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Art Theory and Cultural Studies
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Anamarija Batista | Labour Relations: Annotations on Productivity and Solidarity
We would like to congratulate Anamarija Batista on the funding of the Elise Richter project " Labour Relations: Annotations on Productivity and Solidarity" by the FWF. We wish the best of luck for the start of the project!
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Art Theory and Cultural Studies
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Anette Baldauf | Harvest Rituals: A Call for Visitation
We cordially congratulate Anette Baldauf, Berhanu Ashagrie, Anca Benera and Rehema Chachage on receiving funding from the FWF for the PEEK project " Fabric". We wish every success with the realisation of the project!
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Art Theory and Cultural Studies
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Rolando Vitali | Adorno’s Aesthetics in the Age of Anthropocene
We applaud Rolando Vitali for receiving funding from the FWF for the ESPRIT project “Adorno’s Aesthetics in the Age of Anthropocene”. Our best wishes!
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Rojda Tugrul and Zsuzsa Flohr | Scholarship Early Post Doc Applications
We warmly congratulate Rojda Tugrul and Zsuzsa Flohr on receiving the Academy's Early Postdoc Application Scholarship. The aim of the scholarship is to support them in preparing a third-party funding application for their first postdoctoral research project. We wish every success!
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Natural Sciences and Technology in Art
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Guadalupe Piñar | Publication
Within the ÖAW-funded project ‘Pretty in pink?’, they have just published their second scientific publication in the scientific journal Frontiers in Microbiology:Tichy J, Sipek B, Ortbauer M, Fürnwein L, Waldherr M, Graf A, Sterflinger K and Piñar G (2025) Microbial community shifts during salt mitigation treatments of historic buildings using mineral poultices: a long-term monitoring of salt and associated biofilms. Front. Microbiol. 16:1603289., 22 May 2025 Sec. Ancient DNA and Forensic Microbiology Volume 16 - 2025
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DOC-team | Graduate Conference 2025
- Conference: 23.6.2025, 16 h
DOC-team fellows of the Austrian Academy of Sciences will present the results of their joint project work at this conference. DOC-team was awarded for the last time in 2023/24 and supports groups of doctoral students who jointly address an interdisciplinary problem in their dissertations. More information on the conference program and registration can be found here.
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11th Forum Architectural Science | Call for papers
- Call for Contributions: 13.6.2025
The 11th Forum Architectural Science will take place from December 4 – 6, 2025, in Vienna and aims to synthesise the recent debates on the transformation of the existing, the ‘built fabric’. > 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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BMWKMS | Start-up grants 2025 in the fields of fine arts, design, photography, media art
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. > more
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UNESCO | Visual Works Contest and Exhibition
UNESCO, jointly with the International Day of Light (IDL), the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), is organizing Quantum Light: A Visual Odyssey – a global call for creative visual works celebrating the intersection of light and quantum science. > more
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Theatre Academy of University of the Arts Helsinki | Colloquium on Artistic Research in Performing Arts
The theme of the conference is “Ecological Design and Performance Pedagogies: Sustainable Practices and Interdisciplinary Acts in a Climate Changed World”. > more
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FWF | Collaboration with Japan
- Deadline: 21.8.2025, 14 h
In cooperation with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the FWF offers funding for collaborations between researchers in Austria and Japan. > 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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Open Call of the Academy | Scholarship Early Postdoc Applications 2025/2
- Deadline: 16.9.2025, 11 h
The Scholarship for Early Post Doc Applications aims to support early postdocs in the application for their initial postdoctoral research project. This scholarship enables the intensive preparation of a project proposal, which will be submitted with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna as the home institution to funding agencies like FWF (ESPRIT funding program) or OeAW (APART GSK funding program) in the end. This call is open to all postdocs. > more
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FWF | Specialized Research Groups
- Deadline: 16.9.2025, 14 h
The program is aimed at consortia of three to twelve outstanding researchers from all scientific disciplines working at one or more Austrian research institutions. > more
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EU CERV Programme | Capacity building and implementation of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
- Deadline: 18.9.2025, 17 h
The objective of the call is to protect, promote and raise awareness of fundamental rights by providing financial support to civil society organisations active at local, regional, national and transnational level in promoting and cultivating those rights, thereby also strengthening the protection and promotion of Union values and respect for the rule of law, and contributing to the construction of a more democratic Union, democratic dialogue, transparency and good governance. > more
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Research catalogue | HUB Open Call #6: Resonance +
For the Issue #6 / Spring 2026 of the HUB – Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society they invite contributions that explore resonance through artistic research. > 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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Open Call of the Academy | Publication Series 2025 for text-based publications
- Deadline: 15.10.2025, 11 h
The current call is aimed at the production of publications for which the manuscript has been completed as far as possible and at least a comprehensive text sample is available, e.g. an entire chapter, for a timely start of production. Thematically, the call is open. > more
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Open Call of the Academy | Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2024/25
The Dissertation Completion Fellowship aims to support doctoral students in the last phase of their dissertation until completion. Fellows will receive the stipend for a period of six months in the year 2026. > 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,
the semester is soon coming to an end and before the summer break we would like to draw your attention to calls and funding opportunities with submission deadlines from September.
Until September 1, doctoral students at Austrian universities can apply for the OeAD's Marietta Blau Grant, which supports 6 to 12-month research stays abroad as part of a doctoral program. The DOC Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) supports highly qualified doctoral candidates from all fields of research – this year's call ends on September 15. Please contact doktoratszentrum@akbild.ac.at as soon as possible if you are planning a submission so that we can support you during the application phase.
For all those who have already planned to complete or have recently completed their doctoral studies and are aiming for a career in research, our Scholarship Early Postdoc Applications might be interesting. The current call is now open and ends on September 16, 2025.
And finally, we’re excited to invite Doctoral and PhD candidates of the Academy whose dissertation or PhD project is at an advanced stage to apply for our Dissertation Completion Fellowship, with applications open now through October 28, 2025.
If you have any questions about topics related to your doctoral or PhD studies at the Academy, please have a look at our FAQs and/or 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 successful conclusion to the semester and a pleasant summer season!
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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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Online information event about the Dissertation Completion Fellowship
- Informative meeting: 6.10.2025, 13–14 h
This session will provide information about the call, the submission process and the fellowship. > more
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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 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? > more
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Open Call of the Academy | Scholarship Early Postdoc Applications 2025/2
- Deadline: 16.9.2025, 11 h
The Scholarship for Early Post Doc Applications aims to support early postdocs in the application for their initial postdoctoral research project. This scholarship enables the intensive preparation of a project proposal, which will be submitted with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna as the home institution to funding agencies like FWF (ESPRIT funding program) or OeAW (APART GSK funding program) in the end. This call is open to all postdocs. > more
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Open Call of the Academy | Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2024/25
The Dissertation Completion Fellowship aims to support doctoral students in the last phase of their dissertation until completion. Fellows will receive the stipend for a period of six months in the year 2026. > 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 | 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 | 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 | 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+ | 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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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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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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