Calls / Contests Art and Research
List of entries
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Prize for Best Research Catalogue Exposition 2024/2025 of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
This prize rewards outstanding contributions to the Research Catalogue (i.e. RC Expositions) by staff and students of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. We are looking for published RC contributions from the years 2024 and 2025.
Deadline 7.10.2025, 11 h
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AK Upper Austria | AK Science Prize 2026
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 31.10.2025
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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
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FWF | Zero Emissions Award
Researchers from universities and non-university research institutions have the opportunity to submit climate-relevant research proposals for Austria's largest privately funded research award.
Submissions continuously accepted
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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
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Open Call of the Academy | Grant for Open-Access-Publication Costs of the Academy
The Academy's Open Access Publication Grant is intended to support (Gold) Open Access of academic publications that are the result of research activities at the Academy or are not covered by externally funded projects at the Academy.
Submissions accepted continuously
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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
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Open Call of the Academy | FWF Open Access Block Grant
The call is aimed at project participants of FWF-funded projects affiliated with the research institution Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Submissions accepted continuously
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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
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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
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Open Call of the Academy | Dissertation projects on the Academy's website
We would like to give doctoral and PhD candidates and their dissertation projects space on the Academy website and present information about them in a separate section of the Center for Doctoral Studies. We, therefore, ask all doctoral and PhD candidates with an approved dissertation agreement who would like to be visible as doctoral or PhD candidates on the Academy website to fill out the application form and upload the required documents.
Submissions accepted continuously
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Open Call of the Academy | Travel Allowances for doctoral resp. Ph.D. candidates at the Academy
Regular students of all doctoral studies and the Ph.D.-in-Practice-Program of the Academy can apply for travel allowances for participations in international conferences as well as for the presentation of art projects.
Submissions accepted continuously
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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
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EU ERASMUS+ | Semester abroad
Doctoral and Ph.D. 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
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EU ERASMUS+ | Short-term stay abroad
In order to better meet the different learning and training needs of doctoral students and to ensure equal opportunities, doctoral students will also have the opportunity to complete a short-term study visit abroad in Europe from the summer semester of 2022.
Submissions accepted continuously
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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
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Humboldt Research Fellowship | Postdoctoral Research in Germany
A Humboldt Research Fellowship for international postdoctoral researchers allows to carry out long-term research (6-24 months) in Germany.
Submissions accepted continuously
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Volkswagenstiftung | Mixed Methods in den Geisteswissenschaften für Workshops und Sommerschulen
Die VolkswagenStiftung fördert mit dem Call Mixed Methods in den Geisteswissenschaften Vorhaben in den Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften, die die Verknüpfung und das Zusammenwirken von qualitativ-hermeneutischen und digitalen Verfahren anhand einer gemeinsamen wissenschaftlichen Fragestellung ausloten.
Einreichungen laufend möglich
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FWF | Book Publications
This program funds the publication and simultaneous open-access publication of books on research findings.
Submissions accepted continuously
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FWF | Stand-Alone Projects
Researchers of any discipline who are working in Austria are eligible for applying to a FWF Stand Alone Project. The aim is to provide funding for individual research in the area of non-profit oriented scholarly/scientific research.
Submissions accepted continuously