Deadline: 17-Mar-21
The Research Council of Norway is seeking applications for its Increase Children’s and Adolescents’ Digital Skills and Understanding of Digital Technology program to enable children and adolescents to learn how digital content and services are developed and applied.
The Research Council wishes to promote scientific thinking in society. In the future, critical thinking will be applied to digitalisation, among other things. Digital competence based on scientific methods will enable children and adolescents to be able to use and, not least, create digital content and digital services. It is therefore important to make expertise available that can help to increase this target group’s understanding of and insight into digital technology.
Funding Information
- The Research Council may provide NOK 500,000–1,500,000 in funding per project under this call.
What can you seek funding for?
You can apply for funding to cover the actual costs necessary to carry out the project. The Project Owner is to obtain information about costs from any project partners. These costs are to be entered in the cost plan under the relevant category.
Support may be granted for the following costs:
- Payroll and indirect expenses;
- Operating expenses, which comprise costs for other activities that are necessary to implement the project;
- Procurement of R&D services;
- Equipment (up to 20 per cent of the total budget).
Eligibility Criteria
- Requirements relating to the Project Owner:
- The Project Owner organisation must be a registered non-profit organisation that can document that its work focuses on children and adolescents in the field of digital competence development.
- The non-profit organisation will be defined as the Project Owner in the application form and must have approved submission of the application. The organisation must be registered in the Norwegian Register of Non-Profit Organisations.
- If the application is collaboration between several organisations, the Project Owner submits the application on behalf of all the partners.
- Requirements relating to the project manager:
- The project manager’s scientific expertise and capability to manage the project will be assessed by peer reviewers. There are no formal requirements for the project manager’s qualifications.
- Requirements relating to partners:
- Approved Norwegian research organisations are eligible to participate as partners in the project and receive funding.
- R&D providers:
- The Project Owner and any partners may hire enterprises to perform R&D activities in the project. The R&D providers’ suitability will be subject to professional assessment. R&D providers may be approved research organisations or other enterprises that conduct significant R&D activity.
Eligibility Criteria
Who is eligible to apply?
- Non-profit organisations can apply.
- The organisation must be registered in the Norwegian Register of Non-Profit Organisations.
- Non-profit refers to activities that are not profit-based.
For more information, visit https://www.forskningsradet.no/en/call-for-proposals/2021/increase-childrens-adolescents-digital-skills/