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Causes, consequences, and life-course trajectories of personality pathology - a longitudinal extended children-of-twins study

Personality disorders affect the way a person thinks, feels, and acts, and can be destructive in many areas of life. They may manifest as extreme mistrust, intense mood swings, impulsive behavior, or paralyzing perfectionism. Such disorders affect not only the individual but also families and clo...

Awarded: NOK 12.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Middle Atlantic Ridge Study with Three-Dimensional Magnetotelluric novel Techniques

Investigating Earth’s interior is crucial for the understanding of the planet and how it operates. However, Earth’s deep structures are still elusive. Magnetotellurics (MT), as a geophysical method, records Earth’s natural electromagnetic fields to study the electrical resistivity of the Earth’...

Awarded: NOK 7.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Viking beacons - Militarism in northern Europe

Vikings are often associated with attacks, aggression and the spread of fear in Europe. So far, little attention has been paid to the material remains of the Vikings' own fears and preparedness, expressed through an extensive warning system; beacons at high positions in the landscape. These were ...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Rogaland

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Sex determination in a heterochiasmy setting - functional studies in Atlantic halibut and European plaice

In contrast to the highly conserved mammalian and avian sex determination systems, fish species generally display much more variation in both sex chromosomes and sex determination mechanisms. We have shown that Atlantic halibut recently acquired a new genetic sex determining system, due to a tran...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

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Large Offshore Wind Turbines (LOWT):structural design accounting for non-neutral wind conditions

Floating offshore wind is a technology that promises to unlock a huge potential in deeper waters. However, it is more than a simple extension of the current offshore wind industry, constituting a new technology on its own right. Despite the many advances already made - and where Norway is driving...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Rogaland

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Advancing Causal Modeling with Coincidence Analysis

Many causal structures have one or both of the following features: (i) causes are arranged in complex bundles that only become operative when all of their components are properly co-instantiated, each of which in isolation is ineffective or leads to different outcomes, and (ii) outcomes can be br...

Awarded: NOK 12.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

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FJO2RD: The effect of climate change on the deep water renewal frequency of Norwegian fjords

The fjords of western Norway are breathtakingly beautiful – but ever so often, the media reports on the situation beneath the glittering fjord surface, and the image they share from the fjord depths is less pretty. Under the combined pressure of anthropogenic activity and climate change, many of ...

Awarded: NOK 12.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

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Air Quality Monitoring Exploiting Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Antennas

Air pollution is a major global health crisis, responsible for an estimated 7 million deaths annually and severely impacting the health of millions more. Every minute, a child dies from an illness linked to air pollution, and ten adults lose their lives due to prolonged exposure to polluted air. ...

Awarded: NOK 12.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Innlandet

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Targeting lung cancer cells by selective translation of mRNA therapeutics

Many of the cellular functions are carried out by proteins. mRNA therapeutics are man-made molecules which - when introduced into cells - act as a blueprint to make these proteins. Virtually any protein of choice can be made using this technique, but the current methods to predesignate which cell...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Epitranscriptomic regulation and genome stability in meiosis and the preimplantation embryo

One of the most profound changes in the life of an organism is the remarkable reprogramming of mRNA transcripts during meiosis and in the early preimplantation embryo. mRNA is a messenger molecule between the gene located on the DNA molecule (chromosome) and the protein to be synthesized. The rel...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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AMBIENT: Bodily Entrainment to Audiovisual Rhythms

The AMBIENT project explores how environmental rhythms—such as the ticking of a clock (auditory) or the blinking of a light (visual)—influence human bodily behavior. These rhythms can combine to form complex audiovisual patterns within everyday environments. Our central hypothesis is that such rh...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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New concepts of protein regulation in health and disease

All aspects of the life of a human cell are controlled by proteins. Proteins can be modified by different chemical groups functioning as tags controlling protein function. One particular chemical group, acetyl, is coupled to nearly every single protein in our cells. Our research group at UiB has ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

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Investigating Contested Theories on Extreme-Right Terrorism

This project investigates how political violence is shaped by shifting political climates. Donald Trump’s performance as President of the United States gave momentum to two of the most contested theories on the causes of extreme-right terrorism and violence: representation and repression. Represe...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Understanding Oil Producers Responses to the Renewable Energy Transition (OPRET)

The OPRET project analyses how major oil producers are affected by, adapting to and preparing for the global energy transition from fossil fuels to clean energy. The project has produced 9 papers so far. Some findings: -- Petrostates may be willing and able to diversify as the global shift towar...

