2016

Fulbright Finland Statistics 2016

• 5,667 client contacts in total, event participants included, out of which 1,976 Fulbright Speaker program participants. 38% of all contacts, event participants included, were international educational professionals
• 101 information sessions, seminars, conferences, and Fulbright Speaker Program sessions throughout Finland
• Website: 231,200 pageviews and 67,700 website visitors.

Grant Programs

• Total of 94 grantees (47 Finnish grantees, 47 U.S. grantees)
• Over EUR 1,4 million awarded as grants, co-sponsored grants included

Alumni

• Over 550 active U.S. alumni in the United States (Friends of Fulbright Finland network)
• Hundreds of active alumni in Finland and the United States serving as experts, academic reviewers, Board members, and in various other capacities related to the Fulbright Center and its programs.
• 128 of the alumni are also members of the ASLA-Fulbright Alumni Association in Finland.

Core Funding (partnership awards not included)

• 70 % from Finland (Trust Fund, Finnish government, private foundations, Finnish universities, other)
• 30 % from the United States (18 % the U.S. government, 9 % other)

Highlights

• Fulbright Arctic Initiative Plenary Meeting and Symposium in Oulu
• Capacity-Building Workshop: Attracting U.S. Students to Finland seminar in Helsinki
• New Fulbright-Saastamoinen Foundation Distinguished Chair position for research at the University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio
• Signing of the deed of Fulbright Finland Foundation
• European Fulbright Conference in Helsinki
• 40th Anniversary of the Finland-America Educational Trust Fund and the 40th Anniversary of the Fulbright Bicentennial Chair in Finland
• Fulbright Finland serves as the clearinghouse for inter-country travel grants for U.S. Fulbright scholars in all of Europe