126 projects

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Framing Reading Across Mediums (FRAME)

For centuries, reading meant flipping through printed books, newspapers, and magazines. But now, many of us read on laptops, tablets, and smartphones, or even listen to books being read aloud. While billions of people are adapting to this new way of reading, we still know very little about how it...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo

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SELFICON - Self-regulation In Context

Researchers in the SELFICON project will investigate factors that influence first graders' self-regulation. Today's children face an increasingly unpredictable future. Globalization, technological advances, and artificial intelligence will drive change at a pace never seen before. To navigate th...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Rogaland

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Artificial Intelligence for Enhanced Cross-disciplinary Assessment for Learning (AI-EXCAfL)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) challenges traditional education by revealing the limitations of focusing primarily on summative assessments, which evaluate end results of students’ learning like essays, presentations, or reports. These have been traditionally emphasised, while formative assessments...

Awarded: NOK 14.7 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Østfold

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Optimization and Testing effectiveness of a collaborative Intervention for School Attendance Problems in Norwegian municipalities.

An increasing number of students in primary and secondary education are struggling to participate in school. School absenteeism is multifaceted and can have significant negative consequences for the child, the family, and society. Risk factors for school absenteeism exist in all areas. There is a...

Awarded: NOK 19.7 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Discretionary suitability assessments in higher education

Judgements based on sets of criteria constitute an intrinsic part of higher education. They are particularly prevalent in academic assessment, where students' performances are assessed against pre-defined learning outcomes and grade descriptions. For certain groups of students, particularly those...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo

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Ensuring a Competent and sustainable workforce of Midwives in Norway

Ensuring a well-educated, clinically competent, adequately resourced, and sustainable midwifery workforce is crucial for delivering high-quality care to women in maternity care. However, the serious shortage of midwives, globally and in Norway, currently inhibits midwives’ efforts to promote safe...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2030

Location: Vestland

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The Potential of ‘GameChange’: Supplementary Educational Measures to Facilitate Secondary Education Completion Among At-Risk Youth

What can be done to enable more students to complete secondary school? The project GameChanger focuses on the impact that initiatives outside of school can have on students when they are in school. Flyt and Guttas Campus are two school-supportive programs designed to prevent dropout by enhancing ...

Awarded: NOK 19.7 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo

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Negotiating Values in Norwegian Teacher Education

In a pluralist society, educational institutions are vital for the transmission of core societal values considered foundational to the constitution and continuation of democratic societies. In 2020, the Norwegian government launched a national educational reform: ‘Knowledge Promotion’ in Educatio...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Vestland

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Retention Evaluation - Teacher Attrition and Incentives in Norway

Norway may face a future teacher shortage due to several factors: high dropout rates from teacher education programs, graduates opting out of teaching careers, and nearly a third of new teachers leaving the profession within five years. The RETAIN project (Retention Evaluation - Teacher Attrition...

Awarded: NOK 7.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Writing strategies in VET Education

"SKY - Skrivestrategier på yrkesfag (Writing strategies in VET Education)" is a project initiated by The Norwegian Centre for Writing Education and Research, NTNU. The primary objective of the project is to test the effectiveness of the internationally acclaimed program Self-Regulated Strategy De...

Awarded: NOK 11.3 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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A Phonological and Reading RCT Intervention in Kindergarten and School for Children with Intellectual Disabilities who require AAC

The project aims to improve education for children with intellectual disabilities who require alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) in kindergartens and schools. Over a two-year period, we will conduct a comprehensive intervention study (randomized controlled trial) to test the effect ...

Awarded: NOK 14.2 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Østfold

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Engagement, Growth And General Education in Norwegian folk high schools (ENGAGE)

ENGAGE investigates the impact and meaning of Norwegian Folk High Schools (FHS) on youth engagement and participation in society. It is the largest study on this subject to date, exploring a largely overlooked aspect in education research. The projects’ background concerns youth disengagement f...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Vestland

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Human Reading Assessment

Artificial intelligence (AI) is entering schools at full speed, bringing with it both opportunities and challenges. Human Reading Assessment (HUMAN) aims to explore how technology can be applied in a way that places the student in the centre. During their years in school, students have to take a...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Rogaland

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Pubertal Timing and Inequalities in Education

Within a typical classroom, the onset of puberty occurs four years earlier for the first developing girl than for the latest developing boy. However, it is not clear how these large inter-personal differences affect school performance and educational trajectories, with previous studies finding ne...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo

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Screening Early and Adaptively for Language Skills

Even in Norway, one of the more egalitarian societies in Europe, social inequalities in the early language development of children heavily constrain their potential for later success in education and work life. Hence, good diagnostic screening tests are needed to detect and address these inequal...

