Home Grants For grant recipients General information about the grant General information about the grant On this page, you can find general information and advice about using your funding, submitting progress reports, as well as advice on the role of the responsible person of the project and our ethical conduct. GrantsFor grant applicants Criteria for applying Kone Foundation’s focuses in awarding grants Guidelines for making an application Evaluation and decisions Frequently asked questions Propose a peer reviewer For grant recipients General information about the grant Grant payment, social security and taxation Grants+ Project communications Kamari booking calender Kone Foundation logos and mentioning the funder 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 Metsän puolella initiative (“For the Woods“) Metsän puolella: Guidelines for making a grant application Vuoden Tiedekynä Academic Writing Award Using the grant Role of the responsible person of the project for working groups and organisations Ethical conduct in projects funded by Kone Foundation Research funding: Ethical considerations, reuse of research materials and open access Progress report Final report Back to the top USING THE GRANT If you intend to accept the funding, you do not need to inform Kone Foundation, but if you cannot accept the funding, please contact us as soon as possible. The funding must be used according to the following time frames: one-year funding must be used within three years of awarding two-year funding within four years three-year funding within five years four-year funding within six years The period in which the funding must be used can be extended under the following conditions: if the payments have been deferred due to parental leave, military service, to care for a child below three years of age, or sick leave. Please contact the Foundation office if you wish to extend the funding period. ROLE OF THE RESPONSIBLE PERSON OF THE PROJECT FOR WORKING GROUPS AND ORGANISATIONS If the grantee is an organisation or a working group, the payment requests must be submitted by the person responsible for the project. This person also decides which bank account to use for funding for other expenses. If the project’s content, the composition of the working group, or any other key element changes, the person responsible of the project must submit a change request on the online service. The responsible person is also in charge of submitting the final report and, for multi-year projects, the progress report. They must inform the other members about where to find information on grant taxation and MYEL insurance coverage for grantees (e.g., on Kone Foundation’s website or through MELA and the Finnish Tax Administration). Additionally, they should guide working group members in notifying MELA of any changes regarding their grant payments. The responsible person ensures that the funding is used for the purpose for which it has been awarded. They may also create contracts with working group members, though Kone Foundation does not require this. ETHICAL CONDUCT IN PROJECTS FUNDED BY KONE FOUNDATION The person responsible for the project must ensure that there is no discrimination in the project on the basis of age, origin, nationality, language, religion, belief, opinion, societal activity, family relationships, state of health, disability, sexual orientation or any other personal characteristic. All project members must act in a fair and equal manner. Bullying, unfair treatment and harassment must not be tolerated. We follow and expect you to follow the safer space principles in the projects we fund and in our events and facilities. Find out more about our safer space principles here. If your project encounters challenges during the project or needs support with the matters mentioned above, you can contact the grant coordinator Marianne Parvinen (marianne.parvinen@koneensaatio.fi). What is unfair treatment and harassment? Read more on the website of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in Finland. We recommend you to get to know the Ethical Guidelines For the Art and Culture Section. RESEARCH FUNDING: ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS, REUSE OF RESEARCH MATERIALS AND OPEN ACCESS Academic researchers should follow the guidelines for responsible conduct of research issued by the Finnish Advisory Board on Research Integrity and the codes of conduct of the organisation in which the research takes place. We recommend that data collected during research funded by Kone Foundation be archived for possible future use. More information on how to do this can be obtained from the Finnish Social Science Data Archive or from the Language Bank of Finland. We recommend that researchers we support make their research results freely available to all. Researchers can make their scholarly publications openly accessible by posting them on the internet in, for example, the open-access repository of the research institute or with a world-wide provider such as Researchgate.net or Academia.edu. Research results can also be published in scholarly journals, which make their articles openly accessible. When it funds projects, the Foundation can also provide funding for the processing fees of open-access journals. However, if this is the case, the processing fees should be paid to journals that make all articles freely accessible than to journals that collect subscription fees. PROGRESS REPORT Grantees who have been awarded funding for a multiyear project must submit an annual progress report on the online service. The progress report must be submitted within a month of the end of each year of funding. The reporting period runs from the start of the grant payment, not the start of the calendar year. Without a progress report, payments cannot be continued. The person responsible for the project is responsible for the reporting of the organisations and working groups. From the perspective of the Foundation, progress reports primarily serve as means to communicate with the grantee or project’s working group and track its progress. In addition, through progress reporting we aim to encourage grantees to make their work visible to interested groups. However, The Foundation does not require its grantees to communicate about their projects. Read more about project communications here. The report should not be mailed to the Foundation, and it can not include receipts or other attachments. FINAL REPORT All grantees must provide a final report (submitted via the online service) for their project within six months of the last grant payment. If the funding consists of funding for other expenses only, please provide the final report within eighteen months of the last payment. The person responsible for the project in charge of reporting for organisations and working groups. By reporting, you let the funder know that the funding was used for the purposes for which it was awarded. This is important in ensuring fair treatment of grant applicants and recipients. Reports also provide us with key information about the impact of funding and can be used as a basis for developing the Kone Foundation funding system. The questions for the final report can be found on the reporting form on the online service. In addition to the final report, we ask that literary grantees send a copy of any works that are eventually published to the Kone Foundation. Please send the copy preferably to Kone Foundation’s Posti Parcel Locker. A final report must be provided even if the funded project is only partially or not at all completed. Neglecting to submit a final report risks a negative decision for future funding. We may also reclaim the funding. The report should not be mailed or emailed to the Foundation, and it can not include receipts or other attachments. The Foundation processes the reports confidentially. The contents of the reports can be used anonymously to improve the position of grantees and to develop services.