Grants and prizes

The 2024 Prize for the Humanities, awarded by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, goes to Associate Professor Visa Kurki. The prize, worth €15,000, is awarded annually to a researcher in the field of humanities who has already achieved international recognition in the early stages of their career.

Forms of support for setting up a research group are rare in Finland. The Väisälä project grant, worth €150 000, was awarded by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters for the second time this spring. The awarded grants will be used to study algebraic geometry and the movements of the Earth’s crust in Antarctica.

The 2024 Academy Award of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters was awarded 19 April 2024. The award was granted to Academician Science, professor Markku Kulmala for his influential career. Markku Kulmala is a pioneer in the physics and chemistry of atmospheric nanoparticles and one of the leading experts in the field worldwide.

The Väisälä project grant is intended for researchers working in Finland at the early stages of the tenure track (assistant professor level) to set up their research group and cover the group’s research costs. The application period in 2024 is 1.1.–31.1.2024.

Forms of support for setting up a research group are rare in Finland. The first Väisälä project grants in the history of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, worth €150 000, were open for applications this spring.