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Funding in the 2024 grant call

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What kind of group were the 2024 Kone Foundation grantees?

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News

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Annika Dahlsten Works with Slow Transformations

Saari Fellows in January and February 2025

How to build conflict competence – an interview with Miriam Attias, workplace mediator supporting Kone Foundation’s grantees   

Happy Holidays! Our office is closed from 21 December to 1 January

A bird's eye photo of a snowy pinewood forest.

Metsän puolella funding awarded for 13 new projects 

Kone Foundation grants nearly 50 million euros in funding to 366 projects in total 

Stories

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Echoes of Endings: Through a Poetic Prism

Horizons of Water

Why does Russia persecute Jehovah’s Witnesses?

Emotions drive the behaviour of crowds in politics and art

How do primates use their curiosity in an urban landscape? Insights from The Urban Vervet Project

Can we think with a place without it having imprinted us?

Events

Watercolour illustration. A person is lying on a green lawn with a relaxed expression on their face, wearing a white top with the word "equality" embroidered on it. Ants walk on their shirt and ground.

Grant Coordinators’ Advisory Clinic

Wednesday 19.02. 10:00 – 14:00

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Akvarellikuvitus tummahiuksisesta henkilöstä, joka hymyilee silmät kiinni ja jonka kasvoja pitelee neljä kättä. Kädet kuuluvat eri henkilöille. Yhdessä käsivarressa on tatuointi rauhankyyhkysestä. Taustalla henkilön hiuksista haarautuu tummia oksia.

Peer mentoring programme 2025: Kick-off workshop

Monday 24.02. 12:00 – 16:00

Lauttasaaren kartano

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