

The Inter-Country Travel Grant supports Finnish institutions to invite U.S. Fulbrighters for a short and impactful visit to Finland. The purpose of a maximum of 1-week visit can be lecturing, consulting, workshop, an evaluation/development project or other relevant outreach activity with wide impact.
Funded by Fulbright Finland Foundation, the IC Travel Grant covers the invited Fulbrighter’s travel expenses (e.g. flights and public transport connections) from their current host city in Europe to the IC host city in Finland.
Please note that the grant does not cover additional costs of the visit, such as food, accommodation, local transport during the visit, and other local expenses. The Finnish host and the Fulbrighter are expected to agree in advance on who will be responsible for these additional costs.
If you are a U.S. Fulbrighter in Europe and looking for an Inter-Country visit to Finland, please continue reading here.
Institutions need to apply six weeks before the planned visit. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. In order to apply for an Inter-Country Travel Grant, Finnish institutions should follow the following steps:
If you don't have a specific Fulbright scholar in mind, you can consult the list of U.S. Fulbright scholars currently in Europe (2019-20). The list for the academic year 2021-22 will be published in June 2021. You can search this list by academic discipline and specialization. Please note that this list includes only U.S. scholars in the Fulbright commission countries in Europe.
Please contact us if you can't find a fit for your purposes from the list.
If the host has not had previous contact with the Fulbright professional, the Foundation may initiate contact on the host's behalf.
The Finnish institution is responsible for taking care of all practical arrangements related to the U.S. Fulbrighter's visit at the host institution and in the host city. Please read important information on the role of the Finnish host institution in making the visit successful.
We expect the host institution to take charge of planning the visit and organizing the following practicalities:
The host can also contact the Fulbright Finland Outreach Ambassadors at the institution to introduce the visiting Fulbrighter to a local contact and Fulbright Finland alumni. See the list of ambassadors here.
We kindly ask you to take a careful look at the more detailed Host Check List provided for the Finnish host institutions to help arrange a Fulbrighter’s visit. It is very important to familiarize yourself with the checklist and start preparing for the visit already well in advance before the scholar's arrival to Finland. (While some items included on the check list are geared towards longer Fulbright programs, most issues are relevant to all hosts of U.S. Fulbrighters in Finland).
Please note! Inter-Country Travel recipient Fulbright grantees are not permitted to receive honoraria from the U.S. Government, inviting Commission, or sponsoring institution, as per FFSB Policy 654.3b.
Please note that the application needs to be sent to the Fulbright Finland Foundation six weeks before the planned visit.
The Fulbright Finland Foundation reviews the applications on a rolling basis. If the Foundation approves the request, we will contact the visiting Fulbrighter’s local Fulbright commission/U.S. Embassy to request their support for the visit. Once we receive this confirmation, the Fulbright Finland Foundation sends out the official award letter to the visiting Fulbrighter and the host.
Please follow these instruction if you have been awarded an IC grant.
We hope that communication about the visit and the project conveys that the visit has been supported by the Fulbright Finland Foundation.
Updated on August 21, 2019
This list includes information provided by Fulbright commissions in European countries that participate in the Inter-Country Travel Grant Program. The following countries/commissions have not yet provided their U.S. scholar information and have not yet announced if they will participate in the Inter-Country Travel Grant Program in 2019-2020: Italy.
Approximately 250 American lecturers and researchers representing a variety of academic fields participate in the Fulbright Scholar Program in Europe. Thus, a specialist fitting your department's teaching may be close by. A list of each year's American Fulbright Scholars in the world will be published annually on October 1 on the Council for International Exchange of Scholars website.
Fulbright Scholars who are in European countries without a Fulbright Commission can also be found on this list and it is possible for Finnish institutions to apply for an Inter-Country grant for these grantees.
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The Fulbright Finland Foundation is a private, independent, not-for-profit organization based in Helsinki, Finland. The Foundation’s aim is