Support for Events Focused on the Functioning of the Financial Market and Ethical Awareness

Only approved Norwegian research organisations are eligible to apply. See the list of approved research organisations.  

Requirements relating to the Project Owner

The research organisation listed as the Project Owner in the application form must have approved the submission of the application.

Requirements relating to the project manager

You must have an approved doctoral degree or achieved associate professor qualifications before the application deadline. For the purposes of this call, being or having been employed as researcher 1, researcher 2 or senior researcher in the institute sector is considered to be associate professor competence.

The project manager must be employed by the Project Owner.  

You can apply for funding to cover the actual costs necessary to carry out the project.

Approved costs in connection with the event are:

• Costs related to planning and implementation.
• Costs related to premises, materials, travel costs for speakers and purchased services. Travel expenses for other participants cannot be covered.

If a participation fee is required, this must also be made visible in the budget and in the final accounts. The participation fee may constitute part of the own financing.

You can find detailed and important information about what to enter in the project budget on the website.

We attach particular importance to the fact that the application must clarify the relevance to the purpose of the Finance Market Fund, and that the support from the Fund has a triggering effect.

Scope of funding

You can apply for funding for up to 100 per cent of the budgeted project costs, up to a maximum of NOK 500,000.

Conditions for funding

The event for which support is being sought, may not have commenced or have been completed at the time the board processes the application, as the support from the Finance Market Fund must have a triggering effect.

We do not award state aid under this call. This means that the Finance Market Fund's funding will only go to the research organisations' non-economic activity. We assume that the necessary accounting separation is in place.

The Finance Market Fund's conditions for the allocation and disbursement of funding can also be found in the Research Council's general terms and conditions for R&D projects on the information page What the contract consists of.  

Please note that you can only submit the application once. If you submit the application before the deadline and subsequently see that it still needs to be changed, you can create a new application – e.g. as a copy of the one you have already submitted – and in this way submit a new version before the deadline expires.

• The application and all attachments must be written in Norwegian and/or English.
• All attachments must be in PDF format.

Mandatory attachments

• Project description. Use the default template that you can download at the bottom of the page.
• CV for the project manager. Use the default template that you can download at the bottom of the page.

Applications that do not meet the requirements above will be rejected.

Optional attachments

• CVs for key participants in the project.
• Previous programme for similar events.

All attachments to the application must be submitted with the application. We do not accept attachments submitted after the application deadline unless we have requested additional documentation.

We will not consider documents and websites linked to in the application, or attachments other than those specified above. Be careful to upload the correct attachment type, as there are no technical restrictions on what kind of templates it is possible to upload in the application form.  

The Board of Directors of the Finance Market Fund will assess the applications in light of their relevance to the purpose of the Finance Market Fund, the triggering effect of the support, and the available budget. The aid may not be operational in nature. The board will take portfolio considerations into account.  

Applications are processed administratively by the Research Council. The Board of Directors of the Finance Market Fund makes decisions on whether to grant or reject funding.

The Board of Directors of the Finance Market Fund holds decision meetings in March and October/November.

The expected response to the application is the week after the decision meeting.

We will publish which applications will receive funding after the decision meetings at www.finansmarkedsfondet.no.