307 projects

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Screening Early and Adaptively for Language Skills

Even in Norway, one of the more egalitarian societies in Europe, social inequalities in the early language development of children heavily constrain their potential for later success in education and work life. Hence, good diagnostic screening tests are needed to detect and address these inequal...

Awarded: NOK 7.6 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Human Reading Assessment

Artificial intelligence (AI) is entering schools at full speed, bringing with it both opportunities and challenges. Human Reading Assessment (HUMAN) aims to explore how technology can be applied in a way that places the student in the centre. During their years in school, students have to take a...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Rogaland

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Pubertal Timing and Inequalities in Education

Within a typical classroom, the onset of puberty occurs four years earlier for the first developing girl than for the latest developing boy. However, it is not clear how these large inter-personal differences affect school performance and educational trajectories, with previous studies finding ne...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Missing Men: New conceptual understandings of gendered educational choices

Over the past few decades, women have entered an increasingly larger part of the educational system and labour market, while men have continued to make gender-traditional choices. The representation of men in female-dominated educational fields and professions remains persistently low. We know to...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Bridging Education and Future Work: Reframing Education and Competence Model for Remote Maritime Operations (REFRAME)

The emergence of remotely controlled and autonomous vessels presents a paradigm shift in maritime operations, necessitating a re-evaluation of the human operator’s roles and functions within this new framework. The REFRAME project endeavors to explain the transformations in knowledge, skills and ...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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Training better clinical psychologists: new methods based on machine learning, AI, and deliberate practice

To improve the increasing problems of mental ill-health, we need to train better psychologists. Machine learning and AI will be used in clinical-skills education. Also, there is a need for more research on deliberate-practice training. Over the last decades, psychotherapy studies document the sam...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Sustainability through food literacy in early childhood education and care institutions

The project FOOD4kids aims to improve the kindergarten’s knowledge about food and how it affects both our health and nature. The project is a collaboration between Queen Maud University College of Early Childhood Education (DMMH), the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Mälarda...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Vocational Teachers as Facilitators in the School-to-Work Transition

Dropout from upper secondary education is considered one of the biggest challenges in Norwegian education system and has received a lot of attention for many years, both among politicians and in the media. The dropout rate is highest in vocational programmes, and the transition from the school-ba...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Learning across boundaries in elderly care (LABCare): Enabling expansive learning in and across vocational education and workplace practices

Learning across boundaries in elderly care (LABCare): Enabling expansive learning in and across vocational education and workplace practices Amid global concerns about increasingly ageing societies, there is today an urgent need to attract and retain qualified elderly care staff; the LABCare proj...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

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Online video training for teachers to improve reading skills in children using augmentative and alternative communication

Online video training for teachers to improve reading skills in children using augmentative and alternative communication: the “Reading for all” trial Reading skills provide access to information, social interaction, education, and employment. For pupils with intellectual disabilities, reading ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Østfold

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Designing incentive systems in higher education

In Norway, students are eligible for financial support to cover living costs while studying, support which is governed by Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund (SELF). Over the past two decades there has been a policy shift towards more incentives in the student support system. First, in 2002 Nor...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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NORDFORSK samarbeid - Pandemiens konsekvenser for barn og unge i Norden

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Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Programming for Developing Mathematical Competencies

In recent years, programming has gained increased attention in school curricula in many countries, including Norway. The introduction of programming in schools is expected to have a positive effect on students’ competence in programming—but it is not currently known how this will affect competenc...

Awarded: NOK 9.7 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Møre og Romsdal

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Partners in practice: Establishing a system for educational development towards student participation

“Partners in practice” is a partnership between researchers in teacher education and schools. The project seeks to develop a teaching practice that accentuates student participation. Earlier attempts to develop practice indicate that a quick-fix solution to this challenge does not exist, and the ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Rogaland

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SEMPER: Self-Efficacy in Mathematics, Pathways in Education and Research

When students come to believe they are no good at learning mathematics, it is difficult for teachers to teach them otherwise. As such, we need to learn more both about how students come to believe they are no good at learning mathematics and how teachers can provide differentiated instruction for...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

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TASTE Didactics - Food and Critical Thinking

This four-year project, TASTE is a collaborative research project between Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL), Bergen, University of South-Eastern Norway (USN), Aarhus University (DPU) and University College Copenhagen (KP). TASTE aims to change school and kindergarten children’s ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

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Why do educational difficulties run in families? Genetically sensitive observational and intervention research on home learning environment

Children with dyslexia struggle with quick and accurate reading, children with dyscalculia with arithmetic and math, and children with ADHD with attentional difficulties and hyperactivity. Children with these developmental disorders tend to do less well in school and tend to go on to obtain a low...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Leadership and Learning for the Development of Teachers’ Professional Digital Competence

The underlying idea for the research project Leadership and Learning for the Development of Teachers’ Professional Digital Competence (LeadDig), is to develop schools that learn by focusing on professional digital competence to enhance the pupils’ learning environment and learning in six schools....

