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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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Fondation Andurand | CLIM'ART Prize
The CLIM'ART ANDURAND - CREATION & CONSCIENCE Award is the second edition of an art competition organised by the Andurand Foundation for young artists across France and Europe. > more
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Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts | FORUM+ Open Call
- Call for Contributions: 15.3.2025
FORUM+ is an international peer-reviewed journal for research in the arts that is published both online and in print. > more
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University of Basel | SAGS Konferenz 2025
- Call for Contributions: 15.3.2025
The 8th conference of the Swiss Association for Gender Studies (SAGS) will take place at the University of Basel. It invites contributions from the field of gender studies around the conference theme "wissen – savoir – sapere – know(-ledges)". > more
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University of the Arts Helsinki | Doctoral Supervisors' Summer School 2025
The target group for the Doctoral Supervisors' Summer School 20-23 August 2025, hosted by Uniarts Helsinki, is artists, artist-researchers and academics supervising doctoral students in the arts. Experience of at least one ongoing or completed doctoral supervision process is required. > more
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Verein ent | SCHAU* Open Call
The SCHAU* exhibition project transforms shop windows into spaces where a variety of contemporary artists engage with different themes to inspire a socio-political discourse. > 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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OeAD | Cooperation Development Research 5th Call
Cooperation Development Research is a funding programme financed by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF) and implemented by the OeAD to support scientifically excellent cooperation development research projects. > more
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Open Call of the Academy | Graduate Conference 2025
- Deadline: 25.3.2025, 11 h
The Graduate Conference 2025 aims to enahnce the discussion of dissertation and PhD projects at the Academy of Fine Arts and will take place on May 15. We are looking forward to your applications until March 25, 2025, via our submission platform. > 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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Vilnius Academy of the Arts | Call for Contributions: Landing #2 - Twenty Second Reverb
- Call for Contributions: 26.3.2025
Landing is an international platform that facilitates critical and creative artistic inquiry, with a special focus on research methods and an ethos of research. > 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 | International Collaboration Hungary
- Deadline: 31.3.2025, 14 h
In cooperation with the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH), the FWF is inviting calls for funding for closely integrated project collaborations between researchers in Austria and Hungary. > more
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Open Call of the Academy | Call for proposals for the academic year 2025/26 for Courses in Gender / Queer / Race / Class / Dis_ability Studies
- Deadline: 31.3.2025, 17 h
The Vice-Rector for Art and Teaching of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna calls for proposals for 9 courses (each course lasting for two academic hours a week) for the academic year 2025/26. > more
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European Investment Bank | Artists Development Programme 2025 for visual artists from Austria, Croatia, Finland, Hungary, Luxembourg and Slovakia
The European Investment Bank (EIB) Institute is pleased to announce the 2025 edition of its Artists Development Programme (ADP) for which it is looking for one visual artist (born after 1 January 1990) from Austria, Croatia, Finland, Hungary, Luxembourg or Slovakia. > more
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University of Salford | Experimental Fiction Filmmaking Conference
The third Experimental Fiction Filmmaking Conference aims to explore and define the boundaries of Experimental Fiction Filmmaking (EFF) by bringing together practice-as-research (PaR) academics, film scholars, industry professionals and independent filmmakers for a series of workshops, presentations and screenings. > more
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Theodor Körner Fonds | Theodor Körner Prize 2025
The Theodor Körner Fund has set itself the goal of promoting young scientists and artists. > more
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European Investment Bank | Artists Development Programme 2025 on the theme “Disruption: The Imprint of Man”
The European Investment Bank (EIB) Institute is pleased to announce the 2025 edition of its Artists Development Programme (ADP) in partnership with Cité internationale des arts (Paris) and neimënster (Neumünster Abbey Heritage Site for Culture, Luxembourg), for which it is looking for TWO visual artists (born after 1 January 1990) from an EU Member State to work on the theme “Disruption: The Imprint of Man.” > 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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FWF | Top Citizen Science 2025
Research for you and me – the Top Citizen Science program is aimed at researchers who actively involve citizens in the research process. Whether collecting data, sharing observations, or contributing experiences – there are no limits to the ways citizens can participate, and partners such as schools or clubs can also be involved. > more
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Horizon Europe | Teaming for Excellence
- Deadline: 10.4.2025, 17 h
