Approved Norwegian research organisations can apply. Many calls for proposals require collaboration with trade and industry or stakeholders in the public sector.
The objective is targeted, long-term investment to strengthen and further develop outstanding and creative research and innovation groups, or to build up research groups in areas of key strategic importance. Research Centre provides a framework for calls under several different centre schemes that are designed to support the best research groups and lead to pioneering research and new innovations, or to strengthen key priority areas.
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...
The purpose of the main call is to establish up to three new Centres for Environment-friendly Energy Research (FME Society). The centres will deliver research-based knowledge necessary to solve challenges for the energy transition in society. They will mainly work with social science and relevant humanistic perspectives. The centres may also inc...
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