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Norges forskningsråd (The Research Council of Norway) is the Norwegian government agency responsible for promoting and funding research and innovation. The council works for a society where research is created, used, challenged, valued, and shared by all to contribute to societal transformation and a more sustainable society. They distribute over 11 billion NOK annually to the best Norwegian research and innovation, supporting research organizations, businesses, and the public sector through various funding programs including Horizon Europe, FRIPRO, and SkatteFUNN.
Funding Opportunities
Disruptive teknologier for å løse globale utfordringer
This international joint initiative aims to harness the potential of disruptive technology to offer new solutions to global challenges and accelerate progress toward achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The initiative is administered by New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) in Canada and involves multiple international partners including NordForsk, Norwegian Research Council, and research councils from the Netherlands, Brazil, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the UK. Disruptive technology is defined as an innovation with the potential to replace or radically change systems, processes, and/or behavior, resulting in transformative economic or societal impacts. This can include new innovations or the application of existing innovations in new contexts that lead to significant changes or paradigm shifts. The call seeks to support interdisciplinary and transformative research that leverages disruptive technologies to address global societal challenges. Nordic partners in project proposals can apply for a maximum of approximately 17.1 million Norwegian kroner in total, with the intention to fund Nordic participation in twelve research projects under this call.
Forming av fremtidens dyrehelse og dyrevelferd
This is the second call from the European Partnership on Animal Health and Welfare, supporting research projects focused on two main themes. Theme 1 addresses animal welfare for livestock, covering all stages of the production cycle. Theme 2 supports the development of innovative therapeutic solutions and vaccines to prevent and control infectious diseases in animals, reduce the use of antimicrobial agents, and strengthen livestock resilience. The Research Council of Norway is participating with €2.3 million (NOK 27 million) in funding. Projects can focus on either terrestrial animals (up to €1.28 million available) or aquatic animals (up to €1.02 million available). This call is part of an international joint funding initiative and requires collaboration among partners from participating countries.
Støtte til arrangementer med fokus på finansmarkedenes funksjon og etisk bevissthet
This funding opportunity supports professional events focused on how financial markets function and contribute to ethical awareness in the financial market area. Support from the Financial Market Fund goes to purposes within business areas that include the securities market, as well as banking and insurance activities, other financial markets, and accounting and auditing. The fund's purpose is to contribute to increased knowledge and understanding of how financial markets work, and increased ethical awareness in the financial market area. Support can go to research, education, or public information about the financial market's functioning and significance. This can include projects related to system weaknesses, ethics, and good business practices within the relevant areas, in addition to consumer interests. Events supported must not have started or been completed at the time the board processes the application, as support from the Financial Market Fund must be catalytic in nature.
Registrering av norske prosjektdeltakere i utlysningene til de samfinansierte partnerskapene i Horisont Europa
This is a registration portal for Norwegian project participants who have received grants in Horizon Europe co-funded partnership calls where the Research Council of Norway finances the Norwegian participant's project costs. Registration of approved project participation forms the basis for establishing a contract with the Research Council regarding national financing of Norwegian project participants. Co-financed partnerships are collaborations between the EU Commission and member states/associated countries involving national and regional research funders and other public actors. The purpose is to develop a joint strategy for common challenges, strengthen the European research and innovation area, and identify themes for joint calls. During the period 2024-2030, the planned Norwegian contribution to Horizon Europe co-fund calls is NOK 1,417,600,000. The call covers all co-financed partnerships in Horizon Europe including projects in health, energy transition, urban transitions, biodiversity, sustainable food systems, water security, and innovative SMEs.
Kommunikasjon og formidling av forskning på inkludering av barn og unge
This grant supports communication and dissemination of research on inclusion of children and youth funded by the Research Council of Norway. The purpose is to ensure that research results are used in political decision-making processes, public administration, service delivery, and society. The program aims to connect researchers with relevant stakeholders to facilitate evidence-based decisions and solutions with high societal value. Funding supports independent supplementary activities that enhance knowledge transfer and competence building to actors who need and benefit from the research. Projects must build on ongoing or recently completed Research Council-funded projects from 2022-2025 within the welfare and education portfolio, and at least two projects must collaborate on the application. The grant emphasizes creating communication projects with both research and communication expertise, targeting clearly defined audiences with measurable impact.
