Research Programme on the health and welfare of children and young people

Joint international call related to the research programme can be found on January 2010 call for applications.

The focus of the Academy of Finland's Research Programme on the Health and Welfare of children and young people (SKIDI-KI`DS) is on ways of promoting children’s health and well-being as well as on children’s health and welfare problems. The programme is also concerned to research health and welfare risks, risk management and environments of childhood growth. 

The aim of the programme is to support and encourage interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research cooperation. Another aim is to gather together critical mass for diverse and extensive study of the research challenges within the themes of the research programme.

The programme has three research themes:

1) Environments of childhood growth
2) Service systems
3) Challenges for children’s health and the promotion of health

Programme-based funding will pave the way to the launch of extensive interdisciplinary research projects and support the pooling of scattered research resources as well as advance the national and international networking of researchers.

The call for applications was open both to individual research teams and to consortia made up of several research teams.

Programme funding

The Academy’s Board allocated 8.5 million euros for implementation of the programme’s first call in 2009. Project funding will be implemented mainly between 2010 and 2013. Funding cooperation for the programme has been agreed with the Finnish Ministry of Education and the Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation.

The research programme has agreed on funding cooperation with Institutes of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).