1,863 projects

FFLJA-FFLJA

Quality Bones - Studying the genetic and environmental factors influencing front-leg lameness in pigs.

Lameness in pigs is a significant issue affecting pig welfare and farm profitability. Lameness is defined as any deviation from the normal gait due to anatomical deviations, diseases, or pain. It is associated with reduced mobility and limited ability to perform social behaviours, access food and...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Innlandet

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

FoodStories: Heritagisation for sustainable value creation

FoodStories aims to increase understanding of Norway’s food and drink heritage and their potential for value creation, sustainability, and cultural enrichment. Our hypothesis is that food traditions can contribute to product and service development in the Norwegian food value chain, increase inco...

Awarded: NOK 14.3 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

HELSEFORSKNING-Helseforskning

Resilient North: The Interplay Between Food Production, Food Security and Public Health in Northern Norway (ResNor)

Experiences with global pandemic followed by war in Europe have highlighted the need to strengthen resilience and preparedness; as stated in The Total Preparedness Commission's report 'Now it's serious – Prepared for an uncertain future'. The Resilient North project seeks to deepen our understand...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Carbon sequestration in Norwegian spruce forest soils

Norway has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, and one of the strategies and ultimate goal is to increase the short and long-term sequestration of organic carbon in forest soil to enhance this major carbon stock. Generally, soil carbon makes up a large part of the carbon pool in borea...

Awarded: NOK 15.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Akershus

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Optimization of Spectral Light Quality for Increased Energy Use Efficiency and Quality of the Produced in Controlled Environment Agriculture

This project aims to optimize spectral light quality to enhance energy efficiency and improve crop quality in Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA), addressing global challenges like supply chain vulnerabilities and climate change. In indoor farming, especially vertical farming, lighting is a ...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Participatory pathways for resilient, healthy, prosperous, and equitable food and land systems under climate change

Food and land use systems are impacted by global warming but also contribute to warming and ecosystem challenges. Climate impacts are already noticeable, and increasingly serious with continued warming. Consequences include challenges to food production, ecosystem functioning, and human, animal a...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

NatuRA - Sustainable use of Natural Resources in Alpine and mountain grassland ecosystems under global change

Mountain grassland ecosystems are vital for a variety of essential functions and services. They provide grazing land for wildlife and livestock, clean water, carbon storage, and support traditional ways of life. Globally, mountains have historically been managed under similar environmental constr...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Vestland

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

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

Convergence of nanofabrication, nanoscopy, transcriptomics, and algae technologies for sustainable fish feed

Sustainability is becoming more and more important to the growing aquaculture sector than ever. Integrating marine microalgae biomass as a feed ingredient in Norway's aquaculture industry achieves a double gain: It provides a sustainable, high-quality marine feed alternative that supports the gro...

Awarded: NOK 15.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

INNO-NAERING-INNO-NAERING

FINFuture - Flexible Inputs for Nitrophosphate fertilizers production in the Future scenario

Yara is one of the world's largest producers of compound (NPK) fertilizers, producing annually 6.5 million tonnes of product which comprises ~20% of the market share of European NPK fertilizers. The quality of the phosphate rocks used as raw materials can vary significantly, and to ensure a robus...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

The role of diversified small-scale horticulture in a transition towards more sustainable food systems with healthier diets

The aim of the project is to explore how food systems based on diversified small-scale horticulture can be developed to become more economically, socially and environmentally sustainable while also increasing in scale, which will provide benefits for nature, the environment and public health. Th...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Akershus

FFLJA-FFLJA

BREADVANCE: Novel sourdough from Norwegian grains for sustainable bread advancement and optimized for wheat-sensitive individuals.

This project is a collaboration between food scientists, clinicians, artisanal bakeries, farmers, an ingredient supplier and a national patient organization. Together, we aim to develop high-quality sourdough bread that can be tolerated by wheat-sensitive people. To achieve this, we will develop ...

Awarded: Hidden

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Akershus

FFLJA-FFLJA

«CampySafe» - Treffsikre tiltak for Campylobacter-bekjempelse i fjørfenæringen

Campylobacter is the zoonosis in Norway and Europe that makes most people sick, and is often linked to poultry meat. The current measures in the joint Norwegian "Action Plan against Campylobacter in the poultry industry" are effective, but very expensive. The main measure is to analyze samples fr...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

HESTEFORSK Antibiotics in horse breeding- a double-edged sword threatening horses in the future?

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a slow threat not only to human health but also to equine health and the horse breeding system of today. It is a slow but steadily growing problem that, in the future could potentially render antibiotics ineffective, leading to untreatable infections. We will con...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Oi! Matseminar - Med grønn hatt på!

