The application deadline is Thursday, September 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM. 

NB! In the call for Research Funding 2026, HSØ has changed the template for the project description and assessment criteria. Remember to use the new template and check the assessment criteria, which you can find here here

Health South-East RHF is announcing approximately 135 million kroner for health research in the region. The announcement has both a thematic open facility, available to all research areas in the specialist health service, and a targeted part where allocation will take place after strategic assessment of applications within prioritized areas. Applications from non-university hospitals will also be considered for allocation of strategically allocated research funds.

The application deadline is Thursday, September 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM. 

For 2025, research funding can be applied for within the following application categories:  

• Doctoral scholarship  
• Postdoctoral fellow 
• Open project support  

For more information see here.

In the call for Research Funding 2026, HSØ has changed the template for the project description and assessment criteria.

Important changes:

• The instructions in the template are clearer
• Focus on innovation and improvements
• The "Need" chapter has been removed
• There is a new chapter 3 - Approach. This describes an overall approach to achieving the project's goals
• The assessment criteria now have two main points
• Scientific Quality
• Impact and Implementation Potential

Remember to use the new template and check the assessment criteria, which can be found here.

A continuous application reception and processing has been introduced. You can apply at any time, and the project you are applying for funding for must have a planned project start 8-18 months after you submit your application. As a project manager, you will have a 12-month waiting period, calculated from the date you submitted your application, until you can apply again. You can be a project participant in other FRIPRO applications and a project manager for applications to other calls in the Research Council, regardless of the waiting period in FRIPRO.

The Portfolio Board will make award decisions approximately every two months. They will distribute FRIPRO's annual budget equally across each decision round during the year, and in each decision round they will distribute available funds across applications submitted to all three of our ongoing calls for applications.

In addition, from autumn 2023, the Research Council will introduce several smaller measures to increase the grant percentage and reduce the number of applications and resource use in FRIPRO. For more information, see:

• FRIPRO (forskningsradet.no)
• Three-year Research Project with International Mobility (FRIPRO) (forskningsradet.no)
• Research project for experienced researchers (FRIPRO) (forskningsradet.no)
• Early Career Research Project (FRIPRO) (forskningsradet.no)

The purpose of the scheme is to increase the proportion of young researchers who undertake a research stay abroad. International experience is important for a researcher's career and helps to strengthen Norwegian research by increasing competence and adding new knowledge to the project, developing networks and thereby strengthening opportunities for access to the international research front. 

For more information see here; Research Council (Foreign scholarships for doctoral and postdoctoral fellows) 

Through this call for proposals, you can apply for support to organize conferences, workshops and seminars. The event should be a meeting place for the dissemination of research results, knowledge sharing, development of the knowledge base and/or generation of scientific collaboration. The event can be both physical and digital. For more information, see here; Support for events

The program has no application deadline. Applications can be submitted at any time, for more information see here; DAM Foundation: Health ;

It is possible to apply for financial support for education, courses and other development initiatives, for more information see here; VIRKE fund

This voucher provides rapid funding for purchasing professional grant writing support to apply for EU grants, such as the European Research Council (ERC) or Horizon Europe. Supported grant projects must address the needs of people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases.

South-Eastern Health RHF is announcing funding for research-based innovation for the development of new products, services and methods. The relevant innovation projects must be continuations of results from research projects that have previously received research funding from South-Eastern Health RHF. The innovation funding is intended to support the early phase of the idea development process, before commercialization, so that a basis can be built for registration by DOFI and collaboration with technology transfer environments.

Application deadline: the call runs annually from March to October 30th, with no deadline.

For more information follow the link: Announcement of funding for research-based innovation - South-Eastern Health Region (helse-sorost.no)

The deadline for applying for funding from the hospital's fund for research, innovation and professional development is approximately April 25, 2024. There are normally several projects that receive funding.

The purpose of the fund is to support innovation, research and professional development projects, with a particular focus on achieving strategic initiatives and on financing the start-up and completion of projects. The fund can also contribute to financing infrastructure measures related to the implementation of such projects and to building research expertise among the hospital's employees.

