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How did the Antibiotic Pipeline run Dry? People, Infrastructures and Politics of Antibiotic Drug Development 1970-2010

For decades after 1945, antibiotics were a powerful symbol of medical technology and progress. But why are there no new antibiotics anymore? Our project asks how the antibiotic drug pipeline ran dry and it starts from a few hypotheses: In the 1980s, disenchantment with costly screening programs, ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

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Co-tester: Collective-Adaptive Testing of Coevolving Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems of Systems under Uncertainty

Nowadays, approaches for developing, operating, and evolving Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) to realize and optimize complex processes have started to change radically, mainly due to the use of advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. CPSs developed with such tech...

Awarded: NOK 12.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Oslo

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Lost in transition? Uncovering social and health consequences of sub-optimal transitions in the education system

More often than in previous generations, individuals with low education tend to participate less than their peers in social institutions. They are less likely to enter a partnership and have children, participate less in labour market activities, and frequently end up with worse physical and ment...

Awarded: NOK 12.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Relics of Nature: An Archaeology of Natural Heritage in the High North

What is natural heritage? And what is a sustainably curated nature? The answers to these questions appear both obvious and farfetched. Nature, and by extension natural heritage, is mostly defined as something essentially ?natural? and beyond human impact. Yet, the way natural heritage features i...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

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Moral Beliefs about Violent Political Conflict

The MoViCon project investigates the relationship between moral judgments, moral norms, and political violence, with a particular focus on people’s attitudes. The goal is to develop a theory of moral norms related to different forms of organized violence, such as interstate war and armed conflict...

Awarded: NOK 12.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Oslo

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Cultures in conflict? How islamists cope with football

This study seeks to include, but move beyond what we call the "political barometer paradigm" that has dominated studies on football in the Middle East with a focus on the role of football as a provider of one of few arenas where youth gather, taboos are broken and protests erupt. What has not bee...

Awarded: NOK 10.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Buskerud

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

A holistic approach to an old problem: deciphering complex host-microbiome-pathogen relationships in bovine mastitis (HoliCow)

Bovine mastitis is an inflammatory disease of the udder, with important consequences for animal welfare and milk production. It is the most common reason for antibiotic treatment of Norwegian dairy cattle. Despite it being the greatest cause of food and economic losses in the dairy industry at a ...

Awarded: NOK 8.7 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Akershus

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Emic Sovereignties and Global Intersections: Governance Beyond the State in Iraqi and Syrian Kurdistan

In large parts Iraq and Syria, the central state is no longer a key force in governing people's everyday lives. But this does not mean that there is no order or any system to how people govern themselves. This is what the project investigated: How do we conceive of governance and sovereignty beyo...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Vestland

FRIPRO-Fri prosjektstøtte

Linear and Non-linear Response Properties and Spectroscopy of Solids from Relativistic TDDFT

ProSpectS was a project aimed at the development of relativistic computational methods for the prediction of optical properties of solids. I pursued the project at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg, Germany, for the outgoing phase lasting two year...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Topographic control in the Arctic Ocean

The large-scale ocean circulation in the Arctic is much less understood than the circulation in the other world oceans. What we know about currents in the Arctic is that they behave differently than currents do in e.g. the Atlantic Ocean. The reason for this is partially the proximity to Earth's ...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

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Gathering evidence for evidence-based health technology to support communication in homebased pediatric palliative care – CHIP homeTec

Some children in Norway live with life-limiting and/or life-threatening diseases and require palliative care. Palliative care for children is about providing support to the child and the family in their daily life to enhance their quality of life. Some may require palliative care over an extended...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

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Neurophysiological Mechanisms of Human Auditory Predictions: From population- to single neuron recordings.

The ability to predict upcoming events is a core feature of human cognition. Even though predictions are widespread, we do not fully understand how they are computed in the brain. What are predictive processes, and why are they important to study? In a broad sense, predictive processes incorpora...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Ad hoc crisis response and international organisations

International organisations (IOs) are created with the aim of solving collective action problems when a crisis arises. Yet, member states have repeatedly established ad hoc crisis responses in situations where IOs might be expected to play a central role. ADHOCISM asks what is the impact of ad ho...

