Researcher Project for Young Talents
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Purpose
Funding is intended to give talented young researchers under the age of 40 in all disciplines and thematic areas the opportunity to pursue their ideas and lead a research project. This call is targeted towards researchers in the early stages of their careers, 2–7 years after defence of an approved doctorate, who have demonstrated the potential to conduct research of high scientific quality.
About the call for proposals
Grant applications will be accepted for projects in all disciplines and research areas, and funding is available for both basic and applied research projects.
The call encompasses several topics. You will find a specified amount and priorities for the selection of projects to receive funding under each topic.
It will be possible to create and fill in an application form from 15 December.
You can select one topic in the application form. If you select Ground-breaking Research (FRIPRO), you do not need to submit the attachment ‘Relevance to the topic’. If you select another topic, this attachment is mandatory.
Applicants who have selected topics other than Ground-breaking Research, but who are not granted funding, will compete for the funding for Ground-breaking Research if they meet the qualification requirement: a mark of 6 or 7 for all the criteria assessed by the panel.
You can only be the project manager for one application submitted for either a Researcher Project for Young Talents (this call), Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal, Three-year Researcher Project with International Mobility (deadline 2 February 2022), Knowledge-building Project for Industry or Collaborative Project to meet Societal and Industry-related Challenges (deadline 9 February 2022).
The Norwegian-language call for proposals is the legally binding version.
Who is eligible to apply?
Only approved Norwegian research organisations may apply. See here for the list of approved Norwegian research organisations.
Who can participate in the project?
Requirements relating to the Project Owner
The organisation listed as the Project Owner in the application form must have approved the submission of the grant application to the Research Council.
Requirements relating to project managers
Experience requirements: You must have an approved doctorate and the period between the date of defence of your doctoral dissertation and the application deadline may be between two and seven years. You must have defended your dissertation no earlier than 2 February 2015 and no later than 2 February 2020.
Age requirement: You must be younger than 40 years old on the date of the application submission deadline. This means that you must have been born on or after 3 February 1982.
If more than seven years have passed since you defended your dissertation or if you were born before 3 February 1982, you may apply to subtract leaves of absence, compulsory military or civilian service or sick leave in accordance with our rules for subtracting time.
Rules for subtracting timeYou may apply to subtract time used in connection with statutory leaves of absence, compulsory military or civilian service (up to 12 months for both of these) or continuous full-time and/or part-time sick leave equal to at least eight weeks full-time absence. If you apply to subtract time in order to satisfy the experience requirement, the periods to be subtracted must have taken place after the doctoral defence. If you apply to subtract time to satisfy the age requirement, the periods to be subtracted must have taken place after you turned 18 years old. To be allowed to subtract time from the age and/or experience requirement, you are required to submit documentation of the time you are asking to subtract with your grant application You must also enter the time deduction in the application form. We accept documentation from the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV), physicians/health services and employers. Documentation from current or former supervisors is not sufficient. If you are providing documentation from an employer, it must come from the employer’s administration department, such as the HR department. The documentation must be submitted in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English, or must be accompanied by a certified translation into one of these languages. We follow the rules for leaves of absence set out in the Norwegian Working Environment Act, and you may apply to subtract time for any leaves of absence you would have been entitled to if you had lived in Norway at the time. For example, you may subtract time for parental leave in a country that does not have statutory parental leave, provided that you actually took parental leave. You must be able to document the leave as described above. |
- It is not possible to receive funding for a Researcher Project for Young Talents more than once.
- You must dedicate at least 25 per cent of a full-time position to the project for the duration of the project period.
- You must be employed for at least 50 per cent of a full-time position by the Project Owner (research organisation) for the entire duration of the project period.
You can only be the project manager for one application submitted for either a Researcher Project for Young Talents (this call), Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal, Three-year Researcher Project with International Mobility (deadline 2 February 2022), Knowledge-building Project for Industry or Collaborative Project to meet Societal and Industry-related Challenges (deadline 9 February 2022).
Requirements relating to partners
Only approved Norwegian research organisations (see the section ‘Who is eligible to apply?’ above) and corresponding research organisations in other countries are eligible to be partners and to receive Researcher Project funding.
Other types of organisations, such as companies and other undertakings, may not be project partners in Researcher Projects.
