Horizon Europe (2021-2027) funds international collaborations within six thematic clusters targeting societal challenges and industrial leadership. The projects must have partners from at least three countries and often require interdisciplinary efforts to address complex and contradictory societal challenges.
Under Horizon 2020 (2014-2020), the Faculty of Social Sciences had success within the thematic calls. Our researchers coordinated three projects (EU3D, Lifebrain, and GLOBUS), and were partners in 11 other projects.
Projects with UiO as coordinator
SUPA: Sustaining Public Administration in Modern Democracies
SUPA aims to examine how public administration in six European countries can develop strategies for enhancing the capabilities of the public sector to cope with the escalating challenges of administrative overburdening.
Research and Innovation Action
Yves Steinebach, Department of Political Science
01.03.2025 – 29.02.2028
Completed projects with UiO as coordinator
EU3D: EU Differentiation, Dominance and Democracy
Research and Innovation Action
John Erik Fossum, ARENA Centre for European Studies
01.02.2019 – 31.07.2023
GLOBUS: Reconsidering European Contributions to Global Justice
Research and Innovation Action
Helene Sjursen, ARENA Centre for European Studies
01.06.2016 – 31.05.2020
Lifebrain: Healthy minds from 0-100 years
Research and Innovation Action
Kristine Walhovd, Department of Psychology
01.01.2017 – 30.06.2022
Projects with UiO as partner
CIDAPE: Climate, Inequality, and Democratic Action: The Force of Political Emotions
Evidence suggests that emotions play a fundamental role in political participation and communication. It is therefore crucial to comprehend and appropriately address citizens’ emotional needs and reactions to climate policies to achieve coordinated democratic action. The project will research the interplay between citizen engagement, climate change and inequalities. By investigating the role of emotions in shaping rational argumentation and engagement, the project aims to gain insights into how people comprehend, and actively respond to, climate change challenges.
Research and Innovation Action
Magne Paalgard Flemmen, Department of Sociology and Human Geography
01.01.2024 – 31.12.2027
EGRUiEN: Encouraging a digital and green transition through revitalized and inclusive union-employer negotiations
EGRUiEN researches how best to ensure a just green and digital transition through social dialogue.
Research and Innovation Action
Ines Alisa Wagner, ARENA Centre for European Studies
01.01.2025 – 31.12.2028
environMENTAL: Reducing the impact of major environmental challenges on mental health
The environMENTAL project will investigate how some of the greatest global environmental challenges, climate change, urbanisation, and psychosocial stress caused by the COVID-19-pandemic affect mental health over the lifespan. It will identify their underlying molecular mechanisms and develop preventions and early interventions. Leveraging cohort data of over 1,5 million European citizens and patients enriched with deep phenotyping data from large scale behavioural neuroimaging cohorts, we will identify brain mechanisms related to environmental adversity underlying symptoms of depression, anxiety, stress and substance abuse.
Research and Innovation Action
Lars Tjelta Westlye, Department of Psychology
01.06.2022 – 31.05.2027
RECLAIM: Reclaiming Liberal Democracy in the Postfactual Age
RECLAIM studies the challenges of post-factual politics and how they affect democracy in Europe.
Research and Innovation Action
John Erik Fossum, ARENA Centre for European Studies
01.10.2022–31.10.2025
REDIRECT: The Representative Disconnect: Diagnosis and Strategies for Rectification
The focus of REDIRECT is to study the current transformation of democratic polities in Europe, to realise whether and how their centres of gravity are shifting, and to improve our understanding of the 'representative disconnect' – a multidimensional phenomenon of regression of the demos-kratos linkage involving institutional, behavioral and affective components.
Research and Innovation Action
John Erik Fossum, ARENA Centre for European Studies
01.02.2023 – 31.01.2027
Completed projects with UiO as partner
CRISEA: Competing Regional Integrations in Southeast Asia
Research and Innovation Action
Kristian Stokke, Department of Sociology and Human Geography
01.11.2017 – 28.02.2021
DARE: Dialogue about Radicalisation and Equality
Research and Innovation Action
Graham Macklin, C-REX Centre for Research on Extremism
01.05.2017 – 31.10.2021
DiCE: Differentiation: Clustering Excellence
DiCE brought together the coordinators for three H2020 projects that received funding from the same call: EU3D (coordinated by ARENA/UiO), EU IDEA and InDivEU.
Coordination and Support Action
John Erik Fossum, ARENA Centre for European Studies
01.01.2020 – 31.12.2022
DRIVE: Resisting Radicalisation Through Inclusion
Research and Innovation Action
Cathrine Thorleifsson, C-REX Centre for Research on Extremism
01.01.2021 – 31.12.2023
GEMM: Growth, Equal Opportunities, Migration, Markets
Research and Innovation Action
Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund, Department of Sociology and Human Geography
01.09.2015 – 31.12.2018
I3U: Investigating the Impact of the European Union
Research and Innovation Action
Fulvio Castellacci, TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture
01.03.2015 – 30.09.2018
OceanNETs: Ocean-based Negative Emission Technologies
Research and Innovation Action
Christian Traeger, Department of Economics
01.07.2020 – 30.06.2025
PERITIA: Policy, Expertise, and Trust in Action
Research and Innovation Action
Cathrine Holst, Department of Sociology and Human Geography
01.02.2020 – 31.01.2023
QuantMig: Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy
Research and Innovation Action
Steinar Holden, Department of Economics
01.02.2020 – 31.01.2023
REGROUP: Rebuilding governance and resilience out of the pandemic
Research and Innovation Action
John Erik Fossum, ARENA Centre for European Studies
01.09.2022 – 31.08.2025
RETHINK-GSC: Rethinking Global Supply Chains: measurement, impact and policy
Research and Innovation Action
Inga Heiland, Department of Economics
01.10.2022 – 30.09.2025
TiGRE: Trust in Governance and Regulation in Europe
Research and Innovation Action
Tobias Bach, ARENA Centre for European Studies
01.01.2020 – 30.09.2023
TRACES: Transmitting Contentious Cultural Heritages with the Arts
Research and Innovation Action
Arnd Schneider, Department of Social Anthropology
03.2016 – 02.2019
Industrial Leadership
BioRoboost: Fostering Synthetic Biology standardisation through international collaboration
Coordination and Support Action (partner)
Ana Delgado, TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture
01.10.2018 – 30.09.2021
The European Innovation Council (EIC)
FUNGATERIA: Bringing mycelium-based materials into an ‘Engineered Living Material' (ELM) context
The FUNGATERIA project focuses on bringing mycelium-based materials into an ‘Engineered Living Material' (ELM) context. ELMs comprise living cells that remain biologically active in use-cases, thereby offering radically new and tailored functionalities over non-living materials.
Ana Delgado, TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture
01.11.2022 – 31.10.2026