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Paul-Julien Robert | On the Art of Disappearance and the Urge to Preserve
We cordially congratulate Paul-Julien Robert and Elisabeth Schäfer for receiving funding from the FWF for the PEEK project "On the Art of Disappearance and the Urge to Preserve". All the best for the start of the project!
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Ingrid Cogne | Research Catalogue Prize
Cordial contragulations to Ingrid Cogne for receiving the prize of 1,000 euros for the exhibition The dramaturgy of Conversation. The exposition presents an engaging and conceptually sophisticated research project that reimagines conversation as both method and site of knowledge-making. The jury emphasized the exposition’s aesthetic restraint and intellectual depth, and the mature and thoughtful use of Research Catalogue tools, combining clarity of design with an inviting, exploratory interface.
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Zahra Khalid Mirza | Research Catalogue Prize
One prize of 500 euros was awarded to Zahra Khalid Mirza for the exhibition Keythings of Clay: Material Ecologies in Art and Pedagogy. By establishing a strong correspondence between artistic process and digital presentation the exposition compellingly demonstrates the relationship between material, ecology, and pedagogy. The jury emphasized the immersive integration of several media formats and the further potential of the exposition in extending the digital format toward more interactive, hands-on engagements.
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Open Call of the Academy | Circular Bioengineering and Sustainability in Dialogue
This call is aimed at students of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna who are interested in exploring the intersection between art and science. As part of a collaboration between the Research Cluster Sustainability in the Arts at the Academy and the Exzellenzcluster Circular Bioengineering led by the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), students are invited for intercisciplinary exchange. The four selected projects will be supported with a stipend of 2000 euros.
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Open Call of the Academy | Manual for Occupation
For spring 2026, the team of the project MANUAL FOR OCCUPATION invites students, lecturers, and researchers of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna to develop artistic interventions for the public space on and around Schillerplatz. This is done within a cooperation between the Research Cluster Sustainability in the Arts and the Transformationsgruppe of the Academy as well das the Klima Biennale Wien.
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Living Knowledge Network | Conference LK11
- Call for Contributions: 15.12.2025
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.
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Journal Memory, Mind & Media | Special Collection After Memory
- 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".
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Bauhaus University Weimar | XV. International Bauhaus Colloquium
- 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.
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GALERIE3 | Young talent Award Fine Arts Carinthia 2026
The Young Talent Award Fine Arts Carinthia honors young aspiring artists who can prove a concrete connection to Carinthia.
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Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Citizen Practices in Producing and Preserving the Past
- Call for Contributions: 20.12.2025
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.
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Orpheus Instituut Ghent | Orpheus Doctoral Conference 2026
- Call for Contributions: 21.12.2025
The Orpheus Doctoral Conference (ODC) 2026 will be held 16–17 April in Ghent. The call for contributions for the theme "Sonic Worldings: Crafting realities through artistic research" is open until 21 December.
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mdw – University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna and OeAW | Tenor Vienna 2026
- Call for Contributions: 8.1.2026
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.
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Horizon Europe | ERC Consolidator Grant Call 2026
- Deadline: 13.1.2026, 17 h
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.
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Eberhard (Eb)-Dietzsch-Kunstfreunde | 9th Eb-Dietzsch Award for painting
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.
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ArtEZ University of the Arts | ELIA Biennial Conference 2026
- Call for Contributions: 16.1.2026
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.
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BMWKMS | Start-up Grants in the fields Architecture, Fine Arts, Performing Arts, Design, Film, Photography, Music, Media Art, and Music
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.
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BMWKMS | Grants in the field Film
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.
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Society for Artistic Research | Nomination Prize for Excellent Research Catalogue Exposition 2025
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.
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European Commission | Design competition New European Bauhaus Trophy 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.
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Spotlight Festival for Motion Picture Communication | spotlight STUDENTS
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.
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Gustav Mahler Private University for Music Klagenfurt | Forum Artistic Research
- Call for Contributions: 2.2.2026
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.
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OeAW | L'ORÉAL Austria
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.
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BMWKMS | Individual Projects Fine Arts, Design, Fashion, Photography, Media Art 2026
The Federal Ministry for Housing, Art, Culture, Media and Sports (BMWKMS) offers funding for individual projects in the fields Fine Arts, Design, Fashion, Photography, and Media Art.
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Literar-Mechana | Fellowship for Artistic Work
Literar-Mechana awards fellowship for authors, playwrights, screenwriters, authors for children's books and books for young adults.
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OeAW | APART-GSK 2025
APART-GSK is a funding programme for excellent junior scholars in the humanities and the social and cultural sciences (GSK) in the first post-doc phase of their careers.
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OeAW | 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.
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OeAW | MAX KADE
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.
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City of Vienna | START-Studio
The goal of this programme is to support alumni_ae of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the University of Applied Arts Vienna in the fields of Fine Arts and Media Art by awarding studio spaces.
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Literar-Mechana | Project Fellowship for Translators
Each year, Literar-Mechana awards up to two translators with project grants. Translations into German are given priority.
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Open Call of the Academy | Academy Open Access Publishing Fund
- Submissions accepted continuously
The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna established a central Open Access publishing fund to support its members covering the OA costs for their peer-reviewed OA publications. Doctoral students and early career researchers are especially encouraged to apply.
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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.
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Open Call of the Academy | FWF Open-Access Block Grant
- Submissions accepted continuously
The FWF Open Access Block Grant supports open access publication costs for peer-reviewed research articles/contributions arising from FWF projects and published in OA journals, OA books, or on OA publication platforms.
