April 03, 2020
Vienna Researches Corona
In times of the global corona crisis, science is highly active: It helps to develop diagnostic tests, therapies and vaccinations, to make prognoses about the future course of the pandemic, and how to deal with the societal consequences. In order to be able to react quickly to the challenges of the crisis and to collect research-relevant data in a timely manner, within one week WWTF launched the "COVID-19 Rapid Response Funding". More information on the projects is available here.
WWTF office provides answers to a few questions that might arise during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis:
March 16, 2020
Information on the current situation at WWTF regarding the COVID-19 Lockdown
Due to the current COVID-19 measures, WWTF office is closed to the public until further notice. However, we are available via email and telephone. Here you can find the most frequently asked questions (FAQs) as well as information on shifted submission deadlines.
Elly Tanaka from the Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) receives the "Women in Science Award 2020". The award recognizes outstanding contributions by female researchers in the life sciences. The WWTF funds the current research project "Photochemical control of biohybrid matrices to reconstitute nervous system organization from three-dimensional neural organoids" by Elly Tanaka as part of the Life Sciences - Chemical Biology call.
Thomas Klausberger presents his current research project "Prefrontal circuits for cognitive flexibility in an extradimensional set-shifting task for mice and humans" in a short video.
January 24, 2020
Environmental Systems Research Call 2020 - Call closed
The Call for short proposals "Environmental Systems Research - Urban Regions" is closed since January 23, 2020. WWTF received 61 submissions. The call jury will review the short proposals and decide which projects will be invited to submit a full proposal.
The expert panel chaired by Prof. Markus Sauer recommended six projects for funding, with a total amount of 4,089,910 €.
December 19, 2019
Vienna Research Groups Call "Life Sciences - Computational Biosciences" 2020 open!
The Vienna Research Groups for Youn Investigators Call in the domain of Life Sciences is now open. Proposals can be submitted by the June 16, 2020. Go to Call details.
Eleni Tomazou presents her current research project "Characterizing and targeting the Ewing sarcoma microenvironment to overcome resistance to therapy" in a short video.
Hans-Ulrich Dodt presents his current research project "High resolution visualization of memory traces in the brain" in a short video.
Alice Auersperg presents her current research project "Beyond lipid lowering - defining residual risk of cardiovascular events" in a short video.
The symposium will take place on March 25th 2020, from 9 am to 6 pm at the University of Vienna, Austria, and will feature talks from members of the Neuropsychopharmacology & Biopsychology Unit (NBU), as well as Boris Quednow, Jean-Claude Dreher, Jack van Honk and other NBU collaborators.
October 30, 2019
Call "Environmental Systems Research: Urban Regions" 2020 open
The current call ESR20 "Environmental Systems Research: Urban Regions" is open. Short proposals can be submitted until 2pm on January 23, 2020. More information can be found here.
Alice Auersperg presents her current research project "The innovation problem: factors influencing innovative tool use in human infants and cockatoos" in a short video.
Sabine Taschner-Mandl presents his current research project "A novel macrophage precursor in adult bone marrow" in a short video.
Leonida Fusani presents his current research project "Comparative aesthetics: A novel approach to investigate multi-modal attractiveness in humans and animals" in a short video.
On September 11, 2019 WWTF organized a "transfer trip" on the Vienna Danube Canal to present the "NEXT" projects of the two calls of the years 2017 and 2019.
Sabine Taschner-Mandl presents her current research project "Ultra-high-risk pediatric cancer - combinatorial drivers and therapeutic targets for precision medicine" in a short video.
August 28, 2019
Thematic programme "Mathematics and..." discontinued
After careful considerations, the Board of Directors has decided on the recommendation of the Advisory Board, to change our funding portfolio and to phase out the thematic programme "Mathematics and ..." after nearly 15 years of funding.
The second call in the newly established thematic programme "Environmental Systems Research" will start in autumn 2019. The details of the call will be published in the next weeks. The short proposal phase will be open until mid January, the final funding decision is expected for autumn 2020.
Registration to the newsletter is available here. The fourth newsletter can be found and downloaded on the project homepage.
