1,878 projects

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Skogprat

Norwegians have a deep love for the forest and often take for granted that it provides the wood we use to build houses, fuel for our fireplaces, and space for recreation, physical activity, and nature experiences. Some of Norway’s richest ecosystems are found in the forest, home to around 60% of ...

Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Akershus

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Utarbeidelse av Case-Studier fra Forskningssenter for Bærekraftig Biobasert Drivstoff og Energi (Bio4Fuels).

This study will be based on cases from the Bio4Fuels Centre, which main goal has been to reduce climate gas emissions from the transport sector, the largest contributor to the Norwegian emissions, through sustainable and economic production of biofuels, enabling the basis for production in Norway...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

ADVANCING CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT AGRICULTURE USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA), which involves growing crops indoors under controlled growth conditions, for example, in vertical farms, offers a sustainable alternative to traditional agriculture. However, there is a gap between the large amounts of data collected in these systems and ...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Landbrukets bærekraftskonferanse 2024

Bakgrunn Samfunnets forventninger om å sikre og dokumentere en bærekraftig utvikling i norsk landbruk og matproduksjon er tydelig. Det pågår flere forskningsprosjekter innen landbruk og matproduksjon som har ulike bærekraftsspørsmål som hovedproblemstilling, og nærsagt alle forskningsprosjekter i...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Preserving foods with potato peels: Industry-relevant validation and first regulatory assessment of a new natural antioxidant

Potato peels, a byproduct from the food processing of potatoes (fries, flakes, chips, etc.), are a raw material resource that can be used for better goods. This is because peels are a rich source of antioxidants, natural compounds in plants to protect against harmful UV radiation and reactive com...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Innlandet

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

ForestValue2 JC2023 - Unveiling sustainable operating spaces for European forests (SOSFOR)

Managing European forests in a sustainable fashion requires a concrete understanding of the social, ecological, and economic boundaries to resource extraction and global change. Our project will identify and quantify these sustainable boundaries across a set of European forested landscapes. We ...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Akershus

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Mitigation and Adaptation in Cultural Heritage Landscapes: Lessons from Transhumant Pastoral Systems for Managing Novel Climate Risks

Cultural landscapes provide important ecosystem services, including experience-based knowledge on how to adapt to and limit negative effects of climate change. This is because the landscapes themselves are vulnerable to climate change and other negative impacts. By investigating transhumant pasto...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Akershus

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Verification of the FORDETECT Technology for fast Detection of Pathogenic Bacteria

FORDETECT is a new microfluid-based method for rapid, on-site, automatic detection of selected pathogens in a liquid sample. The method makes use of single-use recyclable cartridges with precise control over liquid flows and parallel detection of multiple pathogens in one sample. The application ...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Vestfold

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

SHRINK – Is Global Warming Shrinking Soil Microorganisms?

Global warming affects all life on Earth, including the tiniest organisms - microorganisms. In our project (SHRINK), we study how temperature changes are affecting microbial cells and their ability to carry out different functions. Soil microorganisms, for example, are responsible for the release...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

ForestValue2 JC2023 - Smart condition assessment of Reclaimed Timber for eXtended service life of long-lived wood products

The need for conservation of resources and reduction of emissions and waste has led to the concept of the circular economy. In the context of timber construction in Norway, the reuse of timber can have the added benefits of stable raw material prices by diverting additional material supply from d...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Green ERA Hub - DAiry Waste and REsidues upCYCLing into Microbial ProtEin

Europe is facing a significant challenge in securing enough protein to meet the growing global demand. Current production does not cover the needs for food, animal feed, and biobased materials. For example, the European feed industry is heavily dependent on imported protein, which is not sustaina...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

ForestValue2 JC2023 - InCREased Service life of innovative TIMber Building systems (CRESTIMB)

CRESTIMB aims to develop an innovative timber building system, suitable for multi-storey buildings with open spaces. The proposed system will include moment-resisting frames made of softwood or hardwood glue-laminated timber with innovative beam-to-column connections, and dowel cross laminated fl...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

PigStick - Diagnostic of bacterial-caused lameness in pigs

Lameness is a type of arthritis that makes pigs not being able of standing up short after infection. Since arthritis can be caused by different bacteria or even not having a bacterial cause, a correct diagnosis of bacterial-caused lameness is important for further treatment, such as using or not...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Rogaland

FFLJA-FFLJA

Risk-based hygiene control in pork slaughterhouses

Mandatory microbiological testing of carcasses is costly for slaughterhouses, and questions are being raised about its effectiveness in improving food safety. To reduce bacterial levels on pig carcasses and thereby improve food safety, we have developed the software “Hygienic Accounting” (HPR) in...

Awarded: NOK 0.84 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

RIPARAGRO: Restoring riparian zones on agricultural lands

In RIPARAGRO, we will investigate the structural, practical, and cultural barriers and opportunities related to restoring riparian zones to reduce runoff from agricultural areas. Riparian zones, which are the strips of land bordering streams and rivers, are essential for biodiversity and ...

