If your application is approved, you will be notified by us that we have made a funding decision. When you log on to My page, you will see that we have created a new project under My projects. The grant letter is also to be found under My projects.
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Grant letters will be introduced for projects that have been received and granted funding under the Research Council's new application system from 2026. Projects that have been granted funding under the old application system are regulated by a contract with the Research Council. |
The grant letter is a document that communicates the Research Council's decision on grants, and contains all the terms and conditions for the grant. This includes the call for proposals, the Research Council's general terms and conditions for R&D projects and the project description.
The Research Council's general terms and conditions for R&D projects apply to all projects that receive funding from Norway. We adjust the general terms and conditions for grants for R&D projects when necessary. These are the general terms and conditions that applied when you applied for funding that apply for the entire period of the project.
Here are the current terms and conditions:
- General terms and conditions for R&D projects (PDF in English)
The amount granted in the grant letter is the maximum amount of funding the project can receive. Funding can only be used to cover the costs of carrying out the project as described in the application and in the project's updated 'Plan and budget' at any given time.
In the grant letter, there may be conditions you must meet before you can receive money from us, so read it carefully. These can include:
- For most projects that receive a funding decision, we require that you submit a start-up report no later than 30 days after you have received the grant decision (link to come).
- If the Project Owner organisation or partners are an undertaking and are eligible to receive state aid under the project, the organisations must confirm the size of the undertaking and declare that they are not an undertaking in financial difficulties.
- In projects with partners, all parties involved in the collaboration must confirm that a collaboration agreement has been entered into.
The formal recipient of the grant letter is the Project Owner organisation. This is the organisation that is responsible to the Research Council for ensuring that the project is carried out in accordance with the terms and conditions set out in the grant letter.