44,324 projects

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

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Asian Diffusion: China’s Governance Promotion and Vietnamese Adaptation (ADAPT)

China increasingly promotes its domestic development success as an example for others. How do these ideas travel, and how are they received in other countries? While most research on international diffusion has focused on how liberal democracies promote governance abroad, ADAPT explores how gover...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Vocational-Oriented Sustainability Education Across Museums and School (VOSEAMS)

Does it matter to you which products your hairdresser uses on your hair? Or what materials the carpenter uses to build your house? And what about the food in the cafeteria – are local ingredients important to you? Professionals use products, materials, and services that have impacts on climate, ...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

NANOTEKNOLOGI-NANOTEKNOLOGI

High-performance thin film piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems, Enhanced for Realistic Operating conditions

Since the mid 70’s, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), have had a major impact on our modern, high-technological society. Thin film piezoelectric MEMS (TFPMEMS), carries on this MEMS-legacy, currently finding its way into factual technological applications, such as 3D cameras, gas-detectors, ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

MatSci-LLM: Accelerating Materials Science Research with Large Language Models

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in scientific discoveries, particularly in the natural sciences. These generative AI models, trained on vast amounts of web-crawled data, can process and analyze large volumes of scientific literature, enabling researchers to uncover novel insigh...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Resolving the Solar Convective Conundrum: A Full-Physics Approach to Solar Convection

The Sun looks calm from a distance, but its interior is boiling. Hot gas rises, cooler gas sinks, and this continuous churning – called convection – transports energy from the deep interior to the surface. These flows help drive the Sun’s magnetic field and, in turn, the solar activity that affec...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Sea Ice Forecasts -in a box- for Informed Arctic Navigation

As human activity in the Arctic continues to grow, ships are increasingly exposed to dangerous and rapidly changing sea-ice and weather conditions. From commercial shipping and tourism to search-and-rescue operations, safe navigation in polar waters depends on having accurate, timely, and locally...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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

KSFF-KSFF

Driving sustainable health and social care reform in rural regions through empowered self-managing teams

The project SELFDRIVE – Driving sustainable health and social care reform through empowered self-managing teams (SMT) is based on the recognition that Norwegian municipalities face a rapidly increasing need for more sustainable organisation of health and social care services, particularly in smal...

Awarded: NOK 14.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Waters of Reconciliation: Local Governance and Environmental Peacebuilding in the Lower Nile and Yarmouk Basins (MENA Water & Peace)

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is experiencing one of the most acute water crises globally. Hosting over 5% of the world’s population but less than 1% of its renewable freshwater resources, the region is at the nexus of climate stress, urbanization, and protracted conflict. Water ...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

The Big 5 Norway project - increasing public mental health through micro-interventions

How Small Daily Actions Can Strengthen Public Mental Health Around the world, millions struggle with anxiety, depression and stress—and research shows that even small daily actions can make a big difference. This idea lies at the heart of The Big Five project, an international initiative led by d...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Vestland

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

Havet - under overflaten

Havet – under overflaten skal utvikle en sanselig og forskningsforankret formidlingsopplevelse som gjør det mulig for publikum å erfare havets betydning for livet på jorden. Prosjektet tar utgangspunkt i at havet ikke bare er et geografisk rom, men et levende system som regulerer klima, produsere...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

AGROECOL2 Promoting AGROecology through co-creating value chain innovations and improved multi-level POLIcieS in a beyond-growth Europe

The term "agroecology" has been around for around a hundred years, aiming to make our food systems more sustainable and holistic. However, awareness and adoption of agroecology in Europe is still quite low, with estimates suggesting that less than three percent of farms on the continent operate f...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

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

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

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

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

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

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

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