Rates for Funding of Research Fellowships

For projects with a duration of more than one year, please see rates in table below. Growth is projected to be 4.6% for 2025, 4.3% for 2026, 3.7% for 2027 and 3.5% in subsequent years. For years after 2031, a growth of 3.5% can be added.

The rates per person-year may be divided into 12 person-months or 1 628 person-hours.

Rates are as follow

Amounts are given as full amounts NOK. In the application form, amounts must be given in NOK 1000.

Research Council funding for research fellowship positions is awarded as a lump-sum allocation to the organisation responsible for employing the fellowship-holder. This funding is to help to cover salary, social security costs, indirect costs and general operating costs which is directly related to work on the funded R&D project. 

Costs such as for Norwegian language training, career guidance and other career-promoting or educational work that are not related to the work on the funded R&D project are therefore not covered by the Research Council's rates.

Any difference between the calculated costs for the fellowship position and the Research Council’s funding rates for these positions must be covered through own or other financing.

The level of support is clarified in each individual call for proposals.

See an overview of Previous rates for use in reports. 

The rates stipulated for funding may deviate from the costs that the organisation has calculated for the fellowship position in the budget.

• Costs related to fellowships positions in the university and university college sector are to be calculated using the TDI full costing model. Please see the guidelines about the TDI model from Universities Norway (in Norwegian).
• For health trusts, budget costs are to be calculated based on payroll costs, with additional overhead for social security costs and indirect expenses of relevance to the fellowship-holder’s activities in the project.
• The institute sector may use approved hourly rates for R&D personnel to calculate the budget costs related to the fellowship position.

The rates do not apply for the following:

• non-Norwegian doctoral and post-doctoral research fellows who are affiliated with a researcher project at a Norwegian organisation, but who will be carrying out their fellowship period at an organisation in their home country or another country.
• cases where the research fellow receives funding directly from the Research Council, such as for Ph.D. fellowships at the European University Institute

It is also possible to apply to the Research Council for funding to cover:

• other costs relating to the projects that the fellowship positions are affiliated with;
• documented tuition costs for fellowship-holders taking part in programmes at universities outside Norway.