- PURPOSE: Department of Design gives grants to facilitate research, art, creative practice and learning dealing with design. Priority is given to enable participation to peer reviewed research and artistic events and forums for publishing the outcomes.
- WHO CAN APPLY: The grants are meant for the Department of Design students and hourly paid teachers of the Department of Design, and for teams having a member from the previously mentioned groups.
The application will be rejected if it is submitted to the wrong department. - ELIGIBLE EXPENSES: The grants are meant for research and creative practice related expenses such as but not limited to travel, materials, registration fees, or language (translation, transcription, proofreading) services. Grants cannot be used for staff salary payments or as student scholarship.
- HOW TO APPLY: The applicants should complete an application from link for Department of Design grant: https://forms.aalto.fi/s/grantsForm?grant_id=a4jQt0000000o85
and add there requested attachments. - GRANTS DECISIONS: We will send your result by e-mail within about a month after the application deadline.
- EVALUATION CRITERIA: Those applications that meet eligibility criteria will be evaluated and ranked based on their quality. Grants will be awarded following this rank order based on the availability of funding allocated for the specific application round.
Please note that e-mails regarding the grant are all sent automatically to your Aalto e-mail address.
- If you are a Bachelor or Master student, please indicate in your application weather the project is related to your studies of which you will get study credits. Please negotiate with and get confirmation from your program head if your project could be credited prior to making application.
- By applying for a grant, you give permission to the Department of Design to publish your name and project information on the departmental webpage and other public media as necessary.
- The grant process from the application deadline to announcement of the results takes maximum two months. Applicants cannot apply for the same expense items more than once.
- Grant decisions are final and will not be commented.
- Grants are offered four times annually. Application deadlines are 15.02, 15.05, 15.08, and 15.11.
- If not otherwise agreed, the grants will be paid against receipts (see reporting requirements below).
- The total amount of funds granted is decided annually.
By accepting the grant, the applicant agrees to meet the following reporting requirements:
- Department of Design Grants granted prior 15 May 2024 and if you don´t have aalto e-mail: A report has to be submitted to grants-design@aalto.fi no later than one month after the grant has been used. Please use this e-mail for reporting if you don´t have Aalto e-mail address.
- Department of Design Grants granted on/after 15 May 2024: A report has to be submitted online no later than one month after the grant has been used. The link to the reporting page is included to the grant decision e-mail.
- The report should be done all at once (not in parts different times). Report consist minimum of 5-10 sentences summarizing how the grant has been used including all main information related to the use of the grant (e.g. name of the conference, location of the exhibition, outcomes, etc.). Important! Please inform in the report, which application round your report is related to (15.02.20XX, 15.05.20XX, 15.08.20XX or 15.11.20XX).
- The report should include 1 good quality photo documenting activities and work related to the use of the grant with additional text as relevant (e.g. the credentials of the photographer, the use rights, etc.). The photo will be archived in the Department of Design and it is the applicant’s responsibility to make sure the use rights allow the Department to use them for relevant purposes.
- The report should also include scanned receipts or a list of receipts for each expense item related to the grant.