Calls / Contests Art and Research

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

The Dissertation Award for Research on Migration is awarded for a doctoral thesis project that has been submitted and accepted for supervision at an Austrian university but is yet to be completed and examines refugeeism and migration, the integration of migrants or societal transformation as a result of migration. 

Deadline 1.4.2026

The Top Citizen Science program is aimed at researchers who actively involve citizens in the research process. Whether collecting data, sharing observations, or contributing experiences – there are no limits to the ways citizens can participate, and partners such as schools or clubs can also be involved.

Deadline 7.4.2026, 14 h

The WWTF's Information and Communication Technology 2026 Call "Digital Humanism" is directed at researchers in Vienna who seek to conduct a cutting-edge interdisciplinary research project between ICT and social sciences / humanities (SSH) that address digital technologies & practices from a human-centered and societal perspective in the field of Digital Humanism. 

Deadline 15.4.2026, 14 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 15.5.2026

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 25.6.2026

Deadline 30.6.2026

The goal of this programme is to support alumni_ae of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the University of Applied Arts Vienna in the fields of Fine Arts and Media Art by awarding studio spaces. 

Deadline 31.7.2026

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

Deadline 15.9.2026, 14 h

Each year, Literar-Mechana awards up to two translators with project grants. Translations into German are given priority.

Deadline 30.9.2026

Deadline 20.10.2026, 14 h