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Newsletter Art and Research, June 2024

Dear colleagues,
dear alumni_ae,

just in time for the start of summer, we would like to inform you about current calls, funding opportunities and competitions.

A virtual webinar for the FWF PEEK programme will take place on 26 June. This is a good opportunity to familiarise yourself with the application specifics from the FWF's perspective. 16 July is the final deadline for the expiring FWF programmes Elise Richter and Elise Richter PEEK. The application guidelines for the new Astra programme are expected at the beginning of the summer, with the first submission deadline being 3 October.

We would like to remind you of the new Prize for Best Research Catalogue Exposition 2023/2024 of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (deadline: 3 October). This prize rewards outstanding contributions to the Research Catalogue (i.e. RC Expositions) by (former) employees and students of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. If you have any questions, please contact us via kfs@akbild.ac.at.

Finally, we want to draw your attention to the BMKOES Start-up scholarship for fine arts, design, photography and media art.The start-up scholarships recognize and support the work of young artists. They are intended to promote artistic development and facilitate entry into the Austrian and international art scene.

With best regards from Art | Research | Support,
Michaela Glanz, Teresa Beer, Sabine Priglinger, Paul Reiter, Sophie Schober

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Congratulations


Academy

Catherine Zesch and Otto Jaax | Gustav Peichl Award 2024

Congratulations to Catherine Zesch and Otto Jaax on receiving the Gustav Peichl Award 2024. The award is given biennially to a student of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna for outstanding architectural drawings. The jury has awarded the Gustav Peichl Award 2024 equally to two laureates.

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Academy

Samuel Bich | Cathrin Pichler Prize 2024

The Cathrin Pichler Prize 2024 goes to Samuel Bich. Our warmest congratulations!

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Art Theory and Cultural Studies

Katharina Steidl | German Photographic Society

Congratulations to Katharina Steidl, Apart GSK Fellow at IKW on being appointed as a full member of the Germen Photographic Society.

Art Theory and Cultural Studies

Nataliia Stryzhko | CEEPUS Scholarship

Congratulations to Nataliia Stryzhko on her CEEPUS (Central European Exchange Programme for University Studies) scholarship.

 

Conferences and Events


Art and Architecture

Post Grad Life - Studio, Office, Atelier, Collective?

  • Talk: 24.6.2024, 16:30–19:30 h

The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna invites you to the Post Grad Life event "Studio, Büro, Atelier, Kollektiv? / Studio, Office, Atelier, Collective?- How do we want to work in architecture?" with the speakers Ella Felber and Felix Steinhoff.

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Calls


EU CERV Programme | European Remembrance

  • Deadline: 6.6.2024, 17 h

The projects under this priority should explore and promote to all generations the defining moments and reference points of European integration, its history, and how these changes have in practice affected the daily lives of Europeans.

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Kunsthaus bella martha | Scholarship "9 TAGE. MENSCH."

  • Deadline: 10.6.2024

9 TAGE. MENSCH. is a residency programme at the Kunsthaus bella martha in Marthashofen, Grafrath (Bavaria).

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RUUKU | Call for Contributions: Re-Imagining

  • Call for Contributions: 10.6.2024

RUUKKU – Studies in Artistic Research invites new contributions for the Special Issue: Re-Imagining

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Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft | OIS zam: Forum 2024

  • Deadline: 15.6.2024

The third OIS zam: Forum will take place from 13-14 September 2024, this time at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

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Federal Monuments Office| Monument Protection Medal 2024

  • Deadline: 15.6.2024

This year, the 2024 Monument Protection Medal will once again be awarded to people who have rendered outstanding services to monument protection and preservation.

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Happylab | Distributed Design Residency 2024/2025

  • Deadline: 16.6.2024

In collaboration with the Distributed Design Platform, Happylab is supporting creative talents working at the interface between design and the maker movement.

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OeAW | Max Kade Fellowship

  • Deadline: 25.6.2024

This programme of the Max Kade Foundation in New York supports scholars from all research disciplines who wish to visit the USA for research purposes.

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City of Vienna | SHIFT Open Call

  • Deadline: 30.6.2024

SHIFT is a promotional programme of the City of Vienna for alternative artistic practices of cultural work in urban peripheral areas.

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IFK | Research Fellowship

  • Deadline: 7.7.2024

ifk Research Fellowships are intended for postdoctoral researchers. Qualified applications can be submitted regardless of the nationality and institutional or professional affiliation of the applicant. Austrian applicants with comparable qualifications are given preference.

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IFK | Senior Fellowship

  • Deadline: 7.7.2024

ifk Senior Fellowships are intended for outstanding researchers who are advanced in their academic careers, and want to pursue their own research at the IFK while fostering intellectual cooperation with the ifk Fellows and other Austrian colleagues.

