44,134 projects

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

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

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

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

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

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

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Entanglement Metaphysics without Spacetime (EMwiS)

The aim of metaphysics is to give an account of how the world fundamentally is, and metaphysics is in trouble. The problem is that most metaphysical theories are deeply reliant on the fundamental existence of space and time. What is a world, metaphysics, for instance, asks? One standard answer i...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KSFF-KSFF

SAFE@HOME: Technologies of care for aging migrants

Living Safely at Home" is a 2023 Norwegian policy reform supporting people to age well and remain in their homes longer. Municipalities play a key role by promoting age friendly homes through health technologies, involving users and relatives in care plans, and ensuring access to information and ...

Awarded: NOK 14.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Diversity and functional role of coprophilous fungi in Svalbard (DiFuCS)

This project investigates how migratory birds contribute to the dispersal and ecological functioning of fungi in Arctic ecosystems. The study focuses on the pink-footed goose (Anser brachyrhynchus), a key migratory herbivore connecting temperate and high-Arctic habitats through its annual migrati...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Metabolism-Epitranscriptome Crosstalk: Novel Regulation in Embryo Development

One in six people experience infertility, and demand for assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) is rising. In Norway, fertility rates have dropped 28% over the past decade, and ART now accounts for 6% of all births. Even with modern in vitro fertilization (IVF), the chance of a live birth per ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

HotSpot: Stress-induced mutations in evolution

Climate change is exposing plants, animals, and other organisms to stress such as heat and drought more frequently. Recent research suggests that such stress can influence the probability of certain mutations arising along the DNA sequence, but the biological consequences of these mutations remai...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

ADAPT ABROAD -- Integrating dispersal, genetic adaptation and demography in population projection models under environmental change

A major challenge in ecology is to predict how populations will cope with climate change while accounting for their capacity to adapt. Adaptation can occur through dispersal (the ability to track suitable habitats), evolution (selection for better-suited genotypes), or plasticity (tolerance of de...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Stormwater and Extreme Rainfall: Modelling and Environmental Risk Management.

Prosjektet gjennomføres som et forskningsopphold ved Tel Aviv University og skal styrke en pågående PhD ved NTNU innen storm management, med særlig vekt på stormsystemer, nedbør og konsekvenser for miljø og samfunn. Formålet er å utvikle og teste metodikk for å forstå og analysere kraftige nedbør...

Awarded: NOK 0.24 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Advanced Measurements In Carbon-fusion Reactions: Cross-Section Measurements and Branching Ratios

The elements that us humans and our world consist of were made through the birth, life and death of millions of generations of stars through a process called nucleosynthesis: The process of creating new elements from existing ones. Researching the life cycle of stars and the processes involved is...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

The Long Duration of Social Rights in EU and EEA Law

The research is part of a large-scale project carried out by the Centre on the Europeanization of Norwegian Law at the University of Bergen, Faculty of Law (Work package 3 - Labour Law). Specifically, the core aim of the PhD-project is to address the hierarchical relationship between social right...

Awarded: NOK 0.19 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Støtte til 2026 ITHET konferansen

Konferansen Information Technology in Higher Education and Training (ITHET) har gjennom over 20 år samlet fagfolk fra hele verden (f eks. Australia, Japan, Kina, Sør-Amerika, USA, Canada, foruten hele Europa). Hovedtemaene har vært rundt datatekniske spørsmål i forhold til å støtte opp om høyere ...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Innlandet

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

DESIGNK. Designing a synthetic killer based on a natural template

Natural killer (NK) cells are part of the body’s first line of immune defence. They continuously patrol our tissues, seeking out and destroying cancer cells and virus-infected cells without prior training. This makes them highly attractive candidates for cancer immunotherapy. However, translating...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Internasjonalt forskeropphold ved University of Columbia i Canada International Research Stay at the University of British Columbia, Canada

Det overordna målet med forskningsprosjektet MedSafe-Old er å tilrettelegge for bærekraftig, persontilpasset og trygg legemiddelbruk for hjemmeboende eldre. I arbeidspakke 4 utforskes gjennom et Ph.d.-prosjekt hvordan bruk av anvendt teater som verktøy kan øke helsepersonells forståelse av legemi...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Snowpack Energy and Water Balance at Scott Turnerbreen (Svalbard): Modelling and Observing Early-Season Melt Hydrology under Climate Change

The goal of this project is to characterize early-season hydrology in the Scott Turnerbreen catchment, an increasingly important yet poorly understood phase of the melt season. The project combines detailed field observations with distributed snow hydrological modelling. Fieldwork will include de...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Svalbard

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Green Industry and Land-use Governance: Interests, Power and Institutions

IndustryLand examines the relationships between industry, climate and land-use politics and policies in Europe. As the green transition intensifies pressure on scarce nature areas, the project will examine how evolving policies to promote green industries in the EU and Norway integrate land-use r...

Awarded: NOK 10.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

NANOTEKNOLOGI-NANOTEKNOLOGI

Selective Oxygen Carriers with Catalytic Function for Sustainable Ethylene: Innovating Redox Chemistry in Methane Conversion

SOCCER: A Game-Changer for Clean Ethylene Production The SOCCER project aims to revolutionize production of ethylene—a key building block in plastics—by turning methane into ethylene in a cleaner, more energy-efficient way. The aim: Reactor designs that achieve over 80% ethylene selectivity and m...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Academic Careers: Examining the Significance of Socio-Economic Background

Academics occupy a privileged position in society. They are experts in their fields, share knowledge with the public, train new generations of students, and hire future academics. While much research has explored how social background—such as parental education, income, or class—affects success i...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FORSKNINGSDATA-FORSKNINGSDATA

Galactic Recipe for Exo-Planets

We discover steadily new planets around other stars. Many of these exoplanets orbit their host star much closer than Mercury. The most common type of exoplanets does not exist in the Solar System. These exoplanets have a size between Earth and Neptune and a range of masses that makes it difficult...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Cumulative effects of climate change and pollution - How climate region and local habitat shape biological responses and recovery

Global warming and pollution are major threats to nature and a sustainable future. In SoilStress we aim to understand the mechanisms underlying the combined effects of climate change and pollution on soil animals. The main questions are: •Why do populations react differently to pesticides and te...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Knowledge Integration in Teacher Education through Technology-Enhanced Simulation (KITES)

KITES is a research project that explores how advanced technologies such as virtual reality, 360-degree video, and artificial intelligence can support student teachers in integrating various knowledge sources to make professional decisions. Becoming a good teacher requires more than subject exper...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Østfold

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Co-developing an Evidence-Based Framework for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Physical Education Teacher Education

EquiPETE examines how teacher education and physical education can become more inclusive, giving all pupils opportunities to experience learning, mastery, belonging and joy. How can physical education teachers create learning environments where all pupils feel included and have equitable opport...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Asian Diffusion: China’s Governance Promotion and Vietnamese Adaptation (ADAPT)

China increasingly promotes its domestic development success as an example for others. How do these ideas travel, and how are they received in other countries? While most research on international diffusion has focused on how liberal democracies promote governance abroad, ADAPT explores how gover...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Resilience of polar ecosystems to the cumulative effects of physical and biological changes in Norway’s high Arctic (ROPES)

The Arctic is changing quickly, and Svalbard’s fjords are among the places where these changes are most visible. Warmer Atlantic water is reaching farther north, sea ice is disappearing, and new fish species such as cod and haddock are becoming more common. At the same time, the small polar cod, ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland