Polyfon funding: awards and project outcomes

• Kaja Elise Enge (Bergen Municipality): Pilot project – Autism spectrum disorders and music therapy with a focus on mental health and quality of life. Participating cluster members: Bergen Municipality, Norwegian Academy of Music, and the University of South-Eastern Norway. Funding awarded: NOK 200,000 (2026).
• Maren Metell (UiB): The Møhlenpris School Choir: Children’s perspectives and wider impacts. Participating cluster members: UiB and Bergen Municipality. Funding awarded: NOK 39,868 (2025).

• Kaja Elise Enge (Bergen Municipality): Music therapy in school settings with refugee-background children: A qualitative PhD project. Funding awarded: NOK 25,000 (2021). Outcomes: Publications included in Enge’s PhD thesis, completed in 2024, including Musical Pathways to the Peer Community: A Collective Case Study of Refugee Children's Use of Music Therapy (2021) and the doctoral thesis Being with Friends and Having Fun! Music Therapy with Refugee Children in a Norwegian Primary School Context (UiB, 2024).
• Gunn Karoline Fugle (Helse Førde): Children’s experiences of music therapy as part of comprehensive treatment for trauma-related difficulties. Funding awarded: NOK 50,000 (2021). Outcomes: Presentation at the Polyfon Conference 2024 and the article Music Therapy in Interdisciplinary Treatment in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (2025). An abstract has also been submitted for the Music Therapy Conference 2025/2026.
• Claire Ghetti (UiB): Evaluating the feasibility of LongSTEP. Participating cluster members: UiB and Uni Research Health. Funding awarded: NOK 20,000 (2017). Outcomes: Findings contributed to the LongSTEP study protocol published in 2019 and supported a substantial body of subsequent international research, including publications in BMJ Open, Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, Journal of Music Therapy, Pediatrics, JAMA Network Open, Trials, and other peer-reviewed journals between 2019 and 2024.
• Claire Ghetti (UiB): Music therapy for premature infants and their parents/caregivers: implementation of a systematic review and meta-analysis. Participating cluster members: UiB, Uni Research AS and RKBU. Funding awarded: NOK 30,240 (2015). Outcomes: Bieleninik, Ghetti and Gold’s landmark meta-analysis Music Therapy for Preterm Infants and Their Parents published in Pediatrics (2016).
• Christian Gold (NORCE): Synchrony between parent and preterm infant during music therapy. Funding awarded: NOK 50,000 (2023). Outcomes: A journal article is planned for submission to an international scientific journal. The work also contributes to ongoing field development, including the preparation of ERC applications for larger projects.
• Christian Gold (NORCE): Semi-automatic video analysis of music therapy sessions with children. Participating cluster member: Uni Research Health (now NORCE). Funding awarded: NOK 200,000 (2016). Outcomes: Technical report Semiautomatic Video Analysis of Music Therapy Sessions with Children. The work has informed further development activities and applications for external funding, including the FALCO project.
• Viggo Krüger (UiB): Mapping music-based initiatives aimed at preventing school dropout in upper secondary schools in Vestland. Participating cluster members: UiB and Vestland County Council. Funding awarded: NOK 20,000 (2023). Outcomes: A report produced for internal use within Vestland County Council (2025).
