Calls / Contests Art and Research

Every three years the Handwerksmuseum (museum of crafts) organizes a competition on the creation of an everyday item. In 2025, the theme of the tenth competition is „Rethinking headgear“.

Deadline 30.11.2024

The Individual Mobility Action supports artists and cultural professionals to carry out a project with a partner of their choice in another Creative Europe country. An invitation from a host institution is required.

Deadline 30.11.2024

For the conference "Achtzig Jahre danach. NS-Erinnerungsarbeit in künstlerischer Praxis und Vermittlung heute" taking place on 19/20 May 2025, contributions are being sought that reflect on questions of contemporary artistic remembrance and mediation work, as well as concrete artistic remembrance projects with a focus on schools and teaching.

Call for Contributions 30.11.2024

RUUKKU – Studies in Artistic Research invites new contributions for the  Issue ARTIST PEDAGOGY.

Deadline 30.11.2024

Talente regional enables comprehensive and sustainable networking of educational institutions with business and research. The focus is on the development and implementation of diverse, attractive educational programmes for children and young people relating to research, technology and innovation in the fields of science and technology.

Deadline 2.12.2024, 12 h

The call for VIS Issue 14 is open with the theme “The Heart of the Experiment (and the art of failure)”. In this edition of VIS they would like to pay attention to experimental art practices and artistic research where the experiment is the heart of the practice and the specific outcome of the process are not known.

Call for Contributions 4.12.2024

As part of the collection-related research season 2025/26 “Beside, not infinite,” the Austrian Ludwig Foundation is offering a grant in 2025 to support research for academic as well as artistic and curatorial projects in the field of visual arts by funding a research trip outside of Austria.

Deadline 15.12.2024

Funding is available for ongoing qualification theses (i.e. diploma, bachelor's and master's theses, dissertations) on LGBTIQQAA*-relevant topics in all scientific disciplines that are being written at Austrian universities (but not courses, MBA programmes or habilitations). The relevance, scientific level and innovative content will be assessed.

Deadline 16.12.2024

The Carinthia Young Artists Award honours up-and-coming artists up to the age of 35 who were either born, grew up or live/work in Carinthia, or whose personality/work has a concrete connection to the province of Carinthia.

Deadline 21.12.2024

The 2025 Art Prize invites Greek and international artists to apply. The Art Prize supports contemporary artists by offering them the opportunity to create a new, site-specific artwork which will remain on permanent display in Agios Nikolaos, Crete, will become part of the Foundation’s art collection, and will join an important cultural heritage as well.

Deadline 22.12.2024

Inspired by Hans Kelsen, the third edition of the Ottakringer Art Prize 2025 deals with the central questions of our coexistence. It is intended to offer both the submitting artists and, in spring, visitors to the exhibition an opportunity to engage with privileges that have seemingly become taken for granted.

Deadline 7.1.2025

The programme Heritage Science Austria 2.0 of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, which is funded by the National Foundation for Research, Technology and Development (Fonds Zukunft Österreich) is published for the second time in 2024 after a first call in 2020. The programme will once again support multi-year funding of research projects in the field of cultural heritage at research and cultural heritage institutions in Austria.

Deadline 15.1.2025

Together with its partners Campus France, UNIMED and the PAUSE programme hosted by the Collège de France the DAAD launched the project "SAFE- Supporting at risk researchers with fellowships in Europe".

Deadline 20.1.2025

The ifk Junior Fellowships are intended for young Austrian academics doing their dissertations, as well as for non-Austrian doctoral students who are being supervised at an Austrian university.

Call for Contributions 26.1.2025

With the S&B Award, the Rudolf Sallinger Fund honours early-stage commercialisation ideas that are based on a research project.

Deadline 26.1.2025

The 28th Festival for Moving Image Communication will take place from March 27 - 28, 2025 in Stuttgart. spotlight STUDENTS is the name of the competition for spots and formats of moving image communication produced by film students, submitted by film students, etc.

Deadline 31.1.2025

Blue Europe, a think tank focused on fostering connections between Western, Central and Eastern Europe, is pleased to announce the 2024-2025 “Denis de Rougemont” contest.

Call for Contributions 31.1.2025

The Executive Board of SAR announces the opportunity to nominate candidates to the Annual Prize for Excellent Research Catalogue Exposition 2024. The prize aims to foster and encourage innovative, experimental new formats of publication and, on the other hand, to give visibility to the qualities of artistic research artefacts.

Deadline 1.2.2025