FINLAND - Finland attracts top foreign researchers

Finnish universities and research institutes have named close to a hundred foreign or expatriate Finnish researchers, who they would like to be funded within the programme.

'Considering that this was the first call within the new programme the result is excellent. Finnish universities and research institutes from a wide range of scientific and technological fields saw the benefit in strengthening their knowledge and know-how through foreign forces,' says director Mika Aalto from Tekes.

'The great number of applications submitted shows that universities and research institutes already have active international cooperation and first of all, that their research teams and know-how attract foreign top researchers,' comments director Liisa Savunen from the Academy of Finland.

The FiDiPro programme is a funding programme jointly launched by the Academy of Finland and Tekes with the aim of recruiting professor-level top researchers, either foreign researchers or Finnish researchers who have worked abroad for long. Finnish universities and research institutes can apply for funding.

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