The overall objective is to strengthen international competitiveness and facilitate the development of world-leading Nordic Research Infrastructure (RI) Hub environments based on relevant research and research infrastructure priorities.
NordForsk received 51 applications by the deadline on 21 May 2025 to the call for Nordic Research Infrastructure Hubs.
Now, 11 networks will share up to NOK 180 million.
277 researchers are involved, representing 63 institutions and 11 countries.
Special Adviser Bjørnar Solhaug Komissar says:
“It’s been a great pleasure to work on this call together with the Nordic Research Infrastructure Co-operation Committee (NRICC), and I am looking forward to the eleven funded research infrastructure hubs to get started. This is an initiative that is co-funded by NordForsk and the institutions themselves,” and continues:
“The requirement of a minimum of 2/3 own funding is significant, and I believe the broad interest in the call demonstrates both the need for and interest in cross-border research infrastructure collaboration in the Nordic region. There is no doubt that these collaborations will strengthen the quality and capacity of research infrastructures and bring about much added value for the Nordic research communities.”
These are the 11 networks
Project title: The Nordic Biobank Network (NBN)
Project leader: Therese Haugdahl Nøst, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Project partners: Faroe Islands, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Sweden
Project title: A Nordic Research Infrastructure Hub for Structural Biology (NORDSTRUCT)
Project leader: Birthe B. Kragelund, University of Copenhagen
Project partners: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden and Norway
Project title: NEXT generation transdisciplinary aging research for NORDic excellence (NEXT-NORD)
Project leader: Debora Rizzuto, Karolinska Institutet
Project partners: Norway, Iceland, Sweden, Denmark and Finland
Project title: Nordic Research Infrastructure Hub for Digital Plant Phenotyping (NordPheno)
Project leader: Xiang Su, University of Helsinki
Project partners: Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark
Project title: Nordic Electron Microscopy Infrastructure (NEMI)
Project leader: Jakob Wagner, Technical University of Denmark
Project partners: Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland
Project title: Bridging Nordic Microscopy Infrastructures-II (BNMI-II)
Project leader: Oddmund Bakke, University of Oslo
Project partners: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Finland
Project title: Nordic-Baltic Dataverse Hub (NaisH)
Project leader: Philipp Conzett, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Project partners: Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Faroe Islands, Latvia and Lithuania
Project title: Nordic Digital Collections RI hub (NORDICO)
Project leader: Matti Sahla, University of Helsinki
Project partners: Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark
Project title: Nordic Historical Population Data (NordHistPop)
Project leader: Ólöf Garðarsdóttir, University of Iceland
Project partners: Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Finland, Denmark, Canada, Unites States of America and France
Project title: Nordic Optical Fiber Sensing Research Infrastructure Hub (Nordic DAS)
Project leader: Suvi Heinonen, University of Helsinki
Project partners: Norway, Sweden and Finland
Project title: Nordic Alliance for Single-Cell & Spatial Analysis (NASSA)
Project leader: Markus Heidenblad, Lund University
Project partners: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden
