Calls / Contests Art and Research

This call focuses on experimental local action for EU missions: knowledge institutions as focal points of transdisciplinary research and innovation activities with European outreach.

Deadline 25.9.2024, 17 h

For the International Weeks against Racism in March 2025, the art competition with the motto “Protecting human dignity” is being announced with prize money totaling 2,150 euros.

Deadline 25.9.2024

On the MS Wissenschaft 2025 tour, the numerous aspects of the future of energy will be analysed and examined from a scientific perspective.

Deadline 27.9.2024

Every two years, the Manuel de Solà-Morales European Prize will recognize the best university research in the field of urbanism carried out by a student granted a PhD.

Deadline 30.9.2024

JAR is an internationally recognised Open Access journal that publishes artistic research from all arts disciplines including (but not limited to) the visual arts, architecture, dance, design, film, literature, music, painting, performance, photography, poetry, sculpture, theatre, video art, urban planning, etc.

Call for Contributions 30.9.2024

RUUKKU – Studies in Artistic Research invites new contributions for Issue: Dreaming the city for real – spaces of polyphony, dissonance and coexistence.

Call for Contributions 30.9.2024

From 13-15 February 2025, the Institute of Educational Sciences at the University of Vienna is organising a research workshop on the topic of "Political Activism and Participatory Research". The workshop is aimed at early career researchers who are working on participatory research approaches as part of their qualification thesis or a research project.

Call for Contributions 30.9.2024

The competition is addressed to young scientists (max. 40 years old) who have made a significant discovery or outstanding achievements in the field of broadly understood technical sciences in the last three years.

Deadline 30.9.2024

A five-member jury consisting of the external experts Karin Cheng, Mara Mattuschka and Sasha Pirker as well as the QUEERTACTICS organizers Dagmar Fink and Katja Wiederspahn - with the support of VdFS (Verwertungsgesellschaft der Filmschaffenden) and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna - will award three prizes, each endowed with 1000 Euro.

Deadline 30.9.2024

The state scholarships are a recognition of previous outstanding artistic achievements and serve to promote further artistic creation.

Deadline 30.9.2024

In this edition, they are interested in showcasing drawings, artistic projects, images, articles, essays, and contextual or critical texts that address, problematize, or explore representations of Nature and Landscape, Environmental Narratives, connections between humans and non-humans, our anthropocentric culture, or other possible worldviews.

Call for Contributions 1.10.2024

FWF has launched a new career funding program called the FWF Astra Awards. This funding will help advanced postdocs in Austria make the leap to the top of their research field.

Deadline 3.10.2024, 14 h

The Neptun State Prize for Water is the Austrian environmental and innovation prize for sustainable water projects.

Deadline 14.10.2024

The State Patent Award puts the spotlight on particularly innovative achievements. It is the highest state honour for inventions and brands and will be awarded for the fifth time in June 2025.

Deadline 14.10.2024

The ERC Starting Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are starting their own independent research team or programme. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition, and feasibility of their research proposal.

Deadline 15.10.2024, 17 h

The 16^th International Conference on Artistic Research (May 7 - 9, 2025) with the theme “Resonance” is hosted by i2ADS, University of Porto.

Call for Contributions 15.10.2024

In 2024, the Department of Women, Anti-Discrimination and Equal Treatment of the Burgenland Provincial Government will award a prize for Bachelor's/Master's theses that consider topics against the background of feminist approaches or gender aspects into the work.

Deadline 15.10.2024

In continuation of the concerns of Msgr Otto Mauer (1907 - 1973), who gained international recognition through his commitment to contemporary art and young artists, the Otto Mauer Fund is awarding the Msgr Otto Mauer Prize for Fine Arts (painting, graphics, sculpture, objects, installations, new media) for the 44th time at the end of the year.

Deadline 16.10.2024, 17:30 h

L'École de Design Nantes Atlantique and the Cumulus Association are pleased to announce the opening of the call for contributions for the bi-annual Cumulus Conference 2025.

Call for Contributions 18.10.2024