THE GRANT DECISIONS FOR THE YEAR 2016 – CRITERIAS AND RULES FOR FUNDING

The applications were evaluated by a committee of environmental experts on the basis of the following criteria:

• Solution orientation and societal relevance of the research results
• Scientific quality and innovativeness of the research
• Scientific competence of the applicant and the research group
• Collaboration with other researchers / research groups /organizations
• Communication and interaction with stakeholders (especially with end-users of the results)
• Training environment (for PhD studies)

The board decided to fund the continuation projects for the 4th year of the PhD work max 6 months.Your project may not have been funded for the following rules in application instructions:

• Each applicant is allowed to submit only one application at a time. A new research project is not supported if the applicant has an ongoing Nessling-project
• Assisting personnel is funded only for well justified reasons, together with a personal grant
• Foundation does not support finishing of the PhD or other projects. The funded projects are under halfway of the total project.

The foundation does not provide written feedback on applications. However, the head of research Minttu Jaakkola gives explanations on the decisions by the telephone upon request tel. 09 4342 5511Time slots for inquiries:Monday 16.11. at 10-12
Wednesday 18.11. at 10-12
Thursday 19.11. at  10-12