Read more about partners here.
Subcontractors cannot be granted any rights to project results. Organisations that are subject to the regulations governing public procurements must, in the normal manner, select subcontractors in accordance with these regulations. R&D providers cannot be included in the project.
A project participant may not be assigned two different roles in the project. This means that a sub-contractor for the project may not have the role of Project Owner or partner in the same project.
What can you seek funding for?
You may seek funding to cover actual costs that are necessary to execute the project. The Project Owner is to obtain information about costs from each project partner. These costs are to be entered in the cost plan under the relevant category.
Funding may be granted for the following costs:
- Payroll and indirect expenses, related to researcher time (including research fellowship positions) at the research organisations participating in the project. For doctoral and post-doctoral research fellowships, this funding is limited to maximum three person-years.
- Equipment. This encompasses operating and depreciation costs for scientific equipment and research infrastructure necessary for the execution of the project.
- Operating expenses, which comprise costs for other activities that are necessary to carry out R&D efforts under the project. Procurements from subcontractors that exceed NOK 100,000 must be specified.
You will find detailed and important information about what to enter in the project budget on our website.
If the project includes doctoral and post-doctoral research fellowships and there are concrete plans in place for research stays abroad for the fellowship holders, the costs of such stays may be included in the grant application. The Research Council has also issued a separate call for funding for Research Stays Abroad for Doctoral and Post-doctoral Fellows. The project manager may seek funding under that call in the course of the project period for research stays abroad for research fellows affiliated to the project.
Scope of funding
The Research Council can provide NOK 4–8 million in funding per project under this call. There are no requirements for own financing. If our lump-sum rates do not cover all the costs associated with recruitment positions in the university and university college sector or the institute sector, or researcher positions in the university and university college sector, the difference must be covered through own funding. Reported hourly rates must be used for researcher positions in the institute sector.
Conditions for funding
The Research Council will not award funding that constitutes state aid under this call. This means that funding is only to go to your non-economic activity. We require a clear separation of accounts for the organisation’s economic and non-economic activities. Our requirements relating to allocation and disbursement of support for the first year and any pledges and payments for subsequent years are set out in the General Terms and Conditions for R&D Projects to be found on our information page What the contract involves.
If your project is awarded funding, the following must be in place before you submit your revised grant application:
- From 2022, all grant recipients that are research organisations or public sector bodies (Project Owners and partners) must have a Gender Equality Plan (GEP)available on their website. This must be in place when they sign the grant agreement for projects awarded funding from the Research Council. The requirement does not apply to the business sector, special interest organisations or the non-profit sector.
- The Research Council requires full and immediate open access to scientific publications; see Plan S – open access to publications.
- You must prepare a data management plan for any research data handled in the project. The data must be made available in accordance with the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable).The Project Owner is responsible for selecting which archiving solution(s) to use for storing research data generated during the project.
Relevant thematic areas for this call
The call encompasses all disciplines and research areas, and grant applications will be accepted for both basic and applied research projects. The list of topics and their amounts of funding may be subject to revision until the call for proposals opens for applications from 15 December 2021.
Ground-breaking research
Funding is available to promote independent, bold and innovative research and scientific quality at the forefront of international research. Through FRIPRO, we will fund both basic and applied research with the goal of generating scientific renewal, where project ideas are initiated by the researchers themselves.
We do not require FRIPRO projects to have the potential for societal impact. We will only assess applications in relation to this point if such potential impacts are described in the application.
Ranking of applications
The competition for FRIPRO funding is tough. The number of worthy applications we receive each year far exceeds the amount of funding available, and only a small percentage of even the best applications are granted funding.
For applications to be considered for FRIPRO funding, they must therefore meet a mark requirement. Only applications awarded a mark of 6 or 7 by the panels for all of the assessment criteria are eligible for funding. In 2022, we estimate that around one out of six of these applications will be granted funding.
Among the eligible applications, we will place most emphasis on the criteria quality of R&D activities and potential for advancing the state-of-the-art when selecting which projects to grant funding to.
Applications with a project manager that does not have an ongoing project with FRIPRO funding will be prioritised above applications with a project manager that does, if the two applications are otherwise considered to be of similar quality. By ongoing project we mean all projects with an end date of 1 January 2023 or later in the original contract.
