Research Council of Norway (RCN)
International Partnerships for Excellent Education and Research (INTPART)
INTPART is a highly competitive programme which funds cooperation between Norwegian research institutions and excellent partners in Norway's priority countries.
See list of INTPART-projects awarded 2015-2025
Eligible countries: Brazil, Canada, China, India, Japan, Russia, South-Africa, USA, Canada and South Korea. In addition, in the 2025 call: Africa.
Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills (HK-dir)
UTFORSK
The UTFORSK partnership programme aims to link educational activities with ongoing research cooperation between Norway and the BRICS countries and Japan, and from 2020 also USA, Canada and South Korea.
Eligible partner countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Japan, USA, Canada and South Korea. From 2022: Russia is not eligible.
From 2020 UTFORSK?includes the?former funding schemes InternAbroad, Partnership Program with North America, and the The Nordic Russian Cooperation programme.
UTFORSK projects awarded to UiO 2013-2024
UTFORSK Brazil
UTFORSK Brazil was a joint programme between Diku and the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES).
UTFORSK Brazil projects awarded to UiO 2013-17
The Norwegian Partnership Programme for Global Academic Cooperation (NORPART)
NORPART supports academic partnerships and two-way student mobility with an emphasis on Master and PhD level.
Eligible countries: Selected countries in the Global South and Norway.
NORPART projects awarded to UiO 2017-2022
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad)
The Norwegian Programme for Capacity Development in Higher Education and Research for Development (NORHED)
NORHED is a programme for capacity building in developing countries in cooperation with Norwegian higher education institutions. Projects include joint research, PhD training, and development of educational programmes in the Global South.
NORHED projects awarded to UiO
Eligible countries: Countries listed on the OECD DAC list of ODA recipients.
Nordic funding
The Nordic countries have several joint programmes for funding cooperation and mobility in research and education. The Baltic countries can participate in most of the activities.
NORDPLUS
Eligible countries: Nordic - Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden. Baltic - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Joint Nordic reasearch programmes
Joint Nordic calls for proposals?(RCN)
European funding
Horizon Europe
Norway participates fully in the EU Horizon Europe programme for cooperation in research and innovation. UiO has been particularly successful in obtaining ERC grants.
Horizon Europe 2021-2021: EU research funding
Read also about UiO's Horizon 2020 results (pdf) and ERC projects.
Erasmus+
Norway participates fully in the EU Erasmus+ programme for cooperation in education and training. Some Erasmus+ funding is managed by the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills (HK-dir). The programme supports mobility and cooperation projects. Some activities are only for European countries, while others are open for partner countries outside Europe.
EEA grants
EEA grants and Norway grants are programmes for cooperation between the EEA/EFTA countries (Norway, Iceland and Lichtenstein) and EU countries in Central and Southern Europe and the Baltics.