The maximum funding volumen per project was 50.000 €.
The jury, chaired by Dr. Irene Fialka (INiTS), recommended to fund five projects with an amount of € 246.230 . The jury selected specific transfer ideas, which allow to apply research results achieved in WWTF projects and to make the results accessible to new target groups.
June 26, 2019
Vienna Research Groups 2019 - Interdisciplinary Data Science: Call closed
In the proposal phase of the WWTF VRG Call 2019 "Interdisciplinary Data Science", 11 applications were submitted by June 13, 2019. The applications are currently under review by the international jury. The funding decision will be made in December 2019.
June 26, 2019
LS19 Call: 20 project teams invited to the full proposal phase
In the short proposal phase of the WWTF LS19 Call, 55 short proposals were submitted by April 4, 2019. At the jury meeting on May 28 and 29 in Vienna, the jury selected 20 applications, which can submit a full proposal by 8.8.2019, 14:00.
It is with great shock and distress that we hear of Professor Ayse Gül Altinay’s sentencing to 25 months in prison for “willingly and knowingly supporting a terrorist organisation as a non-member”. WWTF stands in solidarity with Ayse Gül Altinay, Professor of Anthropology and Director of Sabancı University Gender and Women's Studies Center of Excellence (SU Gender) and editorial board member of the European Journal of Women’s Studies.
May 22, 2019
A report by Michael Stampfer
FORMAS, the Swedish government research council for sustainable development, commissioned a report to summarize our current knowledge on the effects of different funding streams to the universities and to single out pros and cons.
Outcome of an international workshop at TU Wien on 4/5 April 2019.
May 22, 2019
ICT Call 2019: Submission for full proposals has ended
The WWTF ICT19 call addressing all areas of information and communication technologies is now in the evaulation phase. In January, 96 short proposals were submitted. The international jury selected 26 projects to be invited to submit an extended full proposal. The dealine was May 16 and all 26 projects submitted a proposal. The proposals will now be reviewed and the jury will make a funding decision based in the review reports in October 2019.
April 08, 2019
Life Sciences Call 2019 - Call closed
The "Multimodal Imaging" Life Sciences (LS19) Call for short proposals is closed since April 4, 2019. WWTF received 55 submissions. The call jury will review the short proposals and decide which projects will be invited to submit a full proposal.
Yasin Dagdas presents his current research project "Manipulation of Plant Innate Immune Responses by Small Molecules Probes" in a short video.
26 project selected for submitting a full proposal.
Hans Sandén presents his current research project "Urban trees and air pollution: Effect of drought and salt stress on the production of VOC and absorption of ozone by different city trees" in a short video.
Tim Clausen presents his current research project "bac-PROTAC: Developing proteolysis-targeting small molecules for the selective elimination of bacterial proteins" in a short video.
GEECCO team has the pleasure to share with you the third issue of the GEECCO project newsletter.
February 01, 2019
NEXT Call 2019 open
The second transfer call NEXT 2019 is open! The possibility to apply is only open upon invitation for the WWTF project calls ICT15, CS15, LS16, MA16 and Vienna Research Group Leaders from 2010-2016.
Proposals have to be submitted by 2pm on April 25, 2019 via the online submission system. More details can be found here.
February 01, 2019
Vienna Research Groups "Interdisciplinary Data Science" Call 2019 open!
The Vienna Research Groups for Youn Investigators Call in the domain of Information and Communication Technlogy - Interdisciplinary Data Sciences is now open. Proposals can be submitted by the Juny 13, 2019. Go to Call details.
January 25, 2019
Wir trauern um unser langjähriges Kuratoriumsmitglied
Gottfried Magerl ist am 17. Januar 2019 im 72. Lebensjahr überraschend verstorben.
Marion Huber-Humer presents her current research project "Urban pop-up housing environments and their potential as local innovation systems" in a short video.
January 14, 2019
Life Sciences Call 2019 open!
The Life Sciences Call 2019 is now open. Short proposals can be submitted by April 4, 2019. More information can be found here: "LS18" .
Michael Freissmuth presents his current research project "Interrogating the fate of dopamine transporter mutants by pharmacochaperones" in a short video.
