Research for a Green and Just Transition
This grant funds research on societal, political, economic, and cultural factors enabling a green and just transition to a low-emission society, emphasizing welfare, climate, and nature in the Norwegian context.
Funder: Research Council of Norway
Due Dates: June 10, 2026 (full application submission)
Funding Amounts: NOK 4,000,000–12,500,000 per project (approx. €340,000–1,060,000); project duration 36–48 months; NOK 75,000,000 total call budget
Summary: Funds research into societal, political, economic, or cultural factors enabling a green and just transition to a low-emission society, emphasizing welfare, climate, and nature.
Key Information: Only Norwegian research organisations (or equivalent foreign research organisations) are eligible as Project Owners; technology development, food production, and transport-focused projects are excluded.
Description
This grant supports research projects that generate new knowledge for a societal transition within nature's tolerance limits, ensuring good welfare and quality of life. The focus is on understanding societal, political, economic, or cultural prerequisites and barriers to a green and just transition to a low-emission society that values climate and nature. Projects should address dilemmas and interactions between societal considerations, distributional effects of transition policies, the roles of power relations and cultural factors, alternatives to economic growth, prerequisites and barriers for the energy transition, and solutions for climate adaptation. Projects must be relevant to Norwegian conditions but may include international perspectives. Technology development, food production, and transport-focused projects are not eligible. Interdisciplinary approaches, collaboration across research organizations, and effective dissemination of results are encouraged.
