Deadline: 15-Feb-23
The Research Council of Norway is offering Up to NOK 825 million is available for both basic and applied research activities in Collaborative Projects to meet Societal and Industry-related Challenges.
Purpose
- The purpose of this call is to develop new knowledge and generate competence needed by society or trade and industry to address important societal challenges.
- The projects are to encourage and support collaboration between research organisations and stakeholders from outside the research sector that represent societal and/or industry-related needs for knowledge and research competence.
Thematic Areas
- Relevant thematic areas for this call
- Cross-cutting topics
- Energy, transport and low emissions
- Oceans
- Health
- Land-based food, the environment and bioresources
- Enabling technologies
- Education and competence
- Welfare, culture and society.
Funding Information
- Funding scale: minimum NOK 4 000 000
- Amount of funding presumed available for this call for proposals: up to NOK 815 000 000
- Project duration: 24-48 months.
What can you seek funding for?
- Scope of funding
- The minimum amount of funding that may be sought is NOK 4 million. Any maximum amounts are described under the respective topics. The projects may last from two to four years.
- You can apply for funding to cover the costs necessary to carry out the project. The Project Owner is to obtain information about costs from each project partner. These costs are to be entered into the cost plan under the relevant category.
- The following cost categories must be used:
- Payroll and indirect expenses related to researcher time (including research fellowship positions) at the research organisations, and the partners’ personnel hours. For doctoral research fellowships, funding is limited to a maximum of three man-years. For postdoctoral fellowships, funding may be granted for two to four years.
- Equipment, encompassing operating and depreciation costs for scientific equipment and research infrastructure necessary for the implementation of the project.
- Other operating expenses, which comprise costs for other activities that are necessary to implement the project. Procurements from subcontractors must be specified.
Eligibility Criteria
- The call is open to approved Norwegian research organisations in effective cooperation with relevant actors from public sector entities, non-governmental organisations, the industry sector and/or other private organisations.
- A research organisation is an entity, irrespective of its legal status (organised under public or private law) or way of financing, whose primary goal is to independently conduct fundamental research and/or applied research (industrial research and experimental development).
- The following types of organisations are approved as research organisations by the Research Council, and are eligible to serve as Project Owners and/or partners in grant applications and projects stipulating that these roles must be held by approved research organisations:
- universities, specialised university colleges and university colleges accredited at the institution level by the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (NOKUT);
- health trusts/hospitals with legally mandated research and development tasks and private, non-profit hospitals that are encompassed by the national system for measuring research activity under the Ministry of Health and Care Services;
- research organisations encompassed by the Norwegian guidelines for public basic funding of research institutes;
- entities in the public sector body that are required to conduct research (see definition of “public sector body” here.)
- other organisations that have research as an objective and have been assessed and approved in accordance with the definition of research organisation in the state aid rules and an overall assessment carried out by the Research Council.
For more information, visit Collaborative Project to Meet Societal.