大象传媒

• Project Managers:
  • Professor in听Palaeography, , University of Bergen, (coordinator)
  • Professor in History,听,听University of Helsinki听
  • Professor in Literature,听, University of Southern Denmark
  • Professor in Biocodicology,听, University of Copenhagen
• Project: CODICUM -听The Medieval Book and Networks of Northern Europe c. 1000-1500: Texts, Crafts, Fragments
• The project听examines how books and literary networks shaped Northern Europe between 1000 and 1500 CE.鈥� The project鈥痺ill investigate approximately 50,000 medieval Latin book fragments preserved in Nordic collections 鈥� one of Europe鈥檚 largest archives of medieval book culture.鈥�鈥�
• Funded by the European Research Council (ERC) for the period 2025-2030.

The ERC Synergy Grant is awarded by ERC to foster听collaboration between outstanding researchers, enabling them to combine their expertise, knowledge and resources to push the boundaries of scientific discovery.

• Project Manager: Professor in Digital Culture,
• Project:听AI STORIES 鈥� Narrative Archetypes for Artificial Intelligence听
• AI STORIES听explores the idea that narrative archetypes shape AI outputs.
• The project examines how large language models (LLMs) may not only replicate historical biases but also narrative structures from their training materials, potentially impacting cultural diversity.听
• Funded by the European Research Council (ERC) for the period 2024鈥�2029
• Read more on the project听website

The ERC Advanced Grant is awarded by ERC to experienced senior researchers with a scientific track record which shows groundbreaking research throughout their career, also during the last 10 years.

• Project Manager: Associate professor in Religious studies,
• Project: RADHEART -听Radical Habits of the Heart: Emotions, Embodiment, and Strong, Individual Commitment in Ancient Radical Religion
• The project听examines the breadth and depth of commitment in radical religion in a more fundamental way to understand its persistence.听It analyses how strong individual commitment is expressed and cultivated in ancient forms of Judaism and Christianity.听
• Funded by the European Research Council (ERC) for the period 2025-2030
• Read more on the project website

The ERC Consolidator Grant is awarded by ERC to researchers with 7-12 years of experience since completion of PhD, a scientific track record showing great promise and an excellent research proposal.

• Project Manager: Professor
• Project:听Fundamentals of formal properties of nonmanuals: A quantitative approach
• The project will study facial expressions and body and head movements in five different sign languages, using large datasets, Computer Vision and advanced statistical analysis.
• Funded by the European Research Council (ERC) for the period听2023鈥�2027
• More about the project

The ERC Starting Grant is awarded by ERC to researchers with 2-7 years of experience since completion of PhD, a scientific track record showing great promise and an excellent research proposal.

Jill Walker Rettberg听 |听 Machine Vision听 |听 Consolidator Grant

• Project Manager: Professor in Digital Culture,
• Project:听MACHINE VISION 鈥� Machine Vision in Everyday Life: Playful Interactions with Visual Technologies in Digital Art, Games, Narratives and Social Media
• The goal of the project is to develop a theoretical framework to understand how the everyday use of machine vision affects us as a society and as individuals.
• Funded by the European Research Council (ERC) for the period听2018鈥�2023
• Read more on the project听website

The ERC Consolidator Grant is awarded by ERC to researchers with 7-12 years of experience since completion of PhD, a scientific track record showing great promise and an excellent research proposal.

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Scott Bremer听 |听 CALENDARS听 |听 Starting Grant

• Project Manager:听Researcher听
• Project:听CALENDARS 鈥� Co-production of seasonal representations for adaptive institutions
• The project will empirically explore the relationship between different institutions鈥� ideas of seasons and their successful adaptation through an in-depth comparative study in two local communities in Norway and New Zealand.
• Funded by the European Research Council (ERC) for the period听2019鈥�2024
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The ERC Starting Grant is awarded by ERC to researchers with 2-7 years of experience since completion of PhD, a scientific track record showing great promise and an excellent research proposal.

• Project Manager: MSCA Postdoctoral fellow in Medieval English literature, Timothy Glover
• Project: PopLatin -听Priests' Books and the Popularisation of the Contemplative Life in England, 1300-1550
• The project听aims to rewrite the history of lay contemplative spirituality in the Middle Ages. It focuses on the Latin textbooks used by medieval priests to teach their congregations, including sources which have been largely overlooked by scholars.听
• Supervisor, Professor in British literature,

The MSCA European Fellowships are open to researchers moving within Europe, as well as those coming in from other parts of the world. Last between one and two years.

