Grants

Support for conference travel or research costs (salaried researcher)

If you belong to the thematic doctoral programme as a salaried researcher, you can apply for a grant for costs incurring from conference travel, field work or research costs. Grants are given to applicants who have performed well in their research and studies. If your dissertation work is still at the very beginning, the application will receive a negative decision. The final grant sum is based on the application. There is no specific application period, as you can submit an application at any time of the year.

The purpose of the grant is to support the dissertation process in an active phase. Eligible costs are e.g. travel costs and translation and proofreading invoices. Devices or supplies will not be funded. If you have very firm justifications for acquiring literature, you can get funding for it. Applications are to be delivered well in advance before reserving travel tickets or ordering a service. The purpose of the grant is to support the quality and progress of dissertations in the thematic doctoral programme. 

Contact us:

tutkijakoulu (at) ulapland.fi

 Payment procedure:

The decision is sent to the applicant by email. If the application is successful, the grant will be paid to the applicant's account. Costs incurring from proofreading or translation are paid according to real costs. They are paid to the applicant against receipts, or – alternatively – the invoices are addressed directly to the University of Lapland.

Esko Riepula Grant for finalising dissertations

The university has grants for doctoral researchers at the final stages of their dissertation work. Grants are given to 1–6 months. Naturally, grantees are to submit their dissertation and to graduate from the University of Lapland.

Decisions are made four times a year: in March, June, September and December. You need to submit your application by the 1st day of the month.

This means that you are to submit by 1 December 2025 for a grant period intended for the beginning of year 2026.

The deadlines for applications in year 2025 is the following:

• 1 March 2025
• 1 June 2025
• 1 September 2025
• 1 December 2025

The grant is 2189 euros / month. The grant is intended to cover the costs of the finalisation work OR translation or proofreading work. Finalisation work refers to bringing the dissertation to a condition where it is ready for preliminary examination. Receiving this grant for a certain period of time requires an unsalaried period of the same length in the same year.

This grant is not meant for persons with already some supplementary funding at the university. Priority is given to dissertations supporting the university's strategic foci, article dissertations containing articles likely to be published in international refereed journals, and applicants who have not received financial support for their dissertation work earlier. The purpose of these grants is to support obtaining the field-specific aims of doctoral degrees at the University of Lapland. This aim was set by the Ministry of Education and Culture. 
 
Application: 

The grant is applied for through an electronic form: Application form

The following documents must be attached to the electronic form:

1) A free-form application, which must include a description of the stage of the dissertation work, the dissertation topic, the anticipated grant period, and an estimate of the dissertation's completion date. The application should also indicate whether the applicant is a full-time student or employed, the employer's name, and the period of leave from work. The application must mention any previous grants received for the dissertation work (grantor, amounts, and the work stage for which they were received) and any support granted by the faculty.
2) A recommendation letter from the supervisor on the progress of the work / a commitment to supervise the work within the planned time

NOTE! The form cannot be submitted without the appropriate attachments. The Esko Riepula scholarship is applied for exclusively through this electronic form.

Note2! If you are applying for a grant e.g., for language editing, please request a quote in advance either from Acolad Finland Oy or from Lingsoft Language Services Oy before submitting the form. The Esko Riepula grant recipients are subject to the university's procurement guidelines, which state that the service must be ordered from the aforementioned companies.

Contact information:

Doctoral School, tutkijakoulu (at) ulapland.fi
 
Payment procedure: 

If your application is successful, the grant will be paid monthly to your account by the university's payroll. Costs incurring from translation and proofreading are paid according to real costs. They are paid to the applicant against receipts, or – alternatively – the invoices are addressed directly to the University of Lapland.

Please note:

If you receive a grant of at least four (4) months in Finland, for the purpose of research or artistic work in Finland, you are required to take a pension and accident insurance (MYEL insurance). The Farmers' Social Insurance Institution (Mela) handles the statutory earnings-related pension and occupational accident insurances of Finnish farmers, and also those of grant or scholarship recipients. Under certain conditions, the insurance is also required by scholarships obtained abroad. The insurance obligation applies to both those who have received a personal grant and those who work in a group with the grant. The insurance obligation does not concern grants that are intended to cover expenses, such as travel grants.

Statutory pension insurance for grant and scholarship recipients (MYEL) >

Leaflet on grants provided by the Finnish Union of University Researchers and Teachers >