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Ruthia Jenrbekova | Research Catalogue Prize
Congratulations to Ruthia Jenrbekova for the reception of the prize of EUR 1,000 for the exposition “Dreamachinery: Queer Light & Magic in Post-Soviet Spaces.” The jury emphasised the convincing graphically elaborated structure of the exposition and the profound and innovative use of the Research Catalogue, which impressively support the explorative character of the presentation and reflection of the artistic research process and its results.
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Ujjwal Utkarsh | Research Catalogue Prize
One of the two prizes of EUR 500 was awarded to Ujjwal Utkarsh and his exposition "The Gaze as a Protest". The jury was impressed by the stringent formal language, which highlights the exposition’s narrative quality established by a sound interplay of image, video and text within the chosen horizontal arrangement. We warmly congratulate!
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Paul-Julien Robert, Elisabeth Schäfer, Ida Clay | Research Catalogue Prize
The second prize of EUR 500 was awarded to Paul-Julien Robert, Elisabeth Schäfer and Ida Clay for their exposition “PPC - A Project to Critical Reappraisal of the History of the Mühl ‘Commune’”. The jury emphasised the diversity of the media and arrangement of the individual project contributions in the form of three maps, which convincingly underline the in-depth documentary character of the publication. Our best wishes!
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Tiina Sööt and Dorothea Zeyringer | Award of the City of Vienna
On November 27, the City of Vienna's 2024 awards were presented at Vienna City Hall. The prestigious award for fine arts went to Tiina Sööt and Dorothea Zeyringer (alumnae of the Academy). Congratulations to them!
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Esra Özmen | Award of the City of Vienna
We proudly congratulate Esra Özmen on receiving the Promotion Award of the City of Vienna in the category Music! The award is a special recognition of the artistic achievements to date.
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Virginie Marie Julie Bobin | Award of Excellence
We warmly congratulate Virginie Marie Julie Bobin for the reception of the Award of Excellence for her dissertation project with the title „‘Au risque des autres‘ - Political Gestures and Affective Encounters with Translation“.
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CS4Water | Citizen Science for Water 2025 Conference
- Call for Contributions: 15.12.2024
This first CS4Water conference will focus on freshwater systems. The conference aims to highlight the critical role of citizen science in monitoring, management and control of water resources. > more
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Österreichische Ludwig-Stiftung | Travel and Research Grant 2025
As part of the collection-related research season 2025/26 “Beside, not infinite,” the Austrian Ludwig Foundation is offering a grant in 2025 to support research for academic as well as artistic and curatorial projects in the field of visual arts by funding a research trip outside of Austria. > more
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Open Call of the Academy | Artist-in-Residence Cairo
- Deadline: 16.12.2024, 11 h
In cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forum Cairo (ACF), the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport (BMKOES), an Artist-in-Residency in Cairo for graduates of the Academy is being offered. > more
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queer@hochschulen | Scholarship for qualification theses on LGBTIQQAA*-relevant topics
Funding is available for ongoing qualification theses (i.e. diploma, bachelor's and master's theses, dissertations) on LGBTIQQAA*-relevant topics in all scientific disciplines that are being written at Austrian universities (but not courses, MBA programmes or habilitations). The relevance, scientific level and innovative content will be assessed. > more
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GALERIE3 | Carinthia Young Artists Award for Fine Arts 2025
The Carinthia Young Artists Award honours up-and-coming artists up to the age of 35 who were either born, grew up or live/work in Carinthia, or whose personality/work has a concrete connection to the province of Carinthia. > more
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Mamidakis Foundation | Art prize 2025
The 2025 Art Prize invites Greek and international artists to apply. The Art Prize supports contemporary artists by offering them the opportunity to create a new, site-specific artwork which will remain on permanent display in Agios Nikolaos, Crete, will become part of the Foundation’s art collection, and will join an important cultural heritage as well. > more
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ScienceUs | Open Call
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”. > more
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Bezirksvorstehung Ottakring | Ottakring Art Prize 2025
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. > more
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FWF | 1000 ideas
- Deadline: 14.1.2025, 14 h
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. > more
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Horizon Europe | ERC Consolidator Grants
- Deadline: 14.1.2025, 17 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. > more
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Association for Advancing Participatory Sciences | Conference for Advancing Participatory Sciences
- Call for Contributions: 15.1.2025
Share your insights, research, experience or new ideas about practices for participatory sciences: the tools, strategies, or innovations that make for successful projects. > more
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ÖAW | Heritage Science Austria 2.0
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. > more
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OIS | Research Conference
- Call for Contributions: 19.1.2025
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. > more
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German Academic Exchange Service | SAFE Fellowships
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". > more
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FWF | International Collaboration – Taiwan
- Deadline: 22.1.2025, 14 h
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. > more
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Rudolf Sallinger Fonds | Science&Business Award 2025
With the S&B Award, the Rudolf Sallinger Fund honours early-stage commercialisation ideas that are based on a research project. > more
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Open Call of the Academy | Scholarship Early Postdoc Applications 2025
- Deadline: 28.1.2025, 11 h
The Scholarship for Early Post Doc Applications aims to support early postdocs in the application for their initial postdoctoral research project. This scholarship enables the intensive preparation of a project proposal, which will be submitted with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna as the home institution to funding agencies like FWF (ESPRIT funding program) or OeAW (APART GSK funding program) in the end. This call is open to all postdocs. > more
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REINFORCING | Booster Call
- Deadline: 30.1.2025, 17 h
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. > more
