43,986 projects

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

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

NorCollect - En nasjonal innsamlingsstrategi for fornyelse av Norges naturhistoriske samlinger

Natural history collections – such plants, insects, birds and fossils – are essential sources of knowledge about the living world. They help researchers understand how species live and change over time, and they provide authorities with the information needed to monitor environmental change and m...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

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

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

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Inclusive Educational Rights: Balancing Rights of Violent Children, Their Peers and Educators

Pupils who behave violently against classmates and school staff are an increasing problem in Norway, affecting safety, learning and long-term life chances. Around a quarter of primary teachers reported violence or threats in 2024. Early intervention is crucial to prevent social exclusion and futu...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Forskaropphald ved Universitetet i Helsingfors – klimarisiko og maladapsjon i omstilling til fornybarsamfunnet

Prosjektet SUSFIN er eit forskingsopphald ved Universitetet i Helsinki som skal vidareutvikle teoretisk kunnskap om klimarisiko i energiomstillinga. Formålet er å undersøkje korleis tiltak for å redusere utslepp og klimatilpasse samfunnet av og til kan gi utilsikta konsekvensar, som aukar sårbarh...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

ReinAir: Seasonal airborne mapping and modelling of Svalbard reindeer habitat in Reindalen

It is urgent to predict the effects of climate change on Svalbard reindeer, since population dynamics have been driven by the contrasting effects of summer and winter warming over the past 30 years: Winter warming has led to an increase in the frequency of rain-on-snow (ROS) events, which alters ...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Svalbard reindeer spatial ecology - from individuals to populations

Populations’ dynamics and distributions change in response to climate and habitat changes, yet our current knowledge is based mostly on correlational evidence. What each animal does depends on its physiological state and immediate environment, meaning that the processes by which climate change af...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Svalbard

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

Havet - under overflaten

Havet – under overflaten skal utvikle en sanselig og forskningsforankret formidlingsopplevelse som gjør det mulig for publikum å erfare havets betydning for livet på jorden. Prosjektet tar utgangspunkt i at havet ikke bare er et geografisk rom, men et levende system som regulerer klima, produsere...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Akershus

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Rettslige rammer for balansen mellom arbeid og fritid ved hjemmekontor.

Prosjektet undersøker hvordan arbeidsrettslig regulering kan bidra til å ivareta balansen mellom arbeid og fritid i et stadig mer digitalisert arbeidsliv. Økt bruk av hjemmekontor og fleksible arbeidsformer utfordrer tradisjonelle grenser for arbeidstid og tilgjengelighet, og reiser nye rettslige...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Validation of a Sea Ice Prediction Model using Buoy Observations

The project aims to join the SvalMIZ2026 campaign onboard the KV Svalbard Coast Guard vessel to operationally test an AI-based sea-ice model for safe Arctic navigation around Svalbard and deploy 10 OpenMetBuoys to collect sea-ice drift, wave, and temperature data for model validation. This work i...

Awarded: NOK 50,999

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Licenses to appropriate land for societal ends

The goal of this research project is to get a thorough understanding of how the Norwegian licensing system for land and natural resource management works, and how it can be improved. To achieve this, two main cases – aquaculture and wind power – will be analyzed in relation to the broader context...

Awarded: NOK 10.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

BRAIGED: Building Responsible AI for Global Education – Towards Explainable AI for Chronic Kidney Disease Diagnosis Utilizing Scintigraphy

Doctors of the future will work with artificial intelligence (AI) just like pilots work with autopilot, useful, but only when understood and monitored by a trained human. Modern medicine produces a huge amount of information, scans, lab results, doctor’s notes, and medical students can feel empow...

