{"id":23686,"date":"2026-06-01T11:07:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hac.is\/?p=23686"},"modified":"2026-06-01T11:36:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:36:46","slug":"thekkingarnetid-hlytur-styrk-ur-byggdarannsoknasjodi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/2026\/06\/01\/thekkingarnetid-hlytur-styrk-ur-byggdarannsoknasjodi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Knowledge Network receives a grant from the Regional Research Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Knowledge Network recently received a grant of 4,500,000 kr. from the Settlement Research Fund to carry out the project. Can the story of Flatey on Skj\u00e1lfandi and Sk\u00e1la on Langanes be useful to the fragile settlements of the modern age? \u2013 Past, present and future of fragile settlements<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project is a mixed qualitative and quantitative case study which analyses the development of the settlements in Flatey on Skj\u00e1lfandi and on Sk\u00e1lar on Langanes, based on historical sources, demographic data and the accounts of those connected to the settlements, alongside a comparison with the development of a fragile settlement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The intention is to explore whether lessons can be learnt from the history of Flatey and Sk\u00e1li, both of which are settlements where habitation ceased in the last century. In the case of Flatey, the government tried to reverse the trend with harbour improvements, whereas in the case of Sk\u00e1la, harbour works were financed by private individuals. Neither was successful in the long term, whatever may explain that, but that is partly the subject of the project, for example, to investigate whether the initiative was launched too late or whether other factors were at play. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The intention is then to compare the development of the settlements and the rescue measures with fragile settlements in the modern era, and the actions that have been taken in the effort to turn the settlement trend in that area towards a more positive path, with regard to population development, the timing of interventions and more, with the aim of exploring whether there is anything to be learnt from the history of Flateyri and Sk\u00e1lanes, and what the main lessons are that could be useful to prevent a similar fate for other communities that have now, for example, participated in the Icelandic Rural Development Agency's 'Vulnerable Communities' project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helena Eyd\u00eds Ing\u00f3lfsd\u00f3ttir, project manager at the Knowledge Network, accepted the grant at the annual meeting of the Bygg\u00f0astofnun, which took place in Kirkjub\u00e6jarklaustur on 28th May. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kjartan \u00d3lafsson, chairman of the board of the Building Research Fund, here presents the grant to Helena Eyd\u00eds Ing\u00f3lfsd\u00f3ttir, a representative of the Knowledge Network. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kjartan \u00d3lafsson, chairman of the board of the Regional Research Fund, Hanna D\u00f3ra Bj\u00f6rnsd\u00f3ttir, a specialist at the Icelandic Regional Development Fund, together with representatives of this year's grant recipients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00deekkingarneti\u00f0 hlaut n\u00fdveri\u00f0 4.500.000 kr. styrk \u00far Bygg\u00f0aranns\u00f3knasj\u00f3\u00f0i til a\u00f0 framkv\u00e6ma verkefni\u00f0 Getur saga Flateyjar \u00e1 Skj\u00e1lfanda og Sk\u00e1la \u00e1 Langanesi veri\u00f0 gagnleg broth\u00e6ttum bygg\u00f0um n\u00fat\u00edmans. \u2013 Fort\u00ed\u00f0, n\u00fat\u00ed\u00f0 og framt\u00ed\u00f0 broth\u00e6ttra bygg\u00f0a. Verkefni\u00f0 er bl\u00f6ndu\u00f0 eigindleg og megindleg tilviksranns\u00f3kn \u00fear sem \u00fer\u00f3un bygg\u00f0ar \u00ed Flatey \u00e1 Skj\u00e1lfanda og \u00e1 Sk\u00e1lum \u00e1 Langanesi er greind \u00fat fr\u00e1 s\u00f6gulegum heimildum, l\u00fd\u00f0fr\u00e6\u00f0ilegum g\u00f6gnum og fr\u00e1s\u00f6gnum \u00feeirra […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":23853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23686"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23854,"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23686\/revisions\/23854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23686"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}