Prosjektetablering og mobilisering for å utvikle forskningsbasert kunnskap som skal bidra til en bedre og mer effektiv offentlig sektor
This funding opportunity from the Research Council of Norway supports project establishment and mobilization activities to develop research-based knowledge that contributes to a better and more effective public sector. The funding is intended for public sector organizations that have an ambition to develop research and/or innovation projects. All sectors and service areas are relevant. The funds should be used for activities to develop ideas and concepts, establish collaborative constellations, and to clarify user needs, strategic anchoring, utility value, and knowledge and research needs, for example in connection with a main project or other funding applications. The funds should not be used for research activities themselves, but rather for preparatory and planning work that leads to future research projects.
Støtte til arrangement
The Research Council of Norway offers support for organizing conferences, workshops, and seminars that serve as platforms for disseminating research results, knowledge sharing, development of knowledge bases, and/or generation of scientific collaboration. The events can be both physical and digital. The funding is available across multiple thematic areas including democracy and global development, energy and transport, research system, defense and security, health, innovation, climate and environment, food and bioresources, enabling technologies, and cross-cutting themes. Events must be open to all who wish to participate; closed meetings or events open only to specific groups are not supported. The main part of the event must focus on dissemination of research and research results.
Registrering av doktorgradsstudenter finansiert av STIPINST-ordningen
This is a registration call for institutes that have been allocated salary and operational funds for doctoral scholarships from the STIPINST scheme. The scheme facilitates the registration of doctoral students that institutes report based on received award letters. The purpose is to better utilize the institute sector's competence and supervisory capacity in doctoral education. In 2015, the Ministry of Education and Research decided to allocate special salary funds for doctoral students in the institute sector. The doctoral degrees must be within mathematics, natural sciences and technical (MNT) subjects. The funds are allocated approximately every three years through the Research Council of Norway, and are designated for institutes covered by the Guidelines for State Basic Grants with significant MNT activity. This is an invitation-only opportunity for institutes that have received award letters for doctoral students starting in 2026. Each institute must register one doctoral student per application submitted through this registration call.
Kommunikasjon og formidling av klima-, miljø- og havforskning
The purpose of this call is to provide support for communication and dissemination activities that increase public understanding of climate, environment, circular economy, polar and ocean research, and make it easier to apply research-based knowledge. The program supports a broad spectrum of communication and dissemination initiatives that convey research-based knowledge. Projects must have a clearly defined target audience with a solid plan to reach them, and demonstrate the expected impact. Projects should be created collaboratively by individuals with both communication expertise and research expertise, with the communication expert playing a central role. Projects should stand out from ordinary communication work and not be implementable through routine activities. Applicants are required to estimate how many people will be reached and demonstrate the impact the project will have.
Utenlandsopphold for doktorgrads- og postdoktorstipendiater
This funding opportunity supports doctoral and postdoctoral fellows to undertake research stays abroad. The program aims to increase the proportion of young researchers who take research stays abroad, which is important for research careers and helps strengthen Norwegian research by increasing competence, bringing new knowledge to projects, developing networks, and strengthening access to the international research frontier. The scheme applies to doctoral and postdoctoral fellows who are fully or partially funded by the Research Council of Norway and affiliated with an ongoing project for at least 36 months. Research stays abroad can be for a minimum of 3 months and a maximum of 12 months. The program also includes fellows in the industrial PhD and public sector PhD schemes, as well as project leaders for Early Career Research Projects, young talents, and young research talents funded by FRIPRO.
PES – Støtte til prosjektetablering rettet mot Horisont Europa
The Project Establishment Support (PES) scheme aims to ensure that applications with Norwegian participation in Horizon Europe are of high quality so that Norwegian potential is utilized as effectively as possible. This call aims to increase the success rate of Norwegian applications to Horizon Europe and the European Defence Fund (EDF). The support provides funding to cover costs related to travel, participation in networking events, positioning activities, personnel time, and purchase of services for preparing project proposals. The funding is paid as a fixed price per submitted EU application, provided the submitted EU project proposal achieves a grade corresponding to the threshold value or better in the given call. For applications in two stages, support is only paid if the EU application exceeds the threshold after stage two. The scheme covers various program types including collaborative projects, ERC, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, EIC Accelerator, Women TechEU, EIC STEP Scale Up, and European Defence Fund applications. Support amounts vary based on project type, applicant role, and budget in the planned EU application. The total budget available is NOK 30 million for 2026, with NOK 2 million earmarked for collaboration with African countries and NOK 3 million for collaboration with Ukraine.
