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Calls | Contests Art and Research

  • OeAD | Ernst Mach Grant worldwide

    Funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Women, Science and Research (BMFWF), this grant programme is aimed at early career researchers and university lecturers from all disciplines who study or conduct research outside Austria and wish to pursue a research project in Austria.

    Deadline 1.12.2026

  • OeAW | GO.INVESTIGATIO

    The Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) awards grants for library, archive and field research stays outside Austria which are necessary for preparing scientific papers or publications or for drafting external funding applications.

    Deadline 10.12.2026

  • FWF | Principal Investigator Projects International Israel

    In cooperation with the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), the FWF offers the opportunity to apply for closely integrated research projects between researchers in Austria and Israel. The goal is to combine the areas of strength of both research systems and to create clear added value through international collaboration.

    Deadline 10.12.2026

  • OeAD | Scientific and Technological Cooperation China

    The aim of the S&T Cooperation programmes is to stimulate international research cooperation, to establish new, sustainable international partnerships and to increase the proportion of young and female researchers in international research project consortia.

    Deadline 15.12.2026, 12 h

  • ZAUNERGROUP | Art Award 2027

    The ZAUNERGROUP Art Award is an art prize awarded by ZAUNERGROUP in cooperation with GALERIE BADSTRASSE 9 to support contemporary artistic positions and strengthen exchange between art, business and society.

    Deadline 31.12.2026

  • Vienna Business Agency | Understanding Science Funding

    The Understanding Science Funding aims to assist in communication activities that present research and scientific results in an understandable and easily accessible manner.

    Deadline 31.12.2026

  • Horizon Europe | European Partnership for Resilient Cultural Heritage – Joint Trasnational Call

    The European Partnership for Resilient Cultural Heritage (RCH), co-funded by the European Union, is intended to help adapt cultural heritage to the growing impacts of climate change through interdisciplinary research into how cultural heritage, the knowledge it embodies, and the communities associated with it can contribute to a more sustainable, resilient, and equitable future.

    Deadline 11.1.2027

  • Horizon Europe | ERC Consolidator Grant Call 2027

    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 12.1.2027, 17 h

  • FORUM+ | Solidarity as a form of imagination

    The international, peer-reviewed open access journal FORUM+ invites contributions to the dossier “Solidarity as a form of imagination – Artistic research between the personal, the political, and the communal”. The dossier focuses on collective artistic research practices and their potential for societal and political transformation.

    Call for Contributions 15.1.2027

  • ifk | Junior Fellowship

    The ifk Junior Fellowships are intended for young Austrian academics working on their dissertations, as well as for non-Austrian doctoral students who are supervised at an Austrian university. 

    Deadline 24.1.2027

  • International Ceramics Exhibition Mino | 14th Ceramics Competition

    The Ceramics Competition is an important part of the International Ceramics Exhibition in Mino, Japan, which will take place between 8 October and 7 November 2027.

    Deadline 29.1.2027, 21 h

  • Open Call of the Academy | Publication Series 2026 – text-based publications

    The Rectorate is opening the call for submissions for new text-based volumes. The call is aimed at employees (including project staff) and students of the Academy.

    Deadline 3.2.2027, 11 h

  • Literar-Mechana | Fellowship for Artistic Work

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

    Deadline 28.2.2027

  • Culture Moves Europe | Individual Mobility 2026–2027

    As part of Culture Moves Europe, artists and cultural professionals can apply for an EU grant for a stay abroad. The call is open to individuals and groups of up to five people.

    Deadline 30.4.2027

  • AK Upper Austria | AK Science Prize 2026: Dissertations and Scientfic articles

    Every year, the Upper Austrian Chamber of Labor (AK OÖ) awards a science prize for scientific work that serves to improve the working and living conditions of employees.

    Deadline 15.6.2027

  • 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 who are involved in organizational, coordinating or administrative processes within the framework of a scientific or artistic research project.

    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