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SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Tundra diets: tracking seasonal and inter-annual diet quality dynamics of Svalbard reindeer

Climate change reshapes the Arctic environment, with warmer and wetter winters leading to more frequent rain-on-snow (ROS) events and extensive ground icing. This project investigates how the changing winter conditions influence diet quality and foraging behavior of Svalbard reindeer. More freque...

Awarded: NOK 97,999

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Investigating the Radiative impact of Impurities on snow and ice in Svalbard (IRIS)

The IRIS project aims to quantify the concentration, composition, and radiative forcing of light-absorbing particles (LAPs) in snow and ice around Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard. These particles reduce surface albedo, accelerating melt and altering snowmelt timing. Understanding their impact is crucial in ...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Measuring perennial firn aquifers on Austfonna with GPR

This project aims to investigate meltwater retention in firn on Austfonna, the largest ice cap in Svalbard, with a focus on perennial firn aquifers. Using ground-penetrating radar (GPR) surveys, we aim to identify and characterize the aquifers and assess how they have changed under a warming clim...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Wildfire Fallout and Arctic Waters: Assessing Heavy Metal Contamination in Landlocked Arctic Char on Svalbard

Climate change has led to a marked increase in both the frequency and intensity of large wildfires globally, including also Europe and Russia. These fires release substantial amounts of particles and combustion products into the atmosphere, including heavy metals such as lead (Pb), mercury (Hg), ...

Awarded: NOK 78,999

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Technogenic Metals and Micro-/Nanoplastics in Svalbard Glacier Environments: Occurrence, Distribution and Insights into Long-Range Transport

This fieldwork is an integral part of the master’s thesis/project, designed to quantify both technogenic metals and micro-/nanoplastics in snow, firn and meltwater from three Svalbard glaciers: Vestre Brøggerbreen, Austre Brøggerbreen and Midtre Lovénbreen. This project builds on over a decade of...

Awarded: NOK 94,999

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Rapid permafrost thaw can quickly change the landscape and make organic carbon available for degradation and export

Rapid permafrost thaw represents a critical hotspot for carbon mobilization and greenhouse gas emissions, yet its episodic and spatially variable nature makes quantification challenging. This project investigates the immediate effects of rapid thaw on carbon export and greenhouse gas release from...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Svalbard

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

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

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Syngens-Mammalian: A Context-Aware AI Platform for the End-to-End Design of High-Performance Gene Expression Systems

The primary goal of the project is to adapt Syngens’ successful DNA Design Platform from bacterial systems to complex mammalian cells, specifically Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells. CHO cells are the industry standard for producing modern medicines, including cancer therapies. By predicting how ...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

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

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Formal Techniques for Self-Adaptive Workflow Models

This project aims to contribute to the development of formal techniques to enable self-adaptive workflow models by automating the arrangement of task scheduling and resource allocation. We are targeting on workflows that span across organisations and are connected through dependent workflow task...

Awarded: NOK 82,999

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Paving the way for rational RNA ligand design

The vast majority of targets for approved drugs are proteins. In recent years, it has been increasingly realized that also RNA molecules constitute promising targets. However, compared to protein targets, RNA targets are vastly underexplored. By targeting RNA, the functions of currently undruggab...

Awarded: NOK 0.38 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

PISA: Platform for Integrated Separation and Absorbance-based organoid drug analysis

Animal testing has long been an essential step in drug development. The challenge is that animal testing is time-consuming and raises ethical concerns. One potential solution is organoids – small tissue models that mimic the human body more accurately than animals and can be cultivated in laborat...

Awarded: NOK 9.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Research stay at the University of Padua

Performing statistical inference in particle physics often relies on asymptotic results such as Wilks’ theorem, which assume that all model parameters lie within the interior of their parameter spaces. However, this assumption frequently fails in realistic models, leading to inaccurate statistica...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

NorMoSTFun Postdoc abroad stay at the Aquatic Microbial Interactions Group, University of Turku (UTU)

Aquatic fungi (AF) are important parts of biodiversity in freshwater and marine ecosystems and occupy ecosystem functions as decomposers, parasites and pathogens. In this way AF interacts and control animal and plant populations and affect carbon and nutrient cycling, and as a source of nutrients...

Awarded: NOK 0.87 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Deep Learning for Subsurface Characterization: Advancing Reservoir Property Estimation and CO2 Storage Assessment.

