Funding for 2012

Infotech Oulu organization

The University of Oulu provided special funding of EUR 400 000 for Infotech Oulu in 2012. About 75% of this was directed to the support of the full member groups. For the year 2012, EUR 746 000 was granted by the Ministry of Education and Culture to the Infotech Oulu Doctoral Program for its 25 student positions. The University of Oulu granted EUR 38 000 for coordination. In addition, the Academy of Finland granted EUR 430 000 for the years 2010–2013. EUR 108 000 was awarded for the year 2012. This funding was for arranging courses given by visiting experts and for covering traveling costs of doctoral students when taking part in conferences or working abroad. This total funding was EUR 1 292 000 in 2012. During the past few years, Infotech Oulu has been able to apply for special funding from the University of Oulu (funding for infrastructure and for international recruitment of researchers). Adding this special funding, the total funding was EUR 1 750 000. The table below shows the total funding in 2012, excluding any funding that the research groups may have won in their own right.

Research groups

The research groups are mainly funded externally. The total sum of annual external funding for the full members was EUR 11.8 million in 2012. Total external research funding, including that for the associate members, was EUR 15.1 million. Only about a quarter of the research work is financed through internal funding in the form of salaries of professors, research assistants, etc., excluding their estimated time used for teaching. The main source of financial support is Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, representing almost half of our external funding.

The following table shows the total external funding of the research groups in 2012. All the funding of the full member groups is channeled through the University, whereas the total funding includes also some funding channeled through VTT. The external funding decreased slightly (by about 8%) from the previous year.