• Project Manager: MSCA Postdoctoral fellow in听Medieval Literature and Culture, Alicia Glover
• Project: THAISIS - Rethinking medieval and modern sexualities through the 'harlot saint' Thais.听
• The project听explores the historical uses, controversies, and evolving interpretations of Thais, a sex worker turned saint, as a lens on the intersection of sex and religion in the Middle Ages.
• Supervisor, Professor in British literature,

The MSCA European Fellowships are open to researchers moving within Europe, as well as those coming in from other parts of the world. Last between one and two years.

• Project Manager: MSCA Postdoctoral fellowship in听Educational Linguistics, Camilla Spaliviero
• Project: LATECO -听Fostering Multilingualism through LAnguage Teacher COllaboration
• The project explores language teachers鈥� mindsets and the impact of their collaboration across three language subjects in schools. The project aims to transform language teaching in European schools, making multilingualism an inclusive experience for students while fostering shared practice and growth among teachers.
• Supervisor, Professor in听Applied Linguistics and Foreign Language Education,

• Project Manager: Postdoctoral fellow in Social Anthropology,听
• Project:听MALAYMATRIMONEY听鈥� The Division of Matrimonial Wealth in Malay Polygyny & the Codification of Culture in Malaysian Islamic Family Law
• The project is an anthropological investigation into the division of matrimonial assets in the Malaysian Islamic family law (IFL) from a socio-legal and gendered perspective.听
• Supervisor: Researcher in Arabic, Middle Eastern and Islamic studies,
• Funded for the period 2024鈥�2026

The MSCA European Fellowships are open to researchers moving within Europe, as well as those coming in from other parts of the world. Last between one and two years.

• Project Manager: Postdoctoral fellow in Medieval 大象传媒,
• Prosjekt: SCALDIC 鈥� Skaldic Poems and the Conversion of Norway
• SKALDIC studies the history of the Norwegian society during the period of conversion from pagansim to Christian religion through
  the analysis of court poetry composed during the conversion period (c. 970s to 1028).
• Supervisor: Professor of medieval history,
• Funded for the period 2024鈥�2026

The MSCA European Fellowships are open to researchers moving within Europe, as well as those coming in from other parts of the world. Last between one and two years.

Laura Cayrol-Bernardo听 |听 VETULAE听 |听 European fellowship

• Project Manager: Postdoctoral fellow in Medieval studies, Laura Cayrol-Bernardo
• Project: VETULAE 鈥� 'Vetulae'. Depicting women's ageing bodies in 15th century Florence
• The project aims to provide a holistic and comparative view of ideas and materializations regarding women鈥檚 ageing bodiesin 15th c. Florence at the intersection of art, art theory, and medicine.
• Supervisor: Professor of Italian Literature,
• Funded for the period 2021鈥�2023
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The MCSA European Fellowships are open to researchers moving within Europe, as well as those coming in from other parts of the world. Last between one and two years.

Simon Meisch听 |听 CANALS |听 European fellowship

• Project Manager: Postdoctoral fellow
• Project: CANALS 鈥� Changing Water Cultures
• Climate change is putting significant stress on EU water infrastructures. The CANALS project will investigate new ways of mobilising knowledge of water infrastructures to promote adaptive decision-making.
• Supervisor: Researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, Scott Bremer
• Funded for the period 2021鈥�2023 (project ended)

The MCSA European Fellowships are open to researchers moving within Europe, as well as those coming in from other parts of the world. Last between one and two years.

Tomas Glomb听 |听 ASCNET听 |听 European fellowship

• Project Manager: Postdoctoral fellow in History of Religion, Tomas Glomb
• Prosject: ASCNET 鈥� Favorable Conditions of the Spread of the Cult of Asclepius across the Transportation Network of the Roman Mediterranean: A Quantitative Evaluation
• The main research question of the ASCNET project is how the Roman army and infectious diseases such as the Antonine or Cyprian plague could have contributed to the popularity of the cult of Asclepius.
• Supervisor: Professor of History,
• Funded for the period 2021鈥�2023 听
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The MCSA European Fellowships are open to researchers moving within Europe, as well as those coming in from other parts of the world. Last between one and two years.

