NordForsk received a total of 111 eligible proposals by the deadline in December 2023, many of very high quality. The ten funded projects will have a duration of 3 to 4 years and will address issues such as energy-efficient and resilient food production systems, environmental justice, and legitimacy in green energy initiatives.
The overall success rate for research proposals in the call is nine percent. The projects include partners from all involved countries, with project coordinators from all countries apart from Estonia and Iceland. This makes a well-balanced portfolio in terms of geographic distribution across the Nordic-Baltic region.
The gender balance among the ten project leaders is 50/50, reflecting the close to 50/50 corresponding gender balance among the 111 proposals.
Bjørnar Solhaug Komissar is responsible for the Green Transition initiative at NordForsk. He says it has been exciting and a pleasure to work with this initiative from the very beginning.
“We are very pleased with the high number of proposals. This indicates the relevance and timeliness of the call. Moreover, the involvement of the Nordic Council of Ministers and Nordic Energy Research gives additional momentum to research collaboration in our region on an important topic,” Komissar says.
“The commitment from national research funding organisations from all Nordic countries, Estonia, and Lithuania gives us good reasons to expect significant Nordic-Baltic added value from the investment in the ten research projects.”
Funded projects
- Energy efficient and resilient food production system: using hydrogen-oxidizing bacteria to convert CO2 to protein
Project leader: Antti Nyyssölä, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Funded partners from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland - Cold-adapted biorefinery concept for energy efficient and carbon neutral valorization of waste from food systems
Project leader: Zeynep Cetecioglu Gurol, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Funded partners from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Sweden - Green nitrogen transition: The potential of legumes in control environment agriculture
Project leader: Aušra Brazaitytė, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Lithuania
Funded partners from Finland, Lithuania, Sweden - Green Hydrogen and Platform Chemicals from Agricultural Residues
Project leader: Daniel Martin Yerga, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Funded partners from Estonia, Finland, Sweden - Gendered norms and practices in Nordic and Baltic Climate Policy Institutions: implication for the Climate Transition
Project leader: Annica Kronsell, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Funded partners from Finland, Iceland, Lithuania, Sweden - Sámi democratic engagement in the energy transition: advancing justice, legitimacy and participatory governance
Project leader: Rauna Kuokkanen, University of Lapland, Finland
Funded partners from Finland, Norway, Sweden - Transformative environmental justice
Project leader: Vasileios Galis, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Funded partners from Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden - Legitimacy and Acceleration in Green Energy Initiatives and Transitions
Project leader: Håkon Endresen Normann, NIFU Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education, Norway
Funded partners from Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden - Land use justice for green transitions
Project leader: Halvor Dannevig, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway
Funded partners from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway - Energy Lives! Infrastructural Citizenship in Nordic Energy Transitions
Project leader: Melina Antonia Buns, University of Stavanger, Norway
Funded partners from Denmark, Norway, Sweden
