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Topical issues related to the environment and climate are DO
represented in many of the grants awarded by the Finnish
Cultural Foundation. The sculptor Leena Reittu received a MINIK FLEISCHMANN
six-month grant from the North Karelia Regional Fund in
2022. As the material for her sculptures, she uses logging
waste found in clearcut forest areas. When she has
completed a sculpture, she returns it to where she
found the material, where it will be further reshaped
by the forces of nature.

MIKA VINNI Obliged by our origins Reliable and
transparent grants
Through its grants and projects, the Finnish
Cultural Foundation’s impact reaches far into The Foundation's responsible operating
the future. The origins of the Foundation form a principles include having consistent application
basis for its operating principles: Its donors have
always represented diverse social backgrounds processes. Grant applications are approved
based on their quality. Applications are dealt
and values and have held varying beliefs with by grant panels consisting of experts who
concerning what forms of culture should be rotate annually. Peer evaluations ensure better
supported. Therefore diversity of values is one of knowledge and equality in each field, and thanks
the Foundation’s pillars, and funds are allocated to the annual rotation of the panel’s experts, no
mutually divergent, even conflicting activities in individual can have too strong an influence on

the fields of art and research. grant decisions.

More accurate tracking Working towards
of lake conditions greater sustainability

The Foundation has started up several of its own projects to promote The Central Fund has used WWF’s Green
environmental and climate responsibility. A project initiated in 2022 Office environmental management and
certification system since 2021. The system
tries to improve the assessment and monitoring of the ecological involves monitoring and actions related
condition of lakes. Set to finish in 2026, the project is investigating
nine lakes around Finland. The lakes are affected by waste water from to electricity consumption, travel by
municipalities, mining, peat extraction sites and the forest industry, for personnel and representatives, workplace
example. Carefully chosen monitoring methods will allow environmental dining and event catering. The programme
authorities to detect changes in the status of lakes at an early stage.
was expanded to apply to the regional
funds in 2022.