Calls / Contests Art and Research

The Orpheus Doctoral Conference (ODC) 2026 will be held 16–17 April in Ghent. The call for contributions for the for the theme "Sonic Worldings: Crafting realities through artistic research" is open until 21 December. 

Call for Contributions 21.12.2025

The international conference "Tenor" will be hosted 21–24 May 2026 in Vienna and revolves around technologies for music notation and representation. Researchers, composers, scientists, technologists and performers are invited to submit their work.

Call for Contributions 8.1.2026

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

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

The Call for Contributions for the ELIA Biennial Conference 2026 titled "Going off Centre" is open. The conference will take place 18–21 November 2026 in Zwolle, Netherlands and is hosted by the ArtEZ University of the Arts.

Call for Contributions 16.1.2026

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

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

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

The start-up grants represent recognition and support for the work of young artists. They are intended to promote artistic development and facilitate entry into the Austrian and international art scene.

Deadline 31.1.2026

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

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

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 culture office of the city of Vienna awards "Einzelförderungen" (individual funding) and "Gesamtförderungen" (overall funding) in Science. Institutions, research projects, symposia, conferences, lectures and event series are elligible. 

Submissions accepted continuously

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 accepted continuously