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City of Vienna | Individual or Overall Funding in Science
- Submissions accepted continuously
The culture office of the city of Vienna awards "Einzelförderungen" (individual funding) and "Gesamtförderungen" (overall funding) in Science. Institutions, research projects, symposia, conferences, lectures and event series are elligible.
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Aws | Proof of Concept Grants
- Submissions accepted continuously
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.
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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.
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Open Gender Journal | Open Call
- 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.
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Humboldt Foundation | Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdocs and Senior Researchers
- Submissions accepted continuously
A Humboldt Research Fellowship for international postdoctoral researchers allows to carry out long-term research (6–24 months) in Germany.
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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.
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FWF | Digital Publications
- Submissions accepted continuously
The Digital Publications program offers researchers funding for digital formats such as apps, wiki-based publications, annotated scientific databases, multi-media web-based publications (e.g., audio, video, animation), etc., to help make these publications more accessible to the public.
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FWF | Principal Investigator Projects
- Submissions accepted continuously
Researchers of any discipline who are working in Austria are eligible for applying to an FWF Principal Investigator Project. The aim is to provide funding for individual research in the area of non-profit oriented scholarly/scientific research.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Doc-News
Dear doctoral candidates,
we hope you've had a productive and inspiring semester so far.
Before the end of the year, we would like to draw your attention to our upcoming events in January 2026 as well as to ongoing and current funding opportunities.
On January 14, our online event “Final steps: Submission of your PhD thesis and thesis defense / rigorosum” will provide information on all relevant steps required to complete your doctoral studies.
On January 15, the workshop “Exposé Writing in English” with Markus Rheindorf will take place - registration is open until December 15.
The call for the IFK Junior Fellowship is open until January 25, 2026. The Fellowship which supports interdisciplinary dissertation projects in the humanities, social sciences, and/or the arts for a period of one to two academic years,
Applications for the Marietta Blau-Grant can be submitted until February 1, 2026. This grant offers financial support for six- to twelve-month study periods abroad for doctoral or PhD students of Austrian universities,
Below you will find further activities and calls, including additional events and our ongoing funding opportunities for doctoral and PhD candidates (travel cost subsidies, grants for short-term research stays, and the “Learning on the Job” grant).
For any questions regarding your doctoral or PhD studies at the Academy or funding opportunities, please consult our FAQs and/or contact us at doktoratszentrum@akbild.ac.at.
We wish you a successful December and a pleasant end of the year.
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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 PhD 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?
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Exposé Writing in English
- Workshop: 15.1.2026, 9–16:30 h
The exposé represents the foundation and starting point for the doctoral thesis and is a crucial first step in the overall writing process. This one-day workshop is designed for doctoral and PhD candidates and offers hands-on guidance for writing exposés in English.
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Open Door Event summer semester 2026
The Center for Doctoral Studies welcomes all doctoral and PhD students to an open door event in the summer semester 2026.
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The Power of Presence - Cultivating Confidence and Impact in Presentations
- Workshop: 16.4.2026, 9:30–17 h
This presentation workshop for doctoral and PhD candidates draws on theatre, performance, and coaching practices and engages participants in guided exercises and reflection to ground oneself, communicate with confidence, and bring clarity and authenticity to one's work.
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OeAW | DOC application writing (2026)
- Coffee Table Talk: 22.4.2026, 13–15 h
The Center for Doctoral Studies invites all doctoral candidates of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna interested in applying for the OeAW DOC grant to participate in this session, which will address requirements, preparation, proposal writing, and more.
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Graduate Conference 2026
We are pleased to invite you to the Graduate Conference 2026 of the Center for Doctoral Studies. On April 29, doctoral and PhD candidates in their final phase will present results of their dissertation projects.
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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/PhD candidates.
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Open Call of the Academy | Travel Allowances for doctoral resp. PhD candidates at the Academy
- Submissions accepted continuously
Regular students of all doctoral and PhD studies at the Academy can apply for travel allowances for participations in international conferences as well as for the presentation of art projects.
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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/PhD candidates supports stays abroad for e.g. research, field research, archival research, interviews, which are necessary for the dissertation or the PhD project. Stays abroad are funded for a minimum of two to a maximum of eight weeks.
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Open Call of the Academy | Dissertation projects on the Academy's website
- Submissions accepted continuously
All Doctoral and PhD candidates with an approved dissertation agreement have the possibility to present their projects on our website. To be visible on the Academy website you will have to fill out an application form and upload the required documents.
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EU ERASMUS+ | Short-term Stay abroad
- Submissions accepted continuously
In order to better meet their different learning and training needs EU ERASMUS+ offers doctoral students the opportunity to complete a short-term study visit abroad in Europe.
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EU ERASMUS+ | Semester abroad
- Submissions accepted continuously
Doctoral and PhD candidates of the Academy of Fine Arts have the opportunity to spend a semester abroad at a partner university within the framework of Erasmus+.
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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.
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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.
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Literar-Mechana | Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Literar-Mechana awards up to thirty scholarships annually to highly qualified scholars from all disciplines to enable them to complete their dissertation projects.
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OeAW | DOC
- Deadline: 15.9.2026, 14 h
The DOC Fellowship Programme of the Austrian Academy of Sciences offers funding for highly qualified doctoral candidates in all areas of research.
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OeAW | Mannagetta-Fellowships
- Deadline: 20.10.2026, 14 h
Mannagetta-Fellowships support the completion of a doctoral thesis and are financed from the funds of the Johann Wilhelm Ritter von Manngetta Foundation at the OeAW.
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