The Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS) received 106 applications under the call for funding for NOS-HS Exploratory Workshops 2022. The NOS-HS committee has now selected the 33 projects that will receive funding.
The GUESSED project uses avalanche terrain as a test-bed for developing theories and tools – which will have an impact far beyond the snow covered mountains in the Nordic Countries.
NORDRESS, the Nordic Centre of Excellence on Resilience and Societal Security, is a network of scientists and emergency management experts who join forces to increase societal resilience to natural hazards.
NordForsk has conducted a study on how Nordic research councils work with research impact. The results show similar needs and aims, even if nuances in methods and definitions vary.
Nordic societal security in light of the emerging global and regional trends is the title of the call for proposals which drew 28 proposals. The plan is to fund up to four projects from a total budget of NOK 44 million.
Six projects will explore the medium to long-term consequences beyond the COVID-19 pandemic in order to better prepare for the next crisis and two projects will provide knowledge for handling the societal security consequences of an antimicrobial resistance crisis.
NordForsk is issuing a call under the Nordic-Russian Cooperation Initiative in Higher Education and Research, and encourages research projects with partners in Greenland to apply for funding with an additional fund. The call has a budget of approximately NOK 2 million and the deadline is 17 October 2019.
In CP-North a highly qualified multidisciplinary team of researchers from all major Nordic countries will address a number of societal challenges associated with living with, or being a parent of a child, with a life-long disability in Norden by merging data from national registers with unique health data from quality registers.
