Calls / Contests Art and Research

The 5th call of Africa-UniNet will open on September 1, 2024, and aims to enable and strengthen existing and new inter- and transdisciplinary research collaborations between Austria and African countries. Africa-UniNet promotes excellent research based on mutual knowledge exchange. This call is only open to internal academy researchers, as the cooperative research projects will run through the institution.

Deadline 30.11.2024

COMET Projects aim to carry out high-quality research in science - industry collaboration. They are characterised by a medium-term perspective and clearly defined topics with the potential for further development. The upcoming call will open on 16 April 2024.

Deadline 22.10.2024, 12 h

The DOC Fellowship Programme of the Austrian Academy of Sciences offers funding for highly qualified doctoral candidates in all areas of research.

Deadline 16.9.2024

Prizes are awarded for diploma theses and dissertations for graduates with a connection to Upper Austria.

Deadline 31.8.2024

ERC Advanced Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are already established research leaders with a recognised track record of research achievements. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal.

Deadline 29.8.2024, 17 h

This special issue aims to address the limitations imposed by existing approaches to interface design on the current epoch of deep learning technology and to explore how insights from musical and artistic instrumentality may help unblock further development.

Call for Contributions 15.7.2024

The Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK) and the Climate and Energy Fund have set themselves the goal of jointly enabling and accelerating the implementation of energy and climate targets in Austrian cities, neighbourhoods and buildings through the "Climate Neutral City" mission.

Deadline 11.7.2024

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 7.7.2024

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 7.7.2024

SHIFT is a promotional programme of the City of Vienna for alternative artistic practices of cultural work in urban peripheral areas.

Deadline 30.6.2024

Die Arbeiterkammer Oberösterreich schreibt zum 41. Mal den AK-Wissenschaftspreis aus. Dieser wird für wissenschaftliche Arbeiten vergeben, die 2023 oder 2024 fertig gestellt werden und der Verbesserung der Arbeits- und Lebensbedingungen der Arbeitnehmer_innen dienen. 

Deadline 30.6.2024

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 25.6.2024

The Mannagetta fellowships are intended for the completion of a doctoral thesis in the fields of humanities, cultural studies and social sciences at a university in Austria.

Deadline 20.6.2024

In collaboration with the Distributed Design Platform, Happylab is supporting creative talents working at the interface between design and the maker movement.

Deadline 16.6.2024

Die gemeinnützige Stiftung des Parlaments lädt Personen und Institutionen zur Bewerbung für den Demokratiepreis 2024 ein. Der Demokratiepreis werden hervorragende Verdienste um Parlamentarismus und Demokratie ausgezeichnet.

Deadline 15.6.2024

9 TAGE. MENSCH. is a residency programme at the Kunsthaus bella martha in Marthashofen, Grafrath (Bavaria).

Deadline 10.6.2024

The projects under this priority should explore and promote to all generations the defining moments and reference points of European integration, its history, and how these changes have in practice affected the daily lives of Europeans.

Deadline 6.6.2024, 17 h

The Sustainability Award of the BMBWF and BMK emphasises creative, innovative and effective initiatives at colleges and universities, promotes the exchange of best practices and motivates the further development of sustainable concepts.

Deadline 2.6.2024

The Rudolf Sallinger Fonds honours academic research on family businesses in Austria with a focus on social and economic issues.

Deadline 31.5.2024