The Research Council has announced a call for proposals within the National Initiative for Research Infrastructure with a deadline in November 2025. It is currently unclear whether there will be a one or two-step application process. The call will be published on the Research Council’s website: National Financing Initiative for Research Infrastructure
The Research Council will also prepare an updated roadmap for research infrastructure, which is planned to be adopted by the portfolio board for the research system in September 2025.
Applications for national research infrastructure are a long-term effort that requires good anchoring in one’s own institution and in partner institutions. To ensure a good overview of planned applications, the NT faculty has asked the departments for an overview of initiatives. We therefore ask that initiatives from BIO will be sent to forskning.bio@uib.no with the following information by Friday, March 7:
- Application sketches planned to be submitted with UiB as the host institution (main applications and preliminary projects)
- Project leader
- Partners
- If there are new initiatives: brief project information and justification for the application (1 page)
- Application sketches in which UiB is a partner
- Host institution, including project leader at the host institution
- Project leader (PI) at UiB
- If there are new initiatives: brief project information, including UiB’ s role in the infrastructure
- Other partners (as far as possible)