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Crime in Latin America: The role of family, employment, culture and the state

Crime in Latin American has risen sharply the last two decades. This is related to the growth of US drug markets, brutalization of drug trafficking, the increasingly important role of gangs, poverty, diminishing trust in governments, and weakness or failure of states. By developing a culturally s...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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The law of the land. A legal study of land concentration, violence and racism in the Andes

The «Law of the Land» studies how the constitutional legal orders of Andean States (Peru, Colombia and Chile) have legally created and sustained a political economy of agrarian extractivism grounded on land concentration with consequences such as displacement, coercive inclusion, exploitation and...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Exploring the transformation potential of haematopoietic stem cells under niche pressure, and its therapeutic targeting.

Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) is a deadly disease characterised by aberrant myeloid lineage proliferation and differentiation. Our previous work has shown that IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1RN), contributes to myeloproliferation in health and in presence of known malignant mutations in mouse mode...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Next Generation 3D Machine Vision with Embedded Visual Computing

This project had the goal to initiate an automated process deploying high-precision 3D sensing and online (embedded) visual learning engines that operate in natural environments and able to adapt in a holistic lifetime manner to changes during operations. It targets establishing a groundbreaking ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Agder

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Histories of Animals, Technological infrastructure, and making more-than-human Homes in the modern age

How do animals use the things that people build, and how do people react to animals making their homes near ours? The project ‘Histories of animals, technological infrastructure, and making more-than-human homes in the modern age’ (AtHome) examines animals as users of human-made things, from bir...

Awarded: NOK 12.4 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Rogaland

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Thickness of Arctic sea ice Reconstructed by Data assimilation and artificial Intelligence Seamlessly

Satellites have been measuring the extent of the whole Arctic sea ice since the late 70’s. But only since 2010 are they also able to measure its thickness and thus monitor the decline of its total volume. This information would have been invaluable for climate studies had these new satellites bee...

Awarded: NOK 11.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

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Pandemic Entanglements: The Political Ecology of Industrial Meat Production in the “Pandemic Era”

The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has recently declared that we are living in a “Pandemic Era” in which the number of diseases transmitted among animal species including humans, and the speed at which these transmissions emerge, is increa...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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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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Learning from Mistakes: A Longitudinal Neuroimaging-Cohort-Registry Study

Adolescence, the transitional period between childhood and adulthood, involves extensive developmental changes in the body, behavior, cognitive functions, and the brain. A key characteristic of this prolonged neurocognitive development is the maturation of self-regulation functions and underlying...

Awarded: NOK 12.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Platformization of music production: Developer and user perspectives on transformations of production technology in the online environment

The PLATFORM project works toward a richer understanding of how music production evolves in the digital and online environment in terms of the ways in which production technology is developed, used, and brought to bear on creative roles and modes. The project mobilizes multiple perspectives upon ...

Awarded: NOK 12.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Relativistic Multiresolution Chemistry: Heavy-Element Compounds at the Complete Basis-set Limit

Chemical compounds that make up everything we know are all build from the approximately hundred elements in the periodic table. It is fascinating to think that the variety of materials, objects, life forms, from the most minute crystals to the largest planets are all made of the same building blo...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2028

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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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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Biomimetic Proteolipid Multilayers – Structure and Properties

In order to fully understand biological phenomena, one must obtain detailed information on the structure and function of biomolecules. Proteins are large molecules that can also be considered to be biological nanoparticles. This project focuses on specific biological structures: molecular multila...

Awarded: NOK 13.6 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

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Hepatic 3D spheroids: the next generation of testing in toxicology (SPHERTOX)

For years, the development of alternatives to animal testing has centered around the principles of the 3Rs—Refinement, Reduction, and Replacement—to improve the efficiency of chemical safety evaluations, respond to ethical concerns, and lower experimental costs. Recently, regulatory frameworks ha...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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The role of smooth muscle derived factors in colorectal cancer metastasis

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is currently the second leading cause of death by cancer worldwide. In Norway, it is the most common cancer, affecting about 7% of the population. Early detection and optimized surgery have helped increase the survival of CRC patients, however, once metastasis (i.e. when c...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Viking Nativity: Gjellestad Across Borders