• Viggo Krüger (UiB): Music therapy for young refugees from Ukraine. Funding awarded: NOK 150,000 (2022), although the project was scaled down and used approximately NOK 20,000. Outcomes: Poster presentation at the Polyfon Conference 2023 and the article Music Therapy to Meet the Needs of Forcibly Displaced Children (2026).
• Viggo Krüger (UiB): Music and participation in child welfare services. The project was later converted into a working seminar for the Music Activities to Support Pupils (MASP) project. Funding awarded: NOK 30,000 (2022). Outcomes: Submission of a funding application to NordForsk.
• Viggo Krüger (UiB): JamLab. Following the cancellation of JamLab, the grant was redirected towards the production of a scientific article. Funding awarded: NOK 60,000 (2020). Outcomes: Krüger et al. (2024), Musical Citizenship: A Study of Music Workshops in Preventive Work with Young People.
• Viggo Krüger (UiB / Stendi): Scientific article: Music therapy as an integrated intervention in a newly established residential child welfare institution. Funding awarded: NOK 40,000 (2019). Outcomes: Krüger, Høiseth and Torstuen (2021), Opportunities and Challenges in the Start-Up Phase of a Music Therapy Service in a Newly Established Child Welfare Institution.
• Viggo Krüger (Aleris): Scientific article for a special issue of the Norwegian Child Welfare Journal: Art and Creativity in Child Welfare. Funding awarded: NOK 30,000 (2017). Outcomes: Follesø et al. (2019), Art and Creativity in Child Welfare: What and Why?
• Viggo Krüger (Aleris): Development of a knowledge summary on music therapy and child welfare. Funding awarded: NOK 36,000 (2015). Outcomes: Knowledge summary on music therapy and the mental health of children and young people, published on Polyfon’s website.
• Merethe Wolf Lindvall (Helse Bergen): Patients’ and carers’ experiences of the music therapy service at the Children’s and Youth Clinic at Haukeland University Hospital: A qualitative pilot study. Funding awarded: NOK 100,000 (2019). Outcomes: Article currently in preparation.
• Maren Metell (UiB): MUSIKKAFÉ: A community music therapy initiative for infants, young children and their families. Funding awarded: NOK 100,000 (2018). Outcomes: Online resources published in 2020, final project report Musical Resources for Families with Children (2021), contributions to Metell’s PhD thesis (2023), and the illustrated series What Makes Music Accessible? (2024).
• Silje Måseide (Norwegian Academy of Music): Developing music therapy services in a newly established paediatric palliative care unit. Funding awarded: NOK 25,000 (2023). Outcomes: Publication planned for 2025 and presentation at the Paediatric Palliative Care Conference in March 2025.
• Karette Stensæth (Norwegian Academy of Music): Music Workshop for Young Asylum Seekers (MUA): A pilot project. Funding awarded: NOK 30,000 (2021). Outcomes: Mortvedt et al. (2025), “Music That Challenges, but Also Reminds Us of Days of Freedom”, published in Tidsskriftet Musikkterapi.
• Merethe Tobiassen (Norwegian Academy of Music): DIGI-MUSIKK-A(L)SK: Interdisciplinary digital music-based learning resources for children and young people using Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC). Funding awarded: NOK 70,000 (2021). Outcomes: Presentation at the Norwegian Music Therapy Conference in Fredrikstad (2022) and production of pedagogical materials for AAC users. Due to changes in the project leader’s employment situation, the project was completed earlier than planned and part of the funding was returned.

