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This call does not include funding for the topic Ground-breaking research (FRIPRO). See the FRIPRO call for Researcher Project for Young Talents.
Funding is intended to give talented young researchers under the age of 40 the opportunity to pursue their ideas and lead a research project. This call is targeted towards researchers in the early stages of their careers, 2–7 years after defence of an approved doctorate, who have demonstrated the potential to conduct research of high scientific quality. Which disciplines and thematic areas the call is open for, are specified under each topic.
The call encompasses several topics. You can direct your application to one of these. You will find a specified amount and priorities for the selection of projects to receive funding under each topic.
This call does not include funding for the topic Ground-breaking research (FRIPRO). (We will publish information about the call for proposals for FRIPRO at a later date.) Please read the information about each topic carefully before you begin working on an application.
You can only be the project manager for one application submitted for either a Researcher Project for Young Talents (this call), Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal (thematic priority call with deadline 8 February 2023), Knowledge-building Project for Industry , Collaborative Project to meet Societal and Industry-related Challenges (deadline 15 February 2023) or Researcher Project for Young Talents (FRIPRO) (deadline 15 March 2023).
It will be possible to create and fill in an application form from 20 December (date postponed from 14 December). See our video tutorial that tells you how to fill in the application form (in Norwegian).
The Norwegian-language call for proposals is the legally binding version.
We reserve the right to make possible changes to the call after we have received our letter of allocation from the Norwegian government for 2023.
Only approved Norwegian research organisations may apply. See here for the list of approved Norwegian research organisations.
The organisation listed as the Project Owner in the application form must have approved the submission of the grant application to the Research Council.
Experience requirements: You must have an approved doctorate and the period between the date of defence of your doctoral dissertation and the application deadline may be between two and seven years. You must have defended your dissertation no earlier than 8 February 2016 and no later than 8 February 2021.
Age requirement: You must be younger than 40 years old on the date of the application submission deadline. This means that you must have been born on or after 9 February 1983.
If more than seven years have passed since you defended your dissertation or if you were born before 9 February 1983, you may apply to subtract leaves of absence, compulsory military or civilian service or sick leave in accordance with our rules for subtracting time.
Rules for subtracting timeYou may apply to subtract time used in connection with statutory leaves of absence, compulsory military or civilian service (up to 12 months for both of these) or continuous full-time and/or part-time sick leave equal to at least eight weeks full-time absence. If you apply to subtract time in order to satisfy the experience requirement, the periods to be subtracted must have taken place after the doctoral defence. If you apply to subtract time to satisfy the age requirement, the periods to be subtracted must have taken place after you turned 18 years old. To be allowed to subtract time from the age and/or experience requirement, you are required to submit documentation of the time you are asking to subtract with your grant application You must also enter the time deduction in the application form. We accept documentation from the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV), physicians/health services and employers. Documentation from current or former supervisors is not sufficient. If you are providing documentation from an employer, it must come from the employer’s administration department, such as the HR department. The documentation must be submitted in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English, or must be accompanied by a certified translation into one of these languages. We follow the rules for leaves of absence set out in the Norwegian Working Environment Act, and you may apply to subtract time for any leaves of absence you would have been entitled to if you had lived in Norway at the time. For example, you may subtract time for parental leave in a country that does not have statutory parental leave, provided that you actually took parental leave. You must be able to document the leave as described above. |
You can only be the project manager for one application submitted for either a Researcher Project for Young Talents (this call), Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal (thematic priority call with deadline 8 February 2023), Knowledge-building Project for Industry , Collaborative Project to meet Societal and Industry-related Challenges (deadline 15 February 2023) or Researcher Project for Young Talents (FRIPRO) (deadline 15 March 2023).
Only approved Norwegian research organisations (see the section ‘Who is eligible to apply?’ above) and corresponding research organisations in other countries are eligible to be partners and to receive Researcher Project funding.
Other types of organisations, such as companies and other undertakings, may not be project partners in Researcher Projects.
