Andre prosjekter finansiert av Framsenteret

Preliminary project – Green transition in the North

This project is to provide a knowledge base for prioritising, designing and carrying out a longterm Fram-centre program on Green transition in the North. The project has a particular focus on a just green transition in the North.

Leader: Norsk institutt for kulturminneforskning v/ Lena Gross https://www.niku.no/ansatt/lena-gross/

Partners: Nofima, NINA, NCLOS/UiT, NIBIO and CICERO

Project summary:

The transition to a society with a lower climate and environmental footprint will lead to benefits and costs for different groups, for nature and for individuals, which may be more or less just. To answer the needs of management, authorities, trade and industry, stake- and rightsholders and other interested parties, the Fram Centre previously prepared a research program proposal Green Transition in the North – Opportunities and Challenges addressing the societal and cultural challenges in implementing a green transition, as well as the new natural scientific insights that are necessary prerequisites for this transition. The Fram Centre Steering Group has asked for a new preliminary project that especially addresses societal and cultural challenges for implementing a just green transition in the North.

This project will create an oversight over ongoing and planned research related to societal and cultural challenges in implementing a just green transition in the North. We will identify research themes and research questions, such as clarification of value-based, ideological and political prioritizations and legal limitations thereto, contribution to less conflicts between actors (including spatial conflicts), illuminating area-based solutions, charting environmental limits, and possibilities to contribute to fair and just transition.

The project will deliver a report outlining knowledge status, gaps, needs and prioritised research areas and questions as well as possible research collaborations and right- and stakeholder networks.

Project objectives:

The overall objective of this preliminary project is to provide a knowledge base for prioritising, designing and carrying out a long-term Fram-centre program Green transition in the North. This will be done through fulfilling these specific objectives for the preliminary project:

1. Identify relevant (trans- and multidisciplinary) research areas on societal and cultural challenges for implementing a just green transition in the North, including related natural scientific research; 
2. Identify important issues, knowledge and research needs for management, trade and industry and stake- and rightsholders;
3. Create an overview of knowledge status and knowledge gaps for research needs from 1 and 2; 
4. Map how Fram Centre members together can contribute towards filling knowledge gaps from 3;
5. Summarise and propose research areas, research questions and implementation for a Fram Centre program Green transition in the North.

RemoTnitor (avsluttet 2025)

New methods for integrated non-invasive genetic monitoring of semi-domesticated reindeer and wildlife based on high-throughput sequencing approaches.

Leader:

Norsk institutt for bioøkonomi (NIBIO) v/ Tommi Nyman.

Partners:

Veterinærinstituttet, UiT – Norges arktiske universitet, Norsk institutt for naturforskning (NINA)

Project summary:

This project will develop integrated non-invasive moleculargenetic monitoring methods for reindeer, moose, and brown bear
populations in the Norwegian High North.

The project aims to produce powerful multiomic tools for non-invasive assessment of animal identity and relatedness, diet, and health based on genetic analyses of field-collected scatsamples, and thereby enable more efficient surveillance and management of reindeer and wildlife in the North.

The three focal animal species are extremely mobile, and the populations at the northernmost eastern edge of Norway transverse the borders to neighbouring countries. Increased monitoring of animal species in this region is therefore vital for early warning of emerging diseases.

KnowledgeScapes (avsluttet 2025)

Overcoming obstacles of knowledge exchange: Tools and methods for inclusive land and sea-use decisions​.

Leader:

Norsk institutt for kulturminneforskning (NIKU) v/ Jukka Nyyssönen.

Partners:

NORCE, NIVA, NOFIMA.

Project summary:

The overarching aim of KnowledgeScapes is to explore and improve participatory methods that contribute to knowledge exchange and knowledge-based land and sea-use management.

By employing multiple social scientific methods, we identify the gaps in knowledge flows, and with novel participatory methods we engage stakeholders for knowledge exchange and reflections on shared problems.

The project addresses the issues through a case study: the Nussir mining project in Hammerfest municipality. The project scope can be broadly categorized along two dimensions: a land-sea dimension and a politician-civil society dimension.

The project has a high level of applicability: it will provide transferable participatory methods for collecting, sharing, discussing, and analyzing traditional knowledge. Methods for sharing and discussing knowledge also hold the potential to build trust between different types of knowledge-holders and -users.

PermaRich (avsluttet 2025)

Advanced Mapping and Monitoring for Assessing Permafrost Thawing Risks for Modern Infrastructure and Cultural Heritage in Svalbard.

Leader:

NORCE v/Line Rouyet.

