Conditions for Grant Awards

• The activities abroad must be carefully planned, scheduled and documented, with all required attachments included in the application. Requests for changes in purpose for awarded grants will not be approved.
• 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.
• Strong motivation is required for grant awards for activities outside Europe.
• 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.
• Only one grant per paper per conference.
• 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€ (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.

Language courses and Summer Schools

• Grants for bachelor or master students require that the applicant is registered as present at Hanken during application and use of the grant.
• Grants for alumni only for those who graduated from Hanken within the past three years.
• The maximum grant amounts for language courses and summer schools can be found here.
• Language courses must include at least around 20 hrs. of language tuition per week.
• Grants for language courses and Summer Schools are only given for courses in Europe (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 5 credits in the language in question (for Portuguese 5 credits in Spanish)
• The same person can be granted a maximum of three grants for language courses/Summer Schools.