Open Calls
DE | (Active language) EN

Information and Communication Technologies

In the 'Information and Communication Technology' programme, WWTF aims to fund research that strengthens ICT itself, as well as research at the intersection of technology, science and society. Through different funding calls, we support both projects addressing foundational scientific questions with mid-term application prospects in ICT, and interdisciplinary projects in 'Digital Humanism' that bring together computer scientists with researchers from the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Contact: Michael Strassnig or Grace Liu or Benjamin Missbach

Current calls

Digital Humanism

The Information and Communication Technology 2026 Call „Digital Humanism” opened for submissions in January 2026. 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 € 5 million has been dedicated to this call. The funding range per project is € 350,000 – € 700,000. Additional funding opportunities are available for collaborative projects between scientists in Vienna and Lower Austria (Joint Projects - WWTF). 

Timeline:

  • The deadline for short proposals was on 15th April 2026. 73 short proposal were submitted. 
  • The decision on the short proposals can be expected in early June. Applicants will be informed via email regarding the outcome of the jury meeting. 
  • Deadline for full proposals (upon invitation): 30th July 2026, 2pm CET. 
  • The funding decision will be communicated in late December 2026. 

Further information can be found in the Call Specifications and Submission Guideline documents below. Please do not hesitate to contact the call manager Petra Steinkogler or Michael Strassnig for more details.

 

Earlier calls

The ICT Call 2025 was open to researchers at universities and non-university research institutions 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. The funding range per project was €500,000 - €880,000. In total, WWTF was able to fund 12 excellent projects.

Funding volume: € 9,058,312
Number of applications: 84 short proposals, 24 full proposals
Evaluation procedure: Selection by international expert panel, based on written reviews
Jury meeting: 4/5th September 2025
Formal decision by WWTF Board of Directors: 29th September 2025

Contact person
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

Members of the call jury:

Anne-Marie Kermarrec (Chair) | EPFL, CH
Alexander Maedche | KIT - Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, GER
Fosca Giannotti | Scuola Normale Superiore, ITA
Mennatallah El-Assady | ETH Zürich, CH
Petar Popovski | Aalborg University, DK
Alfons Kemper | TU München, DE
Frank Wolter | University of Liverpool, UK
Tamara Rezk | INRIA, FR

Funded projects

Digital Humanism

The Information and Communication Technology 2023 Call „Digital Humanism” invited scientists to conduct interdisciplinary projects (2 - 4 years)  between social sciences & humanities and computer sciences/ICT that address digital technologies & practices from a human-centered and societal perspective in the field of Digital Humanism. The funding range per project was € 300,000 - € 600,000. In total, WWTF funded six excellent projects with € 3.5 million in total.

Funding volume: € 3,500,000
Number of applications: 60 short proposals, 21 full proposals
Awarding procdure: Selection by international expert panel, based on written reviews
Jury meeting: 11th June 2024 (hybrid)
Formal decision by WWTF Board of Directors: 26th June 2024 

Contact person: Michael Strassnig

Vili Lehdonvirta (chair FP) |  University of Oxford, UK & Aalto University, FI

Edward E. Lee (chair SP) | UC Berkeley, US

Wijnand Ijsselsteijn | Eindhoven University of Technology, NL

Dino Pedreschi | University of Pisa, IT

Isabel Valera | Universität des Saarlandes, DE

Michael Veale | University College London, UK

Sally Wyatt | Maastricht University; Digital Society Netherlands, NL

Funded projects

The ICT Call 2022 was open to researchers at universities and non-university research institutions 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. The funding range per project was €400,000 - €880,000. In total, WWTF was able to fund nine excellent projects.

Funding volume: € 6,606,000
Number of applications: 67 short proposals, 26 full proposals
Evaluation procedure: Selection by international expert panel, based on written reviews
Jury meeting: 29th November 2022 (online)
Formal decision by WWTF Board of Directors: 20th December 2022

Contact person: Grace Liu

Members of the call jury:

Marta Kwiatkowska (Chair) | University of Oxford, UK
Barbara Caputo | Politecnico Di Torino, IT
Liqun Chen | University of Surrey, UK
Aristides Gionis | KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE
Valérie Issarny | Inria, FR
Alexander Mädche | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE
Tiziana Margaria | University of Limerick, IE
Petar Popovski | Aalborg University, DK
Rüdiger Westermann | TU Munich, DE

Funded projects

Digital Humanism

The Call "Digital Humanism" within WWTF Programme „Information and Communication Technology“ invited scientists to conduct interdisciplinary projects between social sciences & humanities and computer science / data science. These projects should engage constructively with the topic of digitalisiation which aims to re-align the technological developments to human and social needs in the spirit of Digital Humanism.   

The call is co-financed by the City of Vienna. Furthermore, applications of "Joint Projects" between research institutions in Vienna and Lower Austria were possible, and as a result, projects are also co-financed by the Federal State of Lower Austria.

The international jury chaired by Sally Wyatt (Maastricht University) recommended 9 projects for funding.