Awarded: NOK 7.6 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo

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Missing Men: New conceptual understandings of gendered educational choices

Over the past few decades, women have entered an increasingly larger part of the educational system and labour market, while men have continued to make gender-traditional choices. The representation of men in female-dominated educational fields and professions remains persistently low. We know to...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo

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Developing Human Rights Values in Mathematics Teacher Education: Education with and by Youth (ViMTE)

Refined Description of the ViMTE Project The ViMTE (Values in Mathematics Teacher Education) project investigates how human rights values—specifically ethical awareness, human dignity, and democratic participation—can be meaningfully integrated into Norwegian mathematics teacher education program...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Buskerud

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Bridging Education and Future Work: Reframing Education and Competence Model for Remote Maritime Operations (REFRAME)

The emergence of remotely controlled and autonomous vessels presents a paradigm shift in maritime operations, necessitating a re-evaluation of the human operator’s roles and functions within this new framework. The REFRAME project endeavors to explain the transformations in knowledge, skills and ...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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Training better clinical psychologists: new methods based on machine learning, AI, and deliberate practice

To improve the increasing problems of mental ill-health, we need to train better psychologists. Machine learning and AI will be used in clinical-skills education. Also, there is a need for more research on deliberate-practice training. Over the last decades, psychotherapy studies document the sam...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Oslo

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Life skills in theory and practice. Knowledge base, perceptions and implementation of an interdisciplinary topic in Norwegian schools

LIFE wants to achieve a new and improved understanding of life skills education (LSE) in Norwegian schools, against a backdrop of discussion and unclarity regarding the understanding of the concept and ideas about good practice. LSE was introduced in the curriculum in 2020 as one of three cross c...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Rogaland

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Learning across boundaries in elderly care (LABCare): Enabling expansive learning in and across vocational education and workplace practices

Learning across boundaries in elderly care (LABCare): Enabling expansive learning in and across vocational education and workplace practices Amid global concerns about increasingly ageing societies, there is today an urgent need to attract and retain qualified elderly care staff; the LABCare proj...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

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Sustainability through food literacy in early childhood education and care institutions

The project FOOD4kids aims to improve the kindergarten’s knowledge about food and how it affects both our health and nature. The project is a collaboration between Queen Maud University College of Early Childhood Education (DMMH), the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Mälarda...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Online video training for teachers to improve reading skills in children using augmentative and alternative communication

Online video training for teachers to improve reading skills in children using augmentative and alternative communication: the “Reading for all” trial Reading skills provide access to information, social interaction, education, and employment. For pupils with intellectual disabilities, reading ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Østfold

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Vocational Teachers as Facilitators in the School-to-Work Transition

Dropout from upper secondary education is considered one of the biggest challenges in Norwegian education system and has received a lot of attention for many years, both among politicians and in the media. The dropout rate is highest in vocational programmes, and the transition from the school-ba...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo

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Rising to the challenge: Academic resilience in mathematics and science among disadvantaged students (ARISE)

Education is the gateway to a brighter future. However, for many students, the road to success is anything but easy. Recent challenges, like the pandemic and energy crises, have made the journey even harder, especially for students from low-income families. Yet, despite having limited education...

Awarded: NOK 6.4 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo

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Designing incentive systems in higher education

In Norway, students are eligible for financial support to cover living costs while studying, support which is governed by Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund (SELF). Over the past two decades there has been a policy shift towards more incentives in the student support system. First, in 2002 Nor...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo

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NORDFORSK samarbeid - Pandemiens konsekvenser for barn og unge i Norden

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Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Oslo

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SEMPER: Self-Efficacy in Mathematics, Pathways in Education and Research

When students come to believe they are no good at learning mathematics, it is difficult for teachers to teach them otherwise. As such, we need to learn more both about how students come to believe they are no good at learning mathematics and how teachers can provide differentiated instruction for...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

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Programming for Developing Mathematical Competencies

In recent years, programming has gained increased attention in school curricula in many countries, including Norway. The introduction of programming in schools is expected to have a positive effect on students’ competence in programming—but it is not currently known how this will affect competenc...

Awarded: NOK 9.7 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Møre og Romsdal

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Partners in practice: Establishing a system for educational development towards student participation

“Partners in practice” is a partnership between researchers in teacher education and schools. The project seeks to develop a teaching practice that accentuates student participation. Earlier attempts to develop practice indicate that a quick-fix solution to this challenge does not exist, and the ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Rogaland