Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟♂️So, my #research grant proposal for #KoneFoundation is submitted.
What a journey from a rough draft that vaguely resembled a research project to an actual proposal.
Now I've done what I can, the rest is down to RNG.
Exciting.
HannaOnce in a while some good news from #Finland!
Extinction Rebellion Finland - @elokapina - has been granted 200 000 euros from Koneen Säätiö - Kone Foundation, in English:
https://koneensaatio.fi/en/news/kone-foundation-wants-to-raise-the-level-of-the-debate-on-forests-20-forest-related-projects-in-the-metsan-puolella-initiative-to-receive-a-total-of-eur-2-8-million-in-funding/
På svenska:
https://elokapina.fi/sv/news/press-release/2023/08/28/koneen-saatiolta-historiallisen-rohkea/
#ExtinctionRebellionFinland #Elokapina #ExtinctionRebellion #XR #ilmastokriisi #ClimateCrisis #klimatkrisen #elonkirjo #biodiversiteetti #biodiversity #biodiversitet #KoneenSäätiö #KoneStiftelsen #KoneFoundation #apuraha #grant #stipendium
Kone Foundation wants to raise the level of the debate on forests: 20 forest-related projects in the Metsän puolella initiative to receive a total of EUR 2.8 million in funding
Metsän puolella is a new initiative by Kone Foundation that brings together researchers, artists, journalists and activists working with forests.
Teemu KoskimäkiFinnish #KoneFoundation just granted 200,000€ for #Elokapina i.e. #ExtinctionRebellion Finland. Their project seeks to campaign for sustainable forest use via various activist methods. https://koneensaatio.fi/en/grants-and-residencies/metsan-vuoro-elokapinan-valiintulo-metsakeskusteluun-2/
Metsän vuoro – Elokapinan väliintulo metsäkeskusteluun - Kone Foundation
Elokapina on viime vuosina toiminut kansalaisyhteiskunnan eturintamassa. Se on nostanut suomalaisen ympäristö- ja ilmastokeskustelun tasoa, tuonut näkyviin keskeisiä ympäristöpolitiikan epäkohtia ja aktivoinut uuden sukupolven ympäristöaktivismin pariin. Elokapina on jo siirtänyt Suomen ilmastokeskustelun painopistettä, seuraavaksi on metsän vuoro.
Tuomo Hiippala🥳 #KoneFoundation has granted funding for my new four-year project on microtask #crowdsourcing as a part of the academic research infrastructure!
It's a special day for me, since I've been regularly applying for funding from Kone Foundation since 2008, and this is the first time I've landed a grant. 😊
If you're interested in collaborating with us on this topic, don't hesitate to get in touch!
Digital Sweatshops as Research Infrastructure? Critical and Practical Perspectives to Crowdsourcing in Academic Research - Kone Foundation
This project examines crowdsourcing as a part of the academic research infrastructure. In this context, crowdsourcing refers to privately-owned online platforms where workers perform small and repetitive tasks for money. In addition to powering voice-controlled assistants, self-driving cars and keeping our social media platforms clean of abusive content, crowdsourcing is widely used in academia. Computer vision, natural language processing and other data-intensive fields depend on crowdsourcing to create data for training and evaluating algorithms, but the use of crowdsourcing is now also expanding to social sciences and humanities. This warrants urgent attention, because crowdsourcing involves various ethical issues ranging from sweatshop wages to diverse forms of invisible labour.