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

The call is open to approved Norwegian research organisations.

Requirements relating to the Project Owner

The research organisation is to be entered as the Project Owner in the application form, and must have authorised you to submit the grant application.

Funding from the Finance Market Fund is to be used for planning and carrying out events.

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 ordinary participants in the event will 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.

Applications must clearly demonstrate that the event is of relevance in relation to the purpose of the Finance Market Fund and that the funding will promote activity that would otherwise not have taken place.

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.

Half of the grant amount will be normally disbursed when the contract is signed, with the remaining half paid out after the event has been concluded. A final report must be submitted.

The final disbursement is contingent on the Research Council’s 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, information about the number of participants, a summary of achieved objectives and experiences from the event, as well as a copy of the programme.

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 included all mandatory attachments. After the deadline, it is the most recently submitted version of the grant application that will be reviewed.

• Grant applications and all attachments may be submitted in Norwegian or English.
• All attachments must be uploaded in PDF format.

Mandatory attachments

• A project description, using the designated template found at the end of this call for proposals.
• CV for the project manager, using the designated template found at the end of this call for proposals.
• CVs for key project participants, using the designated template found at the end of this call for proposals.

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

Optional attachments

• A copy of the programme for a similar event held previously.

Links to websites and documents, as well as other attachments than those specified above, will not be included in the application review process. 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 administratively processed by the Research Council. 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 2020.