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MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

Det 38. møtet i Skandinavisk forening for pollineringsøkologi

SCAPE (Scandinavian Association for Pollination Ecology) er en årlig konferanse for forskere og studenter innen pollineringsøkologi. Det forventes deltagere fra særlig Skandinavia og resten av Europa. Men vi forventer også deltagelse fra andre deler av verden som Nord-Amerika og Asia. Konferansen...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Akershus

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Landsdekkende våtmarksdatasett

The project aims to develop a nationwide heatmap of wetlands in Norway to update authoritative information in existing data sources and map products. The project is carried out in collaboration between the Norwegian Mapping Authority (project lead), the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NI...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Buskerud

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RIPARAGRO: Restoring riparian zones on agricultural lands

In RIPARAGRO, we will investigate the structural, practical, and cultural barriers and opportunities related to restoring riparian zones to reduce runoff from agricultural areas. Riparian zones, which are the strips of land bordering streams and rivers, are essential for biodiversity and ...

Awarded: NOK 14.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Weddell Sea Observatory of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Change

Global warming is transforming Antarctica; melting the cryosphere (the ice caps, the glaciers and the sea ice); affecting the Southern Ocean physical dynamics and elemental cycles; and impacting the marine ecosystems and their capacity to absorb the atmospheric CO2 emitted by men. The Southern Oc...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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DEciphering temporal trends and safe operating spaces for river biodiversity within the context of multiple STRESSors (DESTRESS)

Human activities are putting pressure on rivers and streams—polluting them and altering their flow regimes. These changes threaten freshwater biodiversity. As a result, biodiversity in stream ecosystems is declining, although scientists still debate how widespread and severe the loss really is. I...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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NorMoSTFun: Monitoring Strategies and Tools to address knowledge gaps on aquatic Fungal biodiversity in Norway

Aquatic fungi (AF) are a significant part the of biodiversity in freshwater and marine ecosystems. They are crucial components of aquatic ecosystems and have important ecosystem functions as decomposers of dead organic material, mutualistic symbionts, parasites and pathogens that control animal a...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

A smart process for water harvesting from air and water distribution based on eco-friendly MOFs

As climate change accelerates, bringing with it unpredictable weather patterns and reduced rainfall, the need for innovative water management solutions has never been more urgent. Our approach is twofold. Firstly, we're revolutionizing water distribution through cutting-edge technology. Imagine ...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

The Nature of Transformative Change: Connecting Research and Practice

The deterioration of nature, including ecosystem functions and services, is contributing to a rapid loss of biodiversity across the planet. Without transformative responses, research-based predictions point to a “ghastly future”. However, lack of results strongly indicate that current responses r...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Enhancing resilience in a changing climate through comprehensive urban flood design

The ECCO project aims to enhance our understanding and preparedness for the impact of water-related hazards due to climate change in urban areas of the Nordic-Baltic region, with a specific focus on floods. It takes a comprehensive approach, mapping precipitation extremes over the whole study reg...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Ultra-sensitive optical sensor system for simultaneous, in-situ detection of multiple pesticides in surface and ground waters

In recent times, our climate has been undergoing significant changes, resulting in extreme weather events such as floods and droughts. Unfortunately, these events can lead to an increase in the presence of pesticides in our water systems, posing potential risks to various aspects of our environme...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

GINAMO: Genetic Indicators for Nature Monitoring

Context: Genetic diversity is the foundation of biodiversity and essential for long-term survival, adaptation, and resilience for populations, species, and ecosystems. While genetic diversity has long been neglected in biodiversity policy and management, the current Convention on Biological Diver...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

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Towards a Transnational Acoustic Biodiversity MOnitoring Network

The "Towards a Transnational Acoustic Biodiversity Monitoring Network (TABMON)" project is a pioneering initiative aimed at enhancing biodiversity monitoring across Europe. It leverages innovative autonomous acoustic sensing technology to observe and analyze biodiversity, especially focusing on b...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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RESources in Coastal groundwater Under hydroclimatic Extremes (RESCUE)

Low salinity water found in aquifers underneath the sea-bed, also known as offshore aquifers, are among the least explored fresh-water resources available on this planet. Recent research estimates that the volume of water in offshore aquifers is one hundred times greater than the amount extracted...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Coupled urban-rural water infrastructure management under hydroclimatic extremes with decision support system.

Many regions all over the world have experienced increasing problems of urban flooding over the past decades. Pluvial urban flooding, primarily triggered by intense precipitation coupled with a large fraction of impermeable surfaces and the limited capacity of urban drainage systems, poses a subs...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Winged ghosts wandering the oceans: the spatial ecology and conservation of the world’s smallest and elusive seabirds, the storm petrel

Storm petrels are excellent indicators of the marine ecosystem, but their small body size and secretive behaviour has made it almost impossible to study well. There is so little knowledge about these species. Few people have seen them, and they are associated with many myths. Hence, we have entit...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Operasjon planvask.

