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Calls / Contests Art and Research

  • BMKOES |Call for applications for state scholarships for fine arts, photography and media art 2025

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

    Deadline 30.9.2024

  • University of Porto | Psiax #8 Open Call

    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

  • Prize for Best Research Catalogue Exposition 2023/2024 of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

    This prize rewards outstanding contributions to the Research Catalogue (i.e. RC Expositions) by staff and students of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. We are looking for published RC contributions from the years 2023 and 2024.

    Deadline 3.10.2024, 11 h

  • FWF | Astra Awards 2024

    FWF has launched a new career funding program called the FWF Astra Awards. This funding will help advanced postdocs in Austria make the leap to the top of their research field.

    Deadline 3.10.2024, 14 h

  • Horizon Europe | ERC Starting Grant Call 2025

    The ERC Starting Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are starting their own independent research team or programme. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition, and feasibility of their research proposal.

    Deadline 15.10.2024, 17 h

  • University of Porto | Resonance: Call for contributions for the 16th SAR Conference 2025 in Porto

    This Call with the theme “Resonance” looks for contributions for the 16th SAR Conference, which will take place from 7-9 May 2025 in Porto, Portugal.

    Call for Contributions 15.10.2024

  • Province of Burgenland | Award for Bachelor's/Master's theses with a feminist focus 2023/24

    In 2024, the Department of Women, Anti-Discrimination and Equal Treatment of the Burgenland Provincial Government will award a prize for Bachelor's/Master's theses that consider topics against the background of feminist approaches or gender aspects into the work.

    Deadline 15.10.2024

  • FFG | COMET Projects 2024

    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.

    Deadline 22.10.2024, 12 h

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

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

    Deadline 5.11.2024, 11 h

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

    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.

    Call for Contributions 6.11.2024, 11 h

  • OeAD | Africa-UniNet 5th Call 2024

    The 5th call of Africa-UniNet will open on September 1, 2024, and aims to enable and strengthen existing and new inter- and transdisciplinary research collaborations between Austria and African countries. Africa-UniNet promotes excellent research based on mutual knowledge exchange. This call is only open to internal academy researchers, as the cooperative research projects will run through the institution.

    Deadline 30.11.2024

  • University of the Arts Helsinki | RUUKU Call for Contributions

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

    Deadline 30.11.2024

  • 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/Ph.D. candidates.

    Submissions accepted continuously

  • Open Call of the Academy | Short term grants abroad

    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.

    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