Kvalifisering – kommersialisering av forskning ved offentlig finansierte forskningsorganisasjoner 2026
This is a qualification grant program from the Research Council of Norway aimed at supporting the commercialization of research from publicly funded research organizations. The purpose is to conduct preliminary investigations of potential applications that form the basis for further pathways, including further research directions, technology development, or strategic decisions. The results from a qualification project can be used as a basis for an application for a verification project, as a possible next step in bringing research results closer to a market-ready product or solution. The program supports the pre-commercial phase, often characterized by close collaboration between academic and research communities, while projects also need dialogue with market actors such as partners, licensees, future investors, and customers to ensure proper direction and further financing. Projects must be based on research results from approved research organizations representing technological breakthroughs or significant improvements compared to existing knowledge or state-of-the-art, with potential to form the basis for new products, processes, or services.
Nasjonale forsknings- og innovasjonssentre for å styrke bærekraftige kommunale helse-, omsorgs- og velferdstjenester
The purpose of this call is to promote knowledge-based transformation that can contribute to sustainable municipal health, care and welfare services in Norway. The centers shall ensure dissemination and implementation of research-based measures and innovations, and development of national competence. They will work closely with and strengthen the Municipal Collaboration Arena for Research (KSF). The centers will address major demographic changes and growing health and care needs that challenge Norway's welfare model. Through co-creation processes between municipalities, research environments and other relevant actors, the centers shall develop holistic, targeted, personnel-saving and sustainable measures and services. This requires interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral efforts. The centers must include different municipal sizes and vulnerable groups such as the elderly, children and young people in exclusion, persons with disabilities and minorities. A holistic, cross-sectoral and preventive approach shall form the basis, together with insight into prerequisites for innovation in municipalities, including regulations, leadership and culture of change.
Sentre for fremragende forskning – SFF VI – Trinn 2 (Centres of Excellence – SFF VI – Phase 2)
The Centres of Excellence (SFF) scheme provides Norway's leading scientific research environments the opportunity to organize themselves into centres to achieve ambitious scientific goals through collaboration and with long-term core funding. Research at the centres must be innovative and have great potential for groundbreaking results that advance the international research front. The centres work with ambitious ideas and complex problems where coordinated and long-term research efforts within or across disciplines are important to achieve the goals. This is Phase 2 of a two-stage application process for selecting the sixth generation of SFF centres (SFF-VI). Phase 2 is a closed call, and only invited applicants selected from Phase 1 can apply. The application must describe the same project as the Phase 1 application, but with a more comprehensive project description. Each centre will be financed for 10 years, pending successful interim evaluation. Support limits for Research Council funding range from 80-160 million NOK over 10 years.
Nye forskningssentre for miljøvennlig energi (FME Samfunn)
The Research Council of Norway is calling for applications to establish up to three new Centres for Environment-friendly Energy focused on social science research (FME Samfunn). These centres will replace two existing FME Samfunn centres established in 2019 that conclude in 2027. The centres shall deliver research-based knowledge necessary to solve challenges for the energy transition in society, primarily working with social science and relevant humanities issues, with some natural science and technology where it supports central research questions. The centres will run for eight years from 2027 to 2035, contributing to Norway's energy policy goals and climate commitments. The overarching goal is to develop research-based knowledge and solutions for the energy transition as a basis for strategic decisions in public administration, industry, and other societal actors. By energy transition is meant the comprehensive process where society moves from using fossil energy sources to renewable energy sources and low-emission technology so that Norway becomes a low-emission society. Centres must ensure broad and close cooperation between research institutions, public and private sectors, and other societal actors, with governance structures where user partners from business and public sector hold majority positions on the steering board.
SkatteFUNN: Skattefradrag for forskning og utvikling i et nyskapende næringsliv
SkatteFUNN is a rights-based tax deduction scheme for Norwegian businesses engaged in research and development activities. The program provides a tax deduction of 19% of costs related to research and development projects, aimed at supporting innovation in the business sector. Companies can receive tax credits for projects lasting 1-48 months, with a maximum project cost of 25 million NOK per income year and per company. The program is administered by the Research Council of Norway (Forskningsrådet) and supports companies in developing or improving goods, services, or production processes through systematic R&D activities. The scheme is designed to encourage Norwegian businesses to invest in research and development by reducing the financial burden through tax incentives.
