Calls / Contests Art and Research

This program supports scientists in communicating their FWF-funded research work to various discourse groups through new, creative communication measures. The aim is to make research and its results visible and to strengthen the public’s trust in science.

Deadline 13.5.2025, 14 h

The Creative Europe programme supports transnational cooperation projects involving organisations in the cultural and creative sectors from different countries taking part in the programme. It covers the EU and beyond.

Deadline 13.5.2025, 17 h

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 15.5.2025

Hugarflug 2025 is looking for contributions! The annual conference on artistic research at the Iceland University of the Arts, will take place on 11 and 12 September 2025 and will serve as a platform for research that engages with instability across various systems—from technological advancements such as AI and interactive systems to issues related to politics, society, and the environment.

Call for Contribution 23.5.2025

The 39th Austrian Graphic Design Competition in Innsbruck in 2025 is inviting submissions.

Deadline 25.5.2025

The call for participation in VIS – Nordic Journal for Artistic Research Issue 15 is open! Theme:  LANGUAGE/LANGUAGED/LANGUAGING.

Deadline 29.5.2025

As part of the Eureka Network, an open call for research and development projects with Canada is planned from November 21, 2024 to May 30, 2025. Project proposals in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are particularly welcome.

Deadline 30.5.2025, 12 h

The Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) is welcoming submissions in Spanish, Portuguese, French, German and English. The Journal publishes three unthemed issues a year.

Call for Contribution 31.5.2025

Ambient is a truly planetary genre of music – with an endless range of local traditions and highly diverse scenes. This conference, which is organized by the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies of University of Copenhagen, focuses on local histories, practices and reflections from all areas on this planet - labels and scenes, producers and their list of aliases, performers and their practice of crafting ambient music on the spot or for an online label.

Call for Contribution 1.6.2025

ephemer is seeking a co-editor for their inaugural issue “on theater manifestos” who will work closely with the editorial team in shaping the volume and identifying suitable contributors.

Deadline 1.6.2025

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

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

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

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

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 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