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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New perspectives on inclusion as a process in diverse school environments

In subproject 1 we have explored how students and teachers understand and co-create inclusive practices in a diverse school context. The studies demonstrate that students possess significant resources as agents of change in their school lives. At the same time, the findings reveal tensions betwee...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Vibrant Connection. Perpetuation and Transformation of Musical Cultural Heritage in Early Childhood Professions

Kindergartens are an important cultural arena for children in today's multicultural society. This interdisciplinary project is particularly concerned with how music contribute to the preservation and renewal of intangible cultural heritage in kindergarten and kindergarten teacher education. The r...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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YourMove! Developing an App-Delivered Motivation Programme for Physical Activity Education in High Schools (Upper Secondary/VGS)

The World Health Organization recommends that adolescents engage in more than 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity per week, or at least 75 minutes of vigorous physical activity per week. Globally, more than 80% of adolescents (aged 11-17) do not meet these criteria, and adolescent...

Awarded: NOK 12.6 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Transloyalties in Citizenship Education

At school, pupils learn how to be citizens of a country. How did citizenship teaching take place in history classes in Norway after World War II? In post-apartheid South Africa? In Madagascar and Mauritius after the colonial period? And how can citizenship be taught today, when many of the studen...

Awarded: NOK 12.1 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Tomorrow’s inequalities in the making: Processes of life chance differentiation within and outside of education (LIFECHANCES)

The wider processes that shape young people’s life chances are still poorly understood in the Norwegian context. From a societal perspective, it is crucial to understand how, when and why differentiations of life paths become inequalities in life chances and what role educational institutions and...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FINNUT-Program for forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren

Researching platform use in families: an international methods workshop

'Researching platform use in families: an international methods workshop' took place in Oslo 2-4 May 2023. The thematic focus is about how contemporary families deal with digital transformations, with a special focus on digital platforms where different generations operate. The main objective was...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FINNUT-Program for forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren

SUKIP og Kompetanseløftet. Partnerskapssamarbeid mellom UH-sektor, Statped og kommuner om utvikling av kompetanse for inkluderende praksis.

Det arrangeres et fagseminar der erfaringer og innsikt fra prosjektet Samarbeid om utvikling av kompetanse for inkluderende praksis (SUKIP) blir delt og koplet til aktuelle problemstillinger knyttet til igangsatt samarbeid mellom kommuner, UH-sektor og Statped innenfor den nye nasjonale strategie...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2023

Location: Vestland

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Comparing the Organization of Durable Inequalities in Childhood: Inequality in childhoods, schools and associated welfare systems

The main results from the project have been presented in several rounds at participating schools in Trondheim, Norrköping, and Tampere, as well as at two larger university-municipality conferences in 2024 (Tampere) and 2025 (Trondheim). Results from the CODIC-project have also been actively used ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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PULSE - Promoting active school travel to improve mood and performance

Globally, around 80% of adolescent worldwide do not meet the World Health Organizations’ (WHO)r recommended activity level. This is unfortunate as physical activity is positive for both physical and mental health and may also increase cognitive performance. To compensate for the low activity leve...

Awarded: NOK 10.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Be-Prox. An effectiveness study of a bullying intervention in Norwegian kindergartens.

Bullying can destroy lives. Approximately 40,000 children are bullied in Norwegian primary schools yearly. We know that patterns of negative acts and bullying between peers begin to emerge already in early childhood education and care (ECEC). This project examines whether a preventive interventio...

Awarded: NOK 20.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2028

Location: Vestland

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PlatFAMs: Platforming Families – tracing digital transformations in everyday life across generations

How are digital platforms embedded in the lives and practices of modern families? This is studied by involving three-generation families (children, parents, grandparents) in five European countries. Digital platforms have penetrated deeply our everyday life, affecting people’s informal interactio...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Nasjonalt nettverk for lærerstipendiater finansiert av Offentlig sektor-ph.d-ordningen (heretter NATPRONET)

NATPRONET is an innovative community of researchers which intends to develop scholarship, belonging and identity among Ph.D. candidates within the education sector funded through the public sector Ph.D. programme (OFFPHD). NATPRONET aims to contribute to supporting their role in radical change an...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage