Norwegian Centres of Excellence scheme
The SFF scheme gives Norway's leading researchers the opportunity to organise themselves into centres to achieve ambitious scientific goals. The research shall move the international research front, be innovative and groundbreaking. Centres are funded for up to ten years (six + four years).
SFF-VI
The next call for proposal by the SFF scheme is planned in 2025 and allocated towards the end of 2027.
Preliminary plan for the process:
- Open information meeting about the Call for proposals in spring 2024
- The planned announcement will be published on the websites in early 2025, with a tentative deadline and possibly other information
- Applicant webinars will be conducted when the call for proposals opens
- There will be a two-stage application process (as before)
- The first stage of the call for proposals will be active after the summer of 2025 with an application deadline towards the end of 2025
- We plan to invite three times as many applications as we have funds to finance, onward to stage 2
- The application deadline for Stage 2 will be autumn 2026
- Allocations towards the end of 2027
More details will be available before the announcement opens, and we reserve the right to change.
was allocated to the centres in 2022
308million NOK
SFF-V (2023-2033)
- Centre for Algorithms in the Cortex
- Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health (BCEPS)
- CREATE - Centre for Research on Equality in Education
- Centre for Planetary Habitability
- Norwegian Centre for Knowledge-driven Machine Learning
- Centre for Embryology and Healthy Development (CRESCO)
- Precision Immunotherapy Alliance (PRIMA)
- iC3: Centre for ice, Cryosphere, Carbon and Climate
- Center for Digital Narrative
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SFF-IV (2017-2027)
- CanCell - Centre for Cancer Cell Reprogramming
- Hybrid Technology Hub
- Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences
- RoCS - Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics
- RITMO - Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion
- QuSpin - Center for Low Dissipation Quantum Spintronics
- PoreLab - Porous Media Laboratory
- SapienCE - Centre for Early Human Behaviour
- FAIR - Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality, and Rationality
- Centre for Fertility and Health
SFF-III (2013-2023)
- Birkeland Centre for Space Science (BCSS)
- Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate (CAGE)
- Centre for Autonomous Marine Operations and Systems (AMOS)
- Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics (CBD)
- Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan (MultiLing)
- Centre for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order (PluriCourts)
- Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT)
- Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health (CISMAC)
- Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED)
- Centre for Cancer Biomarkers (CCBIO)
- Centre of Molecular Inflammation Research (CEMIR)
- Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience (KISN)
- Centre for Environmental Radioactivity (CERAD)