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Newsletter Art and Research, October 2024

Dear colleagues,
dear alumni_ae,

After a successful start into the new semester, we are pleased to inform you about current calls for applications and competitions.

First, we would like to cordially invite you all to the Research Day at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna on 14 November 2024. You can register for the free event via kfs@akbild.ac.at. We look forward to welcoming many of you to this Day of Research!

In addition, we would like to draw your attention to the Emanuel and Sophie Fohn Scholarship 2024. This scholarship is administered by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and is awarded annually to the most talented students of fine arts and art history as well as students who are completing post-graduate studies, seminars or other further education programmes.

This year, there is also another call for applications for the Early Postdoc Scholarship of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. The Scholarship for Early Post Doc Applications aims to support early postdocs in the application for their initial postdoctoral research project. This call is open to all postdocs.

We hope you enjoy reading our newsletter and look forward to advising you personally on your submissions.

With best regards from Art | Research | Support,
Michaela Glanz, Teresa Beer, Julia Preisker, Sabine Priglinger, Paul Reiter, Sophie Schober

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Congratulations


Art Theory and Cultural Studies

Lisa Moravec | The Performance of Critique

We would like to warmly congratulate Lisa Moravec (IKW) on receiving funding from the FWF for her ESPRIT project "The Performance of Critique". We wish her every success in the realisation of her postdoctoral research project, which is supported by Sabeth Buchmann as a mentor at IKW!

Natural Sciences and Technology in Art

Katja Sterflinger | Biopatinas on buildings in urban environments: biofilters, CO2 sinks and cooling systems with an aesthetic-architectural effect

We would like to congratulate Katja Sterflinger and Laura Rabbachin on the funding of the project "Biopatinas on buildings in urban environments: biofilters, CO2 sinks and cooling systems with an aesthetic-architectural effect" by the WWTF. We wish them all the best for the start of the project!

Art Theory and Cultural Studies

Anette Baldauf | Fabric

We cordially congratulate Anette Baldauf on receiving funding from the FWF for the Top Citizen Science project " Fabric". Wishing her every success with the realisation of the project!

Art Theory and Cultural Studies

Lisa Moravec | Dressaged Animality

We also applaud Lisa Moravec for receiving funding from the FWF for her book publication "Dressaged Animality". Our best wishes!

Academy

Johan F. Hartle | Universale Vermittlung

Congratulations to Johan F. Hartle on receiving funding from the FWF for his book publication "Universale Vermittlung".  We wish all the best!

 

Conferences and Events


Academy

Research Day 2024 of the Academy

  • Conference: 14.11.2024, 9:30–17 h

The Research Day 2024 of the Academy presents the range of current research activities at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, gives insights into specific projects and their results, and encourages collegial discussions. The Research Day focuses on presentations of research projects in advanced stages.

Registration is now possible via kfs@akbild.ac.at.

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Calls


Cumulus Association | Cumulus Nantes Conference 2025

  • Call for Contributions: 18.10.2024

L'École de Design Nantes Atlantique and the Cumulus Association are pleased to announce the opening of the call for contributions for the bi-annual Cumulus Conference 2025.

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Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society | HUB Open Call #4: Varia

  • Call for Contributions: 20.10.2024

HUB is a peer-reviewed and open-access research journal for reporting on arts, design, and performing arts. The journal is published twice a year by i2ADS – Research Institute in Art, Design and Society (University of Porto, Portugal) and hosted on the Research Catalogue platform.

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FFG | COMET Projects 2024

  • Deadline: 22.10.2024, 12 h

COMET Projects aim to carry out high-quality research in science - industry collaboration. They are characterised by a medium-term perspective and clearly defined topics with the potential for further development. The upcoming call will open on 16 April 2024.

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Society for Artistic Research | 16th SAR Conference 2025 in Porto

  • Call for Contributions: 29.10.2024

The 16th International Conference on Artistic Research (May 7 - 9, 2025) with the theme “Resonance” is hosted by i2ADS, University of Porto.

