Keyword: Academy of Finland

Data management plan (DMP) is a requirement for the payment of funding granted by the Academy of Finland in September 2022 call. According to Academy of Finland the researcher who has received a positive funding decision must submit a data management plan within eight weeks of the funding decision. The data specialists at the University of Turku help the researcher in writing the plan.

The funding supports cross-disciplinary research in the University’s three profiling areas that focus on immune mediated diseases, the evolution of human diversity, and the design of sustainable materials.

After a positive funding decision the responsible researcher submits a Data Management Plan (DMP) to the Academy of Finland. University and the site of research commit to it.

During Academy of Finland’s September call Turku University Library provides help  for researchers who want input on the publication plan or data management description in their application. So please, email your questions to openutu@utu.fi no later than two weeks before the deadline. 

From Academy of Finland September call 2020, University of Turku process for funding approval and submitting and reviewing Data Management Plan has confronted major changes.

Researchers from the University of Turku have been granted research infrastructure funding by the Academy of Finland. The largest funding was granted to the imaging infrastructure led by Professor Juhani Knuuti and the hydrology infrastructure lead by Professor Petteri Alho. Overall, eight projects with researchers from the University of Turku received funding.

Turku University library has monitored journals’ APC payments since 2017. Thus, data is already available for 4 years.

Since the Academy of Finland September call 2020, significant changes have been made to the University of Turku process for approving and accepting of the funding. The research support services at the University of Turku will help the researcher in writing the plan. To ensure the quality of the service, we would like to remind the researchers of the summer schedules.

The Academy of Finland has made the funding decisions to strengthen the research-related profiling of Finnish universities. The University of Turku was granted €6.8 million of the Profi 6 funding. The funding supports strategic, cross-disciplinary research of the University.