• Bettina Flater (Norwegian Academy of Music): When the heart speaks: Heart rate variability and subjective experience in music therapy within mental health services. An exploratory participatory study. Funding awarded: NOK 44,910 (2026).
• Tora Söderström Gaden (Bergen Municipality): Co-creating Skranglefest: An action research project on service user involvement. Participating cluster members: Bergen Municipality and UiB. Funding awarded: NOK 90,000 (2024). Preliminary outcome: An article is currently being finalised and will be submitted to a special issue on social exclusion in the Journal of Mental Health Work.
• Lars Tuastad (UiB): Service user involvement in music therapy research: Opportunities and challenges. Participating cluster members: UiB and a service user representative from Polyfon’s Experience Panel. Funding awarded: NOK 40,000 (2025).
• Vegard Wikne (Betanien Hospital): From disintegration to resonance: Identity and self-experience in schizophrenia explored through music therapy. Funding awarded: NOK 20,000 (2025).

• Bettina Flater (Norwegian Academy of Music): Heart rate variability (HRV) and subjective experience in music therapy in mental health care: an exploratory participatory double case study. Funding awarded: NOK 55,000 (2023). This forms part of a PhD project, with Polyfon funding used to remunerate co-researchers. Funding was fully spent in 2025, while the PhD project continues until 2026. Outcomes to date include a presentation at the Polyfon Conference 2024, the article Music Therapy and Vagally Mediated Heart Rate Variability: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis (2026), and an interview in the World Federation of Music Therapy Research and Ethics video series.
• Daniel Steinsbø Garcés (Bergen Municipality): From Street to Studio: Studio recording as a tool for mastery and recovery among people with substance use disorders. Funding awarded: NOK 25,000 (2022). Outcomes include a presentation at the Polyfon Conference 2023, several music releases produced through the project, and media coverage on NRK P1.
• Monika Geretsegger (NORCE): Developing a research protocol with users and stakeholders in the field of music therapy and substance use. Funding awarded: NOK 90,000 (2023). Outcomes include a presentation at the Polyfon Conference 2023. Project findings have informed the study protocol for the EU-funded FALCO project and several forthcoming FALCO publications, including work on service user involvement in international randomised controlled trials.
• Claire Ghetti (UiB): Music therapy for substance use disorders: Development of a protocol for a Cochrane systematic review. Participating cluster members: UiB and Uni Research Health. Funding awarded: NOK 20,160 (2015). Outcomes include the development of the Cochrane review Music Therapy for People with Substance Use Disorders, together with subsequent protocol and review publications in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
• Katharina T. E. Morken (Helse Bergen): A qualitative study of the significance of music therapy for social recovery among people with substance use problems and ADHD. Participating cluster members: Helse Bergen, AFR, and UiB. Funding awarded: NOK 100,000 + NOK 100,000 (2017 and 2018). Outcomes include the article Steering the Energy with Music (2024) in Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy.
• Helga Myrseth (Betanien District Psychiatric Centre): An exploratory multiple-case study of patients’ recovery processes through music therapy at the Psychosis Department, Betanien DPS. Funding awarded: NOK 55,000 (2020). Outcome: Wikne, Myrseth and Tuastad (2024), “A Break from Life”: A Study of Recovery Through Musical Safe Spaces, published in Tidsskriftet Musikkterapi.
• Randi Rolvsjord (UiB): Implementation of music therapy as part of a recovery-oriented treatment programme for people with psychotic disorders. Funding awarded: NOK 35,000 (2015). Outcome: Rolvsjord (2018), Music Therapy in a Recovery-Oriented Unit, published in the American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation.
• Lars Tuastad (UiB): Service user involvement in the FALCO research project. Participating cluster members: UiB, NORCE, and Helse Bergen. Funding awarded: NOK 64,000 (2024). Outcomes include the establishment of a Norwegian Local Advisory Group (LAG Norway) within the FALCO project, contributions to consortium meetings in 2025, and presentations at the Polyfon Conferences 2024 and 2025.
• Lars Tuastad (UiB): Music therapists’ experiences of outreach work in mental health and substance use services. Funding awarded: NOK 20,000 (2023). Outcomes include a poster presentation at the Polyfon Conference 2023, the article “Society Is My Workspace”: Music Therapists’ Experiences of Outreach Mental Health and Substance Use Work (2025), a publication on the NAPHA website, and the development of a PhD proposal.
• Lars Tuastad (UiB): Mobile Studio: Outreach music therapy for people experiencing mental health challenges. Funding awarded: NOK 25,000 (2021). Outcomes include a poster presentation at the Polyfon Conference 2023, a NAPHA publication, and the development of a PhD project supported by Bærum Municipality.
• Lars Tuastad (UiB): User Evaluates User: Evaluation of music therapy services at Bjørgvin DPS and MOT82, and evaluation of the project From MOT82 to MOT2020. Funding awarded: NOK 50,000 + NOK 50,000 (2020). Outcomes include an evaluation report published by Bergen Municipality, the article A Multifaceted Recovery Process (2022), and media coverage by the Norwegian Association for Substance Use Services.
• Lars Tuastad (UiB / Helse Bergen): From Treatment to Indie Rock. Funding awarded: NOK 50,000 (2020). Outcome: publication planned.
• Lars Tuastad (UiB / Helse Bergen): Music Therapy in the Time of COVID-19. Funding awarded: NOK 50,000 (2020). The project was not completed as originally planned due to uncertainties related to the pandemic during the research period.
• Lars Tuastad (UiB / Helse Bergen): From Stigmatisation to Involvement? A research project on stigma within music therapy in mental health and substance use settings. Funding awarded: NOK 75,000 + NOK 70,000 (2018 and 2021). Outcomes include the article Being a Person Who Plays in a Band Rather Than Being a Person with a Mental Illness Playing in a Band (2022), with further dissemination activities planned.
• Lars Tuastad (Helse Bergen / UiB): Co-research and Exploration: A continuation of the User Evaluates User evaluation of the community project MOT82 UT (Without Therapist). Funding awarded: NOK 50,000 (2017). Outcomes include an evaluation report previously published by Helse Bergen and the final report from the DAM Foundation project UT_MOT82.