Funds subject to special guidelines
NOK 24 million for renewable energy and CO₂capture and storage (from here on called ‘energy funding’) forms part of this thematic area. These funds are from the Storting’s climate settlement. The funding is awarded to relevant applications submitted to FRIPRO under the three calls Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal, Researcher Project for Young Talents and Three-year Researcher Project with International Mobility.
If you would like your application to be considered for the energy funding, you must write the word ‘Energy’ in the field ‘Other relevant calls’ in the application form.
Administrative procedures
The energy funding will be awarded after the ordinary funding under FRIPRO has been allocated. Ranking of these applications takes place in the same way as for the ordinary FRIPRO funds, as described above.
Contacts
Other relevant calls with the same topic
Oceans
Funding is available for research on the occurrence and effects of pollution and other anthropogenic stressors on biodiversity, ecosystems, populations and species in the marine environment.
The objective of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, which started in 2021, is to increase knowledge about the ocean and ensure that society can use this knowledge to help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In our portfolio plans (see ‘Relevant plans’ below), you can read more about the knowledge needs behind this funding that your research can help to solve.
The projects must address research in the open ocean or the Norwegian coastal zone and the research must be relevant to Norway.
The geographical areas for this topic are:
- the polar marine areas, as described in the Portfolio plan for Climate and polar research;
- Norway’s ocean, fjord and coastal areas.
Stressors and effects on marine species, populations or ecosystems
The projects must address stressors and their effects on marine species, populations or ecosystems in at least one of the following areas:
- transport of environmental toxins and other types of pollution from land or via ocean and/or air currents, and how they are distributed, dispersed and concentrated in marine ecosystems;
- inputs, transport and dispersion of other stressors than those mentioned above between coastal, fjord and ocean areas;
- effects of local discharges as a result of human activity in e.g. offshore petroleum activities, other industrial activities, aquaculture, agriculture and municipal waste water;
- combined effects of external stressors from e.g. climate change, environmental toxins, plastics, ocean acidification, freshwater inflow and/or various industrial activities;
- effects of changes in physical, hydrochemical and/or biogeochemical conditions as a result of e.g. temperature increase and freshwater inflow.
Stressors include pollutants, heat, cold, invasive species, freshwater inflow, climate change etc. that can have an impact on the marine environment.
Relevant applications must encompass one or more of the points above, address the geographical area defined in the call and be relevant to Norway. Applications that address more than one of the points above will not receive a higher mark for relevance.
The attachment ‘Relevance to the topic’ is mandatory if you select this topic. The template can be found at the end of the call.
Our goal is to fund at least one project within each of the following areas:
- coastal conditions
- polar conditions
- combined effects of external stressors
The projects that receive funding should preferably become involved in the UN Decade of Ocean Science. This should in such case be included in the communication plan and it will also be discussed in more detail with the projects that receive funding.
Contacts
Other relevant calls with the same topic
Funding is available under the call Researcher Project for Young Talents in the area Production biology, nutrition, breeding and genetics as described below.
Funding is also available for aquaculture research on the following topics with a deadline in February 2022:
- Collaborative Project to meet Societal and Industry-related Challenges: Production and processing technology(the page opens in a new window)
- Collaborative Project to meet Societal and Industry-related Challenges:Marine and coastal areas under pressure (the page opens in a new window)
To be eligible for funding, the application must fall within the thematic priority described below.
Production biology, nutrition, breeding and genetics – thematic open call
Funding is available for research that contributes to increased knowledge about and understanding of aquaculture organisms’ production biology, nutrition, breeding and genetics. The research area is described in more detail in the Portfolio plan for Oceans and in the work programme for Aquaculture research, which you can find under ‘Relevant plans’ below.
Projects within this research area can encompass all aquaculture species. Funding is available for both a Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal and Researcher Project for Young Talents (this call) and applications will compete for funding across these two calls. We expect to grant funding to five projects divided between the two calls.
When awarding marks for the relevance criterion, we will also pay special consideration to:
- the thematic match in the research area (this is given most weight);
- whether you have concrete plans for international collaboration, for example participation in project work, co-publication or mobility;
- whether you have people in recruitment positions who will actively participate in the project work.
