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Researcher Project with International Mobility (FRIPRO)

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...

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Researcher Project for Early Career Scientists (FRIPRO)

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.

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Radical Research Ideas for Early Career Scientists

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.

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Researcher Project for Experienced Scientists (FRIPRO)

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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Top Researchers – Researcher Projects to Develop World Leading Research Communities

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.

Ground-breaking research
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Researcher Project for a Study on Local Elections

The funds will go to research that continues and renews previous Norwegian Local Election Studies. The results of the research will provide knowledge about what is needed to strengthen local democracy, about local elections, local parties/lists and local candidates, voter behaviour, midterm voter turnout and local politics. Knowledge from the pr...

Democracy and global development
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Mandatory outline for the Centre for Environment-friendly Energy Research (FME Society)

This outline call qualifies for the submission of a complete application for funding for new Centres for Environment-friendly Energy Research. Applicants who have not submitted an outline by the deadline are not qualified to apply for funding through the main call. The purpose of the main call is to establish up to three new Centres for Environm...

Energy and transportation
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Norwegian Centres of Excellence – SFF VI – Phase 2

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...

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New Research Centres for Environment-friendly Energy (FME Society)

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...

Energy and transportation
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Proof-of-Concept – Research Commercialisation from Publicly Funded Research 2025

The purpose of the Research Council's commercialisation support is to contribute to the use of publicly funded research through increased commercial exploitation and/or societal innovation. The purpose of verification support corresponds to the purpose of Horizon Europe's EIC-Transition: to mature and validate new technologies from the laborator...

Trade and industry
Commercialisation
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Qualification – Research Commercialisation from Publicly Funded Research 2025

The purpose of the Research Council's commercialisation support is to contribute to the use of publicly funded research through increased commercial exploitation and/or societal innovation. The purpose of a qualification project is to carry out initial investigations of possible applications, which form the basis for further choices, including f...

Trade and industry
Commercialisation
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Cyber security and resilience in the energy sector in the Nordic region

The aim of the call is to enhance cybersecurity resilience in the energy sector across the Nordic region through cross-border collaboration and innovation.

Enabling technologies
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Funding for Research Stays Abroad for Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows

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 ...

Internationalisation
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Registration of Doctoral Students Funded by the STIPINST Scheme (by invitation only)

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 research system
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Communication and Dissemination of Climate, Environment and Ocean Research

The purpose of this call is to provide funding for dissemination and communication that increases people's understanding of climate, environmental and marine research, and that facilitates the use of research-based knowledge.

Oceans
Climate and the environment
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Support for membership of the European Open Science Cloud Association

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 research system
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Supplementary Funding for Ongoing Projects to Enhance Knowledge and Results Transfer from ICT Research to the Defence Sector

The aim of the call is to link national research groups to the defence sector. The call is intended to contribute to strengthening outstanding and robust national research groups that develop new knowledge of interest to the defence sector, and that support military technology development and realise synergies with other technology initiatives i...

Enabling technologies
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PES – Support for Project Establishment Aimed at Horizon Europe

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).

Internationalisation
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Registration Call for Norwegian Project Partners in the Calls for the Co-funded Partnerships in Horizon Europe

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...

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Support for Events Focused on the Functioning of the Financial Market and Ethical Awareness

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...

Policy and government administration areas
Humanities and social sciences
Democracy and global development
Welfare and education
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Water4All: Water and health

This call focuses on promoting research and innovation that addresses critical challenges related to water quality, contaminants, and human health, including the links to environmental health (One Health).

Health
Climate and the environment
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M-ERA.NET - Call2025 - ERA-NET for research and innovation on materials

The Research Council announces up to 3.7 million euros for Norwegian researchers and businesses who want to participate in international research collaboration in materials research.  

Enabling technologies
Innovation
Energy and transportation
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QuantERA Call 2025

The QuantERA Call 2025 is a joint transnational Call for research proposals in QT cofunded  by organisations gathered under the QuantERA III Research & Innovation Action, with  additional EC contribution.

Enabling technologies
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Multi-country Investigator-Initiated Clinical Trials in Cardiovascular, Autoimmune and Metabolic diseases (Trials4Health 2026)

The aim of the call is to support and enable transnational collaboration between clinical research communities on investigator-initiated clinical trials.

Health
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Call Announcement African-European call for proposals “Climate Services for Risk Reduction in West Africa” (CS4RRA)

Call’s objectives: Strengthen climate resilience in West Africa based on a better understanding of the impacts of climate change; Improve climate knowledge, capacities and services for climate risk reduction and adaptation to climate change; Strengthen African and European partnership.

Democracy and global development
The research system
Climate and the environment
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Joint Call on Blue Carbon Ecosystems

JPI Oceans has launched a Joint Call on Blue Carbon to build understanding of its role in climate mitigation, adaptation, and biodiversity protection. The call provides €5.3 million in funding and remains open to proposals until 2 March 2026. Research organizations, companies and entities in the public sector can apply for funding from the Research Council of Norway.

Oceans
Climate and the environment
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Belmont Forum Oceans 2

In this Belmont Forum CRA call, the Research Council of Norway contributes with NOK 17 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. All Norwegian sea areas are included in the call, included the polar oceans.

Oceans
Climate and the environment

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