All applications must be submitted to the Head of Department for Research and Innovation, Espen A. Haavardsholm. The project manager sends an application with a project description (max. 5 pages) including background, purpose, method, milestone plan and budget to This email address is protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The applications will be considered in a fund board meeting. See more at Diagoras.

All permanent employees at Diakonhjemmet Hospital can apply. Purpose of the scholarship: personal development, professional and group activities. Friends of Diakonhjemmet Hospital, the hospital's friends' association, sets aside an amount each year to award scholarships. All permanent employees at Diakonhjemmet Hospital can apply. 

• Application deadline : April 30
• Applications are sent via internal mail to "Friends of Diakonhjemmet Hospital".
• For more information see : The Friends' Association's scholarship at Diagora

Purpose of the scholarship:

• Self-development - based on personal needs and desires
• Professional development - courses, internships, etc. (support for further education will not be granted)
• Group activities - with the aim of strengthening the working community

The Grete Harbitz Endowment is a bequest to combat rheumatic diseases.

The scholarship application deadline is May 1st

The application should be sent to:
Grete Harbitz scholarship, by Elisabeth Johre,
Thunesvei 16
0274 Oslo

There is no separate application form.

Health SOUTH-ØST, follow here: Research - Health SOUTH-ØST RHF (helse-sorost.no)

The Research Council, follow here: Current calls for proposals The Research Council (forskningsradet.no)

A list of calls for proposals can be found here: UiO calls for proposals .

For announcements from EULAR, follow here; EULAR Research Funding | EULAR

The purpose is to support health research aimed at target groups in Norway and that contributes to promoting living conditions, physical and mental health, coping, quality of life or social participation. This includes work for increased participation and equality for people with disabilities, preventive health work, rehabilitation, habilitation, care work and public health work. A main goal is to link research more closely to the health challenges faced by the inhabitants of Norway.

Applications can be made for:

• Research in line with the purpose
• Research under the auspices of a Norwegian institution responsible for research (project leader must be affiliated with the institution responsible for research).
• Minimum 1,500,000 and maximum 3,000,000 NOK. 10 percent of the application amount will be withheld until the final report from the project is approved.
• Projects with a duration of up to 48 months.

Ordinary process: Dates and deadlines

• November 15:  Application form opens. See example of application form here.
• February 15:  Application deadline. The applicant organization quality assures the application and submits it.
• April 10: Response to outline application . Selected applicants will be invited to submit an extended application.
• June 10:  Application deadline, extended application.
• October 15: Announcement of award.

For more information see here: Announcement - Dam Foundation

The foundation supports research within rheumatism.

SUPPORT IS PROVIDED IN THE FORM OF
- Scientific grants
- Grants are usually awarded in the range of NOK 50,000-500,000.

WHO CAN APPLY?
You must be conducting research within rheumatism at UiO.

Application deadline is February 15.

For more information and to submit an application, see here: Ragna and Egil Eiken's endowment for the advancement of rheumatism research - UNIFOR - Forvalter verdiere

FOREUM  - Foundation for Research in Rheumatology - announces the launch of a
Call for Career Grants

FOREUM is committed to promoting the best talents in the field of rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMD). Consistent with these goals FOREUM issues a new call that aims to fund excellent young researchers promoting innovative ideas and supporting high quality research projects covering basic and clinical science projects related to RMDs.

Further information and application details can be found on  our website . Letters of intent can be submitted  no later than 16 February 2025.

Virke announces scholarship funds with  an application deadline of February 1, 2025.

The individual applies for funds via  an electronic application form  at Virke.

The applicant must obtain a recommendation/approval from the employer, which must be attached to the application.  

To fill out the application form, the following information is required:

• Member number in Virke: 403955 
• Business account number: 7038 05 19621
• The company's collective agreement: National Agreement for Specialist Health Services

Two categories have been adopted for scholarship applications:

• Category 1: Stand-alone course (minimum 2 days duration)
• Category 2: Study trip/ internship/ job rotation

You can apply for up to NOK 6,000 per person in category 1 and NOK 12,000 per person in category 2.

