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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

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Rettslige rammer for balansen mellom arbeid og fritid ved hjemmekontor.

Prosjektet undersøker hvordan arbeidsrettslig regulering kan bidra til å ivareta balansen mellom arbeid og fritid i et stadig mer digitalisert arbeidsliv. Økt bruk av hjemmekontor og fleksible arbeidsformer utfordrer tradisjonelle grenser for arbeidstid og tilgjengelighet, og reiser nye rettslige...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Academic Careers: Examining the Significance of Socio-Economic Background

Academics occupy a privileged position in society. They are experts in their fields, share knowledge with the public, train new generations of students, and hire future academics. While much research has explored how social background—such as parental education, income, or class—affects success i...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

FERTILITY INEQUALITY: Economic and social drivers of declining birth rates

Birth rates have been declining for a long time in Norway, as in the rest of the world. A t the same time, fertility inequalities have widened – both between men and women, and between individuals with higher and lower levels of income and education. What explains the growing inequality in the nu...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Consultants in the Welfare State (CONSULT): Consequences for Governance and Legitimacy

Knowledge and expertise are fundamental to the governance of the welfare state. In recent decades, a new type of commercial knowledge provider has rapidly emerged as key advisers to governments worldwide, including in Norway. Consulting firms are frequently used as experts in policy development, ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Turning the tables: Can ‘upstream’ social policy prevent child maltreatment?

UPSTREAM aims to improve our understanding of whether child maltreatment can be prevented through broader social policies tools, such cash benefits or services for families, and how. The project is motivated by the fact that many people who have been involved with child welfare services face poor...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Under pressure – Student achievement and wellbeing in a changing school environment

Recent decades have seen a concerning increase in the prevalence of mental health issues among children and adolescents. Mental health issues, which typically emerge during adolescence, are now among the leading causes of disability in young people. During the same period, everyday school life h...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Match effects and matchmaking in education

Which is the best school? In Norway, as in most other countries, students, parents, and policymakers ask this question every year. Schools are ranked by admission cutoffs and value-added models, and politicians pledge to improve the trailing schools. However, if different students thrive in diffe...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Mapping Care: Coordination, Gaps, and Barriers in Support for Refugee Children

Mapping Care: Rethinking Support for Refugee Children in Norway Imagine arriving in a new country as a child—learning a new language, adapting to new customs, while carrying memories of conflict or loss. For many refugee children in Norway, this is their daily reality. They are resilient, yet fa...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SAMISKTEMA-SAMISKTEMA

(Mis)trust: The Norwegianization of language, people and land in South Saepmie. Why reconciliation, how, and between whom?

South Sápmi is a region with a complex history. For generations, the Sámi people have lived under assimilation policies and colonial structures. These experiences have left deep scars and created mistrust, both between Sámi groups and between the Sámi and the majority society. When trust disappea...

Awarded: NOK 11.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

SAMISKTEMA-SAMISKTEMA

Reshaping linguistic spheres in Sápmi: language policy, linguistic atmosphere, and namescapes in the multilingual North (ReLing)

Who Owns Languages at the Local Level? How is language policy developed in municipalities where Sámi languages are threatened? A research project investigates how local language policy, attitudes, and political actions influence the revitalization of Sámi languages. In several municipalities in N...

Awarded: NOK 11.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Using smart contracts and policies to reduce energy-related risk and inequality among households

To reduce carbon emissions, the green energy transition emphasizes incorporating variable renewable energy (VRE) sources and electrifying household energy consumption. This transition shifts households from being mere consumers to becoming producers and flexibility providers, playing a crucial in...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Telemark og 3 andre

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Skills Enhancement on the Move: Digital Pathways in Higher Vocational Education

Higher vocational education via distance education offers new opportunities for skills development. Higher vocational schools play an important role in providing education and knowledge that companies need, and in recent years there has been significant growth in both the number of higher vocatio...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Valuing Animals

Every year, we raise and kill over 80 billion farm animals and trillions of aquatic animals. In addition, many animals more are harmed by infrastructure projects and business activities. These sentient creatures have interests that matter morally, yet our economic and political systems largely ig...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Gender segregated educational choices, skill gaps and early career opportunities

Over the past fifty years, we've seen a remarkable shift in education: young women now earn more degrees and higher credentials than young men across most developed countries, including Norway and the United States. This educational advantage for women reached its peak around the year 2000, after...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Modelling Human Happiness: Exploring Enabling and Restrictive Factors to Wellbeing across Culture

The individual exchange project aims to foster research collaboration between the ModHap project and the Oishi Lab at the University of Chicago. Using prediction and validation methods in machine learning, we seek to identify which factors are most central to the prediction of wellbeing and which...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Exploring Social Politics, Inclusive Education, and Cultural Democratization Through the Lens of Norwegian Hip Hop Music

The NORHOP project will investigate the multiple functions and implications of hip hop music in contemporary Norway, focusing especially on the aesthetic, pedagogical, and sociopolitical dimensions of the performance and reception of hip hop in various cultural, educational, and social contexts. ...

