Advance information on Research Council of Finland’s winter call funding decisions

The funding decisions on the Research Council of Finland’s 2025 winter call will be made in June. Information on the decisions will be available at research.fi, an online service maintained by the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture.

The RCF’s Scientific Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering will make the decisions on Academy Project and Academy Research Fellowship funding on 12 June. The Scientific Council for Biosciences, Health and the Environment will make the decisions on Academy Project, Academy Research Fellowship and Clinical Researcher funding on 16 June. The Scientific Council for Social Sciences and Humanities will make the decisions on Academy Project, Academy Research Fellowship and Clinical Researcher funding on 17 June.

The information on the funding decisions will be available at research.fi by 12.00 on the day after the decision date. The RCF will announce the funding decisions at that time. All applicants will receive a personal notification of the decision after the decision meeting.

RCF decision information at research.fi

The RCF’s funding decisions will be available at research.fi (research.fi instructions in Finnish).

Please note:

• The list of RCF funding decisions shows only the name of the site of research as the beneficiary, not the name of the principal investigator. The PI is shown in the decision details.
• Search results can be sorted by organisation (‘Recipient’).
• Consortium decisions are presented by subproject; by sorting the titles of the decisions in alphabetical order, the consortium’s decisions are listed below each other.
• You can also filter the search by decision year.
• Decision lists cannot be downloaded in Excel format from research.fi, as the Act governing the service (Research Information Hub Act) does not allow personal data to be downloaded from the service via an open data service. Research operators can access the data in a machine-readable format.

Feedback from the review

The feedback to applicants includes all individual expert reviews and ratings. Applicants who proceeded to the panel review stage will also receive the panel summary and the final rating. If the panel’s overall rating is 5 or 6, the application will also be given subratings and a ranking.

The review reports include the names of the reviewers. As a rule, the review report is a secret document under the Finnish Act on the Openness of Government Activities. If the review report contains secret content other than content concerning the applicant (e.g. names of reviewers), they may not disclose it to a third party. The names of the experts who participates in the review of applications will be published on the RCF’s website after all decisions have been made.

Summary statistics on winter call

The RCF will publish statistics compilations on the winter call in September 2025. The statistics will be available online in the RCF’s data dashboards.