Background and objectives
At the core of the Research Council of Finland’s activities is to provide funding for excellent scientific research. The research we fund is also expected to have high scientific and societal impact and follow the principles of responsible science.
An Academy Research Fellow is a talented early-career researcher. The Academy Research Fellowship supports early-career researchers on fast career tracks. The funding supports the researchers so that they can increase their competencies and make significant career progress towards more demanding research positions and achieve an established position in the national and international research community.
An Academy Research Fellow produces high-quality, high-impact research that stimulates scientific renewal.
An Academy Research Fellowship provides researchers with a good and diverse opportunity to work independently on their research and to contribute to developing the research in their field.
As an Academy Research Fellow, you are encouraged to engage in international research collaboration and mobility across international and sectoral borders, for example, so that you will work abroad for part of the funding period. Foreign researchers who already work or who will work in the Finnish scientific community may also apply for the funding.
The objective of the funding scheme is to promote high-quality, high-impact science with capacity for renewal as well as to support researchers in increasing their competencies and making career progress.
Researchers need a wide range of experience from working in different research and work environments to be able to increase their competencies. By working in different kinds of research groups or in other research-related positions, researchers can further strengthen their personal networks and improve their chances of securing competitive research positions or other senior expert tasks. For today’s researchers, it is also important to be able to acquire new methodological skills and adopt new means of communicating with people with different backgrounds.
