Advance information on a call for research infrastructures
In the performance target negotiations for 2010 held between the Ministry of Education and the Academy of Finland, it was agreed that the Academy will implement a call for research infrastructures in 2010. Funding decisions will be made in 2011, on condition that Parliament allocates the resources required for this in the State budget for 2011.
The plan is to fund research infrastructures with 10 million euros; funding will be targeted to broad entities of infrastructures that are given priority by the universities, and that support local research infrastructures or those that are included on the national roadmap. The call will be open to applications in October 2010.
The applicant is a university, or another research organisation together with a university. If the project is a joint project between several universities and research organisations, one of the organisations involved must assume responsibility for the entire project. The applicant, responsible organisation and coordinating party named in the application is required to be a university. All universities and research organisations that are involved in two or more applications either as responsible party or cooperation partner shall submit a document to the Academy of Finland giving the decision by a competent authority concerning the priority order that the organisation in question gives to the projects.