The Academy of Finland September call for applications will be open 1.-27.9.2017 - participate in the info event in Otaniemi, Töölö or City Center

The Academy of Finland September call is open for the period 1.–27.9.2017. Funding can be applied for

• Researcher post as Academy Research Fellow
• Researcher post as Postdoctoral Researcher
• Academy Projects, all research fields
• Academy programmes:
  • Academy Programme for Artificial Intelligence in Physical Sciences and Engineering Research (AIPSE)

  • ARKTIKO Academy Programme: joint call in Arctic research with RFBR, Russia; deadline 11 Sep 2017

  • Academy Programme for Development Research; deadline 16 Oct 2017

Specific rules of research councils

• The Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering
  • Academy Research Fellows may also be granted project funding under the Academy Project funding scheme.

  • Postdoctoral Researchers may also be granted project funding under the Academy Project funding scheme.

  • The fact that the applicant is a principal investigator for a consortium subproject is not an obstacle to being awarded a grant, and vice versa.
• The Research Council for Culture and Society
  • Academy Research Fellows may also be granted project funding under the Academy Project funding scheme.
     

Participate in the info event in Otaniemi on 7.9., in Töölö on 23.8. or in City Center on 30.8.

In the Ask & Apply –roadshow in Otaniemi, the Academy of Finland will present the September call. In the roadshow event, science advisors of the Academy of Finland will present the contents and current issues of the September call. In Otaniemi’s event, the emphasis is in the Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering aspects, while in a similar event at the University of Helsinki (in City Center) the focus is on the Research Council for Culture and Society. The event arranged in Töölö is recommended especially for the researchers of the School of Business.

The new practices in the September call

• The Academy of Finland requires that all Academy-funded researchers make their scientific articles freely available via high-quality open access journals. Read more here. You can join open access clinics in Otaniemi to gain hands-on experience on how to use Aalto’s repository solutions to comply with the funders open access mandates.
• The Academy is committed to the guidelines of the Finnish Advisory Board on Research Integrity and requires that Academy-funded researchers and sites of research respect the same guidelines. The Academy also recommend that researchers follow the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity.
• Mobility is required from Postdoctoral Researcher and Academy Research Fellow applicants.
  • Those applying for funding for a research post as Postdoctoral Researcher or Academy Research Fellow are required to change research environments at the application stage or to have previous experience of working in other research environments (at least 6 months). 
• The Academy Research Fellowship is intended to support the career development. Therefore Academy Research Fellow funding is not granted to persons who hold tenured professorships.
• The research plan should include descriptions of both the research project’s scientific impact and its expected impact beyond academia.
• The guidelines on application appendices have been updated. The text part of the research plan can be no more than twelve pages and no more than 15 pages in the case of consortium applications. Additionally the bibliography of max. two pages is allowed.

More information

• The Academy of Finland call guidelines
• The Inside pages of the Research and Innovation Services’ Academy part.
• Inside pages of the Academy of Finland Frequently Asked Questions

The funded Academy of Finland projects of September of 2016 call can be found here.