How can youth clubs be strengthened to provide better services for young people? From 2025, we will follow the five-year initiative "A Boost for Youth Clubs" to develop knowledge about quality, framework conditions, and the club’s role in the local commun
The project addresses how the spatial context in which people live during different stages of their lives shape their life prospects and socioeconomic outcomes.
The overall aim of the project is to enhance research-based knowledge on the multidimensional nature of old age social exclusion and its consequences for health and to identify conditions that minimize social exclusion of disadvantaged groups.
The project deals with the Child Welfare Service’s and the County Social Welfare Boards’ handling of compulsory care order cases in ethnic minority families.
Through the ACCESS Upgrade infrastructure, researchers and students will gain access to updated and upgraded longitudinal life course data for more than 11,000 men and women born between 1922 and 1966.
This project investigates pathways and outcomes of active ageing in three domains and their interactions: the labor market, civil society, and the family.
The project addresses what role the "activity friend" volunteers play in municipal health care and for people with dementia in Norway.
This project covers the use of violence among Norwegian adolescents and is financed through the Domestic Violence Research Program at NOVA.
The aim of the study was to map young people’s everyday life and quality of life, and how they experience the COVID-19 pandemic while they were still subject to strict restrictions.
Why do some care leavers end up doing well as young adults, against all odds? What does "doing well" mean to young women and men, with majority backgrounds? These are questions we seek to investigate in this project.
This project addresses examples of age-friendly homes for older people, as well as obstacles municipalities and housing developers encounter during the phases of planning and building such housing solutions.
The project aims to develop a framework for assessment, with a focus on formative assessment, in the context of citizenship education across Europe.
The research project will investigate whether children with disabilities have their fundamental rights safeguarded in encounters with the health and care service.
The project aims to provide new insights into young people's patterns of alcohol and illegal drug use, the social meaning of drugs, and the consequences of drug-related sanctions.
The aim of the project is to evaluate the effects of a communication campaign about Norwegian child protection services.
The project investigate the child welfare institutions for young people with drug addiction and separate institutions for one single young person.
The project investigates how the child welfare services work on risk assessment and safety measures when a child is placed outside the home.
This project aims to fill the knowledge gap about how the child welfare service tackles violence and abuse cases.
The project aims to discover the experiences children and young people who come to Norway as refugees have with the settlement and integration process, and how municipalities work with this group.
The primary objective of CoWorkCare is to generate knowledge on how employees' care obligations for their old parents affect their labour market participation.
The aim of the project is to increase the evidence base which can support policy- and decision-making in EU MS in designing and implementing complementary pathway mechanisms for admission of adult refugees from a first host country to an EU country throug
In this project we will investigate the consequences of the pandemic for living conditions for children and young people, equality in families and for individuals, including children and adults with disabilities.
The aim of this project is to study how people adapt to the reformed pension system. In particular, we look at adaptations to the increasing flexibility offered – both in terms of savings, and in terms of job planning and ways of combining work and pensio
CONSENT is a large bilateral project between Norway and Romania. The main objective is to investigate empirically, both in Romania and Norway, to what extent the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is considered to be relevant when developing poli
The overall goal of the project is to identify the differences in the Nordic countries’ handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the outcomes thereof and to relate these differences to policy, governance, organisation and management.
The project aims to increase the understanding of the role of cross-sectoral factors that constitute barriers for high quality care transitions for older people from hospital to municipal care.
The project investigates how young people aged between 12 and 30 respond to messages and agents of radicalisation.
The aim of DEMOCIT is to partake in reducing a growing civic empowerment gap within Norwegian democracy.
This project examines the ongoing, relational negotiations between the welfare state and the public's understanding of problems, on the one hand, and processes of change in the minority population, on the other.
The project will, in a comprehensive literature review, map existing knowledge about digital sexual violence against children and adolescents.
This project aims to evaluate all major social housing policy instruments in Norway, aimed at helping disadvantaged individuals to better and more stable housing.
How can child welfare services and other support services collaborate more effectively to assist children and young people in vulnerable life situations?
In this project the researchers aim to generate new knowledge on the precondition for safe ageing in place.
ENGAGE investigates the impact and meaning of Norwegian Folk High Schools (FHS) on youth engagement and participation in society. It is the largest study on this subject to date, exploring a largely overlooked aspect in education research.
PATHS2INCLUDE will expand our understanding of the multidimensional aspects of labour market discrimination, the impact of different policy frameworks, and the gaps and possible need for change on various levels in order to detect mechanisms and processes
The main aim of the project is to evaluate 'Robust Youth' which is a program designed to being preventive and promote better health among youth.
An evaluation of the pilot project: Integrated accommodation for women, men and children at Romerike crisis center.
NOVA researchers will evaluate two pilot projects placing minority counsellors in secondary schools in vulnerable urban areas and adult learning centres.
This evaluation shall produce research-based knowledge on whether the Norwegian law on ritual circumcision of boys functions according to its purpose.
The project will generate knowledge that can shed light on whether the Children and Family Agency's arena-flexible team is functioning as intended and whether there is a need for changes in the measures.
The evaluation is an effort to establish whether the conference has reached its goals both with regard to the final conference and its preliminary, regional meetings.
NOVA was commissioned by the Ministry of Justice and Public Security to evaluate activities and measures for arriving EEA citizens who subsist as beggars.
The objective of the project is to increase the knowledge about the oldest workers and their experiences, as well as how companies handle work exit and the change in mandatory retirement age.
The project will contribute to gathering and developing knowledge about what young people's trust and distrust of public helpers is about, an how we can strengthen the relationships.
The main research question in this project is: What characterizes the interplay between labour market participation and engagement in family care for men and women with parents in need of care, and what are the conditions affecting adjustments within the
The researchers investigate what it implies for the family services to provide equal services in different local contexts, and what kind of challenges the services experience when trying to provide equal services.
