THE 2021 GRANT CALL IS NOW CLOSED. Thank you for your applications! THE FUNDING DECISIONS ARE ANNOUNCED ON DECEMBER 2.

Illustration: Marika Maijala

Kone Foundation is an independent non-profit organisation with a mission to make the world a better place by creating the conditions for free and multi-voiced art and research. In 2020, Kone Foundation awarded grants, prizes and donations totalling EUR 40 million. Our annual grant call was held 1–15 September, 2021.

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Saari Residence in Finland, Europe

Events

Events

22.9.2021

Peer mentoring wrap-up session

Events

2.12.2021

Funding decision announcement

News

Helsinki

30/08/2021

Blog: Time to step into an evaluator’s shoes once again

At the Well blog

17/09/2021

Small-scale ecological compensations: what are people’s preferences for participating in them?

Helsinki

24/08/2021

Lauttasaari Manor residency guest followed the story of a mysterious relative to Finland

News

23/08/2021

Kone Foundation awards nearly three million euros to multidisciplinary cooperation in research and art, including the foundation’s largest ever individual grant

News

11/08/2021

Engine Room column: Research funders, academics, and research data – seeking balance

At the Well blog

12/07/2021

The Polar Voices project records the archaic music of northeastern Siberia – listen to two podcasts of violinist Pia Siirala’s journeys

News

30/06/2021

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