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NordForsk funds and facilitates Nordic research co-operation. The organisation operates under the Nordic Council of Ministers and opens calls continuously for research projects across various disciplines. NordForsk supports collaborative research initiatives across the Nordic and Baltic regions, focusing on areas such as interdisciplinary research, Arctic studies, education, societal security, and sustainability. Through its funding programmes and expert assessment processes, NordForsk aims to create Nordic added value and measurable research impact across the region.
Funding Opportunities
Call for proposals: Disruptive Technologies
The International Joint Initiative for Research Harnessing Disruptive Technologies to Address Global Challenges is a major international collaboration aimed at supporting interdisciplinary and transformative research. This call aims to harness the potential of disruptive technology to offer novel solutions to global challenges and accelerate progress towards achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Projects are required to address at least one of the seventeen SDGs. Disruptive Technology is defined in this call as an innovation whose application replaces or radically alters systems, processes and/or behaviours to have transformative economic or societal impacts. The impact may be localized or far-reaching. Disruptive technology may include cutting-edge and novel innovations, or the application of an existing innovation in a new context, bringing about substantial change or paradigm shifts. Research harnessing disruptive technologies to address global challenges requires an interdisciplinary approach involving expertise across disciplines, including the natural sciences, engineering, health sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Working across sectors, including academia, government, not-for-profit organizations, community organizations, and private industry, can help ensure implementation and impact. The intention is to fund Nordic participation in 12 research projects under this call. This call is announced as a collaboration between NordForsk, the Dutch Research Council, International Development Research Centre in Canada, New Frontiers in Research Fund in Canada, Research Ireland, Sao Paulo Research Foundation in Brazil, Swiss National Science Foundation and UK Research and Innovation. The Nordic participation is managed by NordForsk in partnership with the Research Council of Norway, the Research Council of Finland, the Swedish Research Council, the Independent Research Fund Denmark, Innovation Fund Denmark and Rannís – Iceland who are co-financing the call.
Nordic Exploratory Networks within the humanities and social sciences
The Nordic call for exploratory networks within humanities and social sciences (NOS-HS) is designed to facilitate collaboration among researchers with strong potential for synergy across the Nordic countries. The initiative seeks to fund 22 networks that strengthen the quality, innovative character, international competitiveness, and societal impact of Nordic research. The call is open to bottom-up, curiosity-driven research networks within the humanities and social sciences in the Nordic region, with a particular emphasis on providing opportunities for early-career researchers (2–7 years after completion of their PhD) to build and lead Nordic networks. The program operates under the auspices of NordForsk and is organized by the Joint Committee for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS), which represents research councils in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Network proposals will be evaluated using a distributed peer review process (DPR), where applicants serve as both reviewers and have their proposals reviewed by other applicants to the call.
At a Glance
- Total Funding Opportunities
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- Active Now
- 2
- Source Domain
- nordforsk.org
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