Calls / Contests Art and Research

The AIE Conference is a platform for exploring artistic practice as a mode of research, where creation, reflection, and education converge across disciplines.

Deadline 20.7.2025

At the core of this peer-reviewed issue is the question of how to analyze memory objects in a way that preserves and amplifies their performative dimension. We are particularly interested in contributions that deal with objects kept within so-called vernacular archives as sites for non-institutionally mediated transfers of memory. 

Deadline 4.8.2025

The theme of the conference is “Ecological Design and Performance Pedagogies: Sustainable Practices and Interdisciplinary Acts in a Climate Changed World”.

Deadline 14.8.2025

The Understanding Science Funding aims is to assist in communication activities that aim to present research and scientific results in an understandable and easily accessible manner.

Deadline 15.8.2025

In cooperation with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the FWF offers funding for collaborations between researchers in Austria and Japan.

Deadline 21.8.2025, 14 h

The ERC Advanced Grant supports leading scientists who want to pursue a new, ambitious research direction in Europe.

Deadline 28.8.2025

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.

Deadline 1.9.2025

The application deadline for Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair Professor (short: Stanford Chair) has been extended until September 9, 2025.

Deadline 9.9.2025

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.

Deadline 10.9.2025, 17 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.

Deadline 15.9.2025, 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.

Deadline 16.9.2025, 14 h

The Austrian Academy of Sciences’ Joint Excellence in Science and Humanities (JESH) programme promotes cooperation between excellent young researchers from abroad and scholars in Austria. JESH offers an incoming programme for researchers from 61 different target countries as well as an outgoing programme for Austrian researchers.

Deadline 16.9.2025

The FWF Astra career funding programme gives advanced postdocs in Austria the opportunity to make the leap to the top of their research field.

Deadline 18.9.2025, 14 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.

Deadline 18.9.2025, 17 h

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.

Deadline 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.

Deadline 30.9.2025

Mannagetta-Fellowships are financed from the funds of the Johann Wilhelm Ritter von Manngetta Foundation at the OeAW.

Deadline 6.10.2025, 14 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.

Deadline 14.10.2025, 17 h