Awarded: NOK 14.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Green ERA Hub - Reducing sheep methane emissions: sustainability in practice via new breeding goals

What if we could breed sheep that emit less methane and are more feed efficient? That’s the core idea behind SustainSheep. Researchers from Ireland, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, France, Uruguay and Norway are collaborating to explore how animal breeding can reduce the carbon footprint of she...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Green ERA Hub - Harnessing African Microbial Diversity to mitigate Green House Gas emissions in maize production

Food security of Africa’s growing population strongly depends on closing the yield gap for cash crops like maize. This can be achieved by increasing the input of N and P fertilizers and applying artificial irrigation, which, however, could substantially increase greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Th...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Akershus

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Sustainable aquaculture industry waste valorization through recycling

Aquaculture is currently the fastest growing food production sector globally, but it also has the potential to leave a significant environmental impact due to inadequate waste management practices within its production systems. To ensure a sustainable expansion of this industry, it is crucial to ...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Akershus

FFLJA-FFLJA

NrfTwin: Advancing Sustainable Breeding of Norwegian Red Dairy Cattle through Digital Twin

This project aims to optimise the Norwegian Red (NR) dairy cattle breeding program through the integration of NrfTwin, a digital twin of NR breeding program. NrfTwin enables simulations of various changes in the breeding program to achieve significant and sustainable advancements in the genetic g...

Awarded: NOK 0.36 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Innlandet

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Meat Inspector - An instrument for detecting meat quality and defects

The global meat sector needs fast and reliable methods to detect quality defects before raw material enters costly processing and long international value chains. Traditional measurements such as pH and color do not always capture more complex deviations, for example PSE-like meat (pale, soft, an...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Green ERA Hub - Uncovering Legume Soil Fatigue for Sustainable Expansion of European Grain Legume Cultivation

Over the past decades, efforts have been made to promote the cultivation of legumes, especially grain legumes, to reduce the use of mineral N fertilisers, increase biodiversity, reduce dependence on imported feed proteins and improve soil biological properties and humus content. However, grain le...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Akershus

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Developing data management and analytical tools to integrate and advance professional and citizen science camera-trapping initiatives

Monitoring the development of the environment in the face of rapid global change requires massive amounts of data collected over large spatial scales. Processing these massive amounts of data requires the adoption of a wide range of digital tools because it is not possible to do this work manuall...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Innlandet

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

The future of cheese production in the face of climate and societal change, developing recombinant technology and plant-based analogues.

Based on the need to reduce the climate footprint of animal food production and dietary recommendations, consumers are being advised to increase their intake of plant-based foods. In addition, the opportunities created by the development of emerging technologies such as recombinant technology, co...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Committed to the responsible development of meat replacement products and practices

Reducing meat consumption is one of the key levers identified by Norwegian and international policies for reducing agricultural climate emissions in Europe. One way to facilitate such a transition are meat alternatives, such as plant- or insect-based substitutes, which have lower climate impacts,...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

Ansvarlig Radikal Innovasjon: Nettverk og læringsArena

ARINA is a competence and learning arena for the Research Council of Norway's technology convergence portfolio. The network continues and deepens the portfolio projects' own work on responsible radical innovation. In this way, the work for transformative processes in Norwegian R&D is coordinated ...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Vestland

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

A scalable WILDlife monitoring system - integrating camera sampling and artificial INTELligence with Essential Biodiversity Variables

Accurate information on biodiversity is essential for addressing environmental challenges. Technologies such as camera traps, image classification, citizen science, and machine learning can help monitor biodiversity and wildlife more cost-effectively, but there are challenges, including the high ...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Vestfold

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Mobilising, harmonising and incentivising forest biodiversity and environmental monitoring data through Web 3.0 technology.

Forests are vital for sustaining life on earth. They harbour the majority of terrestrial biodiversity and play a major role in buffering climate change impacts. Protection of forests and assessment and monitoring of biodiversity are therefore extremely important for mitigating the dual climate an...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HELSEFORSKNING-Helseforskning

OH-AMR-Diag: Novel technological solutions for rapid detection and screening of AMR from a One-Health perspective

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a significant global issue that poses a threat to both human and animal health. Misuse of antibiotics causes 1.3 to 5 million deaths annually worldwide and contributes to rising resistance. If not controlled, AMR could result in 10 million deaths per year and inc...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Innlandet

INNO-NAERING-INNO-NAERING

5096: AgriPV Start. Accelerating agriPV installations in Europe using satellite data, pilot system and automated analysis

We need more renewable energy in the world. At the same time we need to use farmland for food production. This projects is within Agrivoltaic which combins food production and solar energy on the same land. The goal of the project is to accelerate the implementation of agrivoltaic projects in E...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

HESTEFORSK Running in circles – straightening out lameness diagnostics on the lunge

In addition to straight-line evaluation, horses are often assessed on the lunge during lameness examinations. Lunging the horse is also a prevalent method for owners to perform a quick lameness check at home. The circular track induces changes in movement, limb angles, and load, which can increas...

Awarded: NOK 0.55 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Akershus