The Post Doc Pool application round is open

The post doc grant may be used to cover all expenses to the researcher and his/her family
caused by living abroad. Instructions on how to draft a cost estimate are included in the section
“How to Apply?” on the Pool’s home page: www.postdocpooli.fi.

Online applicant info will be held on 28 Aug at 9-10 AM.

Säätiöiden post doc -pooli has two application rounds each year and awards some 35 post-
doctoral grants in each round. The spring 2026 application round will take place from 1 Jan
until 31 Jan 2026.

The Säätiöiden post doc -pooli consists of thirteen foundations allocating altogether 3.2 million
euro annually to the pool. The Pool’s foundations are now Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth
Foundation, Emil Aaltonen Foundation, Alfred Kordelin Foundation, the Foundation for
Economic Education, Päivikki and Sakari Sohlberg Foundation, the Finnish Academy of
Science and Letters, the Finnish Cultural Foundation, the Finnish Medical Foundation, the
Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland, the
Finnish Foundation for Technology Promotion, Ulla Tuominen Foundation and Jenny and Antti
Wihuri Foundation.

The Pool aims to make Finnish research more international by offering young scholars flexible funding from one source that covers all expenses of a research period abroad.

The Finnish Foundations’ Post Doc Pool was founded in 2009 to support researchers and
Finnish research in becoming more international. During this time, the Pool’s foundations have
granted over 40 million euros to post doctoral researchers heading abroad from Finland. After
31 application rounds, already some 800 scholars have received funding through the Pool. Over
one third of the grants have been awarded for two-year periods.