Grants and research funding

SLS allocated EUR 5,659,312 to research, culture and other public service activities during 2022.

5.7 million

Other 1.4

Prizes 0.4 34 prizes

At the kick off-seminar held on Hanasaari Island in Espoo, discussions were sometimes quite lively.

Future Nordics researchers want to help decision-makers

In September about 70 researchers from throughout the Nordic region gathered for a kick off-seminar.

“We want to know why.” This is the motto of the eleven research projects funded within the framework of the Future Challenges in the Nordics programme, also known as Future Nordics. The researchers want to understand the major societal challenges of our time and help decision-makers and citizens to tackle them.

“In a panel discussion conducted during the seminar, questions were raised about how the projects can reach decision-makers, and how to get those people to review the results,” says Christer Kuvaja , Head of Research at SLS.

Among other topics, the four-year projects examine compulsory schooling in the Nordic countries, disadvantaged residential areas, and digital border surveillance.

The programme’s other funding bodies are Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, the Finnish Cultural Foundation, the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, Stiftelsen Brita Maria Renlunds minne, and the Kamprad Family Foundation for Entrepreneurship, Research & Charity. Read more at futurenordics.org.

Michaela von Kügelgen