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A consortium led by the Faroese company Ocean Rainforest comprising 25 international, cross-disciplinary partners has been awarded a prestigious €9 million Horizon Europe grant to upscale seaweed production and market applications across Europe. The project aims to lay the foundations for an...

175 researchers in the Faroe Islands have now been registered in PURE Faroe Islands - a portal which provides information about all research institutions, researchers and research activity conducted in the Faroe Islands. The project to adopt PURE has been led by the University of the Faroe Islands...

The Faroe Islands are now full members of NordForsk. NordForsk is an organisation under the Nordic Council of Ministers that provides funding and facilitates Nordic cooperation on research and research infrastructure. The Faroe Islands have had observer status in the NordForsk Board since 2005.From...

The COST Association has voted in favor of the Faroe Islands to join COST as Near Neighbour Country. Joining COST makes Faroese researchers eligible to participate in COST activities. COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is a funding organisation for research and innovation...

The Research Councils of Iceland and the Faroe Islands have signed a Memorandum of Understanding outlining how the councils may realise shared objectives. The Memorandum seeks to identify synergies between the two countries´ research and innovation activities and create opportunities for joint...

Research projects on the science of aging conducted in the Faroe Islands by Professor Magni Mohr come into the spotlight in the new BBC produced series “Secrets of the Superagers”, presented by Dr Michael Mosley. In the series, Dr Mosley is traveling the world to meet people who seem to have...

A total of MDKK 15.7 has been set aside on the Danish financial act from 2023 to 2026 for research in foreign affairs, security, and defence policy in the North Atlantic Ocean. The programme is run by Research Council Faroe Islands and the first call will be announced shortly. The aim of the...

Ms Clara Ganslandt, Special Envoy for Arctic Matters at the European Union, visited the Faroe Islands recently. At a meeting with Ms Maria Húsgarð and Ms Dagmar Joensen-Næs from Research Council Faroe Islands options and challenges for the research cooperation between the Faroe Islands and the EU...

A marine research programme funded by the Danish government – MARiNAO - has proved very successful in gaining new essential knowledge on the environment in the Greenland-Iceland-Faroe-Scotland Ridge. The subsea mountain ridge is considered a hotspot for climate change, even a possible tipping point...

Robert Imre is an Associate Professor in Political Sciences at the University of the Faroe Islands. He holds university degrees from Queen´s University and University of Victoria in Canada and a   PhD degree from the University of Queensland in Australia.Robert Imre has spent many years as a...