Cancer Foundation Finland’s travel grants 2025

Cancer Foundation Finland is inviting applications for travel grants for travel related to studies, meetings and presentations carried out during the period 1 March 2025 and 31 May 2026. The grants can be applied for by cancer researchers and other healthcare professionals actively involved in the early detection of cancer diseases, the treatment of cancer patients and cancer prevention.

The Cancer Foundation does not grant separate travel grants to applicants who, at the time of application, have a grant awarded by the Foundation. In practice, this means that if an applicant has not received all instalments of their research grant by the end of the application period for travel grants, they cannot be awarded a separate travel grant. The applicant should have a legitimate reason to travel, such as a presentation or an important meeting in the destination. Travel grants will not be awarded twice for the same trip.

In 2025, the maximum travel grant comes to 1,900 euros for travel outside Europe and 1,100 euros for travel within Europe and the Nordic countries.

The Cancer Foundation does not award grants to researchers or research teams that are funded by the tobacco industry. The tobacco industry includes any company or group of companies that derives a major portion of its income from the manufacture or marketing of tobacco products

Travel grants awarded by the Cancer Foundation may not be used for daily allowances (per diem). The travel grants are paid in a single instalment based on hotel bills, conference fees or equivalent original receipts. Make sure that the original documents display the currency.

Please include all your expenses in the invoice, even if the final sum exceeds the granted amount. Also indicate on the invoice if any other institution pays for part of your expenses.

If the grant will not cover all travel expenses, we can, on request, provide a breakdown of the costs reimbursed by the Cancer Foundation.

Grant applications are submitted in the Cancer Foundation’s electronic grant application system. The application form is filled in and submitted in the electronic system.

Applications for travel grants are invited as of Saturday 1 February 2025. The call closes on Friday 28 February 2025 (end of day).

The application is processed ‘as is’, and it may not be supplemented after the call has closed.

More information: [email protected].

The Cancer Foundation is the largest private funder of cancer research in Finland. Donations are also used to support cancer patients and their loved ones.