Funded projects
NOS-HS grants
The NOS-HS project call of 2022 was an open call based on curiosity-driven research in the humanities and social sciences. The purpose of the call is to give researchers at an early stage in their careers (years two to seven) the opportunity to build Nordic networks and promote Nordic added value in research.
Read more about the call at nordforsk.org
Funded NOS-HS grants, call 2022
The grant call 2022 received 155 valid applications by the nomination deadline.
Funding decisions were made 24 May 2023.
List of funded grants:
PastForward: The political uses of the past in digital discourses about Nordic futures
Project manager: Manuel Menke
Project partners from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden
Making a Warrior: The Social Implications of Viking Age Martial Ideologies
Project manager: Marianne Moen
Project partners from Norway, Iceland, Denmark and Sweden
Exploring homelessness among young care leavers: Addressing challenges and finding potentials in a Nordic welfare context
Project manager: Anne-Kristine Mølholt
Project partners from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden
To integrate or return? Policies, aspirations and outcomes for Ukrainian refugees in the Nordic countries
Project manager: Vilde Hernes
Project partners from Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark
Nordic Law Books: The Production and Use of Vernacular Law Manuscripts in the North from 1100 to 1600
Project manager: Stefan Drechsler
Project partners from Norway, Iceland, Sweden and Denmark
Banal (Non)Religion: Secular Imaginaries in Contemporary Pop-Culture
Project manager: Sara Evelina Lundmark
Project partners from Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway
Healthy communities in ageing societies – participatory research with elderly immigrants and refugees living in a Nordic society
Project manager: Verena Lenneis
Project partners: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden
NOS-HS workshops
NOS-HS supports explorative workshop series in order to promote the development of new research areas and programmes within the fields of humanities and social sciences in the Nordic countries.
Funded NOS-HS workshop series, call 2022
The workshop call 2022 received 106 applications, of which 33 projects were funded with a success rate of 31%. The 33 projects all cover promising Nordic workshops, taking place in 2023–2024. Max. funding for each workshop series is 430 000 NOK.
Funding decisions were made 12 December 2022.
List of funded workshop series:
| Main applicant | Organisation | Project title |
| Brooks, Eva | Aalborg University | Computational Play in Early Childhood Education and Care |
| Couling, Nancy | Bergen School of Architecture | Spatial Experiments for the Post-Anthropocene Arctic |
| Gottzén, Lucas | Stockholm University | Masculinity, masculinist politics and violent extremism in the Nordic |
| Gåsemyr, Hans Jørgen | The Norwgian institute of International Affairs | Nordic Network for Research on International Knowledge Production Relations |
| Hilt, Line | University of Bergen | The Future of Nordic Bildung |
| Jensen-Rix, Robert | University of Copenhagen | Nordic Exceptionalism: Perspectives from the Outside |
| Johnson, David | Western Norway University of Applied Sciences | Singing Map of Scandinavia |
| Johnstone, Rachael Lorna | University of Akureyri | Decolonising Nordic Archives |
| Jusslin, Sofia | Åbo Akademi University | Exploring Imagination and Creativity through Play in Nordic Early Literacy Education |
| Kjeldsen, Jens | University of Bergen | Trustworthiness: The Rhetorical History of Trust in the Nordics |
| Käll, Lisa | Stockholm University | The Somatechnics of Death in Life |
| Kärjä, Antti-Ville | University of the Arts Helsinki | Olfactory cultural studies |
| Laterza, Vito | University of Agder | Between local ties and global challenges: understanding the role of Nordic higher education in regional green transitions |
| Lindroth, Marjo | University of Lapland | Politics and Power of Resilience |
| Lysklett, Olav | Queen Maud’s College of Early Childhood Education (QMC) | The Nordic Nature Kindergarten network – Creating a network to explore existing research and good-practice examples in Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. |
| Nickelsen, Niels | University of Aarhus | Reassembling care for older people |
| Nilsson, Björn | University of Bergen | FenScan – the Future of Stone Age Wetland Archaeology in Fennoscandia |
| Pekkola, Elias | Tampere University | Unpacking emerging hybrid arrangements in Nordic higher education |
| Petersen, Kirsten Elisa | University of Aarhus | Children and youths social and emotional wellbeing within the Nordic welfare states |
| Pinder, David | Roskilde University | Liveable Nordic Cities: Imaginaries, Practices, and Prospects |
| Rúdólfsdóttir, Annadís | University of Iceland | Nordic Parenting |
| Sanches, Pedro | Umeå University | Nordic Fabulation Network |
| Solitander, Nikodemus | HANKEN School of Economics | Explorative workshops on Nordic approach to business sustainability |
| Stordalen, Terje | University of Oslo | Writing Histories of the Ancient Near East: 21st Century Challenges |
| Toivanen, Mari | University of Helsinki | Mobilities, work and welfare citizenship in the Nordic societies |
| Ursin, Marit | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | At critical crossroads in Nordic Childhood Studies: Research with children and on childhoods in times of extreme insecurity and uncertainty |
| Volckmar-Eeg, Maria | Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research | Nordic Street-Level Integration Work |
| Wan, Wilfred | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute | WMD Understandings, Governance and Technology |
| Wibben, Annick | Swedish Defence University | Feminisms and Wars Community |
| Yamamoto, Raymond | Aarhus University | Coercive and Emotional Diplomacy in East Asia: Japanese Responses |
| Zettinig, Peter | University of Turku | EXPLORING INNOVATIVENESS IN GLOBAL VIRTUAL TEAMS: THE FOUNDATION OF A COLLABORATIVE NORDIC PERSPECTIVE |
| Zorell, Carolin | Örebro University | Advancing Strong Sustainability in the Nordic Social Science and Humanities |
| Östlund, Joachim | Lund University | Pax Nordica: Experiences and lessons of the Nordic Peace, ca 1721–1830 |
The majority of the funded applications came from Norway(11), Finland (7), Sweden (7), Denmark (6), and Iceland (2). Each application had co-applicants from at least two other Nordic countries.
