Closed calls

• Academy Research Fellowships 2025, all research fields
  Call opens: 13 Nov 2024
  Call closes: 8 Jan 2025 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Finnish Centres of Excellence in Research 2026–2033, invited applicants only
  Call opens: 21 May 2025
  Call closes: 11 Jun 2025 at 16.15 Finnish time
• 2025 Proof of Concept funding
  Call opens: 2 Apr 2025
  Call closes: 14 May 2025 at 16.15 Finnish time
• 2025 Thematic research infrastructures: Local research infrastructures to strengthen regional R&D activities
  Call opens: 2 Apr 2025
  Call closes: 7 May 2025 at 16.15 Finnish time
• 2025 Funding for research into sustainable energy solutions of the future
  Call opens: 2 Apr 2025
  Call closes: 7 May 2025 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Special funding for international collaboration in high-performance computing 2024
  Call opens: 3 Apr 2024
  Call closes: 8 May 2024 at 16.15 Finnish time
• ESFRI roadmap 2026
  Call opens: 4 Feb 2025
  Call closes: 27 Feb 2025 at 12.00 Finnish time
• Academy Programme for Sport Science and Physical Activity (ACTIVE) 2025 call for applications
  Call opens: 13 Nov 2024
  Call closes: 8 Jan 2025 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Academy Professorships 2025
  Call opens: 13 Nov 2024
  Call closes: 8 Jan 2025 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Funding for research post as Clinical Researcher 2025
  Call opens: 13 Nov 2024
  Call closes: 8 Jan 2025 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Competitive funding to strengthen university research profiles (Profi 9), call for letters of intent
  Call opens: 16 Apr 2025
  Call closes: 22 May 2025 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Academy Project Funding 2025, all research fields
  Call opens: 13 Nov 2024
  Call closes: 8 Jan 2025 at 16.15 Finnish time
• SRC programme (invited applicants only): Water for Welfare, Security and Peace (WaWe)
  Call opens: 3 Jun 2024
  Call closes: 29 Aug 2024 at 16.15 Finnish time (2nd stage)
• SRC programme (invited applicants only): Democracy for the Future (DEMOC)
  Call opens: 18 Jan 2024
  Call closes: 29 Aug 2024 at 16.15 Finnish time (2nd stage))
• FIRI 2024 roadmap call: roadmap for national research infrastructures 2025–2028
  Call opens: 4 Oct 2024 (2nd stage)
  Call closes: 22 Oct 2024 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Call for inviting researchers from Ukraine to Finland 2024
  Call opens: 21 Aug 2024
  Call closes: 25 Sep 2024 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Funding for mobility cooperation with Japan, Germany or Mainland China 2024
  Call opens: 21 Aug 2024
  Call closes: 25 Sep 2024 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Mobility grant from Finland to Japan (JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship) 2024
  Call opens: 21 Aug 2024
  Call closes: 25 Sep 2024 at 16.15 Finnish time
• SRC programme (invited applicants only): Skills, Labour Supply and Migration in Future Finland (SKILLS)
  Call opens: 18 Mar 2025
  Call closes: 7 May 2025 at 16.15 Finnish time (2nd stage)
• SRC programme (invited applicants only): Economy and Welfare in an Era of Strategic Competition (WELEC)
  Call opens: 18 Mar 2025
  Call closes: 7 May 2025 at 16.15 Finnish time (2nd stage)
• Academy Research Fellowship 2024
  Call opens: 15 Nov 2023
  Call closes: 17 Jan 2024 at 16.15 Finnish time
• 2024 Research Council of Finland – NRF Korea joint call 2024: 6G and Quantum Technology
  Call opens: 8 Apr 2024
  Call closes: 24 May 2024 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Competitive funding to strengthen university research profiles 2024 (PROFI 8)
  Call opens: 15 May 2024
  Call closes: 12 June 2024 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Call for applications for Research Council of Finland Proof of Concept Funding 2024
  Call opens: 8 May 2024
  Call closes: 11 Jun 2024 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Research Council of Finland – NIH joint call 2024: thematic areas of the Finnish Research Flag-ships
  Call opens: 6 Feb 2024
  Call closes: Multiple cut-off dates
• FIRI 2024: Membership in international research infrastructures
  Call opens: 16 May 2024
  Call closes: 5 June 2024 at 16.15 Finnish time
• 2025 Call for research into forest biomass in Finland
  Call opens: 2 Apr 2025
  Call closes: 7 May 2025 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Call for applications in Antarctic research 2024
  Call opens: 3 Apr 2024
  Call closes: 8 May 2024 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Second funding period (2024–2027) for SRC programmes BIOD and DEMOGRAPHY (invited applicants only)
  Call opens: 5 Mar 2024
  Call closes: 9 Apr 2024 at 16.15 Finnish time
• FIRI 2024: ICOS-ERIC and ACTRIS-ERIC head office activities, call for invited applicants
  Call opens: 1 Oct 2024
  Call closes: 15 Oct 2024 at 16.15 Finnish time
• 2025 Call for clinical research
  Call opens: 2 Apr 2025
  Call closes: 7 May 2025 at 16.15 Finnish time