Mariya Bikova (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences): Less lonely with music: Music therapy-based welfare technology for older adults living at home. Participating cluster members: Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL) and Development Centre for Nursing Homes and Home Care Services, Vestland (Sogn og Fjordane). Funding awarded: NOK 88,000 (2025).

• Felicity Baker (Norwegian Academy of Music): PROCARE – Professional carers’ experiences of music therapy with delirium and dementia patients in an acute geriatric hospital ward. Funding awarded: NOK 119,000 (2022). Outcome: A peer-reviewed journal article is currently in preparation.
• Beatrix van Doorn (Norwegian Academy of Music): The Singing Collective: A digital musical community to strengthen social connectedness and quality of life among older adults. Funding awarded: NOK 50,250 (2021). Outcome: Two journal articles are currently being planned and developed.
• Anna Helle-Valle (Bergen Municipality / UiB): MUSIAGI. Funding awarded: NOK 70,000 (2019). Outcomes contributed to Frode Aass Kristiansen’s PhD project (completed in 2023), including the article Characteristics of Music Therapy With Beneficial Impacts on Agitation in Dementia (2023), published in Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy.
• Sunniva Ulstein Kayser (NKS Olaviken): Dysphasing. Funding awarded: NOK 100,000 (2020). The project was intended to form part of Kayser’s PhD work, but the doctoral project was discontinued in 2022.
• Sunniva Ulstein Kayser (NKS Olaviken): Soundbeam as a music therapy tool for people with Huntington’s disease. Funding awarded: NOK 80,000 (2017). Outcomes include a report published on the website of the European Huntington Association and an accompanying project film.
• Kristine Gustavsen Madsø (NKS Olaviken): Music therapy for people living at home with dementia together with a family carer. Funding awarded: NOK 100,000 (2018). Outcomes formed part of Madsø’s PhD thesis Momentary Well-Being in Dementia (UiB, 2022), together with several peer-reviewed publications, including:
  • Assessing Momentary Well-Being in People Living with Dementia: A Systematic Review (2021)
  • Observing Music Therapy in Dementia (2021)
  • Development of the Observable Well-Being in Living with Dementia Scale (2023)
• Minna Hynninen (NKS Olaviken): Music therapy for the treatment of anxiety and depression in people with cognitive impairment or mild dementia. Funding awarded: NOK 75,000 (2015). Outcomes contributed to Kristine Gustavsen Madsø’s doctoral research programme.
• Wolfgang Schmid (UiB) and Jan Henrik Rosland (Haraldsplass Deaconess Hospital / UiB): Knowledge review of music therapy in palliative care: A focused literature review. Funding awarded: NOK 54,500 (2015). Outcomes include:
  • Schmid (2018), Meeting Complexity with Collaboration
  • Schmid et al. (2018), Patients’ and Health Care Providers’ Perspectives on Music Therapy in Palliative Care: An Integrative Review
• Geir Olve Skeie (UiB / Helse Bergen): Drumming intervention for Parkinson’s disease. Funding awarded: NOK 100,000 + NOK 100,000 (2020 and 2022). Outcomes include a series of peer-reviewed scientific articles published during 2024–2025.
• Kristi Stedje (Norwegian Academy of Music): A pilot study for DEMUSnakk: Singing and music to support language abilities in people with dementia. Funding awarded: NOK 65,000 (2024). Outcomes include posters and presentations at the Polyfon Conferences 2024 and 2025, a scoping review article currently in progress with planned publication in 2026, and the development of a research protocol and postdoctoral funding application to the DAM Foundation.
• Karette Stensæth (Norwegian Academy of Music): Analysis and qualitative exploration of a national survey on dementia choirs in Norway. Funding awarded: NOK 75,000 (2023). Outcomes include dissemination of preliminary findings through public engagement activities, a scientific article currently in preparation, and dissemination through CREMAH’s website and social media channels.

