Home Grants For grant recipients Grants+ Grants+ Kone Foundation’s Grants+ programme consists of services designed to support our grantees in their work. Participation in the services is voluntary: if time allows, you are free to take advantage of any part of the support we offer. 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 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 Training and peer mentoring Work counselling Workplace mediation Someturva: support in harassment cases Facilities: Kamari & Sofia Helsinki Project questions and advice Newsletter Saari Residence for researchers Back to the top Grants+ services are available for grantees during the grant period and 6 months after the last payment. The services are intended for all individuals involved in the project. We will keep you informed about our upcoming services in grantees’ own Grants+ newsletter. TRAINING AND PEER MENTORING We arrange training and peer-led learning opportunities on various themes for grant recipients. The aim is to provide you with tools and support for developing your work, as well as opportunities for networking. Our communication trainings provide you with tools and skills to help you communicate about your project. The Best Practices webinars increase project knowledge. The themes of the webinars vary from year to year. Our peer-mentoring groups offer grantees the chance to receive and to provide each other with mutual support as equal participants in the discussions. You can sign up for peer mentoring once a year in January-February. WORK COUNSELLING As part of the Grants+ services, we provide work counselling for projects funded by the Foundation. The goal of work counselling is to promote teamwork and well-being in the projects and prevent conflicts. Applications for work counselling are invited once a year in January-February. Please note that we may not be able to offer work counselling to every project that contacts us. The process will be initiated for projects that are estimated to benefit from it the most. WORKPLACE MEDIATION As a new Grants+ service, Kone Foundation offers workplace mediation to projects. Workplace mediation is a pilot service that will be tested during 2025. In 2025, mediator Miriam Attias (M.Sc. in Economics and Business Administration, M.Sc., workplace mediator, work counsellor) will support working groups. Read more on the mediation method in Miriam Attias’ interview. If you think mediation could be helpful for your working group, please contact Marianne Parvinen, Kone Foundation grant coordinator marianne.parvinen@koneensaatio.fi. Please note that we may not be able to offer workplace mediation to every project that contacts us. The process will be initiated for projects that are estimated to benefit from it the most. SOMETURVA From Someturva, you can get anonymous help if you face harassment, hate speech, defamation or targeting. The help is provided by Someturva’s team of experts, including lawyers, psychologists and social psychologists. If you would like to use the service, please contact us, koneensaatio@koneensaatio.fi. FACILITIES: KAMARI (“THE CHAMBER”) & SOFIA HELSINKI Kamari: a space for grantees Kone Foundation offers a free-of-charge facility in Helsinki for use by grantees. Kamari (The Chamber) in Ullanlinna is a creative space for project gatherings, discussions and small seminars. You can reserve the premises for a minimum of one hour and a maximum of one day. It’s possible to reserve Kamari max two days per week. Exceptions can be negotiated separately. Please make a reservation via booking calendar. We will confirm your reservation by email within a week or ask for further information. The facility is located on the fifth floor of a residential building, so the neighbours must always be taken into account. The events should not be too loud or otherwise inconvenient to the residents. The premises are not fully accessible: the building has a lift and stairs. Guide and service dogs are welcome in Kamari. Visitors to the Chamber should observe all the instructions issued by the Foundation and the building’s housing company. The lessor of the space is obliged to handle insurance declarations and any other official notifications. Details and equipment: a flat measuring approx. 60 m2 containing a room suitable for presentations with a capacity of about 30 people a space that can be easily transformed, with 30 chairs, 5 beanbag chairs and 2 tables ready-to-use, high-quality presentation equipment video projector, audio system and the internet kitchen equipped with basics (mugs, glasses, cutlery and plates for about 30 guests) Sofia Helsinki facilities Kone Foundation grant recipients have free access to Sofia Helsinki facilities in the centre of Helsinki, by the Senate Square. There are a limited number of day passes available for the coworking facilities. In addition, grantees may book facilities for open speaking events or meetings. Use of the facilities is conditional on grant work being in progress. Our grantees can utilise the Sofia Helsinki facilities as follows: Working with a day pass in the Sofia Helsinki coworking facilities Organising a meeting or open speaking event Offer on the use of the facilities is limited. More detailed information and instructions on how to use the facilities are available below. Sofia Helsinki has barrier-free access when entering from Aleksanterinkatu and Sofiankatu. When