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Research for Future Skills, Education and Working Life

Research Council of Norway (Forskningsrådet)

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Norway's national research council runs this call off its welfare-and-education portfolio plan, and the four themes — education and working life in transition, competence and skills development, learning and inclusion in education, and inclusive and well-functioning working life — read as a social work and social policy agenda. Grants are substantial and long: three to six years of funding for a full project team. Relevant for school social work, transitions out of care and into employment, labour-market inclusion of disabled and migrant populations, and workforce studies of the welfare servic

Indicative award
Amount not published (total award)NOK 4,000,000 to NOK 12,000,000 per project. Norwegian kroner; numeric fields left null rather than converted.
Timing
Annual cycleAnnual cycle · MayNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.The 2026 call closed 27 May 2026 at 13:00 CEST, for projects of 36–72 months starting between 1 January and 1 June 2027. The Research Council runs this portfolio call on a recurring annual cycle, but no future date was published on the call page at the time of checking.
Who can apply
Postdoctoral, Early-career faculty, Mid-career & senior, Any faculty rank
Eligibility
The applicant must be an approved Norwegian research organisation — an individual researcher, a municipality or a voluntary organisation cannot be the grantee, though they can be a partner. The project manager must hold an approved doctoral degree or equivalent. Collaborating partners must be Norwegian research organisations or equivalent foreign research organisations, so a non-Norwegian team joins as partner to a Norwegian host.
SSWR clusters
Topics
working life inclusion · skills and competence · education research · labour market
Apply at
https://www.forskningsradet.no/en/call-for-proposals/2026/research-for-future-skills-education-and-working-life/
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