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Provenance Projected: Architecture Past and Future in the Era of Circularity

Buildings are unruly and ever-changing entities involving numerous stakeholders. They consist of materials with different life expectancy, their original purpose might be outmoded, and they cannot (and should not) be protected to the same extent as, say, a painting or a prehistorical artefact. Di...

Awarded: NOK 11.7 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Re-gendering diplomacy

International politics is thoroughly gendered, as demonstrated by feminist scholarship over the last three decades. And the “higher” the politics, the stronger the masculinization. Diplomacy is second only to the military in degree of masculinization. This masculinization of diplomacy is paradoxi...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Sounds like Norway: the aural experiences of outdoor life and biodiversity

Imagine stepping off a bus into a national park forest. The trees may have been passing by the bus window for some time – the image of nature is there, but stepping inside the forest brings a feeling of relief and arrival. One reason for this is finally, sounds are also “part of the picture.” Nat...

Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Persistence or change? Lessons from the introduction of enhetsskolen in Denmark and Norway

The project will contribute to the global debate about how to overcome today’s societal challenges in terms of educational inequalities and restricted educational systems. We will provide key knowledge regarding the role educational systems played in the development of the oft-envied high levels ...

Awarded: NOK 10.1 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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Å ha rett og å få rett - realisering av barns rett til omsorg

Children are often given rights, without effective means. Inadequate safeguarding of children's rights is a social challenge, both in Norway and globally. One aim of the project is to contribute to better regulatory development relating to children's rights, as there can be a large gap between ch...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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Wicked Waters: Strengthening a Leading Research Environment for Wicked Problems in Green and Sustainable Maritime Governance in the Nordics

Humankind is currently dealing with the most wicked problem: how can we ensure social and economic growth while preserving the environment, mitigating and adapting to the adverse effects of climate change? These changes are affecting our seas and oceans with growing pressure and at an alarming ra...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

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Arbeidsrett og det grønne skiftet

Questions related to sustainability and climate issues are among the biggest challenges of our time. In the process of achieving the climate goals, working life is a key factor. Sustainability in the context of labour law is often understood to mean that both environmental (ecological), social an...

Awarded: NOK 0.89 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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EUI - 1. og 2. halvdel av det 4 år. Governmentality and Governance: Analysing the link between the assertation of power and its rationale

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Awarded: NOK 0.27 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2024

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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The Uncertainty of Forecasting Fatalities in Armed Conflict (UFFAC)

The UFFAC project studies the methodologies of producing forecasts for the number of people killed in organised political violence, with a comprehensive evaluation of the uncertainty such forecasts must have. The project systematically reviews various sources of uncertainty, such as that stemming...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Labour market institutions, technological change and inequality

Technological change has been a key driver of economic growth and prosperity over the past century. It has also played an important role in increasing income inequality by rendering certain jobs and skills redundant in the labour market. To help design policies that both foster firm innovation an...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Healthcare Workers Well-Being and Safety (WeBeSafe): Ensuring a Sustainable Workforce in the Healthcare sector for the 21st Century

There is a global need for more healthcare professionals and a better retention of qualified healthcare personnel. A well-functioning healthcare system with qualified personnel is important to respond to a population's needs and expectations. This has become emphatically clear during the COVID-19...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Tvisteløsning på grunnplanet

During our lives, we are all involved in one or more legal disputes, such as when we disagree with the insurance company on the value of the damaged goods, with the landlord on the appropriate level of increase of the rent, or with the seller of a used item on whether it was in accordance with wh...

Awarded: NOK 0.89 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

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Bærekraftige markeder: Rettslige rammer for innovasjon og konkurranse for bærekraftige markedsresultater

The project Sustainable Markets investigate how the legal framework for markets and innovation can contribute to the realization of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The project is run by the research group MIC (Markets, Innovation, Competition), under the Department of Private Law, Fa...

