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Katharina Steidl | Schaubilder. Strategies of Visual Efficiency
We want to congratulate Katharina Steidl for receiving an FWF Elise-Richter-Grant for the project "Schaubilder. Strategies of Visual Efficiency". We wish you all the best for the start of the project.
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Art Theory and Cultural Studies
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Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński | Temp/rovisations: Imagining African Diaspora Time*Spaces
We congratulate Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński for the funding in the APART GSK program of ÖAW. We wish you all the best for the start of the project "Temp/rovisations: Imagining African Diaspora Time*Spaces"!
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Tekla Aslanishvili | IFK Junior Fellowship
Congratulations to Tekla Aslanishvili (PhD in Practice) on being awarded the IFK Junior Fellowship for her project "The Mountain Speaks to the Sea. Mapping New Energy Geographies".
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Herbert Peter | Smart Map of Jewish History
We cordially congratulate Herbert Peter and Katharina Wolf-Scholz for the start of the project "Smart Map of Jewish History" funded by Interreg. Good luck for the implementation of the research!
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Michelle Howard | Ignored Technology
Congratulations to Michelle Howard and Adam Hudec for the funding of the ERAMUS+ project "Ignored Technology". We wish you good luck for the start of the project!
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Art Theory and Cultural Studies
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Anette Baldauf | Holding the Tension
We congratulate Anette Baldauf, Berhanu Ashagrie Deribew and Janine Jembere for the funding of their project "'Holding the Tension': Toward an Indigenous Epistemology of Conflict transformation Among the Afar, Oromo, and Somali of Ethiopia" by Africa-UniNet (OeAD). All the best for the start of the project!
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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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Premiers Plans Film Festival 2026 | Student film competition
The 38th Premiers Plans Film Festival will take place 17-25 January, 2026 in Angers, France. For a student film competition, productions from the years 2024 and 2025 can be submitted.
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BMWKMS | Residency grants abroad for artists and curators in the fields of fine arts, photography, and media art
The Federal Ministry is offering international studio grants for artists in ACCRA, HELSINKI, LONDON, NEW YORK, PARIS, SEOUL, TOKYO, and VILNIUS for the year 2027, as well as 5 open Artist-in-Residence scholarships “FREE AWAY” for artists and curators.
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HUB | Open Call #6: Resonance +
- Call for Contributions: 30.9.2025
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.
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BMWKMS | Staatsstipendien: fine arts, photography, and media art 2026
The "Staatsstipendien" (State grants) represent recognition of outstanding artistic achievements to date and serve to promote further artistic creation. The scholarships are awarded to artists working on an extensive artistic project in the specified fields (visual arts, photography, and media art) whose work is distinguished by a particular degree of originality and an exceptional innovative component.
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JAR | Call for Submissions
- Call for Contributions: 30.9.2025
The Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) accepts submissions in Spanish, Portuguese, French, German and English.
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University of Bucharest | Literature, Art and Medicine: Bodies, Narratives and Critical Interventions
- Call for Contributions: 1.10.2025
The Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Bucharest is hosting an interdisciplinary workshop 20–22 November, 2025. This event, held both on-site and online, seeks to bring together scholars to explore how creative and critical forms of representation have shaped, challenged, and reimagined the medicalized body from the 19th century to the present.
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Open Call of the Academy | Prize for Best Research Catalogue Exposition 2024/2025
- 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.
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City of Bruehl | Max Ernst Scholarship 2026
Until October 7, all students enrolled at an art college or academy who are under 36 years of age by April 2 have the opportunity to apply online for the Max Ernst Scholarship of the City of Brühl.
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Horizon Europe | ERC Starting Grant 2026
- Deadline: 14.10.2025, 17 h
The ERC Starting Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are starting their own independent research team or programme. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition, and feasibility of their research proposal.
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Open Call of the Academy | Publication Series 2025 for text-based publications
- Call for Contributions: 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.
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Otto Mauer Fonds | Msgr. Otto Mauer Prize 2025
In continuation of the mission of Msgr. Otto Mauer (1907–1973), who gained international recognition for his commitment to contemporary art and young artists, the Otto Mauer Fonds will award the 45th Msgr. Otto Mauer Prize for Visual Arts (painting, graphic arts, sculpture, objects, installations, new media) at the end of the year.
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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 | 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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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!
The symposium AR@K26 (Artistic Research at Kristiania) titled "Reclaiming art! Creative expression as a building block in our social foundations" will take place on April 14-15th in Oslo. The call for contributions is open.
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ÖAW | Österreichische Studienstiftung: 7. Auswahlrunde
Mit der Österreichischen Studienstiftung unterstützt die Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften begabte und engagierte junge Menschen ab der Matura während ihres gesamten Studiums durch ein ideelles Förderprogramm.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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.
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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 | 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.
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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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Doc-News
Dear doctoral candidates,
a new semester is just around the corner, and we’d like to take this opportunity to draw your attention to upcoming events, as well as ongoing calls and funding opportunities.
On November 19, 2025, we invite you to an informal Open Door Event at the Center for Doctoral Studies. We will be happy to answer all your questions concerning doctoral studies, and it will also be a great opportunity to exchange ideas with colleagues.
On November 26, 2025, we are offering a workshop on Copyright, and on January 15, 2026, a workshop on Exposé Writing in English for doctoral candidates.
Doctoral and PhD candidates of the Academy whose dissertation or PhD project is at an advanced stage can apply for our Dissertation Completion Fellowship until October 28, 2025. An online info session on October 6 will provide details on the application process and the scholarship timeline.
There is also an opportunity to apply for an OeAW Mannagetta-Fellowship to support the completion of the doctoral thesis (application deadline: October 6, 2025).
If you have any questions 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 will find further activities and calls, including our ongoing funding opportunities for doctoral and PhD candidates. We also offer application support for external funding opportunities.
We wish you a pleasant and motivated start into the winter semester and look forward to your participation in our upcoming activities.
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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.
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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.
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SAVE THE DATE: Copy Right
The 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 writing a dissertation.
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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
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 candidates across all disciplines (Dr.phil., PhD in Practice, Dr.techn., Dr.rer.nat.) and offers hands-on guidance for writing exposés in English.
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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/Ph.D. candidates.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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OeAW | Mannagetta-Fellowships
- Deadline: 6.10.2025, 14 h
Mannagetta-Fellowships are financed from the funds of the Johann Wilhelm Ritter von Manngetta Foundation at the OeAW.
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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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