Kone Foundation project presentations and specially allocated grants
Over the years Kone Foundation has awarded many grants for the advancement of interdisciplinary research and dialogue on topical issues.
These project presentations pages provide information on a number of projects. Videos on projects can be found in the section Hanke-esittelyt (in Finnish only). In addition, the projects presentations pages include information on Kone Foundation’s specially allocated grants.
Project Presentations
The Imagined People: Transformations in the Finnish Self-image
How did the events of 1905 affect the Finnish national self-perception? How was the collective identity of the Finnish bourgeoisie reshaped by their changing relationship with the wider population? The interdisciplinary research project led by Lea Rojola is a wide-ranging investigation of the momentous cultural and societal changes of 1905 and their implications on the bourgeois identity.
Long-term Changes in Lake Ice Conditions in Northern Finland
The research project, led by Professor Atte Korhola, is part of Kone Foundation’s Scientific Analysis of Finland’s Long-term Environmental Records project proposals. The study aims to make use of Finland’s long history of keeping records of environmental conditions by combining these with a broad range of sophisticated techniques to contribute, amongst other things, to the development of a comprehensive view of climate change and ecosystem change in Northern Finland through the examination of changing ice conditions. For more information see the project’s website.
Kone Foundation Specially Allocated Grants: Project Proposals 2002-2007
2008 Evolutionary perspectives on the human sciences
Kone Foundation has invited applications for funding for research projects
on evolutionary perspectives on the human sciences.
2008 Grants for Non-fiction Publications and Translations of Non-fiction
Kone Foundation offers funding for Finnsih-language non-fiction writing, and also for translations of non-fiction work from Finnish to other languages or vice versa. The grants are intended to support non-fiction writing in the fields of the humanities, social sciences and environmental sciences. The objective is to support efforts to make research in these fields accessible to the general public.
2007 Study of Finnish-language Non-fiction Literature and Non-fiction Writing
2007 marks the 450th anniversary of the death of Mikael Agricola, the father of the written Finnish language. To commemorate this event and in honour of the 500-year history of written Finnish, Kone Foundation has allocated funds for research projects that study various aspects of Finnish-language non-fiction writing and literature. The project aims to bring together the fields of philology, Finnish literature and historical research and their various research methods.
2007 Grants for Non-fiction Publications and Translations of Non-fiction
Kone Foundation has announced that it will award up to 10 two-year grants for non-fiction projects in the fields of the humanities, social sciences and environmental sciences. In addition, Kone Foundation offers up to 5 grants for translations of non-fiction works in the fields of the humanities, social sciences and environmental sciences into or from the Finnish language.
2006 Scientific Analysis of Finland’s Long-term Environmental Records
Finland has some of the world’s longest records of lake and river ice cover, duration and ice thickness. Records of seasonal behaviour of animal species, seasonal appearances of various plant species and other annual changes are also among the world's most long-ranging, in some cases dating back to the 17th century. The practical value of these records has grown radically in recent years, as they offer a reliable method of monitoring and analyzing long-term changes in the natural environment. Kone Foundation offered specially allocated funding for scientific analysis of these records and provided funding for a total of seven such projects.
2006 Grants for Non-fiction Publications and Translations of Non-fiction
Kone Foundation offered up to 10 research grants of a maximum of €50,000 each for Finnish-language non-fiction in the fields of the humanities, social sciences or environmental sciences. In addition the Foundation offered five grants of a maximum of €50,000 each for translations of high-quality works in the humanities, social sciences or environmental sciences. These latter grants were awarded for translations from other languages to Finnish or vice versa.
2005 1905: The Beginning of Radical Change
Kone Foundation offered funding for interdisciplinary research projects in the humanities and social sciences to study the effects of the major social and political changes that took place in 1905. Among other possible themes for the research project were the following: are major socio-political transitions the extraordinary culminations of collective action, or are they the normal state of political development?; the concept and practice of voting; women and politics; political rhetoric; and administrative language and its possible crisis.
2002–2004 Kone Foundation Project Grants for Young Researchers’ Group Projects
Kone Foundation offered project grants for interdisciplinary groupwork by young researchers. The grants were particularly intended to support research in the fields of the humanities, social sciences and environmental sciences.