Open Calls

Information and Communication Technologies

The 15^th Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators call 2024 is issued for up to three group leader positions as part of the WWTF’s Information and Communication Technology 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.
• The proposed field of research should contribute to fundamental scientific advancement in the area of AI/ML. A special emphasis of this call is to link AI theory with data and knowledge of other research fields.
• 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 three positions with up to € 1.6 million per research group for six to eight years of funding. Please submit proposals online. 
• For more details please refer to the VRG 24 "Call Specifications" and the "Submission Guideline".

Submission deadline: 2pm CET, March 19^th 2024.

An online information session will take place on January 18^th 2024 from 10:00-12:00am CET on Zoom. Link to the session:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88333953868?pwd=T3BSelFGeHZ1YkJXQXRYMFJTRnlmdz09

Meeting-ID: 883 3395 3868

Kenncode: 451043

Please sign up for the session with one of the call managers.

Public announcements of Medical University of Vienna:

• https://www.meduniwien.ac.at/web/karriere/offene-stellen/
• https://www.nature.com/naturecareers/job/12810512/tenure-track-assistant-professor-for-ai-ml-research/

• https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/166215

Public announcements of University of Vienna:

• https://forschung.univie.ac.at/services/aktuelle-ausschreibungen/
• https://jobs.acm.org/job/tenure-track-professorship
• https://informatik.univie.ac.at/en/news-events/

Public announcements of the Acoustics Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

• https://www.oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/subsites/Jobs/ISF/ISF156JGL223.pdf

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

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

Michael Strassnig, michael.strassnig@wwtf.at, Tel.: T +43 1 402 31 43 15

• Call Specifications
• Submission Guideline
• Call Fiche

The Environmental Systems Research 2024 Call „Urban Environments” opened for submissions on 5^th October 2023. This call is directed at researchers in Vienna who seek to conduct a cutting-edge research project (2 - 4 years) to address fundamental questions relevant to human-environment interaction in urban and peri-urban systems.

A total of € 5.5 million has been dedicated to this call. The funding range per project is € 400,000 – € 700,000. 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:

• Deadline for Short Proposals: 16^th January 2024 (2pm, CET)
• Deadline for Full Proposals (upon invitation): 30^th April 2024 (2pm, CET)
• The funding decision is expected in October 2024

Recording: Information Session (24th October 2023)

Matchmaking
Researchers interested in this call are encouraged to register and connect on our networking platform to find complementary researchers for your proposal and beyond: https://environmental-systems-research-call2024.b2match.io/

For more details, please get in touch with the call managers:

• Benjamin Missbach | benjamin.missbach@wwtf.at | Tel.: +43 1 402 31 43 19
• Grace Liu | grace.liu@wwtf.at | Tel.: +43 1 402 31 43 12

• ESR24 Information Session Slides
• ESR24 Call Specifications
• ESR24 Submission Guideline

The Information and Communication Technology 2023 Call „Digital Humanism” opened for submissions on 16^th May 2023. This call is directed at researchers in Vienna who seek to conduct a cutting-edge interdisciplinary research project (2 - 4 years) between ICT and social sciences / humanities (SSH) that address digital technologies & practices from a human-centered and societal perspective in the field of Digital Humanism. 

A total of € 3,5 million has been dedicated to this call. The funding range per project is € 300,000 – € 600,000 (with up to € 650,000 for collaborative projects between scientists in Vienna and Lower Austria = Joint Projects). 

This is a two-stage call. The deadline for short proposals was 4th October 2023. 60 short proposals were submitted, from which 21 have been selected for the full proposal stage. The submission deadline for full proposals is 2pm on 20^th February 2024 (Vienna local time). 

Further information can be found in the "Call Specifications" and “Submission Guideline” documents below. Please note that there will be no proposers' event because the questions are very specific at this stage of the call. Please do not hesitate to contact the call managers  Michael Strassnig or Benjamin Missbach for questions. 

• Call Specifications
• Submission Guideline for Full Proposals

The Life Sciences 2023 Call „Understanding Biology with AI/ML” opened for submissions on 31^st January 2023. This call is directed at researchers in Vienna who seek to conduct a cutting-edge research project (2 - 4 years) that addresses a question in biology, biomedicine, or clinical sciences by applying innovative artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) methods to large data sets.

A total of € 6 million has been dedicated to this call. The funding range per project is € 400,000 - € 800,00. 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:

• Deadline for short proposals: 4^th April 2023, 2pm
• Deadline for full proposals (upon invitation): 8^th August 2023, 2pm
• The funding decision is expected in mid-December 2023

Further information can be found in the "Call Fiche", "Call Specifications" and “Submission Guideline” documents below. Please check this page regularly for additional information. Please do not hesitate to contact the call manager Grace Liu for more details.

• LS23 Call Fiche
• LS23 Call Specifications
• LS23 Submission Guidelines - Full Proposal

The 14th Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators call 2023 is issued for up to three group leader positions as part of the WWTF’s Information and Communication Technology 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 Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and at the same time demonstrate mid-term relevance to industry.
• 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 three positions with up to € 1.6 million per research group for six to eight years of funding. Please submit proposals online. 
• For more details please refer to the VRG 23 Call Fiche, the "Call Specifications" and the "Submission Guideline".

Submission deadline: 2pm CET, March 15th, 2023.

All interested parties are cordially invited to an online Proposers’ Day on 18th of January, 10am–12 noon (please contact us for registration). Link to the meeting below:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85751510064?pwd=Q1prUXhVWFhvY0dsVExYeW95Z3JtQT09

Meeting ID: 857 5151 0064

Passcode: 631411

Hearings: 21^st - 22^nd September 2023

Public announcements University of Vienna:

https://univis.univie.ac.at/ausschreibungstellensuche/flow/bew_ausschreibung-flow?_flowExecutionKey=_c7145CFC6-5F5F-DD20-6936-F43F44BB1F0F_k0F619929-2E66-A4B4-FDA3-3B91476ED362&tid=93100.28

https://jobs.acm.org/job/tenure-track-professorship-for-the-field-of-information-and-communication-technology/66079277/

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listing/311200/tenure-track-professorship-for-the-field-of-information-and-communication-technology/

https://informatik.univie.ac.at/news-events/beitrag/news/bis-zu-3-neue-tenure-track-professuren-informations-und-kommunikationstechnologie-bewerbung-bis-2/

https://www.informatikaustria.at/2022/10/14/bis-zu-3-neue-tenure-track-professuren-in-informations-und-kommunikationstechnologie/

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/tenure-track-professorship-for-the-field-of-information-and-communication-technology-at-universit%C3%A4t-wien-3298404779/?originalSubdomain=at

Public announcements Technische Universität Wien:

https://www.tuwien.at/forschung/vienna-research-group-leader#c18022

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3343634063/?refId=9aET9O2YiogbHibCco1gMQ%3D%3D&trackingId=7UNzTskymIITa26Dcx9SYQ%3D%3D

Please do not hesitate to contact the Call Manager for more information:

donia.lasinger@wwtf.at
Tel.: +43-1-402 31 43 - 16

• Call Fiche
• Call Specifications
• Submission Guideline
• Proposers' Day Slides