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BMK | Climate-neutral city mission - technologies and innovations for the climate-neutral city 2024

  • Deadline: 11.7.2024

The Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK) and the Climate and Energy Fund have set themselves the goal of jointly enabling and accelerating the implementation of energy and climate targets in Austrian cities, neighbourhoods and buildings through the "Climate Neutral City" mission.

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Orpheus Instituut | ECHO #6 – Interface After AI

  • Call for Contributions: 15.7.2024

This special issue aims to address the limitations imposed by existing approaches to interface design on the current epoch of deep learning technology and to explore how insights from musical and artistic instrumentality may help unblock further development.

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BMKOES | Start-up scholarship - fine arts, design, photography and media art

  • Deadline: 15.7.2024

The start-up scholarships recognise and support the work of young artists. They are intended to promote artistic development and facilitate entry into the Austrian and international art scene.

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FWF | Elise Richter Programme

  • Deadline: 16.7.2024, 14 h

The Elise Richter Programme for senior postdocs have been designed as a specific funding measure for women in science and research.

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FWF | Elise Richter PEEK

  • Deadline: 16.7.2024, 14 h

The Elise Richter PEEK Programme supports women in arts-based research.

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INSPIRELI Awards | Talent Competition

  • Deadline: 16.7.2024

The INSPIRELI Awards talent competition is aimed at young students and graduates of architecture and design studies.

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Horizon Europe | ERC Advanced Grant Call 2024

  • Deadline: 29.8.2024, 17 h

ERC Advanced Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are already established research leaders with a recognised track record of research achievements. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal.

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Bildungshaus Sankt Magdalena | Erwin Wenzl Prize 2024

  • Deadline: 31.8.2024

Prizes are awarded for diploma theses and dissertations for graduates with a connection to Upper Austria.

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AK Upper Austria | AK Science Award 2025 "Artificial Intelligence"

  • Deadline: 31.8.2024

With the 2025 competition, AK Oberösterreich is breaking new ground in the promotion of science among young researchers. In future, the AK Science Award will be awarded in two categories.

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Horizon Europe | MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024

  • Deadline: 11.9.2024, 17 h

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.

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CERV | Capacity building and awareness raising on the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

  • Deadline: 18.9.2024, 17 h

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

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HORIZON Europe | New European Bauhaus hub for results and impacts

  • 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.

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HORIZON Europe | Research and Innovation Actions

  • Deadline: 25.9.2024, 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.

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ETSAB and UPC | Manuel de Solà-Morales European Prize 2025

  • Deadline: 30.9.2024

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.

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University of Arts Helsinki | RUUKKU Call for Contributions

  • 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.

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Academy

Prize for Best Research Catalogue Exposition 2023/2024 of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

  • Deadline: 3.10.2024, 11 h

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 2023 and 2024.

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FWF | Astra Awards 2024

  • Deadline: 3.10.2024, 14 h

Starting in the fall of 2024, the FWF will be launching a new career funding program called the FWF Astra Awards. This funding will help advanced postdocs in Austria make the leap to the top of their research field.

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FFG | COMET Projects 2024

  • Deadline: 22.10.2024, 12 h

COMET Projects aim to carry out high-quality research in science - industry collaboration. They are characterised by a medium-term perspective and clearly defined topics with the potential for further development. The upcoming call will open on 16 April 2024.

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Academy

Open Call of the Academy | Design oriented publications "Fine Companions"

  • Call for Contributions: 6.11.2024, 11 h

The Rectorate is now opening the call for submissions for new, design-oriented volumes of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. The call is aimed at employees (including project staff) and students of the Academy.

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OeAD | Africa-UniNet 5th Call 2024

  • Deadline: 30.11.2024

The 5th call of Africa-UniNet will open on September 1, 2024, and aims to enable and strengthen existing and new inter- and transdisciplinary research collaborations between Austria and African countries. Africa-UniNet promotes excellent research based on mutual knowledge exchange. This call is only open to internal academy researchers, as the cooperative research projects will run through the institution.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Doc-News


Dear doctoral candidates,

we would like to inform you about the current activities and calls of the Center for Doctoral Studies and about some exciting upcoming events.

We are pleased to invite you to three rigorosa (Doctorate of Technical Sciences, Architecture), and three thesis defenses (Doctorate of Philosophy) in June.

In addition to the events of the Center for Doctoral Studies – we are currently planning the events for the winter semester – our grants are also still available to you.

The call for the Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2024/25 is now online. We are happy to inform you that the fellowship amount will be increased from € 1.000,- per month (6 months) to € 1.200,- per month (6 months) starting with the current call.