Subcontractors cannot be granted any rights to project results. Organisations that are subject to the regulations governing public procurements must, in the normal manner, select subcontractors in accordance with these regulations. R&D providers cannot be included in the project.
A project participant may not be assigned two different roles in the project. This means that a sub-contractor for the project may not have the role of Project Owner or partner in the same project.
You may seek funding to cover actual costs that are necessary to execute the project. The Project Owner is to obtain information about costs from each project partner. These costs are to be entered in the cost plan under the relevant category.
Funding may be granted for the following costs:
You will find detailed and important information about what to enter in the project budget on our website.
If the project includes doctoral and post-doctoral research fellowships and there are concrete plans in place for research stays abroad for the fellowship holders, the costs of such stays may be included in the grant application. The Research Council has also issued a separate call for funding for Research Stays Abroad for Doctoral and Post-doctoral Fellows. The project manager may seek funding under that call in the course of the project period for research stays abroad for research fellows affiliated to the project.
The Research Council can provide NOK 4–8 million in funding per project under this call. There are no requirements for own financing. If our lump-sum rates do not cover all the costs associated with recruitment positions in the university and university college sector or the institute sector, or researcher positions in the university and university college sector, the difference must be covered through own funding. Reported hourly rates must be used for researcher positions in the institute sector.
The Research Council will not award funding that constitutes state aid under this call. This means that funding is only to go to your non-economic activity. We require a clear separation of accounts for the organisation’s economic and non-economic activities. Our requirements relating to allocation and disbursement of support for the first year and any pledges and payments for subsequent years are set out in the General Terms and Conditions for R&D Projects to be found on our information page What the contract involves.
If your project is awarded funding, the following must be in place before you submit your revised grant application:
The topics encompassed under this call are grouped into the thematic areas below. Special requirements and guidelines are detailed under each topic and will be emphasised when assessing the applications.
The various topics, and how much funding is available within these, will be published in English during the month of November.
Funding is available for projects targeting basic technological research on stationary storage of renewable energy.
The energy system of the future will have to deal with large amounts of intermittent energy. Analyses show that today's storage solutions cannot meet the challenges of long-term and concurrent production failures from solar and wind power or large power outputs over a short period of time. The objective of these funds is to ensure researcher recruitment and research in the area of stationary energy storage in order to avoid this becoming a bottleneck for phasing in intermittent renewable energy and for realising Norway's climate commitments.
Grant applications addressing non-technological aspects related to storage solutions or topics other than renewable energy storage solutions are not eligible for funding under this topic. If you wish to apply for funding for this purpose, please see and direct your application to the calls "Knowledge-building Project for Industry" or "Collaborative Project to meet Societal and Industry-related Challenges".
Feel free to contact us before writing an application to ensure that your project falls within this topic. The attachment "Relevance to the topic" is mandatory. The template is located at the bottom of this call.
If you apply for funding under this topic, you must select the topic "Environment-friendly energy" in the grant application form.
Funding of up to NOK 36 million is available for research on production and/or processing technologies of relevance to the aquaculture sector. This topic is open, and projects can include production and/or processing technologies in all parts of the aquaculture sector, regardless of the type of aquaculture organism.
Research on biotechnology in itself is not considered to be part of production and processing technology. We refer in this context to the call Collaborative Project to meet Societal and Industry-related Challenges where up to NOK 90 million is awarded to industrial biotechnology (link opens in new window), application deadline 15 February 2023.
Funding is available for both Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal (link opens in new window) and Researcher Project for Young Talents (this call), and applications will compete for funding across these two calls. We expect to fund three to four projects in total.
This topic is in cooperation with IOC-UNESCO as part of the UN Decade of Ocean Science. The objective of the UN Decade of Ocean Science is to increase ocean knowledge and ensure that society can use this knowledge, enabling us to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (opens in new window).
The projects funded under this call will be assessed by the IOC-UNESCO secretariat and may become part of the UN Decade of Ocean Science activities (attachment opens in new window).