Applications for a Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal/Researcher Project for Young Talents may not include partners from outside academia/that are not research organisations, but stakeholders e.g. reference groups, can be included in the project
The attachment ‘Relevance to the topic’ is mandatory. The template can be found at the end of the call.
Contacts
Other relevant calls with the same topic
Climate and polar research
Funding is available for research on the occurrence and effects of pollution and other anthropogenic stressors on biodiversity, ecosystems, populations and species in the marine environment.
See the comlete text on the topic under the thematic area Oceans.
Practical information
Requirements for this application type
Applications must be created and submitted via My RCN Web. You may revise and resubmit your grant application form multiple times up to the application submission deadline. We recommend that you submit your application as soon as you have filled in the grant application form and included all mandatory attachments. After the deadline, it is the most recently submitted version of the grant application that will be processed.
The application must meet the following requirements:
- The grant application and all attachments must be submitted in English, except for the description of relevance to the selected topic in the call, which may be submitted in Norwegian or English.
- All mandatory attachments must be included.
- Requirements relating to the project manager and Project Owner (research organisation) must be satisfied.
- The project must start between 15 September 2022 and 15 February 2023.
- Funding must be sought from the Research Council for the year the project starts.
Applications that do not satisfy the requirements listed above may be rejected.
Mandatory attachments
The mandatory attachments must be prepared using designated templates found at the end of the call.
- A project description, maximum 11 pages.
- A CV for the project manager, maximum four pages.
- A description of the project’s relevance to the selected topic. This is mandatory for all topics under the call except for Ground-breaking research (FRIPRO). (To be uploaded under Attachments/Other items in the application form.)
Optional attachments
- CVs of key project participants not exceeding four pages each. You must use the CV template found at the end of the call.
- Applicants themselves are to decide which project participants are most important and in which cases it will be of significance to the review process to assess these participants’ qualifications.
- Applicants are free to enclose a short description of qualifications or propose up to three referees who are presumed to be qualified to review their grant proposal. The Research Council is not under any obligation to use the proposed referees, but may use them as needed
Attachments other than the mandatory and optional attachments specified above, as well as any links to websites in the grant application, will not be included in the application review process.
Assessment criteria
We assess applications in light of the objectives of the application type in question and on the basis of the following criteria:
Excellence – potential for advancing the state-of-the-art
• Scientific creativity and originality.
• Novelty and boldness of hypotheses or research questions.
• Potential for development of new knowledge beyond the current state-of-the-art, including significant theoretical, methodological, experimental or empirical advancement.
Excellence – quality of R&D activities
• Quality of the research questions, hypotheses and project objectives, and the extent to which they are clearly and adequately specified.
• Credibility and appropriateness of the theoretical approach, research design and use of scientific methods. Appropriate consideration of interdisciplinary approaches.
• The extent to which appropriate consideration has been given to ethical issues, safety issues, gender dimension in research content, and use of stakeholder/user knowledge if appropriate.
Impact
• Potential for academic impact:
The extent to which the planned outputs of the project address important present and/or future scientific challenges.
• Potential for societal impact (if addressed by the applicant):
The extent to which the planned outputs of the project address UN Sustainable Development Goals or other important present and/or future societal challenges.
• The extent to which the potential impacts are clearly formulated and plausible.
Communication and exploitation
• Quality and scope of communication and engagement activities with different target audiences, including relevant stakeholders/users.
Implementation
• The extent to which the project manager has relevant expertise and experience, and demonstrated ability to perform high-quality research (as appropriate to the career stage).
• The degree of complementarity of the participants and the extent to which the project group has the necessary expertise needed to undertake the research effectively.
The quality of the project organisation and management
• Effectiveness of the project organisation, including the extent to which resources assigned to work packages are aligned with project objectives and deliverables.
• Appropriateness of the allocation of tasks, ensuring that all participants have a valid role and adequate resources in the project to fulfil that role.
• Appropriateness of the proposed management structures and governance.
Relevance to the chosen topic
Administrative procedures
We will assess the version of your application that you submit and will not take into account how an identical or almost identical application has been assessed in the past.
