349 projects

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Out of the shade? Solar development challenges in Norway (SOLNOR)

SOLNOR will be a first to systematically investigate framework conditions for small- and large-scale solar in Norway, and a first Scandinavian comparison for this. While solar has been developing slowly in Norway, Denmark and Sweden are further ahead, although they all have likely barriers and di...

Awarded: NOK 10.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

WINDREG - Offshore wind and regional futures: challenges and opportunities for energy justice in regional transitions

WINDREG has made good progress and has been communicated to user groups in various settings since the last status report. We held a successful study tour to the Humber region in the UK for regional project partners and researchers in March 2025, and a one-day dialogue seminar was held in the same...

Awarded: NOK 10.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Agder

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Refugee Settlement Locations and Long Run Outcomes

How to successfully integrate refugees is an important task for governments, for which efficient policy solutions are in high demand. While there is a fairly large literature on the efficiency of various labor market and education policies, we know much less about the importance of initial settle...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Building capacity for transformative action in energy transitions

CAPTAIN – How to Build Acceptance for Radical Transport Transitions The transport sector faces major challenges in the energy and climate transition. While electrification and alternative fuels have received significant attention, reducing the overall demand for transport is far more complex. It...

Awarded: NOK 10.1 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPRO-Fri prosjektstøtte

EUI - 1. og 2. halvdel av det 4 år. Governmentality and Governance: Analysing the link between the assertation of power and its rationale

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Awarded: NOK 0.27 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2024

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Arbeidsrett og det grønne skiftet

Questions related to sustainability and climate issues are among the biggest challenges of our time. In the process of achieving the climate goals, working life is a key factor. Sustainability in the context of labour law is often understood to mean that both environmental (ecological), social an...

Awarded: NOK 0.89 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

EU Climate Policy Implications for Land Use in Norway: Managing Trade-offs and Achieving Policy Coherence

EU climate policy will have great significance for Norwegian climate, energy, forestry, and land-use policy in the years leading up to 2030 and beyond. Conflicts and trade-offs between climate, energy, and nature considerations are challenges that we will increasingly have to deal with. The Clima...

Awarded: NOK 12.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus

SIKKERHET-SIKKERHET

Collaboration Complexity in Nuclear Emergency Preparedness in the Maritime Arctic

The increased maritime transportation, flow of goods, and populations changes the risk picture in the Arctic. A recent sharp increase in nuclear-propelled vessels and ships transporting spent nuclear fuel and radioactive materials adds new uncertainties into risk assessments, risk perceptions, an...

Awarded: NOK 7.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Adaptive co-management to enhance biocultural diversity and sustainable development in coastal communities

ACTIONABLE is a project which combines multiple disciplines and the knowledge of local and Indigenous communities to understand sustainable management of coastal land- and sea- scapes. The first key idea in ACTIONABLE is that people working together in collaborative sustainability projects, whic...

Awarded: NOK 13.7 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

INNOFFARENA-Innovasjonsarena for stat og kommune

Arena Unikom 2023

Arena Unikom er konferanse for alle som er interessert i hvordan kommunal sektor, universiteter, forskningsinstitutt og andre organisasjoner kan jobbe sammen for å finne gode, forskningsbaserte løsninger for morgendagens kommunale praksis. Konferansen arrangerer 2.november i Trondheim. Under over...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2023-2023

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Legal regulation in an era of deglobalization: socio-legal perspectives on technology, migration, democracy, and war

We live in a time of profound change with continuous crises, worsening climate conditions, and a global rise of authoritarian tendencies and polices. The initiative 'Legal Regulation in a Time of Deglobalization: Legal-Sociological Perspectives on Technology, Migration, Democracy, and War (DEGLOB...

Awarded: NOK 0.89 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Bærekraftige markeder: Rettslige rammer for innovasjon og konkurranse for bærekraftige markedsresultater

The project Sustainable Markets investigate how the legal framework for markets and innovation can contribute to the realization of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The project is run by the research group MIC (Markets, Innovation, Competition), under the Department of Private Law, Fa...

Awarded: NOK 0.89 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Den internasjonale rettens påvirkning på nasjonal rett

National law is increasingly being influenced by international law, and this raises difficult questions that are unsatisfactorily explored in Norwegian law. How should the content of an international norm be determined when that norm is applied in national law? What is the status of international...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

DEMOS-Demokratisk og effektiv styring, planlegging og forvaltning

Nettverk for organisasjonsforskning i Norge sitt årlige arrangement "NEON-dagene". 21-23 November, i Trondheim. 20-årsjubileum for NEON.

