44,356 projects

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

POLARCARB: POLAR ice sheet impacts on the CArbon cycle Revealed by enhanced Biogeochemistry capacity

Ice sheets are not just frozen wastelands. Hidden beneath them water flows through sediments and here, special microorganisms can thrive. These produce methane, a greenhouse gas far more powerful than carbon dioxide. As polar ice retreats, this methane may be released into coastal oceans and pote...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Coastal Lives in Flux: Environmental Crisis, Resistance, and Ritual Innovation Across Asia (CLiF)

Coasts and beaches in East and Southeast Asia face several challenges today. They experience erosion and species loss due to logging, infrastructure development, and tropical storms, which are getting stronger and more frequent because of climate change. They also face problems such as widespread...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

GIANTS: Giant Impact Accretion of Terrestrial Systems

The terrestrial planets (Earth and Mars, for instance) are thought to have formed by a process known as collisional accretion, growing two by two in huge mergers and partial-mergers and almost-mergers. The idea is that Earth was built out of ~10 Mars-sized planets, each merger more violent than t...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Intensionality and Forcing: A New Model-Theoretic Synthesis

Imagine trying to explain what a belief or the meaning of a sentence really is. We use them constantly—when we say “I think it will rain” or when we understand a joke—but they are surprisingly hard for science to pin down. Even simple ideas can fool our theories. Two sentences might always be tru...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Labor Market Power, Institutional Structures, and Social Consequences

The balance of power between employers and workers affects much more than paychecks and job prospects—it also shapes the basic conditions that hold society together. This project starts from a simple but powerful idea: who holds power in the labor market plays a central role in social well-being,...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Unravelling the microbial diversity within halite

Imagine peering into tiny pockets of water trapped inside salt crystals for 250 million years. These microscopic “time capsules” may hold living cells from Earth’s distant past. The "Salty" project explores these fluid inclusions in Zechstein halite, a massive salt deposits stretching across Euro...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Rule of Law and the Public Sense of Justice in Norway - International Conventions and National Norms in a Time of Crisis (PublicJustice)

We currently find ourselves in the middle of a global rule of law crisis. Fundamental principles of the rule of law, which are often taken for granted in democratic countries, are increasingly being questioned and, to some extent, abandoned. This is true not only in remote autocracies, but also i...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

AGROECOL2 Empowering Young Farmers to Coordinate Agrifood Transformations through Engaged RIs and Agroecological LLs

EMPOWERALL builds four youth-led “Agroecological Living Labs” across Europe i.e. real places where young farmers team up with researchers, advisors, civil society and public authorities to figure out what sustainable farming looks like on the ground, not just on paper. These labs are hosted insid...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Discovering vulnerabilities in colorectal cancer by measuring double stranded RNA

Only a small part of DNA is transcribed and converted into functioning molecules, or in other words, expressed. Healthy cells tightly control which regions are expressed, however, cancer cells lose this regulatory control to allow uncontrolled cell growth. Interestingly, loss of regulatory contro...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Technology-Enhanced Cognitive Resilience Toolkit for Disinformation Detection, Vulnerability Profiling, and Digital User Empowerment

Generative AI has made it easy to produce convincing fake news, deepfakes, and tailored scams at scale. That changes the information landscape. People are exposed to more misleading content, faster, and often in forms that are hard to spot at a glance. Much of the current response has focused on ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Vestland

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

REPUTATION: Reconstruction of past virus and phytoplankton interactions using sedimentary ancient DNA

In REPUTATION we aim to test the idea that we can detect viruses of phytoplankton in marine sediments going back around 100, 000 years in time. Phytoplankton are essential parts of marine ecosystems, sitting at the base of the food web, producing roughly 50% of global oxygen, and controlling glob...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

GROOVE: Mapping, Modeling, and Perceiving the Combinatorics of Groove-Based Rhythms

GROOVE asks a simple question with wide implications: why do certain rhythmic patterns—and especially specific combinations across instruments—move us more than others? We study the musical “engine” behind that impulse and what it reveals about how people organize patterns in time, experience ple...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Cancer Resistance of arctic Species

The proposed CAREaS 4-year project aims to acquire a unique accurate descriptive database collected simultaneously at the inter-specific level and in a cohort of individuals within a species, on cancer-related proxies and the link with body mass. Such a dataset is presently inexistent for most bi...

