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The October Round

As a result of its application round in October 2023, the Finnish Cultural Foundation has awarded grants totalling over 30 million euros to support science, the arts, and culture. The foundation gives out more than 50 million euros annually, making it one of the largest grant-making fo...

Text: Essi KähkönenPhotos: Petri Summanen“Now men are talking!” “Men need to be heard.” These are a couple of examples of headlines in the media from recent years. They summarise the need to start a discussion about Finnish men and the expectations, norms, and ideals attached to them i...

Text: Antti KivimäkiPhotos: Veikko Somerpuro All over the world, people are competing to find solutions to replace plastic products with wood-based alternatives.As a material, plastic is functional, durable, practical, and cheap. The problem lies ...

Teksti: Reeta Holma In the coming years the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, which focuses on early music, will delve into the history of classical music in the Baltic Sea region with the support of the Finnish Cultural Foundation. The three-year project, which is interesting both musicall...

The October round is the largest of the Finnish Cultural Foundation’s four annual application rounds. This year it led to grants totalling EUR 31.5 million. All in all, the Finnish Cultural Foundation supports the sciences, the arts and culture in Finland with nearly EUR 60 million ea...

Fil. Dr. Antti Karttunen. Photo: Petri Summanen Text: Elina Venesmäki Could lost heat be recovered more efficiently? This is the subject of research for Ph.D. Antti Karttunen and Ph.D. Maarit Karppinen and their teams at Aalto University. ...

Geneticist Petri Auvinen running a project examining two types of samples that take them on a journey far back through time. Photo: Petri Summanen Teksti: Emma Nikander Ancient DNA can reveal a lot about the history of people and the enviro...

The sciences received 55% and the arts 45% of the grant funds. A total of 447 full-year working grants were awarded, of which 295 in the sciences and 152 in the arts. The most full-year grants were awarded for doctoral dissertation work. 128 multi-year grants were awarded, of which 91 ...

Text: Marika Aspila Pasi Räbinä. Photo: Kaisa Tiri Having designed costumes for 35 years and for more than 100 productions, including tens of thousands of individual pieces of clothing, Pasi Räbinä knows the materials and how they are treat...

Text: Minnamaria Koskela Photography: Katrin Havia Romany children are overrepresented among Finland’s social service customers, and young Romanies are more likely to end up in prison than their peers from the majority population. According t...