Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation awarded a total of €16.1 million to projects in science, arts, and societal activities through its general grant application process. The foundation awarded a total of €186,000 to the University of Lapland.

One of the grant recipients is Nadezhda
Filimonova, a postdoctoral researcher at the Arctic Centre who works in the Arctic
Governance research group.

The grant
was awarded to Filimonova’s post-doctoral research project Waste
Solutions Without Borders: Pathways for Circular Solid Waste Management in
Peripheral Finnish Swedish Border Twin Cities (TWINCIRC) with amount of
€36,000.

The research examines how
cross-border cooperation can promote waste management based on circular economy and
produce new administrative and practical solutions to support sustainable
development.

All grant recipients can be
found on the Wihuri Foundation website. Wihuri
Foundation funding decisions in 2025