Call Deadline: 12 June 2025, 13:00 (CEST/Oslo Time)
Available Nordic budget: up to 86 million NOK
Available Estonian budget: up to 450 000 EUR
Available Lithuanian budget: up to 300 000 EUR
Maximum amount of Nordic funding that may be sought: up to 12,3 MNOK
Important: Please read the instructions in the application form as well as the call text to access all the necessary information to write your proposal. You can use the preview form function to see the instructions in the application form.
Thematic framework and aim of the call
The aim of the call is to fund research projects in the societal security field that will contribute to increased knowledge about antagonistic threats and societal security in the Nordic-Baltic region. Antagonistic threats are human initiated and carried out by individuals, groups, organisations or governments and range from hybrid attacks, cyber-attacks, information manipulation, hybrid threats and armed actions from states to gang-related violence, youth violence, organised crime and terrorism.
The research should contribute to supporting societal security and resilience in the region through new knowledge and the formulation of solutions, possible improvements and actionable measures. In addition, the funding should help strengthening Nordic and Nordic-Baltic research in the field and foster a new generation of researchers with experience of Nordic and Nordic-Baltic collaboration. The research could engage in empirical Nordic or Nordic-Baltic country comparisons and could consider age, gender, social class, and when relevant, indigenous perspectives.
Applicants should address one or more of the following aspects in proposals:
- resilience, prevention and meeting internal and/or external antagonistic threats to societal security
- Nordic or Nordic-Baltic models for total defence
- governance, capacities and regulation at multiple levels within societal security
- relationships between aspects of societal/civil security,
- total defence and state security
- trade-offs between personal integrity and security
Funding partners
This call is announced as a collaborative effort between the Research Council of Norway (RCN), The Research Council of Finland, the Novo Nordisk Foundation (DK), The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, The Icelandic Centre for Research (Rannis), The Estonian Research Council (ETAG), The Research Council of Lithuania (RCL) and NordForsk.
Financial framework
Applicants are invited to apply for funding to establish a Nordic or Nordic-Baltic research project with a duration of 3-4 years with a budget of maximum 12,3 million NOK for the Nordic partners. Funding for Baltic partners comes in addition. The intention is to provide funding for approximately 7 research projects under this call.
Contact list
Would you like to connect with other researchers interested in the call? If so, you can join our contact list. Simply sign up and complete a brief form before 12 May 2025, and you will be added to a list where your information will be shared with other researchers.
Webinar
NordForsk administration is hosting a webinar 10 April 2025 for researchers regarding the Call for Proposals on Antagonistic threats challenging Nordic-Baltic societal security. Find out more about the webinar and sign up.
Important: Please read the instructions in the application form as well as the call text to access all the necessary information to write your proposal. You can use the preview form function to see the instructions in the application form.
See also: How to apply
