Home Grants For grant applicants Criteria for applying Criteria for applying An individual, a working group or an organisation with a Finnish business ID can apply for a grant from Kone Foundation. GrantsFor grant applicants Criteria for applying Values and focuses in the general grant call Guidelines for making an application Evaluation and decisions Frequently asked questions Propose a peer reviewer For grant recipients Funding practicalities Fair practices in funded projects Grants+ Project communications Instructions for At the Well blog Instructions for project pages Kamari booking calender Funding programmes and thematic grant calls Funding programme: Is Democracy Eroding? (2021–2025) Thematic grant call 2025: Securitization and Democracy Thematic grant call 2024: Media and Democracy in Finland in the 2020s Thematic grant call 2022: The current state and challenges of Finnish democracy Thematic grant call 2021: Language, Power and Democracy Previous thematic grant calls Vuoden Tiedekyn? Academic Writing Award Where can funding be applied? Kone Foundation grants can be applied for: academic research in the humanities, social sciences, environmental sciences and artistic research professional artistic work in all fields of art multidisciplinary work in the above-mentioned fields of art and research popularisation of research The topic of the project applied for can be freely chosen, as long as the discipline belongs to the fields funded by the Foundation. The Foundation does not fund research in psychology, theology, law studies or business studies without an interdisciplinary dimension. We do not fund medical research. See the Foundation’s focuses Who can apply for funding? An individual, a working group or an organisation with a Finnish business ID can apply for a grant from Kone Foundation.? To receive funding, projects must have a connection to Finland. Finnish citizens may apply for work carried out either in Finland or abroad. Individual non-Finnish citizens are eligible if they are affiliated with a Finnish institution, based in Finland, or if the work is carried out in Finland. Research and artistic groups may include participants from any country, as long as someone in the group is a Finnish citizen or based in Finland. Organisations must have a Finnish business ID. If the applicant is a working group or an organisation, the group members must choose a person responsible for the project from among themselves to be responsible for submitting the application. We welcome applicants of different ages, from different genders and from linguistic, cultural and other minorities. How long and how much funding can be applied for? In the annual call, grants are awarded for work that starts in the following year, at the earliest in January. Grants are not awarded retroactively. Funding may be awarded for a maximum of four consecutive years for the same project or for the same applicant’s artistic work. If funding has already been awarded for four years, there must be a break of at least one year after the funding period. Funding can be awarded to research applicants and artistic organisations for up to four years at a time. For individual artists and artistic working groups, funding can be awarded for up to three years at a time. We do not fund working periods of less than six months for individual applicants. In working groups the minimum duration of a personal grant for research or artistic work is one month. There is no specific upper limit defined for research applications, but research projects by working groups typically range from 200,000 to 500,000 euros. Artistic working groups and organisations can apply for funding of up to 250,000 euros. We do not require additional funding from applicants, but we recommend seeking as sustainable a funding base as possible — particularly for larger projects and applications from art organisations — as the Foundation’s funding is always fixed-term. What is funding not awarded for? Kone Foundation does not award funding for: Research in psychology, theology, law, or business studies without an interdisciplinary dimension. We do not fund medical research. Other types of cultural work, such as genealogy, local heritage work, and hobby activities. Master’s studies or internships in Finland or abroad. Continuing education or course fees. Renovation or refurbishment projects for buildings or facilities. Individual equipment purchases or expenses consisting solely of operational costs (e.g., travel expenses only).