17,901 projects

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

ECHO: Epigenetic Cellular Hack for Oncotherapy - Engineering CAR-NK Cells to Reprogram Tumor Macrophages via Targeted dCas9 Exosomes

Reprogramming the Tumor Environment to Help the Immune System Fight Cancer Cancer does not grow alone. Tumors actively reshape their surrounding environment to suppress the immune system and protect themselves. One of the most powerful allies of tumors are macrophages: immune cells that, instead...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

A new and modular tool for meiofauna research

Beneath the seafloor lives a largely hidden world of microscopic animals known as meiofauna. Although tiny, these organisms play an essential role in marine ecosystems and are increasingly used as indicator organisms in environmental monitoring because they respond rapidly to pollution, habitat d...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Sustainable circular economy services (SCE-SERV)

Many circular economy initiatives focus on recycling and waste management. While important, these measures alone are not enough to address today’s combined challenges of climate change, resource depletion, biodiversity loss and social sustainability. In some cases, circular solutions can even inc...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Vestland

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

From Cell Wall to Product: A Scalable Extraction Method for Bacterial Glycopolymers (ScalEGlyco)

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Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Akershus

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

BlueNode: A Unified Graph-Based Platform for Early-Stage Ship Design

BlueNode is a software concept designed to improve how early-stage ship design is carried out. Today, this phase is often slowed down by fragmented tools, manual data handling, and inconsistent information structures. BlueNode aims to change this by making design data more connected, structured, ...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Brain-driven Remote Collaborative Physical Work

This project proposes an entirely new concept for remote collaborative physical work, by enabling remote bidirectional inter-human physical interaction mediated by robotic avatars that are controlled through brain-driven networks alongside other multi-sensor data, transforming how remote physical...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

FibreEyes: Enhancing Transmission Grid Capacity and Resilience with Fibre-optic Sensing

As society electrifies, the need for increased power grid capacity is growing rapidly. Building new power lines is expensive, slow, and often controversial. Today, a substantial part of the existing grid’s capacity remains unused because power limits are based on conservative, worst case weather ...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Akershus

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Metabolism-Epitranscriptome Crosstalk: Novel Regulation in Embryo Development

One in six people experience infertility, and demand for assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) is rising. In Norway, fertility rates have dropped 28% over the past decade, and ART now accounts for 6% of all births. Even with modern in vitro fertilization (IVF), the chance of a live birth per ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Centre for Quantum Communication Networks and Applications

Digital communication underpins modern society, from government and healthcare to finance and national security. Emerging quantum technologies are set to transform how we communicate and process information. While large-scale quantum computers are likely to make today’s cryptographic mechanisms v...

Awarded: NOK 61.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Vestland

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Next-Generation of Smart Battery Software for Flexible Battery Systems

This project develops software for smarter use of battery systems to reduce electricity costs and improve the efficiency of the power system. Today, many battery systems are used mainly for simple cost savings, but they do not fully utilize the potential of combining electricity prices, energy ...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

FrucTitan: Precision NGT Reprogramming of Fructan Metabolism for Climate-Ready Cereals

As the climate becomes less predictable, farmers in northern Europe and North America face a growing problem: droughts, sudden cold snaps, and erratic weather make cereal harvests less reliable, raising costs and putting food security at risk. FrucTitan, a collaboration between the Norwegian Univ...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Akershus

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Støtte til 2026 ITHET konferansen

Konferansen Information Technology in Higher Education and Training (ITHET) har gjennom over 20 år samlet fagfolk fra hele verden (f eks. Australia, Japan, Kina, Sør-Amerika, USA, Canada, foruten hele Europa). Hovedtemaene har vært rundt datatekniske spørsmål i forhold til å støtte opp om høyere ...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Innlandet

NANOTEKNOLOGI-NANOTEKNOLOGI

39th European Conference on Surface Science “ECOSS2026”

We have the honour of hosting Europes largest and longest running conference in Surface Science (ECOSS). This conference series has been running since 1978. It has moved around all over Europe, but has never before been held in Norway. Nonetheless, Norway has a long and rich history in surface s...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MARITIMFORSK-MARITIMFORSK

Unlocking AI Platforms for a Sustainable Maritime Industry: Developing business models, capabilities, and ecosystems

The AIMAR project – Unlocking AI Platforms for a Sustainable Maritime Industry – aims to accelerate the digital transformation of the maritime sector by turning artificial intelligence (AI) into practical, scalable, and sustainable solutions. Led by Kongsberg Maritime in close collaboration with ...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Buskerud

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

DESIGNK. Designing a synthetic killer based on a natural template

Natural killer (NK) cells are part of the body’s first line of immune defence. They continuously patrol our tissues, seeking out and destroying cancer cells and virus-infected cells without prior training. This makes them highly attractive candidates for cancer immunotherapy. However, translating...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Long-Range Preparedness System using Cooperative Drones - NAVDRONES

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Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestfold

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

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Next-generation digital twins for biological cell environments

Can we predict how a heart cell reacts to a new medicine using only a computer? DigiCells aims to create "digital twins" of biological cells and their surroundings to revolutionize how we understand the heart and brain. Objective Modern microscopy allows us to see biological cells in breathtakin...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Human-AI Teaming Framework in Cyber Security for Critical Infrastructures: Enhancing Resilience and Autonomy

HAT-CI introduces a new paradigm for cyber defense, which is built on human-AI teaming that is adaptive, resilient, and ethically aligned. Critical Infrastructures such as energy grids are increasingly exposed to sophisticated and evolving cyber threats. While AI provides the ability to detect pa...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

SYNAPSE: SYnergetic Network-AI Platform for Semantic Efficiency

A cardiac arrest alert should reach a doctor in milliseconds. An AI system monitoring patients should learn instantly which patterns are dangerous. But today, networks do not understand urgency, and AI cannot see network problems. A life-critical medical alert competes for space with cat videos. ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Unlocking the Power of Spatial Computing using Tile-Centric AI Accelerators

The AI revolution has led to an unprecedented demand in compute power with modern datacentres consuming more electricity than entire cities. Consequently, it is necessary to reduce their power consumption. Until recently, computer chips were simply to get faster because their structure was gett...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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

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

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

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

FERTILITY INEQUALITY: Economic and social drivers of declining birth rates

Birth rates have been declining for a long time in Norway, as in the rest of the world. A t the same time, fertility inequalities have widened – both between men and women, and between individuals with higher and lower levels of income and education. What explains the growing inequality in the nu...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Cumulative effects of climate change and pollution - How climate region and local habitat shape biological responses and recovery

Global warming and pollution are major threats to nature and a sustainable future. In SoilStress we aim to understand the mechanisms underlying the combined effects of climate change and pollution on soil animals. The main questions are: •Why do populations react differently to pesticides and te...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Health and Migration: A Multi-Country Study of Male African Migrants

Migration is one of the defining features of our time, and this project explores health and welfare challenges among migrating men who experience different forms of vulnerability, including sexual minority men, men living with HIV, and men with low incomes. The project is a collaboration between ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Knowledge Integration in Teacher Education through Technology-Enhanced Simulation (KITES)

KITES is a research project that explores how advanced technologies such as virtual reality, 360-degree video, and artificial intelligence can support student teachers in integrating various knowledge sources to make professional decisions. Becoming a good teacher requires more than subject exper...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Østfold

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