Calls / Contests Art and Research

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 1.2.2026

This grant program funded by the Austrian Ministry for Women, Science and Research is directed at junior researchers of all disciplines who study or do research outside of Austria and want to launch a research project in Austria.

Deadline 1.2.2026

The second Forum Artistic Research will be held 25–27 June 2026 in Klagenfurt. The call for contributions on the theme "suspended in language?"  is open until 2 February.

Call for Contributions 2.2.2026

The 28th edition of TISFF will take place in Tel Aviv–Yafo 23–30 June 2026. The festival is a non-profit organization, managed and produced entirely by volunteer film students. An international student film competition is part of the festival.

Deadline 4.2.2026

The L’ORÉAL Austria Awards offer funding for young female scientists in medicine, natural and life sciences or mathematics to support them at the beginning of their scientific career after their doctorate/PhD.

Deadline 10.2.2026

Convocation calls for a live coming together of artistic researchers whose practices engage with the materiality and mediality of language. It will take place from 30 June to 3 July in Vienna. 

Call for Contributions 23.2.2026

Attractive career opportunities for doctoral students help them gain a foothold in promising research fields – doc.funds.connect grants fund joint doctoral training programs at universities and universities of applied sciences. 

Deadline 26.2.2026, 14 h

Attractive career opportunities for doctoral students help them gain a foothold in promising research fields – doc.funds grants strengthen doctoral training programs in Austria. 

Deadline 26.2.2026, 14 h

The Department Weddigen at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for Art History, in Rome offers Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships for the 2026/27 academic year.

Deadline 28.2.2026

The Federal Ministry for Housing, Art, Culture, Media and Sports (BMWKMS) offers funding for individual projects in the fields Fine Arts, Design, Fashion, Photography, and Media Art. 

Deadline 28.2.2026

Literar-Mechana awards fellowship for authors, playwrights, screenwriters, authors for children's books and books for young adults.

Deadline 28.2.2026

The International Forum on Artistic Research, titled "Endangered conceptual worlds" will take place 23–26 June 2026 in Galway. The call for contributions is open until 1 March.

Call for Contributions 1.3.2026

In 2026, the city of Krems will once again award the Erich Grabner Prize for Graphic Art. In cooperation with the province of Lower Austria, the Rotary Club Krems-Wachau, the Friends of the Grabner Family, and Göttweig Abbey, outstanding graphic art will be honored in several categories.

Deadline 9.3.2026

The 17th Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators call 2026 "Environmental Systems Research" to to attract outstanding early-career researchers from abroad to Vienna who seek to advance their research career by establishing an independent research group. 

Deadline 10.3.2026, 14 h

As part of the Artists in Residence program, two young artists are invited each summer to live and work at St. Virgil for five weeks. The aim of the AiR program is to promote the work of young artists in the first five years after graduation.

Deadline 30.3.2026

APART-GSK is a funding programme for excellent junior scholars in the humanities and the social and cultural sciences (GSK) in the first post-doc phase of their careers.

Deadline 30.3.2026

The Theodor Körner Fund has set itself the goal of promoting young scientists and artists. Applications can be submitted for scientific research projects as well as art, literature, and composition projects that are currently in progress.

Deadline 31.3.2026

Literar-Mechana awards up to thirty scholarships annually to highly qualified scholars from all disciplines to enable them to complete their dissertation projects.

Deadline 31.3.2026