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Researcher Project with International Mobility (FRIPRO)

The purpose of FRIPRO is to fund curiosity-driven and bold research that can contribute to advancing the state-of-the-art. FRIPRO supports both basic and applied research in all research areas. This call is aimed at researchers at postdoctoral level who wish to spend 1-2 years at one or two foreign research organisations, combined with 1-2 years...

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Researcher Project for Early Career Scientists (FRIPRO)

The purpose of FRIPRO is to fund curiosity-driven and bold research that can contribute to advancing the state-of-the-art. FRIPRO supports both basic and applied research in all research areas. This call is aimed at researchers at an early stage in their careers, who have demonstrated the potential to conduct research of high scientific quality.

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Researcher Project for Experienced Scientists (FRIPRO)

The purpose of FRIPRO is to fund curiosity-driven and bold research that can contribute to advancing the state-of-the-art. FRIPRO supports both basic and applied research in all research areas. This call is aimed at experienced scientists who have demonstrated the ability to conduct research of high scientific quality.

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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.

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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...

Oceans
Innovation
Energy and transportation
Climate and the environment
Food and bioresources
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Collaborative Project to Prevent and Combat Violence in Close Relationships

The purpose of this call is to develop new knowledge and to build research expertise that society needs to prevent and combat violence and abuse in close relationships. Projects must involve collaboration between research groups and actors outside the research sector that represent the need for new knowledge and research competence within the fi...

Democracy and global development
Welfare and education
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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: Food and bioresources

The Research Council wants to solve major societal challenges in a climate-friendly manner and wants to promote research-based innovation and restructuring in both established and new business sectors. This call applies to applications where the scope of application for the innovation is within Norwegian agriculture, forestry, forest management ...

Oceans
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Food and bioresources
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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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Norwegian Centres of Excellence – SFF VI – Phase 1

The scheme Norwegian Centres of Excellence (SFF) gives Norway's best researchers the opportunity to organise their research activities in centres that seek to achieve ambitious scientific objectives through collaboration and with long-term basic funding. The research conducted at the centres must be innovative and have great potential to generat...

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Norwegian Centres of Excellence – SFF VI – Phase 2

The scheme Norwegian Centres of Excellence (SFF) gives Norway's best researchers the opportunity to organise their research activities in centres that seek to achieve ambitious scientific objectives through collaboration and with long-term basic funding. The research conducted at the centres must be innovative and have great potential to generat...

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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 Infrastructure of National Importance

The purpose of this call is to support projects that: will provide Norwegian research communities and the business sector access to relevant and up-to-date infrastructure, which supports high-quality research and innovation and helps to provide the knowledge needed to address societal challenges will strengthen, coordinate and optimise the utili...

Research Infrastructure
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Arctic Field Grant (AFG) – Funding for Fieldwork in Svalbard

The purpose is to support fieldwork in Svalbard for master's and doctoral students. More established researchers who are not already established in Svalbard can also apply. Applicants must be employed by or have some other affiliation with a Norwegian research organisation. The main priority of this call is to promote career development in polar...

Climate and the environment
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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 of Doctoral Students Funded by the STIPINST Scheme (by invitation only)

This is a so-called registration call for departments that have been awarded salary and operating funds for doctoral research fellows from the STIPINST scheme. The call for proposals enables the Research Council to register doctoral students that the departments enroll on the basis of a letter of commitment.

The research system
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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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Supplementary Funding for Ongoing Projects to Enhance Knowledge and Results Transfer from ICT Research to the Defence Sector

The aim of the call is to link national research groups to the defence sector. The call is intended to contribute to strengthening outstanding and robust national research groups that develop new knowledge of interest to the defence sector, and that support military technology development and realise synergies with other technology initiatives i...

Enabling technologies
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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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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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National Competence Centres III for High Performance Computing

The objective of the EuroHPC call is to further develop the existing European network of National Competence Centres for HPC.

Ground-breaking research
Enabling technologies
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Biodiversa+ - BiodivConnect

This call is focused on fostering innovative research to be integrated into nature restoration practices for interconnected and well-functioning ecosystems and habitats, with special consideration for long-term sustainability and future-proofing of restoration efforts, at scales from local to regional to cross-border and global, including their evaluation.

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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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The Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership’s (SBEP) third joint transnational call

Get ready for the third Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership (SBEP) Joint Transnational Co-Funded Call (2025) entitled “Digitalisation and Innovation for Resilient Marine Ecosystems Businesses, and Communities to Strengthen the EU Blue Economy’s Competitiveness”.

Policy and government administration areas
Internationalisation
Joint international programmes
Humanities and social sciences
Innovation
Climate and the environment
Food and bioresources
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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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QuantERA Call 2025

The QuantERA Call 2025 is a joint transnational Call for research proposals in QT cofunded  by organisations gathered under the QuantERA III Research & Innovation Action, with  additional EC contribution.

Enabling technologies
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Call Announcement African-European call for proposals “Climate Services for Risk Reduction in West Africa” (CS4RRA)

Call’s objectives: Strengthen climate resilience in West Africa based on a better understanding of the impacts of climate change; Improve climate knowledge, capacities and services for climate risk reduction and adaptation to climate change; Strengthen African and European partnership.

Democracy and global development
The research system
Climate and the environment

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