It is the actual costs that are covered, including travel and accommodation.

Self-financing of at least 25% of the costs is assumed.

Scholarships for which funding is sought in 2025 are expected to be completed in 2025 or 2026.

Information about VIRKE OU-FOND SERVICE PROVIDER is available on  Virke's website.

Here you will also find additional rules and criteria for the various application areas, as well as the various electronic application forms.

The hospital's fund for research, innovation and professional development is announcing funding for internal funding of fellowship positions at Diakonhjemmet Hospital. This is linked to the South-Eastern Regional Health Authority's announcement and allocation of regional/strategic research funding for 2025 .

The position can be either a doctoral or postdoctoral fellow.

The fund finances two full-time equivalents. The positions last either for three years (100%) or six years (50%). The funds are given as a lump sum, at the same rate as in the South-Eastern Health Service. The amount covers salaries, costs and operating assets.

The purpose of the call is to support research and development of research environments within priority areas that are important for the hospital's patients and employees, as well as to strengthen the research environments' prerequisites for obtaining external funding. It is also an aim of the call to strengthen the breadth of research at the hospital, both with regard to disciplines and professional groups.

To apply, the project manager (applicant) must have submitted an application for regional/strategic research funding in the Health South-Eastern Regional Research Fund for 2025. The applicant must also meet the requirements from the Health South-Eastern Regional Research Fund (see the HSØ call for applications ).

It is also a requirement that the application must be considered worthy of support in the assessment carried out by the South-Eastern Health Fund. Only relevant applicants are invited to apply for the fund, via email from the fund's secretary at least two weeks before the deadline.

The application deadline for the fund is after the South-Eastern Health Fund has completed its applications, published the awards and made the list of recommendations available to the fund board. More details will be provided when applicants are invited.

Research Vouchers

The Voucher program is a rapid funding scheme to help investigators cover ad hoc expenses or services in support of their ongoing rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMD) research projects. Three types of vouchers are available. For more information see here: EULAR Research Funding | EULAR

1. Research Service Voucher
2. EU Grant Development Voucher
3. Publication Support Voucher

Application deadline: 31.12.2024

Klaveness's innovation support will help develop and test new technology or new working methods for the benefit of patients and employees. For more information, see here:  Klaveness's innovation support.

Contact person: Guro Søe Eriksen

Link to Diagora: The Hospital Fund for Research, Innovation and Professional Development and Klaveness Innovation Support

Through binding collaboration, public and private actors will jointly develop good solutions that reach patients and citizens more quickly. The needs of the health services and the needs of the health industry are equal for the Pilot Health scheme and must therefore be equally represented in the project.  

There will be  a call for preliminary projects  for this call in the fall of 2024. Deadline for preliminary projects: 16.10.2024. It will be mandatory to carry out a preliminary project with support from the Research Council in order to apply for a main project.

See announcement: Pilot Health (forskningsradet.no)

With this scheme, we want to finance innovation projects that will make health services more sustainable; that is, be able to offer safe, equal and adapted services of high quality to all citizens without increasing the overall burden on either the services or society. And that the new solutions are developed for a Norwegian and international market.

Priorities for this call 

The call is open to all projects that aim to meet clear needs in the specialist health service and/or the municipal health and care service that are either rooted in patients/residents or in the service itself. The needs must be based on a concrete needs assessment with broad involvement of stakeholders. We are looking for projects that aim to develop innovations that meet the needs while at the same time contributing to sustainability in the health service and society in addition to value creation. 

With sustainability in the health service, we believe that health services in the future should continue to be able to offer safe, equal and adapted services of high quality to all citizens without increasing the overall burden on either the services or society. 

By innovations we mean new or significantly improved solutions, services, processes, organizational forms or marketing models that are put into use to achieve value creation and social benefit. In order for the projects to contribute to value creation in Norwegian business, the solutions that are developed should have a market both in Norway and abroad. 

