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Researcher Project for ICT Renewal and Development

The purpose of this call is to promote innovation and development in research that can contribute to advancing the international research front in ICT, including digital security and sovereignty, the next generation of data processing/ICT systems and other ICT research areas.

Enabling technologies
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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...

Ground-breaking research
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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.

Ground-breaking research
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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.

Ground-breaking research
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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.

Ground-breaking research
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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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Research Project for Peace and Reconciliation in the Middle East and North Africa (the MENA Region)

Funding is available for research on development in the Middle East and North Africa (the MENA region). The aim of the research is to improve knowledge about the political, social and economic development in the region. This knowledge will provide a better basis for making decisions about Norwegian foreign and aid policy. The research will also ...

Democracy and global development
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Centre for Sustainable Area and Nature Use

The purpose of this call is to establish up to four research centres for sustainable area and nature use. The research in the centres will contribute to solving shared challenges within area and nature use, and strengthen knowledge and innovation with the goal of societal benefit within the topic. The centres will be a unifying force for nationa...

Innovation
Energy and transportation
Climate and the environment
Food and bioresources
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Collaborative Project to Prevent and Combat Violence in Close Relationships

The purpose of this call is to develop new knowledge and to build research expertise that society needs to prevent and combat violence and abuse in close relationships. Projects must involve collaboration between research groups and actors outside the research sector that represent the need for new knowledge and research competence within the fi...

Democracy and global development
Welfare and education
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Innovation Project for the Industrial Sector: Energy and transportation

The Research Council wants to solve major societal challenges in a climate-friendly manner, and promote research-based innovation, demonstration and transition in both established and new business and industry. This call applies to applications where the scope of the innovation is within environmentally friendly energy, petroleum, maritime and t...

Oceans
Energy and transportation
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Innovation Project for the Industrial Sector: Industry and services

The Research Council wants to solve major societal challenges in a climate-friendly manner and seeks to promote research-driven innovation and transitions in both established and emerging business sectors. This call applies to applications where the scope of application of the innovation falls within the health industry, the ICT industry, the pr...

Innovation
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Research and Innovation to Strengthen the Sustainability of Municipal Health and Care Services

The purpose of the call is to stimulate research and innovation that is rooted in the need to strengthen the sustainability of the municipal health and care services. Municipalities, county authorities and research organisations can apply for funding under this call.

Health
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Health Pilot

Through the Health Pilot scheme, we fund innovation processes that can contribute to sustainability in the health and care services and to value creation in Norwegian trade and industry, in line with Report No. 18 to the Storting (2018–2019) "The health industry – together on value creation and better services". The innovation processes must be ...

Health
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Centre for Quantum Technology Research

The purpose of this call is to build solid Norwegian academic communities at a high international level in quantum computing, quantum sensors and quantum communication.

Enabling technologies
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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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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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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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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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Support for Events

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 generation of scientific collaboration. The event can be both physical and digital.

Internationalisation
Commercialisation
Oceans
Health
Enabling technologies
Innovation
Energy and transportation
Climate and the environment
Food and bioresources
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Recruitment of Talented Researchers to Norway

The Research Council supports the recruitment of talented international researchers to the Research Council's centre calls and for projects funded through FRIPRO's call for experienced scientists. The background for the scheme is the difficult situation that many researchers and institutions are now experiencing globally. The aim of the scheme i...

Internationalisation
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The Aurora Mobility Programme – Researcher Exchange for New Collaboration Between Norway and France

Support through AURORA will help to establish and expand contact between Norwegian research organisations and similar organisations in France. The purpose is to strengthen European research collaboration under Horizon Europe. Researchers from Norway can receive support for short stays in France to start up and develop joint new research projects.

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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Pre-clinical therapy studies for rare diseases using small molecules and biologicals – development and validation

The Research Council of Norway (RCN) is announcing € 600 000 to Norwegian researchers who wish to contribute to advancing therapeutic solutions for rare diseases. The ERDERA Joint Transnational Call (JTC) 2025 aims to foster international collaboration on interdisciplinary research projects, leveraging complementary expertise to benefit millions of patients worldwide.

Ground-breaking research
Health
Enabling technologies
Democracy and global development
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EU Partnership for a sustainable Future of Food Systems (FutureFoodS) - First Joint Transnational Co-funded Call

The vision of the FutureFoodS Partnership is to collectively achieve environmentally friendly, socially secure and fair, economically viable, healthy and safe food systems in Europe by 2050.

Trade and industry
Oceans
Food and bioresources
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Second call of the European partnership AGROECOLOGY

This call focuses on the performance of agroecology, under different aspects: evaluating this performance in its various dimensions, quantifying environmental impacts, transforming value chains, and contributing to the design of public policies to better support the transition.

Food and bioresources
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Tropical Forests: Global Implications and Pressing Actions

Belmont Forum call for international cooperation on tropical forests.

Climate and the environment
Food and bioresources
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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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Chips 2025 Electronic Components and Systems R&I Calls

The Chips for Europe Initiative under the European Chips Act is implemented through the Chips JU.  Chips is a European partnership under Horizon Europe with a focus on electronic components, semiconductor technology and system technologies.  The European Commission, industry organisations and participating countries together develop the work program.  The calls relevant for this national co-funding call are announced under Horizon Europe and on the website of Chips JU under "ECS R&I Calls". 

Enabling technologies
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MarLEN - Maritime Low Emission Network

The purpose of the call is to promote international cooperation on research and innovation to strengthen the European Research Area in green maritime transport.

Energy and transportation

Messages at time of print 20 June 2025, 00:20 CEST

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