1. Academy provides funding for working abroad www.aka.fi http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Santorini_maisema.JPG

2. Researcher training and research abroad Applications are invited in October The aim of this form of funding is to raise the standard of research and to promote the international mobility of researchers, particularly at the postdoctoral stage. Funding is also awarded to support researchers' work abroad and to researchers for researcher training with the aim to gain a doctorate at a foreign university usually for a minimum of one semester and a maximum of one academic year. Funding is awarded as a monthly grant for research. The grant paid may include the researcher's term and study fees and other research costs as well as travel costs. If the period abroad lasts at least six months, the travel costs of accompanying family members may also be remunerated. Settling-in costs will not be covered.

3. As regards researchers with a PhD who are going to conduct research in other EU Member States, precedence is given to those who have received partial funding from other sources, for example from EU sources. IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis) provides funding for postdoctoral-stage researcher visits of a maximum of one year to IIASA in Austria. IIASA's research areas include Environment and natural resources, Population and society, and Energy and technology.

4. Postdoctoral Researcher funding at EUI The Academy of Finland and the European University Institute (EUI) have agreed that the Academy can fund a maximum of two 1–2-year postdoctoral research periods at the EUI in Florence. Applicants shall in their research plan, to be appended to the application, present a detailed description of the research period at the EUI. Funding is awarded as a monthly grant for research work. Applicants are advised to get acquainted with the research conducted at the EUI in advance on the EUI website at www.iue.it.www.iue.it

5. International cooperation Researcher mobility and other contractual bilateral cooperation In January applications are invited for personal grants and research grants (invitation money) to support the mobility of researchers as well as for joint seminars (Japan, China). The Academy of Finland awards grants for researcher mobility and other cooperation with Belarus, Bulgaria, China (incl. Taiwan), Estonia, Germany, Hungary, India, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Republic of Korea, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine (more details in aka.fi)

6. Postdoctoral Researcher's project Applications are invited in January The Postdoctoral Researcher’s research grant provides the researcher good opportunities for independent research work and change of the research environment. In accordance with its strategic goals, the Academy encourages researchers to international mobility that will support their research, for example, so that the researcher works for a fixed period abroad.

7. General research grants Applications are invited in January Academy encourages researchers to international mobility that will support their research, for example, so that the researcher works for a fixed period abroad. A foreign researcher may also be hired who already works in Finland or who will come to work within the Finnish scientific community.