Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation Grant

Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Jenny and Antti Wihurin Foundation
Last Updated: April 15, 2025

Summary

The Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation Grant supports various projects in research, arts, and societal activities, fostering initiatives that promote creativity and inclusivity. It offers grants for scientific research, artistic endeavors, and societal engagement, encouraging applications from individuals, groups, and registered organizations. However, it excludes funding for certain areas such as medicine, visual arts exhibitions, and travel costs. The application process occurs annually in spring, providing opportunities for diverse projects to gain financial support.

Overview

Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation is a Finnish non-profit organization that supports hundreds of projects in the areas of research, art and societal activities every year. Jenny ja Antti Wihuri Foundation’s grants create opportunities for work, initiatives, and development of operation in the fields of science, art, and societal activities. Grants can be sought through the yearly application process organized in the spring. The Foundation also takes part in joint grant pools of Finnish foundations. Grants for science Grants for science are primarily awarded for research work (for 1-12 months at a time, fulltime or parttime work but continuous work). Grants are awarded broadly to different fields of science to both basic and applied research. However, we do not award grants in the fields of medicine and biomedicine, since they are furthered through funding the Wihuri Research Institute. Grants for art Grants in the fields of art are intended to create prerequisites for artistic work and for encountering and experiencing art in the society. For example, you can apply for a working grant for artistic work in the fields of music, literature, dance or theater, as well as grants for instrument purchases or organizing performances and events. It is also possible to apply for grants for initiatives and development projects in the fields of art and culture. We support visual arts mainly by making art acquisitions to the Wihuri Foundation Collection in Rovaniemi Art Museum, and by maintaining visual arts residency programs. Therefore in principle, we do not award working grants in the field of visual arts or grants for organizing exhibitions. Grants for societal activities Societal activities is all such work that builds an active and inclusive civil society. Societal activities include, for example, youth work, voluntary national defense work, cultural activities, and promotion of entrepreneurial skills. However, societal activities may include other themes, too.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Who can apply:a private individuala working group (at least two private individuals as applicants)a registered legal entity/organization (such as association or cooperative) for expenditures of a project

Ineligibility

Causes grants are not awarded for:Proof reading costs nor printing costs of doctoral thesesOverhead costs of equipmentUndergraduate studies in the field of scienceTravel grantsPost-doctoral research abroad that lasts for 6-24 months (The Foundations’ Post Doc Pool).The grant for visual art is for the research of visual art: not for artistic work nor organizing an exhibition.You cannot be awarded with a full-time working grant and be paid at the same time or use another working grant.