Research Grants are awarded to aid medical and dental students, licentiates, and doctors in research work.
Research grants are awarded as work grants to medical and dental students, licentiates, and doctors.
In order to increase the attractiveness of research grants, the grant has been staggered so that the amount of grants awarded to postdoctoral researchers is EUR 2,500 per month and to dissertation authors EUR 2,250 per month. The research grants to be applied for are the authors of the dissertation € 13,500, € 27,000 or € 54,000 and € 15,000, € 30,000 or € 60,000.
The research grant can be paid to the researcher as a personal tax-free scholarship (to the applicant’s bank account) or as a salary. If the scholarship is paid as a scholarship, the applicant must take out employment pension insurance with Mela. From 2021, a research grant may, at the request of the applicant, also be paid to the research institute for further payment to the grant recipient as salary. The grant applicants are required to provide a letter of commitment from an employer such as a university or hospital. The employer then manages the withholding tax and the pension insurance on behalf of the applicant.
Research Grant recipients must write a report describing how the grant was used. This report must be completed by the end of the year after the research period has ended. The report will describe periods of time spent on full-time research, the research subject, the research’s primary achievements and information about the research being published. Reporting forms can be found in our Grant Service (https://laaketieteensaatio.rimbert.fi/).
Grants are primarily paid in the calendar year following the grant being awarded. Payments are made in January, March, August and October.