Calls / Contests Art and Research

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.

Deadline 8.4.2025, 14 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.

Deadline 10.4.2025, 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.

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).

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.

Deadline 11.4.2025, 17 h

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.

Call for Contributions 14.4.2025

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.

Deadline 14.4.2025

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." 

Call for Contributions 15.4.2025

This call is available in German only.

Deadline 25.4.2025, 11 h

For the tenth time, the Haus der Frau education centre at Volksgartenstraße 18 in Linz is making a flat on the third floor available to female students of fine arts or young graduates in the form of an artist in residence for the period from 1 October 2025 to 28 February 2026.

Deadline 28.4.2025

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 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.

Call for Contributions 30.4.2025

ArteActa is a peer-reviewed, online, open-access journal for performative arts and artistic research, offering publication in multimedia formats (text, hypertext, photo, video, audio), mostly presented in Research Catalogue expositions or as film essays.

Deadline 30.4.2025

In cooperation with the Department of Music and Movement Education/Rhythmics and the Artistic Research Center at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw),  as well as the Institute for Theatre, Media, and Popular Culture at the University of Hildesheim.

Deadline 30.4.2025

With its Understanding Science funding, the Vienna Business Agency supports communication measures to make the results of research and science understandable and easily accessible.

Deadline 30.4.2025

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.

Deadline 13.5.2025, 14 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.

Deadline 13.5.2025, 17 h

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.

Deadline 15.5.2025