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Info Session: Research Catalogue and Prize for Best Research Catalogue Exposition 2024/2025 of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- Info session: 14.5.2025, 13–14 h
In this session, Art | Research | Support gives a brief insight into the Research Catalogue and presents the Prize for Best Research Catalogue Exposition of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. > more
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Graduate Conference 2025
- Conference: 15.5.2025, 9:30–16 h
On May 15 doctoral and PhD candidates in their final phase will present results of their dissertation projects. We are looking forward to an exciting conference day with seven multifaceted presentations and lively discussions. > more
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5. Österreichisches Doktorand*innensymposium der Architektur
- Conference: 15.5.2025–16.5.2025
The program involves six academic faculties for architecture in Austria, one of them is the Institute for Art and Architecture (IKA) of the Academy of fine Arts Vienna. This year's symposium ist hosted by TU Graz.
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Info Session: Research Catalogue and Prize for Best Research Catalogue Exposition 2024/2025 of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- Info session: 11.6.2025, 11–12 h
In this session, Art | Research | Support gives a brief insight into the Research Catalogue and presents the Prize for Best Research Catalogue Exposition of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. > more
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Vienna Business Agency | Understanding Science Funding
With its Understanding Science funding, the Vienna Business Agency supports communication measures to make the results of research and science understandable and easily accessible. > more
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Research Institute in Art, Design and Society | HUB Open Call #5
- Call for Contributions: 30.4.2025
The idea behind this year´s theme “Duration? Dur(action)” is an action that prevails in time. Action also has an open meaning, but it is always linked to time and space. It is from these presuppositions that they understand the notion of performance. > more
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University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna | Cfp: Dance Resonance - Artistic Attunement in Motion
In cooperation with the Department of Music and Movement Education/Rhythmics and the Artistic Research Center at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw), as well as the Institute for Theatre, Media, and Popular Culture at the University of Hildesheim. > more
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ARTEACTA | OPEN CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS. Beyond Human Communality: Enounters and Limits
ArteActa is a peer-reviewed, online, open-access journal for performative arts and artistic research, offering publication in multimedia formats (text, hypertext, photo, video, audio), mostly presented in Research Catalogue expositions or as film essays. > more
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Open Call of the Academy | Ernst A. Plischke Study Prize
The Ernst A. Plischke Study Prize was launched on the initiative of the Ernst A. Plischke Society (www.plischke-society.com) with the support of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. It is awarded every two years and financed from the membership fees of ordinary and supporting members of the Ernst A. Plischke Society. > more
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FWF | Science Communication
- Deadline: 13.5.2025, 14 h
This program supports scientists in communicating their FWF-funded research work to various discourse groups through new, creative communication measures. The aim is to make research and its results visible and to strengthen the public’s trust in science. > more
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Creative Europe | European Cooperation Projects
- Deadline: 13.5.2025, 17 h
The Creative Europe programme supports transnational cooperation projects involving organisations in the cultural and creative sectors from different countries taking part in the programme. It covers the EU and beyond. > more
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ÖAW | Post-DocTrack
The OeAW awards fellowships to holders of a doctorate or PhD in the humanities and social and cultural sciences who are pursuing an academic career in order to assist in the transition to the post-doc phase. > more
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Unstable Systems | Hugarflug Conference 2025
- Call for Contribution: 23.5.2025
Hugarflug 2025 is looking for contributions! The annual conference on artistic research at the Iceland University of the Arts, will take place on 11 and 12 September 2025 and will serve as a platform for research that engages with instability across various systems—from technological advancements such as AI and interactive systems to issues related to politics, society, and the environment. > more
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39. Österreichischer Grafikwettbewerb | Open Call
The 39th Austrian Graphic Design Competition in Innsbruck in 2025 is inviting submissions. > more
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Nordic Journal for Artistic Research | OPEN CALL VIS #15
The call for participation in VIS – Nordic Journal for Artistic Research Issue 15 is open! Theme: LANGUAGE/LANGUAGED/LANGUAGING. > more
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Eureka Network | Canada - Austria 2025
- Deadline: 30.5.2025, 12 h
As part of the Eureka Network, an open call for research and development projects with Canada is planned from November 21, 2024 to May 30, 2025. Project proposals in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are particularly welcome. > more
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Journal for Artistic Research | Call for Submissions
- Call for Contribution: 31.5.2025
JAR is welcoming submissions in Spanish, Portuguese, French, German and English. The Journal publishes three unthemed issues a year. > more
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The Ambient Music Conference | Call for Papers
- Call for Contribution: 1.6.2025
Ambient is a truly planetary genre of music – with an endless range of local traditions and highly diverse scenes. This conference focuses on local histories, practices and reflections from all areas on this planet - labels and scenes, producers and their list of aliases, performers and their practice of crafting ambient music on the spot or for an online label. > more
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ephemer – Journal for Performance and Theater Research | Call for Co-Editor
ephemer is seeking a co-editor for their inaugural issue “on theater manifestos” who will work closely with the editorial team in shaping the volume and identifying suitable contributors. > more
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Norwegian Academy for Music | Music & Practice: New Issue and Call for Paper
- Call for Contributions: 15.6.2025
In the present volume of M&P, their authors present new and original perspectives while exploring the relation between body and instrument, self-notation and improvisation, the concert format and its new medial possibilities. > more
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Das Kunstbuch | Vienna Art Book Fair
- Call for Contributions: 22.6.2025
Das Kunstbuch is thrilled to announce the Vienna Art Book Fair #3. The third edition of the VABF will take place from 17-19 October 2025, at die Angewandte - University of Applied Arts in Vienna. > more
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Horizon Europe | MSCA COFUND 2025
- Deadline: 24.6.2025, 17 h
MSCA COFUND supports individual organizations in the implementation of their own doctoral or postdoctoral programmes, with which doctoral students and postdocs are financed. The aim is to increase the quality and internationalization of new or existing doctoral or postdoctoral programmes. > more