arriving from the Sofiankatu entrance, an elevator must be used, for which a key is required. A key can be obtained and signed for at the info desk. Indoors, you can use the elevator for accessible movement between floors. Instructions for using a day pass A day pass entitles you to one day’s work in Sofia Helsinki’s public areas during the opening hours. A day pass cannot be booked in advance. There are a limited number of day passes available. The number of day passes per grantee is limited to five per month. When arriving at Sofia, first register at the info desk, where you will sign up for a day pass for that day on a list and receive a guest pass. Sofia’s staff will guide you through the use of the facilities upon your first visit. If you want a tour of the premises during your first visit, book an appointment in advance at info@sofiahelsinki.fi. As a day pass user, you have the opportunity to work in all the public areas at Sofia, in the member facilities and at the undesignated workstations and in the shared area (entire 2nd floor). Access to the premises is from Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (closed on public holidays). During the day, you also have access to telephone booths (max. 2 hrs at a time). You are allowed to have guests in connection with conference room bookings and meetings. If you invite guests, they must also register at the info desk. If a guest comes to work all day, they must purchase their own day pass. A holder of a day pass is responsible for their guests. Other benefits during the day: possible speaking or membership events, free coffee and tea at the member facilities, 20% discount on the restaurant menu and a membership lunch price. Membership benefits during the day are personal. The guest pass must be returned to Sofia’s info desk at the end of the day. A fee will be charged for an unreturned guest pass. Printing and use of conference rooms are not included in the day pass benefits. Further information: info@sofiahelsinki.fi. Instructions for organising speaking events and meetings Facilities for speaking events and meetings must be booked in advance at myynti@sofiahelsinki.fi, and Sofia Helsinki will check the availability of the facilities for the day in question. Reservations can be made no earlier than 2 months prior to an event. There is a limited number of reservations available for speaking events and meetings; 8 per month. The number of reservations per grantee is limited to one per month. Open speaking events can be booked in the Kiseleff Hall from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. It is not possible to reserve the premises for private events. Video projectors and projection screens are available for speaking events, as well as voice amplification with microphones. The technology required needs to be notified in advance. Meeting room reservations apply to cabinets: Signe, Aino, Anni and Aurora between 8:00 a.m. and noon or 12:30 and 4:30 p.m. The meeting rooms have a projection screen, flipchart/whiteboard and note-taking equipment. The facilities are provided with the existing furnishings and layout. Any additional services (such as additional technical equipment, catering, space arrangements, cleaning, technician’s services, door services, restaurant staff, producer or other man-hours) are paid for by the grantee. Any catering and other additional services must be booked 14 days before the event or reservation. More information: myynti@sofiahelsinki.fi. Further information Sofia Helsinki website Sofia Helsinki meeting and event facilities, information and photos Sofia Helsinki coworking facilities, more information on coworking Sofia Helsinki Space etiquette (pdf)Lataa PROJECT QUESTIONS AND ADVICE Would you like to discuss issues related to payments, change requests or reporting for your project? The Foundation’s grant coordinators organise monthly advisory clinics in Zoom. You can come to Zoom clinic for advice without an appointment. The Foundation’s communications specialists offer sparring on questions related to project communication. You can book a Zoom or telephone appointment. Information about the advisory clinics and communications sparring is published in the events calendar on the Foundation’s website and in the Grants+ newsletter. NEWSLETTER Subscribing to our newsletter is the easiest way to keep abreast of the Foundation’s services and events for grantees, as well as other news. As a grantee, you will receive Grants+ newsletter once a month. If you are a grantee but haven’t received the newsletter, please email us at koneensaatio@koneensaatio.fi and we will add you on the list. SAARI RESIDENCE FOR RESEARCHERS FUNDED BY KONE FOUNDATION Individual researchers working on sustainability-related research and research projects funded by the Foundation and also For the Woods (‘Metsän puolella’) projects can ask for accommodation at the Saari Manor’s main building for short intensive periods (maximum 1–2 weeks). It is possible to accommodate a maximum of eight people at one time. Accommodation will be in shared double rooms. The arrival date for the residency is always a weekday, during office hours. Departure is agreed on a case-by-case basis, but the check-out is by Saturday noon for one-week stays. For further information and to enquire about timetables, please get in touch with Annika Dahlsten, Residency director, at annika.dahlsten@koneensaatio.fi.