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B&C Private Foundation | Houska Prize 2025

  • Deadline: 31.10.2024

Established in 2005, the B&C Private Foundation’s Houska Prize was set up to promote business-related research and innovation. By awarding the prize, B&C’s goal is to help strengthen Austria as a business location while expressing its appreciation for the outstanding research work carried out in the country.

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Elite Design Awards | Arts and Crafts

  • Deadline: 1.11.2024

Elite, which specialises in the manufacture of high-end beds, wishes to support innovative design by offering creatives and designers the opportunity to conceive a bed for the annual Elite Design Awards.

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University of Arts Helsinki | Colloquium on Artistic Research in Performing Arts

  • Call for Contributions: 3.11.2024

The Performing Arts Research Centre of the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts, Helsinki, together with Master´s Degree Programmes in Scenography, Lighting Design, Sound Design, Theatre Pedagogy and Dance Pedagogy, and the Performance + Ecology Research Lab (P+ERL) of the Creative Arts Research Institute (CARI) of Griffith University, Australia, are announcing the ninth international conference on artistic research.

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Academy

Open Call of the Academy | Design oriented publications "Fine Companions"

  • Call for Contributions: 6.11.2024, 11 h

The Rectorate is now opening the call for submissions for new, design-oriented volumes of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. The call is aimed at employees (including project staff) and students of the Academy.

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Emanuel and Sofie Fohn Scholarship Foundation | Scholarships 2024

  • Deadline: 19.11.2024, 11 h

The Emanuel and Sofie Fohn Scholarship Foundation is once again offering up to 10 scholarships this year, totaling 20,000 euros, for exceptionally talented students and graduates from Austria and South Tyrol, as well as for Italians with German as their native language.

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CETPartnership | Clean Energy Transition Joint Call

  • Deadline: 21.11.2024, 14 h

The Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETPartnership) aims to accelerate the clean energy transition and to contribute the goal of climate neutrality by 2050. 

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European Commission | DIGITAL Europe Programme

  • Deadline: 21.11.2024, 17 h

The DIGITAL Europe Programme (DIGITAL) supports the digital transformation of European society. The Digital Europe Programme provides funding for projects in five crucial areas: supercomputing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, advanced digital skills, ensuring the wide use of digital technologies across the economy and society.

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Horizon Europe | MSCA Doctoral Networks 2024

  • Deadline: 27.11.2024, 17 h

The objective of Doctoral Networks is to implement doctoral programmes by partnerships of organisations from different sectors across Europe and beyond to train highly skilled doctoral candidates, stimulate their creativity, enhance their innovation capacities and boost their employability in the long-term.

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Handwerksmuseum Deggendorf | 10th competition for handicraft and design

  • Deadline: 30.11.2024

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“.

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Culture Moves Europe | Individual Mobility Action 3

  • 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.

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OeAD | Achtzig Jahre danach. NS-Erinnerungsarbeit in künstlerischer Praxis und Vermittlung heute

  • Call for Contributions: 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.

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University of the Arts Helsinki | RUUKU Call for Contributions

  • Deadline: 30.11.2024

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

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BMK | Talente regional 2024

  • Deadline: 2.12.2024, 12 h

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.

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Society for Artistic Research | Open Call VIS #14

  • Call for Contributions: 4.12.2024

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.

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Academy

Open Call of the Academy | Scholarship Early Postdoc Applications 2025

  • Deadline: 28.1.2025, 11 h

The Scholarship for Early Post Doc Applications aims to support early postdocs in the application for their initial postdoctoral research project. This scholarship enables the intensive preparation of a project proposal, which will be submitted with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna as the home institution to funding agencies like FWF (ESPRIT funding program) or OeAW (APART GSK funding program) in the end. This call is open to all postdocs.

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Blue Europe | “Denis de Rougement” contest 2024-2025

  • Call for Contributions: 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.

