44,134 projects

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

(In)visible Changes: Glacial Methane and its Impacts on Fjord Ecosystems

Arctic marine-terminating glaciers are retreating rapidly due to climate change, creating new methane emission hotspots in shallow fjord waters. In Svalbard, where warming exceeds twice the Arctic average, methane once trapped beneath glaciers is now being released. Yet, the ecological impacts of...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Svalbard

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

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

IMMERSE - Immersed in the museum experience: Underlying mechanisms and the influence of the social experiencescape

What happens when you lose track of time in a museum? When you become so absorbed in a story, a room, or an encounter with an object that you no longer feel like just a visitor? This feeling of being completely immersed lies at the heart of the IMMERSE project. Museums around the world seek to cr...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Rogaland

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Inclusive Educational Rights: Balancing Rights of Violent Children, Their Peers and Educators

Pupils who behave violently against classmates and school staff are an increasing problem in Norway, affecting safety, learning and long-term life chances. Around a quarter of primary teachers reported violence or threats in 2024. Early intervention is crucial to prevent social exclusion and futu...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Match effects and matchmaking in education

Which is the best school? In Norway, as in most other countries, students, parents, and policymakers ask this question every year. Schools are ranked by admission cutoffs and value-added models, and politicians pledge to improve the trailing schools. However, if different students thrive in diffe...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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

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

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

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

NorCollect - En nasjonal innsamlingsstrategi for fornyelse av Norges naturhistoriske samlinger

Natural history collections – such plants, insects, birds and fossils – are essential sources of knowledge about the living world. They help researchers understand how species live and change over time, and they provide authorities with the information needed to monitor environmental change and m...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Strength-based Pedagogies in Mathematics Education

SBPME examines the educational opportunities within mathematics education in the context of societal changes and movements. In many municipalities, including those in and around major cities, Norwegian classrooms today are characterized by a high level of diversity, so extensive that it can be de...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestfold

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

BRiCk - Building knowledge on Brown Carbon in Svalbard snow and ice

Brown carbon (BrC) is a poorly constrained driver of snow/ice darkening in the Arctic. Formed by incomplete combustion and atmospheric processing, BrC comprises light-absorbing organic compounds that may account for a substantial share of UV–visible absorption by snow impurities, yet its sources,...

Awarded: NOK 86,999

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Patterns in Arctic-Alpine Vegetation

Natur i Norge (further referred to as NiN) is a system for typification and description of Norwegian nature, covering all variation at given, specified scales. The current version 3.0 of the NiN system was launched in 2023. During the revision that lead to NiN 3.0, Arctic ecosystems were given pa...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

HAPMarine: HAPtivate Bio-MarineForge - Reinventing Calcium-Rich Waste for Sustainable Marine Infrastructure and Reef Resilience

Concrete and cement-based materials are often used in marine construction, but they have a high carbon footprint and provide little support for marine life. Norway is increasingly experiencing both degradation and loss of reefs in coastal ecosystems, as well as the accumulation of calcium-rich wa...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

Advanced 3D Imaging and Deep Learning Detection for Uveal Melanoma

SpotMEL develops new tools to improve how we study and detect uveal melanoma—the most common primary cancer of the eye, with a high risk of spreading and limited treatment options once it metastasizes. The project combines a biologically relevant 3D spheroid “mini-tumour” model with contrast-enha...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Nanotechnology to improve mucosal nucleic acid-based vaccine responses against salmon louse

Salmon louse infestation represents by far the most significant problem of today’s Atlantic salmon production, introducing economic and environmental problems and a deterioration of the salmon’s welfare. Finding new salmon louse treatments that avoid extensive handling of the fish is therefore of...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

LimEATS: Exploring planetary boundaries and social foundations for just urban food systems in Norway

LimEATS is a research project that explores how we can make healthier, fairer, and more environmentally friendly food systems in Norwegian cities. The project focuses on the connections between what we eat, social inequality, and planetary health, especially in urban areas like Oslo and Trondheim...

