Funding opportunities

Horizon Europe is the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation with a budget of €95.5 billion. It tackles climate change, helps to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and boosts the EU’s competitiveness and growth. Work programmes set out funding opportunities under Horizon Europe (see structure shown below). 

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For more information, please check the links below or contact the research advisor at GEO.

• European Commission's info website 

• UiB info website

1. Research projects

See the open-ended call for proposals here.

2. Collaborative and Knowledge-building Project

• Knowledge-building Project for Industry: 24-48 month, min.4MNOK funding for collaboration between research organisations and stakeholders from outside the research sector that represent societal and/or industry needs for knowledge and research competence.
• Collaborative Project to meet Societal and Industry-related Challenges: 24-48 month, min.4MNOK funding for collaboration between research organisations and stakeholders from outside the research sector that represent societal and/or industry needs for knowledge and research competence.

3. Research mobility grants

• Research Stays Abroad for NFR funded Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows
• The Aurora and DAAD Mobility Programmes – Researcher Exchange for New Collaboration between Norway and France/Germany (usually covers 1 week travel expeses). Note: both countries must submit two separate grant applications.

4. Research and Education

• INTERPART International Partnerships for Excellent Education, Research and Innovation: Norwegian research organisations can apply for funding for partnerships with Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, China, South Africa, South Korea and the USA, to develop outstanding academic environments in Norway through long-term international collaboration, particularly through strong connections between higher education and research cooperation. You can also apply for funding to establish and further develop partnerships with other countries (e.g. call for proposal in 2025 )

5. Research Centers

• Sentre for forskningsdrevet innovasjon (SFI)
• Sentre for fremragende forskning (SFF)

6. Funding for other activities

• Communication and Dissemination of Climate Research
• Support for events - conferences, workshops and seminars
• Arctic Field Grant (AFG): 20k-120kNOK to support fieldwork in Svalbard for master's and doctoral students. More established researchers who are not already established in Svalbard can also apply. Applicants must be employed by or have some other affiliation with a Norwegian research organisation. The main priority of this call is to promote career development in polar research among students and researchers. For master's and doctoral students, the collected field data must be necessary for, and part of, the thesis. NOK 1 million of the total funding is earmarked for projects based in Ny-Ålesund and with project managers employed in Norwegian (approved) research organisations. 
• Svalbard Strategic Grant (SSG): this is a seed money program aimed at advancing coordination, collaboration and data sharing between researchers with a relevance to Svalbard. Max. NOK500 000 per application. 
• Financial Support to Submit a New ERC Grant Proposal: Researchers who submitted an ERC Starting or Consolidator Grant and who received the score A in the second stage of the evaluation process without receiving funding from the ERC, are invited to apply.

• HK-dir - The Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills provides funding for education-related activities.
• NORDFORSK: there is no regular call for proposal for research project, but open calls can be found here.
• The Thond Mohn Foundation privides funds for 4-year research starting grant to assist the University of Bergen in recruiting young national or international candidates with outstanding academic merit and research potential (age limit is 40).
• The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters provides funds for 1-year curiosity-driven research in Oslo (CAS project) and 2-year research fellowship (Young CAS Fellow). 
• The Olav Thon Foundation - provides scientific awards and research support. 
• The Belmont Forum: there is no regular call for proposal for research project, but open calls can be found here.
• The Åsgård exchange program provides mobility grants to researchers, professionals between academia and business, and administrative staff at research environments.  
• Equinor (throught the Akademiaavtalen with UiB) offers travel support, fieldcourse development, and research projects. 
• UH-nett Vest provides seed money for network, project development, and dissemination of research-based knowledge. Read more here. 
• DKNVS foundation is supporting small research projects, scientific travel & fieldwork, and seminars & conferences. Read more here.
• The University of the Arctic (UArctic) provides funding for networking projects in Arctic research and education. Read more here. 
• The Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study supports projects carried out by researchers at UC Berkeley in collaboration with researchers from nine Norwegian universities. Funds are made available for 2 academic years, and can support activities such as workshops, mini-conferences, virtual intellectual exchanges, the undertaking of exploratory and pilot studies, activities such as PhD student exchanges, longer-term stays for Principal Investigators, the collection and analysis of data, and other core research activities.
• NORAD grants funding to organisations within civil society, research, higher education and private sector development that work with partners in poor countries. Open calls can be found here.
• The Fulbright scholarship is awarded to: a) students who wish to complete all or part of a master's or doctoral degree in the USA, and b) researchers who plans to have a research stay or to be a guest lecturer in the USA.

1. PES: support for project estabilishment (PES) towards upcoming Horizon Europe applications. 

2. SPIRE may cover: 1) compensation/refund for work done with proposal writing in relation to an application to Horizon Europe, the Research Council of Norway and other external funding sources 2) Procurement of external assistance and consultation. 3) Travel, accomodation and meeting costs related to research collaboration, as well as visits from international researchers in connection with proposal writing.

3. Momentum is UiB’s flagship development programme for early stage researchers - postdocs, forsker or førsteamanuensis – who wish to pursue an academic career at a research university.

4. Erasmus+ Mobility Grant: All employees at the University of Bergen can receive a scholarship for exchange to an institution, organization or university in Europe through Erasmus +.

• For lecturers, incl. PhD, PostDocs and temporarily employed staff, the mobility grant provides good opportunities to establish and maintain contact with foreign colleagues and educational institutions in EU countries in addition to Iceland, Lichtenstein, Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey. https://www.uib.no/foransatte/92415/erasmus-undervisningsmobilitet
• For all employees, including technical-administrative staff and research fellows, the mobility grant can help you to gain training, new knowledge and new experiences through exchanges, in addition to increasing international cooperation between UiB and European institutions in EU countries, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey. https://www.uib.no/foransatte/92416/erasmus-tilsettmobilitet

5. With UiB idé students and researchers can test and develop their innovation ideas. Students can get up to NOK 100 000, and researchers NOK 500 000. You will also get advice from professional advisers. Read more about the program at uib.no/ide.

6. Other funds at UiB (support activities such as travel, sabbatical leave, outreach, participating/organizing scientific conferences, educational development through testing and research into new teaching and learning forms, etc.): https://www4.uib.no/for-studenter/livet-som-student/fond-legater-og-stipend