Knowing what kinds of rock lie deep below the seabed is costly and uncertain, yet crucial for storing CO2 to help mitigate climate change and extracting oil and gas safely. This project uses artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the accuracy, reliability, and cost-efficiency of subsurface prope...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

BryoNiN - Moseøkologi og moser i Norge

Precise classification and mapping of nature are dependent on good knowledge of the diversity and distribution of bryophytes. As of today, knowledge of bryophytes is good in some nature types, while for other types there are, in part, significant knowledge gaps. Bare rock is found almost everywh...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Predicting the frictional behaviour of three-dimensional multiphase fault zones

The properties of faults control how they slip and how energy is released in earthquakes. Previous workers often simplify faults into 2D surfaces. However, many observations indicate that fault zones are complex 3D structures. The extra dimension, and the heterogeneous and anisotropic distributio...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Scales: Combining spatiotemporal scales in computational models of cardiomyocytes avoiding averaging and homogenization

Mathematical models of the heart enable simulations of very small regions over short time periods with nanometer and nanosecond resolution. Or, one can simulate large regions over extended time periods, but with a much coarser resolution. In the heart, however, processes at the nanometer scale in...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Rethinking Management of Large IT Projects: Agility@Scale

Large IT projects are critical for our society, but they are challenging to execute. Particularly challenging are large IT projects in areas with high uncertainty regarding requirements and technology, where more than ten teams must work together towards common goals. Agile software development ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Precision Jet Quenching to Unravel Heavy-ion Collisions

This project explores how ultrafast particles, called jets, interact with an extraordinary state of matter known as the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). The QGP is created at CERN when atomic nuclei smash together at nearly the speed of light, recreating conditions that existed just moments after the Bi...

Awarded: NOK 5.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Vestland

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Sjøfjær som indikatororganisme for miljøpåvirking i norske fjorder – kunnskapsgrunnlag for tjenester rettet mot marin næring og forvaltning

The main purpose of the project is to build expertise on sea pens in Norwegian fjords and on their vulnerability to environmental impact in the form of oxygen deficiency and sedimentation. Sea pens are corals that live on marine soft bottoms. They can form sea pen communities, an important habita...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Møre og Romsdal

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Building new multidisciplinary science to monitor and predict environment Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR): case of rivers in India

The ENVAMR project addresses the urgent global challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by focusing on environmental AMR in the Ganges River, Bihar, India—a recognized hotspot with minimal surveillance. It will build an integrated One Health data ecosystem linking environmental, social, and he...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Revealing ghost habitat loss: extent and dynamics of unmapped global habitat destruction from human land use (HABLOSS)

Every year, satellite images reveal vast areas of nature lost to farming, forestry, and urban development. But many habitat losses remain invisible—too small to show up on conventional maps. These “ghost” losses include narrow roads, scattered or small housing developments, and small farms—each s...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INTSAMARBEID-INTSAMARBEID

Conservation laws and Hamilton–Jacobi equations: Nonlocal effects, control and discontinuities

The aim of the AURORA project CHaNCoDi is to join the efforts of mathematicians in Norway and in France that have had a major impact over the last years in the research field of nonlocal scalar conservation laws and Hamilton–Jacobi equations. The project will address the appropriate notions of we...

Awarded: NOK 78,999

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

The Latent Variable Proximal Point Method: A structure-preserving approach to constrained variational problems.

The physical world constrains all of our movements and actions. The chair you are sitting on stops you from falling to the floor, you cannot have a negative amount of milk in your coffee, and no matter how cold it feels outside, the temperature can never drop below absolute zero. Mathematicians b...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Subsurface Understanding for Robust emissions Forecasting

Understanding the subsurface is essential for reducing energy consumption, lowering CO2 emissions, and improving recovery of resources during the planned transition to net-zero society. Developing better subsurface understanding will enhance efficiency and result in reduced emissions from oil and...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

FORSKNINGSDATA-FORSKNINGSDATA

Origin and Evolution of Solar Eruptions (OESE)

Solar eruptions, including solar flares and jets, are among the most energetic events in the solar system, driven by the complex interplay of magnetic fields in the solar atmosphere. Their origin lies in the long-term evolution of the magnetic field, where energy is gradually stored through magne...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

EchoGuard: protecting porpoises

How can we save the ocean’s smallest whale? The harbour porpoise is Norway’s most common whale. Small and elusive, it lives along the coast but, like all marine mammals, must surface to breathe. Every year, thousands of porpoises die after becoming entangled in fishing nets. Trapped underwater, t...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

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