Each year, approximately €400,000 is distributed from the University’s donation funds as personal grants, scholarships, or awards. Students and researchers receive, for example, support for writing their master’s theses, travel grants to increase the internationality of their studies and research, or awards for academic excellence.
For students, scholarships represent an important recognition of their work and enable them, for example, to focus on completing their master’s thesis. Thanks to grants, researchers can make entirely new breakthroughs or, for example, initiate new international collaborations.
The donated funds also allocate/distribute several million euros annually to support research and teaching positions, and provide direct support to research groups. More than 100 professors, researchers, and other experts work in positions funded by donated capital.
This spring’s grant recipients were celebrated on Monday, 4 May, together with donors and the university community.
A donation is an act of trust
Donors make it possible to distribute these grants and scholarships to students and researchers. The University’s funds are based on donations made to the University over centuries. Rector Sari Lindblom emphasised the significance of donors to the entire university community in her ceremonial address.
– Every scholarship, every grant, and every professorship made possible by donations is an investment in future solutions. A donation is an act of trust in the belief that, through the power of science, we can solve the pressing challenges of our time and actively create a better world.
– Supporting groundbreaking research and talented students is one of the most important things one can do for the world. Warm thanks for your support, Lindblom said.
The University is moving towards 2040, when it will celebrate its 400th anniversary – and future achievements are being built through actions taken today. The University invites partners to build a better world together through its new Be the Flame campaign.