Projects

Project 14. February 2022

The effects of office concepts on employee health and work ability

About 40 per cent of all Norwegian employees are seated in an office space at some point during their working day.

Ongoing Project period 2022 – 2025
Project 8. May 2023

VIRIAM - Exposure to viruses in occupational settings

The project aims to fill knowledge gaps regarding airborne virus exposure in the sewage and waste management industries, to better unders...

Ongoing Project period 2022 – 2025
Project 19. September 2023

Night work, seasons, and sleepiness as occupational safety hazards in the Northern Areas (NORALERT)

The project investigates the impact of seasonal factors on employees working night shifts in the Northern Areas, with particular focus on...

Ongoing Project period 2021 – 2027
Project 8. October 2021

Muscle activity, breaks and neck pain (MetaEMG)

Today's working life has a large and increasing amount of repetitive and monotonous work. This type of work increases the risk of neck pa...

Ongoing Project period 2021 – 2023
Project 22. March 2023

PlasticsFatE (Plastics Fate and Effects in the human body)

The aim of the project is to improve our present understanding of the impact of micro- and nano-plastics, and associated additives and co...

Ongoing Project period 2021 – 2025
Project 28. April 2023

Exposure to pesticides and microbial diversity among greenhouse workers

The purpose of the project is to gain more knowledge about exposure to the most used pesticides among greenhouse workers in Norway, how t...

Ongoing Project period 2021 – 2024
Project 16. November 2020

EPHOR – Exposome Project for Health and Occupational Research

EPHOR (The Exposome Project for Health and Occupational Research) brings together an exceptional consortium for an exposome project on he...

Ongoing Project period 2020 – 2024
Project 28. April 2023

Bioaerosol exposure in the seafood industry

In this project, researchers analyse the composition of bioaerosols in the seafood industry and investigate the underlying cellular mecha...

Ongoing Project period 2020 – 2024
Project 9. August 2023

Particle – cell interactions (PartiCell)

The project will contribute to the understanding of the mechanisms of inflammatory and fibrotic responses of pulmonary exposure to partic...

Ongoing Project period 2019 – 2024
Project 16. November 2020

NOCCA New: New wave of joint Nordic studies on work and cancer

The Nordic cooperation project NOCCA is the largest and in many aspects qualitatively, the most unique research study ever done on occupa...

Ongoing Project period 2019 – 2024