NORA-HS Call for Courses 2027

NORA-HS, the Norwegian Graduate School on AI's Impact on Humanity and Society, has opened a call for courses for 2027. The research school is part of the Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium (NORA). It trains PhD researchers to shape AI's impact in line with democratic values, legal standards and human welfare, and it aims to help its members gain a deep understanding of AI in the context of the humanities and society.

The call is aimed at academic faculty and researchers and falls under the theme of cutting-edge AI courses. Each course can receive up to NOK 50,000 in funding, and the call presumes NOK 150,000 is available in total, which implies roughly three courses at the maximum amount.

The call lists thematic priority areas, described as indicative rather than exhaustive: AI regulation, including the EU AI Act (KI-forordningen) and other regulatory regimes; AI in the public sector; working with small specialist large language models; AI and creative practice; AI and intellectual property, covering ethics and copyright; multimodal AI models; and AI alignment for a Norwegian cultural and linguistic context, including under-resourced and minority languages.

The application deadline is 6 November 2026 at 12 PM. A funding decision is expected in December 2026, and funded courses are to be ready by June 2027. Questions about the call can be sent to a.p.seremak@nora.ai.

The call matters for researchers in Norway who want to develop teaching on AI's societal, legal and cultural dimensions. Its priorities include regulation, public-sector use and Norwegian and minority-language alignment.