51 projects

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Droner i brann- og redningstjenesten: Samhandling, kompetanseutvikling og bærekraftig ressursbruk i hverdag og krise

This project will develop systems and collaboration models that will allow the fire and rescue service to respond to alarms and reported incidents by sending a drone ahead of the emergency personnel. By using drones as a first responder, emergency agencies can gain a faster overview of the situat...

Awarded: NOK 21.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Totalberedskap langs Østerdalsaksen: Felles innsats for kunnskapsbasert forberedelse på krise og krig.

Prosjektets hovedmål er å styrke offentlig sektors evne til å ivareta samfunnssikkerhet og totalberedskap gjennom forskningsbasert formidling, praktisk øving og samspill mellom aktører fra helse, forsvar, kommune og frivillighet. Dette skjer gjennom to sammenkoblede arrangementer i Østerdalen: en...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Innlandet

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Sikker ferdsel og friluftsliv i norsk natur: Kunnskapsbasert innovasjon, teknologi og samhandling for gevinster av færre skader og ulykker

TryggNaTur seeks to find ways to limit the increase in accidents in nature-based tourism and outdoor recreation. One life lost, whether it is a drowning accident, a trail bike accident or a fall accident in the mountains, is one life too many. Loss of life or serious injury has enormous costs bot...

Awarded: NOK 21.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Prepare, support and comply: The public as a critical resource in times of crisis

In the years ahead, Norwegian society must be prepared to handle a wide range of adverse events, spanning the spectrum from peace to war, including natural disasters, extreme weather, major accidents, hybrid threats and, in the worst case, armed conflict. In such situations, the population is a c...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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The ethics of preparedness: questioning priorities in Norwegian policies of preparedness (PrepEthics)

Norwegian authorities aim to enhance preparedness for severe risks across military and civil domains, including war, pandemics, and natural disasters. But despite these ambitions, there is no shared framework for prioritizing these efforts. How should decision-makers set priorities for national p...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Resilient Citizenship

In its 2025 Global Risks Report, the World Economic Forum in 2025 ranks natural disasters and extreme weather events as the most severe global risk over the next decade. We are already experiencing the effects - more frequent and more severe than before. Storms like Hans (2024) and Amy (2025) not...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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TØIs årlige reiselivsseminar: Besøksforvaltning, sikkerhet og beredskap i naturbasert reiseliv

Seminaret «Besøksforvaltning, sikkerhet og beredskap i naturbasert reiseliv» er et forskningsbasert arrangement i regi av Transportøkonomisk Institutt som tar for seg sentrale utfordringer og utviklingstrekk i skjæringspunktet mellom reiseliv, offentlig sektor og samfunnssikkerhet. Reiselivet spi...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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BRACE - Balancing Resources Anticipating Compound Events

As the climate becomes more extreme, the risk of major disasters such as large landslides or multiple forest fires increases. Across Norway, fire and rescue services are the first to respond when disaster strikes. But these services are mainly set up to handle everyday emergencies in their own ar...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Towards detecting AI-generated disinformation: Fakespeak in the age of large language models

The EU, NATO and UN in addition to 1500 experts consulted by the World Economic Forum perceive disinformation and fake news, and the subsequent erosion of trust in newly elected governments, as one of the biggest current threats to democracy. This is so not least due to the rapid development of g...

Awarded: NOK 11.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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NOKIOS 2025 - Norsk konferanse for IKT i offentlig sektor

NOKIOS - Norsk konferanse for IKT i offentlig sektor er en årlig konferanse som arrangeres i Trondheim. Konferansen er hybrid, og arrangeres på Clarion Hotel Trondheim samt digitalt. NTNU og medarrangør Digitaliseringsdirektoratet er hovedarrangørene av konferansen, som sammen med 23 samarbeids...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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UiTs Societal Security Conference 2025

UiTs Societal Security Conference Arrangeres i Tromsø 4.–5. november 2025 Tema for konferansen: "Arctic Preparedness". Forventet deltakelse: 70–130 personer på konferansedagen og 25–50 på workshop-dagen. Konferansen er en to-dagers møteplass for aktører med interesse for samfunnssikkerhet og b...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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Protecting child rights and public safety: Premises for the integration of childs best interest and crime prevention

To an increasing degree, children engage in serious violent crimes that are perceived as threats to public safety, including violent extremism, and terrorism. A core problem for the Nordic welfare states is how to provide public safety and prevent crime and social exclusion, and at the same time ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2030

Location: Vestland

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Ethical Risk Management for AI-enabled Weapons: A Systems Approach (ERM)

There has been a steep increase in the reliance on AI tools for warfighting, fueling a push for weapon systems to perform more tasks without direct human intervention. This shift in the way wars are fought have rightly led to a range of ethical worries around the use of AI for life-or-death dec...

