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Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators 2025

The 16th Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators call 2025 “Transforming Science with AI/ML” can fund up to three group leader positions as part of the WWTF’s Information and Communication Technologies programme.

WWTF can fund up to three positions with up to € 1.8 million per research group over a period of six to eight years.

Scope of the call:

  • The call aims to attract excellent, early career researchers who develop cutting-edge AI/ML concepts, approaches, and methods to advance a specific research field or discipline. Emphasis will be placed on the advancement of AI/ML concepts, approaches and methods and the transformative potential of the AI/ML-informed proposed research for the respective discipline.

Who can apply:

  • The call is aimed at Vienna-based universities and research institutions that intend to hire an excellent young researcher from abroad to establish and lead an independent research group. Active recruitment procedures are mandatory.
  • Applications are prepared in tandem: the proposed VRG leader (candidate) applies together with the proponent, who represents a research institution in Vienna. The proponent is an established scientist based at a university or non-profit non-university research institution in Vienna.
  • For further details, check the "Call Specifications".

How to apply:

  • Submission of proposals via the WWTF Funding Portal, starting end of November 2024: https://fundingportal.wwtf.at/calls/
  • All details are specified in the VRG 25 "Call Specifications" (to be found below the text).
  • The “Submission Guideline” specifies how to submit a proposal to the WWTF Funding Portal.

Important dates:

  • Funding portal for the submission of proposals opens in November 2024
  • Information session (online): took place on  23 January 2025. You can find the recording of the session here.
  • Submission deadline: 11 March 2025, 14:00 CET,
  • Hearing Dates: 2 and 3 September 2025. Participation in the hearings is mandatory to be considered for funding.

Please check this page regularly for updates.

Do not hesitate to contact the call managers for more information:

Petra Steinkogler |  petra.steinkogler@wwtf.at | Tel.: + 43 1 402 31 43 14

Grace Liu | grace.liu@wwtf.at | Tel.: + 43 1 402 31 43 12

Public announcements by Vienna institutions:

Medical University of Vienna:

University of Vienna:

TU Wien:

AIT Austrian Institute of Technology:

BOKU University:

open upon invitation

Life Sciences 2025

The Life Sciences 2025 Call “Precision Medicine” opened for submissions on 4th March 2025. This call is open to researchers in Vienna, who seek to conduct a cutting-edge research project (2 – 4 years) that draws upon precision medicine approaches to improve the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of a human disease.

A total of € 7.5 million has been dedicated to this call. The funding range per project is € 500,000 – € 1 million. Additional funding opportunities are available for collaborative projects between scientists in Vienna and Lower Austria. Details can be found at Joint Projects - WWTF. 

This is a two-stage call. The deadline for submission of short proposals was 6th May 2025. 127 short proposals were submitted, from which 24 have been selected for the full proposal stage. The submission deadline for full proposals is 2pm on 7th October 2025.

Further information can be found in the WWTF Wiki Please do not hesitate to contact the call manager Grace Liu for more details.

open upon invitation

Information and Communication Technology 2025

The Information and Communication Technology 2025 Call opened for submissions on 18th October 2024. This call is open to researchers in Vienna is open to researchers at universities and research institutes in Vienna and Lower Austria, who seek to conduct a cutting-edge research projects (2 to 4 years) to address a fundamental research question in the ICT fields.

A total of € 8 million has been dedicated to this call. The funding range per project is € 500,000 – € 800,000. Additional funding opportunities are available for collaborative projects between scientists in Vienna and Lower Austria. In this case, the funding budget per project for Joint projects is € 880,000.

This is a two-stage call:

  • Deadline for short proposals: 11th February 2025 -  2pm CET 
    • 85 Proposals submitted
  • Deadline for full proposals (upon invitation): 6th May 2025 -  2pm CET
    • 24 Project Teams invited to submit Full Proposals
  • Applicant response phase (for full proposal applicants only): 22nd – 29th August 2025 2pm CET
  • The funding decision is expected in September 2025

All necessary documents for the submission can be found via our WWTF Wiki. (please be aware that we are currently piloting this mode in this call. If you have any suggestions for improvement, please let us know)

Please do not hesitate to contact the call managers for more details:

Benjamin Missbach | benjamin.missbach@wwtf.at | Tel.: +43 1 402 31 43 15
Michael Strassnig| michael.strassnig@wwtf.at | Tel.: +43 1 402 31 43 19

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