350 projects

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PROFESJON-Forskningskompetanse for utvalgte profesjonsutdanninger

Improving trust-based management in Nordic urban governance and management education

The ideas of trust-based management originate from reforms in Denmark from 2011 and particularly from experiments in the City of Copenhagen and have since spread to the public sector in Norway and Sweden. These ideas are perceived by some as an innovation, and often as different from traditional ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

MEATigation: Towards sustainable meat-use in Norwegian food practices for climate mitigation

MEATigation is a research and industry collaboration project investigating a key step in Norway's transition to a "low-emission society": transforming the food system. A reduction in Western meat consumption is critical for ensuring we have enough food for all the people on the planet, while resp...

Awarded: NOK 14.8 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Konsept for styrket demokratimedvirkning

Democracy is threatened. An important warning signal is the declining level of democratic participation. There may be several reasons for this, including a lack of trust in politicians and dissatisfaction with existing opportunities for participation. Yascha Mounk describes in the book «The Peopl...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2022

Location: Buskerud

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

The Crime-Reducing Effect of Education: Disaggregating Education and Impact on Violent Crime (CREED)

Can governments reduce violent crime by increasing education, and if so, under what conditions? These questions are of significant policy relevance since many low- and middle-income countries experience high rates of violent crime, contrasting with the long-term decline in armed conflict and comm...

Awarded: NOK 9.5 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KULMEDIA-Kultur- og mediesektoren

Rapids and backwaters. Adapting fast and slow to a digital cultural turn.

This project has investigated how digitization has affected different types of value creation in the cultural sector, and how regulation, copyright and cultural policy have adapted to the digital production and distribution of culture. What do we know about cultural production in the digital cult...

Awarded: NOK 11.3 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2023

Location: Telemark

KULMEDIA-Kultur- og mediesektoren

Source Criticism and Mediated Disinformation

The project Source Criticism and Mediated Disinformation (SCAM) has developed new knowledge and methods that are suitable for detecting and countering the spread of disinformation in democratic societies. Disinformation, such as fake news, conspiracy theories, propaganda, and media manipulation, ...

Awarded: NOK 9.4 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

Field of goals: Co-production and implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in regional and local planning

The collaborative project Field of Goals: From goals to meaning to action - Co-production and implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in regional and local planning has developed a framework for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals in local and regional planning. To achie...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

FRIPRO-Fri prosjektstøtte

The Anatomy of Resistance Campaigns

Why are some countries democracies while others are ruled by dictators? Why do some become democratic only to slide back to autocracy some years later? While most studies have focused on slow-moving economic and demographic factors, we look at the actors that organize resistance to authoritarian ...

Awarded: NOK 7.7 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

Immigrant inclusion in Norway: An analysis of immigrant adaption and native reaction

Immigrant inclusion is not only a question of how immigrants adapt, but also how natives react. The project falls into four parts. The first introduces Get-Out-the-Vote mobilisation campaigns as a potentially important tool to foster immigrant inclusion. The second scrutinises the effects of the ...

Awarded: NOK 10.6 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Vestland

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

The Electoral Ramifications of Environmental Policy

The research project THERAPY examines how voters respond to environment, energy, and climate policies. Anecdotal evidence, such as the Yellow vests and Nok er nok! movements in France and Norway, suggests that such policies can cause rifts between citizens and politicians. Meanwhile, the window o...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Vestland

SIKKERHET-SIKKERHET

LAW22JULY: RIPPLES (Rights, Institutions, Procedures, Participation, Litigation:Embedding Security)

‘Northernizing’ transitional justice: legalism, the rule of law and the state as referent entity As a field of both practice and academic scholarship, transitional justice is expanding beyond the realm of post-conflict justice. Since 9/11, liberal democracies such as the UK, Spain, France, Belgiu...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FORSKNINGSINFRA-FORSKNINGSINFRA

National Microdata Platform for Norwegian and International Research and Analysis

The service microdata.no provides researchers and analysts with online, self-service access to link and analyze registry data from Statistics Norway (SSB) without the need to apply for access to the data itself and while maintaining privacy of the registered individuals. Users of microdata.no nev...

Awarded: NOK 42.3 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SAMRISK-2-Samfunnssikkerhet og risiki

Voluntary organizations in local emergency management

When a crisis occurs, resources beyond those of public authorities are often needed, and cooperation with volunteer actors is usually necessary to deal with acute events such as floods, forest fires or the search for missing persons. The project has investigated how cooperation between voluntary ...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MARINFORSKFISK-Marine ressurser og miljø - fiskeri

PARTICIPATORY MODELLING OF INTEGRATED ECOSYSTEM-BASED MANAGEMENT REGIME FOR INVASIVE CRABS

Most people think of invasive species only as a nuisance with negative impacts on biodiversity and costs to society. However, some invasive species may also bring benefits, and this may prove challenging when deciding on the right management strategy. Both the red king crab and the snow crab are ...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Upscaling sustainable collaborative consumption using public libraries

In the UPSCALE project, we have aimed to explore the extent to which libraries can be a driving force for a more sustainable development based on their central function and long-term experience related to lending activities. This research focus comes out of a general understanding that in today'...