Awarded: NOK 12.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Renibacteriun salmoninarum: detecting and preventing vertical transmission in salmon

Since 2023, Norwegian aquaculture has faced a growing challenge from bacterial kidney disease (BKD), a serious disease in Atlantic salmon caused by the bacterium Renibacterium salmoninarum. This bacterium is particularly concerning because it can spread vertically—from mother to offspring—via egg...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

FFLJA-FFLJA

Innovative baking technology to increase Norwegian self-sufficiency and food security

Tradition versus innovation: both are important when it comes to food! We believe it is time to modernize how bread, a cornerstone of the Norwegian diet, is produced in Norway. Our goal is to maximize the share of bread made with only Norwegian flours – and that this bread is pleasant to eat, has...

Awarded: NOK 12.8 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Akershus

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Deciphering integrin-specific autoantibodies in ulcerative colitis

Ulcerative colitis is a serious chronic condition that is characterized by inflammation and tissue damage in the large intestine. The exact cause of the disease is unknown, but part of the explanation is likely autoimmunity. That is, an attack of the immune system on the body's own structures. Re...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Biodiversity and Offshore Wind: Understanding Transformative Impacts on Marine Ecosystems

Offshore wind is expanding rapidly in the North Sea as part of Europe’s transition to renewable energy. At the same time, large-scale offshore infrastructure raises important questions about impacts on marine ecosystems and whether current governance systems are able to address these effects in a...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Inclusive AI Emerging Fellowship

This project centers on a research stay within the Inclusive AI Lab at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, an institution devoted to developing socially informed and globally representative approaches to artificial intelligence. The lab advances a humanities-led view of AI that treats cultural...

Awarded: NOK 78,999

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Foreign research stay for a postdoctoral fellow involved in the PloidYeast project

Project Summary: This research stay will be conducted within the framework of the PloidYeast project (RCN 324253), which investigates how polyploidization shapes adaptive evolution in yeasts. Polyploidy, whole-genome duplication, is a fundamental evolutionary process influencing genome stability,...

Awarded: NOK 0.31 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

mRNA-LNP vaccines delivering personalized cancer antigen to antigen presenting cells

The objective of this project is to develop a novel cancer vaccine. We will demonstrate that the combination of targeting of the cancer antigen to antigen-presenting cells (APCs) with mRNA-lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), yields superior efficacy compared to the state-of-the art mRNA vaccines. We will...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

Smart antenna systems and edge processing for ship surveillance and interference monitoring from GNSS-R equipped microsatellites

Can we exploit the energy reflected from navigation signals that hit the Earth and the ocean to detect ships? This is one of the research questions in the project. The concept is called GNSS reflectometry (GNSS R), and it makes use of the illumination provided by all navigation satellites orbitin...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Quantifying hardening rates of high-arctic vegetation species

Arctic vegetation plays a key role in sequestering carbon at high latitude regions, however, their ability to do so in a changing climate with increasing winter weather extremes is unknown. This is in part due to limited knowledge on plant physiological processes during winter, including hardenin...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Mercury bioaccumulation in Arctic char of Svalbard lakes

This Master's thesis project, "Mercury bioaccumulation in Arctic char of Svalbard lakes," addresses the environmental issue of mercury (Hg) bioaccumulation in Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus), a sentinel species in Svalbard's vulnerable Arctic ecosystem, also used as an indicator species by Arcti...

Awarded: NOK 81,999

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Geochemical Coupling in Arctic Lithosphere Matrices

This project relates strongly to Terrestrial Ecosystem Flagship in Ny-Ålesund and will contribute new knowledge important for a better system understanding of soil/permafrost processes. The project includes sampling and studies of active soil layers, upper permafrost layer and lake sediments, mat...

Awarded: NOK 94,999

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Arthropod Resurvey (2000-2026) along a receding Arctic Glacier foreland

Over the past two decades, the Arctic has warmed at more than twice the global average, driving profound transformations in cryospheric and ecological systems. As glaciers retreat, newly exposed forelands provide unique natural laboratories to study primary succession and biodiversity responses t...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Svalbard