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The Finnish Parkinson Foundation is a grant-awarding foundation established by the Finnish Parkinson’s Association with a patient’s bequest to award grants for scientific research into movement disorders. The Foundation awards about 100,000 euros in grants from returns on assets every year. There are very few, if any, research projects focusing on rare diseases. The Foundation’s grants have been used to launch research into areas such as Wilson’s and Huntington’s disease and dystonia.
Help researchers study movement disorders
There has been a significant drop in public funding for clinical medical research in particular over the last ten years. At the same time, foundations focusing on medical research have increased their funding, but the share of clinical research is still meagre in research fields such as movement disorders. Young doctors are less and less likely to pursue a clinical research career due to lesser certainty in the funding of this research. The Finnish Parkinson Foundation aims to make research into movement disorders an interesting and desirable field of research among young researchers.
Funds raised are awarded for research in full
Any funds raised through the ongoing campaign will be awarded as part of the 2026 grant application process to one or more movement disorder research projects that meet scientific criteria and have obtained permission from the competent ethics committee, with an emphasis on young doctoral researchers. We wish to raise at least 25,000 euros per year, which corresponds to a year working grant.
In 2024, the tax-free amount of annual grants for researchers is 26,355.60 euros, which amounts to 2,196.31 euros per month. The basis of the tax-free limit for grants is the annual amount of the government grants for artists confirmed by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
Organisational donations
Organisations can deduct any donations of 850–50,000 euros to the Finnish Parkinson Foundation in their income taxation by Decisions No. P0195582669 issued by the Finnish Tax Administration on 18 April 2023 for a period from 2024 to 2028. Valid only in Finland.
The Foundation’s donation account FI19 5710 0420 2778 32 OKOYFIHH (only in Finland)
You can make a one-time donation for the annual grant to our donation account. The payee is Suomen Parkinson-säätiö sr – The Finnish Parkinson Foundation. If you add the donor’s name to the message field, we will publish it in our communications. Otherwise just enter the reference number 2804. The Foundation has the fundraising permit RA/2020/1629 granted by the National Police Board as of 1 January 2021 until further notice, covering the territory of Finland except for the Åland Islands. VALID ONLY IN FINLAND. Donations arriving from abroad must be negotiated with the ombudsman in advance.
Money collection campaign – Keräysapuraha 2025 (only in Finnish)Donations from abroad
We are sorry to tell that the foundation cannot accept any checks as a donation. Before you donate to a memorial donation or in honor of an anniversary, please contact ombudsman / Foundation Director via form below.