Call for applications in Antarctic research 2024

The Research Council of Finland is launching a targeted call for applications in Antarctic research. The aim of the funding to generate internationally significant new breakthroughs in Antarctic research.

Antarctic research produces high-quality scientific data that concern Antarctica or for which information obtained from Antarctica is irreplaceable.

The scope of the call covers all relevant areas of Antarctic research. The research may be global or circumpolar, focusing on both Polar Regions, but it must be research that cannot be conducted without Antarctic data. In accordance with Finland’s Antarctic Research Strategy (2014), the funding supports interactive and multidisciplinary research. Only projects that involve international collaboration are eligible to receive funding. When making funding decisions, we will pay particular attention to the multidisciplinary nature of the projects.

Finland joined the Antarctic Treaty in 1984 and established the Aboa research station in 1988. Finland is a consultative member of the Antarctic Treaty, which requires significant scientific research activities in Antarctica. With this funding opportunity, the Research Council of Finland contributes to the funding of Antarctic research projects.

The review of applications follows the Research Council’s general review criteria. The review will also focus on how the project implements the objectives of the call and the quality of the project’s international cooperation. The funding decisions will be made taking into account how well the project supports Finland’s Antarctic Research Strategy  and how feasible the project is in terms of logistics (see ‘Special terms’). The feasibility will be examined in cooperation with FINNARP, the Finnish Antarctic research programme operating under the Finnish Meteorological Institute.

The funding may be applied for by individual research teams or consortia composed of two or more research teams. The consortium parties may represent one or several research organisations.

A consortium application is an application built around a joint research plan, where each party to the consortium applies for funding. The Research Council of Finland treats a consortium application as a single application, although the funding is granted to each subproject separately. Consortium compositions cannot be changed after the call deadline. Read the guidelines for consortium applications.

In addition to a doctoral degree, the principal investigator (PI) of the proposed project must also have other significant scientific merits. Usually the PI is a researcher at the professor or docent (adjunct professor) level. These criteria also apply to subproject PIs in consortia. In addition, the applicant must have a close connection with Finland to support the implementation of a multi-year project. This connection must be evident from the application.

The PI of the application cannot be changed while the application is being processed (after the call has closed but before the decision). The only exception to this is if the PI dies.

Special terms and restrictions

In this call, we will consider (process) only one application per applicant. If you submit more than one application to the call, only the first application to arrive will be considered (processed).

Antarctic research produces high-quality scientific data that concern Antarctica or for which information obtained from Antarctica is irreplaceable. The scope of the call covers all relevant areas of Antarctic research. The research may be global or circumpolar, focusing on both Polar Regions, but it must be research that cannot be conducted without Antarctic data.

Only projects that involve international collaboration are eligible to receive funding. The collaboration is described in the research plan. The application must also include a CV and list of publications for the main foreign partner or collaborator and a statement confirming the cooperation described in the research plan and the partner’s commitment.

If the project involves fieldwork in Antarctica, the research plan must include a tentative field work plan. To determine the logistical feasibility of the project, the applicant must be in contact with FINNARP when drawing up the fieldwork plan (see ‘Contacts’).

In accordance with the Finnish Act on the Environmental Protection of Antarctica, research activities in Antarctica require a permit. The permit is issued by the Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment of Lapland. FINNARP will acquire the permit based on information it received from the projects. If the project works from a foreign research vessel or station, the PI must make sure that the vessel or station operator has acquired a permit from a competent authority in accordance with the Antarctic Treaty.

FINNARP will cover the travel and freight costs from Antarctic gateway cities to Aboa and the research-related transports there. Travel and freight costs to so-called Antarctic gateway cities are eligible project costs and will be included in the project’s cost plan. If the research requires work at a station of some other country or from a research vessel, such arrangements are normally taken care of by the PI with assistance from FINNARP. The costs of working at another country’s research station or from a research vessel are covered by the foreign partner.

The PI’s salary costs may only under certain limitations and on justifiable grounds be incorporated into the total project costs. Read more in the call text under ‘Funding to be applied for and funding period’.

Applications by members of the Research Council of Finland’s Board and scientific councils and members of the Strategic Research Council will not be considered (processed) during their terms.

You must immediately notify us if you receive funding from other sources for the same purpose after you have submitted your application to us.