Årets NEON-dager markerer 20-årsjubileet for NEON og setter fokus på de store og komplekse samfunnsutfordringer. Tittelen på konferansen er «Organisering i skiftende landskap: Trusler, utfordringer og nye muligheter?». Planums- og sesjonsprogram er rettet mot utfordringer med økt risiko og sårbar...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2023

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

The influence of experts on public policy

Across the world, politicians call on experts for advice both during major crises and in everyday policy-making. But to what extent do experts actually influence public policies? Curiously, this question is often neglected in existing research. Yet, how much influence experts have matters for our...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Et fremragende internasjonalt miljø for komparativ rett og rettskulturelle studier (KultKomp)

Acknowledging the crucial role of globalization and internationalization is an important precondition for solving the major societal challenges we face today. Sustainable solutions for the green shift, cybercrime, international conflict management, resource management, and immigration must be dev...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Tvisteløsning på grunnplanet

During our lives, we are all involved in one or more legal disputes, such as when we disagree with the insurance company on the value of the damaged goods, with the landlord on the appropriate level of increase of the rent, or with the seller of a used item on whether it was in accordance with wh...

Awarded: NOK 0.89 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Nordisk formuerett - rett, språk og fellesskap

The project aims to develop and strengthen the Nordic property law scholarship, to maintain and further develop proficiency in Norwegian (and Nordic) legal terminology in this specific field of law, and to develop and operate a Nordic network to promote research and collaboration related to prope...

Awarded: NOK 0.89 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Rettsstatsutvikling gjennom digital formidling av rett

AI tools are already in use in the legal field. Developments in both the public and private sectors are progressing rapidly. Nevertheless, there is little knowledge among lawyers about how AI tools can strengthen or weaken the rule of law in general, and individual legal security in particular. T...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Skattelegging i en digital og global økonomi

Tax law is fundamental to the regulation of modern societies. The Norwegian State is entirely dependent on the payment of different taxes to finance its ongoing activities, including the comprehensive Norwegian Welfare System. Tax rules are also used to counter economic inequality between individ...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

En grønnere markedsrett

The challenge of climate change and the need for a green transition are among the most pressing issues facing society today. To make progress, market actors must be incentivised to take green initiatives and participate in more sustainable practices, such as the production of renewable energy and...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Private knowledge, public issues: Digitalization and private economies of knowledge in criminal justice

Criminal justice agencies, in Norway as in most European countries, have in recent years undergone an intense process of digitalization as well as restructuring and reform. Digital technologies, often promoted by management- and IT-consultancies, are redefining the meaning of knowledge and expert...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Greening the economy- Facilitating Innovation, Economics and Labour Demand

The project's data order was finally approved by Statistics Norway on 22 November 2024, and then entered Statistics Norway's processing queue when it comes to lending data. Expected delivery is winter 2026. We can therefore only regret that lending data to the project takes time, which creates ch...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Made Abroad: Producing Norwegian World Literature in a Time of Rupture, 1900-50

MAP uncovers the paths of Norwegian literature towards a world readership during the first dramatic half of the 20th century. After Ibsen and Bjørnson had opened the global literary market, the road map to international success changed substantially. Authors increasingly depended on literary agen...

Awarded: NOK 12.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Research group on Supervision and Enforcement of EU/EEA Economic Regulation (SupER)

The EU produces large amounts of regulation on the exercise of economic activities – e.g., banking, investment services and energy markets. The EU’s legislative bodies have for several such activities supplanted the member states’ national legislatures as the force driving regulatory developments...

Awarded: NOK 0.89 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Global Network for the Investigation and Prosecution of Crimes against Ecosystems-the use of new technologies in international crime control

Both in peacetime and during armed conflict, environmental crimes in combination with large-scale corruption have a hugely destructive impact on ecosystems and the climate and undermine the rights of communities, local populations, and indigenous peoples. Establishing criminal responsibility for ...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Dispute Resolution in International Regulatory Frameworks

Countries resolve conflicts and manage cooperation in many fields of scarce resources. For instance, conflicts over the use of land or sea, or conflicts about the emission of greenhouse gases, should ideally be resolved in a manner that is both efficient and equitable. A critical question in the ...

Awarded: NOK 0.89 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Buskerud

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Building an evidence-base for deforestation-free landscapes: supporting equitable outcomes in and beyond commodity supply chains (BEDROCK)

Global food systems contribute to climate change, biodiversity and natural habitat loss, and fail to provide sufficient food for all. A key example is the expansion of palm oil, soy, beef and cocoa production driving the loss of tropical forests. In response, companies, finance actors and governm...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Akershus

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Sustainable management of coastal areas: Salmon farm locations and environmental status

This project studies the complex decision-making system for localization of aquaculture in Norwegian coastal areas, and how decisions on salmon farm location align with goals of enhanced environmental sustainability. The project will produce novel knowledge on how political, socio-economic, insti...

Awarded: NOK 8.9 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Centre on the Europeanization of Norwegian Law - Understanding EEA Law as an integral part of Norwegian Law

Why is the law of the European Economic Area (EEA), which binds Norway to the EU’s internal market, so difficult for Norwegian lawyers to understand? And how can those responsible for making and applying Norwegian law better adapt to the obligations flowing from EEA law? These are the main challe...

Awarded: NOK 21.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2029

Location: Vestland