Home Grants For grant applicants Criteria for applying Criteria for applying An individual, a working group or a legal entity can apply for a grant from Kone Foundation. If you’re applying as a legal entity, you need to have a Finnish business ID. 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 Grantees’ instructions for blog posts and project pages 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 Vuoden Tiedekynä Academic Writing Award Where can funding be applied for? 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 promotion of academic and/or artistic work in the above-mentioned fields (e.g. a project developing the field) promotion and dissemination of academic and/or artistic work in the above-mentioned fields (e.g., research popularisation, artistic outreach, events and publications) other cultural work; but this is rarely funded The topic of the project applied for can be freely chosen, as long as the discipline belongs to the fields funded by the Foundation. A grant from Kone Foundation must be used for the purpose for which it is awarded. 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 The following application processes apply criteria that differ from above: Themed calls for applications Residencies at Saari Residence Metsän puolella initiative (“For the woods”) Who can apply for funding? An individual, a working group or a legal entity can apply for a grant from Kone Foundation. If you’re applying as a legal entity, you need to have a Finnish business ID. If the applicant is a working group or legal entity, the group members must choose a person responsible for the project from among themselves to be responsible for submitting the application. To receive funding, projects must have a connection to Finland. In general, Kone Foundation’s grants are intended for: • Finns, for work carried out in Finland or abroad • foreigners, for work carried out in Finland • foreigners, for project work that includes participants based in Finland We welcome applicants of different ages, from different genders and from linguistic, cultural and other minorities. How long can the funding period be? A grant may be awarded for a maximum of four consecutive years for the same project. Similarly, the same applicant’s artistic work can be supported for a maximum of four consecutive years. If funding has already been granted for four years, there must be a break of at least one year after the funding period. 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. We encourage long-term work in both research and the arts. 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.