We will not consider (process) an application by a person who has participated in the planning of the call to an extent likely to give them a comparative advantage over other applicants

We will not process an application if the applicant has been found guilty of research misconduct in the three years preceding the year of the call.

If the application includes cooperation with Russia or Belarus, you must take into account our policies on the matter.

If you have not submitted a final report on a completed or ongoing Research Council-funded project by the set deadline, we may decide not to consider (process) your application.

An application will not be considered (processed) if the applicant or the application does not meet the competence requirements or other key requirements, or if there are otherwise no conditions for processing the case.

A scientific council or another decision-making body may decide not to fund an application based on science policy objectives, or if it is apparent for some other reason that the applicant cannot receive funding with the submitted application. Read more about the circumstances that may cause us not to process or review an application.

The Board of the Research Council of Finland decides the criteria for the Research Council’s funding decisions. In addition, the present call aligns with the general guidelines for funding decisions and the criteria for Academy Projects that are applied by the Scientific Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering Research in the winter call 2024. Read the scientific council's policies before submitting your application.

The call’s funding budget has been set at a total of 3 million euros. The goal is to grant an average of €450,000 per four-year project. The maximum funding per four-year project is €600,000 (equivalent to €150,000 per year). The maximum total amount of funding per consortium-based, four-year Academy Project is €1,000,000 (equivalent to €250,000 per year), and the maximum funding per four-year consortium subproject is €600,000 (equivalent to €150,000 per year).

The funding period is 1 January 2025–31 December 2028.

The funding is primarily intended towards the salaries of researchers who work full-time on the project and for other project costs.

The funding is granted to a Finnish site of research (usually a university or research institute) through which the funding is paid.

The PI of the funded project must have a close connection with Finland to support the implementation of a multi-year project. The funded researchers may, however, spend time working abroad during their funding period.

Funding plan

In the application, provide a cost estimate including an estimate of the annual amount of funding needed, itemised by type of expenditure. Also include a funding plan that shows all funding granted for the project as well as funding that will be provided by the site of research if the project is launched.

Before submitting the application, you must agree with the administration at your organisation on the contribution of the site of research to the funding of the project. Only costs that pass through the books of the site of the research must be included in the total costs.

You must check with your organisation whether the funding planned as the own funding contribution suits this purpose. The funding applied for from the Research Council of Finland must not exceed 70% of the total project costs. The cost estimate must be realistic.

When drafting the cost estimate, remember to consider the policies on the granted funding. The policies are mentioned in the call text.

The most significant research costs to be funded are justified by type of expenditure in the free-text field on the tab ‘Funding for the project’.

You can apply for funding to cover, for example, the following direct research costs:

• research team salaries
• PI’s salary costs (under certain limitations)
• salaries of researchers returning to Finland
• essential implementation costs
• travel expenses
• collaboration and mobility in Finland
• international collaboration and mobility
• travel and freight costs to so-called Antarctic gateway cities
• preparation of international projects.

Our funding cannot be used for economic activity. Read more about the eligibility of economic operators.

Only for compelling reasons can government grants be awarded to cover salary costs in cases where the applicant has obstacles related to illegal employment, as referred to in section 7(2) of the Finnish Act on Discretionary Government Transfers.

Research team salaries

As a rule, staff hired with Research Council research funding must have an employment relationship. We recommend that they be hired for a period of employment no shorter than the funding period, unless a shorter contract is necessary for special reasons dictated by the implementation of the research project.

Short-term research, studies or other assignments (max. duration six months) may also be carried out in the form of outsourced services.

Salary costs of principal investigator

Our funding for research projects (Academy Projects, Targeted Academy Projects and Academy Programme Projects) is primarily intended for the salaries of full-time researchers working on the projects and for other research costs.

As a rule, funding is not granted for the salary of the project PI. The PI’s salary costs may only under certain limitations and on justifiable grounds be incorporated into the total project costs. The PI’s salary is entered under ‘Salary of principal investigator’ in the online services. In order for the salary costs to be eligible, the PI’s tasks must be clearly specified.

Including PI’s salary for project management in total project costs

The PI’s salary costs may be incorporated into the total project costs in accordance with what is stated under the tab ‘Salary of principal investigator’ in the online services.

The salary costs must not be significant in relation to the project’s total costs. For example, a four-year research project must not include more than six months of the PI’s effective working hours for project management. This is equivalent to approximately 1.5 months a year.