The applications are first considered through a common process by a set of referee panels composed on the basis of the research content of the applications. The applications are assessed regardless of which topic the applicant has selected from the call. After the panel has completed its assessment, the Research Council will conduct an assessment of the application’s relevance to the call.
Applications that, in principle, target topics other than Ground-breaking Research (FRIPRO), but are not granted funding, will compete for the funding for Ground-breaking Research if they meet the qualification criteria: a mark of 6 or 7 for all the criteria assessed by the panel. This strict requirement has been set due to the very low percentage of applications granted funding.
When we prioritise between applications when preparing our ranked lists for the portfolio boards, we carry out a portfolio assessment that takes account of the following:
- the applications’ assigned marks based on the assessments;
- a good distribution of projects in relation to the priorities set out for the specific topic;
- the relative volume and quality of grant applications within the same topic under other calls in 2022;
- any changes in the financial or scientific framework set by the ministries;
- that priority will be given to projects led by women project managers when the applications are otherwise considered to be on a par.
Read more about the application review process here.
About the results of the application assessment process
- Total amount sought
- 3 728 279 000
- Amount awarded
- 262 263 000
- Total number of applications
- 474
- Number of approved applications
- 33
Project no. | Organization | Project title | Subject | Sought | Published |
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334144 | Universitetet i Stavanger | Good Fire: An Environmental History of Prescribed Burning in Norway and the North | Banebrytende forskning (FRIPRO) | NOK 8 000 000 | 02.09.2022 |
334328 | Oslo universitetssykehus HF | Decoding the Cancer Stem Cell Niche in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer | Banebrytende forskning (FRIPRO) | NOK 7 816 000 | 02.09.2022 |
334444 | Universitetet i Oslo | Advances in unstable motivic homotopy theory (ADUM) | Banebrytende forskning (FRIPRO) | NOK 7 994 000 | 02.09.2022 |
334606 | Universitetet i Oslo | Word, Sound and Power: The Lyrical Making of African Diaspora Futures | Banebrytende forskning (FRIPRO) | NOK 7 883 000 | 02.09.2022 |
334615 | CICERO Senter for klimaforskning | Political Parties and Climate Change: Positions, Polarisation and Policy Relevance (PARTYCLIM) | Banebrytende forskning (FRIPRO) | NOK 8 000 000 | 02.09.2022 |
334622 | Universitetet i Oslo | A 100 Myr paleomagnetic data gap: Investigating anomalous behaviour of Earth’s magnetic field in the middle Paleozoic | Banebrytende forskning (FRIPRO) | NOK 7 999 000 | 02.09.2022 |
334633 | NTNU | Coordination between cell wall integrity and cell cycle activity in plants | Banebrytende forskning (FRIPRO) | NOK 7 906 000 | 02.09.2022 |
334676 | NTNU | A sucker for taste – Octopus chemotactile sense as a model for molecular evolution and ecological adaptations in marine chemosensory systems | Banebrytende forskning (FRIPRO) | NOK 7 995 000 | 02.09.2022 |
334689 | Universitetet i Oslo | Labor Entanglements across the Atlantic: US-Scandinavian Activism, Networks and Visions for Society in the Twentieth Century | Banebrytende forskning (FRIPRO) | NOK 8 000 000 | 02.09.2022 |
334724 | Norsk institutt for naturforskning - NINA | Sounds like Norway: the aural experiences of outdoor life and biodiversity | Banebrytende forskning (FRIPRO) | NOK 7 385 000 | 02.09.2022 |
334912 | Norges handelshøyskole | FIRM POWER, WORKER POWER, AND THE STRUCTURE OF LABOR MARKETS | Banebrytende forskning (FRIPRO) | NOK 8 000 000 | 02.09.2022 |