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Blue Europe | “Denis de Rougement” contest 2024-2025
- Call for Contributions: 31.1.2025
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. > more
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Spotlight | Young talent competition spotlight STUDENTS
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. > more
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Society for Artistic Research | RC Prize 2024
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. > more
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Horizon Europe | MSCA Staff Exchanges
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. > more
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ÖAW | L’ORÉAL Austria
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. > more
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Erasmus+ | Capacity building in higher Education
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. > more
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Creative Europe | Circulation of European literary works
- Deadline: 11.2.2025, 17 h
Publishers and cultural organisations active in the publishing sector can apply for co-financing for the translation, printing, distribution and promotion of European literature. The aim of the funding is to strengthen the transnational dissemination and diversity of European literary works. > more
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FWF | #Connecting Minds
- Deadline: 13.2.2025, 14 h
With the #ConnectingMinds program, the Austrian Science Fund FWF encourages researchers to involve non-academic stakeholders in their research projects. Funding is available to teams that combine both academic and social knowledge and are applying them to help tackle social, technological, ecological, and economic challenges. > more
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BMKOES | Film art scholarship abroad 2025
The call of the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport is aimed at artists already working professionally in the field of film and whose work is characterized by an experimental orientation and an innovative character. > more
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OeAD | Africa-UniNet 5th Call
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. > more
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Horizon Europe | ERC Proof of Concept Grants
- Deadline: 13.3.2025, 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. > more
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FWF | netidee SCIENCE
- Deadline: 25.3.2025, 14 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. > more
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OeAW | APART-GSK 2025
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. > more
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FWF | International Collaboration France
In cooperation with the French National Research Agency (ANR), the FWF offers funding for closely integrated project collaborations between researchers in Austria and France. > more
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FWF | Emerging Fields
The Emerging Fields program is aimed at teams of outstanding researchers doing pioneering work in basic research who are prepared to depart from established approaches. It gives researchers the opportunity to pursue particularly innovative, original, or high-risk ideas. The program focuses on funding research that has the potential to trigger a paradigm shift in its field. > more
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CERV | Citizens’ engagement and participation
- Deadline: 29.4.2025, 17 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. > more
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Creative Europe | European Cooperation Projects
The Creative Europe programme supports transnational cooperation projects involving organisations in the cultural and creative sectors from different countries taking part in the programme. It covers the EU and beyond. > more
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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. > more
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Open Call of the Academy | Grant for Open-Access-Publication Costs of the Academy
- Submissions accepted continuously
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. > more
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Open Call of the Academy | Going Book: Grant for Publication Costs
- Submissions accepted continuously
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. > more
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Open Call of the Academy | FWF Open-Access Block Grant
- Submissions accepted continuously
The call is aimed at project participants of FWF-funded projects affiliated with the research institution Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. > more
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Journal of Embodied Research | Open Call for Video Articles
- Call for Contributions permanently open
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. > more
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Open Gender Journal | Call for Papers
- Call for Contributions permanently open
The editors of the Open Gender Journal are pleased about the submission of papers from all disciplines with a gender reference / focus. > more
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Humboldt Research Fellowship | Postdoctoral Research in Germany
- Submissions accepted continuously
A Humboldt Research Fellowship for international postdoctoral researchers allows to carry out long-term research (6-24 months) in Germany. > more
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FWF | Book Publications
- Submissions accepted continuously
This program funds the publication and simultaneous open-access publication of books on research findings. > more
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FWF | Stand-Alone Projects
- Submissions accepted continuously
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. > more
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FWF | Erwin Schrödinger Fellowships including a return phase
- Submissions accepted continuously
The Erwin Schrödinger Fellowships are intended for young and highly qualified scientists of any discipline and seek to enable young scholars to gain experience abroad during the postdoc-phase. > more
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FWF | Esprit
- Submissions accepted continuously
The ESPRIT Programme (Early Stage Programme: Research, Innovation and Training) is addressed to highly qualified postdocs from all disciplines at the beginning of their academic career who wish to carry out an independent research project at an Austrian research institute. > more
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FWF | PEEK
- Submissions accepted continuously
The aim of PEEK (Programme for Arts-based Research) is to fund clearly defined research proposals of high artistic and academic quality at an international level in the field of arts-based research. > more
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FWF | Principal Investigator Projects International
- Submissions continuously accepted
The funding program provides principal investigators and their research groups with the resources they need to work together with international project partners to investigate key research questions over a period of several years. > more
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Doc-News
Dear doctoral candidates,
we hope you have had a productive and inspiring semester so far.
We would like to draw your attention to the call – for submissions for the scholarship Early Post Doc Applications 2025. The scholarship supports postdocs in the initial phase of an application for their initial postdoctoral research project. If you are interested, take a look at the requirements and general conditions here. The submission deadline is January 28, 2025.
We would also like to invite you to join us for an online Coffee Table Talk about everything that concerns the final steps in your doctoral or PhD studies, as well as invite you to the online workshop Time Organization and Self-Management (in German, questions in English possible) in January.
Please also consider our ongoing calls for travel allowances, for the scholarship for short-term stays abroad, and for the Learning-on-the-Job scholarship. You can find other funding opportunities for doctoral and PhD candidates below.
If you would like to be featured on the Academy website with your doctoral or PhD project, please submit your documents and information via this call (possible only with approved Dissertation Agreement).
If you have questions related to your doctoral or PhD studies, please check out our FAQs or contact us by email at doktoratszentrum@akbild.ac.at.
We wish you a pleasant start into the winter season.
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Final steps: Submission of your PhD thesis and thesis defense / Rigorosum
- Coffee Table Talk: 15.1.2025, 13–15:30 h
How to submit my dissertation or PhD thesis? What exactly is meant by revocation application in AkademieOnline? What has this to do with the planned publication of my dissertation thesis? When and why is a plagiarism check before submission beneficial? How and when can I register for my defense or rigorosum? > more
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Info Meeting | PhD in Practice
- Informative meeting: 15.1.2025, 17–18 h
We cordially invite you to attend this online appointment to learn about the requirements, the call for submissions and decision procedure of the PhD in Practice program at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. > more
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Time-Organization and Self-Management for Doctoral Candidates
- Workshop: 22.1.2025, 9–16 h
Are you just starting or already writing your dissertation or PhD thesis, but also have other commitments (job, family, etc.) and want to live a little too? > more
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Online information meeting for enrollment in the Doctor of Philosophy SoSe 2025
We cordially invite those interested in the Doctor of Philosophy program at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna to attend this online appointment to learn about enrollment requirements and procedures. > more
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Open Door Summer Semester 2025
The Center for Doctoral Studies welcomes new and continuing doctoral students to an open door event in the summer semester 2025. > more
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Graduate Conference 2025
- Conference: 15.5.2025, 9:30–16 h
SAVE THE DATE: We are pleased to invite you to the Graduate Conference 2025 of the Center for Doctoral Studies. > more
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OeAW | DOC application writing (SuSe 2025)
- Coffee Table Talk: 21.5.2025, 14–17 h
The Center for Doctoral Studies invites all doctoral candidates of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna to participate in an informative meeting about the preparation of an ÖAW DOC application. > more
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Open Call of the Academy | Scholarship Early Postdoc Applications 2025
- Deadline: 28.1.2025, 11 h
The Scholarship for Early Post Doc Applications aims to support early postdocs in the application for their initial postdoctoral research project. This scholarship enables the intensive preparation of a project proposal, which will be submitted with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna as the home institution to funding agencies like FWF (ESPRIT funding program) or OeAW (APART GSK funding program) in the end. This call is open to all postdocs. > more
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Open Call of the Academy | Learning-on-the-Job grant
- Submissions accepted continuously
The Learning-on-the-Job scholarship offers dissertation supervisors the opportunity to apply for a scholarship for doctoral/Ph.D. candidates. > more
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Open Call of the Academy | Short term grants abroad
- Submissions accepted continuously
The scholarship for a short-term stay abroad for doctoral/Ph.D. candidates supports stays abroad for e.g. research, field research, archival research, interviews, which are necessary for the dissertation or the Ph.D. project. Stays abroad are funded for a minimum of two to a maximum of eight weeks. > more
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Open Call of the Academy | Travel Allowances for doctoral resp. Ph.D. candidates at the Academy
- Submissions accepted continuously
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. > more
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Open Call of the Academy | Dissertation projects on the Academy's website
- Submissions accepted continuously
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. > more
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EU ERASMUS+ | Semester abroad
- Submissions accepted continuously
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+. > more
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EU ERASMUS+ | Short-term stay abroad
- Submissions accepted continuously
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. > more
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ifk | Junior Fellowship 2025
- Call for Contributions: 26.1.2025
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. > more
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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. > more
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