Target groups: Research organisations
Target groups: Public sector, Industry, Research organisations
Target groups: Industry, Research organisations
Approved Norwegian research organisations can apply.
The objective is to promote renewal and development in research across all disciplines and thematic areas. Researcher Projects are to contribute to important new insights, scientific publication, researcher training and international research collaboration.
The purpose of FRIPRO is to fund curiosity-driven and bold research that can contribute to advancing the state-of-the-art. FRIPRO supports both basic and applied research in all research areas. This call is aimed at researchers at postdoctoral level who wish to spend 1-2 years at one or two foreign research organisations, combined with 1-2 years...
The purpose of FRIPRO is to fund curiosity-driven and bold research that can contribute to advancing the state-of-the-art. FRIPRO supports both basic and applied research in all research areas. This call is aimed at researchers at an early stage in their careers, who have demonstrated the potential to conduct research of high scientific quality.
The purpose of this call is to fund curiosity-driven and bold research that can contribute to advancing the state-of-the-art through giving good research environments the opportunity to develop into being world-leading within their fields.
The purpose of this call is to fund curiosity-driven and bold research that can contribute to advancing the state-of-the-art and is open to applications within all research areas. The support aims to give researchers the opportunity to test particularly bold research ideas where the risk of failure is high, but where the significance for the research field is great if the idea succeeds.
The purpose of FRIPRO is to fund curiosity-driven and bold research that can contribute to advancing the state-of-the-art. FRIPRO supports both basic and applied research in all research areas. This call is aimed at experienced scientists who have demonstrated the ability to conduct research of high scientific quality.
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The project will promote broad research collaboration between Norwegian research communities and relevant societal and business actors in order to increase the knowledge base about mineral activities on the seabed and the consequences that any extraction of minerals may have for the marine environment.
The funding is for projects that develop technology and solutions for energy efficiency and energy transition in buildings, areas and industry. The results can be solutions for energy efficiency, utilisation of surplus heat, local power production, interaction between different energy carriers, or the transition from electricity-based and fossil...
The Research Council will invest in projects that support the development of a competitive business sector that sees value creation opportunities through quantum technology R&D. The projects are intended to strengthen the interaction between companies and research organisations, and trigger private R&D investments
The capacity boost is aimed at strengthening collaboration between the industrial sector and research institutions in a region. We fund projects that develop increased expertise and research capacity with the aim of strengthening the competitiveness of the regional industrial sector.
The RCN wants to solve major societal challenges in a climate-friendly manner and aims to promote research-based innovation and transitions in the industrial sector. This call applies to innovations applicable within the health industry, the ICT industry, the processing and processing industries, the manufacturing industry, and the building, con...
The Research Council wants to solve major societal challenges in a climate-friendly manner, and wants to promote research-based innovation and restructuring in both established and new business sectors. This call is for applications where the innovation is within the seafood industry.
With this call, FFL/JA will promote research-based innovation and transformation within the land-based value chain for food and beverages.
The call aim to increase the use of research results through increased commercial exploitation and/or societal innovation by maturing and validating new technologies and innovations from an early stage to relevant application environments. Approved research organisations, TTOs (Technology Transfer Offices) and start-up companies originating from...
The Research Council aims to solve major societal challenges in a climate-friendly way and seeks to promote research-driven innovation and demonstration of new technology that will strengthen Norway's competitiveness and contribute to transformation in both established and new industries. This call applies to applications within environmentally ...
Research- or development-driven innovation projects that will develop new technology, products or services throughout the value chain within the land-based bio-based sector such as forestry, wood utilisation, agriculture, the food industry and reindeer husbandry.
Companies and public sector entities that are not research organisations can apply.
The objective is to encourage value creation and renewal in the business and public sectors. Innovation Projects are to help enhance competitiveness in new and existing business areas, strengthen the restructuring capacity of the Norwegian economy and the public sector, and increase interaction and knowledge transfer across stakeholders.
The purpose of the Public Sector PhD Scheme is to strengthen research-based innovation and contribute to long-term competence-building in the public sector through the recruitment of doctoral candidates in public agencies. The projects must be based on needs and challenges and be included in the public agency's plans for development.
The purpose of the Industrial PhD scheme is to strengthen research-based innovation and contribute to long-term competence building in Norwegian business and industry through the recruitment of doctoral candidates in companies.
The SkatteFUNN Tax Deduction Scheme is a right-based tax deduction scheme designed to stimulate research and development (R&D) activities in Norwegian companies.
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 purpose of the main call is to establish up to two new research centres for petroleum (PETROSENTER), with the aim of long-term and targeted research efforts at a high international level.
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...
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...
Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs), approved Norwegian research organisations and micro-businesses originating in research organisations and/or TTOs can apply.
The objective is to promote greater commercial utilisation of R&D results from publicly-funded research in Norway. Commercialisation Projects are to clarify uncertainties related to the commercial utilisation of high-potential research results by answering questions that will prevent the project from moving forward in the commercialisation process if they remain unanswered
The purpose of a qualification project is to carry out initial investigations of potential applications, which will form the basis for further choices in the process of bringing research into use. Approved research organizations, TTOs (Technology Transfer Offices) and start-up companies originating from approved research organizations may apply.
Approved Norwegian research organisations, companies, public sector entities, non-governmental organisations and groups of such entities can apply.
The objective is to fund the planning, coordination and dissemination of R&D activities. Coordination and Support Activities are to promote researcher mobility, national and international networks, publication, dialogue, dissemination activity and more in connection with R&D activities.
The purpose of this call is to facilitate national and cross-sectoral collaboration in the quantum technology ecosystem in Norway.
