297 projects

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ERA-NET: (FORSTERK) Smart solutions for advancing supply systems in blue bioeconomy value chains_ Dissemination

Smartchain_dissemination project addresses the need for a greater impact of the results of Smartchain initial project at social, economic and policy levels. Smartchain_dissemination will use effective dissemination and communication strategies to ensure that not only institutions and companies in...

Awarded: NOK 0.22 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

Plastics as a potential vector for spread of antimicrobial resistance and pathogens from wastewater discharge in the marine environment

Antimicrobial resistance and marine plastic pollution are major global health and environmental challenges. Despite this, there is limited knowledge about the occurrence of pathogenic and antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) in wastewater from Norwegian treatment plants and how these discharges af...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

The role of gene flow in the evolution of Antarctic icefishes

In the freezing waters of Antarctica, a unique group of fishes has evolved over the course of the last ten million years. The so-called icefishes are equipped with antifreeze proteins, which allow them to survive at subzero temperatures that are deadly for most other groups of fishes. Thus, it is...

Awarded: NOK 11.5 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

ERA-NET: (FORSTERK) BlueBio, Soundwaves as a platform for communication of three-dimensional data sets, BlueCC

Soundscapes is an innovative communication project where we aim to take the large amount of research data generated in a single project and present them as sounds instead of the more common, visual presentation. We will achieve this by exploiting a key trait with the datasets, namely their orien...

Awarded: NOK 0.22 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2023

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Marine co-existence scenario building

The need for energy and food from the sea is expected to lead to significant growth in the use of our nearby sea areas over the next 10-20 years. DNV's report "Ocean's Future to 2050" shows that the battle for ocean space is intensifying, and that a significant part of the world's coastal zones i...

Awarded: NOK 8.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Akershus

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Realizing the full potential of krill processing side streams in sustainable health-promoting ingredients (RealKrill)

Aker Biomarine (AKBM) is a Norwegian fishery- and biotechnology company with a vision to improve human and planetary health. The company currently harvests and produce krill-derived products into three main verticals: feed for aquaculture, feed for pets and a human supplement omega 3 phospholipid...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Akershus

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Familieforskere – gøy med funn og registrering i fjæra

With this project we wanted to engage families in documenting and registering what they found by or in the fjords, in order to increase knowledge on how the fjords are threatened. Another goal was also to increase the use of the Institute of Marine Research's register tool "Dugnad for havet", esp...

Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2023

Location: Østfold

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

BlueMusselFeed. Nordic Poultry Feed Made from Ocean Cleaning Blue Mussels BlueMusselFeed – Poultry feed made from blue mussels

BlueMusselFeed progresses! We are planning our trials, and showing the potential for blue mussels as new, norwegian feed materials in mission Sustainable feed. In 2023 and 2024 lines are placed in the ocean for growing mussels, testing different equipment. Settlement of larvas was sparse in 2023...

Awarded: NOK 11.7 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Rogaland

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Environmentally friendly sequential extraction of bioactive molecules from rockweed – Ascophyllum nodosum

In collaboration with leading research environments in the north, Polar Algae, as the first and only actor in Northern Norway, has the job of developing methodology for the full utilization of pig seaweed. This is done by developing extraction methodology for the primary product Fucoidan which do...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Developing flexible instruments for mixed fisheries

Many commercial fisheries worldwide suffer from overexploitation. In many mixed fisheries, where several species are fished in continually changing ratios over time, bycatch and high grading are problems of particular relevance. However, species are often managed individually, with quotas that do...

Awarded: NOK 13.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

SEAPOP/SEATRACK - sjøfugldata

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Awarded: NOK 1.00 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

Characterization of maritime noise in different european basins and its impact on ecological relevant deuterostome invertebrates

DeuteroNoise project is focused on characterizing noise pollution caused by maritime traffic, both through measurements and simulations, and to test its impact on various species of marine invertebrates. Nowadays, there is growing concern about the impact that noise from human activities can have...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSKHAV-Marine ressurser og miljø - havmiljø

Etablering av utstilling om tareskog ved Norges arktiske universitetsmuseum

Join in and dive into the sea- and visit the bustling life in the kelp forest The exhibition takes you to life in the kelp forests along the Norwegian coast. Kelp forests are important oases for life in sea and on land; providing food, shelter, a safe space for offspring to grow – and even dampen...

Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

ERA-NET: BlueBio - RightFish - Reducing environmental impact and greenhouse gas emissions in commercial fisheries

The main goal of the project RightFish is to design and develop towed fishing gears such as trawls and seines that impact the marine environment less than the gear we use today. This will advance commercial trawl gears, and while developing these we are also defining criteria for modelling and es...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

Underwater Noise <orchestra, ecOsystem Responses to Constant offsHorE Sound specTRA>

The increase of anthropogenic underwater noise (AUN) through oil exploitation, shipping and the construction and operation of offshore wind farms (OWF) has altered the marine acoustic environment significantly and is now a global challenge. AUN can harm a variety of animals by causing direct dama...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSKHAV-Marine ressurser og miljø - havmiljø

Small Scientist: Promoting Ocean Science Literacy in Children

The Small Scientist project translate peer-reviewed marine science research articles into children's literature for use as an Ocean Literacy tool in 256 kindergartens across Norway. The project was a collaborative effort to communicate ocean science through literary prose and illustrations in the...