Funded NOS-HS workshop series, call 2021
The workshop call 2021 received 51 applications, of which 32 projects were funded with a success rate of 63%. The 32 projects cover altogether 91 promising Nordic workshops, taking place in 2022–2023. Max. funding for each workshop series is 43 000 EUR.
Funding decisions were made 3 November 2021.
List of funded workshop series:
| Main applicant | Organisation | Project title |
| Broström, Anders | Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm | Exploratory Workshops and the establishment of a Nordic Center for Entrepreneurship Research (NCER) |
| Brudin Borg, Camilla | University of Gothenburg | Moving Science towards new Methodological Directions |
| Bruhn, Jørgen | Linnaeus University | Media as Infrastructure? Investigating Nordic Ecomedia (MIINE) |
| Bødker, Henrik | Aarhus University | Nordic Times and Climate Times: An Exploration of Temporalities in Nordic Climate Change Journalism |
| Crowther, Karen | University of Oslo | Establishing the Nordic Network for Philosophy of Physics: Towards a Future-Orientated Philosophy of Science |
| Frandsen, Kirsten | Aarhus University | Women in a digitised sports culture |
| Fritsche, Maria | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | Cinema, War and Citizenship at the Periphery. Cinemas and their audiences in the Nordic countries, 1935-1950 |
| Hafstein, Valdimar | University of Iceland | Crafting Food, Soil, Sense and Sociality: Human-Microbial Symbiotic Practices in Everyday Life (CRAFTLIFE) |
| Hafsteinsson, Sigurjon Baldur | University of Iceland | The Nordic Turf House: More Than A Human Story |
| Hanssen, Eirik Normann Frisvold | National Library of Norway | Feminist film history in Scandinavia: new approaches, methodologies, and connections |
| Heikkinen, Mervi | University of Oulu | Intersectional Gender Equality in Academia – Exploring Sustainable Futures in the Arctic North |
| Heimo, Anne | University of Turku | Nordic voices: The use of oral history and personal memories in public history settings |
| Heiselberg, Lene | University of Southern Denmark | The Nordic MAP Network: Establishing a link between media content and affective polarization in Nordic multiparty systems |
| Klevjer, Rune | University of Bergen | Experience and representational content in video games |
| Lilja, Niina | Tampere University | Exploring New Materialism for second language learning in the Nordic societies |
| Lucas, Gavin | University of Iceland | Poverty and Plenty in the North. Later historical archaeologies of material excess and scarcity in Scandinavia and the North Atlantic |
| Madsen, Miriam | Aarhus University | Governing educational pasts, presents, and futures with data |
| Maliks, Jakob | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | Educating Active and Democratic Citizens in Challenging Times – Exploring the Past, Present and Future of Social Studies in the Nordic Countries. |
| Martinez Romera, Beatriz | University of Copenhagen | Nordic Research Network on Climate Change and Ocean Governance: Understanding International and Regional Ocean Regimes Through the Lens of Climate Change (NeOGov) |
| Millei, Zsuzsanna | Tampere University | Microbial Childhoods Collaboratory (MCC): Enlivening critical childhood studies |
| Mollerup, Nina Grønlykke | University of Copenhagen | Sensory media anthropology |
| Petrulevich, Alexandra | Uppsala University | Linking, Building and Sustaining Humanities Digital Spatial Infrastructures for Research in the Nordic Countries |
| Raudvere, Catharina | University of Copenhagen | Contemporary Muslim Lay Piety. Interpretations, Performance and Mobilization |
| Reijula, Samuli | University of Helsinki | Nordic network for the science of science |
| Sariola, Salla | University of Helsinki | Nordic Network for the Social Study of Microbes |
| Siggaard Stenbæk, Dea | Copenhagen University Hospital | Exploring psychological models of psilocybin drug administration |
| Sippola, Eeva | University of Helsinki | Linguistics & Sustainability |
| Skedsmo, Guri | University of Oslo | Nordic Research on Leadership in Schools in Times of Change (NordLead) |
| Sørensen, Majken Jul | Karlstad University | Everyday resistances in the Nordic welfare state – Exploring the methodological potential of Institutional Ethnography |
| Varjo, Janne | University of Helsinki | The Governance of Career Guidance Systems in Nordic Countries |
| Wink, Georg Walter | University of Copenhagen | New Approaches and Synergies in Nordic Latin-American Studies: Applying Area Studies in a Multipolar World |
The majority of the funded applications came from Denmark (10), Finland (8), Norway (6), Sweden (5), and Iceland (3). Each application had co-applicants from at least two other Nordic countries.
