714 projects

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

NordForsk: Climate-ready faba beans for the Nordic and Baltic Region

To preserve biodiversity and limit climate change, the world must sustainably intensify food production while lowering attendant greenhouse gas emissions and increasing plant-based dietary protein. Europe depends on imported plant protein. The six countries of this call annually import 238 kt of ...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Nutricycle

Did you know that for over 1,000 years, humans have produced vegetables using nutrient-rich water from fish? This production form is called aquaponics. Today, aquaponics is used on a small scale around the world. Our ambition is to utilize the symbiosis between fish and vegetables on a large scal...

Awarded: NOK 9.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Oslo

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

NordForsk: Mushroom-based processes for increased local production of non-meat protein and enhanced agriculture sustainability

In this project we try to contribute to the agriculture sustainability by producing food from crop residues. The food to be produced is edible mushrooms, which are cultivated on crop residues and forestry residues. When edible mushrooms are harvested, a solid waste known as spent mushroom substra...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Innlandet

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

NordForsk: Upscaling crop performance monitoring by linking satellite and field biosignatures

Climate change is a global challenge for agriculture providing food for the growing population. Northern Europe will likely have more important role in the food production in the future, but a challenge is to find out how different crop plants will be adapted to changing climate conditions. The U...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

HESTEFORSK - Forage as a local produced protein and energy feed for horses

The amount of roughage and nutrient content greatly affects the behavior, health, and disease of horses. Roughage for horses consists almost exclusively of grass, and legumes are rarely used. The purpose of the project is to generate high-quality scientific knowledge with significant practical us...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Sustainable silvopasture systems in the boreal forest for sheep production, forestry and multipurpose values

This project aims to learn more about sheep grazing in boreal coniferous forests. This is an important practice in Norway since it produces food on available natural resources found across the country. The use of forest as pasture for livestock has a long tradition in Norway but faces challenges ...

Awarded: NOK 11.1 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Innlandet

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Visions and the consequences - analysing visions for Norwegian agriculture and its consequences for food security

Norway’s food security may be and are to some extent threaten by international conflicts, trade sanctions, breakdown of international distribution systems, climate changes, outbreak of crop and animal diseases and major shifts in global demand and supplies of food globally that hinder adequate fo...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Kålrot med stabil indre kvalitet

The swede root vegetable (or rutabaga) is a central part of the Norwegian cuisine. It is especially suited for growth in northern climates, however there are new challenges in a warmer climate. In recent years there has been an increasing occurrence of warm and dry periods in summer in Norway, as...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Vestfold

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

CIOL – sustainable impregnation for the future

CIOL® is a new, low cost, non-toxic wood modification system, needed to replace traditional and non-sustainable alternatives with great potential for CIOL AS and industrial partner involved. It’s important to find sustainable, environmentally friendly alternatives to heavy metals and biocides. As...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Smart Agriculture Data Fusion for Decision Support

The farmer's societal mission has increased in importance, as they must produce more food for a growing number of people on a smaller area and in a more sustainable way - parallel to society's increased focus on the world's food security, degree of self-sufficiency and improved sustainability in ...

Awarded: NOK 8.5 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Agder

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Sustainable increases in market share of Norwegian grown onions by utilizing side streams and improved shelf life of peeled onions.

The main goal of the project is to increase the market share of Norwegian grown onions by utilizing side streams to development new products. By using small and large onions a larger part of the crop, that is currently discarded, is used. In addition, UV are used to improve the shelf life of pee...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Vestfold

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Insekter som ny og bærekraftig fôrråvare i fiskefôr

The Norwegian aquaculture industry aims to expand, yet faces significant sustainability challenges. Approximately 75% of the environmental footprint from aquaculture comes from feed, largely consisting of imported raw materials with high environmental impacts. Consequently, the Norwegian governme...

Awarded: NOK 9.5 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Vestland

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Utilizing spectroscopy and CASA to predict in vivo fertilization in cattle and pigs

Most fertilizations in pig and dairy production in Norway are carried out through artificial insemination. The aim of this project is to increase knowledge about the properties of semen that are important for the fertilization capacity of boars and bulls. The project has focus on both sperm cells...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Innlandet

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Fremtidens Fôrsystem - Industri 5.0 for en bærekraftig agri-industri

Orkel AS and TKS Agri AS have joined forces to meet several of the challenges in both agriculture and manufacturing industry. The UN climate panel say major challenges such as drought and varying crop yield can result in more frequent feed crises. At the same time, agriculture must be developed s...