• 2025 Call to strengthen R&D activities and cooperation in wellbeing services counties
  Call opens: 2 Apr 2025
  Call closes: 14 May 2025 at 16.15 Finnish time
• 2025 Special funding for international collaboration in high-performance computing
  Call opens: 2 Apr 2025
  Call closes: 7 May 2025 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Second funding period (2023–2026) for SRC programmes CLIMATE and LITERACY (invited applicants only)
  Call opens: 9 March 2023
  Call closes: 6 April 2023 at 16.15 Finnish time
• SRC programme (invited applicants only) - Energy Solutions as Part of a Just Green Transition (JUST ENERGY)
  Call opens: 15 March 2022
  Call closes: 3 May 2023 at 16.15 Finnish time (full application)
• SRC programme (invited applicants only) - Societal Solutions in a Just Green Transition (JUST TRANSITION)
  Call opens: 15. March 2023
  Call closes: 3 May at 16.15 Finnish time (full application)
• Call for applications for grants for EUI doctoral programmes 2024
  Call opens: 1 Nov 2023
  Call closes: 31. Jan 2024
• Funding for research post as Clinical Researcher 2024
  Call opens: 15 Nov 2023
  Call closes: 17 Jan 2024 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Academy Project Funding 2024, all research fields
  Call opens: 15 Nov 2023
  Call closes:  17 Jan 2024 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Academy Programme for Sport Science and Physical Activity 2024
  Call opens: 15 No 2023
  Call closes: 17 Jan 2024 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Mobility grant from Finland to Japan (JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship) 2023
  Call opens: 23 Aug 2023
  Call closes: 20 Sep at 16.15 Finnish time
• International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA): Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP)
  Call opens: 9 Oct 2023
  Call closes: 12 Jan 2024
• NordForsk Nordic-Baltic Green Transition Call
  Call opens: 5 Sep 2023
  Call closes: 5 Dec 2023 at 13 CET
• Call for doctoral education pilot projects in Finnish Flagship areas 2024–2027
  Call opens: 15 Nov 2023
  Call closes: 29 Nov 2023
• Call for doctoral education pilot projects in other research fields 2024–2027
  Call opens: 15 Nov 2023
  Call closes: 29 Nov 2023 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Academy Research Fellowships 2022, all research fields
  Call opens: 25 Aug 2022
  Call closes: 28 Sep 2022 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Call for inviting researchers from Ukraine to Finland, autumn 2023
  Call opens: 23 Aug 2023
  Call closes: 20 Sep 2023 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Call for applications for Research Council of Finland's Proof of Concept Funding
  Call opens: 1 Aug 2023
  Call closes: 6 Sep at 16.15 Finnish time
• Flagship Programme call for 2nd Flagship term for Flagships selected in 3rd Flagship Programme call
  Call opens: 14 April 2023
  Call closes: 20 June 2023 at 16.15 Finnish time
• International research infrastructures where Finland is a member, call for invited applicants 2023
  Call opens: 9 May 2023
  Call closes: 6 June 2023 at 16:15 Finnish time
• Special funding for international collaboration in high-performance computing 2023
  Call opens: 12.4.2023
  Call closes: 10 May 2023 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Flagship Programme call 4, 2023
  Call opens: 14 April 2023
  Call closes: 16 May 2023 at 16.15 Finnish time
• FIRI 2023: non-roadmap research infrastructures
  Call opens: 5 April 2023
  Call closes: 26 April 2023 at 16.15 Finnish time
• FIRI 2023: roadmap research infrastructures 2021–2024 and international memberships
  Call opens: 5 April 2023
  Call closes: 26 April 2023 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Research, Development and Innovation Programme ICT 2023: Secure Use of Data in Health
  Call opens: 5 April 2023
  Call closes: 26 April 2023 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Research, Development and Innovation Programme ICT 2023: Limits of ICT
  Call opens: 5 April 2023
  Call closes: 26 April 2023 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Academy Programme for Development Research (DEVELOP2) 2023
  Call opens: 1 February 2023
  Call closes: 5 April 2023 at 16:15 Finnish time
• Academy of Finland–NSF joint call 2023: artificial intelligence and/or wireless communication technologies
  Call opens: 2 January 2023
  Call closes: 31 March 2023
• Call for inviting researchers from Ukraine to Finland 2023
  Call opens: 1 Feb 2023
  Call closes: 28 Feb 2023 at 16:15 Finnish time
• Biodiversa+: Improved transnational monitoring of biodiversity and ecosystem change
  Call opens: 8 Sep 2022
  Call closes: 9 Nov 2022
• Academy Project Funding 2022, all research fields
  Call opens: 25 Aug 2022
  Call closes: 5 Oct 2022 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Funding for sport science research projects from Ministry of Education, Science and Culture 2022
  Call opens: 31 Aug 2022