Francesca Mazzilli听 |听 RENE听 |听 European fellowship

• Project Manager: Postdoctoral fellow in Archaeology, Francesca Mazzilli
• Project: RENE 鈥� Regional Religious Networks in the Roman Empire
• RENE investigates the diffusion of religious traditions and architectural style in rural and urban cult sites in relation to the regional mobility of elite and interactions between rural and urban communities in the Hauran and in Lusitania through social network analysis and spatial analysis.听
• Supervisor: Professor of History,
• Funded for the period 2020鈥�2022 听听
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The MCSA European Fellowships are open to researchers moving within Europe, as well as those coming in from other parts of the world. Last between one and two听years.

Arnald Puy Maeso听 |听听SIZE听 |听听Global fellowship

• Project Manager: Postdoctoral fellow听Arnald Puy Maeso
• Project:听SIZE 鈥� The role of size in the sustainability of irrigation systems
• The project aims at assessing the risks and benefits of promoting "large" and "small" irrigation systems through dynamic models and uncertainty/sensitivity analysis.
• Supervisor: Professor at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities,
• Funded for the period 2019鈥�2022
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The MCSA Global Fellowships fund positions outside Europe for researchers based in the EU or associated countries. The researcher has to come back for one year to an organisation based in the EU or associated countries. Last between two and three years.

脕lvaro Sei莽a听 |听ARTDEL听 |听听Global fellowship

• Project Manager: Postdoctoral fellow in Digital Culture, 脕lvaro Sei莽a
• Project: ARTDEL - The Art of Deleting: A Study of Erasure Poetry, Practices of Control, Surveillance, and Censorship
• The research project 鈥淭he Art of Deleting鈥� (ARTDEL) investigates the topic of deletion and redaction as a poetic, aesthetic, and political act. ARTDEL aims to analyze works of erasure poetry as forms of resistance and activism in digital culture.
• Supervisor: Professor in Digital Culture,
• Funded for the period 2018鈥�2021听

The MCSA Global Fellowships fund positions outside Europe for researchers based in the EU or associated countries. The researcher has to come back for one year to an organisation based in the EU or associated countries. Last between two and three years.

Sofie Laurine Albris听 |听听ARCNAMES听 |听听European fellowship

• Project Manager: Postdoctoral fellow in Archaeology,听Sofie Laurine Albris
• Project: ARCNAMES 鈥� Individuals, social identities and archetypes 鈥� the oldest Scandinavian personal names in an archaeological light听
• The project sets out to investigate the oldest Scandinavian personal names from an archaeological perspective.
• Supervisor:听Professor of Archaeology, Randi Barndon
• Funded for the period 2019鈥�2021
• Read more on

The MCSA European Fellowships are open to researchers moving within Europe, as well as those coming in from other parts of the world. Last between one and two years.

Maud Ceuterick听 |听听AFFIRMATIVE 听|听 European fellowship

• Project Manager: Postdoctoral fellow
• Project: AFFIRMATIVE 鈥� Affirmative Post-Cinema: Narrative and Aesthetic Responses to Gender and Power
• The project will look at how post-cinematic art counteracts and aims to change current gender norms through affirmative narratives and aesthetics.
• Supervisor: Professor in Digital Culture,
• Funded for the period 2018鈥�2020

The MCSA European Fellowships are open to researchers moving within Europe, as well as those coming in from other parts of the world. Last between one and two years.

Benjamin Martin听 |听听EPILOG听 |听听European fellowship

• Project Manager: Postdoctoral fellow in Philosophy, Ben听Martin
• Project: EpiLog听鈥� The Unknown Science: Understanding the Epistemology of Logic through 听Practice听
• The project brings together broad fields of Martin's research expertise: solutions to self-referential paradoxes and logical epistemology.
• Supervisor: Associate Professor in Philosophy,听
• Funded for the period 2017鈥�2020

The MCSA European Fellowships are open to researchers moving within Europe, as well as those coming in from other parts of the world. Last between one and twoyears.

Claus Halberg听 |听听FEMSAG听 |听听Global fellowship

• Project Manager: Postdoctoral fellow, Claus Halberg
• Project:听FEMSAG 鈥� Feminist theory after sex and gender: The nature-nurture complex in contemporary feminism reconsidered in light of the Developmental Systems Theory approach to the philosophy of biology
• The project听seeks to develop conceptual tools with which to address nature-nurture issues pivotal to the current philosophy, science and politics of sex and gender.
• Supervisor: Professor听听
• Project period: 2017鈥�2020
• Read more on听

The MCSA Global Fellowships fund positions outside Europe for researchers based in the EU or associated countries. The researcher has to come back for one year to an organisation based in the EU or associated countries. Last between two and three years.

