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Book presentation: Publication series of the Academy Vol.28 Standpoint Autotheory
The publication "Standpoint Autotheory. Writing Embodied Experiences and Relational Artistic Practices", edited by two doctoral candidates of the Academy, Ana de Almeida and Mariel Rodríguez, will be presented in the library.
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Research Day 2025 of the Academy
- Conference: 12.11.2025, 9:30–17 h
The Research Day 2025 of the Academy presents the range of current research activities at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, gives insights into specific projects and their results, and encourages collegial discussions. The Research Day focuses on presentations of research projects in advanced stages.
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Second Elfriede Mejchar Award for Photography
The Elfriede Mejchar Award for Photography has been awarded for the first time on the occasion of Elfriede Mejchar's 100th birthday in 2024 as part of the commemorative exhibition that the Province of Lower Austria holded at the State Gallery of Lower Austria in Krems. After that, the prize will be awarded biennially until further notice.
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Open Call of the Academy | Spring School Bauhaus Weimar 2026
- Deadline: 26.10.2025, 23 h
The Academy of Fine Arts offers students the opportunity to attend Spring School at Bauhaus University Weimar as part of the Erasmus+ program.
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Emanuel and Sofie Fohn Scholarship Foundation | Scholarship 2025
- Deadline: 28.10.2025, 11 h
The Emanuel and Sofie Fohn Scholarship Foundation is once again offering up to 10 scholarships this year, totaling 20,000 Euro, for exceptionally talented students and graduates from Austria and South Tyrol, as well as for Italians with German as their first language.
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Open Call of the Academy | Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2024/25
- Deadline: 28.10.2025, 11 h
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.
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B&C Private Foundation | Houska Prize 2026
Established in 2005, the B&C Private Foundation’s Houska Prize was set up to promote business-related research and innovation. By awarding the prize, B&C’s goal is to help strengthen Austria as a business location while expressing its appreciation for the outstanding research work carried out in the country.
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Academy of Fine Arts | Conference: Performance and Contemporary Art History
- Call for Contributions: 29.10.2025
The conference "Performance and Contemporary Art History: Mapping a Critical Subject, Medium, and Method in a Transdisciplinary Field" will take place at the Academy 11–13 June, 2026. The call for contributions is open until 27 October.
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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.
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City of Vienna | Grants for Fine Arts and Media Arts
The municipal department 7 (MA7) of the city of Vienna awards different grants in the area of fine arts and media arts.
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Elite Design Awards | Cosmopolitan Cocoon
Elite, which specialises in the manufacture of high-end beds, wishes to support innovative design by offering creatives and designers the opportunity to conceive a bed for the annual Elite Design Awards.
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Kristiania University of Applied Sciences | AR@K26: Reclaiming art!
- Call for Contributions: 3.11.2025
The symposium AR@K26 (Artistic Research at Kristiania) titled "Reclaiming art! Creative expression as a building block in our social foundations" will take place 14–15 April 2026 in Oslo. The call for contributions is open.
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OeAD | Scientific and Technological Cooperation Albania
- Deadline: 6.11.2025, 12 h
The aim of the Scientific & Technological Cooperation programmes is to stimulate international research cooperation, to establish new, sustainable international partnerships and to increase the proportion of young and female researchers in international research project consortia.
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Graphic Collection | Acquisitions of Contemporary Art
- Submission only possible on site until: 7.11.2025, 12 h
Upon decision of the board of the Association of Friends of Fine Arts (GFBK) on 27 November 1996, the Graphic Collection of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna was accorded an annual budget of for "continuous acquisitions of young Austrian art with special consideration given to graduates of the Academy, but also considering related international works of art".
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University of Malta | 12th Annual International Conference of the School of Performing Arts
- Call for Contributions: 7.11.2025
Titled "Vanishing Acts: AI, Performative Knowledge and Sustainable Memory", the 12th Annual International Conference of the School of Performing Arts will take place 25–27 March 2026 at the University of Malta.
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Central European University | Artwork for the 35th Anniversary
For its 35th anniversary, the CEU invites artists to design an artwork for the public space.
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OeAD | Scientific and Technological Cooperation North Macedonia
- Deadline: 11.11.2025, 12 h
The aim of the Scientific & Technological Cooperation programmes is to stimulate international research cooperation, to establish new, sustainable international partnerships and to increase the proportion of young and female researchers in international research project consortia.
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OeAW | Austrian Science Foundation: 7th Call
With the Austrian Study Foundation, the Austrian Academy of Sciences supports talented young people throughout their academic career with an ideational program.
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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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Open Call of the Academy | Demokratie leben
- Deadline: 25.11.2025, 17 h
In July, the initiative Demokratie leben was launched with an invited competition, which ran over the summer on various Gewista Citylights in public spaces in Vienna and on all of the institutions' digital channels. An open call for all students, alumni, and teachers of the academy has now been announced for the continuation of the series in January and February 2026.
