Approved Norwegian research organisations can apply.
The objective is to promote renewal and development in research across all disciplines and thematic areas. Researcher Projects are to contribute to important new insights, scientific publication, researcher training and international research collaboration.
The purpose of FRIPRO is to fund curiosity-driven and bold research that can contribute to advancing the state-of-the-art. FRIPRO supports both basic and applied research in all research areas. This call is aimed at researchers at postdoctoral level who wish to spend 1-2 years at one or two foreign research organisations, combined with 1-2 years...
The purpose of FRIPRO is to fund curiosity-driven and bold research that can contribute to advancing the state-of-the-art. FRIPRO supports both basic and applied research in all research areas. This call is aimed at researchers at an early stage in their careers, who have demonstrated the potential to conduct research of high scientific quality.
The purpose of this call is to fund curiosity-driven and bold research that can contribute to advancing the state-of-the-art and is open to applications within all research areas. The support aims to give researchers the opportunity to test particularly bold research ideas where the risk of failure is high, but where the significance for the research field is great if the idea succeeds.
The purpose of FRIPRO is to fund curiosity-driven and bold research that can contribute to advancing the state-of-the-art. FRIPRO supports both basic and applied research in all research areas. This call is aimed at experienced scientists who have demonstrated the ability to conduct research of high scientific quality.
The purpose of this call is to fund curiosity-driven and bold research that can contribute to advancing the state-of-the-art through giving good research environments the opportunity to develop into being world-leading within their fields.
The funds will go to research that continues and renews previous Norwegian Local Election Studies. The results of the research will provide knowledge about what is needed to strengthen local democracy, about local elections, local parties/lists and local candidates, voter behaviour, midterm voter turnout and local politics. Knowledge from the pr...
Companies and public sector entities that are not research organisations can apply.
The objective is to encourage value creation and renewal in the business and public sectors. Innovation Projects are to help enhance competitiveness in new and existing business areas, strengthen the restructuring capacity of the Norwegian economy and the public sector, and increase interaction and knowledge transfer across stakeholders.
The Research Council wants to solve major societal challenges in a climate-friendly manner, and promote research-based innovation, demonstration and transition in both established and new business and industry. This call applies to applications where the scope of the innovation is within environmentally friendly energy, petroleum, maritime and t...
The Research Council wants to solve major societal challenges in a climate-friendly manner and wants to promote research-based innovation and restructuring in both established and new business sectors. This call applies to applications where the scope of application for the innovation is within Norwegian agriculture, forestry, forest management ...
This outline call qualifies for the submission of a complete application for funding for new Centres for Environment-friendly Energy Research. Applicants who have not submitted an outline by the deadline are not qualified to apply for funding through the main call. The purpose of the main call is to establish up to three new Centres for Environm...
Approved Norwegian research organisations can apply. Many calls for proposals require collaboration with trade and industry or stakeholders in the public sector.
The objective is targeted, long-term investment to strengthen and further develop outstanding and creative research and innovation groups, or to build up research groups in areas of key strategic importance. Research Centre provides a framework for calls under several different centre schemes that are designed to support the best research groups and lead to pioneering research and new innovations, or to strengthen key priority areas.
The scheme Norwegian Centres of Excellence (SFF) gives Norway's best researchers the opportunity to organise their research activities in centres that seek to achieve ambitious scientific objectives through collaboration and with long-term basic funding. The research conducted at the centres must be innovative and have great potential to generat...
The purpose of the main call is to establish up to three new Centres for Environment-friendly Energy Research (FME Society). The centres will deliver research-based knowledge necessary to solve challenges for the energy transition in society. They will mainly work with social science and relevant humanistic perspectives. The centres may also inc...
Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs), approved Norwegian research organisations and micro-businesses originating in research organisations and/or TTOs can apply.
The objective is to promote greater commercial utilisation of R&D results from publicly-funded research in Norway. Commercialisation Projects are to clarify uncertainties related to the commercial utilisation of high-potential research results by answering questions that will prevent the project from moving forward in the commercialisation process if they remain unanswered
The purpose of the Research Council's commercialisation support is to contribute to the use of publicly funded research through increased commercial exploitation and/or societal innovation. The purpose of verification support corresponds to the purpose of Horizon Europe's EIC-Transition: to mature and validate new technologies from the laborator...
The purpose of the Research Council's commercialisation support is to contribute to the use of publicly funded research through increased commercial exploitation and/or societal innovation. The purpose of a qualification project is to carry out initial investigations of possible applications, which form the basis for further choices, including f...
Approved Norwegian research organisations, companies, public sector entities, non-governmental organisations and groups of such entities can apply.
The objective is to fund the planning, coordination and dissemination of R&D activities. Coordination and Support Activities are to promote researcher mobility, national and international networks, publication, dialogue, dissemination activity and more in connection with R&D activities.
The aim of the call is to enhance cybersecurity resilience in the energy sector across the Nordic region through cross-border collaboration and innovation.
The purpose of the scheme is to increase the proportion of young researchers who take research stays abroad. International experience is important for the research career and helps to strengthen Norwegian research by increasing competence and adding new knowledge to the project, developing networks and strengthening the opportunities for access ...
This is a so-called registration call for departments that have been awarded salary and operating funds for doctoral research fellows from the STIPINST scheme. The call for proposals enables the Research Council to register doctoral students that the departments enroll on the basis of a letter of commitment.
