55 projects

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IMMERSE - Immersed in the museum experience: Underlying mechanisms and the influence of the social experiencescape

What happens when you lose track of time in a museum? When you become so absorbed in a story, a room, or an encounter with an object that you no longer feel like just a visitor? This feeling of being completely immersed lies at the heart of the IMMERSE project. Museums around the world seek to cr...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Rogaland

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Struggling Women and Men: Political-Democratic Gender Gaps in a High-Trust Welfare State

Political-democratic differences between women and men are emerging as a societal challenge in Western societies. Which life experiences and grievances—among women and men—generate these differences? How do experiences and grievances affect institutional trust, democratic involvement, and welfare...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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GREEN BLOOD: Undressing hierarchies to reduce pressure on land through Forest Finn perspectives

Clothes and shoes shape the ways we experience and move in the world, how we relate to others and even how we think and act – including about the natural world. These are Green Blood’s main starting points as it seeks to explore how to reduce the pressure that modern ways of living place on natur...

Awarded: NOK 10.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Women among the Hansa in Bergen

Women among the Hansa in Bergen is a pioneering research project investigating the role of women in the lives and trade of members of the Hanseatic community in Bergen from the Middle Ages until the eighteenth century. The project aims to achieve a comprehensive and more nuanced understanding of ...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

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Into the Fjords: Blue Museums as Arenas of Learning about Vulnerable Ecosystems

The project’s overarching aim is to equip museums with research-based knowledge to function as arenas of learning about vulnerable ecosystems in general and development of ocean literacy in particular. We define “blue” as the approach of seeing the world from an ocean-centred instead of terrestri...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Rogaland

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Welfare under scrutiny: Precarious life in contemporary Norwegian literature

Contemporary Norwegian literature contains many depictions of people in precarious situations. We can read about mothers without social networks, young adults in temporary jobs, teenagers on the verge of becoming criminals, and children with ill parents. Portrayals of vulnerable and marginalized ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

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The Nature of Museums: On the Interweaving of Nature and Culture in Museums

The distinction between nature and culture has been a predominant trait of modern Western thought. This sharp divide is also articulated in many scientific disciplines, knowledge practices and institutions such as the museum. In the museum sector the distinction between museums of natural history...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

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The powers of visual representations in shaping and mediating land-use conflicts in Norway (VISUALS)

VISUALS investigates how visual representations, such as images, photos, maps, media reports, and artworks, influence conflicts related to land-use and management of natural resources in Norway. If municipalities continue to favour roads, cabin villages, wind power development, and green industri...

Awarded: NOK 10.5 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

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Explosive legacy: Examining, preserving and communicating the contested industrial heritage of ammunition production in Raufoss

How should a society relate to an industry that manufactures weapons – products made for war? This is the starting point for the EXLEGACY research project, a collaboration between NTNU, Mjøsmuseet and Vestre Toten municipality. Raufoss has long been a centre for the Norwegian arms industry, and ...

Awarded: NOK 5.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

Explainability requirements for AI used in legal decision-making

The purpose of the research project LEXplain is to investigate the possibilities and limitations of using artificial intelligence to make legal decisions in public administration. The latest artificial intelligence technologies are based on large language models built through machine learning. T...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Vestland

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Digitizing sexual violence: The role of technology in creating and regulating sexual harms

New technologies have changed the way we communicate and produce and relate to images. Smartphones with cameras and easy access to the internet, games, and social media have transformed social spaces, relationships, and norms of (in)appropriate and (il)legal conduct. This development has reshaped...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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The Impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Political Knowledge, Opinion Formation, and Democracy

Generative AI (GenAI) is transforming society in exciting yet potentially worrying ways. One fear is that AI could increase societal divisions by creating misinformation, deepening polarization, and eroding trust. The KnowAI project aims to tackle these challenges head-on by exploring how GenAI a...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

Artificial Intelligence in Real Life: Human-LLM Communication

Large Language Models (LLM) are becoming ubiquitous. New applications are introduced every week, the great majority of which rely on untested assumptions about human-LLM interaction. This project aims to explore how people actually interact with LLMs. Do we interpret the 'utterances’ of LLMs the ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Citizen perceptions of AI in everyday media life (IMAGINE)

What do people think about artificial intelligence? IMAGINE examines perceptions of AI in the Norwegian population, as new technologies become part of everyday media experiences. The goal of the project is to understand what AI means to people in everyday life. Instead of studying technical or ...

