Research Council Faroe Islands invites applications for marine research in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is the second of two calls in a programme funded by the Danish Government to encourage collaborative research between Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Denmark. The call is for proposals focused...

Four projects have been awarded a total of 14 MDKK from the Marine Research in the North Atlantic Ocean Programme. The aim of the programme is to strengthen the cooperation between Greenland, Faroe Islands and Denmark on marine research in the North Atlantic Ocean. The awarded projects are 2 PhD...

The Faroe Islands and the European Commission have concluded formal negotiations on a protocol which ensures association of the Faroe Islands to Horizon Europe. Furthermore, a new Multi Programme Agreement has been agreed upon which allows the Faroe Islands to join all EU programmes open to non-EU...

Ten research projects have been granted at total of 7.5 MDKK from the Faroese Research Foundation this year. Half the funding has been given to PhD projects. The Research Council received 34 applications in total, applying for 31 MDKK, at the annual deadline in February. The projects receiving the...

The Faroese Food and Veterinary Authority has received funding from the Marie S. Curie programme under Horizon 2020 to employ a PhD student as part of the RASOPTA project. The RASOPTA consortium consists of partners from research institutes and private companies. The aim of the project is to...

Research programmes on COVID-19 for a total of DKK 2.5 billion were funded in the Nordic countries in 2020 and 2021. NordForsk – a research organisation under the Nordic Council of Ministers – has mapped research initiatives in the Nordic countries during the epidemic. In total the funding granted...

Research Council Faroe Islands invites applications for the programme Marine research in the North Atlantic Ocean. The focus of the 2021 Call is the Greenland-Iceland-Faroe-Scotland Ridge.The Ridge is an important geographical boundary between the North Atlantic Ocean and the subarctic seas. It is...

A team consisting of 11 researchers in the Faroe Islands have published a new scientific article on Covid 19 in the Faroe Islands. The article has been published in the scientific magazine Emerging Infectious Diseases and is called "Epidemiology and Clinical Course of First Wave Coronavirus Disease...

    Heini í Skorini, Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Faroe Islands, is one of the authors of a new book analyzing the concept of blasphemy in various periods, countries and religious traditions.  The book examines both historical developments and contemporary...

A new research vessel has been built by the Faroese government and handed to the Faroe Marine Research Institute. The new research vessel has been named Jákup Sverri in honour of Jákup Sverri Joensen, the first marine biologist in the Faroe Islands and former director of the Faroe Marine Research...