Awarded: NOK 9.8 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Mindre rundballplast - Demonstrasjon av nye pakkerteknologier

Orkel is developing new technology to reduce the use of round bale wrapping film by 40%. Over the past few years we have had a growing focus on the use of plastic and awareness of the effects it has on the environment. The waste hierarchy is a model that ranks waste management options according t...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Genressursseminar: Mangfold for beredskap, utvikling og matsikkerhet

Den genetiske variasjonen innen arter av husdyr, kulturplanter og skogtrær er sentral bærebjelke i landbruket vårt. Tap av genetisk diversitet er imidlertid svært utbredt både i Norge og resten av verden. En stor del av de genetiske ressursene som er hjemmehørende i Norge er klassifisert som beva...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2022-2022

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

ForestValue JC2021 – WoodLCC – Enhanced Life-Cycle-Costing in wood construction by novel methods for service life planning

Under the 2014 EU procurement directive, a contract must be awarded based on the most economically advantageous tender. Currently, Life Cycle Cost (LCC) user software is employing simplified default service life estimates, especially for wood products in exterior applications, which in turn can l...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Oslo

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

ERA Joint Call 2021 Circularity: Balancing production and environment (PROENV)

The PROENV project (balancing PROduction and ENVironment) is exploring the impact of land spare and land share approaches to balance the impact of food-production while preserving ecosystem services. PROENV has partners from Denmark (DK)(Lead), Spain (ES), Italy (IT), and Norway (NO). In additi...

Awarded: NOK 5.4 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Møre og Romsdal

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Bærekraftig birøkt og bevaring av ville pollinerende insekter i Norge

The human impact on our environment is one of the most important topics today. Food production and other land-based resources are invaluable to our survival, and we must make sure sustainability is a top priority. There is a growing body of literature that is investigating the relationship betwee...

Awarded: NOK 11.2 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2028

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

FOODHYPERSENS: Towards comprehensive analytical methods for partially hydrolysed gluten to assess product safety for celiac disease patients

Celiac disease is a common food-induced disease of the small intestine that is caused by ingestion of gluten from wheat, barley and rye. The only effective treatment available is a strict lifelong gluten-free diet. Gluten-free products for celiac disease patients must not exceed the regulatory th...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Oslo

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Novel production method for boosting texture and binding of Nordic plant-based meat [PlantBoost]

The global market for alternative protein is expected to grow by 15-20% CGAR until 2030, due to: 1) a rise in protein demand (+50% by 2050); 2) increased concerns about environmental effects of meat production (14.5% of greenhouse gas emissions); 3) issues on animal welfare during husbandry and...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

EJP SOIL - Understanding tradeoffs and interactions between SOC stocks and GHG emissions for climate-smart agri-soil management

Soils store more carbon than vegetation and atmosphere together. However, soil organic carbon (SOC) is declining world-wide due to agricultural intensification, land use change, erosion, urbanisation and infrastructure development - with negative consequences for soil health and food security. ...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

EJP SOIL - SoilsalAdapt Preadapting soil biology for increased tolerance to elevated salinities due to climate change

Salinization is a major cause of agricultural land degradation in arid areas, as well as in regions threatened by climate-driven sea level rise, where reduced crop yields are a common consequence. If soil as an ecosystem can "learn" to tolerate saline irrigation through the gradual adaptation of ...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Move It – Bevegelige vegger i heltre som gjør at vi kan bygge mindre og samtidig få et ekstra rom i leiligheten ved behov.

Innovation in Movable Walls for the Rooms of the Future In today's rapidly changing world, the demands for versatile and adaptable living and working environments are greater than ever. The Move It concept aims to develop movable wall elements that provide room for innovative solutions in both p...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Buskerud

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

HESTEFORSK Implementering av hesteassisterte intervensjoner i Dialectic Behavioural Therapy R-21-47-573

Emotionally unstable patients experience emotional instability, impulsivity, interpersonal problems and high levels of suffering, often with frequent suicidal crises, ongoing self-harm, substance abuse and cognitive distortions. This group of patients requires a lot of resources from the health s...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Ung og sulten i Oslo: Samskaping av løsninger for et sunt og bærekraftig kosthold

Dette prosjektet vil bidra til målet om at «forebyggende innsats gir god folkehelse og livskvalitet», fra Forskningsrådets portefølje Landbasert mat, miljø og bioressurser. Målet vil oppnås gjennom å formidle resultater fra EAT-Lancet rapporten (2019), som publiserte den første fullstendige, for...

Awarded: NOK 0.49 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2022

Location: Oslo

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Transformation of biogas digestates to a fertilizer which reduce N2O emissions.

Groundbreaking Technology to Reduce Agricultural Nitrous Oxide Emissions. The NMBU Nitrogen Group, in collaboration with Norway’s largest wastewater treatment facility, Veas, has developed a promising technological platform to address the significant emissions of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide...

Awarded: NOK 6.6 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

ForestValue JC2021 – SustMultBiomass, Sustainable and multifunctional use of forest biomass

Forests provide a home for thousands of forest species, and also provide a multitude of benefits to the people: timber for the industry, carbon sequestration for climate change mitigation, and a number of other ecosystem services. Our project investigates potential pathways for sustainable forest...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

ERA Strategies for Circular Agriculture to reduce GHG emissions within & between farmingsystems across an agro-ecological gradient CircAgric

The overall objective of CircAgric-GHG is to enhance circularity within and between farm typologies across an agro-ecological gradient from the arctic climate in Norway, via the oceanic climate of UK and Ireland, continental climate of Germany, Mediterranean climate of Spain and Italy to the trop...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

ForestValue - Tree bark as a renewable source of wood protection materials for building applications

The BarkBuild project is developing new bark-based wood protection and building formulations and demonstrating their technical performance, safety, and sustainability in wood impregnation, as surface treatments, and as polymer composites for outdoor and indoor use. The project analyzes the stabil...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Akershus