• Merethe W. Lindvall (Helse Bergen): Employee Choir for Improved Staff Well-being in Glasblokkene. Funding awarded: NOK 20,000 + NOK 35,000 (2024 and 2025). Outcomes from the first phase include a presentation at the Polyfon Conference 2025 and the report Employee Choir for Improved Staff Well-being in Glasblokkene (2025).
• Maren Metell (UiB): Engagement of a co-researcher from the Inclusive Research Network for the IMAGINE project. Participating cluster members: UiB and Bergen Municipality. Funding awarded: NOK 26,000 (2024).

• Ruth Eckhoff (Norwegian Academy of Music): Confidence in one’s own expression, voice and gender incongruence. Funding awarded: NOK 25,000 (2021). Outcomes include a presentation at the Polyfon Conference 2023. The project has contributed to continued development and research in the field.
• Guro von Germeten (Norwegian Academy of Music): Gender-neutral voice training. Funding awarded: NOK 30,000 (2023). Outcome: von Germeten, G. & Fielder, D. (2025). Voice and Gender in Contemporary Musical Theater Education: An Exploratory Practice Study. Voice and Speech Review, 1–16.
• Kjetil Hjørnevik (UiB): Therapeutic music environments in Bergen. Funding awarded: NOK 33,400 (2023). The project was cancelled and the funding was returned.
• Viggo Krüger (UiB): Clinical placement in music therapy education: A qualitative study of alumni students’ experiences. Funding awarded: NOK 40,000 (2022). Outcomes include a poster presentation at the Polyfon Conference 2023 and the article An Open Door to the Job Market? Music Therapy Students’ Reflections on Practice Placement in Norway (2024), published in Approches.
• Margrethe Schaufel (Helse Bergen): Music therapy for patients with incurable lung disease: A qualitative study. Funding awarded: NOK 100,000 (2020). Outcomes include a master's thesis submitted to the Faculty of Medicine and the article “It Was 15 Minutes Without Pain”: A Mixed Methods Pilot Study (2025), published in the European Clinical Respiratory Journal.
• Wolfgang Schmid and Randi Rolvsjord (UiB): Role-plays in music therapy education. Funding awarded: NOK 28,000 (2016). Outcome: Schmid, W. & Rolvsjord, R. (2020). Becoming a Reflexive Practitioner, published in the Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research.
• Randi Sviland (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences): Music and poetry in the development of clinical judgement. Funding awarded: NOK 50,000 (2021). Outcomes include a presentation at the Polyfon Conference 2023, the article Sensing, Listening, Understanding: Shared Decision-Making as Mutual Interaction in Fysioterapeuten (2023), and the contribution To Receive and to Open Up in a seminar report.
• Anne Kristine Wallace Turøy (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences): Singing intellectual disability nursing students. Funding awarded: NOK 55,000 (2023). Outcomes include a poster presentation at the Polyfon Conference 2023, as well as presentations at the Department of Arts Education (HVL) and within the Sangbarsk research network.

• Alexandra Khazaie (UiB, Grieg Academy) and Siri Narum (UiB, Faculty of Medicine) received an interdisciplinary scholarship. Supervisor: Claire Ghetti. Project: Music in the treatment of postnatal depression (PND): an integrative review.
• Hanna Elisa Haraldsen (Ansgar University College) received a music and health scholarship. Supervisor: Marie S. Skånland. Project: The transformative power of music from the perspective of service users and family carers in substance use and mental health services.
• Eva Emilie Skårvik (UiB, Grieg Academy) received a music therapy scholarship. Supervisor: Wolfgang Schmid. Project: Updating the knowledge description on music therapy and healthy ageing.

