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HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the marine aquaculture-human interface, knowledge gaps and possible interventions: A One Health approach

Antimikrobiell resistens (AMR) er et stort folkehelseproblem, og blir noen ganger referert til som «den stille pandemien». Akvakultur representerer en viktig matproduksjonsprosess som i stor grad blir gjennomført i kystmiljøet. I global sammenheng blir det i akvakultur brukt en rekke kjemikalier,...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Vestland

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Unlocking the Nutritional and Environmental Potential of Small Pelagic Fish: A Path Towards Sustainable Food Systems

Det er økende bevissthet om at et mer plantebasert kosthold er gunstig både for menneskers helse og for miljøet. Plantebaserte og kjøttreduserte dietter blir stadig mer populære i mange vestlige land, spesielt blant kvinner og yngre voksne. Samtidig inneholder animalske matvarer flere viktige mik...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Vestland

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

ELTERM: Kombinerte Elektriske og Termiske Mikrogrid

I Norge er det etablert et mål om netto null klimagassutslipp innen 2050. I tillegg har Stortinget vedtatt et mål om at Norge skal være "klimanøytral" innen 2030. For å møte dette målet skal det i dette prosjektet utvikles tekniske systemløsninger som kombinerer elektriske og termiske løsninger i...

Awarded: NOK 16.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Akershus

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Can forests save our planet? 3 Ts enabling net-zero, tomorrow

“Can forests save our planet? 3 Ts enabling net-zero, tomorrow” is a high-impact carbon negative international event scheduled for October 2025 in Oslo. Organized by Trefadder AS, ForestWatch AS, and the Italian Embassy in Oslo, the event aims to explore how forests can serve as scalable, afforda...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Oslo

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Naturkampen - kunnskap og statistikk over tap av særlig viktige naturarealer i nasjonal agenda

Areal ligger i kjernen av utbygging, klimaløsninger, og bevaring av naturmangfold. Prosjektets hovedmål handler om å synliggjøre at noen naturarealer er viktigere enn andre for bevaring av naturmangfold, beskyttelse av karbonlagre og klimatilpasning. Eksempler på dette er myr, eldre skog og områd...

Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Oslo

HELSEFORSKNING-HELSEFORSKNING

ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY CONFERENCE & GEMRIC WORKSHOP

The GEMRIC 2025 Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Conference & Workshop aims to advance international collaboration in ECT research, improve scientific understanding of its mechanisms, and enhance clinical applications. We will conduct an international workshop entitled in Bergen in September 2025,...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Vestland

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Testing models of crevasse squeeze ridge formation on the foreland of Nansenbreen, Svalbard

Svalbard has one of the highest concentrations of surging glaciers in the world. Surging glaciers impact mass balance and are unpredictable. Increasing understanding of these glacier types can provide valuable insights into ice sheets i.e. ice streams, which share similar dynamics to surging glac...

Awarded: NOK 79,999

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Akershus

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Klimafestivalen Varmere Våtere Villere 2025

Klimafestivalen Varmere Våtere Villere springer ut av ønsket om å gjøre klimakunnskap og klimadebatten mer tilgjengelig og engasjerende. Med klimafestivalen vil vi skape en uformell og sosial arena der alt fra studenter, næringslivstopper, politikere og gründere møtes for å dele kunnskap, meninge...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Vestland

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Glacier Lamentations – field recordings 2025

We only protect what we love, and only love what we know. This is why we need to both love and know the glaciers. Our project aims at sharing both the knowledge and the emotions around the demise of glaciers. Human activities have increased greenhouse gases, accelerating glacier melt, which reduc...

Awarded: NOK 67,999

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Oslo

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Avalanche Lidar Early Response and Tracking System

This project aims to test the reliability and efficiency of data transmission from a mobile sensoric unit designed for monitoring environmental conditions in rough terrain. The sensoric unit, equipped with the advanced LiDAR sensor Livox AVIA and other sensors, will be deployed in the extreme con...

Awarded: NOK 63,999

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Drone-based monitoring of spatio-temporal snowpack characteristics in the high Arctic

Rapid climate change, with increasing winter warm spells and rainfall, has already altered Svalbard’s snowpack properties and is expected to further shorten the snow-covered period. Despite the far-reaching implications on the terrestrial ecosystem, critical knowledge gaps remain across disciplin...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

The Seidfjellet Formation: A Window into Miocene Volcanism and Tectonics in NW Spitsbergen (RiS ID 12567)

In the Andrée Land fault block of northwestern Spitsbergen, partly glaciated mountain plateaus reveal remnants of Miocene (i.e., 23.03–5.3 Ma) basaltic lava flows that overlie Devonian sedimentary rocks, collectively referred to as the Seidfjellet Formation. The regional tectonic implication of t...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Geochemistry and geochronology of the High Arctic Large Igneous Province in Nordaust-Svalbard

This field campaign to Nordaust-Svalbard in 2025 will be a vital part of my PhD project. The aim of my PhD is to track the magmatic source of the Early Cretaceous High Arctic Large Igneous Province (HALIP) on Svalbard, temporally and compositionally. Detailed sampling for geochemical and geochron...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Unstable rock slopes on Svalbard

Large rock slope failures are a threat to human life and infrastructure. Two such failures occurred in 2016 and 2022 on Forkastningsfjellet, Svalbard, and changes in the geomorphology hint towards future failures. Despite these incidents, the role of permafrost on the instabilities remains unknow...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Oslo

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

3D Ice Penetrating Radar (IPR) Grid Survey for Characterization of Basal Conditions below Kongsvegen

The research on subglacial processes is essential for improving sea-level rise projections due to the uncertainties caused by incomplete understanding of these processes, as noted by the IPCC SROCC. Current sliding laws struggle to explain rapid ice flow changes. The Kongsvegen Glacier in Svalbar...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Oslo

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Pollution Pathways: Understanding Birds’ impact on Contaminant Spread in Arctic Ecosystems

The main goal for this project is therefore particularly to study the hypothesis that birds might play an important role in transport of pollutants at a local scale in Arctic area, and to bring new knowledge to the research field concerning transport mechanisms involved in cycling and fate of pol...