Innovative offentlige anskaffelser
This funding opportunity supports public sector organizations in conducting pre-commercial procurement or innovation partnerships. The program is designed for applicants who have completed a preliminary project and concluded that pre-commercial procurement or innovation partnership is a suitable approach to solve challenges that the public sector cannot address alone. Through this program, public entities can collaborate with the market to develop innovative solutions that do not yet exist. Innovative public procurement involves describing public sector needs and challenging knowledge environments and suppliers to propose innovative solutions. The procurement authority then enters into agreements with the best proposals to develop innovations collaboratively. This approach enables public authorities to modernize their services while suppliers gain reference customers and take leading roles in new markets. The program supports innovations defined as new or significantly improved goods, services, processes, and organizational or governance forms that create value and societal benefit. Applicants must have completed a mandatory preliminary project before applying for this funding opportunity. The program operates on a rolling deadline basis, allowing for continuous submission of applications.
Offentlig sektor-ph.d. – doktorgradsprosjekt i offentlig virksomhet 2026
The Public Sector PhD program aims to strengthen research-driven innovation and contribute to long-term competence building in the public sector through recruitment of doctoral candidates in public organizations. Projects must be based on needs and challenges and be part of the public organization's development plans. The program simultaneously aims to promote closer collaboration between the public sector and research environments, so that research-based knowledge can be more easily applied. This is a collaborative project between a project-responsible public organization and a degree-granting institution (university or college). The doctoral project must be based on a problem relevant to the public organization and must be planned and implemented in close collaboration between the organization and the degree-granting institution. The program provides funding support for 3-4 year doctoral projects with candidates employed in the public organization throughout the project period.
Nærings-ph.d. – doktorgradsprosjekt i bedrift 2026
The Industrial PhD scheme (Nærings-ph.d.) aims to strengthen research-driven innovation and contribute to long-term competence building in Norwegian business through recruitment of doctoral candidates in companies. The scheme simultaneously contributes to closer collaboration between business and research environments, so that research-based knowledge can be more easily put into use. An Industrial PhD project is a collaborative project between a project-responsible company and a degree-granting institution. The doctoral project must be based on a problem relevant to the company and must be planned and carried out in close cooperation between the company and the degree-granting institution. Other actors can be collaborative partners in the project under certain conditions. This call has rolling application reception and processing from when the call opens. The scheme is not a competitive arena, meaning that funds are allocated continuously to applications that meet all the criteria in the call, as long as there are available funds.
Innovasjonsprosjekt i næringslivet: Energi og transport 2026
The Research Council of Norway aims to address major societal challenges in a climate-friendly manner and promote research-driven innovation and demonstration of new technology that will strengthen Norwegian competitiveness and contribute to transformation in both established and new industries. This call supports innovation projects with significant industrial research and/or experimental development components. The expected results can be a new product, service, production process, or new ways of delivering products and services, as well as substantial improvements or new features of existing products, services, or processes. Projects must be within the application areas of environmentally friendly energy, petroleum, maritime, and transport. The program supports projects with a scope and risk profile that means businesses would not be able to carry out the project without funding from the Research Council. Petroleum companies can also apply for funding for demonstration of new technology, while transport companies can apply for funding for piloting new technology.
Innovasjonsprosjekt i næringslivet: Mat og bioressurser 2026
The Research Council of Norway aims to address major societal challenges in a climate-friendly manner and promote research-driven innovation and transformation in the business sector. This call is for applications where the area of application for the innovation is within Norwegian agriculture, forestry, forest management and wood use, farming and food industry. The call supports innovation projects that contain a significant element of industrial research and/or experimental development. Expected results can be a new product, service, production process, or a new way of delivering products and services, as well as substantial improvements or new features of existing products, services, or processes. The Research Council supports projects with a scope and risk profile that indicates companies would not be able to carry out the project without funds from the Research Council, meaning the support must be decisive for initiating R&D activities.
Innovasjonsprosjekt i næringslivet: Jordbruk og matindustri (FFL/JA)
FFL/JA will promote research-driven innovation and transformation within the Norwegian land-based value chain for food and beverages through this call. The purpose of the call is to promote research-driven innovation and transformation within the Norwegian land-based value chain for food and beverages. The call covers issues across the entire value chain and should result in useful and relevant solutions, in line with market needs. Innovation projects should contribute to increased value creation, profitability and sustainable development. This is a rolling call for innovation projects in the business sector focusing on agriculture and the food industry.
Verifisering: Kommersialisering av forskning ved offentlig finansierte forskningsorganisasjoner 2026
This call aims to contribute to the commercialization and societal impact of research results by maturing and validating new technologies and innovations from early phase to relevant application environments. The funding supports publicly funded research organizations, Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs), and startup companies originating from approved research organizations. The purpose is to mature and validate new technologies and innovations with clear novelty and application potential, building on research results from publicly funded research organizations where the innovation represents a technological breakthrough or significant improvements compared to existing knowledge or solutions. Verification projects should clarify the most critical questions and uncertainties based on the project's current maturity level, enabling the next step toward market or other societal utilization. The call is open to all subject areas and aims to reduce risk and uncertainty in the pre-commercial phase.