Awarded: NOK 52,999

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Superconducting orbitronics in hybrid systems

This project studies novel materials whose behavior is governed by the laws of quantum physics. In these materials, the way charge carriers move leads to surprising and often exotic effects. Understanding these effects is important for developing future technologies, such as faster and energy-eff...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

OpenHFI: End-to-end Bayesian analysis of Planck HFI

As we look farther and farther out into space, the light we are seeing has travelled longer and longer to reach our telescopes, and we call the oldest light that we can see from our Universe the Cosmic Microwave Background (or CMB). Originating from just a few hundred thousand years after the Uni...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Multilectal Individual Differences in Reading: Neurocognitive and Behavioral Effects of Dialect Exposure on Literacy Development

MInDReading investigates how exposure to dialect variation affects literacy and reading comprehension. In Norway, speakers grow up with regional dialects while learning to read and write in two written standards, Nynorsk and Bokmål. Although these varieties are easily mutually intelligible, they ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Møre og Romsdal

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Forecasting Antibiotic Resistance by Understanding the Evolution of Resistance Enzymes

Antibiotic resistance has become one of the major global health threats and is already responsible for millions of deaths each year. This crisis is largely driven by the widespread overuse of antibiotics, which forces bacteria to evolve increasingly effective defense mechanisms. But what if we co...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Unconventional Thermoelectric Quantum Transport in Novel 2D Magnetic Heterostructures

A quiet revolution is happening in materials research. Scientists have recently discovered ultrathin magnetic materials, only a few atoms thick, that can act as metals, semiconductors, or insulators. What makes these materials extraordinary is that several powerful effects come together in the sa...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PESORDNING-PESORDNING

Preparation for EU application on Physical AI and Robotics.

Battery-related fires in waste processing represent a growing safety, economic, and environmental challenge across Europe. Incorrectly disposed of batteries frequently enter residual waste streams and can trigger fires when passing through shredders, causing damage to facilities, endangering work...

Awarded: NOK 69,999

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

DidactiQC – Teaching and Learning the Mathematics of Quantum Computing

Quantum computing is rapidly emerging as a transformative scientific and technological paradigm, reshaping fields ranging from cryptography and optimization to materials science and machine learning. As this development accelerates, the demand for a new generation of students who possess both a s...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

Winter-is-coming – But do soil microorganisms know and prepare accordingly?

Microorganisms—invisibly to our naked eyes—quietly run the Earth’s life support system. Among many so-called ecosystem services they provide, they produce oxygen for us to breathe and recycle nutrients for plants to grow. Furthermore, microorganisms are not as simple and primitive as we often dep...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FINANSMARKED-FINANSMARKED

Enhancing Norway’s Financial Market through Improved Regulation of Covered Bonds and Mortgage Securitisation

Covered Bonds have become a key source of funding for Norwegian banks. While such bonds have long traditions in countries like Denmark and Germany, Norwegian regulation only emerged in 2002, with improvements in 2007. The regulatory framework has enabled Norwegian financial institutions to raise ...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Imaging the birth of the Universe with LiteBIRD and Simons Observatory

The detection of primordial gravitational waves created during the Big Bang ranks among the greatest potential discoveries in science. The most direct path to such a discovery is through accurate measurements of the polarized cosmic microwave background, the CMB. The two leading experiments in th...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Deciphering Nutrient Uptake Mechanisms in Salmon Louse Oocytes for Gene Editing and Treatment Development

The salmon louse is a small parasite that causes big problems for salmon farming and wild salmon. It feeds on the fish’s skin and blood, leaving wounds that lead to stress and subsequent infections. Current medical treatments are losing effectiveness because lice have developed resistance, while ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

CREATE Persistence and Fadeout

Researchers and policymakers design educational programs with the hope of affecting longer-term outcomes that shape adult well-being. However, most rigorous educational evaluations do not test program impacts in the longer term, and the few that do often find that positive effects are short-lived...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Automating language description

Almost half of the world’s 7000 languages are endangered (Campbell & Belew 2018). Linguists try to combat this loss of human heritage by documenting languages. They do this by recording words, sentences and stories in the original language, accompanied by transcriptions, translations and grammati...

Awarded: NOK 8.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

Designing weather and climate resilient energy systems

Weather and climate are paramount for the reliable operation of our energy systems as they influence power generation from renewable and conventional sources as well as our demand, for example, for heating. Man-made climate change alters the statistics of weather, and the large-scale adoption of ...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Evolution of cold adaptation through independent origins of fructan synthesis in plants

Evolution of cold adaptation through independent origins of fructan synthesis in plants Fructans are storage carbohydrates that buffer frost and drought stress and support winter survival when photosynthesis ceases. They occur in about 15% of flowering plants but have evolved multiple times, ofte...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Akershus

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

RenewHydro International talent recruitment of a freshwater Biodiversity and Climate Adaptation Specialist from USA.

Hydropower is the backbone of the Norwegian energy system. With large reservoirs for water storage, the hydropower system provides stable and highly flexible electricity production that can balance variable renewable sources such as wind and solar power. However, dams and hydropower regulation si...

Awarded: NOK 8.7 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

UAV remote sensing of permafrost degradation and vegetation community changes after snow manipulation

Permafrost in polar regions is reaching critical thermal limits leading to small changes in environmental conditions to have substantial impacts on the overall system. In this project, we aim to investigate the impact of a snow fence manipulation experiment on vegetation and permafrost degradatio...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa