397 projects

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VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Voluntary Initiatives and Nonprofit-Public Sector Collaboration for the Inclusion of Children and Youth in Norway

Voluntary low-threshold initiatives can fill the gaps in public service provision towards young people by helping outreach, support and engagement. Yet, their role in promoting social inclusion and how they supplement public services is underexplored. The project aims to find out how voluntary lo...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Making the green shift work for regions

Our project aims to develop a new understanding of how regional labour markets are adapting to the grand challenge of Green Shift. We will go beyond national and industry forecasts by recognising that responding to this challenge will be region specific processes of adaptation and change. Labour...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Green and just LAbour Market (GLAM)

The purpose of GLAM is to study the consequences of a green transition on various groups in society. We will investigate who ends up as losers and winners in a green transition. We will do this by investigating which job categories and skills we can expect more and less demand for. An important p...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

JUST TRANSFORM: Enabling a sustainable, just, and inclusive twin green-digital transformation

Norwegian economy and the labour market are undergoing a process of change to meet goals for a green transition. In many industries and sectors, digitalization is a central part of the solution. How will a twin green and digital transition affect the labour market? Vestlandsforsking, Norce, with ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Vestland

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Men without Education and Work: A Crisis Unfolding

A salient feature of the labor markets of developed economies is that low-educated prime-age men are much less likely to be employed than high-skilled prime-age men. The gap emerged several decades ago and has been growing ever since. The goal of our project is to understand why low-educated men ...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

Bidrag til NordForsk-utlysning 2024 om migrasjon og integrering

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Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Engaging workplaces: A social partners perspective on youth activation

How can workplaces – encompassing employers, employees, and the organisational structures in which they are embedded – be reconfigured to facilitate the successful inclusion of vulnerable youth struggling to enter and retain a position in the labour market? This project seeks to answer this quest...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Phasing in and phasing out: Reworking labour in energy transitions in the North Sea

To reach the internationally agreed upon climate targets, we must move away from fossil energy dependencies. This will bring profound changes to our economic, social and political systems, not least in relation labour markets. The project (PHASE) is about the impacts of the green transition on wo...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Preparing for long term stay or fast return? Labour-market integration of Ukrainian refugees in Norway (UKRINT)

The Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine has resulted in the largest yearly influx of refugees in Norway to date. Having been granted temporary collective protection, Ukrainian refugees' future length of stay in Norway is uncertain. This gives rise to a key dilemma for national policymakers, lo...

Awarded: NOK 11.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Revising work time flexibility policies to promote work inclusion (REFLEX)

In REFLEX, we investigate the relationship between work-time flexibility and work inclusion. The combination of work-time flexibility and new technologies like smartphones and laptops has made it easier for many employees to juggle work and home. This is more important than ever as the workforce ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Refugee Settlement Locations and Long Run Outcomes

How to successfully integrate refugees is an important task for governments, for which efficient policy solutions are in high demand. While there is a fairly large literature on the efficiency of various labor market and education policies, we know much less about the importance of initial settle...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

The use of Expert Reports as evidence in Child Protection Decision-Making

Background Making decisions in child welfare cases is a challenging task that can have significant consequences for those involved. Experts often contribute to such cases, but we know little about the quality of the experts' reports, the methods and approaches they use, and the extent to which c...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Maintaining the Functional Capacity of the Workforce

Maintaining the Functional Capacity of the Workforce, AtWork, is a collaborative project to meet challenges in the society, and business sector related to population aging. It is imperative to maintain the functional capacity of the workforce to preserve national productivity, and cognitive abili...

Awarded: NOK 11.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Disclosure - A life course perspective on barriers and facilitators for disclosure in violence-exposed individuals in Norway

Violence is a major public health issue due to its long-lasting negative impact on individuals and its significant societal costs. Many cases remain undetected because victims are either unable or unwilling to disclose their experiences. To prevent violence, it is essential that both informal and...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Health Deterioration and Risks of Labour Market Exits - Young Workers in Double Trouble?