You can find other funding opportunities for doctoral candidates below. We would like to draw your attention to an information event of the OeAW on June 21 about the OeAW-DOC fellowships (registration at stipref@oeaw.ac.at).

If you have questions, please check out our handbook or contact us by email at doktoratszentrum@akbild.ac.at.

For those who have not yet submitted their Dissertation Agreement: Please remember to do so in time – no later than one year after admission.

For everyone who wants to prepare for the last steps in their doctoral studies we have put together a handout with step-by-step instructions from submitting your dissertation to the defense.

We wish you a successful completion of the semester and a good start into the summer.

Art Theory and Cultural Studies

Invitation to the Defense of Martina Gimplinger

  • Defense: 10.6.2024, 10 h

The Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna kindly invites you to the defense of Martina Gimplinger´s dissertation project WAS UNS ANGEHT: Zuschauen als ethische Relation.

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Art Theory and Cultural Studies

Invitation to the Defense of Nina Kerschbaumer

  • Defense: 11.6.2024, 13 h

The Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna kindly invites you to the defense of Nina Kerschbaumer´s dissertation project Angst und Beliebigkeit. Über kulturellen Wert, Form und Funktion des Unterhaltungsgenres True Crime.

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© Nina Kerschbaumer

Art Theory and Cultural Studies

Invitation to the Defense of Melissa Destino

  • Defense: 11.6.2024, 15 h

The Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna kindly invites you to the defense of Melissa Destino´s dissertation project ACROSS ITALIAN PHOTOGRAPHY. On the in-between landscape, art, politics, and affective atmospheres, and around the experience of Viaggio in Italia.

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Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Viaggio in Italia at Pinacoteca Provinciale di Bari, 1984. Cover by Paola Borgonzoni.
 Ghirri Luigi, Gianni Leone and Enzo Velati eds. Viaggio in Italia (Alessandria: Il Quadrante, 1984). Courtesy Archivio Luigi Ghirri

Art and Architecture

Invitation to the Rigorosum of Waltraud Paula Indrist

  • Rigorosum: 12.6.2024, 14 h

The Institute for Art and Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna kindly invites you to the defense of Waltraud Paula Indrist´s dissertation project Performative Architekturphotographien – Das Verhältnis von Architektur, Medien und Politik im Werk von Hans Scharoun zwischen 1933 und 1939.

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Dissertation Performative Architectural Photographies Scharoun, © Waltraud P. Indrist

Art and Architecture

Invitation to the Rigorosum of Nikolas Ettel

  • Rigorosum: 14.6.2024, 14 h

The Institute for Art and Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna kindly invites you to the defense of Nikolas Ettels’s dissertation project The Jacksons Project: An Intermedia Framework to Analyse Trivial Yet Telling Urban Remnants in Hong Kong’s High-Density Built Environment.

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© Nikolas Ettel

Art and Architecture

Invitation to the Rigorosum of Paula Maya Strunden

  • Rigorosum: 24.6.2024, 15 h

The Institute for Art and Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna kindly invites you to the defense of Paula Maya Strunden´s dissertation project bodies, objects, spaces — Exploring Multisensory Spatial Perception through Extended Reality Models.

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Alison's Room: An xR Archive by Paula Strunden, developed as part of the Virtual CIAM Museum, curated by Dirk van den Heuvel, Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam, 2022-23, © Courtesy of the artist, Photo: Sander van Wettum, Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, 2023.

Academy

Final steps: Submission of your Ph.D. thesis and thesis defense

  • Coffee Table Talk: 15.1.2025, 13–15:30 h

How to submit my dissertation or Ph.D. 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?

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Academy

Open Call of the Academy | Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2024/25

  • Deadline: 5.11.2024, 11 h

The dissertation scholarship for the final phase aims to support doctoral students in the last phase of their dissertation until completion.

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Academy

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.

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Academy

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.

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Academy

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.

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Academy

Open Call of the Academy | Dissertation projects on the Academy's website

  • Submissions accepted continuously

We would like to give doctoral and Ph.D. candidates and their dissertation projects space on the Academy website as well and present information about them in a separate section of the Center for Doctoral Studies. We, therefore, ask all doctoral and Ph.D. candidates with an approved dissertation agreement who would like to be visible as doctoral or Ph.D. candidates on the academy website to fill out the application form and upload the required documents.

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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+.

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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.

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OeAW | MANNAGETTA

  • Deadline: 20.6.2024

The Mannagetta fellowships are intended for the completion of a doctoral thesis in the fields of humanities, cultural studies and social sciences at a university in Austria.

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OeAW | DOC

  • Deadline: 16.9.2024

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

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