SPECIAL FUND APPLICATIONS

LEADERSHIP AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Current organizations need a responsible, efficient, and strong vision for managing business and organizations both locally and internationally. Leadership skills and standards, expertise and knowledge exchange, as well as the renewal of business practices in private companies and public entities, both preserve and create new economic and social opportunities. Research in leadership and business management generates new knowledge on management at local and international levels.

• Leadership training in commerce, application of information technology and data-driven managemen, international business management
• JEL- classes:
  • M10 Business Administration and Management: General
  • M12 Personnel Management, Excecutives; Excecutive Compensation
  • M15 IT Management
  • M16 International Business Administration
  • M54 Labor Management

TEXTILE AND FASHION

The green and responsible textile and fashion industry arouses wide interest in Finland and abroad. Research topics of particular interest in the call are the green transition of the textile and fashion industry and new fiber materials in the Finnish clothing industry, the retail trade of the textile industry and the foreign trade of the textile industry.

• the green transition of the textile and fashion industry, and new fiber materials in the Finnish clothing industry, the retail trade of the textile industry and the foreign trade of the textile industry
• JEL- classes:
  • L67 Other Consumer Nondurable: Clothing, Textiles, Shoes , and Leather Goods
  • L81 Retail and Wholesale Trade: e-Commerce
  • O13 Agriculture, Natural Resources, Energy, Environment, Other primary products
  • O31 Innovation and Invention: processes and Incentives
  • Q53 Air Pollution, Water Pollution, Noise, Hazardous Waste, Solid Waste, Recycling

Only one of the special funds or pooled funds can be selected as the fund to be targeted. All applications will also be evaluated according to the most common application criteria.

In accordance with the rules of the special funds and the Foundation for Economic Education rules, grants may also be awarded to special groups of applicants, or for narrower purposes. In the grant round application system, the applicant can submit his / her application to one of the following special funds:

• Automaattisen tietojenkäsittelyn tutkimusrahasto promotes research projects developing digitalisation solutions made possible by various technological solutions, while taking into account possible views expressed by TIVIA (The Finnish Information Processing Association) on the subject or research topic to be funded.
• Liiketalouden liiton rahasto supports Liiketalouden liitto LTA registered association’s educational activity and education of its members.
• Lyydia ja Heikki Rautiaisen rahasto supports the studies and other projects aimed at commercial subjects and business economics studies, primarily by the students and staff of the Oulu University of Applied Sciences.
• SKO ry:n juhlarahasto promotes business cultivation and entrepreneurship in Finland by awarding grants for training and research, for the professional development of teachers in business and culture as well as for international interaction.
• Taloustoimittajien 50-vuotisjuhlarahasto accepts grant applications from the Taloustoimittajat registered association’s members for the purposes of educational, research, and publishing projects in their respective fields.
• Teknisen Kaupan Liiton 100-vuotisjuhlarahasto provides support for technical research and training to promote commerce while taking into account the views eventually presented by the Teknisen Kaupan Liitto registered association (the Association of Finnish Technical Traders) on the subject or on the research topic to be financed.

Only one of the special funds or pooled funds can be selected as the fund to be targeted. All applications will also be evaluated according to the most common application criteria.