• Maria Hovdum Lind (UiB, Grieg Academy) received a music therapy scholarship. Supervisor: Christian Gold. Project: Implementation and fidelity of music training for home-dwelling non-musicians with Alzheimer’s disease in Norway. Outcome: Poster presentation at the Polyfon conference 2025.
• Emma Irgens Huse and Hilde Matre Lie (UiB, Faculty of Humanities) received an interdisciplinary scholarship. Supervisor: Lukas Skiba. Project: Hearing and the Heart: A Philosophical Reflection on the Creator of Music. Outcome: Article/thesis approved by the supervisor but not published.
• Alexandra Khazaie (UiB, Grieg Academy) and Siri Narum (UiB, Faculty of Medicine) received an interdisciplinary scholarship. Supervisor: Claire Ghetti. Project: Singing in music therapy for perinatal mental health: a systematic literature review and analysis. Outcome: Article in preparation, with possible publication in the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association during 2026.

• Mats Jøger (UiB) received a music therapy scholarship. Supervisor: Lars Tuastad. Project: Co-creating Skranglefest: an action research project on user participation. Outcome: The student's transcriptions will be used in an article planned as part of the project.
• Frida Spurkeland Sannerud (UiB) received a music therapy scholarship. Supervisor: Christian Gold. Project: Music for Autism (M4A) and Memory for Music (M4M). Outcome: Study protocol published: Lichtensztejn, M. et al. (2024). Memory for Music (M4M) protocol for an international randomized controlled trial. medRxiv. Songs were also written for use with participants and will form part of future publications.

• Joachim Dalgård (Norwegian Academy of Music, NMH) received a music therapy scholarship. Supervisor: Are Brean. Project: Music therapy as a distraction from post-meal anxiety in patients undergoing treatment for anorexia: a replication study. Outcome: Poster presented at the Polyfon conference 2023; presentation planned for the Nordic Music Therapy Conference in Aalborg in 2024.
• Julie Liisberg (UiB) received a music therapy scholarship. Supervisors: Simon Gilbertson and Ruth Eckhoff. Project: A survey of Norwegian music therapists' competence, experiences and perspectives on gender diversity. Outcome: Poster presented at the Polyfon conference 2023; plans for a research article, first in Musikkterapi and subsequently in an English-language version.
• Anita Rødven (NMH) received a music therapy scholarship. Supervisors: Ruth Eckhoff and Hans Petter Solli. Project: How do a group of people with gender incongruence relate to their own voice, gender identity, music and group participation prior to a pilot project combining music therapy and speech and language therapy? Outcome: Presentation at the Polyfon conference 2023; article planned during 2024.
• Sanna Martine Sørum (UiB) received a music therapy scholarship. Supervisors: Kjetil Vikene and Wolfgang Schmid. Project: Reflections on the music therapist's roles and challenges in drum therapy for people with Parkinson's disease. Outcome: Presentation at the Polyfon conference 2023; article in progress with plans for submission to Voices.

Synne Halle (UiB) received a music therapy scholarship. Supervisor: Claire Ghetti. Project: Voice use in work with people experiencing breathing difficulties: a scoping review. Outcome: Poster presented at the Polyfon conference 2023. The scoping review has been registered in the OSF repository, and an article is planned for publication once the review is completed.

• Vita Glinskyte (UiB) received a music therapy scholarship. Supervisors: Brynjulf Stige and Simon Gilbertson. Project: Knowledge description on music therapy and digitalisation. Outcome: Literature review, later published as Digital music therapy on Polyfon’s website.
• Denise Straume H. McIvor and Irmelin H. H. Nielsen (UiB) received a music therapy scholarship. Supervisor: Lars Tuastad. Project: A literature review linked to the research project From stigmatisation to involvement? Outcome: The findings contributed to Tuastad, L. et al. (2022), Being a Person Who Plays in a Band Rather Than Being a Person with a Mental Illness Playing in a Band. Nordic Journal of Music Therapy.
• Johannes Melhus Medlien and Stefan B. Langeland (UiB) received a music therapy scholarship. Supervisor: Ole Kristian Einarsen. Project: Research assistance and a study trip in connection with the PhD project Music, Health and Policy. Outcome: Poster presented at the Polyfon conference 2021.
• Eirik Sæle and David Solberg (UiB) received a music therapy scholarship. Supervisor: Viggo Krüger. Project: Research and publication of an academic article on the implementation of music and music therapy approaches in schools. Outcome: The findings contributed to Krüger, V. et al. (2023), Exploring the Potential for Music Therapy to Support 21st Century Education Goals. Voices, 23(1).
• Mathias Nielsen (UiB) received a music therapy scholarship. Supervisor: Wolfgang Schmid. Project: Mapping current and previous services for autistic people in Norway. Outcome: The report Trends in treatment and follow-up services for autistic people in Norway.

