Information about our grants.
Eka Grants are available to medical and dental students and licentiates beginning their research careers.
Both the Finnish Medical Foundation and Duodecim award Encouragement Grants. Both are applied for using the same form and the applications are reviewed using the same process.
Research Grants are awarded to support medical and dental students, licentiates and doctors in their research work.
The aim of the grants is to identify novel, investigator-initiated scientific ideas that can lay the groundwork for future treatments and challenge existing paradigms.
The foundations have a shared grant pool awarding grants for postdoctoral research abroad, known as the Postdoc Pool. There are two application periods a year, one in the spring and one in the autumn.
The Foundation’s Returning Researcher Grants are available to researchers returning to Finland from an overseas research visit.
For doctors starting their independent researcher careers.
The €20,000 Pohjola Medical Award is presented to a Finnish physician in recognition of outstanding lifetime achievements in medicine.
The €10,000 Pohjola Medical Innovation Award is granted annually for a significant invention in the field of medicine.