Four projects of Plural researchers have been awarded funding by the Kone Foundation through the general grant application round of 2023. The foundation received 6,684 applications in the general application round, and 350 grants and a total of over 44 million euros were awarded. The award rate was 6,6%, and calculated from the total number of applications, 5.2% of projects were awarded a grant. To researchers at Tampere University, 24 grants were awarded.
Kone Foundation funds academic research in humanities, social sciences, and environmental sciences, artistic research and professional artistic work, as well as cross-disciplinary and multidisciplinary work between fields and disciplines.
In Plural, a grant was received by:
Senior Research Fellow Anne Ketola and research group: Contractual language: From irresponsible sustainability jargon to clear sustainability communication, €349,100
Senior Research Fellow Anne Ketola and research group: A handbook on audio description, €109,000
https://koneensaatio.fi/en/grants-and-residencies/kuvailutulkkauksen-kasikirja-2/
PhD Mikko Laasanen: The essence of Finnish language mastery: the linguistic integration of categories of thinking into structures, €157,600
Adjunct Professor, University Lecturer Liisa Mustanoja and research group: Tampere of feelings: linguistic affect, non-discriminatory language, and the accessibility of research participation, €314,200