Awarded: NOK 11.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Earth to Orbit - Building Bridges in Space Governance

DISCOVER: "Space - Our New Crowded Frontier" In an era where satellites connect us, track storms, guide ships and cars, and even aid in wars, space has become essential for life on Earth. The DISCOVER project is exploring how to keep this crowded frontier safe and cooperative, amidst growing r...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Resource Enhancement, Strategic Planning, Optimization, and Novel Data-driven methods for safety and security at SEA

The main objective of RESPOND-SEA is to advance knowledge for improving cross-sectoral interaction, cooperation and coordination in the management of critical societal functions related to activities in Norwegian sea areas. The maritime domain is critical for Norwegian society, both for transpor...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Protesting Controversial Climate Policies: Avenues of Opposition

In recent years, we have seen a rise in protests both for and against stricter climate policies. The public can use different strategies to express dissatisfaction with existing or proposed policies, both within the framework of the representative political system (using the legal apparatus or th...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Vestland

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Beredt! - Scalable Services & Risk-Based Governance for Climate-Driven Natural Hazards in Norway

Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of floods, landslides, and avalanches. This is placing increased strain on agencies responsible for preparedness and response in Norway. The Beredt! project will address this by developing solutions that enhance local preparedness and trans...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Bidrag til NordForsk-utlysning 2025 - Antagonistic threats challenging societal security

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Awarded: NOK 25.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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SAFERCLAY – SAFER coexistence in quick CLAY areas

SAFERCLAY is a research project focusing on developing methods to assess changes in quick clay landslide risk with time. SAFERCLAY will provide a new approach for adapted and sustainable risk management for living and building in quick clay areas, including recommendations to ensure both public a...

Awarded: NOK 11.4 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium (RSD13)

Systemic designers—academics, practitioners, and researchers—collectively contribute to furthering systemic design as an interdiscipline that joins systems thinking to design methodology. The aims of the RSD collection include supporting an international knowledge-sharing network of systemic desi...

Awarded: NOK 80,000

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Etisk KI og Utfordringer i Offentlig Sektor

Vi ønsker å arrangere et seminar i Bergen høsten 2024 med deltakere fra akademia og offentlig sektor, som åpner for samtale om etisk KI og problemstillinger som er spesifikke for offentlig sektor. Vi ønsker å bygge videre på et tidligere seminar vi har arrangert mellom akademia i Norge og aktører...

Awarded: NOK 48,184

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Vestland

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Staying One Step Ahead of Tax Evasion

The largest multinational companies often find innovative ways to avoid paying taxes by exploiting legal loopholes. This undermines trust in the tax system and weakens social cohesion, which is essential for sustaining the welfare state. Although some of the strategies companies use to avoid taxe...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Akershus

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NOKIOS - norsk konferanse for IKT i offentlig sektor 2024

NOKIOS - Norsk konferanse for IKT i offentlig sektor er en årlig konferanse som arrangeres i Trondheim. Konferansen er hybrid, og arrangeres på Clarion Hotel Trondheim samt digitalt. NTNU og Digitaliseringsdirektoratet er hovedarrangørene av konferansen, som sammen med 25 samarbeidspartnere fra...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Understanding and preventing violence in high risk individuals– a mixed-methods approach (PreVio)

The main aim of PreVio is to provide empirical knowledge on risk factor trajectories in criminially involved persons with mental illness and preventive opportunities at the intersection of criminal justice and mental health services. The project is a collaboration between Oslo University Hospital...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Collaboration Complexity in Nuclear Emergency Preparedness in the Maritime Arctic

The increased maritime transportation, flow of goods, and populations changes the risk picture in the Arctic. A recent sharp increase in nuclear-propelled vessels and ships transporting spent nuclear fuel and radioactive materials adds new uncertainties into risk assessments, risk perceptions, an...

Awarded: NOK 7.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

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The life cycle of hate crimes: Patterns, responses and consequences

Hate crime is increasingly acknowledged as a major democratic challenge in the public and political debate. A range of offenses perpetrated with a hate motive against minority group members may now be prosecuted as hate crimes in Norway and internationally. The project The life cycle of hate crim...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Water, Sewage, and Health (WaSH)

The drinking water in Norway is generally of high quality. Still, waterborne disease outbreaks affecting thousands of people occur regularly, e.g. Giardiasis in Bergen in 2004 and Cryptosporidiosis in Askøy in 2019. These incidents point to challenges in the water and sewage sector (WS sector) th...

Awarded: NOK 9.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Disinformation and people: Impacts on societal trust and resilience

Did you ever read stories about 5G mobile masts spreading COVID 19? Or that the EU supports mass illegal immigration? If you have ever read a post on social media that seems to elicit a strong emotional reaction like fear, there is a good chance it was mis- or disinformation, or fake news. People...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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Maritime Resilience Management of an Integrated Transport System

The starting point for the project is that "Maritime transport systems are becoming increasingly interconnected, automated and complex", and the project explores what this will mean for the requirements for knowledge and innovation to succeed. This development entails new opportunities but will a...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Cyber security, knowledge and practices (CYKNOW)

Over the past decades it has become evident that the rapidly increasing digitalization of modern society goes hand in hand with a number of societal and political challenges and implications. The data infrastructures that serve as a connective tissue for our daily life has in many ways changed ho...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove