Calls / Contests Art and Research

The ScienceUs project is launching an open call to scale up and connect outstanding Citizen Science projects in different research and technological areas relevant to the EU mission “Adaptation to climate change”.

Deadline 6.1.2025, 17 h

Inspired by Hans Kelsen, the third edition of the Ottakringer Art Prize 2025 deals with the central questions of our coexistence. It is intended to offer both the submitting artists and, in spring, visitors to the exhibition an opportunity to engage with privileges that have seemingly become taken for granted.

Deadline 7.1.2025

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 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

Share your insights, research, experience or new ideas about practices for participatory sciences: the tools, strategies, or innovations that make for successful projects.

Call for Contributions 15.1.2025

The programme Heritage Science Austria 2.0 of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, which is funded by the National Foundation for Research, Technology and Development (Fonds Zukunft Österreich) is published for the second time in 2024 after a first call in 2020. The programme will once again support multi-year funding of research projects in the field of cultural heritage at research and cultural heritage institutions in Austria.

Deadline 15.1.2025

We invite you to join the discussion about the role and value of openness and collaboration in scientific research at the upcoming 6th OIS Research Conference. 

Call for Contributions 19.1.2025

Together with its partners Campus France, UNIMED and the PAUSE programme hosted by the Collège de France the DAAD launched the project "SAFE- Supporting at risk researchers with fellowships in Europe".

Deadline 20.1.2025

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 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.

Call for Contributions 26.1.2025

With the S&B Award, the Rudolf Sallinger Fund honours early-stage commercialisation ideas that are based on a research project.

Deadline 26.1.2025

Funding from the European ‘REINFORCING’ project supports organisations to experiment with open science approaches around the topic of ‘responsible digitalisation’ and implement measures to open up their research and innovation processes and align them with societal needs and expectations.

Deadline 30.1.2025, 17 h

Blue Europe, a think tank focused on fostering connections between Western, Central and Eastern Europe, is pleased to announce the 2024-2025 “Denis de Rougemont” contest.

Call for Contributions 31.1.2025

The 28th Festival for Moving Image Communication will take place from March 27 - 28, 2025 in Stuttgart. spotlight STUDENTS is the name of the competition for spots and formats of moving image communication produced by film students, submitted by film students, etc.

Deadline 31.1.2025

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 1.2.2025

The Executive Board of SAR announces the opportunity to nominate candidates to the Annual Prize for Excellent Research Catalogue Exposition 2024. The prize aims to foster and encourage innovative, experimental new formats of publication and, on the other hand, to give visibility to the qualities of artistic research artefacts.

Deadline 1.2.2025

MSCA Staff Exchanges promotes the exchange of personnel between organisations in different countries, scientific disciplines and/or economic sectors (e.g. between universities and companies) and thus supports the successful transfer of knowledge between different parties within and outside Europe.

Deadline 5.2.2025, 17 h

L’ORÉAL Austria, in collaboration with the Austrian UNESCO Commission and in cooperation with the Austrian Academy of Sciences awards fellowships for female basic researchers in the fields of medicine, the natural sciences or mathematics. For the funding, continuation or development of projects in Austria.

Deadline 5.2.2025

The Capacity Building in Higher Education (CBHE) action supports international cooperation projects based on multilateral partnerships between organisations active in the field of higher education. The activities and outcomes of CBHE projects must be geared to benefit the eligible third countries not associated to the Programme, their higher education institutions and systems.

Deadline 6.2.2025, 17 h