Jan Kozak听 |听听SYMBODIN听 |听听European fellowship

• Project Manager: Postdoctoral fellow in Old Norse, Jan Kozac
• Project: SYMBODIN 鈥� The Symbolism of the Body in Northern Europe. Cognitive Metaphors and Old Norse Myth from the Viking Age to Late Medieval Times听
• The aim of the research is to investigate the integrative function of bodily metaphors in ancient Norse literature and culture.
• Supervisor: Associate Professor in听Old Norse,
• Funded for the period 2018鈥�2020

The MCSA European Fellowships are open to researchers moving within Europe, as well as those coming in from other parts of the world. Last between one and two years.

studies early human marine subsistence in South Africa at the Centre of Excellence on Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE)听

For her postdoctoral research, she is identifying changes in the coastal environment and human harvesting practices of fish and seals during the Middle Stone Age and Late Stone Age along the southern Cape of South Africa using stable isotope analyses. She will also use these data to address present day issues in marine sustainability along the southern Cape.

大象传媒 aims to recruit and bring together highly talented experienced researchers who will provide knowledge crucial for a more sustainable marine future. With expertise in a broad range of fields, this group will strengthen and facilitate UiB鈥檚 strong commitment to marine science and ocean sustainability.

听studies epistemic, value-based, and societal aspects of marine sustainability, Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities.

She explores the ideas and imaginations of blue growth. In particular, she tryes to figure out why and how blue growth aspirations are implemented in the 大象传媒 programme and in the Norwegian venture of deep-sea mining. She uses guiding topics such as knowledge, expertise, power, and the notions of damage.听

大象传媒 aims to recruit and bring together highly talented experienced researchers who will provide knowledge crucial for a more sustainable marine future. With expertise in a broad range of fields, this group will strengthen and facilitate UiB鈥檚 strong commitment to marine science and ocean sustainability.

听studies responsible and circular aquaculture at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities.

His research focuses on environmental governance and on attempts of transitioning towards more sustainable aquacultures. More specifically, V枚lker is interested in the development of novel feeds as a case of implementing circular economy policies and introducing principles of responsible research and innovation (RRI) in Norway.

大象传媒 aims to recruit and bring together highly talented experienced researchers who will provide knowledge crucial for a more sustainable marine future. With expertise in a broad range of fields, this group will strengthen and facilitate UiB鈥檚 strong commitment to marine science and ocean sustainability.

• Project Manager: Professor in Digital Culture
• Project:听CDN 鈥� Centre for Digital Narrative
• The centre will investigate how the interactions of human authors with non-human agents result in new narrative forms, how the materiality of digital narratives have changed, and how cultural contexts are reshaping the use and function of digital narrative.
• Project period: 2023鈥�2033
• Read more on听the project听website

The SFF scheme gives Norway鈥檚 best researchers the opportunity to organise their research activities in centres that seek to achieve ambitious scientific objectives through collaboration and with long-term basic funding. The research conducted at the centres must be innovative and have major potential to generate ground-breaking results that advance the international research frontier.听

• Project Manager: Professor in Archaeology听
• Project:听SAPIENCE 鈥� Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour
• International researchers from a variety of disciplines are researching how modern man originated and evolved 100,000 to 50,000 years ago.
• Project period: 2017鈥�2027
• Read more on听the project听website

The SFF scheme gives Norway鈥檚 best researchers the opportunity to organise their research activities in centres that seek to achieve ambitious scientific objectives through collaboration and with long-term basic funding. The research conducted at the centres must be innovative and have major potential to generate ground-breaking results that advance the international research frontier.听

• Project Manager: Professor in Philosophy,听
• Project: Advancing Causal Modeling with Coincidence Analysis
• Coincidence Analysis (CNA) is a method of causal data analysis first introduced in 2009, substantively generalized since then, and now available as an open source software package. The development of CNA is not finished. This project will address four remaining weaknesses and limitations of the method.
• Project period: 2021鈥�2025
• Read more on the project website

Funding is intended to support scientific renewal and development in research that can help to advance the international research front. The funding is for researchers who have demonstrated the ability to conduct research of high scientific quality within all disciplines and research areas.