Awarded: NOK 0.49 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Østfold

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

ERA-NET: BlueBio - Improved Processing to Enhance Seafood Sidestream Valorization and Exploration

The world population is continuously growing expecting to exceed 9 billion by 2050. It will increase global food production by 60%, creating an urgent need to explore alternative sustainable sources of ingredients rich in protein and essential nutrients. At the same time, a considerable amount of...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Fyrtårnsverksted for Reiseliv, Innovasjon og Miljø (RIM)

Fyrtårnsverkstedet på Strømtangen Fyr i Fredrikstad-skjærgården har vokst fra å være en møteplass for noen få dedikerte ildsjeler til å bli en ettertraktet og utradisjonell diskusjonsarena for en rekke fagmiljøer i Osloregionen, og også nasjonalt. Arrangørene ønsker å ta diskusjonene ut til havet...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2022-2022

Location: Østfold

MARINFORSKHAV-Marine ressurser og miljø - havmiljø

Research stay at the University of Helsinki, Finland

Wild populations are adapting to human-caused stressors such as fishing, hunting, climate warming, and habitat change. Research on particularly harvest-induced phenotypic and evolutionary adaptations started from field observations and forming theory about how anthropogenic drivers can be expecte...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Management of mixed fisheries.

Berekraft i fiskeflåten er eit fleirdimensjonelt konsept. I mange blanda fiskeri, der fleire artar vert hausta samstundes i proporsjonar som stadig endrar seg, er tilleggsfangst («bycatch») og utkast («high grading») sentrale utfordringar. Dersom bestandar vert forvalta enkeltvis, og kvotene ikkj...

Awarded: NOK 0.46 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2023

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

GEAK workshop: Assessing the value and function of the world’s kelp forests

The world’s kelp forests are extensive vegetated marine ecosystems that cover over a quarter of the world’s coastlines. Kelp forests provide extensive benefits to humans, including 14 of the 18 contributions of nature to people identified by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiv...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2022-2023

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

The Atlantis Ecosystem Modelling Summit: progressing tools and networking for marine ecosystem science and management

We apply for financial support under the Oceans theme for the second Atlantis Ecosystem Modelling Summit, which aims to aid the testing and development of the Atlantis marine ecosystem model as a tool for Ecosystem-based management (EBM), and advance global partnerships for living marine resource...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2022-2022

Location: Vestland

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

KONSEPT FOR LEVENDELAGRING AV FLERE ARTER

The project aims to develop a system for live storage of seafood that ensures good animal welfare, food safety, and product quality. Specifically, it will be adapted to provide conditions that enable long-term storage to accumulate biomass over time and deliver high-quality products outside the n...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Agder

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

NTNU Ocean Week 2022

At Ocean Week 2022, for the first time we expand our reach to all three campus cities of NTNU: Trondheim, Ålesund and Gjøvik. In Ålesund on day 1, we zoom in on two of the outcomes of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development and ask: “A healthy and productive ocean by 2030 – can...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2022-2022

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

FangstID - Automatisert og digitalisert ressurskontroll

Seafood is Norway’s third largest export industry, after oil and gas. In 2024, Norway exported seafood worth NOK 175.4 billion. The wild-catch sector accounted for NOK 31.3 billion, while aquaculture made up the rest. The value creation from wild fisheries is based on natural conditions that allo...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Development of the ChemDrift module for including ionizing organic and inorganic chemicals for exposure assessment in the marine environment

Lagrangian models offer the possibility to investigate the transport of chemicals without losing information on their origin, thus giving fundamental data on the contribution each source has on the overall exposure of the target ecosystem. On the other hand, while the capabilities of these models...

Awarded: NOK 0.22 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2022

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Norbait Crustacean

Bait represents a significant cost in pot- and line fishing, at the same time as it takes as much effort, fuel and other inputs to pull an empty pot/hook as one with a good catch, therefore it is crucial to develop cost-effective baits that fish at least as well as traditional bait. Norbait AS is...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2023

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Digitalt læringsunivers for de blå skoger

Increased ocean literacy, closer connection to marine life, and a stronger voice for the ocean BLÅUNIVERS aims to increase the youth's understanding of the ocean, its processes and how we as humans are influenced by and influence the ocean. In addition, the project will help children raise their...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2022

Location: Oslo - Oslove

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

PresiSkjell - Sustainable precision harvesting of arctic scallops

I forskningsprosjektet PresiSkjell ønsker partnerne TAU Tech, Scantrol og SINTEF å utvikle en bærekraftig og skånsom metode for datastyrt presisjonsfiske av den ettertraktede matressursen haneskjell. Norge har de siste 30 åra hatt forbud mot å drive haneskjellfiske, for å beskytte sårbare arktisk...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Møre og Romsdal

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

CANNOR-START 2.0: Initiating a Project on the Blue Economy in the Canadian and Norwegian Arctic

Maritime issues have been climbing the political agendas of Arctic states like Canada and Norway since the early 2000s. With the rapid changes underway across the Arctic and interlinked maritime domains such as the North Atlantic, questions are being asked about the profitability and sustainabili...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2022-2022

Location: Akershus