 

 

Funding volume: € 3 593 680
Number of applications: 99 Short Proposals, 26 Full Proposals
Awarding procdure: Selection by international expert panel based on review report by peers
Jury meeting: April 19 / 21, 2021
Formal decision by WWTF Board of Directors: May 26, 2021

Contact person: Michael Strassnig

Members of the Call Jury:

Sally Wyatt (chair) | Maastricht University; Digital Society Netherlands, NL

Rebecca Eynon | Oxford University, UK

Manfred Hauswirth | TU Berlin; Weizenbaum Institut Berlin, DE

Wijnand Ijsselsteijn | Eindhoven University of Technology, NL

Jim Larus | EPFL, CH

Edward E. Lee | UC Berkeley, US

Stefania Milan | University of Amsterdam, NL

Jo Pierson | Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BE

 

Funded projects

Funding volume: 5.525.150 €
Number of applications: 96 short proposals, 26 invited for submitting a full proposal 
Awarding procdure: Selection by international expert panel based on review report by peers
Jury meeting: October 2, 2019
Formal decision by WWTF Board of Directors: October 22, 2019

Contact person: Michael Strassnig

For further information on the call see: Call Fiche ICT2019

Information about the funded projects will be published here as well as in WWTF's funding database after the funding contracts have been signed. 

In this call, 7 projects wen to TU Wien, 2 to the University of Vienna. 

Members of the call jury:

Rüdiger Westermann (chair) | TU Munich, DE
Antonio Acin | ICFO Barcelona, ES
Christel Baier | TU Dresden, DE
Frank de Boer | Leiden University, NL
Luc de Raedt | KU Leuven, BE
Daniel Keim | University of Konstanz, DE
Kristian Kersting | TU Darmstadt, DE
Barbara Pernici | Politecnico di Milano, IT
Petar Popovski | Aalborg University, DK
Ingrid Verbauwhede | KU Leuven, BE

Funded projects

Funding volume: 5,108,000 €
Number of applications: 137 short proposals, 22 invited for submitting a full proposal
Awarding procdure: Selection by international expert panel based on review report by peers
Jury meeting: September 4, 2015
Formal decision by WWTF Board of Directors: September 11, 2015

Contact: Marita Benkwitz

For more information see the Call Fiche

Members of the call jury:

  • Matthias Jarke (jury chair) | RWTH Aachen and Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology, DE
  • Andrea Back | University of St. Gallen, CH
  • Christian Bischof | TU Darmstadt, DE
  • Antonio Capone | Technical University of Milan, IT
  • Marta Kwiatkowska | University of Oxford, UK
  • Carol O’Sullivan | Disney Research, US
  • Alfonso Valencia | CNIO Madrid , ES

Funded projects

Funding volume: 5,000,000 €
Number of applications: 63 full proposals
Awarding procdure: Selection by international expert panel based on review report by peers
Jury meeting: June 18-19, 2012
Formal decision by WWTF Board of Directors: June 26, 2012

Contact: Marita Benkwitz

For more information see the Call Fiche

Members of the call jury:

  • Markus Gross (Co-Chair) | ETH Zürich and Director of Disney Research Zürich, CH
  • Hans Ulrich Buhl (Co-Chair) | University of Augsburg, DE
  • Antonio Acín | ICFO Barcelona, ES
  • Sonia Aïssa | INRS, FR
  • Alexandra Duel-Hallen | North Carolina State University, US
  • Paola Inverardi | Università dell'Aquila, IT
  • Valérie Issarny | INRIA Paris, FR
  • Daniel Keim | University of Konstanz, DE
  • Anne-Marie Kermarrec | INRIA Rennes, FR
  • Marta Kwiatkowska | Oxford University, UK

Funded projects



Funding volume: 5,111,000 €
Number of applications: 67 full proposals
Awarding procdure: Selection by international expert panel based on review report by peers
Jury meeting: June 7-8, 2010
Formal decision by WWTF Board of Directors: June 22, 2010

For more information see the Call Fiche

Members of the call jury:

  • Wolfgang Utschick (jury chair) | Technical University of Munich, DE
  • Antonio Acin | ICFO Barcelona, ES
  • Hans Ulrich Buhl | University of Augsburg, DE
  • Rita Cucchiara | Università degli Studi di Modena, IT
  • Anja Feldmann | Technische Universität Berlin, DE
  • Fadhel  M. Ghannouchi | University of Calgary, CA
  • Sybille Hellebrand | University of Paderborn, DE
  • Mary Ann Ingram | Georgia Institute of Technology, US
  • Paola Inverardi | Università dell'Aquila, IT
  • Amos Lapidoth | ETH Zurich, CH
  • Carol O‘Sullivan | Trinity College Dublin, IE
  • David S. Rosenblum | University College London, UK
  • Bernhard Rumpe | Aachen University, DE
  • Wolfgang Wahlster | German Research Centre for AI, DE

Funded projects




Funding volume: 4,980,000 €
Number of applications: 50 full proposals
Awarding procdure: Selection by international expert panel based on review report by peer
Jury meeting: October 23-24, 2008
Formal decision by WWTF Board of Directors: November 11, 2008

For more information see the Call Fiche

Members of the call jury:

  • Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann (jury chair) | University of Geneva, CH
  • Manfred Broy | Technical University of Munich, DE
  • Peter Buneman | University of Edinburgh, UK
  • Giuseppe Caire | University of Southern California, US
  • Andrzej Duda | Grenoble Institute of Technology, FR
  • Fadhel Ghannouchi | University of Calgary, CA
  • Matthias Jarke |Aachen University, DE
  • Jörg Leuthold | University of Karlsruhe, DE
  • Björn Ottersten | Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, SE
  • Catuscia Palamidessi | École Polytechnique, FR
  • Yves Pigneur | University of Lausanne, CH
  • Steffen Staab | University of Koblenz, DE
  • Tamas Sziranyi | Hungarian Academy of Sciences, HU

Funded projects

We use cookies on our website. Some of them are technically necessary, while others help us to improve this website or provide additional functionalities. Further information