• Project Manager: Professor of History,听
• Project: MprinT@EAST_AFRICA. Islamic Manuscript, Print and Practice: Textual adaptations in coastal East Africa, c. 1880-2020
• The project is designed to explore one central hypothesis: Reforms in Islamic textual tradition and ritual practice during the 19thand 20th centuries took place within existing authority structures and led to a series of adaptations rather than breaks from tradition.
• Project period: 2021鈥�2025
• Read more on the project website

Funding is intended to support scientific renewal and development in research that can help to advance the international research front. The funding is for researchers who have demonstrated the ability to conduct research of high scientific quality within all disciplines and research areas.

• Project Manager: Associate Professor in听Study of Religion
• Project: The Governmateriality of Indigenous Religions (GOVMAT)
• The project researches articulations of indigeneities and religions of different settings and their political roles today. How and why are they shaped, and how do they work in their environments?
• Project period:听2020鈥�2025
• Read more on the project website

Funding is intended to support scientific renewal and development in research that can help to advance the international research front. The funding is for researchers who have demonstrated the ability to conduct research of high scientific quality within all disciplines and research areas.

• Project Manager: Professor in Norwegian Language,
• Project:听Norwegian across the Americas
• The听project investigates the Norwegian language as spoken by the descendants of emigrants听across the Americas 鈥� and how it has developed over generations.
• Project period: 2020鈥�2027
• Read more on the project website

Researcher Project for Young Talents is intended to give talented young researchers under the age of 40 in all disciplines and research areas the opportunity to pursue their own research ideas and lead a research project. This call is targeted towards researchers in the early stages of their careers, 2鈥�7 years after defence of an approved doctorate, who have demonstrated the potential to conduct research of high scientific quality.

• Project Manager: Associate Professor in English Literature,听听
• Project:听Re-assessing St. Birgitta of Sweden and her Revelations in Medieval England: Circulation and Influence, 1380鈥�1530听
• A research project on Sancta Birgitta of Sweden and her revelations in medieval England, and reassessments of her revelations'听 circulation and influence between 1380-1530.
• Project period: 2019鈥�2026
• Read more on the project website

Researcher Project for Young Talents is intended to give talented young researchers under the age of 40 in all disciplines and research areas the opportunity to pursue their own research ideas and lead a research project. This call is targeted towards researchers in the early stages of their careers, 2鈥�7 years after defence of an approved doctorate, who have demonstrated the potential to conduct research of high scientific quality.

• Project Manager: Postdoctoral fellow in archeologi,听
• Project: The Fora of Rome and their Christian Graffiti (4th-8th centuries)
• The aim of the project is to find, document, and study Christian graffiti incised on one of the tempels at Rome's central fora and to enhance the understanding of the fora鈥檚 role in the emergence of Christian pilgrimage听and identity.
• Finansiert av Forskningsr氓det (FRIPRO, internasjonal mobiltet) i perioden 2024鈥�2027

The purpose of this funding scheme is to promote international mobility and career development among researchers early in their careers, and to contribute to knowledge transfer to Norwegian research environments. Postdoctoral researchers will spend two years at a foreign research organization and the third year at a Norwegian research organization.

David G. C. Vogt听 |听 SOCRIM听 |听 FRIPRO Researcher Project with international mobility

• Project Manager: Post Doctor in Philosophy,
• Project: Social Injustice and Criminal Justice
• SOCRIM is a philosophical research project that studies the normative relevance of social injustice for criminal justice.
• Project period: 2021鈥�2024

The purpose of this funding scheme is to promote international mobility and career development among researchers early in their careers, and to contribute to knowledge transfer to Norwegian research environments. Postdoctoral researchers will spend two years at a foreign research organization and the third year at a Norwegian research organization.

Sorin Bangu听 |听 Mathematics with a Human Face听 |听 FRIPRO Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal

• Project Manager: Professor in Philosophy,
• Project: Mathematics with a Human Face: Set Theory within a Naturalized Wittgensteinean Framework
• The project investigates the reasons why concepts such as 鈥榮et鈥� and听鈥榥umber鈥� have remained philosophically obscure 鈥� nobody really knows听what these things are 鈥� despite the immense success of mathematics over听centuries.
• Project period:听2019鈥�2023听
• Read more on the project website

The funding scheme for independent projects (FRIPRO) is an open, national, competitive arena that provides funding for basic, ground-breaking projects in all fields of research. The project ideas originate with the researchers themselves.

