Calls / Contests Art and Research

ERC Advanced Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are already established research leaders with a recognised track record of research achievements. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal.

Deadline 29.8.2024, 17 h

Prizes are awarded for diploma theses and dissertations for graduates with a connection to Upper Austria.

Deadline 31.8.2024

With the 2025 competition, AK Oberösterreich is breaking new ground in the promotion of science among young researchers. In future, the AK Science Award will be awarded in two categories.

Deadline 31.8.2024

periscope’s call for 2025 is addressing Austrian and International artists.

Deadline 31.8.2024

The Marietta Blau Grant offers financial support for six- to twelve-month study periods abroad for doctoral or PhD students of Austrian universities.

Deadline 1.9.2024

With this Open Call "Exploring Contemporary Realities", they launch the annual major theme of interest for scopio Magazine AAI – Exploring Contemporary Realities, Volume 2, and initiate a new collaboration with the project Contrast: Multidisciplinary network of artistic initiatives in Art, Architecture, Design and Photography through SCOPIO & CONTRAST International Conference.

Call for Contributions 1.9.2024

With a recent top up of EUR 10 million from the European Commission, the MSCA4Ukraine initiative will support additional researchers displaced from Ukraine.

Deadline 5.9.2024

The Federal Ministry of Austria. Arts and Culture, Civil Service and Sport (BMKOES), Division Arts and Culture, in cooperation with the MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, is going to award a total of six scholarships for residency at the Mackey Apartments, Los Angeles, in 2025/2026.

Deadline 10.9.2024

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral mobility. MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships will be open to excellent researchers of any nationality.

Deadline 11.9.2024, 17 h

The DOC Fellowship Programme of the Austrian Academy of Sciences offers funding for highly qualified doctoral candidates in all areas of research.

Deadline 16.9.2024

This current CERV call supports capacity building and awareness raising on the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.

Deadline 18.9.2024, 17 h

The EU LIFE program promotes projects in the field of nature, environmental and climate protection.

Deadline 19.9.2024, 17 h

A ‘New European Bauhaus hub for results and impacts’ is required to collect, centralise, manage, monitor and exploit the knowledge produced by the NEB projects, the NEB Community and other relevant NEB actions, while also ensuring cooperation and collaboration between them.

Deadline 19.9.2024, 17 h

This call focuses on experimental local action for EU missions: knowledge institutions as focal points of transdisciplinary research and innovation activities with European outreach.

Deadline 25.9.2024, 17 h

Every two years, the Manuel de Solà-Morales European Prize will recognize the best university research in the field of urbanism carried out by a student granted a PhD.

Deadline 30.9.2024

RUUKKU – Studies in Artistic Research invites new contributions for Issue: Dreaming the city for real – spaces of polyphony, dissonance and coexistence.

Call for Contributions 30.9.2024

A five-member jury consisting of the external experts Karin Cheng, Mara Mattuschka and Sasha Pirker as well as the QUEERTACTICS organizers Dagmar Fink and Katja Wiederspahn - with the support of VdFS (Verwertungsgesellschaft der Filmschaffenden) and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna - will award three prizes, each endowed with 1000 Euro.

Deadline 30.9.2024

The state scholarships are a recognition of previous outstanding artistic achievements and serve to promote further artistic creation.

Deadline 30.9.2024

In this edition, they are interested in showcasing drawings, artistic projects, images, articles, essays, and contextual or critical texts that address, problematize, or explore representations of Nature and Landscape, Environmental Narratives, connections between humans and non-humans, our anthropocentric culture, or other possible worldviews.

Call for Contributions 1.10.2024