Calls / Contests Art and Research

The prize honors the ideas of students and researchers on the specific topic of “Family businesses in Austria”.

Deadline 29.6.2025

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

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

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

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.

Deadline 15.7.2025

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

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

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

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 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

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