Common Security in a Diverging World (PROTECT)
Common Security in a Diverging World (PROTECT) supports research consortia studying security, trust and psychological resilience to strengthen Finnish society’s ability to act amid uncertainty.
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Funder: Research Council of Finland
Due Dates: December 15, 2026 (Letters of intent) | April 14, 2027 (Invited full applications)
Funding Amounts: €2.75–3 million per consortium for the first three years; six-year projects funded in two stages
Summary: Supports multidisciplinary research on security, trust and psychological crisis resilience to strengthen Finnish society’s capacity to act amid uncertainty.
Key Information: Consortia must include at least three subprojects, three organisations and three research fields, with funding paid through Finnish research sites.
Description
Common Security in a Diverging World (PROTECT) is run by the Strategic Research Council (SRC) within the Research Council of Finland. It supports multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research on the social, institutional and cultural mechanisms shaping psychological security and the population’s functional capacity. Projects should identify concrete ways to strengthen Finnish society’s ability to act amid change, threats and disruption.
Research may address belonging, community, trust, shared agency, democratic values, participation, culture and the arts, economic security or the information environment. Interaction with knowledge users and stakeholder cooperation must support societal impact throughout the project. The cross-cutting priority, “Data as power,” addresses data quality, representativeness, access, privacy and security, including the under-representation of socially vulnerable groups.