Awarded: NOK 9.3 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SAMISKTEMA-SAMISKTEMA

Truth and Reconciliation in a Democratic Welfare State: The Indigenous Sami, the Kven/Norwegian Finns Minority and the majority in Norway

The TRUCOM project was concluded on October 1, 2024. The project researched how the Norwegian Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Commission to Investigate the Policy of Norwegianization and Injustice towards the Sami, Kvens, and Norwegian Finns, which was established to investigate the stat...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

UTENRIKS-Internasjonale forhold - utenriks- og sikkerhetspolitikk og norske interesser

The Geopolitics and Geoeconomics of Maritime Spatial Disputes in the Arctic (GEOSEAS)

The last decade's technological development and states' increasing interest in exploiting the sea has led to a need for a better understanding of conflicts and conflict management at sea. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Arctic. Examples include overlapping continental shelf claims, the c...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2023

Location: Akershus

SIKKERHET-SIKKERHET

THEORETICAL ADVANCES OF CYBER RESILIENCE – PRACTICE, GOVERNANCE AND CULTURE OF DIGITALIZATION

The project strengthens society's ability to build cyber security and reduce digital vulnerability through concepts from the field of "resilience". Resilience as a concept is central to e.g., EU policies and strategies in cyber security. The field however comprises many roots, with a focus on cha...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

OFFPHD-Offentlig sektor - ph.d.

"Det er ikke nok å høre - alle må også gjøre"

What is needed for children to experience being heard in their matters following Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which guarantees a child capable of forming their views the right to express those views in all matters affecting the child and to have those views given due w...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

GAVEFORST-Gaveforsterkningsordningen

Gaveforsterkning K. G. Jebsen-senter for havrett

Midlene finansierer K. G. Jebsen-senter for havrett, ved Det juridiske fakultet, UiT Norges arktiske universitet. Senterets hovedaktivitet er forskning, særlig folkerett, men også nasjonal rett. Formålet med senteret er: «Å vurdere hvordan havretten og nasjonal lovgivning som gjennomfører denne s...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2021

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SKATT-Skatteøkonomi

11th Norwegian-German Seminar on Public Economics

The 11th Norwegian-German Seminar on Public Economics is another joint initiative of CESifo, NoCeT, and OFS, takes place in Munich, Germany, and brings together about 25 researchers plus some local non-presenting participants from the CESifo network in Munich. Traditionally, there are 10 to 12 pa...

Awarded: NOK 75,000

Project Period: 2019-2020

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

A Conceptual History of International Relations

In CHOIR (A Conceptual History of International Relations), the aim has been to examine concepts that are often taken for granted in international politics. The starting point has been that concepts such as international, diplomacy, foreign policy, war and peace are not neutral and natural, but h...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPRO-Fri prosjektstøtte

UNelected REPresentatives: The Impact on Liberal Democracy in Europe (UNREP)

Since she started with her school strikes in 2019, Greta Thunberg has risen to prominence as a globally recognized activist for combating climate change. She has traveled the world to attend and amplify climate protests, she has been named Time Magazine Person of the Year, she has been nominated ...

Awarded: NOK 7.7 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Government by Algorithm - Protecting Democratic Values in the Deployment of Artificial Intelligence by the Public Sector.

The Norwegian public sector enjoys high levels of trust from citizens and is built upon a system where democratic values of freedom, equality and transparency are paramount. The central goal of the Norwegian Governments Digital Agenda is to realise ?a user-centric and effective public service?. T...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SIKKERHET-SIKKERHET

Reducing fire disaster risk through dynamic risk assessment and management (DYNAMIC)

Dense wooden house environments, e.g. Røros and Old Skudeneshavn, are linked to our past and identity, and worthy of preservation. At the same time, they are very vulnerable to fire. If a fire starts in one house, it can quickly spread. Therefore, the fire service is entitled to arrive within 10 ...

Awarded: NOK 8.4 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2025

Location: Vestland

HELSEFORSKNING-Helseforskning

The ‘politics’ of a changing institutional ecology: coordination, prioritization and labour in Norwegian health, care and welfare services

This strategic project to build institutional expertise aims to develop the field of services research through a multidisciplinary and comparative exploration of the ways services interaction and coordination are politicized, prioritized, organized, practiced and experienced at different levels a...

Awarded: NOK 24.0 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2027

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Institutionalizing Indigenous Peoples Rights in China: From a Paternalistic Evolutionist Paradigm to Self-determined Development

The objective of this project is to describe and analyze the constraints and potentials of institutionalizing the rights of indigenous peoples for approaching self-determined development in China. Institutionalizing indigenous peoples’ rights under the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of ...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Oslo - Oslove

HAVBRUK2-Stort program for havbruksforskning

A Green Light for Aquaculture? Sustainable Innovation and Growth in Norway

This project has examined how and to what extent new policies, regulations, and management measures promote or hinder environmental sustainability in Norwegian salmon farming. From a legal perspective, it has studied to what extent the traffic-light system, whose main objective is to promote sust...

Awarded: NOK 9.9 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Akershus

INNOFFARENA-Innovasjonsarena for stat og kommune

Demokratisk innovasjon i praksis: Forskning på medvirkning og legitimitet i kommunale beslutningsprosesser.

In what ways can we renew democracy to encourage as much support for this form of government as possible? New and alternative forms of involvement and participation are important themes in current international discussions on the state of democracy. The DEMOVATE project examines involvement in pr...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Vestland

SIKKERHET-SIKKERHET

Far right politics online and societal resilience

Online media has created novel opportunities for the distribution of content from the far-right, as well as the mobilizing capacity. FREXO examines the broader societal and political impact of this development. In the project the term far-right is used to describe political parties, organizations...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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