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The 1000 Ideas program funds completely new, high-risk, or particularly original research ideas that go beyond our current scientific understanding. The focus is on seed funding for forward-looking topics that have high transformative potential for science and research.

Deadline 14.1.2025, 14 h

The objective of this call is to promote citizens' and representative associations’ participation in and contribution to the democratic and civic life of the Union by making known and publicly exchanging their views in all areas of Union action.

Deadline 29.4.2025, 17 h

The objective behind netidee SCIENCE, funded by the Internet Foundation, is to support independent basic research on the opportunities and challenges presented by the internet and related innovations at Austria's universities and non-university research institutions.

Deadline 25.3.2025, 14 h

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 programme. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their research proposal.

Deadline 14.1.2025, 17 h

The ERC Proof of Concept Grants aim at facilitating exploration of the commercial and social innovation potential of ERC funded research and are therefore available only to Principal Investigators whose proposals draw substantially on their ERC funded research.

Deadline 13.3.2025, 17 h

Africa-UniNet aims to facilitate and strengthen existing and new inter- and transdisciplinary research cooperation between Austria and African countries. Africa-UniNet promotes excellent research based on the mutual exchange of knowledge. This call is only open to internal academy researchers, as the cooperative research projects will run through the institution.

Deadline 17.3.2025

In cooperation with the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), Taiwan, the FWF offers funding for collaborations between researchers in Austria and Taiwan. Bilateral calls in cooperation with NSTC give researchers the opportunity to apply for international Principal Investigator Projects.

Deadline 22.1.2025, 14 h

The 13th edition of the international open air architecture film festival in the courtyard of the Architekturzentrum Wien in August 2025 has the title “Suburbia. From American Dream to Peak Oil”.

Deadline 22.1.2025

We would like to draw your attention to a Call for Abstracts for an upcoming special issue of Fashion Theory on the topic "Fashion – The Far-Right’s Weaponization of Style." 

Call for Contributions 15.4.2025