In this call, Pilot Health projects that address the following themes will be prioritized: 

• Innovations that provide personnel savings without compromising quality or productivity, cf. the Health Personnel Commission.  
• Innovations that utilize existing, heavy infrastructure to ensure the ability to scale quickly.  
• Interaction, task sharing and communication between service levels 
• Recruiting healthcare personnel, creating attractive and robust workplaces 
• Develop innovative AI solutions for sustainability in healthcare services 
• Self-service solutions to manage your own health, prevent illness and provide increased health literacy 
• Projects that facilitate production in Norway 

Other challenges rooted in specific needs may also be relevant for Pilot Health projects.

For more information see here.

The purpose of the call is to stimulate research and innovation that is rooted in the need to strengthen the sustainability of municipal health and care services. 

Based on the municipalities' need for knowledge and new solutions, municipalities, counties and research organizations can apply for funding for research and innovation. The projects must be carried out in actual collaboration between several municipalities and at least one research organization. 

It is a requirement that a minimum of 30 percent of the project's total costs be spent by municipalities and correspondingly that a minimum of 30 percent be spent by research organizations. 

For more information see here.

The Norwegian Rheumatology Association's Research Fund and the Jan A. Pahle Foundation will, upon application, be able to provide financial support for research into rheumatic diseases. For more information, see here; Apply for support | Norwegian Rheumatology Association

The research fund and the endowment can partially finance projects and contribute with start-up and completion funds for both operations and researcher salaries. Applicants cannot initially expect full funding.

The application is sent to: Norwegian Rheumatologist Association, PO Box 2653 Solli, 0203 Oslo or by email to: This email address is protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

For questions, send an email to: This email address is protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Health South-East RHF is announcing approximately NOK 130 million for health research in the region. The call is thematically open to all research areas in the specialist health service. In addition, up to NOK 10 million has been allocated for targeting research funds to priority areas and up to NOK 5 million for strategic allocation of research funds to non-university hospitals.

The application deadline is Wednesday, September 4, 2024 at 4:00 PM. 

For 2025, research funding can be applied for within the following application categories:  

• Doctoral scholarship  
• Postdoctoral fellow 
• Open project support  

For more information see here.

Virke annually announces funding to support initiatives for the business. Applications for funding should be directed towards training and development initiatives that go beyond pure operations, and should encompass and involve as broadly as possible in the business.

The clinics/units apply for funding themselves via an electronic application form at Virke.

September 1st

See criteria and rules for applying as well as application form (virke.no)

The main rule is that the support is provided as partial financing of the measure and requires self-financing of at least half of the measure's costs. Virke does not cover salary expenses.

The application form asks for some organization and member numbers. Here you can write 0, and Virke will fill in what is necessary.

Everyone is encouraged to consider whether there are relevant projects for which you can apply for support!

For your information: The annual application deadline for individual employees is February 1.

Contact person in Virke: May Katrin Pedersen, tel. 907 54 024 

Contact person at Diakonhjemmet Hospital: Anne Grete Nestgaard, tel. 22454809

In 2024, the regional health authorities will openly announce approximately NOK 170 million for national clinical treatment studies. All applications require participation from clinical research environments in all health regions, facilitation of equal access for patients nationally, and user participation. It is noted that KLINBEFORSK welcomes studies using new study designs to facilitate personalized medicine and the implementation of decentralized clinical studies.

In this year's call, priority will be given to applications for clinical treatment research in proton therapy. However, it is assumed that the applications are considered worthy of support within the framework of the call after professional assessment as for other applications.

In line with the National Strategy for Personalized Medicine 2023-2030, applications for program funds from KLINBEFORSK must include and account for the use of exploratory markers for stratification and personalization where relevant.

• Application deadline: May 2024 at 4:00 PM
• More information: Call for proposals – Clinical Treatment Research Program (rhf-forsk.org)

One of the main components of REMEDY's program for young researchers is the opportunity to apply for project funding for the initiation and completion of research projects. It is specifically outlined that the support will facilitate entry-level projects. As part of this, NOK 500,000 is being announced under the auspices of REMEDY with a deadline of 30 April 2025.

