Strategy plans

The world faces enormous challenges where research and innovation must and will deliver the knowledge and solutions we need. The Research Council's strategy for 2020-2024 aims in particular at restructuring society, sustainable development and groundbreaking research.

Empowering ideas for a better world (pdf)

Supplementary strategies and policy documents

In addition, the Research Council has drawn up strategies and policy documents relating to its national and international research activities. These provide a more in-depth specification of the Research Council’s ambitions in key priority areas. The main strategy links together the Research Council’s supplementary strategies and policy documents.

• Equality Action Plan for the Research Council of Norway 2022-2024 (pdf)
• Gender equality and gender perspectives in research (pdf)
• Research Strategy for the Arctic and Northern Areas (pdf in Norwegian)
• Tools for Research: National strategy for research infrastructure (pdf in Norwegian)
• Strategy for innovation in the public sector (pdf in Norwegian)
• Research for Sustainable Societal and Industrial Development. Link to pdf
• Strategy for the Research Council of Norway for an innovative business sector (pdf in Norwegian)
• Policy for integrated health research in the Research Council (pdf in Norwegian)
• Recruitment to research (pdf in Norwegian)
• Policy for basic research (pdf in Norwegian)
• Strategy for the research institute sector (pdf in Norwegian)
• Policy for R&D at university colleges (pdf in Norwegian)
• National environmental R&D strategy, Miljø21 (pdf in Norwegian)
• Norwegian polar research (pdf)
• The Research Council of Norway's Policy for Open Science (pdf)
• The Research Council of Norway’s Policy for Open Access to Research Data (pdf)