Education
In close co-operation with NTNU, education is an important part of FFF's activities. Several professors and students take part in the projects, for MSc-theses and particularly for PhD-theses that accounts for about half of FFFs research acitivity

In the period from 1994 until today, 53 PhD candidates have been supported by FFF of which 44 PhD students have completed their PhD-theses while the rest are still PhD students..

Projects
The research activities are aimed at supporting the education of PhD-students within ferroalloy processes, products and environment as well as general research of interest to all the Norwegian ferroalloys producers. Most of the projects have been carried out by SINTEF Materials and Chemistry, in co-operation with NTNU, Department of Materials Science and Engineering.  Some of the present and completed projects are:  

• More efficient processes for improved internal and external environment in the ferroalloy industry. The project was co-funded by the Research Council of Norway, 2006 - 2010, total budget of 26 mill NOK
• Fugitive Emissions of Materials and Energy
  The project was co-funded by the Research Council of Norway, 2008 – 2012, total budget 36.6 mill NOK
• New bath smelting processes for production of SiMn alloys using waste materials
  The project was co-funded by the Research Council of Norway, 2007 – 2010, total budget 16.6 mill NOK
• Resource Optimization and recovery in the Materials industry.
  The project was co-funded by the Research Council of Norway, 2007 – 2013, total budget 54.8 mill NOK
• Use of Natural Gas in Ferroalloy and Si production and Ilmenite processing,
  The project was co-funded by the Research Council of Norway , 2011 – 2012, total budget  5.5 mill NOK with possible extension until 2018 with a total budget of 40,3 mill NOK