40,103 projects

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

Struggling Women and Men: Political-Democratic Gender Gaps in a High-Trust Welfare State

Political-democratic differences between women and men are emerging as a societal challenge in Western societies. Which life experiences and grievances—among women and men—generate these differences? How do experiences and grievances affect institutional trust, democratic involvement, and welfare...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

HAPMarine: HAPtivate Bio-MarineForge - Reinventing Calcium-Rich Waste for Sustainable Marine Infrastructure and Reef Resilience

Concrete and cement-based materials are often used in marine construction, but they have a high carbon footprint and provide little support for marine life. Norway is increasingly experiencing both degradation and loss of reefs in coastal ecosystems, as well as the accumulation of calcium-rich wa...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Nanotechnology to improve mucosal nucleic acid-based vaccine responses against salmon louse

Salmon louse infestation represents by far the most significant problem of today’s Atlantic salmon production, introducing economic and environmental problems and a deterioration of the salmon’s welfare. Finding new salmon louse treatments that avoid extensive handling of the fish is therefore of...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

LimEATS: Exploring planetary boundaries and social foundations for just urban food systems in Norway

LimEATS is a research project that explores how we can make healthier, fairer, and more environmentally friendly food systems in Norwegian cities. The project focuses on the connections between what we eat, social inequality, and planetary health, especially in urban areas like Oslo and Trondheim...

Awarded: NOK 12.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Renibacteriun salmoninarum: detecting and preventing vertical transmission in salmon

Since 2023, Norwegian aquaculture has faced a growing challenge from bacterial kidney disease (BKD), a serious disease in Atlantic salmon caused by the bacterium Renibacterium salmoninarum. This bacterium is particularly concerning because it can spread vertically—from mother to offspring—via egg...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Deciphering integrin-specific autoantibodies in ulcerative colitis

Ulcerative colitis is a serious chronic condition that is characterized by inflammation and tissue damage in the large intestine. The exact cause of the disease is unknown, but part of the explanation is likely autoimmunity. That is, an attack of the immune system on the body's own structures. Re...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Rebundling sovereignty over local nature in global governance (RESOLVING)

The RESOLVING project asks: How does global governance of nature transform the exercise of sovereign power? Scientific evidence of the environment as a complex system of planetary dimensions has elevated several natural resources as objects of global governance. Primary forests and maritime biome...

Awarded: NOK 0.56 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Inclusive AI Emerging Fellowship

This project centers on a research stay within the Inclusive AI Lab at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, an institution devoted to developing socially informed and globally representative approaches to artificial intelligence. The lab advances a humanities-led view of AI that treats cultural...

Awarded: NOK 78,999

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Foreign research stay for a postdoctoral fellow involved in the PloidYeast project

Project Summary: This research stay will be conducted within the framework of the PloidYeast project (RCN 324253), which investigates how polyploidization shapes adaptive evolution in yeasts. Polyploidy, whole-genome duplication, is a fundamental evolutionary process influencing genome stability,...

Awarded: NOK 0.31 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

NORCIE - The Norwegian Centre for International Economics

The Norwegian Centre for International Economics (NORCIE) brings together four leading research communities to strengthen Norway’s capacity to respond to major transformations and policy shifts in the international economy. It is an interdisciplinary centre, rooted in economics, political science...

Awarded: NOK 60.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2034

Location: Oslo - Oslove

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

International Workshop on Quantum Optimization

The International Workshop on Quantum Optimization is an open, three-day workshop focusing on quantum and quantum-inspired approaches to optimization, covering both methodological developments and application-oriented research. Topics include algorithm design, circuit synthesis, qubit mapping, hy...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order Calculations in Chiral Perturbation Theory for Composite Dark Matter

Sub-leading corrections are known to have a large impact on the parameter space of composite or pionic dark-matter models. This project aims to refine the theoretical description of such models, which remain among the most interesting candidates for the unseen matter in the Universe. During the r...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Rogaland

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Tilrettelegging i språklig heterogene klasserom for at nyankomne minoritetsspråklige elever kan utvikle gode leseferdigheter i engelsk.

Prosjektet undersøker hvordan nyankomne minoritetsspråklige elever kan læres opp i engelsk som andrespråk i vanlige, språklig mangfoldige klasserom. Dagens undervisningsmetoder er tilpasset majoritetsspråklige elever og tar lite hensyn til de spesielle språklige utfordringene minoritetselevene mø...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Innlandet

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

EMPHASIS-Exploring Mitigation Pathways for Holistic Sustainable development in Indian States

India has evolved from a nation with relatively low greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to a significant player in global climate governance. Unlike other major GHG emitters such as the United States, the European Union, and China, India still has considerable development needs and has relatively low ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Safe handling of refrigerated pressurized ammonia

Ammonia (NH3) is projected to be an important part of the clean energy transition. Using ammonia large amounts of energy can be transported with relative ease. This makes it a strong candidate, e.g., for fueling ships and heavy transport. To make this possible, however, we need safe and efficient...

Awarded: NOK 13.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Methods of resilience: examining the extent of driftwood exploitation on the west coast of Norway (INCIPIT-CSIC research stay)

The project explores a novel approach combining anatomical wood identification and microscopic analysis of fungal decay patterns, to establish an effective method for identifying driftwood in the archaeological record. The study focuses on the Viking Age and medieval period (c. 790-1450 CE), dete...

