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Research on the connections between food, the environment, climate and public health

Bring forward knowledge about the direct connections and interaction effects between food, environment and/ or climate and public health.

Health
Climate and the environment
Food and bioresources
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Research on women's health

This call supports research groups that want to develop new knowledge about women's health throughout the life course with a focus on menopausal disorders. Funding is available for research that provides a better understanding of biological, social and work-related conditions, and that lays the foundation for more accurate and equitable high-qua...

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Challenge-driven Cross-sector Collaboration in Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials

Vi lyser ut midler til forskning innenfor nanoteknologi og avanserte materialer. Vi skal ha prosjekter som utvikler ny kunnskap og teknologi og bygger forskningskompetanse som er nødvendig for å møte viktige samfunnsutfordringer. Prosjektene skal ha samarbeid mellom aktører fra ulike sektorer, bruke relevant nasjonal eller internasjonal forsknin...

Enabling technologies
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Collaboration for a green and fair transition

Funding is available for new knowledge for social restructuring within nature's tolerance limits, while at the same time ensuring good societies in which to live, characterised by good welfare and quality of life. It is about a green and fair transition with legitimacy and trust in the population in a low-emission society that takes care of the ...

Energy and transportation
Climate and the environment
Welfare and education
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Research to improve societal security and emergency preparedness

Funding is available for research on Norway's ability to prevent and manage various crises and incidents that threaten fundamental values, functions and infrastructure in society, and that endanger life and health.

Ground-breaking research
Democracy and global development
Energy and transportation
Climate and the environment
Food and bioresources
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Innovation in Norwegian food and agricultural technology (AgriFoodTech)

The research should contribute to the development and use of new and future-oriented technologies in agricultural and food production. There is also a need to identify and address barriers for the use of technologies, and determine what promotes increased use.

Food and bioresources
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Collaborative projects for energy efficiency and energy transition in buildings, areas and industry

The funding is for projects that develop technology and solutions for energy efficiency and energy transition in buildings, areas and industry. The results can be solutions for energy efficiency and utilisation of surplus heat, local power production, interaction between different energy carriers, or the transition from electricity-based and fos...

Energy and transportation
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Forskning på effekter av tiltak for økt kvalitet i barnehage, skole og videregående opplæring

Midlene skal gå til prosjekter som skal se på tiltak som kan øke kvaliteten i barnehage, skole eller videregående opplæring. Prosjektene skal ha et tett samarbeid mellom forskere og lokale barnehage- eller skoleeiere som sammen skal prøve ut og evaluere effekten av et eller flere tiltak.

Welfare and education
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Research and Collaboration for Children and Young People's Participation and Safety

The Research Council is announcing funding for research on policy instruments that strengthen the safety, participation and inclusion of children, adolescents and young adults (0–29 years) across key arenas. We are looking for projects with binding collaboration that contribute to better services and a strengthened knowledge base for policy-making.

Welfare and education
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Planned

Challenge-driven Cross-sector Collaboration in Industrial Biotechnology

The Research Council of Norway is announcing funding for research in industrial biotechnology. We want challenge-driven projects involving collaboration between actors from different sectors, and we require a substantial contribution from industry in the projects.

Enabling technologies
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Public Sector PhD Project – Doctoral Project in the Public Sector 2026

The purpose of the Public Sector PhD Scheme is to strengthen research-based innovation and contribute to long-term competence-building in the public sector through the recruitment of doctoral candidates in public agencies. The projects must be based on needs and challenges and be included in the public agency's plans for development. 

Policy and government administration areas
Innovation
Forsvarsevne, sikkerhet og beredskap
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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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Communication and Dissemination of Climate, Environment and Ocean Research

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

Oceans
Climate and the environment
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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 the establishment of scientific collaboration. The event can be both physical and digital.

Oceans
Health
Enabling technologies
Innovation
Democracy and global development
The research system
Energy and transportation
Climate and the environment
Food and bioresources
Forsvarsevne, sikkerhet og beredskap
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Funding for Research Stays Abroad for Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows

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 ...

Internationalisation
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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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Water4All: Water and health

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).

Health
Climate and the environment
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BE READY: Advancing knowledge of host and pathogen dynamics to better combat emerging diseases

The Research Council of Norway is announcing 850 000 euro to Norwegian researchers who want to participate in a European research collaboration within pandemic preparedness. The application must be submitted via the partnerships be page.

Health
Enabling technologies
Life science
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Personalised Medicine for CARdiovascular, MEtabolic, and kidNey diseases (CARMEN2026)

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.

Health
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Understanding and Preventing Overweight and Obesity (PREVENT-OO)

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.

Ground-breaking research
Health
Life science
Application deadline 2
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EUP OHAMR joint transnational call - Research & Innovation call 2025

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.

Joint international programmes
Health
Life science
Welfare and education
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Access to Care

The aim of the call is to fund research and innovation projects that contribute to ensuring equitable access to and utilisation of health and care services. Through the funded research and innovation projects, policy and decision makers should gain the knowledge and tools necessary to implement the reallocation of resources as the health and care system undergoes a transition to meet new and ongoing challenges.

Health
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Resolving unsolved cases in rare genetic and non‑genetic diseases through variant validation and new technological approaches

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.

Internationalisation
Ground-breaking research
Health

Messages at time of print 30 March 2026, 06:51 CEST

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