334920 | Universitetet i Oslo | Prediction and Stratification of Substance Use in Bipolar Disorder to Improve Disease Outcome (PASS-BD) | Banebrytende forskning (FRIPRO) | NOK 8 000 000 | 02.09.2022 |
334997 | Universitetet i Oslo | KeyMAT: Advanced Synthesis Designs to Unlock Redox/Acidity Cooperativity in Nanoporous Materials for Selective Oxidation Reactions | Banebrytende forskning (FRIPRO) | NOK 8 000 000 | 02.09.2022 |
335111 | Universitetet i Oslo | Evolutionary Convergence in Historical Oceans: The case of whales and ichthyosaurs | Banebrytende forskning (FRIPRO) | NOK 8 000 000 | 02.09.2022 |
335227 | Universitetet i Bergen | Why, how, and where do magnetic fields discharge? | Banebrytende forskning (FRIPRO) | NOK 7 495 000 | 02.09.2022 |
335380 | Universitetet i Oslo | Labour market institutions, technological change and inequality | Banebrytende forskning (FRIPRO) | NOK 8 000 000 | 02.09.2022 |
335388 | Universitetet i Stavanger | Uncovering the nature of dark matter in the multi-messenger era | Banebrytende forskning (FRIPRO) | NOK 7 970 000 | 02.09.2022 |
335497 | Universitetet i Oslo | Tracing the impact of evolved stars on the Galactic chemical enrichment | Banebrytende forskning (FRIPRO) | NOK 7 995 000 | 02.09.2022 |
335519 | SINTEF | SaltyPORE: Salt precipitation in porous aquifers during CO2 injection | Banebrytende forskning (FRIPRO) | NOK 8 000 000 | 02.09.2022 |
335688 | Universitetet i Oslo | Engaging intracellular immunity to eradicate neurodegenerative disease | Banebrytende forskning (FRIPRO) | NOK 8 000 000 | 02.09.2022 |
335737 | Chr. Michelsens institutt | Conservation Labor: A New frontier in Labor Theory and Conservation Science (CONLAB) | Banebrytende forskning (FRIPRO) | NOK 8 000 000 | 02.09.2022 |
335746 | Folkehelseinstituttet | Healthcare Workers Well-Being and Safety (WeBeSafe): Ensuring a Sustainable Workforce in the Healthcare sector for the 21st Century | Banebrytende forskning (FRIPRO) | NOK 8 000 000 | 02.09.2022 |
335828 | Vestre Viken HF | Assessing the presence of covert consciousness in unresponsive dying patients. A translational research project. | Banebrytende forskning (FRIPRO) | NOK 7 872 000 | 02.09.2022 |
335842 | Oslo universitetssykehus HF | Ruptured nuclear envelopes in cancer | Banebrytende forskning (FRIPRO) | NOK 8 000 000 | 02.09.2022 |
335903 | Stiftelsen NORSAR | Airborne Inversion of Rayleigh waves | Banebrytende forskning (FRIPRO) | NOK 8 000 000 | 02.09.2022 |
336085 | Folkehelseinstituttet | Neurodevelopmental cascades and resilience in the context of the family environment | Banebrytende forskning (FRIPRO) | NOK 8 000 000 | 02.09.2022 |
334819 | Havforskningsinstituttet | Ecophysiology of Atlantic salmon: Genetics versus Environment | Havbruk | NOK 8 000 000 | 02.09.2022 |
334821 | NORGES MILJØ- OG BIOVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET (NMBU) | (DigiFishent): Digital phenotyping for more feed and resource efficient Atlantic salmon | Havbruk | NOK 7 959 000 | 02.09.2022 |
334760 | HAVFORSKNINGSINSTITUTTET | The impact of climate change on Arctic blue carbon (BlueARC) | Marin | NOK 7 997 000 | 02.09.2022 |
334996 | HAVFORSKNINGSINSTITUTTET AVD BERGEN | Plankton size and planktivore competition along the Norwegian coast and fjords: ecological implications of warmer and darker waters | Marin | NOK 7 998 000 | 02.09.2022 |
335489 | AKVAPLAN-NIVA AS | Moving from field studies to ex vivo models for understanding and predicting toxicological responses to multiple stressors in marine mammals | Marin | NOK 8 000 000 | 02.09.2022 |
335543 | HAVFORSKNINGSINSTITUTTET | Fate and effects of perfluoroalkyl substances and their precursors and alternatives in Norwegian marine environments and seafood species | Marin | NOK 7 999 000 | 02.09.2022 |
335894 | Universitetet i Oslo | Using the past (& present) to predict the effects of changing food environment and temperature on Northeast Arctic cod in the Barents Sea. | Marin | NOK 8 000 000 | 02.09.2022 |
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