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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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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 that is 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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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.

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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 Sustainable Area and Nature Use

The purpose of this call is to establish up to four research centres for sustainable area and nature use. The research in the centres will contribute to solving shared challenges within area and nature use, and strengthen knowledge and innovation with the goal of societal benefit within the topic. The centres will be a unifying force for nationa...

Innovation
Energy and transportation
Climate and the environment
Food and bioresources
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Innovation Project for the Industrial Sector: Energy and transportation

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...

Oceans
Energy and transportation
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Innovation Project for the Industrial Sector: Industry and services

The Research Council wants to solve major societal challenges in a climate-friendly manner and seeks to promote research-driven innovation and transitions in both established and emerging business sectors. This call applies to applications where the scope of application of the innovation falls within the health industry, the ICT industry, the pr...

Innovation
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Research and Innovation to Strengthen the Sustainability of Municipal Health and Care Services

The purpose of the call is to stimulate research and innovation that is rooted in the need to strengthen the sustainability of the municipal health and care services. Municipalities, county authorities and research organisations can apply for funding under this call.

Health
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Mandatory Outline as Basis for Applications for a Centre for Sustainable Area and Nature Use

This outline call qualifies you to submit a complete application for the call Centre for Sustainable Area and Nature Use. The purpose is to mobilise project ideas and stimulate collaboration to develop competitive applications. It is mandatory to submit an outline. Applications for the main call must be based on one or more of the submitted outl...

Innovation
Energy and transportation
Climate and the environment
Food and bioresources
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Centre for Quantum Technology Research

The purpose of this call is to build solid Norwegian academic communities at a high international level in quantum computing, quantum sensors and quantum communication.

Enabling technologies
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Proof-of-Concept – 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 verification support corresponds to the purpose of Horizon Europe's EIC-Transition: to mature and validate new technologies from the laborator...

Trade and industry
Commercialisation
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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
Commercialisation
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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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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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Support for membership of the European Open Science Cloud Association

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 research system
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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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Gender Balance, Diversity and Inclusion in Norwegian Research

The purpose of this call is to fund projects that will develop innovative measures aimed at gender balance, diversity (including Sami) and inclusion in academia. These projects will be part of a network (BalanseHub) where they can exchange experiences and get updates on new ideas, methods and theories about gender balance, diversity and inclusio...

The research system
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Recruitment of Talented Researchers to Norway

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. The background for the scheme is the difficult situation that many researchers and institutions are now experiencing globally. The aim of the scheme i...

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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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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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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Better care closer to home: Enhancing Primary and Community Care

The Research Council of Norway is announcing €1 850 000 to Norwegian researchers who want to participate in a European research collaboration on enhancing primary and community care.

Ground-breaking research
Health
Welfare and education
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Pre-clinical therapy studies for rare diseases using small molecules and biologicals – development and validation

The Research Council of Norway (RCN) is announcing € 600 000 to Norwegian researchers who wish to contribute to advancing therapeutic solutions for rare diseases. The ERDERA Joint Transnational Call (JTC) 2025 aims to foster international collaboration on interdisciplinary research projects, leveraging complementary expertise to benefit millions of patients worldwide.

Ground-breaking research
Health
Enabling technologies
Democracy and global development
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EU Partnership for a sustainable Future of Food Systems (FutureFoodS) - First Joint Transnational Co-funded Call

The vision of the FutureFoodS Partnership is to collectively achieve environmentally friendly, socially secure and fair, economically viable, healthy and safe food systems in Europe by 2050.

Trade and industry
Oceans
Food and bioresources
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Second call of the European partnership AGROECOLOGY

This call focuses on the performance of agroecology, under different aspects: evaluating this performance in its various dimensions, quantifying environmental impacts, transforming value chains, and contributing to the design of public policies to better support the transition.

Food and bioresources

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