Grants in spring 2018
The HSE Support Foundation grants in spring 2018
The HSE Support Foundation concentrates on supporting research projects that seek to publish in top international refereed journals. In assessing the potential of a research plan or conference presentation, emphasis is placed on success achieved by the applicant in publishing in refereed journals over the last couple of years (this is not required of students studying for a master’s degree or doctor’s degree. The HSE Support Foundation gives preference to research projects from the core competence areas of the Aalto University School of Business.
Changes:
Grants to cover reasonable expenses entailed in the language revision of scientific publications. The HSE Support Foundation will make grants only for articles to be included in a dissertation or quality journal (FT45/50, ABS 4 and JUFO3).
Recognition awards for quality publications (à 2,000 euro or à 4,000 euro)
The HSE Support Foundation grants researchers at Aalto University School of Business recognition awards of 2,000 or 4,000 euros for research papers published as official, online version published by the journal or paper version in top academic publications. These awards are recognition for especially meritorious long-term research work or top performance.
They can be awarded only to authors whose home university at the time of publication of the article was the Aalto University School of Business and for publications where their affiliation is Aalto University School of Business.
At the time of publication, the researcher has to be employed at least 50% by the School of Business, or the school has to be the main academic affiliation of the researcher and emeritus/emerita researcher.
1st category: a grant of 4,000 euros is awarded for a publication in a journal on the FT45 or (beginning January 1, 2017) the FT50 list.
Transition period
Papers submitted for publication in a FT45 journal no later than December 31, 2016 and published no later than December 31, 2018 will qualify for an award as a 1st category publication. Both dates should be given in the grant application.
General:
Electronic references for applications. Beginning in the spring of 2016 references to the applications will be given electronically. The person giving the reference for a grant applicant will log in to the online service and fill out a form with the relevant information. For more information see the page Instructions and application forms.
The link is on the bottom of page Instructions and application forms.
Please fill in the electronic applicaton form and send it with attachments to the HSE Foundation through the server by the time the server closes on Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 12 midnight at the latest.
- Researcher at the Aalto University School of Business:
at the time of publication, the researcher has to be employed at least 50% by the School of Business, or the school has to be the main academic affiliation of the researcher and emeritus/emerita researcher - Travel grants:
Applicants who are participating in scholarly conferences are required to have a conference presentation which is accepted for the conference’s program.
Travel grants can be applied only for conferences that take place at a date after the application period. Grants are not awarded retroactively for travels that have already taken place. - Personal grants are for holders of posts only for their leaves of absence.
- Daily allowances are not granted.
Statutory social security for grant recipients
Statutory pension, accident and group life insurance premiums for grant recipients (approx. 14% of the amount of the grant) are included in grants for research or study. The legislation applies to such grants when the work involved lasts at least 4 months. More detailed instructions will be sent to grant recipients in letters of acceptance.
For additional information see www.mela.fi. This does not apply to students working for master’s degrees.
Grants available for application by teachers, researchers and other personnel
The HSE Foundation General Funds
Research project grants for new scientific research projects. Priority is granted to projects in economics, especially business, and also various research projects of strategic importance for the School of Business initiated or conducted through cooperation among different subjects.
Seed Funding for Research
The Board of the HSE Foundation has granted Research Seed Funding for the School of Business for preparing new scientific research projects. See the regarding application procedure Aalto inside/Research/Seed Funding for Research.
Research grants for scholarly research and for theses and dissertations.
Emeritus grant (á 7,500 euro / year). In addition to the standard form, each applicant should deliver the recommendation and commitment statement signed by the head of department. The professor emeritus receiving the grant commits to continue his/her research and supervise PhD students as well as execute other activities that have been agreed upon with the head of the department. The department where the professor is/has been working should commit to secure regular working conditions for him/her, e.g. rights to use the computer, email, telephone, copying as well as work space (possibly shared room). The emeritus grant is only for permanently employed fulltime professors who retire after January 1, 2012.
Full-time research grants (à 2,000 euro per month, max 24,000 euro) for full-time research aiming at a doctorate at the Aalto University School of Business. Applications must include a detailed research plan including schedule for implementation, cost estimate, curriculum vitae, statement from the applicant’s supervisor, and an explanation from holders of posts regarding arrangements during leaves of absence. Applications lacking in any of the above information will not be processed.
Travel grants for scholarly conferences and research visits. Applicants who are participating in scholarly conferences are required to have a conference presentation which is accepted for the conference’s program. The acceptance letter from the conference must be included in the grant application or sent at the latest together with the payment form of the possibly awarded grant. Applicants whose travel is intended to promote publication of research findings in international refereed journals of quality are given priority. Travel grants can be applied only for conferences that take place at a date after the application period. Grants are not awarded retroactively for travels that have already taken place.
