Forschungsförderung
The page actual calls provides information about various actual funding opportunities (project funding, prizes, scholarships, etc.), in the area of early career support we can also refer you to the current submission deadlines for (young) scientists.
In addition, we offer you below an overview of the most important programs, summarized under the relevant main focus:
Funding for early career researchers
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Circle U. - Opportunities for academics
Researchers and academics will have access to unique and diverse doctoral training and international exposure opportunities in an environment that fosters intercultural and interdisciplinary skills development as well as inclusion. Find more via this Link.
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Mobility & Care Fonds
Female academic staff (pre-docs and post-docs) at the University of Vienna can apply for a fund to cover additional childcare costs incurred as a result of a mobility stay.
More information can be found at this link.
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Publication grants
The publication of independent scientific papers is the basis for a scientific career. University of Vienna and a number of institutions offer financial support, which, in some cases, also includes the cost of translation.
- Book Publications [FWF]
- Translation and foreign-language editing of stand-alone publications [FWF]
- Open-Access Block Grant [FWF]
- Printing costs subsidy [ÖFG]
- Publication grants for Open-Access-Publication
Funding PostDoc
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Circle U. - Opportunities for academics
Researchers and academics will have access to unique and diverse doctoral training and international exposure opportunities in an environment that fosters intercultural and interdisciplinary skills development as well as inclusion. Find more via this Link.
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Mobility & Care Fonds
Female academic staff (pre-docs and post-docs) at the University of Vienna can apply for a fund to cover additional childcare costs incurred as a result of a mobility stay.
More information can be found at this link.
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Publication grants
The publication of independent scientific papers is the basis for a scientific career. University of Vienna and a number of institutions offer financial support, which, in some cases, also includes the cost of translation.
- Book Publications [FWF]
- Translation and foreign-language editing of stand-alone publications [FWF]
- Open-Access Block Grant [FWF]
- Printing costs subsidy [ÖFG]
- Publication grants for Open-Access-Publication
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Funding programmes - research abroad PostDoc
Below, you will find a number of funding programmes that will help you to finance a research stay abroad during your PostDoc phase. Click on the links to access the pages of the relevant funding agencies.
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
- Erwin Schrödinger fellowships including a return phase [FWF]
- MAX KADE [USA scholarships of the Max Kade foundation] [ÖAW]
- Fulbright Scholarship for scientists
- Fulbright Schuman Program
- Programmes for scientists who want to do research in Germany [Humboldt Foundation]
- EMBO Short-Term Fellowships [EMBO]
- EMBO Long-Term Fellowships [EMBO]
- EMBO Courses & Workshops Travel Grants [EMBO]
- Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota
- Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF)
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Project-related funding PostDoc
These promotional measures are aimed at providing funding to scientists who present individual projects as independent applicants. Independent applicants at universities will be offered an employment contract.
The following programmes provide funding for individual projects:- FWF-Stand-alone Projects [FWF]
- career development programme for scientists ESPRIT [FWF]
- Anniversary Fund of the Austrian National Bank [OeNB]
- MSCA-PF (Postdoctoral Fellowships)
- ERC Grants [EU]
- FWF Start
- FWF ASTRA
- FFG Spin-Off Fellowship
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Funding for the Organisation of Conferences and Workshops
Funding Senior Scientist
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Circle U. - Opportunities for academics
Researchers and academics will have access to unique and diverse doctoral training and international exposure opportunities in an environment that fosters intercultural and interdisciplinary skills development as well as inclusion. Find more via this Link.
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Publication grants
The publication of independent scientific papers is the basis for a scientific career. University of Vienna and a number of institutions offer financial support, which, in some cases, also includes the cost of translation.
- Book Publications [FWF]
- Translation and foreign-language editing of stand-alone publications [FWF]
- Open-Access Block Grant [FWF]
- Printing costs subsidy [ÖFG]
- Publication grants for Open-Access-Publication
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Priority Research Programs
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Project-related funding
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Funding programmes - research abroad
Below, you will find a number of funding programmes to finance a research stay abroad. Click on the link to access the websites of the relevant funding agencies.
- Principal Investigator Projects International [FWF]
- Fulbright Scholarship for Scientists
- Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota
- Programmes for researchers who want to do research in Germany [Humboldt Foundation]
- EMBO Short-Term Fellowships [ESF]
- EMBO Long-Term Fellowships [ESF]
- EMBO Courses & Workshops Travel Grants [ESF]
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Development of human resources
The following programmes are aimed at training qualified junior scientists of the national and international scientific community. -
Application-oriented projects
Funding for such projects is provided with the aim of facilitating the commercial exploitation of the findings of basic research.Additionally, the Basis programme of the FFG offers the possibility of funding projects in cooperation with commercial or industrial enterprises; here, the University of Vienna will act as a subcontractor or cooperation partner. The enterprises, as the funding agencies, approach the researchers with a contract for a research project.
- Christian Doppler Research Association [CDG]
- Horizon Europe [EU]
- ERA-LEARN [EU]
- FFG Spin-Off Fellowship
- FFG Expedition Zukunft
- Wirtschaftsagentur Wien
Further information and funding opportunities
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Funding for the Organisation of Conferences and Workshops