FWF | Emerging Fields
For the first time, teams from all areas of basic research are invited to tackle entirely new research ideas and break free of established approaches. The programme focuses particularly on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary projects, as well as arts-based research. Up to 6 million euros in FWF funding is available to the individual teams.
The call is open to teams of 3–7 internationally outstanding researchers at one or more Austrian research institutions.
he aim of the programme is to give researchers the opportunity to pursue particularly innovative, original, and/or high-risk ideas that are often not sufficiently supported by traditional funding instruments. The chosen approaches can vary widely. For example, researchers can directly challenge fundamental elements of traditional models or approaches in their field, combine theories and methods from different disciplines, or harness new technologies to identify new problems or look at old ones from a new perspective. Ultimately, researchers' ideas must have the potential to transform a field of research and/or create a paradigm shift within or between disciplines.
The programme is particularly open to interdisciplinary teams and also to researchers involved in arts-based research who apply aesthetic and artistic methods, as well as to transdisciplinary approaches that involve non-academic participants from outside the scientific community.
Further information: https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/research-funding/fwf-programmes/emerging-fields