Why should a university participate in cost-share grants, funded together with the Fulbright Finland Foundation?
- To further internationalize the university, faculties, and research and teaching
- To provide more funding and international grant opportunities for students, researchers and staff
- A Fulbright grant to the U.S. includes several significant benefits before and during the grant period (further information on the program benefits)
- The participation information regarding the cost-share funding is published along with the selected grantees, which provides positive visibility for the university
- Some of the Fulbright Finland Foundation’s grant programs cannot be applied to if the home university does not participate in cost-share grants
Cost-share grants are part of the following grant programs
- ASLA-Fulbright Graduate Grant
- ASLA-Fulbright Pre-Doctoral Research Fellows Program
- ASLA-Fulbright Research Grants for Junior Scholars
- ASLA-Fulbright Research Grants for Senior Scholars
- ASLA-Fulbright Mid-Career Professional Development Program
Selection of cost-share grants and billing from the university’s viewpoint
- At the start of the year, the Foundation sends a letter to Finnish universities asking them to list those cost-share grant categories that they want to participate in during the next academic year.
- At the end of the application period, applications that have been submitted by an applicant from a specific university and have passed the technical screening are sent to be evaluated in that university.
- The university provides the Foundation the names of those applicants that it agrees to support.
- The Foundation selects the grantees and notifies the applicants and their home universities of the decision.
- The selections are announced in the Award Ceremony, organized in Helsinki in May. Also, the names of the universities participating in cost-share grants are announced along with the names of the grantees.
- The Foundation pays the grants in dollars. The share of the university is billed in euros based on the exchange rate of the billing date, which in turn is dependent on the timing of the grantee’s Fulbright period. If the grant period starts in the fall semester, the Foundation sends the bill at the beginning of August. If the period starts in spring semester, the bill is sent at the beginning of January. If the Fulbright period lasts for an entire academic year, both fall and spring semester are billed in August.
The information on universities participating in cost-sharing of grants during the 2024-25 academic year will be published on this website by the end of March 2023.
Cost-share grants by programPlease note that ASLA-Fulbright Pre-Doctoral Research Fellows Program and ASLA-Fulbright research Grants for Senior Scholars can only be applied if one’s home university participates in Cost-share grants. |
Cost-share universities in the academic year 2023-2024information is not available for university of jyväskylä, University of Lapland, and åbo akademi. |
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ASLA-Fulbright Pre-Doctoral Research Fellows Program
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ASLA-Fulbright Research Grants for Junior Scholars
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ASLA-Fulbright Research Grants for Senior Scholars
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ASLA-Fulbright Mid-Career Professional Development Grant (MCPD)
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*Aalto University requires that the applicant’s department or unit covers half of the university’s cost-share funding. The applicant has to attach a statement given by the head/director of their department/unit in their Fulbright application (a pdf of a statement or an email, indicating also contact details of the signatory). The statement has to show that the sending unit is willing to cover half of the cost-share sum. Aalto University does not support master-level studies or studies resulting in a degree. Further information: Mervi Rantanen ([email protected]) / Aalto University.
**The University of Turku requires that the department or unit of a Fulbright grant applicant covers half of the cost-share funding of the University of Turku. The grant applicant has to attach their unit’s agreement on this in their Fulbright application. The agreement has to be a signed attachment (an email is not enough), which shows that the unit is willing to cover half of the cost-share sum. Further information: Satu Nurmi (satu.e.nurmi(at)utu.fi).