Through this call, you can apply for funding to organise conferences, workshops and seminars. The event will be a meeting place for dissemination of research results, knowledge sharing, development of a knowledge base and/or the establishment of scientific collaboration. The event can be both physical and digital.
This is a so-called registration call for departments that have been awarded salary and operating funds for doctoral research fellows from the STIPINST scheme. The call for proposals enables the Research Council to register doctoral students that the departments enroll on the basis of a letter of commitment.
The purpose of the scheme is to increase the proportion of young researchers who take research stays abroad. International experience is important for the research career and helps to strengthen Norwegian research by increasing competence and adding new knowledge to the project, developing networks and strengthening the opportunities for access ...
The purpose of this call is to provide support for dissemination and communication that increases people's understanding of climate, environmental, circular economy, polar and ocean research, and that facilitates the use of research-based knowledge.
The purpose of top-up financing of incoming Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Postdoctoral Fellowships is to make it more attractive for Norwegian research organisations to host HFSP fellows.
The Project Establishment Scheme (PES) is intended to ensure that applications with Norwegian participation in Horizon Europe are of high quality, so that Norwegian potential is exploited as well as possible. This call is intended to contribute to increasing the impact of Norwegian applications to Horizon Europe and the European Defence Fund (EDF).
The purpose of this call is to provide support for membership of the European Open Science Cloud Association (EOSC AISBL) for approved research organisations and publicly funded providers of research infrastructure that collaborate closely with Norwegian research organisations. Recipients must be able to document their membership in EOSC AISBL.
The objective of the call is to establish a national network for women's health research that will contribute to better national coordination of existing research groups, so that resources are utilised more efficiently and dialogue is strengthened. At the same time, the network is encouraged to actively mobilize new professional communities to e...
This is a portal for registering Norwegian partners in projects awarded funding in a Horizon Europe co-fund partnership call where the Research Council provides funding for the Norwegian partner's project costs. Registration of granted project participation provides a basis for establishing a contract with the Research Council for the national f...
The purpose of this call is to support events that address the functioning of the financial market and contribute to ethical awareness in the financial market area. Support from the Finance Market Fund will be used for purposes within areas of activity that include the securities market (see Section 7 of the Regulations). In addition, we can sup...
The first EUP OHAMR joint transnational call will be within the focus area of providing innovative and cost-effective treatment options. The call will be launched in November 2025.
The aim of the call is to support and enable transnational collaboration between clinical research communities on investigator-initiated clinical trials.
The European Commission finances research/innovation and capacity building within semiconductor technologies under its Horizon and Digital Programme. The European Commission and the national research councils work together to finance the projects. The announcements that are relevant for this national co-financing announcement are advertised on the website of Chips JU (Participate).
Get ready for the third Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership (SBEP) Joint Transnational Co-Funded Call (2025) entitled “Digitalisation and Innovation for Resilient Marine Ecosystems Businesses, and Communities to Strengthen the EU Blue Economy’s Competitiveness”.
Norwegian participation in a EuroHPC project on collaboration between established AI factories can be co-financed by the Research Council with up to NOK 7.5 million.
The aim of the call is to fund research and innovation projects that contribute to ensuring equitable access to and utilisation of health and care services. Through the funded research and innovation projects, policy and decision makers should gain the knowledge and tools necessary to implement the reallocation of resources as the health and care system undergoes a transition to meet new and ongoing challenges.
The goal of this call is to solve Undiagnosed Rare Genetic diseases and to address complex, multifactorial Rare Non-Genetic diseases by identifying causative variants in patients with no molecular diagnosis after prior genetic or genomic testing and providing diagnostic clarity for conditions of unknown or mixed pathogenesis.
The partnership will fund R&I projects providing significant contributions to either one of the following two topics : Topic 1 Enhancing the genetic diversity and variability of crops and livestock for the agroecological transition Topic 2 Strengthening farmer’s involvement and empowerment in the agroecology transition
Norway is partner in the European Partnership for a sustainable Future of Food Systems (FutureFoodS) where the research consortia must be comprised of a minimum of three partners from different countries.
The Research Council of Norway is announcing 850 000 euro to Norwegian researchers who want to participate in a European research collaboration within pandemic preparedness. The application must be submitted via the partnerships be page.
In this Belmont Forum CRA call, the Research Council of Norway contributes with NOK 27 million to Norwegian research organisations. The purpose of the call is to enhance our knowledge about the oceans and foster international, transdisciplinary research to address global environmental challenges facing our oceans.
The purpose of the joint call is to stimulate increased collaboration between Norwegian and Brazilian research organisations, with support from industry partners, to develop new knowledge, technologies, and services within environmentally friendly energy, petroleum, and green shipping.
Proposals submitted under this call must focus on one of two topics: Topic 1: Animal Welfare. Topic 2: Prevention & Control
The purpose of the call is to promote international cooperation on research and innovation to strengthen the European Research Area in green maritime transport.
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). The projects are required to address at least one of the seventeen SDGs.
The Research Council announces up to 2.4 million euros for Norwegian researchers and businesses who want to participate in international research collaboration in materials research.
Norwegian participation in this EuroHPC call is co-financed by the Resarch Council by 12 million kroner.
This call funds preparatory projects that bring together Nordic research and innovation actors in the raw materials sector. The aim is to support consortium-building, network development and strategic groundwork for competitive proposals to the EU co-funded Raw Materials Partnership (RAMP) and related calls.
RAMP is an international joint call funded by multiple countries, supporting projects that contribute to a sustainable and secure supply of raw materials for the green and digital transition. Projects must be developed by consortia with partners from several countries and address one or more of the call’s thematic areas.
Funding is available for research-based innovations in the public sector that will help the public sector to innovate services, infrastructure and public administration in a sustainable, systematic and efficient manner.
Messages at time of print 11 June 2026, 23:13 CEST