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Nordic Journal for Artistic Research | VIS Open Call #16
- Call for Contributions: 27.11.2025
VIS has opened the call for exposition proposals with the topic "Beyond Compliance: Ethics in Artistic Research". In this issue, they are looking for contributions that interrogate the role of ethics in their historical, political, and material entanglements in direct relation to artistic research.
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Interreg Central Europe | Strategic Call for Capitalisation
This call is open 25 September to 27 November, 2025 and has a total budget of about 23 million Euro. Projects of all topics in the program can be submitted. The goal is to implement existing results of running Interreg Central Europe projects and to further develop transnational projects, shaping them towards current and future challenges.
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OeAD | Scientific and Technological Cooperation Montenegro
- Deadline: 28.11.2025, 12 h
The aim of the Scientific & Technological Cooperation programmes is to stimulate international research cooperation, to establish new, sustainable international partnerships and to increase the proportion of young and female researchers in international research project consortia.
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OeAD | Cooperation Development Research 6th Call
- Deadline: 30.11.2025, 13 h
The programme "Cooperation Development Research" (KoEF), financed by the BMFWF and implemented by OeAD, is a funding program to foster research on the two main principles of excellency and cooperation in development research.
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OeAD | Africa-UniNet 6th Call
- Deadline: 30.11.2025, 13 h
Africa-UniNet aims to facilitate and strengthen existing and new inter- and transdisciplinary research cooperation between Austria and African countries. Africa-UniNet promotes excellent research based on the mutual exchange of knowledge. This call is only open to internal academy researchers, as the cooperative research projects will run through the institution.
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OeAD | Austrian Development Research Award 2025
The Austrian Development Research Award is presented every two years to academically active institutions and individuals who have made a special achievement in the field of development research (publications, projects and initiatives). The prize consists of a main prize and a young researchers' prize and is awarded by the Agency for Education and Internationalisation (OeAD) with funds from the Federal Ministry of Women, Science and Research (BMFWF).
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Schiele Award 2026
The Schiele Award of the Rotary Club Tulln & Rotary Club Wien Albertina is an art prize that has been awarded every two years since 2022. Young artists are warmly invited to participate in the Open Call 2026.
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University of the Arts Helsinki | Artist Pedagogy and Artistic Thinking: Perspectives and Practices
- Call for Contributions: 1.12.2025
This conference is hosted 27–29 August 2026 at the University of the Arts Helsinki. It invites researchers, artists and artist pedagogues across the fields of the arts.
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Free University of Berlin, Nordic Summer University | Duplicity/Duplicität: Betwixt intimates and strangers
- Call for Contributions: 1.12.2025
The international symposium "Duplicity/Duplicität: Betwixt intimates and strangers" will be held in Berlin from 29–31 January 2026 and marks the opening of a three-year research project titled "Studies in Remoteness".
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OeAW | GO.INVESTIGATIO
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.
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FWF | Spreading Knowledge
- Deadline: 9.12.2025, 14 h
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.
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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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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.
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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 call is aimed at project participants of FWF-funded projects affiliated with the research institution Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
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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.
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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 | 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.
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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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 your semester has started off well.
In this edition of Doc-News, we would like to warmly invite you once again to our Open Door Event on November 19 at the Center for Doctoral Studies. Here, we will be happy to answer all your questions related to your doctoral studies at the Academy, and you will also have the opportunity to connect and exchange ideas with colleagues.
The workshop Copyright - Citing correctly, avoiding plagiarism with Thomas Luzer will take place on November 26. Registration is still possible until November 19.
The call for the Dissertation Completion Fellowship is open until October 28 – the call addresses doctoral and PhD candidates of the Academy whose dissertation or PhD project is in an advanced stage.
Below you will find further activities and calls, including additional events and our ongoing funding opportunities for doctoral and PhD candidates.
For any questions regarding your doctoral or PhD studies at the Academy or funding opportunities, please check our FAQs and/or contact us at doktoratszentrum@akbild.ac.at.
We wish you an inspiring and productive winter semester!
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Welcome to the new semester! Welcome Session for the Doctor of Philosophy
- Informative meeting: 5.11.2025, 14–15 h
The Center for Doctoral Studies invites all new doctoral students in the Doctor of Philosophy program to join this online welcome session.
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Open Door Event Winter Semester 2025/26
The Center for Doctoral Studies welcomes all doctoral and PhD students to an open door event in the winter semester 2025/26.
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Copyright - Citing correctly, avoiding plagiarism
- Workshop: 26.11.2025, 10–16 h
This workshop deals with questions relating to copyright in dissertations and provides information, tips and background knowledge on how copyright must be taken into account when working on a dissertation or PhD project.
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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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SAVE THE DATE: 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 | Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2024/25
- Deadline: 28.10.2025, 11 h
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.
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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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