Awarded: NOK 11.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Perceiving voice and speaker - how we experience each other when communicating and what it does to us

How do we experience each other in spoken linguistic communication and what does it do to our social interactions? When listening to a speaker, we can come to understand what they say by perceiving the speech sounds they utter. But we also hear the speaker’s voice. Voice is an auditory face of th...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Innlandet

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Promoting Justice in a Time of Friction: Scandinavian Penal Exports

The Scandinavian states export criminal justice through their foreign policy and international aid on issues ranging from prison and judicial reform to women’s rights. Yet the role of ‘penal exports’ and what it says about Scandinavian penal power, foreign policy, and position(ing) in the interna...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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The pulling power of Paris (PullP): Unpacking the role of ‘pledge & review’ in climate governance

The Paris Agreement provides the inter-governmental framework for coordinating international climate action. It does so through the so-called "pledge and review" system at the heart of the Agreement, whereby states are obliged to commit to a certain level of climate mitigation, adaptation or fina...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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The logic of measuring, managing and governing ecosystems (EcoLogic)

The ‘ecological turn’ is the realization that ecosystems are vital for human life and subsequent public, political and scientific attention towards maintaining ecosystem 'health' at a sustainable level. The shift towards ecosystem-based management represents changes in the key principles – the lo...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Vestland

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Epigenetic mechanisms and cell-type specific gene expression during anoxia and re-oxygenation in crucian carp brain

Crucian carp (Carassius carassius) is a fish that, unlike most other vertebrates, can survive for a long time without oxygen (anoxia). This ability is necessary for the crucian carp to survive in Northern Europe in small ponds, where the oxygen disappears when ice and snow prevent oxygen to enter...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

A Digital Edition and Analysis of the Auraicept na nÉces

Auraicept na nÉces ('The Scholars' Primer') is the richest surviving witness to Carolingian interest in the vernacular. The text is the earliest grammatical description of any European vernacular language. No comparable description of a vernacular is found in any European literature before we get...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Phenotypic Drug Screening to support personalized medicine for colorectal cancer.

Every cancer patient poses a distinctive challenge to physicians. Colorectal cancer is not one but rather a collection of similar diseases of abnormal tissue growth in the colon. Due to the variable underlying disease biology, tumours targeted by a drug may respond well to the treatment in one pe...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Women, Opera and the Public Stage in Eighteenth-Century Venice

What was the place of women in eighteenth-century European operatic culture? What was their role in constructing models for women in the eighteenth century? Did opera, and the opportunities for autonomy and social mobility, advance the process of women’s emancipation? The interdisciplinary proje...

Awarded: NOK 11.6 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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DYPOLE: Dynamics of polar confined basins - The Eurasia Basin from breakup in greenhouse to present in icehouse conditions

Through the DYPOLE project, we increase the understanding of the complex interplay between geological processes that have formed the continental margin north of Svalbard/Barents Sea and adjacent areas of the Arctic Ocean. Key questions include: (1) How did the continent split up between the Lomon...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Targeting Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor for Breast Cancer Treatment and Improved Immunotherapy

Breast cancers, like many other cancers, develop through a complex set of events, including DNA mutations and changes in the way the immune system fights cancer. The immune system plays an important role in protecting us from cancer, but these protective mechanisms are lost when tumours are forme...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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HYDROMORE – HYDROdynamic Mooring analysis for Ocean Renewable Energy

HYDROMORE seeks to establish new best-practice approaches for designing future mooring systems used in floating ocean renewable energy devices. This will ultimately enable the design of leaner and safer mooring solutions and reduce the cost of energy from these technologies. In line with the Pari...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Vestland

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Narrative Hierarchies: Minor Characters in Byzantine and Medieval History Writing

In medieval histories produced within and about the Byzantine (or Eastern Roman) Empire, emperors and other elite Byzantine/Roman men invariably occupy more prominent roles than labourers, eunuchs, slaves, soldiers, foreigners, and women of all social classes. The unevenness with which attention,...

Awarded: NOK 8.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Prediction of ignition and spread of wildfires in Scandinavia: from experiments to models

Global warming is giving rise to increasing temperatures, less rain, and longer periods with dry weather conditions. Such periods increase the risk of wildfires - large, destructive fires that spread quickly across woodland or brush. These fires now occur in regions where they were previously rar...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

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Dovdna: An Inquiry into Lullabies and Sámi Children’s Yoiks

This project tackles the diversity of lulling practices across cultures, through a comparative work based on the ethnographic literature as well as fieldwork inquiries in Sápmi. Lullabies have an age-old reputation of being a ‘universal’ – or even ‘primordial’ – practice. One first outcome of th...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Quality and Content: understanding the influence of content on subjective and objective image quality assessment

Digital imaging and image processing technologies have changed how we capture, store, transmit, receive, visualize and use images. Advances in technology has encouraged the use of larger volumes of images. A crucial component of any system that processes images is the assessment of the quality. D...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Pack a pill in a PACA: PACA nanomedicines for targeting age-related changes in liver endothelium to prevent age-related diseases

When we age, we have numerous reduced, or even loss of, bodily functions. The liver is no exception - despite being one of the most robust organs in the body, the liver also ages. One such age-affected function is the communication between the blood and the liver's major cells, the hepatocytes. I...

Awarded: NOK 12.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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