Norway
EUP OHAMR joint transnational call 2026: National rules and requirements for applicants from Norway.
The information below of the national rules and requirements is only a summary. Please visit the national website and contact the national contact person for full details.
Research Council of Norway (RCN)
National/ Regional Financial Commitment: 1 000 000 €
Exchange Rate: For funded projects, the contractual budget will be in Norwegian kroner (NOK) using the exchange rate from the pre-proposal deadline. The official exchange rate can be found on the websites of the European Central Bank.
Grant amount awarded to a project partner:
- Research Council of Norway do not operate with minimum funding per grant.
- Within a single project, the maximum funding is 300 000 €. If the Norwegian participant has a coordinator role, the maximum funding is about 400 000 €.
- If there are more than one Norwegian partners in a consortium they have to share the maximum RCN’s funding per project between them.
- Depending on the volume of submitted and eligible projects, up to 25 % additional funding may be allocated to the call to fund additional projects on the ranking list.
Expected number of funded proposals: 3-4
Eligible Topic(s): 1, 2, 3
Eligible One Health settings:
- The entire value chain for research and innovation should be safeguarded.
- All One Health settings (human, animal, plan, environment, social sciences) related to human health are qualified.
Eligible institutions
- Norwegian universities, university colleges, hospitals, research institutes, public sector, user organisations, NGOs, SME and other private industry.
- Organisations excluded from funding:
- The Research Council cannot award support to an enterprise that is defined as an “undertaking in difficulty” under the state aid rules (see the “Definition of ‘undertaking in difficulty’” on our website).
- “Enkeltpersonforetak”, that is Norwegian companies with sole proprietorship, cannot participate as coordinator, but can participate as subcontractors.
- Additional eligibility criteria:
- All applicants and partners must comply with the State Aid rules. All projects are to be carried out as effective collaboration between the partners. Undertakings (companies) that participate in the consortium must also not receive indirect state aid in the form of advantageous conditions for cooperation with the research institutions taking part in the consortium. SME or industry/large enterprise partners are funded with up to 50% of their eligible project costs. See Conditions for awarding state aid (https://www.forskningsradet.no/en/state-aid) for more details.
- The Research Council of Norway does not award personal doctoral scholarships. Costs for doctoral (PhD) and postdoctoral fellowship positions must be included in the project application.
- For postdoctoral fellowships, duration of the support is limited to a minimum of three years and a maximum of four years. The overhead cost is included in the rates for personnel.
Eligible experimental approaches and disciplines
- The entire value chain for research and innovation should be safeguarded.
- All one health settings (human, animal, plan, environment, social sciences) related to human health are qualified.
- Clinical studies are eligible, please read the Requirements and guidelines for registration and disclosure of medical and health-related studies involving human participants.
Eligibility criteria for the Principal Investigator
- Principal investigators must come from an approved Norwegian research organization: https://www.forskningsradet.no/en/financing/research-organisations/approved-research-organisations/ .
Eligible costs
- Payroll expenses, consumables, operating expenses, network measures.
- The participation must follow RCN’s General Terms and Conditions for R&D Projects.
- See What to enter in the project budget (https://www.forskningsradet.no/en/financing/how/budget). Note that the cost category “Procurement of R&D services” will not be used in this call.
- Funding to Norwegian SMEs and Industry will be provided according to the State aid rules. See Conditions for awarding state aid (https://www.forskningsradet.no/en/state-aid/ ) for more details.
- For funded projects, the contractual budget will be in Norwegian kroner (NOK) using the exchange rate from the pre-proposal deadline.
Submission of the proposal at the national level
- Data Management Plan must be in place to sign the contract with RCN for funded projects.
- The Research Council is a driving force in making research as open as possible. Participation must follow RCN´s policy for Open Science.
- Submission of the proposal (or other information) at the national level: If the proposal is granted, information about national registration will be given.