38,294 projects

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Licenses to appropriate land for societal ends

The goal of this research project is to get a thorough understanding of how the Norwegian licensing system for land and natural resource management works, and how it can be improved. To achieve this, two main cases – aquaculture and wind power – will be analyzed in relation to the broader context...

Awarded: NOK 10.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Methods for enhanced utilization of the regional distribution grid system (DSO) in the interplay with the transmission system (TSO)

With the ever-increasing demand for electrical power in the electricity grid in Norway, the capacity of the existing electric grid is no longer sufficient. The electrification of the transport sector, support for the development of electro-intensive industries, and the facilitation of new initiat...

Awarded: NOK 0.21 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Telemark

INNO-NAERING-INNO-NAERING

Robotics, AI, and Critical Infrastructure Workshop– Synergies Across Protection and Inspection & Maintenance

This proposal concerns the organization of a one-day national workshop exploring synergies between robotics, autonomous systems, AI-based analytics, and the protection and resilience of critical infrastructure (CI). The event will bring together stakeholders from industry, research, public author...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Disentangling land-coast-ocean connections at Bouvetøya, the most remote marine ecosystem hotspot in the Southern Ocean

Sub-Antarctic islands such as Bouvetøya host some of the world's richest ecosystems. They are hotspots for abundant marine life including sea birds and marine mammals, but very little is known regarding what makes these islands so rich in life. This is mainly due to lack of observations caused by...

Awarded: NOK 25.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Copepod based Feeds for Improved Salmon Health and aquaculture sustainability

Norway is the world’s largest producer of Atlantic salmon (salmon from here on), but the industry faces major challenges with fish health and welfare, both in land-based and seawater phases, leading to high mortalities. Farmed salmon often have poor resistance to stress and disease, resulting in ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Innovative Technologies for Monitoring Levels of Nitrosamines and Nitramines in Air and Water Near Amine-Based CO2 Capture Facilities

TechNAM is developing new technologies to verify that capturing CO2 from industrial processes does not contaminate the ambient air and nearby drinking water sources. The goal is to meet the safety standards set by the Norwegian Institute for Public Health (NIPH). A key concern is the possible for...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Responsive Space-based Maritime Surveillance using Multi-modal Active and Passive Sensing

Ships are required to transmit Automatic Identification System (AIS) signals to ensure safe voyage at sea. “Dark ships” are vessels that turn off or falsify their AIS signals. They do this to carry out illegal activities such as illegal fishing, evading sanctions, or conducting sabotage operation...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Leveraging Protracted Refugee Situations: Comparing how Lebanon and Turkey have responded to Syrian displacement

The Syrian civil war (2011–2024) created the world’s largest refugee crisis, as over 14 million Syrians fled their homes. Syria’s neighbouring states took in most of those refugees. At its highest point, Turkey hosted over 3.5 million Syrian refugees and Lebanon hosted approximately 1.5 million. ...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

AquaWatch - Soft Sensors and Data Fusion for Precision Fish Farming

Aquaculture is Norway’s second largest export industry and make sustainable protein for the world. The sector is moving toward more data driven operations, yet fish farmers continue to face challenges related to feeding efficiency and sea lice management. Although monitoring technologies exist, m...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HELSEFORSKNING-Helseforskning

Strategy to Target Acquired Resistance in Melanoma Brain Metastasis (STAR-MBM)

Melanom er en aggressiv kreftform som ofte sprer seg til hjernen, der dagens behandling med BRAF-hemmere har begrenset og kortvarig effekt. Et stort problem ved denne behandlingen er at de fleste pasienter utvikler resistens innen seks måneder. Dette prosjektet skal utvikle nye behandlingsstrateg...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Multiphysics of salt precipitation during CO2 storage

When CO2 is pumped deep underground for safe and long-term storage, it can trigger a lesser-known challenge: salt crystals forming inside the rock pores. CO2 dries the salty water inside the rock pores. This water becomes more and more salty until the salt crystals form. These crystals can block ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HELSEFORSKNING-Helseforskning

Strategies for antiplatelet management following acute coronary syndrome (STREAMLINE)

STREAMLINE is a clinical research study about improving care after a heart attack (also called acute coronary syndrome, ACS). After a heart attack, most patients are recommended to take two blood-thinning drugs (dual antiplatelet therapy or DAPT) to lower the chance of another heart attack or str...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

HELSEFORSKNING-Helseforskning

Farmer Health: Assessing Risks and Mitigation Strategies for Rodent-borne Zoonoses in Food Production under Climate Change

With a One Health approach, RoBoZoo investigates how climate change and agricultural practices influence interactions among small rodents, humans, and food production—and the risks these dynamics pose for zoonotic disease transmission, including potential links between exposure to zoonotic microb...

