{"id":27755,"date":"2026-06-09T10:54:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T07:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lsr.fi\/?p=27755"},"modified":"2026-06-25T13:50:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T10:50:29","slug":"foundation-for-economic-education-grants-researchers-abroad-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lsr.fi\/en\/news\/foundation-for-economic-education-grants-researchers-abroad-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Foundation for Economic Education awards \u20ac103,000 in the Researchers Abroad programme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>Researchers Abroad <\/strong>internationalisation programme of the Walter Ahlstr\u00f6m Foundation, the Foundation for Economic Education, the Nokia Foundation and the KAUTE Foundation awarded grants to 21 applicants in the 2026 call, for a total amount of \u20ac638,350. A total of 135 applications were submitted in the spring 2026 call, resulting in a success rate of 15.5%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A total of 28 applications were submitted to the Foundation for Economic Education, amounting to \u20ac753,580. The awarded grants are allocated to five research visits to foreign universities. In the spring 2026 call, the Foundation for Economic Education awarded a total of \u20ac103,000 in grants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grants for research visits were awarded to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MSc <strong><strong>Heejae Jun<\/strong><\/strong>, \u20ac40,000<br><em>Team Creativity in Songwriting Camps as Temporary Organizations.<\/em><br>Copenhagen Business School, Denmark<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DSc (Econ) <strong>Jenni Laaksonen<\/strong>, \u20ac4,000<br><em>Nature-centric accounting: Examining and developing the production of climate accounts.<\/em><br>University of Innsbruck, Austria<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MSc <strong>Mushonnifun Faiz Sugihartanto<\/strong>, \u20ac24,000<br><em>Socially Responsible Procurement in Coffee Supply Chains: Emerging Countries Perspectives.<\/em><br>WU Vienna, Austria<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MSc <strong>Veronika Vr\u00e1nska<\/strong>, \u20ac22,000<br><em>Regenerative Entrepreneurship in Natural Disaster\u2013Affected Socio-Ecological Systems.<\/em><br>RMIT University, College of Business and Law, Melbourne, Australia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MSc <strong>Kanying Xu<\/strong>, \u20ac13,000<br><em>Information Aggregation in Financial Markets and Its Implications for Asset Pricing.<\/em><br>Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Researchers Abroad programme offers grants for research in technology and business studies conducted abroad. Its purpose is to support researchers in these fields who seek to carry out ambitious research at high-quality international universities or research institutions. Applicants must hold at least a Master\u2019s degree, but the grant may also be suitable for early-stage postdoctoral researchers. Researchers working in companies are also eligible to apply. The programme is coordinated by the KAUTE Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more about the programme on its website: <a href=\"https:\/\/tutkijatmaailmalle.fi\/briefly-in-english\/\"><strong>Researchers Abroad<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"Foundation for Economic Education awards \u20ac103,000 in the Researchers Abroad programme\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lsr.fi\/en\/news\/foundation-for-economic-education-grants-researchers-abroad-2026\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Foundation for Economic Education awards \u20ac103,000 in the Researchers Abroad programme\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grants-articles","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Foundation for Economic Education awards \u20ac103,000 in the Researchers Abroad programme - The Foundation for Economic Education<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lsr.fi\/en\/news\/foundation-for-economic-education-grants-researchers-abroad-2026\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Foundation for Economic Education awards \u20ac103,000 in the Researchers Abroad programme - The Foundation for Economic Education\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"... 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