Partners:

SINTEF, Norsk institutt for kulturminneforskning (NIKU), Norges geologiske undersøkelse (NGU), Universitetssenteret på Svalbard (UNIS)

Project summary:

PermaRich is a three-year collaborative project bringing together five complementary Fram Centre member institutions. The project aims to assess the risks related to terrain movement in inhabited permafrost landscapes and the deformation of modern infrastructure (MI) and cultural heritage (CH) sites in and around Longyearbyen and Ny-Ålesund (Central and Western Svalbard). We will establish an innovative integration of advanced satellite remote sensing technology and traditional methods to map, monitor, and model ground disturbances from permafrost thawing and their consequences on infrastructure stability.

The final goal is to evaluate the risks for future MI and CH damage and suggest adaptation measures to key stakeholders in Longyearbyen and Ny-Ålesund.

Insentivmidler 2026

Styringsgruppa i Framsenteret har vedtatt tildelinger for insentivmidler 2026. Pengene tildeles 10 prosjekter og workshops, med opptil 350.000 NOK på hver.

Insentivmidlene er finansiert over statsbudsjettet, via Klima- og miljødepartementet til Framsenteret Drift AS.

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Ledende institusjon: Akvaplan-niva

Deltagende institusjoner: Akvaplan-niva AS/NIVA, Kystverket, NINA – Norsk institutt for naturforskning

Kontaktperson: Pernilla Carlsson, NIVA

SAFE Svalbard – Samarbeid om Atomberedskap, Forvaltning og Erfaringsutveksling

Ledende institusjon: DSA – Direktoratet for strålevern og atomsikkerhet

Deltagende institusjoner: NILU – Norsk institutt for luftforskning, Norsk Polarinstitutt, DSA – Direktoratet for strålevern og atomsikkerhet, UNIS – Universitetssenteret på Svalbard, NIBIO Norsk institutt for bioøkonomi.

Kontaktperson: Hedda Kjelkvik, DSA

Sharing spaces: Multispecies inclusiveness in arctic urban environments

Ledende institusjon: NINA

Deltagende institusjoner: NIKU – Norsk institutt for kulturminneforskning, UiT Norges arktiske universitet, NINA.

Kontaktperson: Tone Kristin Reiertsen, NINA

Et tverrfaglig metodisk rammeverk for forbedret kartlegging av tidevannssonen i nordområdene (TIDE-NORD)

Ledende institusjon: Kartverket

Deltagende institusjoner: NINA – Norsk institutt for naturforskning, NORCE, Kartverket.

Kontaktperson: Carl William Lund, Kartverket

Vindkraft og tamreinens trekkveier – en tilnærming basert på tradisjonskunnskap, arkeologiske og økologiske metoder

Ledende institusjon: NINA

Deltagende institusjoner: NIKU – Norsk institutt for kulturminneforskning, NINA – Norsk institutt for naturforskning, UiT Norges arktiske universitet.

Kontaktperson: Knut Langeland, NINA

Blokkmark i Landskap: Observasjon, Kartlegging og Kunnskapsgrunnlag – Metodikk for Areal- og Prosesskartlegging (BLOKK-MAP)

Ledende institusjon: Kartverket

Deltagende institusjoner: Kartverket, NIBIO Norsk institutt for bioøkonomi, NGU – Norges geologiske undersøkelse.

Kontaktperson: Carl William Lund, Kartverket

SmartLMS: AI-driven lysosomal membrane stability scoring for vulnerable cold-water benthic species

Ledende institusjon: Havforskningsinstituttet

Deltagende institusjoner: Akvaplan-niva AS/NIVA, Havforskningsinstituttet, UiT Norges arktiske universitet.

Kontaktperson: Ana S. Gomes, Havforskningsinstituttet

MitoSkim: evaluating mitochondrial metagenome skimming for bias-free invertebrate community biodiversity assessment

Ledende institusjon: Akvaplan-niva

Deltagende institusjoner: Akvaplan-niva AS/NIVA, Havforskningsinstituttet; NINA – Norsk institutt for naturforskning

Kontaktperson: Elizaveta Ershova-Menze,  Akvaplan-niva

Assessing mink predation on young salmonids in Reisaelva and community engagement to save a fishing culture

Ledende institusjon: NINA

Deltagende institusjoner: NIKU – Norsk institutt for kulturminneforskning, NINA – Norsk institutt for naturforskning, UiT Norges arktiske universitet;

Kontaktperson: Jennifer Stien, NINA

Comprehending Ionospheric Effects in Satellite Radar Observations Using Ground-Based Sensors (IONOSENS)

Ledende institusjon: NORCE

Deltagende institusjoner: NORCE, Kartverket, UiT Norges arktiske universitet;

Kontaktperson: Liliana Macotela, NORCE