Researcher mobility in working life

This form of funding is designed to promote and support the mobility of researchers across the borders between academia, business and industry, and public administration. The goal is to create a more viable dialogue between the newest research knowledge and the challenges of working life, thus also generating new research. A further goal is to improve the opportunities of researchers with a PhD to move between different career paths.

The primary goal of this funding is to support the transfer of a maximum of one year by PhD-level researchers working within business and industry to work full-time at a Finnish university or research institute. Correspondingly, support can be granted to fund university or research institute researchers' work in business and industry. Funding is also available to PhD-level researchers working, for instance, in public administration who wish to work at a university or research institute, or for PhD-level researchers in a business company who wish to work within public administration.

The amount of the Academy research grant to be paid towards salary expenses is determined by the applicant's salary in his/her primary employment. However, the maximum amount of Academy funding to be paid to the sending organisation is 103,000 euros a year including indirect employee costs. The decision to fund does not include other than salary costs.

The Academy requires that persons to receive the funding have a contract of employment with their primary employer during the whole period, and that they and the receiving organisation have agreed on the researcher's tasks during the funding period. A requirement for payment of the funding is that both the sending and the receiving organisation and the researcher have in advance agreed in writing on possible intellectual property rights that might emerge during the funding period. If the employment contract with the researcher's primary employer is terminated, Academy funding will be discontinued as well, unless the researcher transfers to the employment of the receiving organisation for the rest of the funding period.

The same person can be granted funding twice at most and for a maximum period of two years in total.