About the grant
Kone Foundation’s goal is to advance bold initiatives in research and the arts. Boldness, crossing of boundaries and new initiatives are important for us and we also encourage our grant applicants to work towards these goals.
WHAT CAN GRANTS BE APPLIED FOR?
Kone Foundation supports bold initiatives in research and the arts.
Funding can be applied for:
- academic and / or artistic work
- advancing academic and / or artistic work (e.g., a project the aim of which is to develop a field)
- work based on academic research and / or artistic work (e.g., making research or art available for wider audiences)
- other kinds of cultural work.
In academic research, we support humanities, social sciences, environmental research, and artistic research. Projects can be multi- or interdisciplinary and they can combine artistic and scholarly approaches.
We can fund co-operation on equal terms between scholars, journalists, or activists. Such a co-operation should begin already in the planning stage of the project, and should be visible in the project budget.
Focal points
We favour subjects and themes which are cross-disciplinary or inter-disciplinary, or marginal or outside the main stream. Until 2016, we take into account the emphases of our Language Programme.
As far as research careers are concerned, we can fund both scholars working on their doctorates and more advanced researchers.
We also favour crossing national borders, such as Finnish applicants working abroad or foreign scholars doing research in Finland. Our geographical focus is on the regions surrounding the Baltic sea.
In non-fiction writing, we mainly fund non-fiction books in Finnish or translations into Finnish or from Finnish into other languages.
In the arts, we prefer to fund initiatives in which art has an intrinsic value. Projects that concern creative economy or applied arts are less central for us.
In art, we favour especially:
- fields of art and culture which are new or emerging from the marginal
- artistic and cultural projects which renovate and invigorate the field
- projects with new approaches.
We mainly award grants for artistic work, but other expenses can also be compensated for.
Eligibility
An individual, a working group, or an established organisation can apply for funding from Kone Foundation. If a working group is applying for funding, the group members must elect a team leader, who will be responsible for the project.
Kone Foundation grants are mainly intended for Finnish nationals working in Finland or abroad, or for other nationalities working in Finland. If you do not have a Finnish background and you are working outside of Finland, your work should have a connection with Finland.
FOR WHICH PERIOD ARE GRANTS APPLIED?
The grants available in the September funding call can be used from the beginning of the following year, at the earliest. Grants are not awarded retrospectively.
Grants can be funded for a maximum of four years at a time. We can support long-term initiatives both in academic research and in the arts.
A Kone Foundation grant must be used for the purpose it has been awarded for. One-year grants must be used within three years of the funding decision. For two-year, three-year, and four-year grants, the periods of use are four, five, and six years, respectively.
PERSONAL GRANTS OR SALARIES?
For individuals doing scholarly or artistic work, we usually award grants, not funding for salaries. In this way, we can fund more researchers and artists, because funding for salaries requires at least 30% of additional expenses per person. Grants awarded by private foundations, such as Kone Foundation, are exempt from taxes below the limit of the Finnish state grant for artists.
Application
- Apply for funding by submitting your application with its attachments using the online application service
- The online service is open during the annual application period until 15 September 16:00 Finnish time
- Applications cannot be submitted after the deadline
- Only the applications submitted during the application period are considered
- Do not mail or e-mail the application to Kone Foundation
CREATING, EDITING, AND SUBMITTING THE APPLICATION
- Log in using your account information, or if you are a new applicant, create a new account.
- Create a new application.
- Fill in the required information.
- Submit the application to Kone Foundation before the deadline.
Once the application has been submitted, the application is listed in the online service as Submitted. If you wish to make modifications to the application after it has been submitted, choose Cancel the application. Canceling the application does not delete the information included in it. Please note: application cannot be edited after the deadline.
If the application is listed as Received and the applicant wishes to modify it, they should contact the foundation office.
LANGUAGE OF THE APPLICATION
We hope that Finnish-writing applicants or a group consisting entirely of Finnish speakers write their applications and the attachments in Finnish. If a Finnish-writing applicant or a group consisting entirely of Finnish speakers is submitting an application in English, they must write the summary in Finnish.
All the elements of an application can be in Swedish.
For more information click "Further official information" below.
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