Applying for funding for PI’s salary for research

The Research Council may grant funding for the PI’s salary for no more than a year for well-justified reasons, such as working abroad, returning to Finland or transferring to another research organisation or a company in Finland. Possible business collaboration must fulfil the terms set out in our funding terms and conditions.

A condition is that the research-related reasons and the PI’s tasks must be clearly presented on the tab ‘Salary of principal investigator’ in the online services. The funding cannot be used for this purpose unless it is mentioned in the special conditions accompanying the funding decision.

Account of salary when PI does not have an employment relationship

If the PI does not have an employment relationship with, for example, a university or research institute for the duration of the funding period, they must explain how their salary will be covered during the funding period on the tab ‘Salary of principal investigator’ in the online services.

Retired researchers can be granted funding on the same grounds as other researchers.

Mobility aid in research projects

The mobility aid is applied for as research costs related to the implementation of the research plan. The aid is applied for in accordance with the practices of the site of research. In order to obtain further information, you should contact the personnel and financial administration of the site of research.

In the online services, the aid is applied for on the tab ‘Funding for the project’ under ‘Travel expenses’. The mobility aid must be justified. Read more about the mobility aid in the funding terms and conditions.

What is required from the site of research?

We require that the site of research (e.g. a university, research institute or research organisation; see guidelines for sites of research) provides the research project with all necessary basic facilities. These are determined based on the nature of the research and are the same as those available to other research staff at the site: office and laboratory premises, equipment (incl. computer equipment), and telecommunications, telephone, mailing, copying and library services.

When accepting the funding, the site of research is responsible for ensuring that necessary statements and permits from ethics committees have been obtained before the start of the project.

The costs of ensuring immediate open access to peer-reviewed articles are included in the overheads of the site of research and are thus part of the basic facilities provided by the site. The costs associated with storing and sharing research data are regarded as overheads for the project’s site of research. Only exceptionally and for justified reasons can they be accepted as research costs to be covered by Research Council of Finland research funding.

The site of research also commits to ensuring that the data management plan can be implemented at the site of research, and that the measures to be taken comply with good data management practice. After a positive funding decision, the site of research will also approve the data management plan of the project.

Read more on the commitment by the site of research.

The application must also include the overheads percentage, indirect employee costs and coefficient for effective working hours of the site of research. The site of research will see to that this information is kept up to date in the online services. The information is provided as percentages.

When the site of research is a university or a research institute, as a rule, the funding must be applied for VAT included. Consult the financial administration at the site of research for more information. Our funding may also cover VAT costs, but only on certain conditions (see VAT and read more in our funding terms and conditions).

How to submit and supplement the application

The non-negotiable call deadline also applies to consortia. We will not consider (process) an application that has not been submitted by deadline. The deadline for applications is 8 May 2024 at 16.15 Finnish time.

The joint consortium application is submitted by the consortium PI. The PI can submit the consortium application only after all subproject PIs have tagged their applications as complete.

Make sure to submit the application in good time before the deadline. The system will only accept applications that contain all obligatory information. The applicant is responsible for ensuring that the content of the application appendices is correct.

You can edit and supplement the application until the deadline. You can make changes to a submitted application (e.g. change appendices), but you must make them before the deadline.  If you notice that your application lacks important information after the deadline, immediately get in touch with us via our helpdesk, so that the application can be reopened for supplementation. We will consider the supplemented information if it is possible in view of the review and decision-making process.

We may ask you to supplement the application. The request for supplementation will be sent to you by email. If you do not supplement the application by the given deadline, or if the application is substantially incomplete even after a request for supplementary information, we may decide to dismiss it (i.e. it will not be processed). You must make sure that your contact details (email address) are up to date.

How the application becomes pending

According to section 17 of the Finnish Administrative Procedure Act and section 8 of the Act on Electronic Services and Communication in the Public Sector, the sender is responsible for the application arriving by the set deadline. An application becomes pending when the online application and the obligatory appendices have been submitted in the online services. The system will confirm a successful submission by sending an email to the address you have provided.

If you fail to submit a final report on a completed or ongoing project according to our guidelines, we may decide not to process your new application.

An application will not be processed if the applicant or the application does not meet the competence requirements or other key requirements, or if the application otherwise does not qualify for processing. A scientific council or another decision-making body may decide not to fund an application based on science policy objectives, or if it is apparent for some other reason that the applicant cannot receive funding with the submitted application. Read more about the circumstances that may cause us not to process or review an application.