Awarded: NOK 85,999

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Rogaland

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

AGROECOL2 Empowering Young Farmers to Coordinate Agrifood Transformations through Engaged RIs and Agroecological LLs

EMPOWERALL builds four youth-led “Agroecological Living Labs” across Europe i.e. real places where young farmers team up with researchers, advisors, civil society and public authorities to figure out what sustainable farming looks like on the ground, not just on paper. These labs are hosted insid...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Skills Enhancement on the Move: Digital Pathways in Higher Vocational Education

Higher vocational education via distance education offers new opportunities for skills development. Higher vocational schools play an important role in providing education and knowledge that companies need, and in recent years there has been significant growth in both the number of higher vocatio...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

INTPARTORDNING-INTPARTORDNING

Intl Initiative for Integrating Intelligence of Machines and Robotics to Marine Labs for Hydrodynamic Modeling and GREen Ocean Operations

i4HydroMORE: Marine Labs for Smarter and Greener Ocean Operations Global Collaboration for Sustainability i4HydroMORE – International Initiative for Integrating Intelligence of Machines and Robotics to Marine Labs for Hydrodynamic Modeling and Green Ocean Operations – builds international cooper...

Awarded: NOK 4.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

GREEN BLOOD: Undressing hierarchies to reduce pressure on land through Forest Finn perspectives

Clothes and shoes shape the ways we experience and move in the world, how we relate to others and even how we think and act – including about the natural world. These are Green Blood’s main starting points as it seeks to explore how to reduce the pressure that modern ways of living place on natur...

Awarded: NOK 10.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Building resilience through urban agriculture and foraging: individual, collective and public preparedness

How can we strengthen societal preparedness through urban agriculture and foraging? This is the overarching question that the BestPrepared project seeks to answer. Urban agriculture can build social cohesion among participants and, over shorter periods, also contribute to food security in cities,...

Awarded: NOK 9.8 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Akershus

HELSEFORSKNING-Helseforskning

Compassionate Nesodden - Community and healthcare Resource Optimization for a Warmhearted society (the CROW project)

The Compassionate Nesodden project aims to combat the growing public health issue related to loneliness and social isolation. By implementing the Frome model, a successful community-based approach from England, the project seeks to bring a new dimension to health work in Nesodden Municipality. A...

Awarded: NOK 14.8 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Health, Opportunities, and Poverty Eradication: India’s Democracy-Healthcare Paradox and Global Impact

HOPE examines how and to what extent the interplay of democratic governance, socio-economic exclusion, and comparative development strategies shapes health policy in India. It focuses on the impact of democratic governance on overall health policy, the socio-economic consequences of underinvestme...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

NANOTEKNOLOGI-NANOTEKNOLOGI

Improved LNPs for broad and lasting protection against influenza

The main aim of the project is to develop novel lipid nanoparticles (LNP) that can improve the safety profile of current mRNA vaccines, while also maintaining sufficient efficacy to allow for formation of protective immune responses. A challenge for current mRNA vaccines is that the LNP carrier, ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Safe subsea pipelines exposed to hydrogen from cathodic protection

Norway’s petroleum sector relies on an extensive network of subsea pipelines, stretching over 8,900 kilometers, to safely and efficiently transport oil and gas from offshore fields to onshore facilities in Norway and Europe. Ensuring the safety and reliability of these pipelines is critical, as a...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Forskningsopphold i Barcelona for stipendiat Denis Zelent

Den foreslåtte forskningen vil fokusere på problemer i skjæringspunktet mellom harmonisk analyse og kompleks analyse, under veiledning av professor Joaquim Ortega-Cerdà (Universitetet i Barcelona). Hovedtemaene inkluderer (1) the Donoho–Stark Conjecture and Uncertainty Principles, og (2) Point ev...

Awarded: NOK 89,999

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

CHEERIOS: CHaracterizing Earthquakes and Explosions Remotely through Improved fibre-Optic Sensing

Earthquakes, explosions, and other disturbances generate vibrations that travel through the ground, air, and sea as waves. Traditionally, these signals are recorded by seismometers, infrasound sensors, and hydrophones, but these instruments are expensive and can only be installed in limited locat...

Awarded: NOK 11.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Valuing Animals

Every year, we raise and kill over 80 billion farm animals and trillions of aquatic animals. In addition, many animals more are harmed by infrastructure projects and business activities. These sentient creatures have interests that matter morally, yet our economic and political systems largely ig...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Novel materials for low-temperature thermoelectric cooling (Nomatec)

Hvordan kan vi erstatte frysere og kjøleskap som slipper ut klimagasser og lager mye støy? Behovet for kjøling til lave temperaturer er hurtig voksende, både innen mathåndtering, medisin, vitenskap, kvanteteknologi, energiteknologi og mange andre anvendelser. Til dette brukes i dag kompressorbase...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

CompLiNOR - Research School for Computational Life Sciences in Norway

We are just at the beginning of a digital era for life sciences that will be enhanced and transformed by the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI), including machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI. Applications of AI in the life sciences include, e.g., protein structure predict...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2034

Location: Vestland