  Call closes: 5 Oct 2022 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Funding for research post as Clinical Researcher 2022
  Call opens: 25 Aug 2022
  Call closes: 28 Sep 2022 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Mobility grant from Finland to Taiwan 2022
  Call opens: 25 Aug 2022
  Call closes: 28 Sep 2022 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Funding for mobility cooperation with Japan, China or Germany
  Call opens: 25 Aug 2022
  Call closes: 28 Sep 2022 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Mobility grant from Finland to Japan (JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship) 2022
  Call opens: 25 Aug 2022
  Call closes: 28 Sep 2022 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Funding for mobility seminar with China (NSFC) 2022
  Call opens: 25 Aug 2022
  Call closes: 28 Sep 2022 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Special RRF funding for research on key areas of green and digital transition 2022
  Call opens: 6.4.2022
  Call closes: 27 Apr 2022 at 16:15 Finnish time
• Call for inviting researchers from Ukraine to Finland
  Call opens: 31 May 2022
  Call closes: 22 Jun 2022 at 16.15 Finnish time
• FIRI: call for local research infrastructures
  Call opens: 6 April 2022
  Call closes: 12 May 2022 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Research, Development and Innovation Programme ICT 2023: Sustainable and Energy-Efficient Solutions for Future ICT
  Call opens: 6 April 2022
  Call closes: 27 April 2022 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Competitive funding to strengthen university research profiles (PROFI 7 call 2022)
  Call opens: 6 April 2022
  Call closes: 27 April 2022 at 16:15 Finnish time
• Finnish Centres of Excellence 2018–2025: mid-term evaluation and continued funding (invited applicants only)
  Call opens: 6 April 2022
  Call closes: 27 April 2022 at 16:15 Finnish time
• SRC programme: Security and Trust in the Age of Algorithms (SHIELD)
  Call opens: 15 March 2022
  Call closes: 10 May 2022 at 16.15 Finnish time (Invited applicants only)
• SRC programme: Children and young people – healthy, thriving and capable makers of the future (YOUNG)
  Call opens: 15 March 2022
  Call closes: 10 May 2022 at 16.15 Finnish time Invited applicants only)
• Academy of Finland – NIH joint call: thematic areas of the Finnish Research Flagships
  Call opens: 25 November 2021
  Call closes: see below for details
• Special funding for EuroHPC, quantum computing and high-performance computing
  Call opens: 11 August 2021
  Call closes: 6 October 2021 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Second funding period (2022–2025) for SRC programmes CULT, FOOD, IMPRES and STEER (invited applicants only)
  Call opens: 9 March 2022
  Call closes: 6 April 2022 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Academy of Finland–NSF joint call: artificial intelligence and/or wireless communication technologies
  Call opens: 2 January 2022
  Call closes: 31 March 2022 at 16.15 Finnish time
• International joint call: Solar-Driven Chemistry 2021/2022 (SDC2) Research Programme
  Call opens: 30.07.2021
  Call closes: 29 October 2021
• Funding for research post as Academy Research Fellow 2021, all research fields
  Call opens: 11 August 2021
  Call closes: 23 September 2021 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Academy Project Funding 2021, all research fields
  Call opens: 11 August 2021
  Call closes: 29 September 2021 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Academy of Finland – NSF joint call pilot: artificial intelligence and wireless communication technologies
  Call opens: 13 January 2021
  Call closes: 9 April at 16.15 Finnish time
• Academy of Finland – NIH joint call pilot: thematic areas of the Finnish Research Flagships
  Call opens: 1 December 2020
  Call closes: 9 April 2021 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Funding for sport science research projects from Ministry of Education, Science and Culture
  Call opens: 25 August 2021
  Call closes: 29 September 2021 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Funding for research post as Postdoctoral Researcher 2021, all research fields
  Call opens: 11 August 2021
  Call closes: 23 September 2021 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Funding for research post as Clinical Researcher
  Call opens: 11 August 2021
  Call closes: 23 September 2021 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Mobility grant from Finland to Japan, Taiwan or Russia
  Call opens: 11 August 2021
  Call closes: 23 September 2021 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Mobility invitation from Taiwan or Russia to Finland
  Call opens: 11 August 2021
  Call closes: 23 September 2021 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Funding for mobility seminar with Japan or China
  Call opens: 11 August 2021
  Call closes: 23 September 2021 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Funding for mobility cooperation with India, China or Germany
  Call opens: 11 August 2021
