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.
- Activities 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 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 given for courses in a European country (only in exceptional cases in Central or South America).
- 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.