Awarded: NOK 80,999

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

The Effect of Belowground Biota and Soil Properties on Active Layer Depth

Soil ecosystems within the active layer may play a critical role in stabilizing permafrost in the High Arctic, yet its influence remains poorly understood. As climate change accelerates permafrost thaw, the stability of permafrost is increasingly influenced by biological drivers, including roots,...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Early-life Habitat Conditions, Telomere Dynamics and Later-life Performance in an Arctic-breeding Seabird

Adverse conditions experienced in early life (developmental and immature stage) can impose long-lasting negative effects on individuals’ survival and reproduction and thus drive population dynamics. To predict the populational consequences, it is important to find the mediator that carries the ef...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Architecture and tectonostratigraphic development of the Late Carboniferous paleokarst systems, Billefjorden Trough, Svalbard

The extensive paleokarst systems within the Billefjorden Trough are preserved as horizontal stratiform breccias and vertical breccia pipes developed along uplifted fault blocks. The carbonate breccias occur in the late syn-rift and early post-rift deposits, particularly within the Minkinfjellet F...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Life on the Edge: Unraveling Arctic Microbial Transformations from Winter to Summer

The enormous diversity of prokaryotes and protists plays crucial roles in marine ecosystems through unique metabolisms. However, how this diversity interacts with and is impacted by global warming in the Arctic Ocean remains largely unknown. This gap is particularly evident in Kongsfjorden, where...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Seasonality of Mercury in Kongsfjorden Zooplankton

This project explores the seasonal dynamics of mercury (Hg) sourcing in the Kongsfjorden food web, Svalbard, focusing on how Hg sources and transformations change with the polar light cycle. Collecting zooplankton samples across an entire year, we will study how photochemical processes and biolog...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Constraining the Greenhouse gas emission potential of High-Arctic Peatlands in a Changing Climate

High Arctic peatlands are important components of the terrestrial carbon cycle. Studies have indicated that Svalbard peatlands are currently significant carbon sinks, but the dynamics of their carbon cycle can change over time due to factors such as permafrost thawing or peatland drying. This mak...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Oslo

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Tracking Toxicants: Unveiling the Biogeochemical Fate of Toxic Metals and Organic Matter in Arctic Snow

This project deals with studying metals of environmental concern (like lead, cadmium, mercury, zinc, copper etc.) and natural organic matter (OM) present in snow samples from coastal areas in the Arctic region. The main objective is to increase the understanding of the properties and the role of ...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

ROV Mapping of Marine Terminating Glacier Fronts

The Arctic is transforming rapidly as glaciers melt and surge into the ocean, carrying with them historical records preserved in ice. While aerial surveys have provided insights from above, the submerged portions of marine-terminating glaciers remain largely uncharted. This project will address t...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

The impact of the viscous-elastic properties on the long-term bearing capacity of sea ice

The study will progress through the following phases: literature review, cold lab experiments, small-scale model testing, and full-scale field testing. The literature review will examine the mechanical and thermal properties of sea ice, establishing a foundation for the experimental phases. Labo...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

AI-driven sensor placement for arctic weather forecasting

Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing weather forecasting, outperforming traditional methods in various areas. However, AI-based weather prediction remains underexplored in the Arctic, a region where conventional forecasting often performs poorly. This project aims to improve Arctic wea...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

INSULATE: Bryophyte controls on permafrost thaw (RiS ID 12331)

Due to an enormous increase in anthropogenic emissions over the last decades the Earth's climate is changing. With an amplified effect in the arctic regions the landscape is rapidly degrading. Where the poles are known for the permafrost and ice cover, the increased global air - and sea temperatu...

Awarded: NOK 88,999

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Svalbard

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Aquatic and Riparian Ecosystems: Biodiversity and Economic Service Transformations from NbS (ARE BEST NbS)

Biologisk mangfold er avgjørende for sunne økosystemer og menneskelig velferd. Å integrere individuelle og kollektive verdier for biologisk mangfold i planer for forvaltning av akvatiske og ripariske habitater, som elver, flomområder og våtmarker, er utfordrende. Dette skyldes begrenset forståels...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Rogaland

HELSEFORSKNING-HELSEFORSKNING

Targeting Transcription Factor Dynamics for Personalized Therapy in Ovarian Cancer

High-grade serous carcinoma (HGSC) is the most common ovarian cancer subtype. Majority of the HGSC patients experience disease recurrence and treatment resistance, leading to a poor five-year survival of <40%. We and others have shown that there are surprisingly few genomic events that drive poor...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Participatory pathways for resilient, healthy, prosperous, and equitable food and land systems under climate change

Matsystemet og arealbruk påvirkes av global oppvarming, men bidrar også til oppvarming og økosystemutfordringer. Klimakonsekvensene er allerede merkbare, og stadig mer alvorlige med fortsatt oppvarming. Konsekvensene inkluderer utfordringer for matproduksjon, økosystemfunksjon, menneske- og dyre ...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo

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