Overview
The Strategic Research Council (SRC) established within the Research Council of Finland funds high-quality research with great societal relevance and impact. SRC-funded research seeks concrete solutions to grand challenges that require multidisciplinary approaches. An important element of the research is active and ongoing collaboration between knowledge producers and knowledge users.
Each year, the SRC prepares a proposal on key strategic research themes and priorities to be approved by the Finnish Government. The Government determines the research needs and decides the final themes, which the SRC then formulates into research programmes. SRC programmes run for 3–6 years. The SRC’s annual funding budget is some 55 million euros.
