Calls / Contests Art and Research

The BMBWF has been awarding the Ars Docendi State Prize for Excellent Teaching since 2013. This is intended to recognize the achievements of teachers at Austria's universities, universities of applied sciences and universities of teacher education in particular.

Deadline 12.3.2025

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.

Deadline 13.3.2025, 17 h

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.

Deadline 14.3.2025

FORUM+ is an international peer-reviewed journal for research in the arts that is published both online and in print.

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)".

Call for Contributions 15.3.2025

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.

Deadline 16.3.2025

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.

Deadline 16.3.2025

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.

Deadline 17.3.2025

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.

Deadline 17.3.2025

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.

Deadline 25.3.2025, 14 h

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

Landing is an international platform that facilitates critical and creative artistic inquiry, with a special focus on research methods and an ethos of research.

Call for Contributions 26.3.2025

In cooperation with the French National Research Agency (ANR), the FWF offers funding for closely integrated project collaborations between researchers in Austria and France.

Deadline 28.3.2025

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.

Deadline 31.3.2025, 14 h

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.

Deadline 31.3.2025

The Theodor Körner Fund has set itself the goal of promoting young scientists and artists.

Deadline 31.3.2025

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.”

Deadline 31.3.2025