10,355 projects

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Using seed functional traits to understand and predict alpine plant responses to global climate change

Using seed functional traits to understand and predict alpine plant responses to global climate change

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Vestland

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Proglacial lake impacts on the export of Organic carbon and Nutrients to Downstream ecosystems

Proglacial lake impacts on the export of Organic carbon and Nutrients to Downstream ecosystems

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa og 2 andre

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

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

WP2 – Energy System modelling and Socioeconomic models

This work package will focus on addressing the complementarity aspects of using bottom-up technology-rich energy system modelling approaches in tandem with macro-economic analysis with CGE modelling. Namely, we will utilize results and data from the IFE-TIMES-Norway model, using socio-technical t...

Awarded: Hidden

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Akershus

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

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

The Nordic Energy Systems Programme - WP 2 – Energy System modelling and Socioeconomic models

This project addresses the Nordic region’s fossil-free transition by developing an advanced modelling framework that links the energy system model GENeSYS-MOD with the macroeconomic model REMES-EU. Traditionally, energy models assume fixed demand, limiting insight into economic feedbacks. By maki...

Awarded: Hidden

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peering at the micromechanics of the brittle-ductile transition and its effects on fluid flow

Peering at the micromechanics of the brittle-ductile transition and its effects on fluid flow

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Physics-Informed Surrogate Modeling for Offshore Helical Pile Design Optimization

Physics-Informed Surrogate Modeling for Offshore Helical Pile Design Optimization

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Nature-Based Adaptation Targeting Urban Resilience and Economic Efficiency

Climate change will lead to more frequent and intense urban flooding and stormwater challenges in Norwegian municipalities. If no action is taken, these events will cause escalating damage costs to infrastructure, buildings, and public services. Managing these growing risks is a major challenge f...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2032

Location: Oslo - Oslove

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Harnessing innovative sustainable oil alternatives to traditional fish oil, ensuring uncompromised salmon health and fillet quality

Norway is a world leader in salmon farming but faces a major challenge: How can we ensure good fish health and high fillet quality without traditional fish oil? This is the goal of the InnoOil project. Fish oil has long been a key ingredient in salmon feed because it contains the omega-3 fatty ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Contributions to Animal Welfare in Pig Production: Developing and employing Diagnostic Tools for investigations of Lameness Pathogens

Lameness in pigs is a major welfare challenge in pig farming. Lame pigs often experience pain, and reduced mobility leads to difficulty in reaching food and water. For farmers, this leads to extra work, higher treatment costs, and lost production. Bacterial arthritis is an important contributor t...

Awarded: NOK 11.2 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

AGROECOL2 Promoting AGROecology through co-creating value chain innovations and improved multi-level POLIcieS in a beyond-growth Europe

The term "agroecology" has been around for around a hundred years, aiming to make our food systems more sustainable and holistic. However, awareness and adoption of agroecology in Europe is still quite low, with estimates suggesting that less than three percent of farms on the continent operate f...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

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

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

AI controlled fermentation for microbial lipid production

Microorganisms are nature’s tiny factories. Through fermentation, they turn renewable ingredients, such as plant sugars, into useful products ranging from biofuels and bioplastics to medicines, pigments, and food and feed. Norway and the EU view microbial biotechnology as a key tool for a greener...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2031

Location: Akershus

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Secure energy systems for a renewable future

The power sector is the backbone of modern Norwegian society and supports almost all critical functions, including healthcare, transport, communications and national defence. Today, this critical infrastructure faces increasing threats; cyberattacks, sabotage and intelligence operations. This cre...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Cumulative effects of climate change and pollution - How climate region and local habitat shape biological responses and recovery

Global warming and pollution are major threats to nature and a sustainable future. In SoilStress we aim to understand the mechanisms underlying the combined effects of climate change and pollution on soil animals. The main questions are: •Why do populations react differently to pesticides and te...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Resilience of polar ecosystems to the cumulative effects of physical and biological changes in Norway’s high Arctic (ROPES)

The Arctic is changing quickly, and Svalbard’s fjords are among the places where these changes are most visible. Warmer Atlantic water is reaching farther north, sea ice is disappearing, and new fish species such as cod and haddock are becoming more common. At the same time, the small polar cod, ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

FORTRESS- FOResT land use management for REsilient and Sustainable Societies

Forests can protect us from natural hazards, but only if managed wisely. Poor logging practices can increase the risk of landslides and avalanches, while broader objectives like biodiversity conservation and climate change add pressure. In Norway, managing protection forests is challenging due to...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Copepod based Feeds for Improved Salmon Health and aquaculture sustainability