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Horizon Europe | MSCA Staff Exchanges

  • Deadline: 5.2.2025, 17 h

MSCA Staff Exchanges promotes the exchange of personnel between organisations in different countries, scientific disciplines and/or economic sectors (e.g. between universities and companies) and thus supports the successful transfer of knowledge between different parties within and outside Europe.

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ÖAW | L’ORÉAL Austria

  • Deadline: 5.2.2025

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.

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OeAW | APART-GSK 2025

  • Deadline: 25.3.2025

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.

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Academy

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

  • Submissions accepted continuously

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.

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Academy

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

  • Submissions accepted continuously

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.

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Academy

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

  • Submissions accepted continuously

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

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Journal of Embodied Research | Open Call for Video Articles

  • Call for Contributions permanently open

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.

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Open Gender Journal | Call for Papers

  • Call for Contributions permanently open

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

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Humboldt Research Fellowship | Postdoctoral Research in Germany

  • Submissions accepted continuously

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

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FWF | Book Publications

  • Submissions accepted continuously

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

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FWF | Stand-Alone Projects

  • Submissions accepted continuously

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.

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FWF | Erwin Schrödinger Fellowships including a return phase

  • Submissions accepted continuously

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.

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FWF | Esprit

  • Submissions accepted continuously

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.

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FWF | PEEK

  • Submissions accepted continuously

The aim of PEEK (Programme for Arts-based Research) is to fund clearly defined research proposals of high artistic and academic quality at an international level in the field of arts-based research.

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Doc-News


Dear doctoral candidates,

we hope you had a good start into the semester.

We would like to remind you of the deadline for submissions for the Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2024/25 on November 5. Also, have a look at our ongoing calls. You can find other funding opportunities for doctoral candidates below.

We would also like to draw your attention to our events, especially the upcoming workshops for doctoral and PhD candidates, Political Writing in Academic Texts and Time Organization and Self-Management (workshop in German, Q&A in English possible).

If you have questions related to your doctoral or PhD studies, please check out our FAQs or contact us by email at doktoratszentrum@akbild.ac.at.

Have a nice autumn!

Political arguments and rhetoric in academic writing

  • Workshop: 11.12.2024–12.12.2024

In this workshop, we will look at political rhetoric, modes of argumentation, and styles. We will raise the question which of these can find their way into academic writing and which should be avoided. 

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Academy

Final steps: Submission of your PhD thesis and thesis defense / Rigorosum

  • Coffee Table Talk: 15.1.2025, 13–15:30 h

How to submit my dissertation or PhD thesis? What exactly is meant by revocation application in AkademieOnline? What has this to do with the planned publication of my dissertation thesis? When and why is a plagiarism check before submission beneficial? How and when can I register for my defense or rigorosum?

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Academy

Time-Organization and Self-Management for Doctoral Candidates

  • Workshop: 22.1.2025, 9–16 h

Are you just starting or already writing your dissertation or PhD thesis, but also have other commitments (job, family, etc.) and want to live a little too? 

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Academy

Open Call of the Academy | Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2024/25

  • Deadline: 5.11.2024, 11 h

The dissertation scholarship for the final phase aims to support doctoral students in the last phase of their dissertation until completion.

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Academy

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

  • Submissions accepted continuously

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

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Academy

Open Call of the Academy | Short term grants abroad

  • Submissions accepted continuously

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

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Academy

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

  • Submissions accepted continuously

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.

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Academy

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

  • Submissions accepted continuously

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.

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EU ERASMUS+ | Semester abroad

  • Submissions accepted continuously

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+.

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EU ERASMUS+ | Short-term stay abroad

  • Submissions accepted continuously

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.

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ifk | Junior Fellowship 2025

  • Call for Contributions: 26.1.2025

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.

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OeAD | Marietta Blau-Grant

  • Deadline: 1.2.2025

The Marietta Blau Grant offers financial support for six- to twelve-month study periods abroad for doctoral or PhD students of Austrian universities. It serves to optimise their dissertations. Junior researchers are the main target group.

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