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Researcher Project for Experienced Scientists (FRIPRO)

FRIPRO funds both basic and applied research that is curiosity-driven and bold. This call is aimed at experienced researchers who have demonstrated the ability to conduct research of high scientific quality.

Ground-breaking research
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Researcher Project for Early Career Scientists (FRIPRO)

FRIPRO funds both basic and applied research that i scuriosity-driven and bold. This call is aimed at early-career researchers who have demonstrated the potential to conduct research of high scientific quality.

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Three-year Researcher Project with International Mobility (FRIPRO)

FRIPRO funds both basic and applied research. It should be curiosity-driven and bold. This call is aimed at researchers at postdoctoral level who wish to spend two years at a foreign research organisation and the third year in Norway.

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Researcher Project for ICT Renewal and Development

The purpose of this call is to promote innovation and development in research that can contribute to advancing the international research front in ICT, including digital security and sovereignty, the next generation of data processing/ICT systems and other ICT research areas.

Enabling technologies
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Radical Research Ideas for Early Career Scientists

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.

Ground-breaking research
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Top Researchers – Researcher Projects to Develop World Leading Research Communities

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.

Ground-breaking research
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Centre for International Economics

The aim of the centre is to strengthen Norwegian knowledge about developments in the international economy and the consequences of changed framework conditions for developing countries, for Norway and Norwegian foreign- and development policy.

Democracy and global development
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Centre for Research-based Innovation – SFI V – Phase 2

Funding is available for up to eight new Centres for Research-based Innovation - SFI. The objective of the SFI scheme is to promote innovation by supporting long-term research through close collaboration between R&D-intensive enterprises and prominent research institutions.

Innovation
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Qualification – Research Commercialisation from Publicly Funded Research 2025

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...

Trade and industry
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Further Development of National Research Infrastructure for Quantum Technology Research

The purpose of this call is to provide Norwegian research groups with access to relevant and up-to-date infrastructure for quantum technology research. Upgraded infrastructure will support high-quality research and innovation and contribute to meeting society's knowledge challenges.

Enabling technologies
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International Partnerships for Excellent Education, Research and Innovation (INTPART)

Norwegian research organisations can apply for funding for partnerships with Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, China, South Africa, South Korea and the USA. 

Internationalisation
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Communication and Dissemination of Climate, Environment and Ocean Research

The purpose of this call is to provide funding for dissemination and communication that increases people's understanding of climate, environmental and marine research, and that facilitates the use of research-based knowledge.

Oceans
Climate and the environment
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PES – Support for Project Establishment Aimed at Horizon Europe

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).

Internationalisation
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Support for Events

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.

Internationalisation
Commercialisation
Oceans
Health
Enabling technologies
Innovation
Energy and transportation
Climate and the environment
Food and bioresources
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Support for Research Schools to Follow Up National Subject Evaluations

The Research Council of Norway is announcing funding to establish new research schools as part of the follow-up of the subject evaluations of natural sciences (EVALNAT), mathematics, ICT and technology (EVALMIT), life sciences (EVALBIOVIT) and medicine and health sciences (EVALMEDHELSE). The research schools will give research fellows access to ...

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Registration Call for Norwegian Project Partners in the Calls for the Co-funded Partnerships in Horizon Europe

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...

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How Financial Markets Work and Ethical Awareness – Funding for Research Projects

The call aims to promote ground-breaking research of scientific quality at the forefront of international state-of-the-art. The results must be of relevance to the Norwegian financial market. In the application, you must clarify the relevance to the purpose of the Finance Market Fund. In addition, you must show that the support from the Fund has...

Policy and government administration areas
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The Finance Market Fund's Special Call - Funding for Larger Research Projects on the Financial Market on Two Topics: Regulation in Banking/Insurance and Personal Finances

This special call covers two priority topics: regulation in banking and insurance and personal finance. The Finance Market Fund funds research and general information in the financial market area. The purpose of the Fund is to contribute to increased knowledge and understanding of the functioning of financial markets, and to increase ethical awa...

Policy and government administration areas
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Support for Events Focused on the Functioning of the Financial Market and Ethical Awareness

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...

Policy and government administration areas
Humanities and social sciences
Democracy and global development
Welfare and education
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Biodiversa+: Biodiversity and Transformative Change (BiodivTransform)

This call for proposals will aim for interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and/or cross-sectoral research and innovation projects to identify, analyse, and comprehend transformation processes that may halt and reverse biodiversity decline. It should generate knowledge to safeguard biodiversity and ecosystems, as well as the benefits these may provide to people, through transformative change to mitigate and reverse biodiversity threats.

Oceans
Climate and the environment
Food and bioresources
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Third call from the European Partnership Driving Urban Transitions

Up to NOK 45 million for Driving Urban Transitions to a Sustainable future for cities.

Democracy and global development
Energy and transportation
Food and bioresources
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Chips 2025 Electronic Components and Systems R&I Calls

The Chips for Europe Initiative under the European Chips Act is implemented through the Chips JU.  Chips is a European partnership under Horizon Europe with a focus on electronic components, semiconductor technology and system technologies.  The European Commission, industry organisations and participating countries together develop the work program.  The calls relevant for this national co-funding call are announced under Horizon Europe and on the website of Chips JU under "ECS R&I Calls". 

Enabling technologies
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M-ERA.NET - Call2025 - ERA-NET for research and innovation on materials

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.  

Enabling technologies
Innovation
Energy and transportation
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Antagonistic threats challenging societal security

NordForsk calls for projects that increase our knowledge about antagonistic threats and societal security in the Nordic-Baltic region.

Democracy and global development
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Fostering Pragmatic Comparative-Effectiveness Trials in Non-communicable Diseases (EffecTrial)

The Research Council of Norway is announcing NOK 10 million to Norwegian researchers who want to participate in transnational investigator-initiated clinical studies.

Health
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Pharmacogenomic Strategies for Personalised Medicine (PGxPM2025)

The overall objectives of the JTC2025 will be to Support research projects in human health on pharmacogenomic strategies for personalised medicine.

Health
Enabling technologies
Life science

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