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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Scattering Amplitudes: Linking particles and black holes Effectively

What happens when black holes collide? These spectacular events release enormous amounts of energy, which bends space and time. The ripples of the aftermath are measured here on Earth. The detection of these gravitational waves have unlocked a new way to study Nature. To observe black holes direc...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Rogaland

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Harmonic Analytic and Quantum Metric Aspects of Rapid Decay (HAQMARD)

In classical metric geometry we study metric spaces, which are sets equipped with a notion of distance known as a metric. Of importance when studying metric spaces are the continuous functions on the space. In fact, it turns out that the metric can be characterized solely in terms of a subset of ...

Awarded: NOK 4.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Differentiable Fracture Simulation

Introduction Fractures in the Earth's subsurface are crucial for operations such as geothermal energy extraction and CO2 storage. Changes to fluid pressure and rock temperature during operation may cause fractures to form and evolve, in turn affecting fluid flow. Understanding this interplay is e...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

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Entanglement Metaphysics without Spacetime (EMwiS)

The aim of metaphysics is to give an account of how the world fundamentally is, and metaphysics is in trouble. The problem is that most metaphysical theories are deeply reliant on the fundamental existence of space and time. What is a world, metaphysics, for instance, asks? One standard answer i...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

UTDANNING-UTDANNING

BRAIGED: Building Responsible AI for Global Education – Towards Explainable AI for Chronic Kidney Disease Diagnosis Utilizing Scintigraphy

Doctors of the future will work with artificial intelligence (AI) just like pilots work with autopilot, useful, but only when understood and monitored by a trained human. Modern medicine produces a huge amount of information, scans, lab results, doctor’s notes, and medical students can feel empow...

Awarded: NOK 9.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Buskerud

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Deciphering the crosstalk between autophagy and metabolic rewiring in cancer

Autophagy is a process that recycles damaged cellular components, helping cells survive stress. The role of autophagy in cancer is complicated: autophagy can stop early tumors from forming, but it can also help established cancer cells survive low oxygen, lack of nutrients, or treatment. A specif...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Multiphysics of salt precipitation during CO2 storage

When CO2 is pumped deep underground for safe and long-term storage, it can trigger a lesser-known challenge: salt crystals forming inside the rock pores. CO2 dries the salty water inside the rock pores. This water becomes more and more salty until the salt crystals form. These crystals can block ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

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Towards Matching Bounds in Large Deviations

Unlikely, but possible, events are everywhere, from extreme heatwaves to mechanical failure or stock market crashes. In such systems, the rare events may have catastrophic outcomes, and it is therefore crucial to understand exactly how unlikely (or not) they are. The mathematical framework to qu...

Awarded: NOK 7.3 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

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

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

MatSci-LLM: Accelerating Materials Science Research with Large Language Models

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in scientific discoveries, particularly in the natural sciences. These generative AI models, trained on vast amounts of web-crawled data, can process and analyze large volumes of scientific literature, enabling researchers to uncover novel insigh...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Resolving the Solar Convective Conundrum: A Full-Physics Approach to Solar Convection

The Sun looks calm from a distance, but its interior is boiling. Hot gas rises, cooler gas sinks, and this continuous churning – called convection – transports energy from the deep interior to the surface. These flows help drive the Sun’s magnetic field and, in turn, the solar activity that affec...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

IKTFORSKNING-IKTFORSKNING

Advanced Security for nExt-Generation Mobile Infrastructure and Systems

The society depends on the continuous ubiquitous availability of mobile communication services. 5G networks serve as critical infrastructure for healthcare, transportation, energy distribution and other public utilities as well as for emergency services and natural disaster rescue. As mobile comm...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Deciphering integrin-specific autoantibodies in ulcerative colitis

Ulcerative colitis is a serious chronic condition that is characterized by inflammation and tissue damage in the large intestine. The exact cause of the disease is unknown, but part of the explanation is likely autoimmunity. That is, an attack of the immune system on the body's own structures. Re...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

DataMines: Governing data infrastructures and clouds in digitally mediated natural resources extraction and exploitation

Who will own and will be able to use natural resources in the future? Natural resources, such as, for example, plants exist today not only in a physical form but also as data. In the past, if biotechnology researchers and companies wanted to search for some chemical compound that was produced by ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2032

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

SongGesture: Co-singing gesture and vocal performance across three musical traditions

In many music traditions, vocalists tend to gesture with hand, head and other body movements as they sing. SongGesture will investigate expert vocalists’ use of gestures in three contrasting vocal styles: beatboxing, karnatak music from South India and European art song. While there has been scie...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

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

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Label-free on-chip morpho-molecular tomography for decoding real-time intracellular dynamics of organelles in autophagy

Imagine being able to watch living cells at work - seeing their tiny structures, tracking how they change from one moment to the next, and identifying what molecules they are made of - all without adding dyes, chemicals, or labels that could disturb their natural behavior. Today, scientists can u...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Novel materials for low-temperature thermoelectric cooling (Nomatec)

Hvordan kan vi erstatte frysere og kjøleskap som slipper ut klimagasser og lager mye støy? Behovet for kjøling til lave temperaturer er hurtig voksende, både innen mathåndtering, medisin, vitenskap, kvanteteknologi, energiteknologi og mange andre anvendelser. Til dette brukes i dag kompressorbase...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

PISA: Platform for Integrated Separation and Absorbance-based organoid drug analysis

Animal testing has long been an essential step in drug development. The challenge is that animal testing is time-consuming and raises ethical concerns. One potential solution is organoids – small tissue models that mimic the human body more accurately than animals and can be cultivated in laborat...

Awarded: NOK 9.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Analysing violent variations in ancient Jewish narrative

Narrated violence is presently treated as a self-evident phenomenon in ancient Jewish literature (c. 500 BCE – 300 CE). Violence as a concept is reduced to a physical act of harm, understood by ancient authors in the same way modern readers. Framing violence in this way creates interpretative pro...

Awarded: NOK 9.8 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

DRUGTREND: Youth cultures and emerging patterns of drug use in a digital age

Drug use patterns among young people in Norway are currently changing. While youth alcohol consumption witnessed a notable decline after the turn of the millennium, trends in illicit drug use have followed a different trajectory, with cannabis and cocaine use currently on the rise. Concurrently, ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

A phase I/II study to investigate if gene therapy can prevent the development of severe osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative and inflammatory disease of joints which affects a large proportion of the population, increasing with age. Pain, stiffness and limitations in joint movement leads to greatly reduced quality of life, often requiring sick leave or disability benefit. To date, ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

SETTING THE STAGE: UNDERSTANDING AXIAL STAGING FOR STABLE ZERO-CARBON COMBUSTION

Gas turbine engines are widely used to power aircraft flight, and in gas-fired power plants to generate electricity. While such engines are considered clean and efficient, they still produce some harmful emissions during combustion. One possibility to help reduce these is to change the amount of ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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