The majority of Norwegian municipalities have a number of old and outdated land use plans. Such plans were adopted prior to current knowledge about biodiversity, climate change, natural hazards and risks, as well as what constitutes an appropriate development patterns. Management of land use base...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Vestfold

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Mobilising, harmonising and incentivising forest biodiversity and environmental monitoring data through Web 3.0 technology.

Forests are vital for sustaining life on earth. They harbour the majority of terrestrial biodiversity and play a major role in buffering climate change impacts. Protection of forests and assessment and monitoring of biodiversity are therefore extremely important for mitigating the dual climate an...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Integrated Monitoring of Parasites in Changing Environments

Global parasite biodiversity is facing an extinction crisis, with up to 30% of species in each major parasite group predicted to be extinct by 2070; a risk that only escalates when host coextinctions are considered. However parasites are typecast as biological villains, despite most species posin...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

Urfolksskonferansen NAISA Bådåddjo 2024. 6 til 8 juni 2024

Nord universitet dekker geografisk de tradisjonelle pite- og umesamiske områdene i Sápmi. Senter for samisk og urfolksstudier ved universitetet har som hovedformål å koordinere, synliggjøre og styrke samisk- og urfolksrelatert forskning og utdanning og står som ansvarlig for gjennomføring av konf...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Pollinator-friendly agricultural landscapes: Solutions for management of habitats under pressure

Wild pollinators are threatened which has consequences for both biodiversity and food security. In WINGS we will develop solutions for creating pollinator-friendly agricultural landscapes. Pollinators, such as bees and hoverflies, are essential for plants that reproduce through seed setting. This...

Awarded: NOK 13.9 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus

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Commonground

In the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework from 2022, there are ambitious targets for spatial planning and nature restoration. To achieve these goals, we need new ways of thinking about how we manage nature. In the Commonground project, our aim is to contribute by reducing the impacts ...

Awarded: NOK 13.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Adaptive co-management to enhance biocultural diversity and sustainable development in coastal communities

ACTIONABLE is a project which combines multiple disciplines and the knowledge of local and Indigenous communities to understand sustainable management of coastal land- and sea- scapes. The first key idea in ACTIONABLE is that people working together in collaborative sustainability projects, whic...

Awarded: NOK 13.7 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

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Could fungi be Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in the plastic litter problem?

The "Jekyll & Hyde" project will deal with two challenges with potentially serious consequences for the environment, animal and human health: The increasing amount of plastic waste in the environment and the spread of biocides and harmful bacterial and mould species. Both the increasing amount o...

Awarded: NOK 11.4 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Progress to environmentally safer rodenticides

Control of rodent pests worldwide relies heavily on the use of anticoagulant rodenticides. However, due to their widespread use and environmental persistence, they have demonstrated adverse effects to non-target animals, like foxes, cats, dogs, wolves, wolverines, and predatory birds like owls an...

Awarded: NOK 11.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus

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Agricultural mitigation measures and the value of water quality improvements

Access to clean water is a necessity for all living organisms, and without water, it is not possible to produce food. In Norway, agriculture is one of the largest sources of water pollution. The main objective of the project is to identify which measures agriculture can implement to prevent nutri...

Awarded: NOK 14.9 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus

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Greening the economy- Facilitating Innovation, Economics and Labour Demand

The project's data order was finally approved by Statistics Norway on 22 November 2024, and then entered Statistics Norway's processing queue when it comes to lending data. Expected delivery is winter 2026. We can therefore only regret that lending data to the project takes time, which creates ch...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Transformative wildlife management to enhance biodiversity protection and ecosystem services provision in shared and protected landscapes

The controversy around the role of killing wild animals has come to a head during the last year of the project as both the Bern Convention (administered by the Council of Europe) and the Habitats Directive (administered by the European Union) have changed the conservation status of the wolf from ...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Protecting agricultural lands from plastic pollution

There are several sources of plastic pollution in agricultural soils. Four main sources are expected to be important for Norwegian agricultural soils: atmospheric deposition, sewage sludge, plastic residues from biogas plants, and plastic products used in crop production. Based on findings from o...

Awarded: NOK 14.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Return of the otter: Aggravation of human-wildlife conflicts and potential for mitigation strategies for coastal areas under pressure

The Eurasian otter was once extirpated from most of Norway due to hunting, but after being protected it has recently made a comeback in Western Norway. This has reignited a classic human-wildlife conflict, which often occurs when humans and predators compete for the same resources. In this case, ...

Awarded: NOK 14.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

European Spatial-Temporal Large Scale Sea Noise Management & Passive Acoustic Monitoring of Marine Megafauna

In fall 2022 and 2023, an expedition was launched in the fjord of Kvænangen (east of Tromsø) where massive herring schools attract many different sea mammals including humpback whales & killer whales. A preliminary version of the Bombyx system was deployed, whale behavior was recorded (feeding ve...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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