Awarded: NOK 12.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Innlandet

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Arctic-Subarctic Ocean Fluxes Workshop 2026

The 24th Arctic-Subarctic Ocean Fluxes (ASOF) workshop will be hosted in Bergen on April 21-23, 2026. The workshop will welcome about 100 researchers in different fields, and the special theme of the 2026 workshop is “Celebrating 150 years of Nordic Seas Research”. The venue for the workshop will...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

HELSEFORSKNING-Helseforskning

THCS-project: Women's Integrated Support for Hormonal Health in early breast cancer

The WISH (Women's Integrated Support for Hormonal Health) project aims to demonstrate the feasibility of a novel, more efficient, and “out of hospital” follow-up (FU) strategy for women diagnosed with HER2-negative, ER+ early breast cancer (EBC) receiving adjuvant hormonal treatment. The WISH pro...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

NorSeMin: Unlocking Mineral Processes on the Norwegian Continental Shelf for Sustainable Exploration and Environmental Governance

Modern society depends on a steady supply of metals for renewable energy, electric vehicles, and digital technologies. Many of these metals are becoming harder to obtain from land-based mining, prompting growing interest in the deep ocean as a possible future source. However, the deep sea is one ...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Research Center for Innovative and Sustainable Underground Use

The underground (UG) is an important dimension in urban planning. It represents a large and untapped potential in urban development, especially considering major ongoing and future societal changes globally, nationally and locally. Urbanization and climate crisis are putting pressure on surface a...

Awarded: NOK 96.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2034

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

SCOPE—Semantic Feature-based Communication and Control for Wireless Body Sensor-Actuator Networks

What if the biggest problem in modern technology isn’t a lack of data, but too much of it? Every second, billions of sensors collect and transmit information, draining energy, overloading networks, and slowing decisions. Today’s systems still treat all data as equally important, even though most ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

TO KILL AN EMPIRE? RUSSIAN MUSICAL EXILE IN TIMES OF WAR

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, many Russian musicians have been forced into exile due to censorship and repression. Some have been labeled “foreign agents,” banned from performing in Russia, and pushed to rebuild their careers abroad. Yet exile has not meant silence. Inste...

Awarded: NOK 5.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Centre for Defects in Semiconductors for Quantum Sensing

The Centre for Defects in Semiconductors for Quantum Sensing (DSQS) explores the idea that tiny imperfections in crystals can enable novel sensing capabilities. These imperfections, known as color centers or quantum defects, can emit single photons and host quantum spins that can be extremely sen...

Awarded: NOK 61.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Environmentalized Peace: Community-Based Approaches to Water and Air Security in Jordan and Palestine

What happens when pollution from war doesn’t stop at the border? Environmentalized Peace is a groundbreaking project exploring how communities in Jordan and Palestine can work together to confront a new and invisible threat: conflict-driven air pollution drifting across borders. For decades, muni...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

INNO-OFF-INNO-OFF

Bærekraftig radikal oppgavedeling i helse og omsorgssektoren

The BRO project (Sustainable Radical Division of Tasks) addresses two major societal problems. One is the coming capacity crisis in health and care services; the other is the large number of people of working age who are outside of work and education. BRO will meet these challenges by developing ...

Awarded: NOK 21.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KSFF-KSFF

Randomized controlled trial of tailored and sustainable health care solutions for home-dwelling individuals with high healthcare utilization

HighHealthCare (HøyHelseOmsorg) aims to strengthen the sustainability of municipal health services by developing and testing a digital home follow-up intervention tailored to people with high health service use. The goal is to increase health literacy, self-management, quality of life and user ...

Awarded: NOK 14.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

INNO-OFF-INNO-OFF

Maritim havovervåkning og beredskap

The risk landscape at sea is becoming increasingly complex with increased shipping traffic, new threat actors, the effects of climate change and increasing digital vulnerability and cyber-attacks. This creates need for more advanced surveillance at sea. Existing solutions are largely static and s...

Awarded: NOK 21.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Visit to Lancaster University Related to Predicting in High Dimensions PhD Project

This project will allow the PhD student on the main project to visit Lancaster University to deepen the methodological focus of their doctoral research project. This project involves developing high-dimensional machine learning methods and applying them to demand forecasting in the short-term va...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

REHSYS PhD Research Collaboration with AIST in Japan

The main objective of the REHSYS PhD project is to develop and validate dynamic system simulation models that can be used to study and optimize the operation of industrial scale water electrolysis systems based on proton exchange membrane (PEM) technology. The PhD at UiO is part of the KSP REHSYS...

Awarded: NOK 0.18 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Akershus

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Support for the Event of the International Conference of Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK'26) in Bergen.

The project concerns the organisation and delivery of The 16th International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK26), a leading international conference focused on enabling ICT technologies at the intersection of data science, artificial intelligence, and education. Hosted by the Uni...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland