to disrupt the salmon export value chain by transforming industrial scale thawing processes. Fresh fish is one of Norway’s most valuable exports. However, air transport is required to reach distant markets, causing a large environmental footprint. Unlocked by the development of...

Awarded: NOK 8.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Møre og Romsdal

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Robust metal barriers for safe use of hydrogen infrastructure

Hydrogen has gained traction as a key solution towards reaching zero-carbon emission targets. However, adequate infrastructure for safe transport and storage of hydrogen gas is required. Hydrogen gas has one of the lowest volumetric energy densities on the market and requires significant compres...

Awarded: NOK 13.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Battery-Grade Carbon for Sodium-ion batteries

Sodium-ion batteries (NIBs) work in a similar way to the lithium ion batteries (LIBs) found in laptops, phones and electric vehicles but can be made from cheap and easily available materials. Although they cannot store as much energy as LIBs of the same size, SIBs could be used in home or grid l...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Akershus

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Characterization Of Lithium-Ion Batteries for improved Recycling efficIency

There are more and more electric vehicles on European roads, and particularly Norwegian roads. The majority of these contain lithium-ion batteries consisting of critical raw materials like nickel, cobalt and lithium. These raw materials are both limited in availability but also require a large am...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Østfold

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Recirculate IT - Develop, demonstrate, and monitor flexible energy-saving ventilation ensuring good indoor air quality

The "Recirculate IT" project aims to change the way buildings manage energy consumption through innovative sensor-based control of ventilation systems. Specifically, the project seeks to develop, demonstrate, and monitor energy-saving ventilation solutions that incorporate the recirculation of re...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Towards Autonomous Coiled Tubing Operations

Norway has several thousand offshore wells that need to be maintained and eventually plugged in the coming years. New wells are being drilled for oil and gas production and other purposes, such as CO2 storage and geothermal energy extraction. Future maintenance and plugging of wells represent a s...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Vestland

FORSKNINGSINFRA-FORSKNINGSINFRA

The Norwegian Micro- and Nanofabrication Facility IV

NorFab is Norway’s national infrastructure for micro- and nanofabrication, providing cutting-edge facilities and expertise to create advanced technologies on the tiniest scales. Specialising in sensor development, photonics, and advanced materials, NorFab enables researchers and industry to tackl...

Awarded: NOK 110.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2031

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Enhancing the Design of Brizo - A Reliable and Cost-Efficient Nearshore Floating Solar Technology (ENHANCING BRIZO)

In Enhancing the Design of Brizo the primary objective is to develop two critical analysis tools, BrizoYield to calculate yield, and BrizoResponse to calculate structural loads and responses for Fred. Olsen 1848’s new nearshore Floating PhotoVoltaics (FPV) technology, Brizo. The tools will allow ...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Oslo

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Regional Energy System Pathways for decarbONised inDustry 2030

RESPOND2030 explores the interplay between decarbonisation in energy-intensive process industries (EPIs) and energy systems change. EPIs, such as metals, fertilizers, or cement, are key to value creation, but account for large emissions that need to be drastically reduced, or eliminated, to meet ...

Awarded: NOK 11.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

FME InterPlay - Integrated Hub for Energy System Analyses

InterPlay aims to contribute to holistic and long-term planning of the energy system, in order to meet our climate goals while conserving nature and biodiversity. In order to prevent global warming, emissions must be reduced. Emissions reductions from sectors such as industry and transport requi...

Awarded: NOK 120.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2032

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

FME MarTrans - Norwegian R&D centre for Maritime Energy Transition

The maritime sector currently accounts for about 9 percent of Norway's greenhouse gas emissions and 12 percent of global transport emissions. If we are to reduce emissions in sea transport, we must solve four main challenges: - Environmentally friendly fuel will be expensive and scarce. Consequen...

Awarded: NOK 150.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2032

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Scaling up the ZEG technology by solids segregation

Hydrogen is an important raw material in several chemical and metallurgical processes. It is also considered a potential clean energy carrier and will have an important role in the transition to a fully renewable energy market. Industrial hydrogen production is today predominantly carried out by ...

Awarded: NOK 16.5 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Akershus

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Repurposing coke waste for scalable battery electrode material production

Graphite and hard carbon are the most important components of anodes for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) and sodium-ion batteries (SIBs), respectively. At the moment, their production is predominantly concentrated in China, together with most of the value chain for batteries. To strengthen Vianode’s...

Awarded: NOK 14.2 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Oslo

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Galileo: Green, electrode agnostic, polymer electrolytes for Na-ion batteries.

The Galileo t is a Thematic Researcher project under the theme Energy and transportation – New advanced battery materials which seeks to lay the groundwork for all fluorine free polymer electrolytes for solid state sodium ion batteries (SIBs) with an application in stationary storage or transport...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Bærekraftig kraftdistribusjon i Norge

As society moves towards electrification and combats climate change, minimizing other environmental impacts is also crucial. Developing Norway’s power grid—building new lines and maintaining existing infrastructure—poses challenges like biodiversity loss and other environmental effects. The Sust...

Awarded: NOK 7.1 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Innlandet