Finnish Research Infrastructure Committee
The statutory tasks of the Finnish Research Infrastructure Committee:
- monitor and develop national and international research infrastructure activities
- make a proposal to the Board of the Research Council of Finland on a long-term plan for research infrastructures
- decide on the selection of research infrastructure projects and be responsible for monitoring them
- perform other infrastructure tasks assigned by the Board of the Research Council of Finland.
Finnish Research Infrastructure Committee 1 July 2022–20 June 2025
- Chair: Vice President for Research Riitta Maijala, Research Council of Finland
- Vice Chair: Director Erja Heikkinen, Ministry of Education and Culture
Members:
- Tuula Helander, Deputy Director General, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health
- Anni Huhtala, Secretary General of the Economic Policy Council, VATT Institute for Economic Research
- Professor Ari Jokinen, Scientific Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering, Research Council of Finland
- Jussi Kaurola, Director General, Finnish Meteorological Institute
- Maija Lönnqvist, Senior Ministerial Adviser, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment
- Arto Maaninen, Vice Rector, University of Oulu
- Ilkka Niemelä, Rector, Aalto University
- Professor Atte Oksanen, Scientific Council for Social Sciences and Humanities, Research Council of Finland
- Professor Jorma Palvimo, Scientific Council for Biosciences, Health and the Environment, Research Council of Finland
- Arto Pussinen, Senior Director, Business Finland
- Leif Schulman, Director General, Finnish Environment Institute
- Hanna Snellman, Vice Rector, University of Helsinki
- Juhani Soini, Vice Rector, Turku University of Applied Sciences
- Antti Vasara, CEO, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd
Permanent expert
- Petteri Kauppinen, Senior Ministerial Adviser, Ministry of Education, Science and Culture
The Finnish Research Infrastructure Committee has drawn up the Strategy for National Research Infrastructures in Finland for the years 2020-2030. The vision is that high-class research infrastructure services increase the impact and international attraction of the Finnish research, education and innovation system.
The goal is to promote the quality, renewal and competitiveness of research, to strengthen the broad-based impact of research environments and to increase national and international cooperation.
Based on the strategy for Finland’s research infrastructures, the FIRI Committee will open roadmap and funding calls and, together with other actors, develop national and international research infrastructure activities in the coming years. Read more: Strategy for National Research Infrastructures in Finland 2020–2030. Creativity, Renewal and Knowledge on a Strong Basis (PDF)
Applications for Finland’s national research infrastructure roadmap 2025–2028 will be invited in a call in 2024.
See the strategy brochure:
- Strategy for National Research Infrastructures in Finland 2020–2030. Creativity, Renewal and Knowledge on a Strong Basis (PDF)
- NB! The FIRI Committee will update the long-term research infrastructure plan (strategy) in autumn 2023 in the light of a dramatically changed operating environment.