Innovasjonsprosjekt i næringslivet: Sjømat 2026
The Research Council of Norway aims to solve major societal challenges in a climate-friendly way and promote research-driven innovation and transformation in both established and new industries. This call is for applications where the area of application for the innovation is within the seafood industry. The call supports innovation projects containing a significant element of industrial research and/or experimental development. Expected results may be a new product, service, production process, or a new way of delivering products and services. The call is open to all species and covers the entire value chain from production of feed raw materials or equipment to processing and logistics of finished products. It also includes aquaculture in freshwater and aquaculture or harvesting of marine bioresources for applications other than food. The Research Council supports projects that have a scope and risk profile indicating that companies would not be able to complete the project without funding from the Research Council.
Innovasjonsprosjekt i næringslivet: Industri og tjenestenæringer 2026
The Research Council of Norway aims to solve major societal challenges in a climate-friendly manner and promote research-driven innovation and transformation in business. This call targets innovation projects containing significant elements of industrial research and/or experimental development. The expected results can be a new product, service, production process, or a new way of delivering products and services. Substantial improvements or new features of existing products, services, or processes can also be results. Projects must have a scope and risk profile indicating that companies cannot carry out the project without funds from the Research Council, meaning the support must be catalytic for initiating R&D activities. This call applies to applications where the area of application for innovation is within health industry, ICT industry, process and refining industry, manufacturing industry, construction and real estate, and service industries including retail, tourism, media and culture, finance and banking, and other service provision.
Forskerprosjekt for erfarne forskere (FRIPRO)
The FRIPRO Researcher Project for Experienced Scientists is a funding program aimed at renewal and development in research that can contribute to advancing the international research frontier. The call is directed towards experienced researchers who have demonstrated the ability to conduct research of high scientific quality. The program is open to applications within all disciplines and research areas. FRIPRO supports groundbreaking research with the potential for significant advances in the field, even if it carries substantial risk of not succeeding. The program does not require demonstrated potential for societal impacts, focusing primarily on scientific quality. Competition is intense, with a qualification threshold requiring grades of 6 or 7 on all evaluation criteria. The program operates with rolling submissions and processing, allowing researchers to submit applications at any time as long as they do not have waiting periods or quarantine restrictions.
Toppforskere - Forskerprosjekt for å utvikle verdensledende forskningsmiljøer
The purpose of this call is to finance curiosity-driven and bold research that can contribute to moving the international research frontier. The call shall give good Norwegian research environments the opportunity to develop into world-leading environments in their fields. The funds shall go to projects where collaboration between two or more named researchers is a prerequisite for achieving the project's goals. This is part of FRIPRO's groundbreaking research portfolio which supports fundamental and applied research projects across all research areas where project ideas come from the researchers themselves. The program is willing to invest in bold research that has the potential to provide significant advances in the field, even though it also has significant risk of not succeeding.
Forskerprosjekt for tidlig karriere (FRIPRO)
The Research Council of Norway's FRIPRO program supports curiosity-driven and bold research that can contribute to advancing the international research frontier. This specific call is aimed at researchers at an early stage of their career, 2-7 years after their doctoral defense, who have shown potential to conduct research of high scientific quality. The program supports both applied and basic research across all research areas and disciplines. The competition is highly selective, requiring scores of 6 or 7 on all evaluation criteria to qualify for funding consideration. FRIPRO operates with rolling application intake and processing, allowing researchers to submit applications at any time as long as they do not have a waiting period or quarantine. Projects can receive funding of 4-10 million Norwegian kroner and must have a planned project duration of 36-48 months.
Forskerprosjekt med internasjonal mobilitet (FRIPRO)
The FRIPRO Researcher Project with International Mobility supports curiosity-driven and ambitious research that can contribute to advancing the international research frontier. This call is directed at postdoctoral-level researchers who wish to spend 1-2 years at one or two foreign research organizations, combined with 1-2 years in Norway. The goal is career development and independence for the researcher, and to bring new knowledge to Norwegian research environments. The scheme supports both applied and basic research across all research fields. Projects involve an international mobility period of at least one year abroad (in segments of minimum 3 months) starting within one year of project start, followed by at least 6 months in Norway after the final international stay. Integration of the researcher at both Norwegian and foreign institutions is a key component, with emphasis on how the project and stays abroad will contribute to career development.
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