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Research and Innovation to Strengthen the Sustainability of Municipal Health and Care Services

Research Council of Norway

Financial schemeInnovation Project

Application deadline24 September 2025, 13:00 CEST

Relevant thematic areas for this callHealth

Target groupsPublic sector, Research organisations

Funding scaleNOK 6 000 000-16 000 000

Project duration24-48 months

Contact for the call

Torbjørg Øyslebø og Alexandra Bjørk-SkaflestadKommuneHelse@forskningsradet.no

Purpose

The purpose of the call is to stimulate research and innovation that is rooted in the need to strengthen the sustainability of the municipal health and care services. Municipalities, county authorities and research organisations can apply for funding under this call.

About the call for proposals

Based on the municipalities' need for new knowledge and new solutions, municipalities, county authorities and research organisations 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 organisation, and we encourage the creation of broad consortia, preferably affiliated with KSF (the Municipalities' Collaborative Arena for Research). It will be considered positive that the projects link up with expertise from different disciplines, professions, sectors and have international partners.

It is a requirement that a minimum of 30 per cent of the project's total costs are spent by municipalities and that a minimum of 30 per cent is spent by research organisations.

The Research Council will share information about relevant projects with a reference group (see the discussion of the reference group below). The reference group will provide input to the administration on how the projects meet the needs of the municipal health and care services. It is the portfolio board for health that decides which projects are awarded funding.

The call is available in both Norwegian and English. The text of the Norwegian call for proposals is legally binding.

Specialties

Public Health

Eligibility Requirements

Municipalities/county authorities and approved Norwegian research organisations are eligible to apply. See the list of approved research organisations.

Who can participate in the project?

Requirements relating to the Project Owner

Applications where a municipality/county municipality is listed as the Project Owner must be approved by the senior administrative management.

Applications for which a research organisation is listed as the Project Owner must be approved by the administrative management.

The Project Owner submits the application on behalf of all partners. The partners must approve the application before submission.

One and the same actor cannot have several roles in the project, for example as both a partner and a subcontractor.

Requirements relating to the project manager

The project manager's professional competence and suitability to carry out the project will be assessed by peers. There are no formal requirements for the project manager's qualifications.

The project manager must be employed by the Project Owner or one of the partners.

You can be the project manager for a maximum of one application under this call.

Requirements relating to partners

Municipalities/county authorities and/or approved Norwegian research organisations are required to participate as partners, and the project must be carried out in effective collaboration between several municipalities/county authorities and at least one approved Norwegian research organisation.

Foreign organisations can participate as partners in the project and receive funding.

If the Project Owner submitting the application is a municipality/county authority, collaboration with at least one approved Norwegian research organisation and at least one other municipality/county authority is required.

If the Project Owner is an approved Norwegian research organisation, collaboration with at least two municipalities/county authorities (registered with an organisation number in Norway) is required, and the project must have a steering group or reference group in which the partners are represented.

The application must be strategically supported by all partners. This must be confirmed in the letters of intent, and the letters of intent must provide a description of what each partner will contribute to the project. All partners must have a part of the project's budget.

In the application, you must describe how the expertise and results built up in the project can benefit larger user groups.

Requirement for effective collaboration

The project must be carried out in effective collaboration between several municipalities/county authorities and at least one approved Norwegian research organisation. It is a requirement that a minimum of 30 per cent of the project's total costs are spent by municipalities and that a minimum of 30 per cent is spent by research organisations.

The requirement for effective collaboration means that all partners must actively contribute to the work on the project, and risks and results must be shared. Everyone must also contribute to disseminating results and ensuring that new knowledge and innovation are put to use.

Effective collaboration is defined as follows in the state aid rules:

Collaboration between at least two independent parties to exchange knowledge or technology, or to achieve a common objective based on the division of labour, where the parties jointly define the scope of the collaborative project, contribute to its implementation and share its risks, as well as its results. One or more parties may bear all the costs of the project, thereby relieving other parties of financial risk. Contract research and provision of research services are not considered forms of collaboration. 

Note that the Project Owner and partners must be independent of each other, which means that one cannot have a controlling influence over the other. This follows from the definition of partner in our General Terms and Conditions for R&D Projects, in conjunction with the definition of effective collaboration. The same applies to the partners themselves.

Expectations of other cooperation 

To ensure the sharing and dissemination of results, we encourage more actors to participate as partners in the project. The industry sector, non-governmental organisations and other actors relevant to the project should participate as partners in the project and may receive funding. Other actors include e.g. GPs, the specialist health service, government organisations, service providers and foreign research organisations.

Requirements for user participation

It is a requirement that the project has user participation involving end users. End users can be partners or partners in the projects, and they must be involved in the planning and implementation of the project and in the exploitation of the results. End users can e.g. be those who will receive the service or their relatives, professional users/user organisations and/or those who will deliver the service (employees).  Their role must be described in the project description and, if applicable, letters of intent.

Subcontractors

Subcontractors are not project partners and should not be listed in the application form or in agreement documents. Subcontractors cannot be given rights to project results. In principle, the Project Owner and the partners are free to engage and, if necessary, change subcontractors within the framework of the contract. Organisations that are subject to the regulations for public procurement must in the usual way carry out the selection of subcontractors in line with these regulations.

Sponsor Details

Sponsor Institute/Organizations: Research Council of Norway

Sponsor Type: Corporate/Non-Profit

Address: Postboks 564 1327 Lysaker Visitor address Drammensveien 288 0283 Oslo

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