In this research, NOVA at OsloMet, in collaboration with the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, evaluate the program «Sport for all in Oslo» from its inception in 2018 until 2024.
The theme of this project is the process and implementation of an area initiative in the Municipality of Bergen.
The research project will provide up-to-date knowledge about the services offered to young refugees who have come as unaccompanied minors and who have achieved residency in Norway.
In this project, attention is drawn to the careers of two groups of migrant care workers in Norway, nurses and au pairs, to the structures that have formed their careers, as well as to the impact on the care institutions of recruiting care workers from ab
Employers' understandings of disability as well as their broader knowledge and skills are likely to influence their risk assessments and hiring practices. HIRE? aims to fill this knowledge gap.
This project explores how housing conditions affect young people who are neither in education, employment, nor training (NEETs) in Oslo.
In this project the researchers compare central features of the Norwegian housing market and housing policy with those of Sweden, Denmark, Austria, UK, the Netherlands and Germany.
The project adresses how elderly people adapt their housing consumption in light of the physical and mental changes associated with ageing.
How can we create sustainable and effective collaborative models for increased inclusion of youth with complex needs through measures including “own home” in the local community.
The overall aim is to investigate how support from the Arts Council Norway help Norwegian festivals to reach broader political aims related to artistic development, political participation and social community formation in practice?
The project addresses how the spatial context in which people live during different stages of their lives shape their life prospects and socioeconomic outcomes.
This project aims to give a comprehensive picture of what services are available for certain vulnerable groups in Norway.
The purpose of this project is to look into how well different groups of young people are included in the volunteering, and what tools organisations and authorities use to include these young people.
In this project, we aim to supplement the knowledge of the role non-taxable incomes play in the budgets of low-income receivers of housing allowances.
Inequality in youth is a qualitative, longitudinal research database on youths in Norway, intended to be a parallel to the quantitative Ungdata surveys.
The ICCS 2016-study investigates students’ knowledge and understanding of societal values, civic society and political systems.
KIDS4ALLL aims to pilot an innovative action that will experiment a learning method and learning environment in formal, non-formal and informal educational contexts to address the integration challenges of migrant children.
The project will generate new knowledge about sexual abuse of children and adolescents, with the main emphasis on technology-facilitated sexual abuse.
In this project, NOVA will review research from the last ten years that address children and youth’s leisure time in combination with perspectives on gender, gender equality and gender stereotypes.
Literature review: Research on cousin marriages as seen in the light of the individual right to decide about one's own life.
The project will map living conditions and quality of life among children and youth with ADHD from their parents’ perspective.
This project aims to discover how the government can better match newly arrived refugees with Norwegian municipalities through better linking of settlement, skills, and labour needs.
DISCIT aims to produce new knowledge enabling Member States, affiliated European countries and the European Union to achieve full and effective participation of persons with disabilities in society and economy.
This project will provide new knowledge on mental health, life satisfaction, and use of services among youth with disabilities in the Nordic countries during the post-pandemic period.
WELLMIG brings together the perspectives that migrants not only depend on, but also make significant contributions to the welfare state.
This project is about school satisfaction, educational drive and school performance among students with immigrant background in Norwegian upper secondary school.
To what extent does the programme help to build up the students who participate and make them better equipped to complete and pass upper secondary school?
NEGOTIATE is a research project examining the long- and short-term consequences of job insecurity and labour market exclusion of young people.
A long-term research contract on the issues of old age pension and labour market activity among seniors financed by The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.
In this project, we aim to investigate how schools handle requests for exemption from teaching and school activities based on religion and life stance.
The project aims to map the relationship between growing up with strict parental restrictions and domestic violence based on data from the YouthViolence 2023 survey.
The aim of the project is to develop research-based knowledge about different forms of parenthood that co-exist in Norway, based on parents’ own perspectives.
The aim of the research project is to gain new knowledge about the social position and status of sport participation among young people in Norway.
This PhD project delves into the experiences of young people growing up in multicultural environments and neighborhoods with reputation issues.
This project explores the political and cultural significance of popular music in today's Latin America.
The project examines who the initial loan recipients were and are in Oslo, and what the consequences of selective relocation are for districts and sub-districts in Oslo.
The project will map how young adults are followed up in NAV with the aim of developing the work inclusion practice of this group.
The main objective of the project is to generate knowledge about factors of importance for attainment in and completion of upper secondary VET among student groups with a potential risk of non-completion or drop out. We also study the importance of gender
In this project the researchers investigate how persons who receive refinancing through the starter mortgage programme fare.
The project includes a review of relevant research contributions that deal with ethnic discrimination against children and adolescents in Norway.
The researchers will investigate whether individuals of immigrant background who have been exposed to sexual abuse are less likely to seek help or report to the police than victims without this background.
The project will investigate how young people negotiate, experience and handle issues related to sexuality, sexual health and risk - in light of both contemporary youth culture, and other social and societal conditions.
The aim of the project is to map the degree of social participation and the scope of social networks among children and young people with physical disabilities.
SIM4CSOs is an Erasmus + project that intends to empower the operation of non-profits within Civil Society by enhancing their effectiveness, transparency and governance through the application of social impact measurement methods.
In this project researchers investigate what influences social inequalities in health, and how different organization of welfare institutions can affect social inequalities in ageing.
Social rented housing is one of the most important policy instruments in the municipality of Oslo’s social housing policy.
The research project will provide insight into the uptake and delivery of benefits and services among parents of children with disabilities.
Overall, the project analyses the acts and policies of solidarity we see developing across Europe, the extent to which they involve dialogic and inclusive processes, and what outcomes and relevance for policy developments they have.
