On December 5, 2016 the jury meeting for the seventh Vienna Research Groups Call took place in Vienna. For the first time, the topic of the Call was "Complexitiy Sciences". One position with a maximum funding of 1.6 Mio. € by the City of Vienna was advertised.
On May 22, 2017 the jury meeting of the first WWTF Call for transfer projects took place in Vienna. In total 40 projects that had been funded by WWTF in previous calls were invited to submit a proposal for a specific transfer activity.
After 2011, a new call for Vienna Research Groups will be issued early 2018 in the domain of “Information and Communication Technology”
A Nnew project call in the WWTF Cognitive Sciences programme will start in early 2018. The call's setup will be quite similar to the last one in 2015.
A new project call in the WWTF Life Sciences programme will start in early fall 2017. The call topic will be again (after 2007 and 2011) be "Linking Research and Patients' Needs".
The current Life Sciences "Chemical Biology" (LS17) call for short proposals is closed since April 27, 2017. WWTF received 77 submissions of which the international jury - in a meeting in Vienna end of May - selected 25 to be invited to submit a full proposal. For these, the submission of an extended application is possible until August 18, 2017. Subsequently, the proposals will undergo international peer reviews.
The full proposal phase for the first Pilot Call "Environmental Systems Research: Urban Environments" ended on May 18, 2017. 25 full proposals have been submitted and are now under international peer review. The international call jury will formulate a funding recommendation to the WWTF Board of Directors in autumn 2017.
60 researchers participated in the Proposers' Day and Matchmaking Event for the Life Sciences 2017 "Chemical Biology" on March 8.
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