Call for STUE action grant:
The Sustainable Transformation of Urban Environments (STUE) research community and profiling area offers action grants for activities that strengthen the research for sustainable urban change at Tampere University.
The grant can be granted for example for the following activities in line with STUE’s objectives:
- organising events that bring together researchers/students from different disciplines and/or other societal actors outside the academia
- creating activities for/with students around sustainable transformation of urban environments
- establishing connections with stakeholders that are relevant for enhancing sustainable urban change
- establishing connections with stakeholders that are relevant for enhancing sustainable urban change
- establishing connections with research partners in Finland and internationally
- advancing inter- or multidisciplinary research initiatives around phenomena that are relevant for sustainable urban change (for example preparing research grants)
The grant can be applied by research networks and groups, or student organisations based at Tampere University as well as individual TUNI researchers. The applied sums can be up to EUR 3000 depending on the scale and the scope of the activity.
The grant must be spent within the calendar year of 2022 (i.e. before 31.12.2022). The grant recipients will be requested to showcase the activity in STUE website by 1) providing a short blogpost about the activity and 2) an ad to promote the activity if it is an open event.
The STUE board makes the decisions about the funding. The grant will be granted for 5-10 activities. The decisions will be based on 1) how well the activity fits in STUE’s aims and vision and 2) diversity of actions. The results will be published during week 10.
Apply funding with this short form by 16.2.2022
More information:
Research Coordinator Alisa Vänttinen, alisa.vanttinen@tuni.fi