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Kone Foundation is an independent and unaffiliated organisation that awards grants to promote academic research, culture and the arts. In 2024, we awarded grants, prizes and donations totalling over EUR 56 million.

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What does childbearing do to the body and the economy? The winners of the Vuoden Tiedekynä Academic Writing Award delve into postpartum ailments, the cost of which no one has calculated 

Metsän puolella funding for 15 new projects: raising forest awareness requires multidisciplinary understanding 

Kone Foundation supports a new foundation that advances environmental issues in Finnish courts