Awarded: NOK 0.89 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Den internasjonale rettens påvirkning på nasjonal rett

National law is increasingly being influenced by international law, and this raises difficult questions that are unsatisfactorily explored in Norwegian law. How should the content of an international norm be determined when that norm is applied in national law? What is the status of international...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Et fremragende internasjonalt miljø for komparativ rett og rettskulturelle studier (KultKomp)

Acknowledging the crucial role of globalization and internationalization is an important precondition for solving the major societal challenges we face today. Sustainable solutions for the green shift, cybercrime, international conflict management, resource management, and immigration must be dev...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

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The influence of experts on public policy

Across the world, politicians call on experts for advice both during major crises and in everyday policy-making. But to what extent do experts actually influence public policies? Curiously, this question is often neglected in existing research. Yet, how much influence experts have matters for our...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Good Fire: An Environmental History of Prescribed Burning in Norway and the North

Good Fire is an environmental history project about forest fire management. As the forest fires become larger and more intense in the boreal zone, Norway and other countries have started experimenting with "Prescribed Fire" (for example, brush burning, flat burning, or heather burning) to control...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Rogaland

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Made Abroad: Producing Norwegian World Literature in a Time of Rupture, 1900-50

MAP uncovers the paths of Norwegian literature towards a world readership during the first dramatic half of the 20th century. After Ibsen and Bjørnson had opened the global literary market, the road map to international success changed substantially. Authors increasingly depended on literary agen...

Awarded: NOK 12.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Religious and Secular Worldmaking: Narrative Cultures of Utopian Emigration and the Formation of Modern Regimes of Attention

Do religious and secular people experience the world differently? Our research project, NC-RoA, examines this question by focusing on the 19th century, a time when narrative cultures were diverging and a shared reality seemed to be breaking down. This led to the emergence of conceptual binaries -...

Awarded: NOK 10.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Word, Sound and Power: The Lyrical Making of African Diaspora Futures

Word, Sound and Power: The Lyrical Making of African Diaspora Futures examines how writers from the Anglophone African diaspora from 1900 to present have questioned traditional distinctions between music and literature in forward-thinking ways. This is the main research question the project will ...

Awarded: NOK 8.7 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Firm power, worker power, and the structure of labor markets

The power dynamics of the employment relationship are shifting. On the one hand, employers are growing larger and occupy increasing shares of labor markets. On the other hand, employees are organizing labor to a much smaller extent and unions are covering different types of workers. These changes...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

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UMG: Understanding Masculinities in Gaming

Videogames and gaming have traditionally been seen as a boys’ domain, a situation that is slowly changing as videogames have become a mainstream medium with a large and diverse player base. At the same time, game culture remains a contested space in which gender is taking a central role. Previo...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2029

Location: Vestland

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Machine Learning about the Economy: Labor, Macro and IO

The world is moving towards a data economy: data becomes a significant and important contributor to the creation of economic value added. Owners of data have the potential to make large profits, gain influence in society and contribute to a good life in a digital economy. The step into the data...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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DjembeDance - Multimodal rhythm in music and dance from West Africa

Musical rhythm is often considered a sounding phenomenon experienced through auditory perception and cognition. However, everyday experiences and scientific research indicate that people also see and feel the music and its rhythm while they hear it. Yet little is known about how this multimodal q...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Research group on Supervision and Enforcement of EU/EEA Economic Regulation (SupER)

The EU produces large amounts of regulation on the exercise of economic activities – e.g., banking, investment services and energy markets. The EU’s legislative bodies have for several such activities supplanted the member states’ national legislatures as the force driving regulatory developments...

Awarded: NOK 0.89 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Global Network for the Investigation and Prosecution of Crimes against Ecosystems-the use of new technologies in international crime control

Both in peacetime and during armed conflict, environmental crimes in combination with large-scale corruption have a hugely destructive impact on ecosystems and the climate and undermine the rights of communities, local populations, and indigenous peoples. Establishing criminal responsibility for ...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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Skattelegging i en digital og global økonomi

Tax law is fundamental to the regulation of modern societies. The Norwegian State is entirely dependent on the payment of different taxes to finance its ongoing activities, including the comprehensive Norwegian Welfare System. Tax rules are also used to counter economic inequality between individ...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

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En grønnere markedsrett

The challenge of climate change and the need for a green transition are among the most pressing issues facing society today. To make progress, market actors must be incentivised to take green initiatives and participate in more sustainable practices, such as the production of renewable energy and...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

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Future Arctic Law and Governance

The Future Arctic Law and Governance (FALG) project aims to develop and operate a strong international network to promote research and collaboration related to the future legal management and governance of the sea areas in the Arctic. Changes in the Arctic are happening fast and are unpredictab...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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Private knowledge, public issues: Digitalization and private economies of knowledge in criminal justice

Criminal justice agencies, in Norway as in most European countries, have in recent years undergone an intense process of digitalization as well as restructuring and reform. Digital technologies, often promoted by management- and IT-consultancies, are redefining the meaning of knowledge and expert...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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