Disparities in R&I performance are due to, among other reasons, the insufficient critical mass of science and lack of centres of excellence having sufficient competence to engage countries and regions strategically in a path of innovative growth. Teaming is responding to this challenge establishing new centres of excellence or modernising existing ones with the help of leading EU or AC partnering institutions. > more
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EIT | Continuous Professional Development Courses 2025
- Deadline: 11.4.2025, 17 h
EIT Culture & Creativity invites you to submit proposals for 2025 continuous professional development (CPD) courses, designed to upskill professionals in the cultural and creative sectors and industries (CCSI), address critical skills gaps and foster innovation in all EIT CC priority areas (Fashion, Architecture, Cultural Heritage, Audio-Visual Media, and Gaming) in support of Europe’s green, digital, and social transitions. > more
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EIT | Innovation Call: Short Innovation Projects 2025
- Deadline: 11.4.2025, 17 h
EIT Culture & Creativity invites you to submit proposals for the 2025 Short Innovation Projects, supporting high-impact initiatives that address pressing challenges in the Cultural and Creative Sectors and Industries (CCSI). > more
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EIT | Innovation Call: Main Innovation Projects 2025
- Deadline: 11.4.2025, 17 h
Through this call, EIT Culture & Creativity aims to develop a balanced portfolio of high-impact projects, strengthen long-term partnerships, and expand the innovation ecosystem surrounding the sector. > more
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City of Vienna | Cathrin Pichler Prize 2025
- Deadline: 14.4.2025, 11 h
This prize will be awarded this year for the eighth time to a student or alumni_alumnae of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, who - in the sense of Cathrin Pichler - deals with specific artistic methods and practices as contribution and intervention to a scientific discourse. The prize is awarded for an existing artistic-scientific work/project. > more
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Vilnius Academy of Arts | umede.lt symposium
- Call for Contributions: 14.4.2025
Third edition of umede.lt festival will happen on October 16-18th at SODAS 2123 (Vilnius, LT) site and invites you to contribute to the symposium related to one of the four festival stages (strands): sodas (garden), krūsnis (heap of stones), laboratory and ether. > more
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St. Virgil Salzburg | Artists in Residence
This summer, St. Virgil Salzburg, one of Austria's major educational centers, is offering two artists in the visual arts a residency for the twentieth time as part of the “Artists in Residence” funding project. > more
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Fashion Theory | "Fashion – The Far-Right’s Weaponization of Style"
- Call for Contributions: 15.4.2025
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." > 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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Research Institute in Art, Design and Society | HUB Open Call #5
- Call for Contributions: 30.4.2025
The idea behind this year´s theme “Duration? Dur(action)” is an action that prevails in time. Action also has an open meaning, but it is always linked to time and space. It is from these presuppositions that they understand the notion of performance. > more
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Vienna Business Agency | Understanding Science Funding
With its Understanding Science funding, the Vienna Business Agency supports communication measures to make the results of research and science understandable and easily accessible. > more
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Open Call of the Academy | Ernst A. Plischke Study Prize
The Ernst A. Plischke Study Prize was launched on the initiative of the Ernst A. Plischke Society (www.plischke-society.com) with the support of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. It is awarded every two years and financed from the membership fees of ordinary and supporting members of the Ernst A. Plischke Society. > more
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FWF | Science Communication
- Deadline: 13.5.2025, 14 h
This program supports scientists in communicating their FWF-funded research work to various discourse groups through new, creative communication measures. The aim is to make research and its results visible and to strengthen the public’s trust in science. > more
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Creative Europe | European Cooperation Projects
- Deadline: 13.5.2025, 17 h
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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ÖAW | Post-DocTrack
The OeAW awards fellowships to holders of a doctorate or PhD in the humanities and social and cultural sciences who are pursuing an academic career in order to assist in the transition to the post-doc phase. > more
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Norwegian Academy for Music | Music & Practice: New Issue and Call for Paper
- Call for Contributions: 15.6.2025
In the present volume of M&P, their authors present new and original perspectives while exploring the relation between body and instrument, self-notation and improvisation, the concert format and its new medial possibilities. > more
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ÖAW | USA Fellowships of the Max Kade Foundation
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. > more
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Prize for Best Research Catalogue Exposition 2024/2025 of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- Deadline: 7.10.2025, 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 2024 and 2025. > more
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Aws | Proof of Concept Grants
- Submissions continuously accepted
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 wish you a good start to the semester! In the following, we would like to inform you about current opportunities and events for doctoral and PhD candidates in this semester and beyond.
