1,361 projects

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

NFRF: Climate Change Adaptation, Dispossession and Displacement: Co-constructing Solutions with Coastal Vulnerable Groups in Africa and Asia

This project is funded through the International Joint Initiative for Research in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation from The New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF), Canada. This is a collaboration between eight funding agencies from Brazil, Canada, Germany, Norway, South Africa, Switzerland...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Mitigation and Adaptation in Cultural Heritage Landscapes: Lessons from Transhumant Pastoral Systems for Managing Novel Climate Risks

Cultural landscapes provide important ecosystem services, including experience-based knowledge on how to adapt to and limit negative effects of climate change. This is because the landscapes themselves are vulnerable to climate change and other negative impacts. By investigating transhumant pasto...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Akershus

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

NFRF- Co-developing Decision Support System for Coastal Mangrove-based Socio-ecological Systems in Eastern and Western Africa (CoastMan)

This project is funded through the International Joint Initiative for Research in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation from The New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF). Mangroves provide a wealth of benefits, including a wide range of ecosystem services, fostering biodiversity and carbon storag...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Akershus

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

MOMENTUM: Moment-Resisting Connections for Timber Constructions

The MOMENTUM project is a promising initiative that aims to extend the construction industry by introducing a new, efficient, versatile, and cost-effective connection for timber constructions. Driven by the urgent need for greener buildings, this groundbreaking connection developed by the Departm...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Synthesing the roles of High-latitude eRicaceous dwarf shrubs: Underappreciated Biodiversity, ecological functions and ecosystem Services

Ericaceous dwarf-shrubs are dominant in the boreal, alpine and arctic ecosystems of the Nothern hemisphere, including Norway, and they are strongly affected by global changes. Thanks to their high functional diversity, unique mycorrhiza associations and many plant-animal interactions, ericaceous ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Vestland

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Designing with/out Extractive Materials

Consumer society’s manufacturing industry has taken on such a massive scale and reach as to make it abundantly clear that designing as an activity and a profession has decisive impact on ecological systems both locally and globally. Designing entails crucial decisions on which and how much materi...

Awarded: NOK 9.7 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Oslo

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

sCENTsor - Ultra-sensitive and compact gas sensor

Sensitive trace gas detection at the parts-per-billion (ppb) level with high selectivity is critical in fields such as environmental monitoring, oil and gas, research, and aerospace. Today, this performance is achievable only with bulky and costly high-end sensors, restricting their use largely t...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FORNY20-FORNY2020

PhosBoard: High-end fibreboards produced with renewable resources and a low energy process.

PhosBoard is a new environmentally friendly low-density fibreboard developed from low-value residual materials from the wood industry. Novel component combinations and processing methods to produce PhosBoards with different attributes and potential applications will be explored in this project. C...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Akershus

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Monitoring and mapping Fungal Diversity for nature conservation

Fungal diversity can be explored in many ways, including classic fruit body surveys, as well DNA-based analyses of environmental DNA (eDNA). These two approaches have run side by side for many years, but has to a limited extent been combined. Our overarching objective in FunDive is to bring the t...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Oslo

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Isotope-aided assessment and forecasting of hydroclimatic extremes in Scandinavia through stakeholder co-design

Floods and droughts have large consequences for society and economy in Scandinavia. Knowledge about if and how such extreme events are connected to snow on the ground is limited. This lack of knowledge imparts our ability to predict how much water will run through rivers and is stored in dams wit...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Vestland

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Harmonizing plant metabarcoding pipelines to support monitoring activities in the field of plants and their functional organismic networks

Plants are the driving force behind terrestrial ecosystems as autotrophs. Alarmingly, two out of five plant species are facing the threat of extinction, which may affect other organisms. Plant metabarcoding, which involves analyzing environmental DNA (eDNA) to identify taxa, can be standardized a...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

DEciphering temporal trends and safe operating spaces for river biodiversity within the context of multiple STRESSors (DESTRESS)

Human activities are putting pressure on rivers and streams—polluting them and altering their flow regimes. These changes threaten freshwater biodiversity. As a result, biodiversity in stream ecosystems is declining, although scientists still debate how widespread and severe the loss really is. I...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Biocultural Heritage in Arctic Cities: Resource for Climate Adaptation?

Climate change is a serious challenge everywhere, but nowhere more visible than in the Arctic. Temperatures here are rising at twice the global average. Ice is melting, landscapes are shifting, and communities that have long depended on the cold face profound changes. Yet alongside these challeng...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Vestland

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

GINAMO: Genetic Indicators for Nature Monitoring

Context: Genetic diversity is the foundation of biodiversity and essential for long-term survival, adaptation, and resilience for populations, species, and ecosystems. While genetic diversity has long been neglected in biodiversity policy and management, the current Convention on Biological Diver...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Winged ghosts wandering the oceans: the spatial ecology and conservation of the world’s smallest and elusive seabirds, the storm petrel

Storm petrels are excellent indicators of the marine ecosystem, but their small body size and secretive behaviour has made it almost impossible to study well. There is so little knowledge about these species. Few people have seen them, and they are associated with many myths. Hence, we have entit...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Towards a Transnational Acoustic Biodiversity MOnitoring Network

