Radical Research Ideas for Early Career Scientists

The call aim to fund curiosity-driven and bold research that can contribute to advancing the state-of-the-art. It is aimed at researchers who want to test particularly bold research ideas, where the risk of failure is too high to justify starting a large project, but where the research could have a significant impact on the field if the project is successful. 

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Under this call, the RCN invests in bold research that has the potential to provide significant advances in the field, even if it also has a significant risk of failing.  Radical Research Ideas giving researchers the opportunity to test their particularly bold research concepts. 

These are ideas that are initially too immature or radical and lack sufficient preliminary results to succeed within the ordinary FRIPRO calls for proposals. Applicants will, through this project, have the opportunity to obtain such results and thus lay the foundation for a larger project.

Funding scale is NOK 500 000-2 000 000

Amount of funding presumed available for this call for proposals is NOK 50 000 000

Project duration 4-12 months

Published Sep. 2, 2026 10:47 AM - Last modified Oct. 8, 2026 11:01 AM