When awarding marks for the relevance criterion, we will place emphasis on:
Applications for a Researcher Project for Young Research Talents may not include partners from outside academia/that are not research organisations, but user groups, e.g. reference groups, can be included in the project.
The attachment “Relevance to the topic” is mandatory. The template can be found at the end of the call.
If you are going to apply for these funds, you must select the topic “Aquaculture” in the application form.
Funding is available for research to understand the impact of changing habitats for marine species.
The projects must target at least one of the following areas:
This topic is in cooperation with IOC-UNESCO as part of the UN Decade of Ocean Science. The objective of the UN Decade of Ocean Science is to increase ocean knowledge and ensure that society can use this knowledge, enabling us to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The projects funded under this call will be assessed by the IOC-UNESCO secretariat and may become part of the UN Decade of Ocean Science activities (PDF, attachment opens in new window).
The attachment “Relevance to the topic” is mandatory. The template can be found at the end of the call.
We wish to fund projects that cover the breadth of the areas mentioned above.
If you are going to apply for these funds, you must select the topic “Implications for marine species” in the application form.
Funding is available for projects that promote long-term, sustainable utilisation and management of wild living marine resources. Research activities must address the research needs as defined in the areas “Sustainable harvesting and value creation (VERDISKAPING)” and “Management and societal perspectives (SAMFUNN)”. More information about these areas can be found in the attachment “Research needs – marine research” (link below).
Applicants can choose whether the application is aimed at VERDISKAPING and/or SAMFUNN. The list of points below summarises the research needs for VERDISKAPING and SAMFUNN, respectively, and each of these has detailed sub-points, which you can read about in Research needs marine research (attachment opens in a new window). Your application must target at least one of these sub-points.
Sustainable harvesting and value creation (VERDISKAPING)
Management and societal perspectives (SAMFUNN)
This topic is in cooperation with IOC-UNESCO as part of the UN Decade of Ocean Science. The objective of the UN Decade of Ocean Science is to increase ocean knowledge and ensure that society can use this knowledge, enabling us to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The projects funded under this call will be assessed by the IOC-UNESCO secretariat and may become part of the UN Decade of Ocean Science activities (attachment opens in new window).
The attachment “Relevance to the topic” is mandatory. The template can be found at the end of the call.
We aim to fund at least one project in each of the areas of VERDISKAPING and SAMFUNN.
If you are going to apply for these funds, you must select the topic “Marine sector” in the application form.
Funding is available for projects that contribute to increasing basic knowledge of space and Earth, and to the development of a new generation of space researchers. The funding must also contribute to basic research relating to Norwegian space activity in research, particularly in relation to Norway’s participation in the European Space Agency (ESA), European Incoherent SCATter (EISCAT), Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) and the EU Space Programme (in particular Copernicus).
You can find more information about Space research in the Portfolio plan for Natural science and technology. When assessing the grant application’s relevance, we will also consider:
The attachment “Relevance to the topic” is mandatory. The template can be found at the end of the call.
If you are going to apply for these funds, you must select the topic “Space research” in the application form.
Funding is available for research on and for the education sector. Funding is available for up to three projects.
We will provide funding to projects that concern teaching and learning, the content and forms of assessment in education, professional education, educational technology, management and organisation of the education sector, and the role the education system plays for individuals, society and working life.
See Section 4 of the Portfolio plan for Education and competence for more detailed descriptions of priorities.
The goal is to generate high-quality knowledge of special interest to actors and stakeholders in terms of policy development, administration and the field of practice in relation to education, learning and competence development. Projects should contribute to knowledge-based development. We encourage multi- and interdisciplinary projects if this serves the purpose.
When a mark is awarded for the application’s relevance to the topic you have chosen, we will consider how well the application addresses the areas described above, and, if relevant, the points listed above. The attachment “Relevance to the topic” is mandatory. The template can be found at the end of the call.
If you are going to apply for these funds, you must select the topic “Education” in the application form.