Sabbatical Leave grants are awarded to cover research and travel expenses during the sabbatical leave to persons employed by Aalto University School of Business. The application should contain the plan and the expense estimate of the sabbatical project.
Grants to cover reasonable expenses entailed in the language revision of scientific publications. The HSE Support Foundation will make grants only for articles to be included in a dissertation or quality journal (FT45/50, ABS 4 and JUFO3). Applications made on the standard form for such support, to which an account of paid invoices for reasonable costs has been appended, may also be submitted to the HSE Support Foundation outside normal application periods. A link to the standard form is on the bottom of page Instructions and application forms.
Recognition awards for quality publications (à 2,000 euro or à 4,000 euro)
The HSE Support Foundation grants researchers at Aalto University School of Business recognition awards of 2,000 or 4,000 euros for research papers published as official, online version published by the journal or paper version in top academic publications. These awards are recognition for especially meritorious long-term research work or top performance.
They can be awarded only to authors whose home university at the time of publication of the article was the Aalto University School of Business and for publications where their affiliation is Aalto University School of Business.
At the time of publication, the researcher has to be employed at least 50% by the School of Business, or the school has to be the main academic affiliation of the researcher and emeritus/emerita researcher.
The recognition award will be divided to the authors so that School of Business’ authors receive a respective part of the total award’s sum as a personal grant calculated on the basis of the number of authors of the article and depending on whether they were working at Aalto University School of Business at the time; a part of the total award’s sum intended for authors not working at Aalto University School of Business comes as a grant (through Aalto University School of Business project account and against original expense receipts) to cover the research expenses of Aalto University School of Business’ authors of the award.
In case the grant recipient doesn’t do research as researcher at the Aalto University School of Business, the research grant will not be paid. In case the grant recipient moves elsewhere before the grant expires, the unused part of the research grant will be reverted to the HSE Support Foundation.
1st category: a grant of 4,000 euros is awarded for a publication in a journal on the FT45 or (beginning January 1, 2017) the FT50 list
http://library.mcmaster.ca/find/ft-research-rank-journals
2nd category: a grant of 2,000 euros is awarded for a publication in a journal on the ABS 4 list or JUFO 3 (the Finnish Publication Forum) list
Transition period
Papers submitted for publication in a FT45 journal no later than December 31, 2016 and published no later than December 31, 2018 will qualify for an award as a 1st category publication. Both dates should be given in the grant application.
Recognition awards for high quality publications can be applied for by filling in the electronic application form during the official application periods in February and September.
Please note: One application per article, meaning that one person from the research group fills in the application and includes in it the relevant information concerning the other possible authors of the article.
Applications should include the name(s) of the authors of the article, personal data of researchers at the Aalto University School of Business (name, social security number, degree/tittle, IBAN bank account number with BIC code and home address). The published article should be appended to the application.
The Board of the HSE Support Foundation makes recognition awards twice a year, in connection with grants made in spring and fall.
Recognition awards for patents (2,000 euro or 4,000 euro per patent)
The HSE Support Foundation grants recognition awards for national or international patents granted to researchers or research groups at the Aalto University School of Business.
a) the award for an invention granted a national patent is 2,000 euro
b) the award for an invention granted an international patent, either European-wide or American, is 4,000 euro.
The application procedure for recognition awards concerning patents is the same as for awards for publication in quality journals.
Special funds of the HSE Support Foundation
Awards of 16,000 euro from the 50th Anniversary Fund of the School of Economics
- For securing the development of present and future teachers and researchers at the Aalto University School of Business.
- For securing the textbooks necessary for degrees to be completed at the Aalto University School of Business.
- For development of the doctoral and special training deemed necessary at the Aalto University School of Business.
- For development of the forms and means for applied language and other teaching at the Aalto University School of Business.
In deciding on grants, the developmental goals of various functions of the School of Business are to be taken into account in accordance with the decisions of the Board of the HSE Support Foundation. Grants for teaching support grant applications that aim at development of teaching and the preparation of new teaching material or at the development of new methods and forms of teaching and testing.
The Pricewaterhouse Coopers Oy Fund, 30,000 euro
Grants in particular for research, teaching or study related to auditing, bookkeeping, and financial statement practice (teachers/students).
The Oy Wärtsilä Ab Jubilee Fund, 7,500 euro
For travel abroad related to study and research by teachers and researchers of the Aalto University School of Business. In addition, departments of the School of Business can propose invitations to foreign lecturers to visit the School of Business and thus promote the internationalization of Finnish companies.
