In 2025, the Nessling Foundation will grant an additional million euros through the Murros-call to projects that generate deeper understanding, new perspectives, and science-based solutions for breaking away from structural overconsumption.
In this call, the Nessling Foundation wants to focus on how to break away from structural overconsumption. Interesting questions include: What are the structures across society that drive overconsumption, and how must they change? What economic, political, technological, and societal lock-ins are steering us towards overconsumption and acting as barriers to sufficiency? What kind of political guidance is needed for state operations or for other major societal actors?
The term “structural overconsumption” used in the Murros-call carries a dual meaning: it refers both to the state of overconsumption maintained by the structures of modern Western society and economy, and to the environmental footprint generated by large-scale infrastructure and construction projects.
The Murros-call will fund two two-year projects. Funded projects should be multidisciplinary and provide deeper understanding, new perspectives and science-based solutions for breaking away from structural overconsumption. The allocated million euros will be distributed between the two funded projects. The impact of the projects must be directed towards Finnish society, and the projects must be carried out by a Finnish research organisation.
Information session 5.2
The Murros-call will be launched at a hybrid event held in Finnish on 5 February from 9–10 am. You are welcome to join in person at Puistokatu 4 in Helsinki or follow the event via livestream or later as a recording. Register here by 28 January.
Who can apply for funding, how to apply, and what are the funding criteria? These details will be published after the launch event.
