Opportunities from Research Council of Finland

The Research Council of Finland (RCF) contributes €1.5 million to the call. The Nordic funding pool is up to NOK 84 million and Nordic partners in one proposal may request up to NOK 7 million total for a project of up to 36 months. Eligible costs may include research salaries, PhD and postdoctoral positions, running costs, mobility and research stays, dissemination, stakeholder activities and indirect costs under the call rules. The Canadian applicant submits the single collaborative proposal to NSERC.

Each project must include at least one NSERC-eligible Canadian researcher and at least one eligible international collaborator. For NordForsk funding, the consortium must include research-performing organizations from at least two Nordic countries. The Nordic host must be in Denmark, Finland, Norway or Sweden, and the Nordic principal investigator must hold a PhD and be employed by the host institution throughout the project.