We are calling for bold initiatives – Our annual funding call is open until 15th September
The new round of applications for Kone Foundation grants is here! We invite applications from Friday 1 September to Friday 15 September at 16.00 Finnish time (GMT +3). Grants are awarded for academic research, art projects, and for projects combining scholarly and artistic work. This year, we will additionally organise two thematic funding calls, Neighbour dialogues and Ecological compensations in society and culture.
Our goal is to advance bold initiatives in research and the arts. Kone Foundation is interested in countercurrents and in what takes place in the margins. We also seek to support interdisciplinary approaches and encounters across and between research and the arts.
Grants are awarded for:
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academic research and/or artistic work;
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promotion of academic or artistic work (for example, a project contributing to the development of a field of art or science);
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dissemination of academic or artistic work (such as making research or art available to different audiences);
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other cultural initiatives.
Research grants are awarded for studies in the humanities, social sciences, environmental research, and artistic research. Such projects can be multi- or interdisciplinary, and they can combine artistic and scholarly approaches.
Two thematic funding calls will also be open during the application period. The fundamental question addressed by the funding call Neighbour dialogues is "how do neighbours communicate and pursue dialogue despite linguistic, cultural, economic, or religious differences?" The other funding call, Ecological compensations in society and culture, will focus on ecological compensations combining methods from different disciplines and fields of art.
Applications are to be submitted online. The deadline for the applications is September 15, at 4 pm Finnish time (GMT +3). Please note that the application period is shorter than previously.
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An information session in English will be organised on Wednesday 6th September 9.30–11am (GMT +3), and it will streamed online on the Kone Foundation's Facebook page. Read more
Read more about the changes in the application procedure
More information on how to apply
More information:
koneensaatio@koneensaatio.fi, tel. +358 9 260 0617 (Mon-Fri 9am–4pm, GMT +3)
The goal of Kone Foundation, founded in 1956, is to advance bold initiatives in research and the arts. It is an independent and unaffiliated organisation that awards grants to promote academic research, culture, art and the popularisation of research. It also maintains the Saari Residence for artists and researchers and organises various events.
Photo: “The tango was born in bordellos. The tango used to be thought unsuitable for women, so men danced it together while women practised it in secret. Musicologist Alfonso Padilla relates on his subject of research, the birth of the tango.
Photographer: Aleksi Poutanen
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