Funding granted for nine research projects
The Programme Committee for Research Funding has granted a total of 9.2 MDKK for 9 research projects in 2025, 5 of these are PhD projects. 6 Project Leaders are female, 3 are male.
The Research Council received 50 applications in total, applying for 54.3 MDKK, at the annual deadline in February.
The projects which have received grants from the annual call of the Research Council in 2025 are:
Margreta Nónklett: "Solidarity Makes Us Strong - The rise, evolution and impact of the Faroese Women’s Alliance (1975-1980s)"
Project at the National Museum of the Faroe Islands - DKK 330,000
Ingi Heinesen Højsted: "Implementing PISA Research into Practice: A Design Research Approach to Enhance Lower Secondary School Students' Mathematical Literacy"
PhD project at Faculty of Education, University of the Faroe Islands - DKK 1,700,000
Tróndur Møller Sandoy and Erika A. Hayfield: "Faroese Youth Out-migration, Education, Return Migration, and Society: A mixed methods approach"
Project at Faculty of History and Social Sciences, University of the Faroe Islands - DKK 950,000
Terji Nielsen: "Leveraging AI in Energy Management System to increase Efficiency and lower Carbon Emissions towards a 100% Renewable Power System in the Faroe Islands"
PhD project at Electrical Power Company Sev - DKK 650,000.
Karin Habermehl-Cwirzen: "Reusing excavated crushed rocks as innovative materials"
PhD project at Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Faroe Islands - DKK 1,600,000
Maria Marjunardóttir Dahl: "Navigating Epidemiology and Transmission of PMCV in the Faroe Islands"
PhD project at Faroese Food and Veterinary Authority - DKK 1,250,000.
Katrin Hoydal: "Changes in Faroese Fjord Ecosystems over the past Century"
Project at Faroese Environment Agency - DKK 1,000,.000.
Durita Viderø Gunnarsson: "Increasing physical activity in medical inpatients by digital nudging of patients and staff – A stepped wedge cluster randomised multicentre study"
PhD project at Department of Research, National Hospital of the Faroe Islands - DKK 1,100.000.
Ulrike Steuerwald: "Genetic background of idiopathic hyperketosis (IH) in the Faroes"
Project at Department of Research, National Hospital of the Faroe Islands - DKK 600,000.