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Calls / Contests Art and Research

  • 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

  • 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

  • BMWKMS | Start-up Grants in the fields Architecture, Fine Arts, Performing Arts, Design, Film, Photography, Music, Media Art, and Music

    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

  • 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

  • OeAW | L'ORÉAL Austria

    The L’ORÉAL Austria Awards offer funding for young female scientists in medicine, natural and life sciences or mathematics to support them at the beginning of their scientific career after their doctorate/PhD.

    Deadline 10.2.2026

  • BMWKMS | Individual Projects Fine Arts, Design, Fashion, Photography, Media Art 2026

    The Federal Ministry for Housing, Art, Culture, Media and Sports (BMWKMS) offers funding for individual projects in the fields Fine Arts, Design, Fashion, Photography, and Media Art. 

    Deadline 28.2.2026

  • Literar Mechana | Fellowship for artistic work

    Fellowship for authors, playwright, screenwriter, authors for children's books and books for young people

    Deadline 28.2.2026

  • OeAW | APART-GSK

    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

  • Literar Mechana | Dissertation Completion Fellowship

    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

  • OeAW | Post-DocTrack

    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

  • OeAW | MAX KADE

    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

  • City of Vienna | START-Studio

    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

  • OeAW | DOC

    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

  • Literar Mechana | Project Fellowship for Translators

    Each year, the SKE awards up to two translators with project grants of €1,500 each for three to six months. Translations into German are given preference.

    Deadline 30.9.2026

  • Literar Mechana | Dissertation Completion Fellowship

    Literar-Mechana awards up to thirty scholarships annually to highly qualified scholars from all disciplines to enable them to complete their dissertation projects.

    Deadline 30.9.2026

  • OeAW | Mannagetta-Fellowships

    Mannagetta-Fellowships are financed from the funds of the Johann Wilhelm Ritter von Manngetta Foundation at the OeAW.

    Deadline 20.10.2026, 14 h

  • 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