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The FRIPRO funding scheme provides funding for independent projects in an open national competitive arena on the basis of scientific merit.

Foto: Geir Mogen/NTNU (Photo: Geir Mogen/NTNU)

New knowledge is often generated in unforeseen ways and in unexpected areas. Broad-based, independent basic research is therefore a prerequisite for all other research, for future industrial development and for policymaking.

Thus the FRIPRO funding scheme has an important role to play in strengthening Norway’s national knowledge base.

FRIPRO – Promoting scientific quality

  • The FRIPRO scheme fosters research of high scientific quality. The aim of the scheme is to fund the research projects that are best in scientific terms.
  • The FRIPRO scheme comprises a competitive arena open to all research areas and disciplines. There are no thematic guidelines and no requirements relating to the applicability or immediate utility of the research.
  • The FRIPRO scheme provides funding for researcher projects, postdoctoral fellowships, doctoral fellowships abroad, and events. Priority is given to researcher projects and postdoctoral fellowships. 
  • The FRIPRO scheme promotes the development of basic theory and methods as well as scientific renewal within disciplines.
  • The FRIPRO scheme is open to grant applications from universities and university colleges, independent research institutes, and other publicly funded research groups.

     

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Funding

All calls for proposals from the Research Council