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

The call is open to approved research organisations.

Requirements relating to the Project Owner

The organisation listed as the Project Owner in the grant application must have approved the submission of the grant application to the Research Council.

Funding from the Finance Market Fund is to be used for planning and carrying out events. The funding award may comprise a maximum of 50 per cent of the total approved project costs. Applicants may seek up to NOK 500 000 per event.

Approved costs in connection with the event are:

• Payroll costs in connection with planning and carrying out the event;
• Costs for hire of a venue, materials, procured services, and travel and accommodations for invited presenters. Note that travel expenses for participants in the event may not be covered.
• If a participation fee is required, this is to be presented in the budget and final accounts. The participation fee may constitute part of own financing.

It is particularly important that grant applications clearly demonstrate that the event is of relevance in relation to the purpose of the Finance Market Fund and that the funding provided will promote activity that would otherwise not have taken place.

Half of the grant amount will be disbursed when the contract is signed, with the remaining half paid out after the event has been concluded. A final report must be submitted. Disbursement is contingent on approval of the submitted final report and project account report. The final report must include a list of presentations and where they may be found, a list of participants, a summary of achieved objectives and experiences from the event, as well as a copy of the programme.

Support from the Finance Market Fund is to go to the non-economic activity of research organisations. Funding recipients are required to have a clear separation of accounts for the organisation’s economic and non-economic activities. Companies will not be eligible to receive support to cover projects costs and may not receive indirect support through the granting of any rights to project results. Support allocated under this call therefore does not constitute state aid.

You may revise and resubmit your grant application form multiple times up to the application submission deadline. We recommend that you submit your application as soon as you have filled in the application form and uploaded all mandatory attachments. After the deadline, it is the most recently submitted version of the grant application that will be processed.

• The grant application, including all attachments, must be submitted in Norwegian or English.
• All attachments must be uploaded in PDF format.

The designated templates for the attachments are found at the end of this call.

Applications must fulfil the following requirements:

• The applicant/Project Owner must come from an eligible category of institution.
• The grant application must lie within the scope/satisfy the objectives of this call.
• The funding amount sought, expenses to be covered and any own financing to be provided must be in keeping with the framework of the call.
• The budget must be formulated correctly to clearly indicate what the funding will cover.
• The application form must be fully completed.
• The required attachments must be included using the designated templates.
• The project description must provide answers to the items set out in the text of the call.

All items in the project description template must be completed. Responses to each item should be as concrete and clear as possible.

Mandatory attachments

• A project description using the designated template for this application type.
• A CV for the project manager, using the designated template.
• CVs for key project participants, using the designated template.

Grant applications that do not satisfy the above requirements will be rejected.

There is no technical validation of the content of the attachments you upload, so please make sure that you upload the correct file for the selected type of attachment.

Grant applications will be processed by the Research Council administration.

The Board of Directors of the Finance Market Fund is responsible for the final decisions regarding grant allocations.

Final decisions on allocation of funding are planned to be announced in mid-November 2019.