FRIPRO is the Research Council of Norway’s scheme for frontier research with the potential to push the boundaries of knowledge. In this round, 19 research projects have been awarded a total of NOK 203 million.
The allocations in the call “Groundbreaking Research” are distributed as follows:
- Research Project for Experienced Researchers (FRIPRO) – 7 funded applications, of which UiO received three awards, distributed across the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Medicine.
- Researcher Project for Early Career Scientists (FRIPRO) – 11 funded applications, of which UiO received five awards: two to the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, two to the Faculty of Humanities, and one to the Faculty of Medicine.
- Researcher Project for International Mobility (FRIPRO) – 1 funded application, awarded to the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.
— ?9 out of 19 FRIPRO awards is outstanding. Not only are they succeeding in a highly competitive arena where quality is the principal criterion for funding — they also represent four different faculties, demonstrating the strength of our academic environments and the breadth of our scientific excellence. It is truly inspiring, says UiO Rector Ragnhild Hennum.
UiO receives funding across a wide range of topics
Research Project for Experienced Researchers
Professor, Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, Faculty of Law
- Project: Rule of Law and the Public Sense of Justice in Norway – International Conventions and National Norms in a Time of Crisis
- Amount: NOK 12 million
Professor in Japanese Studies, Faculty of Humanities
- Project: Coastal Lives in Flux: Environmental Crisis, Resistance, and Ritual Innovation Across Asia (CLiF)
- Amount: NOK 12 million
Professor II, Institute for Cancer Research, Faculty of Medicine
- Project: Deciphering the Crosstalk between Autophagy and Metabolic Rewiring in Cancer
- Amount: NOK 12 million
Researcher Project for Early Career Scientists
Senior Engineer, Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
- Project: Resolving the Solar Convective Conundrum: A Full-Physics Approach to Solar Convection
- Amount: NOK 10 million
Researcher, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine
- Project: Mitochondria-Initiated Neuronal Defence against Parkinson’s Disease
- Amount: NOK 10 million
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, Faculty of Humanities
- Project: Intensionality and Forcing: A New Model-Theoretic Synthesis
- Amount: NOK 7 million
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
- Project: HotSpot: Stress-Induced Mutations in Evolution
- Amount: NOK 10 million
Benjamin Schneider
Researcher, Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, Faculty of Humanities
- Project: Technological Change, Labour Representation, and Job Quality: A Comparative Historical Analysis, c. 1830–1980
- Amount: NOK 10 million
Researcher Project for International Mobility
Adviser, Department of Physics
- Project: Advanced Measurement in Carbon-Fusion Reactions: Cross-Section Measurements and Branching Ratios
- Amount: NOK 7.4 million
Read more about the FRIPRO awards from the Research Council of Norway