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OeAW | Dissertation Award for Research on Migration

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Due Date
We 1.4.2026

The Dissertation Award for Research on Migration is awarded for a doctoral thesis project that has been submitted and accepted for supervision at an Austrian university but is yet to be completed and examines refugeeism and migration, the integration of migrants or societal transformation as a result of migration. 

Requirements

  • Submissions are welcome from all fields of the social sciences, humanities and jurisprudence and legal theory.
  • The independent contribution of the doctoral candidates must be clearly explained in the description of the dissertation project.
  • Doctoral/PhD studies may not have begun more than three years before the date of submission.

  • Applicants do not have to hold Austrian citizenship.

Award sum

4,000 euros

Application

The deadline for submissions is 1 April 2026. 

Information about the application process is available on the website of the OeAW