First of all, we want to remind you that the Call for Submissions to participate in this year's Graduate Conference closes on March 25. The conference will take place on May 15 and provides a dedicated platform to present and discuss advanced dissertation/PhD projects. We look forward to receiving many submissions. If you have any questions about the call or the Graduate Conference itself, please contact us at doktoratszentrum@akbild.ac.at.
On April 2, we cordially invite you to the Open Door Event of the Center for Doctoral Studies, where we will present our activities, grants, and offers. The event offers space for all questions relating to your doctoral studies at the Academy. Registration is not required.
As always, we are happy to support you with your funding applications. Especially for applying to the ÖAW-DOC program (deadline: September 15, 2025) we offer a Coffee Table Talk on April 28 to inform you about the program and give you first tips on how to write your submission proposal. If you have any questions beforehand, please feel free to contact us at any time.
There will be two workshops in May:
On May 13, Karin Wetschanow will lead the workshop “From Concept to Core: Writing Meaningful Exposés and Research Proposals” (in German). The workshop is aimed at doctoral candidates who are planning to write an exposé for a funding application or their Dissertation Agreement.
The workshop “Being Present with Confidence. Presence and Presentation for Phd-Students” with Ursula Reisenberger (in German and English) will take place from May 22 to 23. The practice-oriented workshop aims to strengthen participants in finding their presence even in challenging moments of public speaking.
Registration for the workshops is possible until the beginning of May – first come, first served.
You can find announcements of thesis defenses and rigorosa, and our entire workshop and event program here.
Of course, our ongoing calls for funding opportunities for PhD candidates are available this semester, too (short-term stay abroad, Learning-on-the-Job fellowship, and travel allowances).
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).
Please find further events and funding opportunities for doctoral and PhD candidates below.
If you have questions related to your doctoral or PhD studies, please check out these FAQs or contact us by email at doktoratszentrum@akbild.ac.at.
We look forward to an inspiring and productive summer semester!
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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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OeAW | DOC application writing (SuSe 2025)
- Coffee Table Talk: 28.4.2025, 13–16 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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From idea to exposé
- Workshop: 13.5.2025, 10–14 h
This one-day, practice-oriented workshop is designed to help PhD students effectively present their dissertation projects through a compelling exposé. > more
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Graduate Conference 2025
- Conference: 15.5.2025, 9:30 h
On May 15 doctoral and PhD candidates in their final phase will present results of their dissertation projects. The Graduate Conference aims at a stronger visibility and integration of doctoral candidates at the Academy of Fine Arts and seeks to increase exchange and networking possibilities among the doctoral candidates as well as researchers and artists of the Academy. > more
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Being Present with Confidence. Presence and Presentation for Phd-Students
- Workshop: 22.5.2025–23.5.2025
The workshop intends to enhance participants’ presence in challenging moments of public appearance, “presence” meaning being fully available for every aspect of a given situation, alert and confident enough to react to ever changing circumstances in an appropriate way. > more
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Open Call of the Academy | Graduate Conference 2025
- Deadline: 25.3.2025, 11 h
The Graduate Conference 2025 aims to enahnce the discussion of dissertation and PhD projects at the Academy of Fine Arts and will take place on May 15. We are looking forward to your applications until March 25, 2025, via our submission platform. > 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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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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ÖAW | DOC
- Deadline: 15.9.2025, 14 h
The DOC Fellowship Programme of the Austrian Academy of Sciences offers funding for highly qualified doctoral candidates in all areas of research. The fellowships are intended to allow young researchers to dedicate themselves to working in focused fashion to complete their doctoral thesis within a clear timeframe. > more
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