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Life Sciences (LS)

The Vienna Science and Technology Fund Life Sciences 2021 Call “Chemical Biology” opened on the 29th of January 2021. This call is open to researchers and clinical scientists at universities and non-university research institutions, who seek to conduct a cutting-edge research project (2 to 4 years) at the interface of chemistry and biology. Additional funding opportunities are available for collaborative projects between scientists in Vienna and Lower Austria. Details can be found in the Guide for Writing a Proposal and at wwtf.at/noe.
A total of € 4.5 million is dedicated to this call. The funding range per project is € 200,000 to € 700,000.
This is a two stage call: Short proposals must be submitted by 13^th April, 2021. Upon invitation, full proposals must be submitted by 24^th August, 2021.

WWTF offers personal consultation by appointment.
Please do not hesitate to contact the call manager for further information: Grace Liu

For more information please refer to:

the Call Fiche,
the Guide for Writing a Short Proposal,
the Proposers' Day Meeting slides,
document "Including sex and gender considerations in WWTF proposals and research teams".

Online Submission

currently open

Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators (VRG)

The 12th Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators call 2021 is issued for up to two group leader position as part of the WWTF’s Cognitive Sciences programme.
- It addresses Vienna-based universities and research institutions that intend to hire an excellent young researcher from abroad for setting-up and managing an independent research group. Active recruitment procedures are mandatory.
- This group must address substantial state-of-the-art scientific research questions in the area of Cognitive Sciences incl. Neurosciences and advance the systematic understanding of cognitive processes in humans, animals and/or artificial cognitive systems.
- WWTF especially encourages Vienna-based research institutions to propose female group leaders.
- WWTF takes unconventional research careers into consideration.
- WWTF in total grants up to two positions with up to € 1.6 million per research group for six to eight years of funding.

For more details please refer to the VRG21 Call Fiche, the "Funding Guidlines for the Vienna Research Groups Programme" and to the "Guide for Writing a Proposal for the Vienna Research Groups Programme", both available online at www.wwtf.at.

All interested parties are cordially invited to an online Proposers’ Day on April 7, 2021, 10 am - 12 noon (please contact us for registration).

For current advertisments of Viennese research institutions please follow the following links:

University of Vienna:

Contact: Donia Lasinger

Online Submission

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Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

WWTF received 99 short proposals for the Information and Communication Technology Call “Digital Humanism” in autumn 2020. An international jury selected 26 to be invited for submitting a full proposal until 28^th of January 2021. The full proposals are now going into an international peer-review process by experts. The international jury will meet in spring for the selection of the projects to be funded. The funding decision will be announced in late May after the WWTF Board meetings.

For more information on the call’s topic "Digital Humanism", please go to https://www.wwtf.at/digital_humanism/

See also the Call Fiche below for more information on the specification of the call.

Contact Person: Michael Strassnig

Call Fiche - Digital Humanism 2020 [PDF, 539.66 KB]

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Life Sciences (LS)

The Vienna Science and Technology Fund Life Sciences 2020 Call “Precision Medicine” opened on the 20th of January 2020. The Precision Medicine 2020 call invites researchers and clinical scientists at universities and non-university research institutions, who want to conduct a cutting-edge research project (2 to 4 years) with a major focus on precision medicine based on omics technologies and patient cohorts. Proposals should bring together scientists from different scientific disciplines such as biology, medicine and systems biology to foster interactive partnerships. Additional funding opportunities are available for collaborative projects between scientists in Vienna and Lower Austria. Details can be found in the Guide for Writing a Proposal and at wwtf.at/noe
A total of € 5 million are dedicated to this call. The funding range per project is € 200,000 to € 900,000.
This is a two stage call: Short proposals had to be submitted by June 2nd, 2020. 82 short proposals were submitted.

Full proposals had to be submitted by October 1st, 2020. 24 full proposals were submitted and are currently under review.

For more information please refer to

the Call Fiche (Updated 18.03.20),
the document "Including sex and gender considerations in WWTF proposals and research teams".

Additionally, WWTF offers personal consultation by appointment.
Please do not hesitate to contact the call manager for more information:
Grace Liu