Academy Project Funding 2025, all research fields

13 Nov 2024
8 Jan 2025 at 16.15 Finnish time
1 Sep 2025–31 Aug 2029
Upcoming
  • Maximum funding €600,000 for four-year project, €1m for consortium project and €500,000 for consortium subproject.
  • funding to hire a research team and cover direct research costs
  • applications invited from individual research teams or consortia composed of two or more teams

Academy Project Funding is designed to promote the quality of research, scientific impact and impact beyond academia as well as scientific renewal and diversity. The aim is to attain internationally as high a scientific standard of work as possible and to support scientific breakthroughs and top-tier international research collaboration.

In addition to a doctoral degree, the applicant (the principal investigator (PI) of the proposed project) must also have other significant scientific merits. Usually the PI is a researcher at the professor or docent (adjunct professor) level.

Before you fill in your application in the online services (SARA), carefully read the call text and the funding terms and conditions.

If the call text is in conflict with the funding terms and conditions, the terms and conditions should always be considered primary. If the translated English or Swedish version of the call text is in conflict with the Finnish call text, the Finnish version should always be considered primary.

Read the full call text on this page.

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