On November 26, 2018 the jury meeting of the third WWTF Cognitive Sciences Call took place in Vienna. In total 18 PIs were invited to submitt a full proposal. 6 projects will be funded with a total funding amount of 3.5 m €.
December 12, 2018
Three group leader positions with a total of 4.8 m € funded
On December 11, WWTF Board of Directors made the formal funding decision after the selection of the funded positions by the call jury. Three positions are funded with 1.6 m € for each of the groups. The funded group leaders will be announced shortly.
December 11, 2018
Project presentation: The Future of Urban Food (FOOD) - Scenarios of urban agro-food systems and their eco-economic impacts for the case of Vienna
Bernhard Freyer presents his current research project "The Future of Urban Food (FOOD) - Scenarios of urban agro-food systems and their eco-economic impacts for the case of Vienna" in a short video.
November 28, 2018
Project presentation: 3C - Cellular Color Chart
Giulio Superti-Furga presents his current research project "3C - Cellular Color Chart" in a short video.
Silvia Cervero-Arago presents her current research project "The impact of Giardia spp. as a reference pathogen in urban water systems" in a short video.
WWTF launched the "Information and Communication Technology" project call 2019. Eligible are ICT projects up to a funding sum of € 800,000. The overall call budget is € 5,5 million.
The VRG Group has won a Distinguished Paper Award at the A*-ranked ACM Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications for the publication "Randomized Testing of Distributed Systems with Probabilistic Guarantees" by WWTF-funded PostDoc Mitra Tabaei Befrouei and her co-authors from MPI-SWS. Congratulations!
October 16, 2018
Project presentation: Photochemical control of biohybrid matrices to reconstitute nervous system organization from three-dimensional neural organoids
Elly Tanaka presents her current research project "Photochemical control of biohybrid matrices to reconstitute nervous system organization from three-dimensional neural organoids" in a short video.
On September 3 and 4, 2018 the jury meeting took place in Vienna. In total 25 PIs were invited to submit a full proposal. 9 projects were recommended for funding, with a total amount of 6.261.000 €.
August 22, 2018
Project presentation: TransLoC: Transformation of Cities into a Low Carbon Future and its Impact on Urban Metabolism, Environment, and Society
Jakob Lederer presents his current research project TransLoC: Transformation of Cities into a Low Carbon Future and its Impact on Urban Metabolism, Environment, and Society"
August 07, 2018
Project presentation: Structure Zoom, Zooming in on protein functional sites with atomic resolution - an integrated chemistry approach for structural biology
Christian Becker presents his current research project "Structure Zoom, Zooming in on protein functional sites with atomic resolution - an integrated chemistry approach for structural biology" in a short video.
The two WWTF funded researchers Jillian Petersen and Filipa Sousa each receive an ERC Starting Grant endowed with 1.5 m €. WWTF congratulates the two group leaders at the University of vienna and wishes great success with their research!
July 23, 2018
Project presentation: Vienna's global biodiversity footprint. A multi-scale analysis outlining options to reduce urban pressures on biodiversity
Fridolin Krausmann presents his current research project "Vienna's global biodiversity footprint. A multi-scale analysis outlining options to reduce urban pressures on biodiversity".
GEECCO team has the pleasure to share with you the second issue of the GEECCO project newsletter.
July 13, 2018
VRG18 - ICT: Call closed
Daniel Gerlich presents his current research project "Elucidating sister chromatid structure by chemical DNA labeling and conformation capture"
June 20, 2018
Science Dinner 2018 - Pictures of the event online
With the fifth WWTF Science Dinner on June 14, 2018 we celebrated the successful projects of the 2017 calls Life Sciences "Chemical Biology" and Environmental Systems Research: Urban Environments. The vanue at the Austrian National Library provided a perfectly solemn atmosphere.
Pictures of the event can now be found here.
June 20, 2018
Smart Choices for innovative regional ecosystems. The Power of Connectivity, Entrepreneurship and Science & Research
WIRE 2018 will be organised by Tiroler Zukunftsstiftung – Standortagentur Tirol, in the context of Austria’s EU presidency in cooperation with BMBWF Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research and cofunded by the European Commission DG Research and Innovation (Horizon 2020 Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation).
