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Calls / Contests Art and Research

  • 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.

    Deadline 31.10.2025

  • 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. 

    Deadline 31.10.2025

  • 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.

    Deadline 2.11.2025

  • 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 14–15 April 2026 in Oslo. The call for contributions is open.

    Call for Contributions 3.11.2025

  • OeAD | Scientific and Technological Cooperation Albania

    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.

    Deadline 6.11.2025, 12 h

  • Graphic Collection | Acquisitions of Contemporary Art

    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".

    Submission only possible on site until 7.11.2025, 12 h

  • University of Malta | 12th Annual International Conference of the School of Performing Arts

    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. 

    Call for Contributions 7.11.2025

  • Central European University | Artwork for the 35th Anniversary

    For its 35th anniversary, the CEU invites artists to design an artwork for the public space. 

    Deadline 9.11.2025

  • OeAD | Scientific and Technological Cooperation North Macedonia

    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.

    Deadline 11.11.2025, 12 h

  • 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. 

    Deadline 15.11.2025

  • 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.

    Deadline 17.11.2025

  • LOA Residency | Scholarship

    In March and April, residency scholarships will be awarded to artists in the fields of music, visual arts, and German-language literature. These scholarships provide the opportunity for a creative stay at Villa Avelan, a place of tranquility and inspiration nestled in the heart of the Luberon.

    Deadline 22.11.2025

  • Open Call of the Academy | Demokratie leben

    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. 

    Deadline 25.11.2025, 17 h

  • Nordic Journal for Artistic Research | VIS Open Call #16

    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.

    Call for Contributions 27.11.2025

  • 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. 

    Deadline 27.11.2025

  • OeAD | Scientific and Technological Cooperation Montenegro

    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.

    Deadline 28.11.2025, 12 h

  • OeAD | Cooperation Development Research 6th Call

    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.

    Deadline 30.11.2025, 13 h

  • OeAD | Africa-UniNet 6th Call

    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.

    Deadline 30.11.2025, 13 h

  • 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).

    Deadline 30.11.2025

  • 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.

    Deadline 30.11.2025