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  • Society for Artistic Research | Nomination Prize for Excellent Research Catalogue Exposition 2025

    The Society for Artistic Research (SAR) has opened a call for nominations of candidates for the Annual SAR Prize for Excellent Research Catalogue Exposition 2025. The prize aims to foster and encourage innovative, experimental new formats of publication and to give visibility to the qualities of artistic research artefacts. 

    Deadline 31.1.2026

  • European Commission | Design competition New European Bauhaus Trophy 2026

    The European Commission is launching an EU-wide competition for students to design the first official trophy of the New European Bauhaus (NEB) Prizes. The NEB Prizes celebrate outstanding projects and ideas that embody the NEB values of sustainability, beauty, and inclusion. 

    Deadline 31.1.2026

  • 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 | Academy Open Access Publishing Fund

    The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna established a central Open Access publishing fund to support its members covering the OA costs for their peer-reviewed OA publications. Doctoral students and early career researchers are especially encouraged to apply.

    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 FWF Open Access Block Grant supports open access publication costs for peer-reviewed research articles/contributions arising from FWF projects and published in OA journals, OA books, or on OA publication platforms.

    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

  • EU ERASMUS+ | Short-term stay abroad

    In order to better meet their different learning and training needs EU ERASMUS+ offers doctoral students the opportunity to complete a short-term study visit abroad in Europe.

    Submissions accepted continuously

  • Open Gender Journal

    The editors of the Open Gender Journal are pleased about the submission of  papers from all disciplines with a gender reference / focus.

    Call for Contributions permanently open

  • Humboldt Foundation | Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdocs and Senior Researchers

    A Humboldt Research Fellowship for international postdoctoral researchers allows to carry out long-term research (6–24 months) in Germany.

    Submissions accepted continuously

  • FWF | Book Publications

    This program funds the publication and simultaneous open-access publication of books on research findings.

    Submissions accepted continuously

  • FWF | Digital Publications

    The Digital Publications program offers researchers funding for digital formats such as apps, wiki-based publications, annotated scientific databases, multi-media web-based publications (e.g., audio, video, animation), etc., to help make these publications more accessible to the public.

    Submissions accepted continuously

  • FWF | Principal Investigator Projects

    Researchers of any discipline who are working in Austria are eligible for applying to an FWF Principal Investigator Project. The aim is to provide funding for individual research in the area of non-profit oriented scholarly/scientific research.

    Submissions accepted continuously

  • FWF | Erwin Schrödinger Fellowships including a return phase

    The Erwin Schrödinger Fellowships are intended for young and highly qualified scientists of any discipline and seek to enable young scholars to gain experience abroad during the postdoc-phase.

    Submissions accepted continuously