Recent data from EU member states show that one quarter of the working age population has a chronic disease. In Norway, Norwegian Bureau of Statistics estimates that the employment rate of people with disabilities in working age is approximately 41%. The connection between chronic disease, work ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Vestland

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Life and Work in Balance: Legal responses to working life in times of change and crisis (LaW-BALANCE)

Two challenges in modern society have inspired the LaW-BALANCE-project: an aging population and the development of new forms of organization of work. Does labour and social law meet these challenges? LaW-BALANCE will analyze the current legal framework of a working life in transition. How can law...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Vestland

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Assessments about childrens criminal insanity and violence risk: Exploring and advancing the recognition of childrens development

Children and young people in today’s society face complex challenges related to crime. The rapid development during adolescence increases the risk of antisocial behavior. For some children, mental disorders exacerbate risk of both perpetrating and being victims of crime. As a reaction, criminal ...

Awarded: NOK 12.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Vestland

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Labor market inclusion and labor productivity

Policies for economic growth are guided by two aims: i) to enhance productivity per unit of labor, and ii) to ensure maximum utilization of the accessible labor resources. There is a potential tradeoff between these two objectives. Productivity per unit of labor can be improved by laying off the ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Centre on the Europeanization of Norwegian Law - Understanding EEA Law as an integral part of Norwegian Law

Why is the law of the European Economic Area (EEA), which binds Norway to the EU’s internal market, so difficult for Norwegian lawyers to understand? And how can those responsible for making and applying Norwegian law better adapt to the obligations flowing from EEA law? These are the main challe...

Awarded: NOK 21.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2029

Location: Vestland

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Inclusive Digital Application

The project Inclusive Digital Working Life (IDA) investigates the costs, benefits, and effects of universal design in ICT systems. In Norway, between 15 and 19 per cent of the population lives with a disability (Bufdir, 2020). Universal design can help more people remain in employment for longer,...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

Kunnskapsoversikt om arbeidsmiljø og arbeidshelse

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Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2024

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

Kunnskapsoversikt om arbeid- og velferdstjenestene

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Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2023

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

EU labor immigration and the organization of work

The EU enlargement to Eastern European countries in 2004 was the start of a large growth in low-wage labor immigration into Norway. Labor immigration has contributed to high activity and production in important sectors like the oil sector, manufacturing and building and construction, but has also...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

NORDFORSK samarbeid - Fremtidens arbeidsliv / Future Working Life Research Programme

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Awarded: NOK 13.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

NORDFORSK samarbeid - Pandemiens konsekvenser for barn og unge i Norden

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Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Digital Emergency Communication

Emergency services in the Nordic countries are increasingly relying on digital tools and solutions to warn the public about emergencies. The research project Digital Emergency Communication (DIGeMERGE) studies the use of digital communication platforms and tools for emergency communication in the...

Awarded: NOK 6.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Antecedents of cross-cultural adaptation: A meta-analysis 1988-2025

Modern societies are faced with unprecedented amounts of migration and promoting inclusion of migrants is one of the most pressing priorities of today’s era. The ACCA project responds to it by applying state-of-the art meta-analytic techniques to integrate and systematize the existing knowledge o...

Awarded: NOK 8.6 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Experimental Field Investigation of Leadership Practices Supportive of Work-Satisfaction, Engagement, Performance and Creativity

Current trends in the labor market raise the importance of research on measures that can help workers to adapt to changes and increase inclusion in work-life. New technology is making many jobs obsolete, and the jobs that technology creates are constantly changing, resulting in a need for worker...

Awarded: NOK 10.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Rogaland

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

The Gender Pay Gap: Firms, Children, and Unpaid Work

Women earn less than men. The gap shrinks when we compare people within the same firm and position, but we know less about why men and women sort into different firms and why pay gaps also arise within firms. Our project contributes to the literature on gender inequality in the labor market. Our ...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Integration as a way to reducing health inequalities among forced migrants: A collaborative and knowledge building project.

Health among immigrants develops over time in Norway. Health and integration are linked in different ways: good health can lead to integration, but integration can also lead to better health. These connections can nevertheless go in both directions: poor integration can lead to poor health, which...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

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