Who is eligible to apply? 

Academy of Finland research funding is allocated on the basis of peer review to the best researchers and research teams and to the most promising young researchers for carrying out scientifically ambitious projects. Funding for Academy Projects is primarily granted to research teams composed of researchers who have already earned their doctorate. In principle, a project to be funded shall serve Finnish research and society or international collaboration.

The applicant (the principal investigator of a research project) for Academy funding must have the qualifications of a professor or an adjunct professor (docent) or be a researcher with a doctorate, unless the call indicates or allows otherwise. In some funding opportunities, the applicant is a university or a research institute.

Within the same application round, the Academy will review only one application from one and the same researcher in one of the following funding opportunities:

• Academy Project (principal investigator of a project)
• Academy Project (director of a consortium or sub-project)
• Postdoctoral Researcher
• Academy Research Fellow
• Clinical researcher (targeted funding).

If the applicant does submit more than one application to one or several of the above mentioned funding opportunities, only the first application to arrive will be reviewed. In the case of targeted Academy Projects, decisions on this limitation will be made separately for each call.