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Project information in ACRIS

ACRIS collects project information from both internal and external sources and presents it publicly on Aalto University's research portal .

The projects funded by Aalto’s main funders - such as the Research Council of Finland (Academy of Finland), Business Finland, and the European Commission -  and projects funded by, for example, ministries or other funds are automatically integrated into ACRIS from financial services' systems.

Internal projects and commercial projects are not integrated into ACRIS.

The publicly available project page is a permanent landing page for basic project information - including the name of the project, dates and duration of the project, the funder, the PI and other project members - as well as project results and other details, such as publications, datasets and links to project pages and infrastructure used.

Descriptions of projects funded by Research Council of Finland and Business Finland are added to the project page starting from spring 2021.

If you have any questions about project information in ACRIS, please contact acris@aalto.fi. 

When a project is linked to the article as a service

The project information should be included in all externally funded articles. Funders also require that the name of the project and the funder be mentioned in the article's acknowledgement (typically the project's name and/or acronym and grant number). Check the funder’s instructions; if they are not available, apply these examples:  

• This article was funded by the Academy of Finland's Flagship Programme under Projects No. 318890 and 318891 (Competence Center for Materials Bioeconomy, CERES).
• We acknowledge the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (ERC Advanced Grant Agreement No. 788489, “BioElCell”).

ACRIS staff will add the project information to the article as part of publication's validation process if the project information (e.g., project number) is properly stated in the article:

1. We check the article for project information.
2. We add the project’s name/acronym and grant number to ACRIS based on the acknowledgements in the article.  

How to link projects to publications and other outputs in ACRIS

If you want to link your project to a publication or other related outputs, like research data, conference presentations, or patents, you can do that yourself: 

1. Go to .
2. Open the publication information or any other research result to which you want to link the project information.
3. Scroll down to the Relations section.
4. Select Project, and search for the appropriate project by typing the project’s name or number into the search field.
5. Click Save to close the form. 

If you have any questions, please contact acris@aalto.fi.

How to get the project-specific publication reports from ACRIS

ACRIS staff will create publication listings of project publications upon request. Please contact acris@aalto.fi.  

Help with reporting the EU project publications in the Funding & Tenders portal

When publications are linked with the EU projects in ACRIS, the publication information is harvested by the European OpenAIRE portal, which simplifies reporting in EU projects. 

• The EU requires that the open access status of publications be reported.
• It is often required that the logo of the EU project be visible in the project record.

If you need help completing publication information in the EU Funding & Tenders reporting system, or if you want the logo added to your EU project record in ACRIS, please contact acris@aalto.fi.