Conditions for Grant Awards
Below conditions for grant awards
- Applications without attachments will not be processed. Incomplete or late applications, as well as paper applications are not considered.
- Retroactive applications are not funded. An application is regarded as retroactive if a trip, project or funding period for full-time research specified in the application ends before the application deadline. Grants for full-time research will not be awarded for periods before the grant decision is made.
- A condition for payment of a grant is that the applicant has not received other funding for the same purpose.
- The grants are personal.
- The grants are awarded according to the submitted cost calculation unless otherwise specified in the decision.
- Only one grant is awarded per person and application round.
- The grantee must follow current guidelines for responsible conduct of research in all aspects of his/her studies/research (please refer to the guidelines of the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK).
- Grants for conference participation require that the applicant presents a paper at the conference.
- The maximum grant awarded for conferences and courses within Europe is 1500€, and for conferences and courses outside Europe 2400€.
- Daily allowances and costs for meals are not granted from the awarded funds.
- Funds for proof-reading, spell checking, translation etc of articles, theses, papers and questionnaires etc are not granted.
- Funds for transcription are not granted.
- Conferences, courses, study visits, projects and data collection in Finland are not financed through the means of the funds.
- Funds for purchase of literature will only be granted in exceptional cases and the purchase will then be administered by the Hanken library.
- Grants for doctoral researchers require that the applicant is registered as present at Hanken during the time of application and the use of the grant.
- Grants for doctoral researchers are given during the first, second, third or fourth study year. Grants for doctoral researchers in their fifth or sixth years are only given in exceptional cases.
- Grants for bachelor or master students require that the applicant is registered as present at Hanken during application and use of the grant.
- The maximum grant amounts for language courses and summer schools can be found here.
- Grants for language courses and Summer Schools are only granted for participation in courses arranged by institutions of good repute.
- For grants for language courses or Summer Schools the applicant must have completed at least 6 credits in the language in question (for Portuguese 6 credits in Spanish)
- The same person can be granted a maximum of three grants for language courses/Summer Schools.