Awarded: NOK 0.26 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Innlandet

SAMISKTEMA-SAMISKTEMA

(MORE) Museum Objects and Reconciliation Ethics: Collaborations over post-repatriation reparations in Sápmi.

MORE: Museum Objects and Reconciliation Ethics. Collaborations over post-repatriation reparations in Sápmi. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission's report from 2023 recommends that the Norwegian state address historical and ongoing discrimination, built new understanding of our nation's histori...

Awarded: NOK 11.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Neurocognitive Outcomes of Bilingualism and Effects on Language Learning

If you’re bilingual, that is if you can speak more than one language, you may be able to learn novel languages easily/quickly. Why might that be? There are many possible factors that contribute to someone’s rate of learning a novel language, including greater knowledge about languages, existing a...

Awarded: NOK 7.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SAMISKTEMA-SAMISKTEMA

Knowledge for Reconciliation: Truth and Contestation after Norway’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (RECON)

RECON investigates the promises and pitfalls of knowledge in reconciliation efforts. We ask: What role do truth and reconciliation commissions play? What does reconciliation mean in the Norwegian South Saami area? And can dissemination of knowledge strengthen reconciliation? In June 2023, Norway’...

Awarded: NOK 11.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

Tracking health-related underachievement in the first two decades of life (THRIVE)

How does health shape children’s chances in school? Some children fall behind in school not because they lack ability, but because their health holds them back. This project explores how different health conditions – both physical and mental – influence learning and school performance from child...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

EduGAP: Grading, Assessment and Pathways

There is an ongoing debate in many countries about assessment practices, in particular the use of external and centrally administered exams. This debate intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic, when national exams were often not conducted. At the same time, assessment practices vary widely acros...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Attachments as mode of regulation: migrant inclusion in the welfare state

Over the past few decades, migration policies in Nordic welfare states have gradually weakened the security of residence and rights once granted to legal migrants. A key part of this shift is the growing focus on migrants’ “attachments” to the state ('tilknytning' in Norwegian). These attachments...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

What was in a name? Culture and naming practices in the past.

Gifting a baby with a personal name is a universal cultural phenomenon that is attached with a profound symbolical value. Although the pool of potential names is theoretically infinite, the range of names traditionally used has been quite limited because the choice of a specific name was bound by...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

[SEFYR] – Seamless follow-up services for youth at risk

SEFYR – Seamless follow-up for youth at risk From fragmented services to coordinated support Many young people with mental health challenges, substance use problems, school absenteeism, or risk of criminal behaviour encounter a fragmented support system. When services fail to collaborate effecti...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SAMISKTEMA-SAMISKTEMA

Sustaining National Minorities in Education: Kven/Norwegian Finnish and Forest Finnish Experiences and Needs in Mainstream Schools

The NAMED Project explores how Kven/Norwegian Finns and Forest Finns in Norway are represented in the education system. Pedagogies that sustain these minorities' cultural and linguistic heritage through mainstream education will be developed within the project. Through a survey and interviews, w...

Awarded: NOK 11.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Youth Outside work and education – Understanding Traits and Hurdles

What do we really know about youth exclusion? Far too many young people in Norway are outside employment, education, and training. This group–often referred to as NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training)–faces a high risk of long-term exclusion. But the NEET category is broad and imprecise...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

From Refugee to Co-Creator: Navigating Integration of Youth Amid Uncertainty

Where does the future of young Ukrainian refugees lie? Will they return to Ukraine, or will they build their lives in Norway? While the answer remains uncertain, these young newcomers must make critical decisions about their education, further studies, careers, and social lives. They are navigati...

Awarded: NOK 11.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

CiYouth: Collaboration to promote social inclusion for youth with complex psychosocial needs

This project is a collaboration between different services and research environments. It includes participants from mental health services, the Child Welfare Services (CWS), the educational sector, to co-create and evaluate an intervention that aims to support social inclusion for young people wi...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

Welfare under scrutiny: Precarious life in contemporary Norwegian literature

Contemporary Norwegian literature contains many depictions of people in precarious situations. We can read about mothers without social networks, young adults in temporary jobs, teenagers on the verge of becoming criminals, and children with ill parents. Portrayals of vulnerable and marginalized ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

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