44,137 projects

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

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Aligning Corporate Purpose with Local Needs in the Coral Triangle Tuna Industry

Oceans are among our most vital global commons, supporting food systems, livelihoods, and climate resilience, yet they face accelerating degradation from overexploitation, warming, and habitat loss. Nowhere are these pressures more visible than in the Coral Triangle, a region that covers just 1–2...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 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

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

Smart Precision for Quantum Resilience

Quantum computers promise breakthroughs in medicine discovery, climate-smart cities, and secure communications. But today’s machines are fragile: qubits are noisy, computations are short-lived, and reliable results often demand more hardware than we have. SPQR—Smart Precision for Quantum Resilien...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

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

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

INTPARTORDNING-INTPARTORDNING

Excellence in Conservation Biology through Accelerated Research and Training

COGENT is an international initiative designed to tackle one of the planet’s most urgent challenges: the rapid loss of biodiversity. The project forms a long-term partnership between the University of Oslo and and four key African institutions: Addis Ababa University (AAU: Ethiopia), Makerere Uni...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

Software Engineering Hub

Norway’s digitalisation depends on software that works reliably every day. Software is crucial in everything from health and safety to banking, energy and public administration. Achieving this requires sound methods for developing and operating IT systems, and strong research environments that ca...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Radar scattering horizon experiment - ThawHorizon Svalbard

This project consists of three separate field campaigns collecting measurements of snow over sea ice that act as reference data for relevant European satellite missions. Measurements of snow thickness, snow water equivalent (SWE), temperature and hardness of snow on sea ice will be collected coin...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Retrieving acoustic tracking data in Isfjorden

The fjords of Svalbard are changing at an alarming rate in the face of climate change. Climate change is strengthening the West Svalbard Current, increasing the input of warm, salty water to the western fjords of Svalbard. The consequences include ice cover, increasing the share of Atlantic speci...

Awarded: NOK 91,999

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Baseline Assessment of Wastewater Treatment in Svalbard: A Foundation for Future Arctic Solutions

Access to safe and sustainable wastewater treatment is a growing challenge for Arctic communities, where low temperatures, small populations, and limited infrastructure make conventional treatment technologies difficult to apply. This project aims to contribute to the improvement of wastewater tr...

Awarded: NOK 59,999

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Akershus

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order Calculations in Chiral Perturbation Theory for Composite Dark Matter

Sub-leading corrections are known to have a large impact on the parameter space of composite or pionic dark-matter models. This project aims to refine the theoretical description of such models, which remain among the most interesting candidates for the unseen matter in the Universe. During the r...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Rogaland

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Tilrettelegging i språklig heterogene klasserom for at nyankomne minoritetsspråklige elever kan utvikle gode leseferdigheter i engelsk.

Prosjektet undersøker hvordan nyankomne minoritetsspråklige elever kan læres opp i engelsk som andrespråk i vanlige, språklig mangfoldige klasserom. Dagens undervisningsmetoder er tilpasset majoritetsspråklige elever og tar lite hensyn til de spesielle språklige utfordringene minoritetselevene mø...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Innlandet

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Adapting to climate risks via landscape-scale solutions: effects of peatland restoration on floods and water browning (ANTIPASTI)

Natural hazards like river floods and water browning caused by organic matter washed into aquatic environments are becoming more intense because of climate change. These changes threaten lives and properties, drinking water and ecosystems and local communities. Nature-based solutions such as pea...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

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

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Advanced Security for nExt-Generation Mobile Infrastructure and Systems

The society depends on the continuous ubiquitous availability of mobile communication services. 5G networks serve as critical infrastructure for healthcare, transportation, energy distribution and other public utilities as well as for emergency services and natural disaster rescue. As mobile comm...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Temporal variability of gas seepage and hydrogeological changes in a retreating glacier system, Fridtjovhamna

The Cryo-Seep project investigates the spatial and temporal variability of gas emissions in climate-sensitive, near-shore fjord environments in the Arctic of Svalbard. The goal is to identify the controlling factors enabling rapid methane escape and understand how these factors change across diff...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Svalbard