In 2022, NordForsk opened a call with the focus on strengthening university cooperation in the Nordic region. The selection process was divided into two phases. In the first phase, NordForsk received 52 eligible applications, of which 20 consortia were invited to the next phase. NordForsk has now decided to finance six projects.
Acting Chair of the call committee, Ingegerd Palmer, says:
“I am very happy with the outcome. The funded projects are distributed between very strong university consortia across all the Nordic countries, including Greenland. Also, the gender balance is good when you look at participants within the cooperation projects. The call has supported six projects from a wide range of themes and disciplines, all promoting scientific excellence in their fields and including strong networking and capacity building activities.”
Funding
An important prerequisite has been that the universities themselves contribute funds to establish and operate the consortium's work. The funding follows the principle of NordForsk's financing, where 1/3 of the funds come from NordForsk, while the university consortium itself contributes 2/3.
Available budget is NOK 300 million, NOK 100 million from NordForsk and NOK 200 million NOK provided by the institutions.
The total NordForsk funding allocated to the call is maximum NOK 20 million annually and will be available for 5 years, 2024-2028.
Read more about the NordForsk research area on University Cooperation.
Funded projects
- NORPOD – A collaborative postdoc program of the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine
Project manager: Oliver Billker
Project partners from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden - Leveraging Nordic Opportunities to Transform Mental Health Care through Precision Medicine
Project manager: Ole Andreassen
Project partners from Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden - Nordic Borealization Network (NordBorN)
Project manager: Isabel C Barrio
Project partners from Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom - Nordic Pharmaceutical Translation and Innovation
Project manager: Christel Bergström
Project partners from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden - Nordic Centre for Comparative and International Family Law
Project manager: Jens Scherpe
Project partners from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Australia, Germany, Spain, United Kingdom, Mexico and Japan - Nordic University Cooperation on Edge Intelligence
Project manager: Sasu Tarkoma
Project partners from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden
