The new “Vienna Impulse Programme for the Humanities, Social and Cultural Sciences” was launched in February 2008. It is financed from funding provided by the City of Vienna and is currently envisaged to be run by the WWTF for three years.
The mix of funding both projects and individuals bundles and strengthens existing potentials in the humanities, social and cultural sciences in Vienna and creates new impulses. It comprises a series of regular competitive calls, focusing, in 2008-2010, on “Science – Art – Culture”.
Current Calls
Diversity - Identity Call 2010 (being processed)
Diversity - Identity Call 2010 (being processed)
The „Diversity – Identity“ Call 2010 has been the third call within the funding programme ”Social Sciences and Humanities in Vienna“ run by WWTF on behalf of the City of Vienna and addressed:
* Viennese universities and research institutions as well as individual researchers in Vienna who are planning a research project (lasting one to four years) within the thematic focus of this call.
* All projects shall strive for a scientific research question dealing with the meaning and arising challenges of a society being characterised by increasing diversity and variety. The main focus of the ‚Diversity-Identity’ Call 2010 is on questions of ethnic origin, migration, inter-cultural mobility, integration and inter-cultural relationships.
* Main criteria of this call include scientific quality of the submitted proposal, innovativeness of approaches and collaborations across disciplinary boundaries as well as the relevance of the proposed project for Vienna.
The Diversity - Identity Call 2010 closed on 6 May 2010, 46 project proposals have been submitted. In total 1.3 Mio. € are devoted to this call.
The decision is expected for mid September.
Earlier Calls
Art(s)&Sciences Call 2009
With the Art(s)&Sciences Call 2009 the second call within the framework of the ‘Funding programme: Social Sciences and Humanities in Vienna’ has been decided by WWTF Board of Directors. The decision is based on the funding recommendation by the SSH expert panel. A total sum of 1.35 Mio. € is granted to the following projects and fellowship applications:
Project: Troubling Research. Performing Knowledge in the Arts
(Tom Holert, Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien)
Project: “Empowerment” in artistic and social scientific work practices
(Ursula Holtgrewe, Forschungs- u Beratungsstelle Arbeitswelt, FORBA)
Project: Living rooms: The Art of Mobilizing Belonging(s)
(Sieglinde Rosenberger, Universität Wien)
Project: “In the event of…” Anticipatory and participatory politics of emergency provision
(Bernd Kräftner, Verein Xperiment!)
Project: Model House – Mapping Transcultural Modernism
(Marion von Osten, Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien)
Fellowship: The Art of Knowing (the limits of knowledge)
(Verein Science Communcations Research)
Art(s) & Sciences Call 2008
With the Art(s)&Sciences Call 2008 the first call within the framework of the ‘Funding programme: Social Sciences and Humanities in Vienna’ has been decided by WWTF Board of Directors. The decision is based on the funding recommendation by the SSH expert panel. A total sum of 1.4 Mio. € is granted to the following 5 projects and 2 fellowship applications:
• Creating Worlds. Art And/As Knowledge Production
European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies (eipcp)
Gerald Raunig
Funding volume: 260,000 €, duration: 3 years
• Transferences: Psychoanalysis – Art - Society
Forschungsgruppe Psychoanalyse „stuzzicadenti“
Eva Laquièze-Waniek
Funding volume: 260,000 €, duration: 2 years
• Doing kinship with pictures and objects: a laboratory for private and public practices of art
SCR – Science Communcations Research
Elisabeth Timm
Funding volume: 260,000 €, duration: 3 years
• Surgical Wrappings
MedArt
Christina Lammer
Funding volume: 260,000 €, duration: 4 years
• Film.Stadt.Wien: A Transdisciplinary exploration of Vienna as a cinematic city
Ludwig Boltzmann-Institut für Geschichte und Gesellschaft (LBIGuG)
Siegfried Mattl
Funding volume: 260,000 €, duration: 2 years
• Fellowship: Wittgenstein and the Arts
Universität Wien, Institut für Philosophie
Fellow: Peter Keicher
Funding volume: 39,000 €, duration of the fellowship: 12 months
• Fellowship: Communication lab for developing network-based spaces for science center activities in Vienna
Science Center Netzwerk
Fellow: Barbara Wenk
Funding volume: 75,800 €, duration of the fellowship: 6 months