The "Towards a Transnational Acoustic Biodiversity Monitoring Network (TABMON)" project is a pioneering initiative aimed at enhancing biodiversity monitoring across Europe. It leverages innovative autonomous acoustic sensing technology to observe and analyze biodiversity, especially focusing on b...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Extraction and Aesthetics: Considering the past, present and future of mining on a local scale

Bakgrunn: I januar 2023 ble NorWhite en global snakkis. Fox News, New York Post og andre verdensledende medier fremstilte NorWhite-prosjektet både upresist og dels feilaktig. I norske medier oppsto en metadebatt om forskning og ideologi. Gjennom denne mediedekningen ble det tydelig for NorWhite-t...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Vestland

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Developing data management and analytical tools to integrate and advance professional and citizen science camera-trapping initiatives

Monitoring the development of the environment in the face of rapid global change requires massive amounts of data collected over large spatial scales. Processing these massive amounts of data requires the adoption of a wide range of digital tools because it is not possible to do this work manuall...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Innlandet

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Post Consumption Citizenship: Conditions for and practices of engagement in sustainable well-being.

Post-Consumption Citizenship: Conditions for and practices of engagement in sustainable well-being. As of September 2025, the PostCC project has been running for one and a half years and is scheduled for completion in spring 2027. This text begins by outlining the project’s themes, research quest...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

A scalable WILDlife monitoring system - integrating camera sampling and artificial INTELligence with Essential Biodiversity Variables

Accurate information on biodiversity is needed to address environmental problems. Technologies like remote cameras, image classification, citizen science, and machine learning can help monitor wildlife cost-effectively, but there are challenges like high costs for manual image review. The goal of...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Vestfold

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Mobilising, harmonising and incentivising forest biodiversity and environmental monitoring data through Web 3.0 technology.

Forests are vital for sustaining life on earth. They harbour the majority of terrestrial biodiversity and play a major role in buffering climate change impacts. Protection of forests and assessment and monitoring of biodiversity are therefore extremely important for mitigating the dual climate an...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INNO-NAERING-INNO-NAERING

Modulær prosess for fleksibel produksjon av komposittrørkoblinger

Pipe couplings for distributing drinking water and gas made of plastic composite are an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional brass couplings, with a significantly lower CO2 footprint over their lifespan. However, conventional manufacturing technology makes it too costly to develop...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Innlandet

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Culture-based solutions: harnessing cultural heritage and landscapes for climate change adaptation at Klimathon2024

Klimathon 2024 explores a new operating principle for climate adaptation: culture-based solutions inspired by the existing concept of “nature-based solutions.” Nature-based solutions to hazards from climate change are inspired and supported by nature, are cost-effective, they simultaneously provi...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Democratic Innovations for the Age of Climate Change

The 2024 Arne Næss symposium features David Van Reybrouck, one of the most exciting Belgian historians, writers and climate activists. Van Reybrouck is an internationally acclaimed author of Congo: The Epic History of a People, which won 19 prizes and has been translated into a dozen languages. ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Oslo

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Collaborative innovation for reduced consumption: What governance factors drive transition from linear to circular economy?

The CIRCULAR research project addresses a pressing and multifaceted sustainability challenge: transitioning from a linear to a circular economic system. The circular economy is about giving more back to nature than we extract. Products and materials must last longer and be reused in new ways. Exi...

Awarded: NOK 8.6 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo

BIOTEKNOLOGI-BIOTEKNOLOGI

Development of an optimized microbial strain for direct conversion of CO2 into biomass for feed production

Gas2Feed is developing a process for production of protein fully independent of geographies, climate and weather conditions. The process is confirmed to have the lowest carbon footprint among all known protein sources. It makes use of biotechnology as as one of the pillars in the Fourth Industria...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Rogaland

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Forskning i friluft 2024

Arrangere konferansen Forskning i friluft 2024 i 28. og 29. november 2024 med minst 250 deltakere, (de siste konferansene har det vært mellom 250 og 300 deltakere). Konferansen gir forskere innenfor friluftslivsrelevante temaer muligheter til å formidle sin forskning til et bredere publikum. Til...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Oslo

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Integrated Monitoring of Parasites in Changing Environments

Global parasite biodiversity is facing an extinction crisis, with up to 30% of species in each major parasite group predicted to be extinct by 2070; a risk that only escalates when host coextinctions are considered. However parasites are typecast as biological villains, despite most species posin...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Understanding societal conflict in consumption reduction (SCORE)

The last few years have illustrated that environmental policy measures can cause conflicts and provide a basis for political mobilization. In Norway, this has included the uprise of an organization against wind power (Motvind) and a new political party against toll roads (Folkets Parti). When opi...

Awarded: NOK 9.1 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

EU Climate Policy Implications for Land Use in Norway: Managing Trade-offs and Achieving Policy Coherence

EU climate policy will have great significance for Norwegian climate, energy, forestry, and land-use policy in the years leading up to 2030 and beyond. Conflicts and trade-offs between climate, energy, and nature considerations are challenges that we will increasingly have to deal with. The Clima...

Awarded: NOK 12.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus