Calls / Contests Art and Research

The Federal Ministry of Austria. Arts and Culture, Civil Service and Sport (BMKOES), Division Arts and Culture, in cooperation with the MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, is going to award a total of six scholarships for residency at the Mackey Apartments, Los Angeles, in 2025/2026.

Deadline 10.9.2024

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral mobility. MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships will be open to excellent researchers of any nationality.

Deadline 11.9.2024, 17 h

The Austrian start-up prize PHÖNIX is awarded on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research and the Federal Ministry of Labor and Economy. PHÖNIX honors start-ups, spin-offs, prototype projects and female entrepreneurs and shows how essential the successful transfer of knowledge is for Austria as a location for innovation.

Deadline 15.9.2024

The programmatic focus of the third call relates to the creative power of young cultural creation and aims to provide the appropriate attention and stage for this. With this in mind, the Carinthian Cultural Foundation is looking for innovative, inclusive and intergenerational projects that open up new horizons and create future-oriented development spaces for young generations.

Deadline 15.9.2024

The DOC Fellowship Programme of the Austrian Academy of Sciences offers funding for highly qualified doctoral candidates in all areas of research.

Deadline 16.9.2024

This current CERV call supports capacity building and awareness raising on the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.

Deadline 18.9.2024, 17 h

The EU LIFE program promotes projects in the field of nature, environmental and climate protection.

Deadline 19.9.2024, 17 h

A ‘New European Bauhaus hub for results and impacts’ is required to collect, centralise, manage, monitor and exploit the knowledge produced by the NEB projects, the NEB Community and other relevant NEB actions, while also ensuring cooperation and collaboration between them.

Deadline 19.9.2024, 17 h

This call focuses on experimental local action for EU missions: knowledge institutions as focal points of transdisciplinary research and innovation activities with European outreach.

Deadline 25.9.2024, 17 h

For the International Weeks against Racism in March 2025, the art competition with the motto “Protecting human dignity” is being announced with prize money totaling 2,150 euros.

Deadline 25.9.2024

On the MS Wissenschaft 2025 tour, the numerous aspects of the future of energy will be analysed and examined from a scientific perspective.

Deadline 27.9.2024

Every two years, the Manuel de Solà-Morales European Prize will recognize the best university research in the field of urbanism carried out by a student granted a PhD.

Deadline 30.9.2024

JAR is an internationally recognised Open Access journal that publishes artistic research from all arts disciplines including (but not limited to) the visual arts, architecture, dance, design, film, literature, music, painting, performance, photography, poetry, sculpture, theatre, video art, urban planning, etc.

Call for Contributions 30.9.2024

RUUKKU – Studies in Artistic Research invites new contributions for Issue: Dreaming the city for real – spaces of polyphony, dissonance and coexistence.

Call for Contributions 30.9.2024

From 13-15 February 2025, the Institute of Educational Sciences at the University of Vienna is organising a research workshop on the topic of "Political Activism and Participatory Research". The workshop is aimed at early career researchers who are working on participatory research approaches as part of their qualification thesis or a research project.

Call for Contributions 30.9.2024

The competition is addressed to young scientists (max. 40 years old) who have made a significant discovery or outstanding achievements in the field of broadly understood technical sciences in the last three years.

Deadline 30.9.2024

A five-member jury consisting of the external experts Karin Cheng, Mara Mattuschka and Sasha Pirker as well as the QUEERTACTICS organizers Dagmar Fink and Katja Wiederspahn - with the support of VdFS (Verwertungsgesellschaft der Filmschaffenden) and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna - will award three prizes, each endowed with 1000 Euro.

Deadline 30.9.2024

The state scholarships are a recognition of previous outstanding artistic achievements and serve to promote further artistic creation.

Deadline 30.9.2024

In this edition, they are interested in showcasing drawings, artistic projects, images, articles, essays, and contextual or critical texts that address, problematize, or explore representations of Nature and Landscape, Environmental Narratives, connections between humans and non-humans, our anthropocentric culture, or other possible worldviews.

Call for Contributions 1.10.2024