Current applicants:

• PhD fellows, postdocs and non-researchers who want to start research.
• The call is profession-neutral, but applicants must be affiliated with one of the partners in REMEDY, and the project must be associated with a work package.
• It will not be possible for senior-level researchers to apply for support from the scheme.

Application is sent by email to This email address is protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., with the subject "Application for research funding from the REMEDY Young Researcher Program".

The application must consist of the following (collected in one pdf file):

1. A project description of up to 4 pages (including references). The project description should describe the project's background, usefulness, purpose, method, user participation, applicant/project group, connection to work package and budget.
2. The budget may include expenses related to salaries and operations. There must be a timetable for when the funds will be used. The funds must be used by the end of 2026. Expenses for user participation are budgeted in accordance with the current rates of the South-Eastern Health Authority.
3. A short CV and list of publications (up to two pages total).
4. The maximum application amount is NOK 170,000 per application.

Applicants will receive feedback by June 13, 2025

Each application is given an overall score based on the following assessment criteria:

• Quality and originality – the quality and originality of the project in relation to the research frontier in the field. The extent to which the scientific background for the project, the project's research questions, objectives, research design and choice of methods are clearly described.
• Applicant's competence and qualifications – the extent to which the applicant has relevant competence and experience (in relation to the applicant's career stage). The significance of the award for the applicant's further career.
• Feasibility – the extent to which a realistic and appropriate plan for implementing the project has been described.
• Utility – the extent to which justification for need, coverage of knowledge gaps, opportunities for generalization/broad application of knowledge, and consistency with the center's strategy are clearly
  described.
• Impact and visibility – to what extent the project has potential for dissemination;
  publication(s), congresses, social media, media, etc.
• User participation – an account must be given of user participation in the project from the idea to the dissemination phase and, if applicable, justification given as to why this is not relevant.

Every year, the hospital's association of friends, Friends of Diakonhjemmet Hospital, sets aside an amount to award scholarships. All permanent employees at Diakonhjemmet Hospital can apply.

Read more about the scheme  and  apply before April 30th.

Application form (PDF)

This year's call is being conducted as a two-stage process. This means that applicants for research funding from KLINBEFORSK in the first stage must submit an outline application. Based on this outline, selected applicants will be invited to submit a full application in the second stage of the call. 

KLINBEFORSK uses a two-stage application process for awarding research funds. In the first stage, an outline application must be submitted that describes the expected benefit for the specialist health service, patient base and purpose of the project. The outline applications are assessed by a separate evaluation committee to form the basis for invitations to other application stages. Applicants who do not proceed in the process will receive feedback on their application. In the second application stage, applicants must submit a complete application through the eSøknad portal. This application consists of an application form, project description and mandatory attachments.

The application deadline for sketches for the first application stage is May 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM.

The outline application must contain: 

• Template for project outline  (format requirements in form)
• CV for project manager with publication list (max. 4 pages, Calibri 11pt)

The outline application must be submitted by email by the application deadline, May 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM, to This email address is protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The application process is described in detail  here .

The regional health authorities are announcing up to NOK 180 million for national clinical treatment studies. All applications require participation from clinical research communities in all health regions, facilitation of equal access for patients nationally, and user participation.

The call is open to all fields of study , and in addition, the call includes prioritization of areas where a specific research need has been identified.

In this year's call, priority is given to the following two areas:

• Proton therapy:  Proton therapy is being established as a multi-regional treatment service with patient treatment starting in 2025, and there is a great need for more clinical studies in the area.
• Rehabilitation:  The evaluation of the Escalation Plan for Habilitation and Rehabilitation (2017-2019) has concluded that the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation is a research-poor area with little knowledge about treatment effects. The need for increased knowledge and research in the area is also highlighted in the National Health and Coordination Plan 2024-2027. Clinical studies in the area must have a central anchoring in the specialist health service, but can be carried out with established collaboration with the primary health service. In this way, prioritization can also address issues related to interaction in the services.