Calls / Contests Art and Research
List of entries
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11th Forum Architectural Science | Call for papers
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’.
Call for Contributions 13.6.2025
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Norwegian Academy for Music | Music & Practice: New Issue and Call for Paper
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.
Call for Contributions 15.6.2025
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Das Kunstbuch | Vienna Art Book Fair
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.
Call for Contributions 22.6.2025
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Horizon Europe | MSCA COFUND 2025
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.
Deadline 24.6.2025, 17 h
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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.
Deadline 25.6.2025
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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”.
Deadline 29.6.2025
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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”.
Deadline 30.6.2025
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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.
Deadline 6.7.2025
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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.
Deadline 6.7.2025
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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.
Deadline 16.7.2025
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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”.
Deadline 14.8.2025
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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.
Deadline 28.8.2025
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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.
Deadline 1.9.2025
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Horizon Europe | MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 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
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ÖAW | DOC
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
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Open Call of the Academy | Scholarship Early Postdoc Applications 2025/2
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.
Deadline 16.9.2025, 11 h
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EU CERV Programme | Capacity building and implementation of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
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
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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.
Deadline 30.9.2025
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Prize for Best Research Catalogue Exposition 2024/2025 of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
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.
Deadline 7.10.2025, 11 h
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Open Call of the Academy | Publication Series 2025 for text-based publications
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.
Deadline 15.10.2025, 11 h