Synn酶ve Myking听 |听 FLANDRIA听 |听 FRIPRO Researcher Project with international mobility

• Project Manager: Post Doctor, Synn酶ve Myking
• Project: Flanders, Norway, and Denmark: Relations and Intertextual Exchanges in the High Middle Ages (ca. 1080-1383)
• The project examines the contact between Flanders, Norway, and Denmark in the High Middle Ages, and how this contact influenced Scandinavian manuscript culture. The project studies Norwegian and Danish manuscript material, focussing on fragments.
• Project period: 2020鈥�2023
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The purpose is to promote international mobility and career development among researchers early in their careers, and to contribute to knowledge transfer to Norwegian research environments. Postdoctoral researchers will spend two years at a foreign research organization and the third year at a Norwegian research organization.

Ole Hjortland听 |听 Anti-Exceptionalism About Logic听 |听 FRIPRO Researcher Project for Young Talents

• Project Manager: Associate Professor in Philosophy,
• Project:听Anti-Exceptionalism About Logic
• The project will develop a new method for identifying argumentative standards. This method is called Anti-Exceptionalism.
• Project period:听2016鈥�2020
• Read more on the project page

Researcher Project for Young Talents is intended to give talented young researchers under the age of 40 in all disciplines and research areas the opportunity to pursue their own research ideas and lead a research project. This call is targeted towards researchers in the early stages of their careers, 2鈥�7 years after defence of an approved doctorate, who have demonstrated the potential to conduct research of high scientific quality.

• Project Manager: F酶rsteamanuensis i kunsthistorie,听听
• Project: How Norway Made the World Whiter (NorWhite)
• The project will explore how the Norwegian innovation titanium white has changed surfaces in art, architecture and design 鈥� something that has made the world look whiter, brighter, and superficially cleaner.
• Project period: 2023鈥�2028
• Read more on听

Funding is intended to support scientific renewal and development in research that can help to advance the international research front. The funding is for researchers who have demonstrated the ability to conduct research of high scientific quality within all disciplines and research areas.

• Project Manager: Professor i digital kultur,听
• Project: Extending Digital Narratives (XDN)
• The project is essentially about the narrative applications of three newer technologies: XR, generative systems that use AI and other algorithms to author narratives, and conversational interfaces such as smart speakers.
• Project period: 2022鈥�2026
• Read more on the project听website

Funding is intended to support scientific renewal and development in research that can help to advance the international research front. The funding is for researchers who have demonstrated the ability to conduct research of high scientific quality within all disciplines and research areas.

• Project Manager: Professor of Cultural 大象传媒,
• Project: Gardening the Globe: Historicizing the Anthropocene through the production of socio-nature in Scandinavia, 1750-2020
• The project aims to examine historical processes through which nature has been conquered, controlled and commodified in Scandinavia from the mid-18th century to the present.
• Project period: 2021鈥�2025
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Funding is intended to support scientific renewal and development in research that can help to advance the international research front. The funding is for researchers who have demonstrated the ability to conduct research of high scientific quality within all disciplines and research areas.

• Project Manager: Associate professor in Norwegian as a second language,
• Project: Adult Acquisition of Norwegian as a second language (ALAN)
• The study will contribute new insights into how a hitherto understudied group adults develop their communicative abilities in a second language in a specific educational context.
• Project period: 2021鈥�2025
• Read more on the project website

Funding is intended to support scientific renewal and development in research that can help to advance the international research front. The funding is for researchers who have demonstrated the ability to conduct research of high scientific quality within all disciplines and research areas.

• Project Manager: Professor in Cultural 大象传媒,
• Project: Ordinary lives and marginal intimacies in rural regions. Contrasting cultural histories of queer domesticities in Norway, ca 1842鈥�1972.
• The project will investigate how queer women and men lived and organized their everyday lives across a complex domestic terrain in ways that unsettles customary understandings of private life and family organization in modern Norway (1842-1972).
• Project period: 2021鈥�2025
• Read more on the project website

Funding is intended to support scientific renewal and development in research that can help to advance the international research front. The funding is for researchers who have demonstrated the ability to conduct research of high scientific quality within all disciplines and research areas.