June 04, 2018
Cognitive Sciences Call 2018: Projects for the invitation to submit full proposals selected by jury
The current Cognitive Sciences call for short proposals is closed since April 12, 2018. WWTF received 55submissions of which the international jury - in a meeting in Vienna end of May - selected 18 to be invited to submit a full proposal. For these, the submission of an extended application is possible until August 9, 2018. Subsequently, the proposals will undergo international peer review.
May 21, 2018
Life Sciences Call 2018 "Linking Research & Patients' Needs" closed
The full proposal phase for the third Life Sciences Call "Linking Research & Patients' Needs" ended on May 18, 2018. 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 2018.
April 19, 2018
Cognitive Sciences Call 2018 - Call closed
The third Cognitive Sciences (CS18) call for short proposals is closed since April 12, 2018. WWTF received 55 submissions. The call jury will review the short proposals and decide which projects will be invited to submit a full proposal.
In his current WWTF-project "Equatorial wave-current interactions" , Adrian Constantin from the University of Vienna uses mathematics to predict the climatic phenomenon more accurately in the future.
On November 30 and December 1, 2017 the jury meeting for the eighth Vienna Research Groups Call took place in Vienna. For the second time, the topic of the Call was "Mathematics and...". Two positions with a maximum funding of 1.6 Mio. € by the City of Vienna were advertised.
February 13, 2018
Vienna Research Groups ICT Call 2018 open!
The Vienna Research Groups for Youn Investigators Call in the domain of Information and Communication Technlogy is now open. Proposals can be submitted by the July 12, 2018. Go to Call details.
February 06, 2018
LS18: Open call for proposals ended on January 18, 2018
The Life Sciences Call 2018 "Linking Research & Patients' Needs" is closed. The deadline for the submission of short proposals ended on January 18, 2018 at 2 pm. 114 proposals have been submitted.
This is one of the questions which mathematician Agata Ciabattoni from the Institute of Logic & Computation at the Technical University Vienna and her Co-PI Elisa Freschi, a Sanskritist at the Austrian Academy of Sciences deal with in their current WWTF project Reasoning Tools for Deontic logic and Applications to Indian Sacred Texts.
January 09, 2018
Cognitive Sciences Call 2018 open!
The current Cognitive Sciences Call 2018 is now open. Short proposals can be submitted by the 12.04.2018. More information can be found here: "CS18" .
Walter Schachermayer presents his current research project "Macroprudential bank regulation: a continuous time approach".
On December 6 and 7, 2017 the jury meeting took place in Vienna. In total 25 PIs were invited to submit a full proposal. 8 projects were recommended for funding, with a total amount of 4.686.000 €.
Anna Obenauf presents her current research project "Deciphering genomic aberrations in rare skin cancers to find mechanism-based treatment strategies" in a short video.
Georg Tauböck presents his current research project "Infinite Dimensional Signal Processing Techniques for Acoustic Applications (INSIGHT)"
The European project GEECCO faces the challenge of promoting and increasing the presence of women working in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The implementation of actions that eliminate barriers to hiring, maintaining and promoting women researchers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics is the objective of the European project Gender Equality in Engineering through Communication and Commitment (GEECCO), carried out by nine European partners.
Kaan Boztug presents his current research project "Systems precision medicine of inborn errors of the immune system (PrecisePID)" in a short video.
Norbert J. Mauser presents his current research project "Schrödinger Equations for QUantum EXperiments (SEQUEX)" in a short video.
October 31, 2017
Life Sciences Call 2018 open!
The current Life Sciences Call 2018 "Linking Research and Patients' Needs" is now open. Short proposals can be submitted by the 18. 01.2017. More information can be found here: "LS18" .
What could be the next step after a scientific discovery? WWTF answers this question with its new funding scheme NEXT
Rainer Oberbauer presents his current research project "Prolongation of kidney transplant survival through risk stratification of omics-wide incompatibilities using systems biology - a personalized medicine approach" in a short video.