The funds will go to research that challenges and expands existing knowledge bases for societal choices and that contributes new perspectives and new knowledge in areas subject to major changes and challenges. Some of the most important current societal challenges, such as social and other forms of exclusion and inclusion, are related to cultural change and cultural diversity.
We want research on one or more of the following areas under the overriding research topic “Cultural change and cultural diversity”:
Eligible projects must explore the cultural dimensions of the societal challenges through historical, linguistic and communicative, religious, normative and/or aesthetic analyses. Projects should provide new insights into key challenges of diversity and cultural change and how they should be addressed. The research should primarily focus on issues of relevance to Norway, or where Norwegian cases are part of international comparative studies.
If the application is relevant to the areas above, we will prioritise projects that are clearly rooted in humanities subjects and perspectives.
When a mark is awarded for the application’s relevance to the topic, we will consider how well the application addresses the priorities listed above. It will also be deemed positive if the project
The attachment “Relevance to the topic” is mandatory. The template can be found at the end of the call.
If you are going to apply for these funds, you must select the topic “Culture” in the application form.
Applications must be created and submitted via My RCN Web. You may revise and resubmit your grant application form multiple times up to the application submission deadline. We recommend that you submit your application as soon as you have filled in the grant application form and included all mandatory attachments. After the deadline, it is the most recently submitted version of the grant application that will be processed.
The application must meet the following requirements:
Applications that do not satisfy the requirements listed above may be rejected.
The mandatory attachments must be prepared using designated templates found at the end of the call.
Attachments other than the mandatory and optional attachments specified above, as well as any links to websites in the grant application, will not be included in the application review process.
All attachments must be submitted together with the grant application. We will not accept attachments submitted after the deadline for applications unless we have requested further information.
We assess applications in light of the objectives of the application type in question and on the basis of the following criteria:
We will assess the version of your application that you submit and will not take into account how an identical or almost identical application has been assessed in the past.
You can read more about the administrative procedure for Researcher Project here.
In summary, the process is as follows: Once the grant applications have been received, the Research Council will conduct a preliminary administrative review to ensure that they satisfy all the stipulated formal requirements. Applications that do not meet the formal requirements may be rejected.
The applications will then be distributed to thematic referee panels to be assessed in relation to the criteria Excellence – potential for advancing the state-of-the-art, Excellence – quality of R&D activities, Impact and Implementation.
From 2023, the referees will assess applications for Researcher Project for open science as part of the criterion Impact. Here you will find more information about assessment of open science in grant applications.
After the panel has completed its assessment, the Research Council will conduct an assessment of the application’s relevance to the call.
The portfolio boards’ decisions are also based on an overall assessment of the project portfolio. The portfolio assessment takes the following factors into account:
The decision meetings of the portfolio boards will be held in the period June-September 2023. The outcome of the application processing will be published consecutively after these meetings.
Project no. | Organization | Project title | Subject | Sought | Published |
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343131 | UIS | Human Reading Assessment | Utdanning og kompetanse | 8 000 000 | 26.10.2023 |
