“The awarded projects turn research into real world improvements, advancing prevention, responsible technology and service innovation to meet ageing, workforce pressures, chronic disease and inequality,” says Professor Minna Pikkarainen, academic leader of this strategic research area.
Together, the projects will strengthen person centred, efficient and resilient services and tackles the biggest pressures through co created, ethically sound solutions with municipalities, hospitals, users and industry.
“In short, these projects blend technology with service change, spanning the full innovation continuum from discovery to implementation and evaluation in practice. They are practical, people centred and implementation ready, exactly what’s needed to build sustainable, high quality health and care services for the years ahead,” says Professor Pikkarainen.
The following projects have received funding
TEMPO: Transformative Energy-efficient Multi-sensor fusion for Physio-NeuroCardiac-Cou pling Orchestration
Faster, more reliable remote monitoring in rehab and cardiology: A new platform will synchronize wearable brain and heart sensors with sub millisecond accuracy, enabling trustworthy home follow up, better rehabilitation pathways and future clinic ready devices.
Project leader: Ali Muhtaroglu
Bystander, initiator or driver? Modelling Fusobacterium animalis-colon epithelium interactions with organoids and organ-on-chip
Smarter cancer tools, sooner: A human colon organoid on chip model will test whether a common bacterium drives colorectal cancer—accelerating mechanisms, biomarkers and potential interventions for earlier detection and targeted care.
Project leader: Viola Helene Lobert
Sustainable Staffing: Barriers and Opportunities to Strengthen Healthcare Assistants’ Role in Elder Care
More sustainable eldercare staffing: Using Nordic data across three time points, this project will pinpoint what keeps care workers in their jobs, informing staffing policy, scheduling and training, including minority language workers, to stabilize services and quality.
Project leader: Mia Vabø
Can Life Expectancy Feedback Improve Dietary Adherence? A Pilot Feasibility Study in Clinician-Led Dietary Care
Safer, scalable digital nutrition care: A pilot randomized study will test whether clinician reviewed, AI assisted diet plans plus life expectancy feedback improve adherence—building a pathway to secure, acceptable digital nutrition services in routine care.
Project leader: Mani Sadredini
Are Wearables Ready for Understanding Disease Progression? Assessing Continuous Glucose Monitoring Derived Digital Biomarkers and Multimodal Biomarkers in Healthy Adults
Wearables you can trust in prevention: By validating accuracy, adherence strategies and data protocols for continuous glucose monitoring and multimodal sensors in daily life, this study equips primary care and public health to use wearables responsibly in prevention.
Project leader: Vibeke Helen Telle-Hansen
M.E.T.T. Food and Older Adults: Belonging and Early Intervention to Prevent Undernutrition and Reduce the Future Need for Health and Care Services
Better nutrition, less loneliness for older adults at home: A municipality anchored pre project will help local services choose effective, doable measures around meals, social belonging and early risk detection, including data/AI options, to reduce undernutrition and delay service needs.
Project leader: Sigrun Henjum
Omics-based Sepsis Diagnostic Technology — OMNISEPT
Earlier, more precise sepsis diagnosis: Translating host response glycomic signatures into targeted lab assays will improve early identification and risk stratification, especially for older and multimorbid patients in acute care.
Project leader: Niclas Karlsson
Digital Dietary Assessment among People with Spinal Cord Injury in Norway — A Technology-Based Foundation for Targeted Nutrition Interventions
Tailored nutrition for people with spinal cord injury: A national digital survey will deliver the first systematic Norwegian data on diet quality and risk areas, directly guiding individual follow up and future clinical recommendations.
Project leader: Mari Charlotte Wik Myhrstad
Prepared for the Next Health Emergency: Capturing Expert Reasoning to Ground AI for Early Drug Safety Decisions
Safer drug decisions in emergencies: By mapping how experts reason under uncertainty, this pre project lays the groundwork for transparent, explainable AI decision support in drug safety, strengthening regulatory practice and patient protection.
Project leader: Elena Rocca
Harnessing Artificial Intelligence in Childhood Obesity (hAIco): AI-supported continuity in pediatric obesity care
Continuous support for children with obesity: A co designed, low burden module for children, parents and clinicians will fit real clinic workflows, providing between visit guidance, concise clinician summaries and strong safety/governance before live deployment.
Project leader: Tone Nygaard Flølo
About the research areas
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Strategic research areas
OsloMet's four strategic research areas aim to promote and strengthen the university's research and knowledge development in key areas. The strategic research areas will last for five years, from 2026 to 2030.
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Future Health and Care Services
The welfare state must be sustainable over time. Therefore, it is crucial to find good answers to the challenges facing future health and care services. That is the aim of this strategic research area at OsloMet.
