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Social Sciences & Humanities

The Social Sciencs & Humanities (SSH) programme was created within the framework of the City of Vienna's 2008 Innovation Strategy "Wien denkt Zukunft", and was financed by the City of Vienna. After the five project calls in three thematic areas, this programme was discontinued.

A total of 41 WWTF projects with a budget of  €8,238,965 could be funded.

Earlier calls

The call for WWTF's Call for Summer Schools in the Social Sciences and Humanities - funded by the City of Vienna particularly focussed interdisciplinarity and internationality as well as on the relevance of the theme of the summer school.

Funding volume: 173.541 €
Number of applications: 26 proposal
Awarding procdure: Selection by international expert panel
Jury meeting: February 1, 2016
Formal decision by WWTF Board of Directors: February 2016

Contact person: Michael Strassnig

 

Members of the call jury:

Henrike Hartmann (jury chair)| Volkswagenstiftung, DE
Eva Engstrand | Göteborgs Universiteit, SE
Simon Guy | Lancaster University, UK
Antoine Hennion| Mines ParisTech, FR
Leo Lucassen| Universiteit Leiden, NL
Kirk Scott | Lunds Universiteit, SE

Funded projects

The call was open to projects on the topic of "Public Spaces in Transition". The research should deal with the meaning and the challenges of public spaces in transition, including material/physical places as well as symbolic, medial and cultural public spaces. The second central aspect of the thematic scope of the call is the political
dimension of public spaces in terms of democratic governance, participation and decision making. 

 

 

Funding volume: 2.119.008 €
Number of applications: 52 project proposals and 14 summer school proposals 
Awarding procdure: Selection by international expert panel based on review report by peers
Jury meeting: June 6-7, 2013
Formal decision by WWTF Board of Directors: June 18, 2013

Contact person: Michael Strassnig

For further information see SSH13 Project Call Fiche and SSH13 Summer School Call Fiche. 

Members of the call jury: 

Georgina Born (jury chair) | University of Oxford, UK
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent | Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, FR
Bill Gaver | University of London, UK
Virginie Guiraudon | CNRS, Université Lille 2, FR
Simon Guy | University of Manchester, UK
Helga Nowotny | European Research Council
Harald Rohracher | Linköping University, SE
Lynn Staeheli | University, UK
Caja Thimm | University of Bonn, DE
Sophie Watson | Open University, UK
Robert Zimmer | Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Funded projects

The call addressed research projects that engage with the social, cultural, economic, political and medial challenges of a society that is increasingly characterized by diversity and its opportunities and potential benefits. The call focussed on issues of ethnic origin, migration, intercultural mobility, integration and living together. 

Funding volume: 2,028,000 €
Number of applications: 46 full proposals
Awarding procdure: Selection by international expert panel based on review report by peers
Jury meeting: December 1-2, 2011
Formal decision by WWTF Board of Directors: December 14, 2011

Contact person: Michael Strassnig

For further inforamtion see SSH11 call fiche. 

Members of the call jury:

Shalini Randeria (jury chair) | University of Zurich
Virginie Guiraudon | University of Lille
Frank Kalter | University of Mannheim
Michael Keith | Oxford University
Leo Lucassen | Leiden University
Helga Nowotny | ERC
Christoph Schroeder | University of Potsdam
Wolfgang Schröer | University of Hildesheim
Kirk Scott | Lund University

Funded projects

The call addressed research projects that engage with the social, cultural, economic, political and medial challenges of a society that is increasingly characterized by diversity and its opportunities and potential benefits. The call focussed on issues of ethnic origin, migration, intercultural mobility, integration and living together. 

Funding volume: 1,185,600 €
Number of applications: 45 full proposals
Awarding procdure: Selection by international expert panel based on review report by peers
Jury meeting: September 2-3, 2010
Formal decision by WWTF Board of Directors: September 13, 2010

Contact person: Michael Strassnig

For further information see SSH10 Call Fiche.

Members of the call jury:

Shalini Randeria (jury chair) | University of Zurich
Georgina Born | Cambridge University
Virginie Guiraudon | University of Lille
Ulf Hannerz | Stockholm University
Thomas Liebig | OECD Paris
Leo Lucassen | Leiden University
Helga Nowotny | ERC
Christoph Schroeder | University of Potsdam
Wolfgang Schröer | University of Hildesheim
Kirk Scott | Lund University
Steven Vertovec | Max Planck Institute Göttingen

Funded projects

The call aimed to address prjects and fellowships at the interface between science and the arts and that engage with the phenomenon and challenges of the interaction of scientific and artistic research and arts, respectively.

The aim of the followshops was to bring excellent persons  - be it scientists or artists - from abroad to Vienna to provide impulses to the further development and internationalisation of the field of art-based research. 

Funding volume: 1,350,600 €
Number of applications: 68 full proposals
Awarding procdure: Selection by international expert panel based on review report by peers
Jury meeting: October 29-30, 2009
Formal decision by WWTF Board of Directors: November 11, 2009

Contact person: Michael Strassnig

For further information see SSH09 Call Fiche. 

Members of the call jury:

Georgina Born (jury chair) | Cambridge University
Paul deMarinis | Stanford University
Dan Diner | Simon-Dubnow-Institut
Antoine Hennion | École des Mines de Paris
Helga Nowotny | ERC
Dieter Ronte | Forum Frohner
Monika Wagner | University of Hamburg
Bernadette Wegenstein | John Hopkins University

Funded projects

The call aimed to address prjects and fellowships at the interface between science and the arts and that engage with the phenomenon and challenges of the interaction of scientific and artistic research and arts, respectively.

The aim of the followshops was to bring excellent persons  - be it scientists or artists - from abroad to Vienna to provide impulses to the further development and internationalisation of the field of art-based research. 

Funding volume: 1,414,800
Number of applications: 51 full proposals  
Awarding procdure: Selection by international expert panel based on review report by peers
Jury meeting: December 4-5, 2008
Formal decision by WWTF Board of Directors: December 10, 2008

Contact person: Michael Strassnig

For further information see SSH08 Call Fiche. 

Members of the call jury:

Georgina Born (jury chair) | Cambridge University
Paul deMarinis | Stanford University
Dan Diner | Simon-Dubnow-Institut
Antoine Hennion | École des Mines de Paris
Martin Kemp | Trinity College
Helga Nowotny | ERC
Dieter Ronte | Forum Frohner
Monika Wagner | University of Hamburg
Bernadette Wegenstein | John Hopkins University
Sigrid Weigel | Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin

Funded projects

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