Norway is the world’s largest producer of Atlantic salmon (salmon from here on), but the industry faces major challenges with fish health and welfare, both in land-based and seawater phases, leading to high mortalities. Farmed salmon often have poor resistance to stress and disease, resulting in ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Innovative Technologies for Monitoring Levels of Nitrosamines and Nitramines in Air and Water Near Amine-Based CO2 Capture Facilities

TechNAM is developing new technologies to verify that capturing CO2 from industrial processes does not contaminate the ambient air and nearby drinking water sources. The goal is to meet the safety standards set by the Norwegian Institute for Public Health (NIPH). A key concern is the possible for...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Green Industry and Land-use Governance: Interests, Power and Institutions

IndustryLand examines the relationships between industry, climate and land-use politics and policies in Europe. As the green transition intensifies pressure on scarce nature areas, the project will examine how evolving policies to promote green industries in the EU and Norway integrate land-use r...

Awarded: NOK 10.5 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

NANOTEKNOLOGI-NANOTEKNOLOGI

Selective Oxygen Carriers with Catalytic Function for Sustainable Ethylene: Innovating Redox Chemistry in Methane Conversion

SOCCER: A Game-Changer for Clean Ethylene Production The SOCCER project aims to revolutionize production of ethylene—a key building block in plastics—by turning methane into ethylene in a cleaner, more energy-efficient way. The aim: Reactor designs that achieve over 80% ethylene selectivity and m...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Adapting to climate risks via landscape-scale solutions: effects of peatland restoration on floods and water browning (ANTIPASTI)

Natural hazards like river floods and water browning caused by organic matter washed into aquatic environments are becoming more intense because of climate change. These changes threaten lives and properties, drinking water and ecosystems and local communities. Nature-based solutions such as pea...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Pathogenic Vibrio spp. in Norway applying a One Health approach: current and future challenges

As our oceans heat up due to climate change, new risks are emerging to public health. One such risk is Vibrio bacteria—naturally found in marine environments, but capable of causing serious illness in humans. These bacteria can enter the body through open wounds in seawater or by eating raw seafo...

Awarded: NOK 12.1 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

HAPMarine: HAPtivate Bio-MarineForge - Reinventing Calcium-Rich Waste for Sustainable Marine Infrastructure and Reef Resilience

Concrete and cement-based materials are often used in marine construction, but they have a high carbon footprint and provide little support for marine life. Norway is increasingly experiencing both degradation and loss of reefs in coastal ecosystems, as well as the accumulation of calcium-rich wa...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Exploring the implications of power dynamics for food system change and sustainability outcomes across food, environment, health and climate

Changing the food system in a sustainable direction requires more than scientific knowledge on climate and environmental issues. This is just as much a social and political task. Thus how, in which ways and by whom the food system is governed will greatly affect how the connections between food, ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

Transforming Multifunctional Membranes to Highly Efficient Cathodes and Separators in Aqueous Zn-I2 Batteries for Sustainable Energy Storage

As the world moves toward renewable energy, one major challenge remains: how to store energy safely, efficiently, and at low cost. Batteries are central to this transition, but today’s dominant lithium-ion batteries face limitations related to safety, sustainability, and access to critical raw ma...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Nanotechnology to improve mucosal nucleic acid-based vaccine responses against salmon louse

Salmon louse infestation represents by far the most significant problem of today’s Atlantic salmon production, introducing economic and environmental problems and a deterioration of the salmon’s welfare. Finding new salmon louse treatments that avoid extensive handling of the fish is therefore of...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Renibacteriun salmoninarum: detecting and preventing vertical transmission in salmon

Since 2023, Norwegian aquaculture has faced a growing challenge from bacterial kidney disease (BKD), a serious disease in Atlantic salmon caused by the bacterium Renibacterium salmoninarum. This bacterium is particularly concerning because it can spread vertically—from mother to offspring—via egg...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

FFLJA-FFLJA

Innovative baking technology to increase Norwegian self-sufficiency and food security

Tradition versus innovation: both are important when it comes to food! We believe it is time to modernize how bread, a cornerstone of the Norwegian diet, is produced in Norway. Our goal is to maximize the share of bread made with only Norwegian flours – and that this bread is pleasant to eat, has...

Awarded: NOK 12.8 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Akershus