Calls / Contests Art and Research

The international conference "Tenor" will be hosted 21–24 May 2026 in Vienna and revolves around technologies for music notation and representation. Researchers, composers, scientists, technologists and performers are invited to submit their work.

Call for Contributions 8.1.2026

The project "Kooperativ Ternitz" is organizing an Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Program in spring/summer 2026 in a former workers' settlement in the Lower Austrian municipality of Ternitz. Under the motto "Cooperative Dreiersiedlung," artists from different fields are invited who want to support the transformation process of the Dreiersiedlung with artistic impulses. 

Deadline 12.1.2026

The ERC Consolidator Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or program. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal.

Deadline 13.1.2026, 17 h

The Eb-Dietzsch Award for painting is awarded to artists until the age of 35 years who are at the start of their careers. One work per person can be submitted, the topic is free of choice. All techniques of painting are accepted. 

Deadline 15.1.2026

The Marianne Englert Prize is awarded for three high-quality student contributions in the field of media information and media documentation that are worthy of recognition. 

Deadline 15.1.2026

The Call for Contributions for the ELIA Biennial Conference 2026 titled "Going off Centre" is open. The conference will take place 18–21 November 2026 in Zwolle, Netherlands and is hosted by the ArtEZ University of the Arts.

Call for Contributions 16.1.2026

The 11th Living Knowledge Conference, titled "Research and Solidarity" will be hosted 7–10 July 2026 in Gdansk. The conference welcomes welcomes everyone involved in supporting, facilitating, or conducting community-driven, collaborative research. The call for contributions has been extended to 18 January 2026.

Call for Contributions 18.1.2026

The ifk Junior Fellowships are intended for young Austrian academics doing their dissertations, as well as for non-Austrian doctoral students who are being supervised at an Austrian university. 

Deadline 25.1.2026

The start-up grants represent recognition and support for the work of young artists. They are intended to promote artistic development and facilitate entry into the Austrian and international art scene.

Deadline 31.1.2026

The Federal Ministry for Housing, Art, Culture, Media and Sports (BMWKMS) offers funding in the field of film. Among other, funding is awarded for project development as well as production of avant-garde and experimental films as well as animation, documentary and feature films. 

Deadline 31.1.2026

The "Conference for Advancing the Participatory Sciences" will be held online May 26–29, 2026. Organized by the  Association for Advancing Participatory Sciences, it conveines researchers, moderators and project leaders for four online conference days. The event presents leading voices from the participatory sciences and aims to enable dynamics discussions. 

Call for Contributions 31.1.2026

The Society for Artistic Research (SAR) has opened a call for nominations of candidates for the Annual SAR Prize for Excellent Research Catalogue Exposition 2025. The prize aims to foster and encourage innovative, experimental new formats of publication and to give visibility to the qualities of artistic research artefacts. 

Deadline 31.1.2026

The European Commission is launching an EU-wide competition for students to design the first official trophy of the New European Bauhaus (NEB) Prizes. The NEB Prizes celebrate outstanding projects and ideas that embody the NEB values of sustainability, beauty, and inclusion. 

Deadline 31.1.2026

The Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) accepts submissions in Spanish, Portuguese, French, German and English. The next deadline is 31 January 2026. 

Call for Contributions 31.1.2026

The 29th Festival for Motion Picture Communication will take place 12–13 March 2026 in Stuttgart. Spotlight STUDENTS is a young talent competition for spots and other motion picture formats produced by film students. 

Deadline 31.1.2026

The Marietta Blau Grant offers financial support for six- to twelve-month study periods abroad for doctoral or PhD students of Austrian universities. It serves to optimise their dissertations. Junior researchers are the main target group.

Deadline 1.2.2026

This grant program funded by the Austrian Ministry for Women, Science and Research is directed at junior researchers of all disciplines who study or do research outside of Austria and want to launch a research project in Austria.

Deadline 1.2.2026

The second Forum Artistic Research will be held 25–27 June 2026 in Klagenfurt. The call for contributions on the theme "suspended in language?"  is open until 2 February.

Call for Contributions 2.2.2026

The L’ORÉAL Austria Awards offer funding for young female scientists in medicine, natural and life sciences or mathematics to support them at the beginning of their scientific career after their doctorate/PhD.

Deadline 10.2.2026

Attractive career opportunities for doctoral students help them gain a foothold in promising research fields – doc.funds.connect grants fund joint doctoral training programs at universities and universities of applied sciences. 

Deadline 26.2.2026, 14 h