Calls for proposals

Amount of funding presumed available for this call for proposals:

NOK 510 000 000

Funding scale:

NOK 4 000 000-10 000 000

Project duration:

36-48 months

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.

Amount of funding presumed available for this call for proposals:

NOK 40 000 000

Funding scale:

NOK 4 700 000-7 400 000

Project duration:

36-48 months

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...

Amount of funding presumed available for this call for proposals:

NOK 750 000 000

Funding scale:

NOK 4 000 000-12 000 000

Project duration:

36-96 months

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.

Amount of funding presumed available for this call for proposals:

NOK 160 000 000

Funding scale:

NOK 15 000 000-40 000 000

Project duration:

48-96 months

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.

Amount of funding presumed available for this call for proposals:

NOK 30 000 000

Funding scale:

NOK 500 000-2 000 000

Project duration:

4-12 months

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.

Funding is available for new knowledge for a societal transition within nature's tolerance limits, while at the same time ensuring good societies in which to live, characterised by good welfare and quality of life. This is a green and just transition with legitimacy and trust in the population toa low-emission society that takes care of the clim...

The funds should be used for research into how democracies are changing nationally and globally, and how they can be strengthened and further developed.

Funding is available for high-quality research on skills, education and working life.

Funding is available for research that contributes to sustainable health promotion and preventive measures, treatment and services to counteract loneliness, exclusion and social inequality in health.

Funding is available for research on Norway's ability to prevent and manage various crises and incidents that threaten fundamental values, functions and infrastructure in society, and that endanger life and health.

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...

Project duration:

120-120 months

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...

Preproposal:

21 January 2026

Full proposal:

10 June 2026

Program:

ERA4Health

The purpose of the call is to support transnational research projects that can contribute to increased knowledge about overweight and obesity in a life-course perspective.

Pre-proposal submission deadline:

12 February 2026

Full proposal submission deadline:

8 July 2026

Program:

ERDERA — European Rare Diseases Research Alliance

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.