The Nordic centres of Excellence Programme for the Humanities and Social Sciences

The Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS) has selected four Nordic Centres of Excellence (NCoE). This first NCoE programme in the humanities and social sciences will run through the years 2005-2010.

The main objective of Nordic Centre of Excellence Programmes is to create Nordic added value and further increase scientific quality of Nordic research. Nordic Centres of Excellence are selected for a five-year period based on open competition. The most important selection criterion is the excellent scientific quality in an international context. The programme is jointly funded by the Nordic research councils and NordForsk. The annual budget is 1.7 million euros. The Nordic support supplements the basic funding of the Centres, which comes from national sources.

These are the four Nordic Centres of Excellence:

Cognitive Control: Behavioural and Brain Studies of Cognitive Control in Attention, Perception, Language, Memory, and Emotion






Empirical Labor Economics









The Nordic Countries and the Medieval Expansion of Europe. New Interpretations of a Common Past












NORMS - Nordic Centre of Excellence in Microcomparative Syntax