  Call closes: 23 September 2021 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Finnish Centres of Excellence in Research 2022–2029 (two-stage call, invited applicants)
  Call opens: 29 April 2021
  Call closes: 15 June 2021 at 16.15
• Special funding for research on key areas of green and digital transition 2021
  Call opens: 11 August 2021
  Call closes: 8 September 2021 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Academy Programme: Critical Materials in Circular Economy of Cities
  Call opens: 1 April 2021
  Call closes: 8 Sep 2021 at 16.15 (full applications)
• Academy of Finland – NIH joint call: thematic areas of the Finnish Research Flagships
  Call opens: 16 April 2021
  Call closes: 10 August 2021 at 16:15 Finnish time
• Flagship Programme call for 2nd four-year term for Flagships selected in 1st and 2nd Flagship Programme calls
  Call opens: 1 April 2021
  Call closes: 15 June 2021 at 16:15 Finnish time
• Strategic research programme: Demographic Changes – Causes, Consequences and Solutions (DEMOGRAPHY), invited applicants
  Call opens: 10 March 2021
  Call closes: 5 May 2021 at 16.15 Finnish time (invited applicants)
• FIRI 2021 call: Research infrastructures on 2021–2024 roadmap and Finland’s international RI memberships
  Call opens: 1 April 2021
  Call closes: 19 May 2021 at 16.15 Finnish time
• FIRI 2021 call: Non-roadmap research infrastructures
  Call opens: 1 April 2021
  Call closes: 19 May 2021 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Research, Development and Innovation Programme ICT 2023: Security and Privacy in Decentralised and Distributed Systems
  Call opens: 1 April 2021
  Call closes: 28 Apr 2021 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Research, Development and Innovation Programme ICT 2023: Frontier AI Technologies
  Call opens: 1 April 2021
  Call closes: 28 Apr 2021 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Funding for research post as Postdoctoral Researcher 2020, all research fields
  Call opens: 1 September 2020
  Call closes: 5 October 2020 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Call for funding for international researcher mobility based on bilateral agreements
  Call opens: 1 Sep 2020
  Call closes: 30 Oct 2020 at 16.15 Finnish time (CASS)
• Funding for research post as Academy Research Fellow 2020, all research fields
  Call opens: 1 September 2020
  Call closes: 5 October 2020 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Funding for research post as Clinical Researcher 2020
  Call opens: 1 September 2020
  Call closes: 5 October 2020 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Academy Project Funding 2020, all research fields
  Call opens: 1 Sep 2020
  Call closes: 5 Oct 2020 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Funding for sport science research projects from Ministry of Education, Science and Culture 2020
  Call opens: 1 September 2020
  Call closes: 5 October 2020 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Targeted Academy Project 2020: International Co-Investigator Scheme for Finnish-Norwegian research cooperation in engineering
  Call opens: 1 September 2020
  Call closes: 5 October 2020 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Special funding for system-level research into climate change mitigation and adaptation
  Call opens: 1 September 2020
  Call closes: 5 October 2020 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Special funding for research into crisis preparedness and security of supply
  Call opens: 25 Aug 2020
  Call closes: 15 Sep 2020 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Finnish Flagship Programme 2020
  Call opens: 11 August 2020
  Call closes: 2 September 2020 at 16.15 Finnish time
• International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA): Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP)
  Call opens: 16 Oct 2024
  Call closes: 13 Jan 2025
• Special funding for RDI partnership networks
  Call opens: 11 August 2020
  Call closes: 2 September 2020 at 16.15 Finnish time
• FIRI 2020 call – roadmap for national research infrastructures in Finland 2021–2024
  Call opens: 1 April 2020
  Call closes: 16 June 2020
• FIRI: Research infrastructures as collaborative platforms
  Call opens: 11 August 2020
  Call closes: 2 September 2020 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Competitive funding to strengthen university research profiles, PROFI 6 call 2020
  Call opens: 7 May 2020
  Call closes: 16 June 2020 at 16.15 Finnish time
• CHIST-ERA Call 2025
  Call closes: 15 Apr 2025
• Academy Programme: Climate Change and Health (CLIHE), call for invited applicants
  Call opens: 5 Aug 2019
  Call closes: 4 Sep 2019 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Academy Programme: C1 Value, call for invited applicants
  Call opens: 5 Aug 2019
  Call closes: 4 Sep 2019 at 16.15 Finnish time
• Research post as Academy Professor, second stage for invited applicants
  Call opens: 7 May 2020
  Call closes: 16 Jun 2020 16:15 Finnish time

