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Calls / Contests Art and Research

  • 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.

    Deadline 5.2.2025

  • Creative Europe | Circulation of European literary works

    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.

    Deadline 11.2.2025, 17 h

  • 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.

    Deadline 25.3.2025

  • Open Call of the Academy | Grant for Open-Access-Publication Costs of the Academy

    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.

    Submissions accepted continuously

  • Open Call of the Academy | Going Book: Grant for Publication Costs

    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.

    Submissions accepted continuously

  • Open Call of the Academy | FWF Open Access Block Grant

    The call is aimed at project participants of FWF-funded projects affiliated with the research institution Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

    Submissions accepted continuously

  • Open Call of the Academy | Learning-on-the-Job grant

    The Learning-on-the-Job scholarship offers dissertation supervisors the opportunity to apply for a scholarship for doctoral/PhD candidates.

    Submissions accepted continuously

  • Open Call of the Academy | Short term grants abroad

    The scholarship for a short-term stay abroad for doctoral/PhD candidates supports stays abroad for e.g. research, field research, archival research, interviews, which are necessary for the dissertation or the PhD project. Stays abroad are funded for a minimum of two to a maximum of eight weeks.

    Submissions accepted continuously

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

    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.

    Submissions accepted continuously

  • Open Call of the Academy | Travel Allowances for doctoral resp. Ph.D. candidates at the Academy

    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.

    Submissions accepted continuously

  • Journal of Embodied Research | Open Call for Video Articles

    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.

    Call for Contributions permanently open

  • EU ERASMUS+ | Semester abroad

    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+.

    Submissions accepted continuously

  • EU ERASMUS+ | Short-term stay abroad

    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.

    Submissions accepted continuously

  • Open Gender Journal

    The editors of the Open Gender Journal are pleased about the submission of  papers from all disciplines with a gender reference / focus.

    Call for Contributions permanently open

  • Humboldt Research Fellowship | Postdoctoral Research in Germany

    A Humboldt Research Fellowship for international postdoctoral researchers allows to carry out long-term research (6-24 months) in Germany.

    Submissions accepted continuously

  • Volkswagenstiftung | Mixed Methods in den Geisteswissenschaften für Workshops und Sommerschulen

    Die VolkswagenStiftung fördert mit dem Call Mixed Methods in den Geisteswissenschaften Vorhaben in den Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften, die die Verknüpfung und das Zusammenwirken von qualitativ-hermeneutischen und digitalen Verfahren anhand einer gemeinsamen wissenschaftlichen Fragestellung ausloten.

    Einreichungen laufend möglich

  • FWF | Book Publications

    This program funds the publication and simultaneous open-access publication of books on research findings.

    Submissions accepted continuously

  • FWF | Stand-Alone Projects

    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.

    Submissions accepted continuously

  • FWF | Erwin Schrödinger Fellowships including a return phase

    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.

    Submissions accepted continuously

  • FWF | Esprit

    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.

    Submissions accepted continuously