• Eirik Sæle and David Solberg (UiB) received a music therapy scholarship. Supervisor: Viggo Krüger. Project: Development of an evaluation tool for the continuing education course MUTP640 Music in preventive work with children and young people. Outcome: The findings contributed to Krüger, V. et al. (2023), Exploring the Potential for Music Therapy to Support 21st Century Education Goals. Voices, 23(1).

• Erlend Myrhaug (UiB) received a music therapy scholarship. Supervisor: Lars Tuastad. Project: Does music therapy promote well-being, social connectedness and motivation for treatment in the medication-free service at Helse Bergen? Outcome: The evaluation report Music therapy as a medication-free treatment option in psychosis services.
• Karoline Widding (UiB) received a music therapy scholarship. Supervisors: Maren Metell and Karin Mössler. Project: Mapping music therapy services for children and young people in Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordane. Outcome: The report Mapping music therapy services for children and young people in Western Norway.
• Mathias Nilssen (UiB) received a music therapy scholarship. Supervisor: Xueli Tan. Project: Music in Healthcare: Evidence from Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Outcome: Findings presented as part of Xueli Tan's keynote presentation at the conference Music Therapy in Singapore in 2019.
• Eirik Sæle and David Solberg (UiB) received a music therapy scholarship. Supervisor: Viggo Krüger. Project: Development of a knowledge description on music therapy for child and adolescent mental health and child welfare services. Outcome: Literature review, later updated and published as Music therapy and child and adolescent mental health on Polyfon’s website.

• Camilla Hay (UiB) received a music therapy scholarship. Supervisor: Wolfgang Schmid. Project: Knowledge description on music therapy in dementia care. Outcome: Literature review, later updated and published as Music therapy and healthy ageing on Polyfon’s website.
• Elin Kirkhus Johansen (UiB) received a music therapy scholarship. Supervisor: Claire Ghetti. Project: Knowledge description on music therapy in substance use services. Outcome: Literature review, later updated and published as Music therapy in substance use services on Polyfon’s website.
• Astrid Linnea Østerholdt and Bjarte Johansen (UiB) received a music therapy scholarship. Supervisor: Lars Tuastad. Project: User-led evaluation of the project Without a Therapist, MOT82 UT in the local community. Outcome: Evaluation report previously published on Helse Bergen’s website.

• Fredrik Berntsen Due and Elin Kirkhus Johansen (UiB) received a music therapy scholarship. Supervisor: Christian Gold. Project: Eight-year follow-up of a randomised study of music therapy for prison inmates. Outcome: Gold, C. et al. (2020). Long-Term Effects of Short-Term Music Therapy for Prison Inmates: Six-Year Follow-Up of a Randomized Controlled Trial. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 1–15.
• Alexander Bjotveit and Erlend Wormdahl (UiB) received a music therapy scholarship. Supervisor: Lars Tuastad. Project: MOT82 – Music Follow-up Service for People with Mental Illness. Outcome: Evaluation report.

• Jørgen Aasen Berget (UiB) received a music therapy scholarship. Supervisor: Anna Helle-Valle. Project: A systematic review of how music therapists approach and respond to children's restlessness in educational settings. Outcome: The literature search became an integrated part of Anna Helle-Valle's PhD project, completed in 2016: Helle-Valle, A. (2016). How Do We Understand Children's Restlessness? [PhD thesis, UiB]. BORA.
• Synne Rotvold Røli and Kjetil Andreas Nydal (UiB) received a music therapy scholarship. Supervisors: Christian Gold and Monika Geretsegger. Project: Trial of Improvisational Music Therapy's Effectiveness for Children with Autism (TIME-A). Outcome: The work contributed to the main TIME-A publication: Bieleninik, L. et al. (2017). Effects of Improvisational Music Therapy vs Enhanced Standard Care on Symptom Severity Among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. JAMA, 525–535.