Oi! Matseminar 2025 er en faglig møteplass som samler aktører fra forskning, næringsliv, forvaltning og organisasjoner for å styrke kunnskap og samarbeid om det norske matsystemet. Seminaret vil gjennom foredrag, paneldiskusjoner og politiske samtaler belyse utfordringer og løsninger knyttet til ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

HESTEFORSK Giving the horse a voice - Horse welfare and owner awareness

Recent revelations within the horse sector have highlighted a need for increased awareness of animal welfare and an acceptance of the horse as a sentient being. Horse training may be regarded as a one-way communication directed from the trainer (giving the cue) to the horse (learning to respond c...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Akershus

FFLJA-FFLJA

Healthy Animals’ Meat: Novel Genetics for Improved Meat Quality and Muscle Health in Pigs

The project aims to maintain high meat quality and good animal health in pig production. New meat quality defects in pigs, affecting the ham muscle, has been reported in several countries, including Norway. These defects lead to lower meat prices and issues with cured ham products. Defects can oc...

Awarded: Hidden

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Innlandet

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Locating and utilizing Norway’s lost and underused agricultural land reserves

While agricultural land is crucial for self-sufficiency and food security, this is a scarce resource in Norway. It is also an endangered resource because it is often demolished for housing development and infrastructure. At the same time, it is more difficult to establish new agricultural land wh...

Awarded: NOK 11.6 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Governance for sustainable food systems: implementing the One Health approach in the Norwegian meat industry

MEATPOWER will explore the tensions between public regulations of the pork and poultry breeding industries and supply chains on the one hand, and animal and human health and the environment on the other. The project will look into the concept of One Health through a critical lens. One Health is a...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Cultivating sustainable changes in livestock feed production and feeding practices (Feed&Feeding)

The project will evaluate various strategies for feed production and feeding practices to enhance the sustainability of Norway's food system and support national agricultural policy goals. These strategies include adjusting livestock diets, improving breeding and animal health, and introducing ne...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Optimizing feed resources for a circular food system

The FeedLoop project aims to suggest transformations in livestock farming for increased circularity, addressing one of the biggest challenges in global food production: the competition between food and feed for valuable biomass resources. With growing concerns about climate change, food security,...

Awarded: NOK 9.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Akershus

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Improving energy production and safety in biocarbon value chains

The EnergyProSafe project responds to the national strategies on transition into a low-carbon-emission society and goals of the metallurgical industry by improving energy production and safety in BC value chains, securing safe and sustainable supply of BC of needed quality and in sufficient quant...

Awarded: NOK 13.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Sun sharing in agriculture: researching agrivoltaics to benefit farming communities and energy industries while avoiding land use conflicts

Solar sharing: Can agrivoltaics revolutionise Norwegian farming? The Soldeling i landbruket project will explore new solutions to land use challenges, discovering if we can address growing energy needs while maintaining farmland. Specifically, we will discover if solar panels can be integrated in...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FFLJA-FFLJA

HealthyCucumber: Sustainable plant health management in modern greenhouse cucumber production

The HealthyCucumber project aims to find plant health solutions for challenges related to modern greenhouse production of cucumber in Norway. Implementation of new technology in greenhouse production, such as semi closed production, LED-lighting, and water recirculation systems, create changes in...

Awarded: Hidden

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Akershus

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Influence of land-use changes on ecosystem services: crop pollination services, and nature connectedness of people in tropical Asia

The main aim of this proposal is to safeguard pollinator biodiversity and function, enhance crop pollination success, and identify pollinator-friendly policies and conservation efforts. Landscape changes have significant impacts on pollinators, crops, and people as it destroys the natural habitat...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Akershus

FORSKNINGSINFRA-FORSKNINGSINFRA

Norwegian Plant Phenotyping Infrastructure

Advanced research facilities are needed to meet the needs for increased food production under the challenging Norwegian climate conditions. By adopting new plant phenotyping technologies, we can make more precise measurements of the growth, development and stress responses of plants under differe...

Awarded: NOK 69.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2032

Location: Akershus

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Beef on Norwegian Red: A genetic evaluation of Norwegian beef cattle sires for use on dairy cattle.

The idea to inseminate low ranking dairy cows with beef cattle semen has become a growing practice in norwegian dairy farms. There has been a clear trend in recent years, both nationally and internationally, where more and more dairy cows are inseminated with beef cattle semen. The financial gain...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Innlandet

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

HESTEFORSK Welfare and Behaviours of Young Competition Horses in Different Summer Management Systems

Norges mangeårige tradisjon for å utnytte sommerbeite til hesteavl gir verdifulle muligheter for fysisk bevegelse og mental stimulering for unghester. Til tross for endringer i hestebruk og avlsmål over tid, anses sommersystemer med fri bevegelse fortsatt å være svært gunstig for hestens utviklin...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Innlandet

INNO-NAERING-INNO-NAERING

BioCanode - Biobaserte karbonanoder til produksjon av Aluminium

Aluminium production is energy demanding and generates significant amount of greenhouse gas emissions. Aluminium is produced in an electrolysis process where carbon anodes made of fossil carbon materials are applied to reduce alumina to aluminium. In short term, the most feasible option to cut CO...

Awarded: NOK 14.5 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Final Ecosystem Services in Transition: Aquatic Ecosystem Services in Forested Landscapes

Forests are often primarily managed for timber, leading to a neglect of other aspects of forested landscapes, in particular those connected with lakes and rivers. Society will benefit from multifunctional, sustainable management of forested landscapes that takes into account relationships betwee...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove