Grants for Researchers in Medicine, Natural Sciences, and Engineering
12.2.2025

The Instrumentarium Science Foundation has awarded a total of €1,500,000 in grants to researchers in medicine, natural sciences, and engineering. Grants were awarded to 34 individuals or research groups. The foundation’s largest grant of €150,000 was awarded to Dr. Joonas Iivanainen (Aalto University) and Dr. Mikael Marttinen (Tampere University).
For the 2025 grant application round, a total of 423 applications were submitted, amounting to a total requested sum of €15 million. The Instrufoundation Fellow Grant was sought by 28 researchers, totaling €3.5 million in requested funding. Postdoctoral grants were applied for by 47 researchers, amounting to €3 million in requested funding. A total of 338 doctoral dissertation grant applications were submitted, with a combined requested sum of €8 million.
The foundation’s board awarded two Instrufoundation Fellow Grants of €150,000 each. Additionally, a total of €737,000 was allocated for postdoctoral grants, and 17 dissertation grants were awarded, totaling €363,000. To support scientific entrepreneurship, the foundation granted two Silmu Grants of €50,000, awarded to AIATELLA Oy and MoniCardi Oy. In total, the board awarded 34 grants, funding approximately 10% of all submitted applications.
Instrufoundation Fellow grant | 2 | 300 000 € |
Post-doc grants | 13 | 737 000 € |
Silmu | 2 | 100 000 € |
Grants for doctoral students | 17 | 363 000 € |
The recipients of the Foundation's grants will be announced at an announcement event on February 12, 2025 at Astoria-sali, Iso Roobertinkatu 14, Helsinki.
The grants given in 2025 and before (in Finnish):