PostDoc - Funding
The individual funding programs sometimes differ only slightly in the requirement profiles, making it difficult to differentiate between "PostDoc" and "Senior Scientist" programs. As a rule, the academic career of the applicant, the publication list and the quality of the project application are decisive for the awarding of funding.
Here we offer you an overview of the most important programs, which we have summarized according to focus areas:
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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
- More information on funding