Click on the links to the language versions to open the PDF version of the call text.

2018

• Strategic research programmes En | Fi
• September 2018 call (10 Sep–1 Oct): En | Fi | Sv
• What's new in the September call 2018?
• Supplement to September call: academy project funding for early-career researchers (pdf)
• Flagship Programme call (4–20 Jun): En
• April 2018 call (1 Mar–25 Apr): En | Fi | Sv
• Supplementary call for Keys to Sustainable Growth SRC programme (3–25 Apr): En | Fi | Sv
• Corrigendum to call text

2017

• September 2017 call (1–27 Sep): En | Fi | Sv
  • September 2017 call: what's new?

• April 2017 call (3–26 Apr): En | Fi | Sv

2016

• SRC programme call (1 Dec 2016–11 Jan 2017): En | Fi | Sv

• Competitive funding to strengthen university research profiles (26 Oct–16 Nov): En| Fi | Sv Application tables (xls)

• September 2016 call (1–28 Sep): En | Fi | Sv September 2016 call: what's new?

• April 2016 call (1–27 Apr): En | Fi | Sv

2015

• SRC programmes, call for letters of intent (5 Nov–9 Dec): En | Fi | Sv
  • Call for full applications, supplement to application guidelines En | Sv
• Competitive funding to strengthen university research profiles (26 Oct–12 Nov): En | Fi | Sv
  
• September 2015 call (1–30 Sep): En | Fi | Sv
  
• April 2015 call (7–29 Apr, incl. strategic research call): En | Fi | Sv
  
• Competitive funding to strengthen university research profiles (12–29 Jan): En | Fi | Sv

2014

• September 2014 call (1–24 Sep): En | Fi | Sv
  
• April 2014 call (1–29 Apr): En | Fi | Sv

2013

• Extra call (19 Nov–18 Dec): En | Fi | Sv
  
• September 2013 call (2–25 Sep): En | Fi | Sv
  
• April 2013 call (2–24 Apr): En | Fi | Sv

2012

• September 2012 call (3–26 Sep): En | Fi | Sv
  
• April 2012 call (2‒25 Apr): En | Fi | Sv
  
• Martti Ahtisaari Academy Professorship 2013‒2017, call for letters of intent (27 Feb‒26 Mar): En | Fi

2011

• September 2011 call (6‒30 Sep): En | Fi | Sv
  
• April 2011 call (1‒29 Apr): En | Fi | Sv

2010

• October 2010 call (4‒29 Oct): En | Fi | Sv

All documents are PDF unless otherwise noted.