Awarded: NOK 9.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Buskerud

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Harnessing innovative sustainable oil alternatives to traditional fish oil, ensuring uncompromised salmon health and fillet quality

Norway is a world leader in salmon farming but faces a major challenge: How can we ensure good fish health and high fillet quality without traditional fish oil? This is the goal of the InnoOil project. Fish oil has long been a key ingredient in salmon feed because it contains the omega-3 fatty ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

IMMERSE - Immersed in the museum experience: Underlying mechanisms and the influence of the social experiencescape

What happens when you lose track of time in a museum? When you become so absorbed in a story, a room, or an encounter with an object that you no longer feel like just a visitor? This feeling of being completely immersed lies at the heart of the IMMERSE project. Museums around the world seek to cr...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Rogaland

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Copepod based Feeds for Improved Salmon Health and aquaculture sustainability

Norway is the world’s largest producer of Atlantic salmon (salmon from here on), but the industry faces major challenges with fish health and welfare, both in land-based and seawater phases, leading to high mortalities. Farmed salmon often have poor resistance to stress and disease, resulting in ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Deciphering the crosstalk between autophagy and metabolic rewiring in cancer

Autophagy is a process that recycles damaged cellular components, helping cells survive stress. The role of autophagy in cancer is complicated: autophagy can stop early tumors from forming, but it can also help established cancer cells survive low oxygen, lack of nutrients, or treatment. A specif...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

AGROECOL2 Promoting AGROecology through co-creating value chain innovations and improved multi-level POLIcieS in a beyond-growth Europe

The term "agroecology" has been around for around a hundred years, aiming to make our food systems more sustainable and holistic. However, awareness and adoption of agroecology in Europe is still quite low, with estimates suggesting that less than three percent of farms on the continent operate f...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

NANOTEKNOLOGI-NANOTEKNOLOGI

COOLCATCH: Advancing materials for energy- efficient cryogenic refrigeration

Cooling to extremely low temperatures – needed to liquefy hydrogen for environmentally friendly aviation at -252 °C and to reduce noise in quantum computers near -272 °C – is a major technological challenge. Traditional mechanical coolers – the same basic technology used in household refrigerator...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

MatSci-LLM: Accelerating Materials Science Research with Large Language Models

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in scientific discoveries, particularly in the natural sciences. These generative AI models, trained on vast amounts of web-crawled data, can process and analyze large volumes of scientific literature, enabling researchers to uncover novel insigh...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

Smart Precision for Quantum Resilience

Quantum computers promise breakthroughs in medicine discovery, climate-smart cities, and secure communications. But today’s machines are fragile: qubits are noisy, computations are short-lived, and reliable results often demand more hardware than we have. SPQR—Smart Precision for Quantum Resilien...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Towards Matching Bounds in Large Deviations

Unlikely, but possible, events are everywhere, from extreme heatwaves to mechanical failure or stock market crashes. In such systems, the rare events may have catastrophic outcomes, and it is therefore crucial to understand exactly how unlikely (or not) they are. The mathematical framework to qu...

Awarded: NOK 7.3 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

Nordic NOIR - Nordic Network of IBD Researchers

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)—Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis—affects about 50,000 people in Norway and often requires lifelong, advanced care. Despite many new therapies, a substantial proportion of patients experience primary non-response or loss of response, increasing the risk of bo...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

EMPOWERED – Empowering students as future digital citizens

EMPOWERED aims to develop innovative practices, methods and tools that promote digital empowerment in schools and teacher education. Being ‘digitally empowered’ involves understanding technology and algorithms, exercising critical thinking and digital judgment, and awareness of digital inclusive ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Contributions to Animal Welfare in Pig Production: Developing and employing Diagnostic Tools for investigations of Lameness Pathogens

Lameness in pigs is a major welfare challenge in pig farming. Lame pigs often experience pain, and reduced mobility leads to difficulty in reaching food and water. For farmers, this leads to extra work, higher treatment costs, and lost production. Bacterial arthritis is an important contributor t...

Awarded: NOK 11.2 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Innovative Technologies for Monitoring Levels of Nitrosamines and Nitramines in Air and Water Near Amine-Based CO2 Capture Facilities

TechNAM is developing new technologies to verify that capturing CO2 from industrial processes does not contaminate the ambient air and nearby drinking water sources. The goal is to meet the safety standards set by the Norwegian Institute for Public Health (NIPH). A key concern is the possible for...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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

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