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ÖAW | USA Fellowships of the Max Kade Foundation
This programme of the Max Kade Foundation in New York supports scholars from all research disciplines who wish to visit the USA for research purposes. > more
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Rudolf Sallinger Fonds | Rudolf Sallinger Prize 2025
The prize honors the ideas of students and researchers on the specific topic of “Family businesses in Austria”. > more
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Stiftung Deutsche Sprache | WB Wilhelm Busch Foundation Prize 2025
The Stiftung Deutsche Sprache is now awarding the WB Wilhelm Busch Foundation Prize for the fourth time: The prize is awarded to an outstanding academic thesis in German that deals academically or artistically with the framework topic of “Text and Image”. > more
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ifk | Research Fellowship
ifk Research Fellowships are intended for postdoctoral researchers. Qualified applications can be submitted regardless of the nationality and institutional or professional affiliation of the applicant. Austrian applicants with comparable qualifications are given preference. > more
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ifk | Senior Fellowship
ifk Senior Fellowships are intended for outstanding researchers who are advanced in their academic careers, and want to pursue their own research at the IFK while fostering intellectual cooperation with the ifk Fellows and other Austrian colleagues. > more
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Horizon Europe | ERC Advanced Grant
The ERC Advanced Grant supports leading scientists who want to pursue a new, ambitious research direction in Europe. > more
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Horizon Europe | MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025
- Deadline: 10.9.2025, 17 h
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral mobility. MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships will be open to excellent researchers of any nationality. > more
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Prize for Best Research Catalogue Exposition 2024/2025 of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- Deadline: 7.10.2025, 11 h
This prize rewards outstanding contributions to the Research Catalogue (i.e. RC Expositions) by staff and students of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. We are looking for published RC contributions from the years 2024 and 2025. > more
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AK Upper Austria | AK Science Prize 2026
Every year, the Upper Austrian Chamber of Labor (AK OÖ) awards a science prize for scientific work that serves to improve the working and living conditions of employees. > more
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FWF | Zero Emissions Award
- Submissions continuously accepted
Researchers from universities and non-university research institutions have had the opportunity to submit climate-relevant research proposals for Austria's largest privately funded research award. > more
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Aws | Proof of Concept Grants
- Submissions continuously accepted
The funding measure supports researchers in systematically reviewing their research results and opening up potential areas of application in order to accelerate the transfer of knowledge and technology from publicly funded research and development. > more
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Open Call of the Academy | Grant for Open-Access-Publication Costs of the Academy
- Submissions accepted continuously
The Academy's Open Access Publication Grant is intended to support Gold Open Access of academic publications that are the result of research activities at the Academy or are not covered by externally funded projects at the Academy. > more
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Open Call of the Academy | Going Book: Grant for Publication Costs
- Submissions accepted continuously
The publication cost grant is intended to support the realisation of excellent publications. The prerequisite for funding is that it is a quality-assured (peer-reviewed) publication. > more
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Open Call of the Academy | FWF Open-Access Block Grant
- Submissions accepted continuously
The call is aimed at project participants of FWF-funded projects affiliated with the research institution Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. > more
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Journal of Embodied Research | Open Call for Video Articles
- Call for Contributions permanently open
JER invites the submission of video articles on a rolling basis. These can focus on any topic related to embodied practice, embodied knowledge, or embodied research. > more
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Open Gender Journal | Call for Papers
- Call for Contributions permanently open
The editors of the Open Gender Journal are pleased about the submission of papers from all disciplines with a gender reference / focus. > more
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Humboldt Research Fellowship | Postdoctoral Research in Germany
- Submissions accepted continuously
A Humboldt Research Fellowship for international postdoctoral researchers allows to carry out long-term research (6-24 months) in Germany. > more
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FWF | Book Publications
- Submissions accepted continuously
This program funds the publication and simultaneous open-access publication of books on research findings. > more
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FWF | Stand-Alone Projects
- Submissions accepted continuously
Researchers of any discipline who are working in Austria are eligible for applying to a FWF Stand Alone Project. The aim is to provide funding for individual research in the area of non-profit oriented scholarly/scientific research. > more
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FWF | Erwin Schrödinger Fellowships including a return phase
- Submissions accepted continuously
The Erwin Schrödinger Fellowships are intended for young and highly qualified scientists of any discipline and seek to enable young scholars to gain experience abroad during the postdoc-phase. > more
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FWF | Esprit
- Submissions accepted continuously
The ESPRIT Programme (Early Stage Programme: Research, Innovation and Training) is addressed to highly qualified postdocs from all disciplines at the beginning of their academic career who wish to carry out an independent research project at an Austrian research institute. > more
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FWF | PEEK
- Submissions accepted continuously
The aim of PEEK (Programme for Arts-based Research) is to fund clearly defined research proposals of high artistic and academic quality at an international level in the field of arts-based research. > more
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FWF | Principal Investigator Projects International
- Submissions continuously accepted
The funding program provides principal investigators and their research groups with the resources they need to work together with international project partners to investigate key research questions over a period of several years. > more
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Doc-News
Dear doctoral candidates,
in this edition of Doc-News, we would like to draw your special attention to the Graduate Conference 2025, which will take place on May 15, 2025 from 9.30 am to 4 pm in the conference room at Schillerplatz. We are looking forward to seven multifaceted presentations and lively discussions. Please join us, support your colleagues and use this platform to engage in professional dialogue and networking. Find more information and program details here.