Publicity and data protection

Except for the research plan, plan of intent, abstract and progress report, which are primarily confidential, the application and its appendices are public documents. For example, the CV is a public document and as such must not include any confidential information. This publicity is based on the Finnish Act on the Openness of Government Activities.

We are committed to following regulations on data protection. The applicant is responsible for the disclosure of the personal data contained in the application and, where appropriate, for requesting the consent of the parties concerned.

The GDPR-compliant privacy notice concerning the research funding process is available on our website under Data protection.

The application consists of forms completed in the online services and PDF appendices. As an applicant, you have the right to submit your application in Finnish or Swedish, but we ask that you to submit it in English to facilitate the international review.

Most of the links below take you to the A–Z index of application guidelines and our website.

The online application contains the following parts

Personal data

• Personal details
• Degrees (most recent one first); parental leaves etc. may be filled in under ‘Additional information’
• Titles of docent and professorships

General information

• Select the scientific council. See the research fields of the scientific councils.
• Details on the site of research
• Title of research project in English and Finnish/Swedish
• Research fields (at least one, no more than five). See the research field classification.
• Keywords in English and Finnish/Swedish

Consortium parties (if applicable)

• Details on each party (name, email address, organisation and country)
• Read the guidelines for consortium applications.

Abstract

• Maximum length 2,500 characters including spaces
• Brief overview of scientific and societal objectives, research methods and data as well as expected research results and impact
• See guidelines on the abstract.

Public project description

• Maximum length 1,000 characters including spaces
• Popular and reader-friendly description of the research project in English and Finnish/Swedish.
• We will use the project description in our communications on the funded research project. It is important that the public description is written for a general audience. The description will also be stored at research.fi, a service that makes available information on scientific research conducted in Finland.
• Read the guidelines on the public project description.

Funding for the project

• The project’s funding follows the full cost model. The Research Council of Finland’s funding contribution to the research costs comes to no more than 70%.
• Before you can fill in the cost estimate, you must first select the site of research on the tab ‘General information’.
• The site of research maintains the following percentages: effective working hours, indirect employee costs, overheads percentage and VAT. The information is provided as percentages.
• Enter the funding period.
• Enter salaries and other costs.
• If you are applying for funding for your own salary, select ‘Principal investigator’ from the drop-down menu.
• Enter other funding sources and their funding contributions. You must immediately notify us if you receive funding from other sources for the same purpose after you have submitted your application to us.
• Justify the funding to be applied for by type of expenditure. The cost estimate must be realistic.
• Only under certain limitations and on justifiable grounds may the project PI’s salary for project management and/or research included in the application. The justifications are entered on the tab ‘Salary of principal investigator’ in the online services. Read more in the call text under ‘Funding to be applied for and funding period’.
• Consult the administration at your site of research when filling in budget details. Read more about the funding in the call text under ‘Funding to be applied for and funding period’.
• The commitment of the site of research is a requirement for the granting of funding. Make sure you have a commitment from your site of research (usually a university or research institute) to supporting the project. Read more on the commitment by the site of research.

Salary of principal investigator

• Justifications, if salary costs for PI are included in the funding plan
• The PI’s salary costs may, under certain limitations, be incorporated into the total project costs: for project management and/or research.
• If the PI does not have a permanent employment relationship for the duration of the funding period, include a salary plan for the PI covering the entire funding period
• Read more in the call text under ‘Funding to be applied for and funding period’.

Collaborators

• Only projects that involve international collaboration are eligible to receive funding.
• Project collaborators, itemised by collaborator (name, organisation, country)
• Describe the collaborators’ roles and project-relevant key merits and provide justifications for choosing them in section 3.2 of the research plan.
• The CV, list of publications and letter of collaboration of the main foreign partner/collaborator must be appended to the application.
• We also recommend that you include letters of collaboration from other partners with your application. Read more about the letter. Letters of collaboration must be appended before the call deadline. After the call deadline, we will consider supplemented information if it is possible in view of the review and decision-making process.
• As applications are reviewed by international experts, we recommended that you write the letters of collaboration in English.

Mobility

• Describe planned national and international mobility within the project, itemised by person.
• See more information on mobility.
• We recommend that applicants append a letter of collaboration to the application. Read more about the letter.
• As applications are reviewed by international experts, we recommended that you write the letters of collaboration in English.