The discovery of the Gjellestad Viking ship in the autumn of 2018 marked the beginning of this research project. The find was made by the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU), following a geophysical survey initiated by Østfold County Council in response to a landowner’s plan...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Intra-household resource allocation and targeted transfers

Many welfare programs in both low- and high-income countries transfer resources to women in the household rather than to men. A well-known example is the Norwegian child benefit, which is automatically paid to the child’s mother regardless of either parent’s participation in the labor market or t...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

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Heterostructure optimization and novel epitaxy yielding chalcogenide-oxide magnetic bilayers

he HONEYCOMB project aims to make new nano materials for the next-generation electronics. But why are honeycombs important for electronics? Honeycomb refers to the characteristic hexagonal pattern bees make of vax to store honey in. This pattern we can find in many materials, amongst them Van-der...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Is the Earth’s core the hidden reservoir of noble gases?

What makes the noble gases special from any other group of chemical elements is that they are chemically inert – they do not form any chemical bonds or only very weak bonds with other atoms. Consequently, in the deep Earth they are trapped between the atoms forming the crystal structures of vario...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Exploring T cell – B cell collaboration resulting in autoimmunity

Autoimmune diseases occur when the body’s immune system starts attacking its own, healthy cells. Both genes and factors in the environment, which are often unknown, are involved in development of autoimmune diseases. In particular, so called MHC class II genes appear to be important. How these MH...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Rights Activism under Political Uncertainty (RightAct)

The RightAct project explores how human rights activists in Africa adapt their strategies in response to political uncertainty and shrinking civic space. Focusing on Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe (the main case), and drawing comparative insights from countries such as Sudan, Kenya, a...

Awarded: NOK 11.6 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

EUI - Please mind the gender gap: A study of the women and men’s different attitudes toward green ideology

Previse research has found that women tend to be more environmentally oriented and worry more about climate change compared to men. Women are also engaging more in eco and climate-friendly behaviour and have a smaller carbon footprint. Additionally, political scientists find that women are overre...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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EUI - Diasporic formations in motion: (re)mobilising transnational communities, the case of Chile.

The impact of migration on host communities has received much attention in research on political behaviours following the 2015 refugee crisis. However, much of this research has focused on inward-looking effects—such as changes in attitudes towards minority groups and electoral behaviour more gen...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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EUI - Navigating the Atlantic Crossing: A study of the role US influence played in Scandinavian social democratic politics, 1948-68

Social democracy is at the core of Norwegian political identity. Every political party identifies with it in, one way or another. And yet, the history of Norwegian social democracy is defined by two unsolved problems: What kind of regime was postwar social democracy? How unique was this regime in...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

General theory of pro-environmental behavior spillover

Widespread adoption of a sustainable behavioral pattern encompassing many different areas of consumption and daily life (e.g., food, transportation, and energy use) is crucial for addressing pressing environmental challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, resource depletion, and pollutio...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium quantum phenomena in superconducting hybrids with antiferromagnets and topological insulators

The popular science description of this project is largely unchanged from what has been stated earlier. In 2024, we have so far published 10 articles with support from the project, all of them in the world's leading journals in condensed media physics. In total, no less than 24 articles have bee...

Awarded: NOK 8.6 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Realistic Cryptography for Large-scale Applications

Our societies are increasingly exposed to disruptive changes caused by application of a broad array of digital technologies. This transformation opens a wealth of opportunities, but it also exposes us to several challenges. Large-scale, real-world applications (such as Ubiquitous Computing, Big D...

Awarded: NOK 8.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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New Signs of Antiquity: The Uses of Latin in the Public Culture of Italian Fascism, 1922-1943

This project explored the role and functions of the Latin language in the political material culture of Italian Fascism (1922-1943). “Rome is our starting point and our point of reference,” Benito Mussolini declared in 1922: “it is our symbol or, if you wish, our myth”. Signs and symbols of Rom...

Awarded: NOK 8.5 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Dressed in Stone. Interpreting hunter-gatherer rock art of South Africa through the bodily practice of dress.

The San hunter-gatherers of South Africa, are well known as makers of the beautiful rock art still found in various regions of the country. Although sophisticated artists, the historical San have often been portrayed as poor and, for some reason, naked people. 'Dressed in stone' aims to reunite ...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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