Awarded: NOK 11.5 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Vestland

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Transformative Technologies, Creativity, and Value Creation in the Cultural Sector

During the past 30 years, the culture sector has undergone a digital revolution, and the sector is again experiencing a wave of structural change in response to new technologies such as generative artificial intelligence and virtual innovations. We call these technologies transformative because t...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Enabling land use justice

Land use change is considered necessary for human welfare and the achievement of several of the Sustainable Development Goals. But land use change is also the main cause of the nature crisis, in addition to being a major contributor to the climate crisis. Furthermore, land use change often result...

Awarded: NOK 11.6 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Vestland

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Petitions and Petitioning in the Nascent Democracy. Norway in the long 19th Century

Petitions are a central element of people´s political participation in modern democracies. Nevertheless, we know little about the modern history of petitions and petitioning in Norway. This project will investigate how different population groups contributed to the development of a participation-...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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APPROPRIATING THE COMMONS: ARTICULATING THE CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION OF WELFARE AND CHARITY

Social inequality is growing in Norway, and we are currently witnessing a change in how voluntary organizations emerge, develop and distribute their work. ACTWEL’s point of departure is a hypothesis that the observed transformation entails a new emphasis on charity, which may entail more profound...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

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Polarisation, Affect, Identity: Nordic Populism and the Media Landscape

This project examines populism in the Nordic countries and its implications for democratic politics. Populism notoriously divides societies along cultural, social, and political lines through the construction and mobilisation of identities. By appealing to emotions that generate a sense of unity ...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Rogaland

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Fostering digital capabilities among youth

Digital technology is now an integral part of our daily lives, especially in highly digitalized societies like Norway. It plays a crucial role in various aspects of working life and accessing welfare services. However, we lack sufficient knowledge about how young people in vulnerable situations, ...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Vestland

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

Bidrag til NordForsk-utlysning 2024 om migrasjon og integrering

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Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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From the Radical to the Norm: The Construction of Normalcy Through Aesthetics in Far-Right Culture

Much research has been dedicated to the question of why people support, and ultimately join, far-right movements. People are attracted for many reasons: one of the major reasons being an attraction to the subculture surrounding the far-right movement, rather than the ideologies themselves. This m...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Visualizing the Deep Sea in the Age of Climate Change

The deep sea is one of the last largely unknown areas on the Earth. However, due to recent advances in marine technologies, this situation is about to change. The Deep Sea project investigates how innovations in underwater sensors and robots open a new frontier for human exploration, expansion, a...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Exploring Social Politics, Inclusive Education, and Cultural Democratization Through the lens of Norwegian Hip Hop Music

Musical expressions both mirror and shape the multifaceted cultural realities of the countries and regions in which they are produced and consumed. Music can therefore provide a window into complex sociocultural issues. With its immense commercial appeal and long history as a political and politi...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Innlandet

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Extending Digital Narrative

The Extending Digital Narrative project brings an experimental approach to humanities research, analyzing new forms of digital narrative which are contemporary and not yet fully settled, not a part of the cultural archive of the past, but in the process of becoming. Working with an interdiscipl...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Vestland

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Translatability of Oil: Critical Petro-Aesthetics at Work

The interdisciplinary project Translatability of Oil (TOIL) examines how petroleum oil has been represented and interpreted through literature, theatre, music, religious practice and audiovisual media over the past century. The acronym TOIL is a hint that energy transition can be demanding work, ...

Awarded: NOK 11.7 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Non-safety assessments of genome-edited animals: ethical and regulatory challenges and solutions

Genome editing is a powerful biotechnological method, enabling targeted changes in the genes of animals. Technologies such as CRISPR can enable more efficient use of research animals, make production animals disease resistant and make wild animals threatened by extinction better adapted to climat...

Awarded: NOK 11.5 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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How Norway Made the World Whiter

The research project ‘How Norway Made the World Whiter’ (NorWhite) studies a Norwegian innovation; the white pigment titanium dioxide in a historical, aesthetic, and critical lens—focusing on how the pigment transformed surfaces in art, architecture, and design. The primary research question is: ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Vestland

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Eidsborg rock – production and trade of whetstone in the Viking Age

Hell is to cut with a dull knife—to harvest with a blunt scythe or to fight with an unsharpened sword. By the 9th century, the ‘hell-averting’ whetstones from Eidsborg, Telemark, are found in Viking Age towns and centres throughout Northern Europe. Paradoxically, less is known about the surplus p...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Understanding diversity patterns, speciation, and biogeography of shallow-water marine organisms in the Atlantic realm

Since Charles Darwin, scientists have debated how new species form in the ocean. The challenge lies in the fact that marine organisms can often disperse widely — fish can swim across large distances, and larvae drift with currents — and the ocean appears to lack the kind of physical barriers that...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Vestland

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