Affiliations

• Use of research infrastructure: Indicate what kinds of equipment, resources or data reserves provided by national or international research infrastructures the project plans to use. The menu includes infrastructures included in Finland’s national roadmap and/or ESFRI’s roadmap. Other possible infrastructures are entered in a free-text field. Learn more about research infrastructures.
• Part of a Finnish Centre of Excellence. Select from the options provided if the application is affiliated with an ongoing Centre of Excellence funded by the Research Council of Finland. Read more about Centres of Excellence.
• Part of a Finnish Flagship. Select from the options provided if the application is affiliated with the Research Council of Finland’s Finnish Flagship Programme. Read more about the Finnish Flagship Programme.

Research ethics

• Preliminary ethical review for project and/or animal testing permit (select yes/no)
• Found guilty of research misconduct (select yes/no). We will not consider (process) a funding application if the applicant has been found guilty of research misconduct in the three years preceding the year of the call.
• Guilty of illegal employment within the meaning referred to in section 7(2) of the Act on Discretionary Government Transfers (select yes/no)
• The research ethics description is entered under section 4 (Responsible science) of the research plan.
• Read more about research ethics.

Progress report

• If you have ongoing funding from us or completed projects for which a final report has not yet been submitted, you must prepare a progress report. This does not apply to applicants acting as the responsible person for an ongoing project in funding schemes where the funding recipient is an organisation or to applicants who are PIs for ongoing subprojects in consortia.
• This tab shows the projects to be reported on.
• Maximum length per project is 1,500 characters including spaces.
• Describe the progress and/or key achievements of the project and how the project is related to the funding being applied for.
• Read more about drafting the report.
• Also see the How-to guides for the online services.

Most relevant publications and other key outputs

• The PI/consortium PI enters up to ten of their own/the consortium’s own most important project-relevant publications and up to ten of their own/the consortium’s own research outputs, with justifications.
• You can retrieve publication details from the VIRTA publication information service. Also see our how-to guide for the online services.
• There are separate fields for selected publications and other research outputs. If the desired output type is not listed, select ‘Other, what?’ and enter the name of the output.
• Details on publications may also be entered manually. Obligatory information: author(s), title, year of publication, name of series/journal, type of publication (the type will not show in the PDF version of the application).
• Do not enter journal-based metrics on publications and research outputs. Read more about responsible researcher evaluation.
• The information is used to assess the competence of the applicant or consortium to carry out the project.

CV

• Maximum length three pages
• Write the CV on our template and append it as a PDF appendix on the dedicated tab in the online services.

Research plan

• Maximum length twelve pages, 15 pages for consortium projects
• Write the research plan on our template and append it as a PDF appendix on the dedicated tab in the online services.
• See the guidelines on the structure of the research plan. You must follow the given structure. Please use the headings provided.
• The application cannot be submitted if the system detects an error in the page configuration or the structure.
• See the how-to guides for the online services.
• Section 2.1 of the research plan (Work plan and schedule) must include a tentative fieldwork plan, if the project involves research to be carried out in Antarctica (see ‘Special terms and restrictions’ in the call text).

Other appendices

• Appendices must be PDF files.

Obligatory appendices:

• Complete list of publications. Read the guidelines on the structure of the list of publications.
• Statement by main foreign partner/collaborator confirming the collaboration described in the research plan and the partner’s commitment (e.g. description of partner’s own funding)
• CV for main foreign collaborator
• List of publications by main foreign collaborator

Case-specific appendices:

• Letter of collaboration. Read more about the letter. As applications are reviewed by international experts, we recommended that you write the letters of collaboration in English. Do not enter bibliometrics (e.g. h-index) for the collaborator. Letters of collaboration must be appended before the call deadline. After the call deadline, we will consider supplemented information if it is possible in view of the review and decision-making process.
• invitation by any third party (foreign university, research institute or Antarctic programme), if the work or part of it will be conducted on a foreign research station or vessel.

Submit application

• You can submit the application when you have filled in or attached all the necessary information.
• The joint consortium application is submitted by the consortium PI. The person can submit the consortium application only after all subprojects have tagged their applications as complete.
• A red warning triangle on the tab tells you that some information is missing.
• You can supplement and edit the application until the deadline. Resaving will replace the earlier version.
• If the call deadline has expired, supplementation must be requested via our helpdesk.