NOP-HS journal grants
NOP-HS, a sub-committee to NOS-HS, supports Nordic journals of the highest quality that promote renewal in their research field. The NOP-HS journal grant aims to promote the dissemination of qualified research results within the fields of humanities and social sciences.
The call in 2021 was the last NOP-HS journal grant call. NOS-HS will no longer launch new calls to individual journals.
Funded NOP-HS journal grants, call 2021
The scientific journal grant 2021 received 32 applications, of which 30 were granted funding. Funding decisions were made 16 November 2021. In this last call, NOP-HS only funded journals currently funded by NOP-HS to secure them a transfer to activities without NOP-HS funding.
Funding decisions were made 26 November 2021.
List of funded journals:
| Applicant | Organisation | Project title |
| Andersson, Per | Linköping University | Nordic Journal of Vocational Education and Training |
| Berggren, Lars | Lund University | ICO. Iconographisk Post. Nordic Review of Iconography |
| Bernhard-Oettel, Claudia | Stockholm University | Scandinavian Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology |
| Blikstad-Balas, Marte | University of Stavanger | Nordic Journal of Literacy Research |
| Hellman, Matilda | Nordic Welfare Center Finland | Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs |
| Hjarvard, Stig | University of Copenhagen | Nordic Journal of Media Studies |
| Illman, Ruth | Åbo Akademi University | Nordisk judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies |
| Langum, Virginia | Umeå University | Nordic Journal of English Studies |
| Leis-Peters, Annette | VID Specialized University | Diaconia. Journal for the Study of Christian Social Practice |
| Leseth, Anne Birgitte | Oslo Metropolitan University | Profession and professionalism |
| Lid, Inger Marie | VID Specialized University | Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research |
| Magnússon, Gísli | University of Iceland | Romantik – Journal for the Study of Romanticisms |
| Näre, Lena | The Migration Institute of Finland | Nordic Journal of Migration Research |
| Opas, Minna | University of Turku | Temenos – Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion |
| Raffnsøe, Sverre Risdal | Copenhagen Business School | Foucault Studies |
| Rasmussen, Anders Bo | Nordic Association for American Studies | American Studies in Scandinavia |
| Ravna, Øyvind | UiT The Arctic University of Norway | Arctic Review on Law and Politics |
| Rivarola, Andrés | Stockholm University | Iberoamericana – Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies |
| Rugulies, Reiner | Finnish Institute of Occupational Health | Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health |
| Sæverot, Herner | Western Norway University of Applied Sciences | Nordic Studies in Education |
| Samuelsson, Johan | Karlstad University | Nordidactica |
| Storebø, Ole Jakob | Region Zealand Psychiatry | Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology [SJCAPP] |
| Svarstad, Elizabeth | SANS – Senter for Dansepraksis (Dans i Skolen) | Nordic Journal of Dance |
| Säätelä, Simo | Åbo Akademi University | Nordic Wittgenstein Review |
| Tanskanen, Katri | Nordiska teaterforskare | Nordic Theatre Studies |
| Teppo, Annika | Uppsala University | Nordic Journal of African Studies (NJAS) |
| Tofteng, Ditte | University College Copenhagen | Research and Change |
| Ursin, Marit | Norwegian University of Science and Technology – NTNU | Barn – Research about children and childhood in the Nordic region |
| Weinreich, Jacob Lund | Aarhus University | The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics |
| Åström Elmersjö, Henrik | Umeå University | Nordic Journal of Educational History |