The coordinating Finnish higher education institution will be responsible for the use of funding. The higher education institution reports to EDUFI on the progress and implementation of the activities in the interim report and in the final report at the end of the agreement period.
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Results
There were 13 intensive course applications, 10 of which were granted funding.
Networks had a chance to apply for additional funding in the interim report by 15.11.2020. Additional funding was granted for student mobilitites with a total of 7 000 € euros.
There were 21 intensive course applications, 9 of which were granted funding. The average granted amount was around 11 000 euros per course.
Networks had a chance to apply for additional funding in the interim report by 15.11.2019. Three networks were granted additional funding of 33 140,00 € euros altogether.
There were 30 intensive course applications, 18 of which were granted funding. The average granted amount was around 11 000 euros per course.
Networks had a chance to apply for additional funding in the interim report by 28th of September 2018. Total amount of applied additional funding was 28 340,00 euros and four networks were granted additional funding of 20 048,58 euros altogether.
Guidelines for 2020 projects
The final grant will be paid to the beneficiary according to the final report. The higher education institute provides EDUFI with its billing information for billing the possibly unused funding.
Guidelines for 2019 projects
The coordinating Finnish higher education institution will be responsible for the use of funding. The higher education institution reports to EDUFI on the progress and implementation of the activities in the interim report and in the final report at the end of the agreement period.
The final grant will be paid to the beneficiary according to the final report. The higher education institute provides EDUFI with its billing information for billing the possibly unused funding.
Guidelines for 2018 projects
The coordinating Finnish higher education institution will be responsible for the use of funding. The higher education institution reports to EDUFI on the progress and implementation of the activities in the interim report and in the final report at the end of the agreement period.
Finnish-Russian intensive courses for PhD students
As part of the FIRST+ programme, a separate call for applications for EDUFI Finnish-Russian intensive courses for PhD students was organised. This call was to support Finnish-coordinated intensive courses from the field of humanities and social sciences for postgraduate students from Russian and Finnish universities.
Contact us
FIRST+ programme responsible at EDUFI:
Mari Pohjola
Senior Programme Adviser
first(at)oph.fi
Phone 0295 331 746