Authorisation

• You can authorise another person to supplement or view your application.
• You cannot authorise more than one person at a time to edit a field in your application, and you cannot edit that same field while the authorisation is active. Do not authorise yourself.
• Start by entering the person’s name in the field. If the person has an account in the online services (SARA), they can be selected from the list.
• The person must have an account in our online services (SARA).
• See technical instructions on the authorisation process in the how-to guides for the online services.

Research Council of Finland funding is granted based on peer review. We mainly use foreign experts as reviewers.

The applications are primarily reviewed in international panels. The panel drafts one review report on each application. At least two individual reviews are requested for applications with a subject that does not fit into any of the panels. The panel will rank the applications that have received a rating of 5 or 6.

The fundamental principles of the review are transparency, integrity, equity, competence and diversity. Read more about responsible researcher evaluation.

Review criteria

• how the project implements the objectives of the call (see the call’s special terms as regards data that concern Antarctica)
• scientific quality, innovativeness and novelty value of the research as well as its impact within the scientific community
• competence of applicant/research team in terms of project implementation
• feasibility of research plan (incl. research ethics)
• quality of required international cooperation
• quality of research environment and other collaborative networks, researcher mobility and researcher training
• added value of collaboration between possible consortium parties

See the rating scale and the review questions that will be used in the review: review form, review guidelines and review principles (PDF) for call for applications in Antarctic research 2024. The review guidelines and forms and the review principles are only available in English.

The funding decisions are based on the review reports and panel rankings. Additionally, the decisions will be prepared considering the Research Council of Finland’s criteria for research funding decisions and other guiding policies.

Read about how funding decisions are made.

The funding decisions are set to be made in November 2024.

The decisions will be made by the Scientific Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering. If applications are submitted from the research fields of other scientific councils, a separate subcommittee will be set up to decide on the projects to be funded from the call. Applicants shall choose the scientific council that receives the application.

Decisions will take into account the general guidelines for funding decisions and the decision criteria for Academy Projects applied by the Scientific Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering in the winter call 2024. Account will also be taken of the policies for funding set out in the call text.

Read the scientific council's policies before submitting your application.

Only projects that involve international collaboration are eligible to receive funding. The decisions will also take into account how well the research project supports Finland's Antarctic Research Strategy and pay special attention to the multidisciplinary nature of the project. Another factor that is considered is how feasible the project is in terms of logistics (see ‘Special terms and restrictions’). The feasibility of the projects will be analysed in cooperation with FINNARP.

You will receive an email notification after the funding decision has been made. After receiving the email, you can log in to the online services with your user ID to view the decision and its justifications.

In the online services, you will also have access to the review report(s), which may include the panel ranking (panels rank the best applications).

How to receive the funding

A positive funding decision is accompanied by the funding terms and conditions. If the funding is subject to conditions that differ from or specify the Research Council’s funding terms and conditions, these are indicated in the specific conditions of the decision notification. Make sure to check the decision, read the funding terms and conditions and accept the funding in the online services without delay. This must be done within eight weeks of the decision date, unless otherwise stated in the special conditions of the decision notice.

If necessary, update the popular project description before you accept the funding. If a project is granted funding, we will publish a description of the project on our website. It is important that the public description is written for a general audience.

Make changes to the annual instalments, if necessary (see the instructions in our funding terms and conditions), and append the full data management plan (in consortium applications only consortium PIs do this).

Once you have accepted the funding, the system will send a notification to the commitment issuer at the site of research. That person must also accept the granted funding. See the how-to guide: Decision notification, review reports and accepting funding.

The funds can be paid only after the applicant and the representative of the site of research have accepted them. The system will then notify the funding to the finance administration of the site of research, whereupon the funds will be ready to use.

• Contact us primarily via the helpdesk (Division of Natural Sciences and Engineering Research)
• Get in touch via our helpdesk (Division of Information Management) if you encounter technical issues in the online services.
• Our telephone number (switchboard) is +358 295 335 000.
• Our email addresses are in the format firstname.lastname(at)aka.fi.
• Scientific Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering: Hanna Pikkarainen, Science Adviser
• Scientific Council for Biosciences, Health and the Environment: Laura Forsström, Science Adviser
• Scientific Council for Social Sciences and Humanities: Satu Huuha-Cissokho, Senior Science Adviser
• Finnish Antarctic research programme (FINNARP): Mika Kalakoski, Manager, tel. +358 295 396 457, mika.kalakoski(at)fmi.fi