• Project Manager: Associate Professor in Theory of Science,
• Project: Covid-19: Digital Politics and the Role of Expertise (Co-Pol)
• The primary objectiv is to describe and analyse how Covid-19 as a political emergency triggers new expert relations and networks across political, regulatory,technological and scientific institutions in Norway (WP4).
• Project period:听2021鈥�2025
• Read more on the project website

Funding is intended to support scientific renewal and development in research that can help to advance the international research front. The funding is for researchers who have demonstrated the ability to conduct research of high scientific quality within all disciplines and research areas.

Mimi Lam 听|听 MENSA听 |听 Thematic Researcher Project听 for Scientific Renewal

• Project Manager: Researcher
• Project: MENSA 鈥� Managing Ethical Norwegian Seascape Activities听
• The project aims to develop an integrated ethical approach to the sustainable management of Norwegian seascape activities.
• Project period: 2020鈥�2024
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The MARINFORSK programme provides funding for research on the marine environment and seeks to generate knowledge about ecosystems in ocean and coastal areas and the impact of pressures from human activity. Research activities are to strengthen the basis for sustainable management and value creation based on marine resources and other ecosystem services.

Kjersti Fl酶ttum 听|听 CLIMLIFE听 |听 Researcher Project

• Project Manager: Professor in French Language,
• Project: Living with climate change: motivation and action for lifestyle change
• The project investigates how people relate the political and existential challenges of climate change to their normal, day-to-day life choices.
• Project period: 2020鈥�2023
• See project page

The KLIMAFORSK programme provides funding for research on societal transformation in response to climate change. Research activities are to enhance basic understanding of natural variability and human influence on the climate system, the impacts of climate change on nature and society, climate change adaptation, and instruments and measures for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Marie von der Lippe听听 |听听 School of Opportunities听听 |听听 SAMKUL

• Project Manager:听
• Project: School of Opportunities. Democratic understanding and prevention of group-based prejudices
• In order to develop the school as an opportunity arena for democratic understanding and prevention of group-based hatred and prejudices, this project aims to provide new knowledge about the common mechanisms behind the different prejudices in schools today and how these have been addressed in earlier times.
• Project period: 2018鈥�2021
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The Programme for Cultural Conditions Underlying Social Change (SAMKUL) provides funding for research on cultural prerequisites for societal development and societal challenges. The programme鈥檚 objective is to expand the knowledge base and better equip society to address major societal challenges.听

Kyrre Kverndokk听 |听 The future is now听 |听 Thematic Researcher Project

• Project Manager: Professor in Cultural 大象传媒,
• Project:听The Future is Now: Temporality and Exemplarity in Climate Change Discourses听
• This project will examine understandings of multiple temporalities in climate change discourses within vernacular culture, media culture and climate research.
• Project period:听2017鈥�2021

The KLIMAFORSK programme provides funding for research on societal transformation in response to climate change. Research activities are to enhance basic understanding of natural variability and human influence on the climate system, the impacts of climate change on nature and society, climate change adaptation, and instruments and measures for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Margery Vibe Skagen听 |听 Historicizing the ageing self听 |听 Thematic Researcher Project

• Project Manager: Associate Professor in French Literature,
• Project:听Historicizing the ageing self: Literature, medicine, psychology, law听
• Changes in cultural and scientific views of old age will be studied in literary, medical and legal texts.
• Project period: 2016鈥�2021
• See project page

The Programme for Cultural Conditions Underlying Social Change (SAMKUL) provides funding for research on cultural prerequisites for societal development and societal challenges. The programme鈥檚 objective is to expand the knowledge base and better equip society to address major societal challenges.听

Frode Helmich Pedersen听 |听 A Narratology of Criminal Cases听 |听 Thematic听Researcher Project

• Project Manager: Associate Professor in听Scandinavian Literature,听
• Project: A Narratology of Criminal Cases
• The project鈥檚 principal aim is to gain a better understanding of the way stories work within the Norwegian legal system through narratological theory and analyses.
• Project period: 2016鈥�2021
• See project page

The Programme for Cultural Conditions Underlying Social Change (SAMKUL) provides funding for research on cultural prerequisites for societal development and societal challenges. The programme鈥檚 objective is to expand the knowledge base and better equip society to address major societal challenges.听

Christine M. Jacobsen听 | 听WAIT听听|听 Thematic听Researcher Project

• Project Manager: Professor in Social Anthropology,听
• Project: WAIT 鈥� Waiting for an uncertain future: the temporalities of irregular migration听
• The project uses theories of temporality and the concept of 'waitinghood' as tools for producing new and critical insights into the cultural conditions and implications of migration.
• Project period: 2016鈥�2021
• See project page

