840 projects

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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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Time-Dimension of Islet Regeneration: Mastering ß-Cell Plasticity

Diabetes is an umbrella term for a group of metabolic diseases characterized by chronically elevated blood sugar caused by the inability of the body to produce/use sufficient insulin, a hormone synthesized by the pancreatic ß-cells. Previous research exposed the high regenerative potential of the...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

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Decoding Developmental Convergence: Mapping Genetic Risk Across Neural and Cardiac Lineages

Many children born with heart defects at birth later develop conditions such as autism or developmental delay. Today, doctors and families often do not know, early in life, which children are at highest risk for problems with brain development. Genetic studies suggest that heart and brain develop...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

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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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CancER-phagy: Unravelling and targeting ER-phagy in cancer

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) can be considered the factory of the cell where important cellular components such as proteins and lipids are assembled. In cancer cells, these factories are running beyond their normal capacity to generate components required for tumour growth and spread. To preven...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Dynamics: Noncommutativity, Groupoids, Homotopy theory (DyNGH)

In this project I will study topological dynamical systems: configurations of points that evolve over time according to a fixed rule. The key feature is continuity: if two states start out very similar, they remain similar after the rule is applied, there are no sudden jumps. This may sound abstr...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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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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Technological Change, Labor Representation, and Job Quality: A Comparative Historical Analysis, c. 1830–1980

TECHLABOR investigates how new technologies have changed the quality of jobs. Job quality includes aspects of work that affect wellbeing such as work intensity, safety on the job, and working hours as well as wages. Improving the quality of jobs is a global policy commitment, but early research o...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

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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HotSpot: Stress-induced mutations in evolution

Climate change is exposing plants, animals, and other organisms to stress such as heat and drought more frequently. Recent research suggests that such stress can influence the probability of certain mutations arising along the DNA sequence, but the biological consequences of these mutations remai...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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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

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Metabolism-Epitranscriptome Crosstalk: Novel Regulation in Embryo Development

One in six people experience infertility, and demand for assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) is rising. In Norway, fertility rates have dropped 28% over the past decade, and ART now accounts for 6% of all births. Even with modern in vitro fertilization (IVF), the chance of a live birth per ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Advanced Measurements In Carbon-fusion Reactions: Cross-Section Measurements and Branching Ratios

The elements that us humans and our world consist of were made through the birth, life and death of millions of generations of stars through a process called nucleosynthesis: The process of creating new elements from existing ones. Researching the life cycle of stars and the processes involved is...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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DESIGNK. Designing a synthetic killer based on a natural template

Natural killer (NK) cells are part of the body’s first line of immune defence. They continuously patrol our tissues, seeking out and destroying cancer cells and virus-infected cells without prior training. This makes them highly attractive candidates for cancer immunotherapy. However, translating...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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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

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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

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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

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TO KILL AN EMPIRE? RUSSIAN MUSICAL EXILE IN TIMES OF WAR

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, many Russian musicians have been forced into exile due to censorship and repression. Some have been labeled “foreign agents,” banned from performing in Russia, and pushed to rebuild their careers abroad. Yet exile has not meant silence. Inste...

Awarded: NOK 5.6 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland