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Calls / Contests Art and Research

  • ifk | Junior Fellowship

    The ifk Junior Fellowships are intended for young Austrian academics doing their dissertations, as well as for non-Austrian doctoral students who are being supervised at an Austrian university. 

    Deadline 25.1.2026

  • 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

  • Open Call of the Academy | Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2025/26

    The Dissertation Completion Fellowship aims to support doctoral students in the last phase of their dissertation until completion. Fellows will receive the stipend for a period of six months in the year 2026.

    28.10.2025, 11 h

  • Second Elfriede Mejchar Award for Photography

    The Elfriede Mejchar Award for Photography has been awarded for the first time on the occasion of Elfriede Mejchar's 100th birthday in 2024 as part of the commemorative exhibition that the Province of Lower Austria holded at the State Gallery of Lower Austria in Krems. After that, the prize will be awarded biennially until further notice. 

    Deadline 25.10.2025

  • 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

  • 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

  • OeAW | Mannagetta-Fellowships

    Mannagetta-Fellowships are financed from the funds of the Johann Wilhelm Ritter von Manngetta Foundation at the OeAW.

    Deadline 6.10.2025, 14 h

  • 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

  • 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

  • OeAW | JESH - Joint Excellence in Science and Humanities

    The Austrian Academy of Sciences’ Joint Excellence in Science and Humanities (JESH) programme promotes cooperation between excellent young researchers from abroad and scholars in Austria. JESH offers an incoming programme for researchers from 61 different target countries as well as an outgoing programme for Austrian researchers.

    Deadline 16.9.2025

  • FWF | Specialized Research Groups

    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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • FWF | Collaboration with Japan

    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

  • 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

  • INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries | Call for abstracts

    At the core of this peer-reviewed issue is the question of how to analyze memory objects in a way that preserves and amplifies their performative dimension. We are particularly interested in contributions that deal with objects kept within so-called vernacular archives as sites for non-institutionally mediated transfers of memory. 

    Deadline 4.8.2025

  • 4th International AIE Conference | Call for proposals

    The AIE Conference is a platform for exploring artistic practice as a mode of research, where creation, reflection, and education converge across disciplines.

    Deadline 20.7.2025