Through this call, you can apply for funding to organise conferences, workshops and seminars. The event will be a meeting place for dissemination of research results, knowledge sharing, development of a knowledge base and/or the establishment of scientific collaboration. The event can be both physical and digital.
The purpose of this call is to provide support for membership of the European Open Science Cloud Association (EOSC AISBL) for approved research organisations and publicly funded providers of research infrastructure that collaborate closely with Norwegian research organisations. Recipients must be able to document their membership in EOSC AISBL.
The aim of the call is to link national research groups to the defence sector. The call is intended to contribute to strengthening outstanding and robust national research groups that develop new knowledge of interest to the defence sector, and that support military technology development and realise synergies with other technology initiatives i...
The Project Establishment Scheme (PES) is intended to ensure that applications with Norwegian participation in Horizon Europe are of high quality, so that Norwegian potential is exploited as well as possible. This call is intended to contribute to increasing the impact of Norwegian applications to Horizon Europe and the European Defence Fund (EDF).
The Research Council supports the recruitment of talented international researchers to the Research Council's centre calls and for projects funded through FRIPRO's call for experienced scientists, or the call for Top Researchers.
The Research Council supports Ukrainian researchers employed by a research organisation in Ukraine who will contribute to an ongoing Researcher Project. The background for the scheme is the difficult situation researchers and research institutions in Ukraine are currently experiencing. When the war ends, research will be crucial for the reconstr...
Through this call, you can apply for funding to organise conferences, workshops and seminars. The event will be a meeting place for dissemination of research results, knowledge sharing, development of a knowledge base and/or generation of scientific collaboration. The event can be both physical and digital.
Funding is available to research groups that wish to develop equitable partnerships with partners in low- or lower-middle-income countries, with a view to applying for funding through the call for Researcher Project for Early Career Scientists on global health in 2026.
This is a portal for registering Norwegian partners in projects awarded funding in a Horizon Europe co-fund partnership call where the Research Council provides funding for the Norwegian partner's project costs. Registration of granted project participation provides a basis for establishing a contract with the Research Council for the national f...
The purpose of this call is to support events that address the functioning of the financial market and contribute to ethical awareness in the financial market area. Support from the Finance Market Fund will be used for purposes within areas of activity that include the securities market (see Section 7 of the Regulations). In addition, we can sup...
Get ready for the third Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership (SBEP) Joint Transnational Co-Funded Call (2025) entitled “Digitalisation and Innovation for Resilient Marine Ecosystems Businesses, and Communities to Strengthen the EU Blue Economy’s Competitiveness”.
The Research Council announces up to 3.7 million euros for Norwegian researchers and businesses who want to participate in international research collaboration in materials research.
The QuantERA Call 2025 is a joint transnational Call for research proposals in QT cofunded by organisations gathered under the QuantERA III Research & Innovation Action, with additional EC contribution.
The purpose of the call is to support transnational research projects that can contribute to increased knowledge about overweight and obesity in a life-course perspective.
This call is open for all R&D projects in the industrial sector within energy, excluding technologies associated with nuclear power.
The aim of the call is to support and enable transnational collaboration between clinical research communities on investigator-initiated clinical trials.
Call’s objectives: Strengthen climate resilience in West Africa based on a better understanding of the impacts of climate change; Improve climate knowledge, capacities and services for climate risk reduction and adaptation to climate change; Strengthen African and European partnership.
JPI Oceans has launched a Joint Call on Blue Carbon to build understanding of its role in climate mitigation, adaptation, and biodiversity protection. The call provides €5.3 million in funding and remains open to proposals until 2 March 2026. Research organizations, companies and entities in the public sector can apply for funding from the Research Council of Norway.
In this Belmont Forum CRA call, the Research Council of Norway contributes with NOK 17 million to Norwegian research organisations. The purpose of the call is to enhance our knowledge about the oceans and foster international, transdisciplinary research to address global environmental challenges facing our oceans. All Norwegian sea areas are included in the call, included the polar oceans.
This call focuses on promoting research and innovation that addresses critical challenges related to water quality, contaminants, and human health, including the links to environmental health (One Health).
This call is focused on fostering innovative research to be integrated into nature restoration practices for interconnected and well-functioning ecosystems and habitats, with special consideration for long-term sustainability and future-proofing of restoration efforts, at scales from local to regional to cross-border and global, including their evaluation.
Norway is partner in the European Partnership for a sustainable Future of Food Systems (FutureFoodS) where the research consortia must be comprised of a minimum of three partners from different countries.
The first EUP OHAMR joint transnational call will be within the focus area of providing innovative and cost-effective treatment options. The call will be launched in November 2025.
With this JTC, EP PerMed will fund research projects in human health on innovative PM strategies for patients with cardiovascular, metabolic or kidney diseases. Research projects may focus on a single disease or explore these conditions in combination.
The partnership will fund R&I projects providing significant contributions to either one of the following two topics : Topic 1 Enhancing the genetic diversity and variability of crops and livestock for the agroecological transition Topic 2 Strengthening farmer’s involvement and empowerment in the agroecology transition
The goal of this call is to solve Undiagnosed Rare Genetic diseases and to address complex, multifactorial Rare Non-Genetic diseases by identifying causative variants in patients with no molecular diagnosis after prior genetic or genomic testing and providing diagnostic clarity for conditions of unknown or mixed pathogenesis.
Messages at time of print 14 November 2025, 21:01 CET