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Calls / Contests Art and Research

  • OeAD | Austrian Development Research Award 2025

    The Austrian Development Research Award is presented every two years to academically active institutions and individuals who have made a special achievement in the field of development research (publications, projects and initiatives). The prize consists of a main prize and a young researchers' prize and is awarded by the Agency for Education and Internationalisation (OeAD) with funds from the Federal Ministry of Women, Science and Research (BMFWF).

    Deadline 30.11.2025

  • Schiele Award 2026

    The Schiele Award of the Rotary Club Tulln & Rotary Club Wien Albertina is an art prize that has been awarded every two years since 2022. Young artists are warmly invited to participate in the Open Call 2026.

    Deadline 30.11.2025

  • University of the Arts Helsinki | Artist Pedagogy and Artistic Thinking: Perspectives and Practices

    This conference is hosted 27–29 August 2026 at the University of the Arts Helsinki. It invites researchers, artists and artist pedagogues across the fields of the arts. 

    Call for Contributions 1.12.2025

  • Free University of Berlin, Nordic Summer University | Duplicity/Duplicität: Betwixt intimates and strangers

    The international symposium "Duplicity/Duplicität: Betwixt intimates and strangers" will be held in Berlin from 29–31 January 2026 and marks the opening of a three-year research project titled "Studies in Remoteness". 

    Call for Contributions 1.12.2025

  • OeAW | GO.INVESTIGATIO

    The Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) awards grants for research stays outside of Austria for library, archive or field research necessary for the preparation of an academic thesis or publication or the development of a funding application.  

    Deadline 5.12.2025

  • FWF | Spreading Knowledge

    Titled "Spreading Knowledge", the program invites researchers to host konwledge-transfer events in cooperation with FWF. The goal is to share research results and to intensify the knowledge transfer between science, economy and society. 

    Deadline 9.12.2025, 14 h

  • Horizon Europe | ERC Consolidator Grant Call 2026

    The ERC Consolidator Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or program. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal.

    Deadline 13.1.2026, 17 h

  • Eberhard (Eb)-Dietzsch-Kunstfreunde | 9th Eb-Dietzsch Award for painting

    The Eb-Dietzsch Award for painting is awarded to artists until the age of 35 years who are at the start of their careers. One work per person can be submitted, the topic is free of choice. All techniques of painting are accepted. 

    Deadline 15.1.2026

  • 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

  • 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 1.2.2026

  • Open Call of the Academy | Grant for Open-Access-Publication Costs of the Academy

    The Academy's Open Access Publication Grant is intended to support (Gold) Open Access of academic publications that are the result of research activities at the Academy or are not covered by externally funded projects at the Academy.

    Submissions accepted continuously

  • Open Call of the Academy | Going Book: Grant for Publication Costs

    The publication cost grant is intended to support the realisation of excellent publications. The prerequisite for funding is that it is a quality-assured (peer-reviewed) publication.

    Submissions accepted continuously

  • Open Call of the Academy | FWF Open Access Block Grant

    The call is aimed at project participants of FWF-funded projects affiliated with the research institution Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

    Submissions accepted continuously

  • Open Call of the Academy | Learning-on-the-Job grant

    The Learning-on-the-Job scholarship offers dissertation supervisors the opportunity to apply for a scholarship for doctoral/PhD candidates.

    Submissions accepted continuously

  • Open Call of the Academy | Short term grants abroad

    The scholarship for a short-term stay abroad for doctoral/PhD candidates supports stays abroad for e.g. research, field research, archival research, interviews, which are necessary for the dissertation or the PhD project. Stays abroad are funded for a minimum of two to a maximum of eight weeks.

    Submissions accepted continuously

  • Open Call of the Academy | Dissertation projects on the Academy's website

    All Doctoral and PhD candidates with an approved dissertation agreement have the possibility to present their projects on our website. To be visible on the Academy website you will have to fill out an application form and upload the required documents.

    Submissions accepted continuously

  • Aws | Proof of Concept Grants

    The funding measure supports researchers in systematically reviewing their research results and opening up potential areas of application in order to accelerate the transfer of knowledge and technology from publicly funded research and development.

    Submissions continuously accepted

  • Open Call of the Academy | Travel Allowances for doctoral resp. PhD candidates at the Academy

    Regular students of all doctoral and PhD studies at the Academy can apply for travel allowances for participations in international conferences as well as for the presentation of art projects.

    Submissions accepted continuously

  • Journal of Embodied Research | Open Call for Video Articles

    JER invites the submission of video articles on a rolling basis. These can focus on any topic related to embodied practice, embodied knowledge, or embodied research.

    Call for Contributions permanently open

  • EU ERASMUS+ | Semester abroad

    Doctoral and PhD candidates of the Academy of Fine Arts have the opportunity to spend a semester abroad at a partner university within the framework of Erasmus+.

    Submissions accepted continuously