The Programme for Cultural Conditions Underlying Social Change (SAMKUL) provides funding for research on cultural prerequisites for societal development and societal challenges. The programme鈥檚 objective is to expand the knowledge base and better equip society to address major societal challenges.听

• Project Manager: Professor in Computational Linguistics,
• Project:听Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure Norway
• The project aim is to make existing and future language resources easily accessible for researchers and to bring eScience to humanities disciplines.
• Project period: 2012鈥�2026

The National Financing Initiative for Research Infrastructure seeks to build up relevant, up-to-date infrastructure that is accessible to the Norwegian research community and trade and industry. New infrastructure contributes to research and innovation at the international forefront in areas of importance for Norwegian society.

• Project Manager: Professor in Cultural 大象传媒,
• Project: SAMLA: National Infrastructure for Cultural History and Tradition Archives
• SAMLA will digitize and make accessible the archival material of three Norwegian tradition archives.听These archives contain a rich source material that will be made accessible at the web page samla.no as a joint digital archive.听
• Project period: 2020鈥�2027
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The National Financing Initiative for Research Infrastructure seeks to build up relevant, up-to-date infrastructure that is accessible to the Norwegian research community and trade and industry. New infrastructure contributes to research and innovation at the international forefront in areas of importance for Norwegian society.

Eirik Hovden听 |听 How does Islamic law change?听 |听 Starting Grant

• Project Manager: Postdoctoral fellow
• Project: How does Islamic law Change? Canonization and Codification of Islamic Legal Texts (CanCode)
• The project听will study processes of change in islamic legal texts by starting with two terms, or concepts: "Canonization" and "Codification".
• Project period: 2020鈥�2024
• Read more on the project website

The TMF Starting Grant is the foundation's "flagship", a recruitment program that has helped recruit outstanding researchers from around the world to the University of Bergen since 2005.

Helen F. Leslie-Jacobsen听 |听 Transformations of Medieval Law听 |听 Starting Grant

• Project Manager: Researcher in Medieval Philology,
• Project:听Transformations of Medieval Law: Innovation and Application in Early Modern Norwegian Law Books听
• The project听explores how medieval and Early Modern law books in Norway and Iceland reflect the legal and cultural contexts in which they were written and compiled.
• Project period: 2018鈥�2023
• Read more on the project website

The TMF Starting Grant is the foundation's "flagship", a recruitment program that has helped recruit outstanding researchers from around the world to the University of Bergen since 2005.

Michael Baumgartner听 |听 Coincidence Analysis听 |听 The Toppforsk programme

• Project Manager: Professor in Philosophy,听
• Michael Baumgartner has developed a method that finds answers to complex questions in all fields, called "Coincidence Analysis" (CA).. It is a method that measures the interaction between different causes and identifies the role they play in complex causal structures.
• Project period: 2017鈥�2023
• Read more on the project website

With the support of the Trond Mohn Foundation, the University of Bergen has recruited five international top researchers to strengthen leading research environments. By providing top researchers with excellent conditions and administrative support, the collaboration has strengthened UiB in the international competition for outstanding researchers.听

脜slaug Ommundsen听 | 听From manuscripts fragments to book history听听|听 Starting Grant

• Project Manager: Professor in Medieval Latin philology,
• Project:听From Manuscript Fragments to Book History. Norway and the European Manuscript Culture 1100鈥�1300.
• The focus of the project was analysis of the rich fragmentary material from Norwegian medieval manuscripts, mainly stored in the National Archives in Oslo.
• Project period: 2012鈥�2016
• See project page

The TMF Starting Grant is the foundation's "flagship", a recruitment program that has helped recruit outstanding researchers from around the world to the University of Bergen since 2005.

• Project Manager: Postdoctoral Fellow听in听Old Norse Philology,听
• Project:听Nordic Law Books: The Production and Use of Vernacular Law Manuscripts in the North from 1100 to 1600 (NordicLaw)
• The project will investigate common aspects of the best-preserved genre of writing of the medieval North: the laws.
• Project period: 2023鈥�2026
• Read more on the project website

NOS-HS promotes research within the fields of humanities and social sciences in the Nordic countries.听The focus is on supporting flexible bottom-up research and facilitating Nordic collaboration between researchers at different stages of their careers and international connections.听