From the donation made by the Foundation of the commercial Counsellor Yrjö Paulow 5,000 euro to support the research and education of the Finnish foreign trade (teachers/students).
The Chancellor Jaakko Honko Fund, 4,500 euro
Grants are made from this fund for the promotion of internationalization by students of the Aalto University School of Business, particularly doctoral students, and for business research and studies and arranging seminars (teachers/students).
The Oy Stockmann Ab Jubilee Fund, 2,500 euro
Personal grants to students of the Aalto University School of Business or to researchers working at the school, including students studying for master’s degrees and preparing master’s theses, for the promotion of business research primarily in the retail trade sector (teachers/students).
The Professor Henrik Virkkunen Memorial Fund, 2,500 euro
Personal grants are made to students of the Aalto University School of Business or to researchers working at the school, including students studying for master’s degrees and preparing master’s theses. The grants are to promote quantitative research in business economics (teachers/students).
O G.W. Sohlberg Ab Fund, 2,000 euro
Grants for research and study in disciplines represented at the Aalto University School of Business, also for those pursuing a master’s degree in business or a related degree, especially on topics of importance for the metal, plastics, and wood industries (teachers/students).
Arthur Andersen & Co Fund, 1,500 euro
Grants for research and study dealing with auditing and accounting, and law, particularly tax law (teachers/students).
Grants available for applications by students
The special funds of the HSE Foundation
The following grants are available from the scholarship funds of the HSE Support Foundation, mainly for application by doctoral students at the School of Business:
PricewaterhouseCoopers Oy Fund, 30,000 euro
(teachers/students)
From the donation made by the Foundation of the commercial Counsellor Yrjö Paulow 5,000 euro to support the research and education of the Finnish foreign trade (teachers/students).
The Chancellor Jaakko Honko Fund, 4,500 euro
(teachers/students)
The Oy Stockmann Ab Jubilee Fund, 2,500 euro
(teachers/students)
Professor Henrik Virkkunen Memorial Fund, 2,500 euro
(teachers/students)
Oy G.W. Sohlberg Ab fund, 2,000 euro
(teachers/students)
Anniversary fund, 2,500 euro
From the donation made by Board Chairman Peder Biese, in honor of his 60th birthday, for master’s theses dealing with internationalization and accounting.
Arthur Andersen & Co fund, 1,500 euro
(teachers/students)
Eeva and Matti Virkkunen Fund, 500 euro
Kauppatieteiden Kandidaattiyhdistys ry Fund, 500 euro
(Association of Bachelors of Sciences)
DONATIONS FOR THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
Grants to donor-specified fields of research from funds donated to the HSE support Foundation for support of theses and dissertations are announced separately by the various subjects. Applications for such grants can be submitted on an application form available at the office of the HSE Support Foundation (not by electronic form at web-site). There are no specific periods for application.
Application forms are available at the office of the HSESupport Foundation (Main building/Room C333.1), Runeberginkatu 14-16, 00100 Helsinki.
For more information please contact Tuula Murremäki, office manager at the HSE Support Foundation
+358 50 373 2241, tuula.murremaki [at] aalto [dot] fi
Information for all applicants
Grants will be announced by yes/no -email and on the websites of the Aalto University School of Business and the HSE Support Foundation at the end of April. Letters including instructions will be sent to recipients of grants.
Helsinki, February 5, 2018
The HSE Foundation
Yrjö Uitto Foundation
The Yrjö Uitto foundation has allocated 35,000 euro for grants to be made during the spring of 2017 for research and teaching in business economics regarding private enterprise and for projects supporting the conditions required for academic entrepreneurship. The purpose of these grants is primarily to support doctoral studies in economics at the Aalto University School of Business.
Please send a free-form application, which mention any other funding obtained or applied for, by Wednesday, March 14, 2018 to the office of the HSE Foundation at the following address: P.O. Box 21210, 00076 AALTO, (street address: Runeberginkatu 14-16, (room C333.1), 00100 Helsinki). The envelope should be marked: “Uitto”.
It is the responsibility of the applicant to make sure that his or her application with appendices reaches the HSE Foundation Office by Wednesday, March 14, 2018.
NB: You may bring your application to the Information desk on the entrance lobby of the main building on Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at 7.00 pm at the latest.
For additional information contact Tuula Murremäki, tel. +358 50 373 2241,
e-mail: tuula.murremaki [at] aalto [dot] fi
Helsinki, March 5, 2018
Yrjö Uitto Foundation