Calls / Contests Art and Research

The Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) awards grants for research stays outside of Austria for library, archive or field research necessary for the preparation of an academic thesis or publication or the development of a funding application.  

Deadline 5.12.2025

Titled "Spreading Knowledge", the program invites researchers to host konwledge-transfer events in cooperation with FWF. The goal is to share research results and to intensify the knowledge transfer between science, economy and society. 

Deadline 9.12.2025, 14 h

The "Pro Scientia" foundation is interdisciplinary and awards stipends to high performing students (from Bachelors degree), junior scientists of all fields and artists up to the age of 30. 

Deadline 10.12.2025

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.

Call for Contributions 15.12.2025

The Journal Memory, Mind & Media (MMM) invites contributions for a special collection themed "After Memory: Shifting Perceptions of Time and Temporality in the Digital Condition".

Call for Contributions 15.12.2025

The XV. International Bauhaus Colloquium invites researchers from the humanities, arts, and architecture, from across different discourses and geographies to critically examine the politics that underlie, shape, or result from research. The event takes place 4–7 November 2026 in Weimar and the call for contributions is open.

Call for Contributions 15.12.2025

The Young Talent  Award Fine Arts Carinthia honors young aspiring artists who can prove a concrete connection to Carinthia. 

Deadline 19.12.2025

The conference "Citizen Practices in Producing and Preserving the Past" will be hosted by the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) 11–12 May in Luxembourg. 

Call for Contributions 20.12.2025

The Orpheus Doctoral Conference (ODC) 2026 will be held 16–17 April in Ghent. The call for contributions for the for the theme "Sonic Worldings: Crafting realities through artistic research" is open until 21 December. 

Call for Contributions 21.12.2025

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 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 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 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 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 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