Grant recipients

Foundation grants shall be applied for and managed using the Foundation’s online grant application service. You can manage the information related to your project under the heading Own applications. When you click on the project number, you will be transferred to the project’s main page, where you will find the link for the Payment plan at the top of the page.

• The payment plan must be completed and submitted using the grant system by 15 June at the latest.
• To ensure the payment of a personal grant, please specify your own personal ID number and bank account number in IBAN format.
• To ensure the payment of a project grant, please specify the Business ID of the relevant university or other place of business and its bank account number in IBAN format. In the message field, enter the internal project number or other identifier assigned to the project by the place of business in question.
• The science grant recipient must also include in the payment plan the name and e-mail address of the person signing on behalf of the place where the research will be carried out.
• Be sure to double check all the provided information carefully before submission.
• Grant recipients and a representative of the relevant research institute shall sign the payment plan electronically using a mobile certificate or online banking codes.
• If the payment information needs to be updated after the payment plan has been submitted, please contact us using the message function in the Foundation’s online grant application service.

Personal grant recipients who reside in Finland are obliged to take insurance if they are working uninterruptedly on grant funding for a minimum of four months. Grant recipients must apply for insurance from the Farmers’ Social Insurance Institution Mela. The insurance application form and additional information is available from Mela’s website. The Foundation will submit a notification to Mela regarding any personal grants it awards.

Detailed and up-to-date information is available from the Finnish Tax Administration.

• The Sakari Alhopuro Foundation provides the Tax Administration with the information regarding the grants it has awarded on an annual basis.
• Grants are considered income for the tax year during which they have been paid.
• Any paid grants will be included in the pre-completed tax return of the grant recipient.
• Personal grant funds paid into the personal bank accounts of grant recipients are tax exempt to the same extent as is the maximum tax-free artist grant awarded annually by the State.

 

The information about any grants received is included in the grant recipient’s pre-completed tax return, also when the award concerns a project grant that has been paid to the bank account of a research institute. If you have been awarded a project grant that was paid to a research institute’s account, you must remove the information about the paid grant from your pre-completed tax return. Go to the MyTax service, open the information concerning this specific grant and click “remove information”.  For instructions on how to correct the pre-completed tax return of a grant recipient, please go to the vero.fi website.

This instruction page is available in Finnish, Swedish and English. Select the language in the upper right corner of the page. 

Final report of a science grant recipient

The Foundation requires that grant recipients submit a report on the progress of the research project, together with the results obtained thus far, no later than September of the year following the grant decision.

The report shall be submitted using the online grant application service.

The maximum length of the report is one page (A4) and any publications completed with the grant funding shall be attached to the report. Information about the grant provider should always be included in any publication produced with support from the Foundation.

Final report of an art grant recipient

The Foundation requires grant recipients to submit a final report that details what type of work of art, presentation or exhibition the grant has facilitated. The report must be given no later than September of the year following the grant decision.

The report shall be submitted using the online grant application service.

Grant recipients are requested to mention the Sakari Alhopuro Foundation when communicating about the project in both traditional media and social media. When posting on social media, the applicant commits to using the hashtag #sakarialhopuronsaatio or #sakarialhopurofoundation.