If you have any questions about topics related to your doctoral or PhD studies at the Academy, please contact us at doktoratszentrum@akbild.ac.at.
Below you can find further activities and calls, among them our ongoing funding opportunities for doctoral and PhD candidates.
We wish you a joyful and productive spring time!
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From idea to exposé
- Workshop: 13.5.2025, 10–14 h
This one-day, practice-oriented workshop is designed to help PhD students effectively present their dissertation projects through a compelling exposé. > more
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Being Present with Confidence. Presence and Presentation for Phd-Students
- Workshop: 22.5.2025–23.5.2025
The workshop intends to enhance participants’ presence in challenging moments of public appearance, “presence” meaning being fully available for every aspect of a given situation, alert and confident enough to react to ever changing circumstances in an appropriate way. > more
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Online information meeting for enrollment in the Doctor of Philosophy WiSe 2025-26
We cordially invite those interested in the Doctor of Philosophy program at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna to attend this online appointment to learn about enrollment requirements and procedures.
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Open Door Event Winter Semester 2025/26
The Center for Doctoral Studies welcomes new and continuing doctoral students to an open door event in the winter semester 2025/26. > more
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Final steps: Submission of your PhD thesis and thesis defense / Rigorosum
- Informative meeting: 14.1.2026, 13–15:30 h
How do I submit my dissertation or Ph.D. thesis? What exactly does revocation application mean in AkademieOnline? How does this relate to the planned publication of my dissertation thesis? Why can a plagiarism check before submission be advisable? How and when can I register for my defense or rigorosum? > more
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Open Call of the Academy | Learning-on-the-Job grant
- Submissions accepted continuously
The Learning-on-the-Job scholarship offers dissertation supervisors the opportunity to apply for a scholarship for doctoral/Ph.D. candidates. > more
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Open Call of the Academy | Short term grants abroad
- Submissions accepted continuously
The scholarship for a short-term stay abroad for doctoral/Ph.D. candidates supports stays abroad for e.g. research, field research, archival research, interviews, which are necessary for the dissertation or the Ph.D. project. Stays abroad are funded for a minimum of two to a maximum of eight weeks. > more
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Open Call of the Academy | Travel Allowances for doctoral resp. Ph.D. candidates at the Academy
- Submissions accepted continuously
Regular students of all doctoral studies and the Ph.D.-in-Practice-Program of the Academy can apply for travel allowances for participations in international conferences as well as for the presentation of art projects. > more
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Open Call of the Academy | Dissertation projects on the Academy's website
- Submissions accepted continuously
We would like to give doctoral and PhD candidates and their dissertation projects space on the Academy website and present information about them in a separate section of the Center for Doctoral Studies. We, therefore, ask all doctoral and PhD candidates with an approved dissertation agreement who would like to be visible as doctoral or PhD candidates on the Academy website to fill out the application form and upload the required documents. > more
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EU ERASMUS+ | Semester abroad
- Submissions accepted continuously
Doctoral and Ph.D. candidates of the Academy of Fine Arts have the opportunity to spend a semester abroad at a partner university within the framework of Erasmus+. > more
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EU ERASMUS+ | Short-term stay abroad
- Submissions accepted continuously
In order to better meet the different learning and training needs of doctoral students and to ensure equal opportunities, doctoral students will also have the opportunity to complete a short-term study visit abroad in Europe from the summer semester of 2022. > more
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OeAD | Marietta Blau-Grant
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. > more
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ÖAW | DOC
- Deadline: 15.9.2025, 14 h
The DOC Fellowship Programme of the Austrian Academy of Sciences offers funding for highly qualified doctoral candidates in all areas of research. The fellowships are intended to allow young researchers to dedicate themselves to working in focused fashion to complete their doctoral thesis within a clear timeframe. > more
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ifk | Junior Fellowship
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. > more
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