On March 19. 2025, it was exactly 175 years since the birth of Karl Herman Renlund, the founder of the Foundation. The Foundation’s representatives commemorated the anniversary by laying flowers on his grave from both of the foundations he established, the K.H.Renlund Foundation and the Stiftelsen Brita Maria Renlunds minne.
The call will be open from October 1st to November 30th 2025
The Foundation's Board decided to grant funding to 56 projects. The total amount of the grant awarded is €1177600. The list of funded projects can be downloaded here.
Our Foundation has supported the participation of high school students in the Earth Science Olympiad for several years - this year's success is reported on the GTK blog (in Finnish) and in the latest issue of Geologi...
Thank you to all applicants. We received a total of 115 applications and the evaluation has started. Applicants will be notified on 28 February 2025 when a decision on the projects to be funded has been made.
The discussion organised by the KHR-funded project at the Nurmes Rural Parliament on 29.9. 2024 has been published in Yle's Hyvin sanottu - Bra sagt programme series (in Finnish)....
The total amount available is around €1 million.
The Board of the Foundation made a field trip to Kokkola at the end of June to visit the K.H. Renlund Museum, the Keliber mining project and groundwater studies in Kurikka. In the photo, participants listen to a presentation by CEO Hannu Hautala from the construction...
Read more about the project on the Oulu university website (in Finnish).