Awarded: NOK 12.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Understanding Temporal aerosol Radiative forcing - Implications for Climate Sensitivity and future warming (UTRICS)

Global temperatures are rising due to accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In addition to increasing greenhouse gas emissions, human activity has also changed the composition of particles in the atmosphere. These aerosols have masked some of the warming caused by greenhouse gases. ...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2028

Location: Oslo

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Immune-driven regeneration: harnessing regulatory T cells to enhance the efficacy of mesenchymal stem cell-based bone regeneration

Millions of people visit hospitals worldwide annually to receive bone grafts to treat bone diseases and defects. This raises a huge burden on any society. The discovery of stem cells, which are special cells from which all other functional cells are produced, has been a revolution in the bone reg...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Defining the Impact of Microplastics on Soil Resilience

Soils are an essential component in the global ecosystem: good soil health underpins global food security, they are the largest reservoir of biodiversity on the planet, and they represent an important carbon store. Global soil degradation is well-understood to be a major environmental and societa...

Awarded: NOK 7.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

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Simulating Ice Cores and Englacial Tracers in the Greenland Ice Sheet

Medium to long-term sea level projections depend to a large degree on ice sheet modeling. In spite of great advances in this field, progress is slowed by two major challenges: 1) The lack of a model evaluation framework that includes the ice sheet interior, and 2) uncertainties related to the cli...

Awarded: NOK 13.5 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

The evolutionary causes and consequences of human-commensalism in Eurasian Passer sparrows

Human activity often has negative consequences for living organisms. However, some species have adapted to habitats affected by humans and have taken advantage of niches opened up by human activity. The house sparrow (Passer domesticus) is a successful species that has adapted to human environmen...

Awarded: NOK 11.5 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

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

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Sustainable ruminant production: Feed, microbiome and immune efficiency in low and high methane emitting dairy cows

The ViableCow project will provide potential solutions for more sustainable ruminant production. What is needed to make cattle and sheep farming more sustainable? The digital revolution and sustainability requirements are changing the way livestock farming is organized. The ViableCow project wil...

Awarded: NOK 12.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Akershus

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Elite Political Dynamics in Electoral Autocracies

In ELITE, we study political elites in authoritarian competitive regimes. We aim to examine how they make strategic decisions to advance their own careers and what the consequences of these decisions are for the political system as a whole and for society at large. The project is divided into thr...

Awarded: NOK 10.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

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IMPECT - Linguistic Integration of Adult Migrants with Poor Education and the Consequences of Migration Tests

Since the turn of the millennium, a number of European countries have introduced language and knowledge of society requirements for citizenship. In 2017, Norway followed the lead of other countries by introducing a requirement to pass an oral language test, as well as a knowledge of society test ...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

From Empiricism via Fundamentals to Improved Performance of Proton Ceramic Electrochemical Cells

Proton ceramic electrochemical cells (PCECs) represent an emerging technology for cost-effective electrochemical energy conversion, including stationary energy storage, power generation, and the production of renewable chemicals and fuels. Recent developments have resulted in significant improvem...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Political Transformation in African Cities (PACE)

In 2017, the popular Ugandan musician Bobi Wine swept into office in his country?s national elections, stunning the political establishment - and eventually challenging President Museveni in the 2021 national elections. Riding a wave of support from young, poor constituents in Ugandas capital Kam...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

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In-situ correlated nanoscale imaging of magnetic fields in functional materials

Functional materials are the bedrock of modern society. These are materials where the properties, such as magnetic and electric fields, can be changed with external stimuli. This is essential for all devices within information and communication technology, like smartphones and computers. To impro...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Bodies in Translation: Science, Knowledge and Sustainability in Cultural Translation

This is a cross-disciplinary inquiry of translation as a cultural practice. We often tend to view translation in entirely discursive terms; that is, as the carrying over and rendering of one language into another. In the history and theory of science and cross-cultural inquiry, however, questions...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Early-life eco-evolutionary dynamics of variable seasonal migration

Human-induced climate change and habitat alterations are radically altering the natural environments to which wild populations are currently adapted. Critical aims in ecology and evolutionary biology are therefore to understand how wild populations will respond to such changes by altering their b...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

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

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Indefinite preventive detention: The implementation and impact of the ULTimate PENalty in Norway

The aim of the ULTPEN project was to study Norway’s sanction of indefinite preventive detention and to understand its development, use, and impact over the first 20 years since it was introduced in 2002. Indefinite preventive detention is the most severe penalty in Norwegian law. It can be impose...

Awarded: NOK 8.7 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

When will citizens defend democracy?

Over the past decade, democracies around the world have come under serious attack. Countries such as Hungary, Russia, India, Turkey, the USA, Burundi, and Venezuela have recently moved in a more authoritarian direction, through restrictions on, among other things, civil rights, press freedom, fre...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Oslo

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