41,502 projects

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

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

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Vocational-Oriented Sustainability Education Across Museums and School (VOSEAMS)

Does it matter to you which products your hairdresser uses on your hair? Or what materials the carpenter uses to build your house? And what about the food in the cafeteria – are local ingredients important to you? Professionals use products, materials, and services that have impacts on climate, ...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

NANOTEKNOLOGI-NANOTEKNOLOGI

High-performance thin film piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems, Enhanced for Realistic Operating conditions

Since the mid 70’s, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), have had a major impact on our modern, high-technological society. Thin film piezoelectric MEMS (TFPMEMS), carries on this MEMS-legacy, currently finding its way into factual technological applications, such as 3D cameras, gas-detectors, ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Simulation of High-Temperature Multiphysics in Complex Subsurface Formations (Simplex)

The Simplex project at the University of Bergen is dedicated to improving our understanding of deep subsurface environments, particularly those influenced by high temperatures and complex geological settings. By developing mathematical models and computational methods, the project aims to explore...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

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

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

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Strength-based Pedagogies in Mathematics Education

SBPME examines the educational opportunities within mathematics education in the context of societal changes and movements. In many municipalities, including those in and around major cities, Norwegian classrooms today are characterized by a high level of diversity, so extensive that it can be de...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestfold

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

BRiCk - Building knowledge on Brown Carbon in Svalbard snow and ice

Brown carbon (BrC) is a poorly constrained driver of snow/ice darkening in the Arctic. Formed by incomplete combustion and atmospheric processing, BrC comprises light-absorbing organic compounds that may account for a substantial share of UV–visible absorption by snow impurities, yet its sources,...

Awarded: NOK 86,999

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Patterns in Arctic-Alpine Vegetation

Natur i Norge (further referred to as NiN) is a system for typification and description of Norwegian nature, covering all variation at given, specified scales. The current version 3.0 of the NiN system was launched in 2023. During the revision that lead to NiN 3.0, Arctic ecosystems were given pa...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

SongGesture: Co-singing gesture and vocal performance across three musical traditions

In many music traditions, vocalists tend to gesture with hand, head and other body movements as they sing. SongGesture will investigate expert vocalists’ use of gestures in three contrasting vocal styles: beatboxing, karnatak music from South India and European art song. While there has been scie...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

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

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Characterization of shale-dominated caprocks in the context of CO2 storage: A multi-disciplinary approach

As atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions rise globally, attention towards CO2 storage is increasing. For safe storage in subsurface sedimentary formations, organic-rich shales/mudstones are being targeted as suitable caprocks due to their proven track record by trapping hundreds of hydrocarb...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Blood concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) during incubation fast in the breeding Arctic common eider.

Poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are of particular concern due to their spread and persistence in the environment. Many of them have been regarded as emerging persistent organic pollutants due to their spread, persistence, toxicity and bioaccumulative properties. They are amphiphilic an...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Surface Element Mapping of Arctic Glaciers: Tracing Local and Long-Range Influences

The aim of this project is to map the element composition of the surface ice layer (top 10 cm) on Austre and Vestre Brøggerbreen near Ny-Ålesund. A total of 140 ice core samples (70 per glacier) will be collected, each with a diameter of 5 cm and a depth of 10 cm, evenly distributed across the gl...

Awarded: NOK 45,999

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Spatial Variability of Dust Deposition and Melt Effects on Drønbreen Glacier, Svalbard

The Arctic is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, with Svalbard experiencing some of the highest rates of change, up to seven times the global average. Its glaciers are highly sensitive to climate warming, which is accelerating melt, increasing runoff and contributing to global se...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Fast Laser Analysis of the StratigrapHy and Sunlight Transfer In the snowpaCK

Snow is a heterogeneous medium whose physical properties constantly evolve over time. Sunlight radiative transfer is particularly significant, as fresh snow has high reflectance that diminishes with grain aging and the accumulation of light-absorbing impurities, thus enhancing shortwave absorptio...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Effects of Atlantification and terrestrial inputs on nutrient transfer and trophic structure in Arctic fjord plankton communities

The Kongsfjorden-Krossfjorden system represents a natural laboratory for investigating the effects of climate change on Arctic marine ecosystems. Although geographically close, they exhibit distinct hydrographic characteristics: Kongsfjorden is warmer and saltier due to the inflow of Atlantic Wat...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Pathogenic Vibrio spp. in Norway applying a One Health approach: current and future challenges

As our oceans heat up due to climate change, new risks are emerging to public health. One such risk is Vibrio bacteria—naturally found in marine environments, but capable of causing serious illness in humans. These bacteria can enter the body through open wounds in seawater or by eating raw seafo...

Awarded: NOK 12.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Diversity as a battlefield? Majority and minority responses to organisational diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts

Diversity and inclusion have become a political battlefield. A wide range of policies and initiatives – so-called diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts – seek to improve the inclusion and status of disadvantaged groups, most notably in the labour market. Yet, we know remarkably little abo...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SAMISKTEMA-SAMISKTEMA

Reshaping linguistic spheres in Sápmi: language policy, linguistic atmosphere, and namescapes in the multilingual North (ReLing)

Who Owns Languages at the Local Level? How is language policy developed in municipalities where Sámi languages are threatened? A research project investigates how local language policy, attitudes, and political actions influence the revitalization of Sámi languages. In several municipalities in N...

Awarded: NOK 11.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

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