343081 | NORCE Samfunn/Helse Vestland | Reducing digital inequalities: Migrant NEETs struggle for digital inclusion and beneficial outcomes | Velferd, kultur og samfunn | 7 994 000 | 14.09.2023 |
343211 | Høgskolen i Innlandet Hamar | Exploring Social Politics, Inclusive Education, and Cultural Democratization Through the lens of Norwegian Hip Hop Music | Velferd, kultur og samfunn | 7 852 000 | 14.09.2023 |
343310 | Senter for studier av holocaust og livssynsminoriteter | From the Radical to the Norm: The Construction of Normalcy Through Aesthetics in Far-Right Culture | Velferd, kultur og samfunn | 8 000 000 | 14.09.2023 |
343406 | Nord Universitet | Appropriating the Commons: Articulating the Cultural Transformation of Welfare and Charity | Velferd, kultur og samfunn | 7 990 000 | 14.09.2023 |
343522 | Universitetet i Stavanger | Polarisation, Affect, Identity: Nordic Populism and the Media Landscape | Velferd, kultur og samfunn | 8 000 000 | 14.09.2023 |
344002 | NTNU | Petitions and Petitioning in the Nascent Democracy. Norway in the long 19th Century | Velferd, kultur og samfunn | 7 999 000 | 14.09.2023 |
343256 | Institutt for teknologi og sikkerhet, UIT | Bridging Education and Future Work: Reframing Education and Competence Model for Remote Maritime Operations (REFRAME) | Utdanning og kompetanse | 8 000 000 | 23.06.2023 |
343474 | Institutt for samfunnsforskning | Missing Men: New conceptual understandings of gendered educational choices | Utdanning og kompetanse | 8 000 000 | 23.06.2023 |
343520 | Institutt for lærerutdanning og skoleforskning, UNIVERSITETET I OSLO | Rising to the challenge: Academic resilience in mathematics and science among disadvantaged students (ARISE) | Utdanning og kompetanse | 8 000 000 | 23.06.2023 |
343430 | NMBU | Sustainable aquaculture industry waste valorization through recycling | Hav | 8 000 000 | 15.06.2023 |
344079 | AKVAPLAN-NIVA AS | Migratory Crossroads: predicting the dynamics of a great vertical migration in a changing habitat | Hav | 8 000 000 | 15.06.2023 |
343117 | STIFTELSEN NORSK INSTITUTT FOR NATURFORSKNING NINA | Long-term effects of environmental changes on ArctiC seabirds: effeCts of seasonal distribUtion and contaMination on popULATION dynamics | Hav | 7 880 000 | 15.06.2023 |
343469 | HAVFORSKNINGSINSTITUTTET | Anthropogenic impacts of climate change and fisheries on reproductive and offspring performance of high-latitude marine fishes | Hav | 8 000 000 | 15.06.2023 |
343517 | HAVFORSKNINGSINSTITUTTET | Biodiversity in Northern European Seagrass meadows – drivers, responses, and resilience | Hav | 8 000 000 | 15.06.2023 |
343056 | HAVFORSKNINGSINSTITUTTET | Assessing spatiotemporal dynamics in HERring POPulation Structure under climate change | Hav | 8 000 000 | 15.06.2023 |
343488 | HAVFORSKNINGSINSTITUTTET | Kinship-based assessment of Norwegian coastal cod to determine sustainable harvest levels and protect genetic diversity in fisheries | Hav | 7 989 000 | 15.06.2023 |
343193 | UiO | FLUFFY – Fluoride-based Na-ion battery cathodes for stationary energy storage | Energi og lavutslipp | 7 993 000 | 12.06.2023 |
343732 | SINTEF ENERGI AS | Multi-storage systems for multi-markets under multi-time horizons | Energi og lavutslipp | 8 000 000 | 12.06.2023 |
343510 | SINTEF ENERGI AS | Rethinking zinc-air flow batteries for stationary energy storage | Energi og lavutslipp | 7 997 000 | 12.06.2023 |
343399 | SINTEF AS | Sodium ion batteries for stationary applications in challenging environment | Energi og lavutslipp | 8 000 000 | 12.06.2023 |
343478 | UiO | Operando Screening of emerging Anodes for Na-based stationary storage of Renewable energy | Energi og lavutslipp | 8 000 000 | 12.06.2023 |
344061 | UNIVERSITETET I BERGEN | EISCAT_3D-Based Reconstruction of Ionosphere-Thermosphere Electrodynamics | Naturvitenskap og teknologi | 8 000 000 | 4.7.2023 |
343302 | UNIVERSITETSSENTERET PÅ SVALBARD AS | Aurora-like fragments: From fascinating discovery to understanding | Naturvitenskap og teknologi | 7 996 000 | 4.7.2023 |
343069 | UNIVERSITETET I TROMSØ - NORGES ARKTISKE UNIVERSITET | DynAMIC (Detecting episodes of Arctic sea ice Mass Imbalance) | Naturvitenskap og teknologi | 8 000 000 | 4.7.2023 |
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