Home Grants For grant applicants Values and focuses in the general grant call Values and focuses in the general grant call The goal of Kone Foundation’s grant activities is to create conditions for free and multi-voiced art and research. GrantsFor grant applicants Criteria for applying Values and focuses in the general grant call Guidelines for making an application Evaluation and decisions Frequently asked questions Propose a peer reviewer For grant recipients Funding practicalities Fair practices in funded projects Grants+ Project communications Instructions for At the Well blog Instructions for project pages Kamari booking calender Funding programmes and thematic grant calls Funding programme: Is Democracy Eroding? (2021¨C2025) Thematic grant call 2025: Securitization and Democracy Thematic grant call 2024: Media and Democracy in Finland in the 2020s Thematic grant call 2022: The current state and challenges of Finnish democracy Thematic grant call 2021: Language, Power and Democracy Previous thematic grant calls Vuoden Tiedekyn? Academic Writing Award Research funding’s principles Art funding’s principles The core activity of the foundation is to fund the work of researchers and artists. Funding decisions in the general grant call are guided by the values and priorities defined in the foundation¡¯s strategy. We instruct our application evaluators to consider these during their reviewing process. 1. Academic and artistic freedom We see research and art as valuable in and of themselves and not, for example, as means to generate profit. Academics and artists must be able to develop their work on their own premises. 2. Diversity We want a plurality of voices to be heard. In our grants, we emphasize projects and practitioners that are multidisciplinary and cross boundaries. Fostering equity is important to us. 3. Boldness We want to encourage boldness, which includes experimentation, openness to the undefined, and bringing together unexpected perspectives. We value work that seeks alternative viewpoints and questions prevailing concepts. 4. Perseverance The Foundation supports work done in peace, and emphasises multi-year personal grants for academic and artistic work. 5. Ecosocial awareness For us, ecosocial awareness means social, cultural, and ecological responsibility towards humans, other species, and the environment. 6. Sense of community In our work, the foundation employs the metaphor of a well: a place where people gather to share, listen, and engage in dialogue. We offer our grant recipients opportunities for networking and encounters. Research funding We support academic research in the humanities, social sciences, and environmental sciences, as well as artistic research, and multidisciplinary work that involves the academic fields mentioned above. Research topics can be chosen freely. By artistic research, we mean academic research, conducted within art universities, where art and research interact. We also encourage multidisciplinary projects that combine science and art, where researchers and artists work together. We fund both research groups and individual researchers. In our funding decisions for research, the emphasis is on post-doctoral studies and more advanced stages of careers. Within the fields supported by the foundation, we can also support the popularization of research and its dissemination to various audiences. The foundation does not fund research in psychology, theology, law studies or business studies without an interdisciplinary dimension. We do not fund medical research. Art funding The foundation supports professional artistic work in all fields of art. Working grants can be applied for the artistic work of an individual or a group, as well as for the expenses related to your work. Art organizations can apply for funding for individual projects or for their core operations for a fixed term. The maximum amount that can be applied for is €250,000. We do not require additional funding from applicants, but we recommend seeking as sustainable a funding base as possible ¡ª particularly for larger projects and applications from art organisations ¡ª as the foundation¡¯s funding is always fixed-term. The foundation does not fund other types of cultural work, such as hobby activities or local heritage work. Programmes and thematic calls In addition to the general grant call, Kone Foundation arranges grant calls that are thematically connected to the Foundation¡¯s funding programmes. Thematic grant calls are evaluated separately from the general grant call. You can read more here. Mets?n puolella initiative awards grants for forest-related research, art, journalism, and activism. It also commissions forest-themed reports and projects. Read more here. The general call is open and non-thematic, which means that the applications do not need to have a connection with the funding programme or the topics of the special calls.