On September 7 and 8, 2017 the jury meeting of the first WWTF Pilot Call Environmental Systems Research: Urban Environments took place in Vienna. In total 25 PIs were invited to submitt a full proposal. 7 projects will be funded with a total funding amount of 4.2 m €.
Peter Klimek presents his current research project "Optimal gender-specific treatment paths on healthcare multiplex networks" in a short video.
Paolo Piovano presents his current research project "Modeling and Design of Epitaxially Strained Nanoislands" in a short video.
August 22, 2017
Life Sciences Call 2017 - Chemical Biology closed
The full proposal phase for the Life Sciences Call 2017 - Chemical Biology ended on August 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 winter 2017.
A team of researchers from Austria and Germany, led by Andrew Straw, developed a VR-System for freely moving animals - FreemoVR.
Aneuploidy, the presence of an abnormal number of chromosomes in a cell, is a still widely underresearched phenomenon.
On October 20, 2017, the InterCLAP International Conference on Cognition, Language and Perception will take place in Vienna in the context of the WWTF-funded project of Prof. Ulrich Ansorge and Dr. Soonja choi.
Maria Sibilia presents her current research project "Therapeutic targeting of EGFR in colorectal cancer as a novel approach to predict and enhance tumor antigenicity and response to checkpoint inhibitors" in a short video.
Adrian Constantin presents his current research project "Equatorial wave-current interactions" in a short video.
The eighth Vienna Research Groups Call, with the topic "Mathematics and..." closed on July 13, 2017.
Carolin Kosiol presents her current research project "Genome-wide Molecular Dating" in a short video.
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.
Giulio Superti-Furga presents his current research project "PHARMACOSCOPY: Breaking resistance of refractory blood cancers through ex vivo automated image-based analysis of drug action" in a short video.
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.
Agata Ciabattoni presents her current research project "Reasoning Tools for Deontic logic and Applications to Indian Sacred Texts" in a short video.
For the fourth time WWTF celebrated the successful projects of the two calls Life Sciences Precision Medicine 2016 and Mathematics and... 2016 with its Science Dinner on Monday May 29, 2017.
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.
After 2011, a new call for Vienna Research Groups will be issued early 2018 in the domain of “Information and Communication Technology”
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 motility of leucocytes does strongly differ from that of other cell types. In contrast to most other cells, leucocytes do not have pseudopodia, with which they can cling to a surface. If the surrounding space is narrow enough, leucocytes can nevertheless stick to a surface.
June 09, 2017
Life Sciences Call 2017 - Chemical Biology: Projects for the invitation to submit full proposals selected by jury
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.
May 19, 2017
Environmental Systems Research: Urban Environments Pilot Call closed
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.
In order to protect their colony carpenter ants found in south-east Asia can make their gaster burst. Scientists in the team of Irina Druzhinina investigate how this self-sacrification has evolved.
April 28, 2017
Life Sciences Call 2017 - Chemical Biology call closed
The current Life Sciences "Chemical Biology" (LS17) call for short proposals is closed since April 27, 2017. WWTF received 77 submissions. The call jury will decide what projects will be invited to submit a full proposal.
The understanding of defective DNA repair in cells can improve the efficacy of cancer therapies.
Workshop about Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and transfer activities for WWTF funded projects
Scientists from Martin Leeb's group at the Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MFPL) of the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna, together with colleagues at the University of Cambridge, successfully mapped the 3D structure of the genome in single mammalian stem cells.
March 17, 2017
Anna Tramontano (1957-2017)
It is with great sadness that we have learnt of the passing away of Anna Tramontano. She was a longstanding friend and supporter of WWTF and an outstanding scientist. We express our sincere condolences to her family, friends, and colleagues.
Anna was professor at the Sapienza University of Rome and member of the Scientific Council of the ERC.
60 researchers participated in the Proposers' Day and Matchmaking Event for the Life Sciences 2017 "Chemical Biology" on March 8.
In 2015 Filipa L. Sousa was recruited to the University of Vienna through the Vienna Research Group funding programme (financed by the City of Vienna) and was awarded € 1.6 m. The newspaper “Die Presse” released a detailed portrait of Filipa and her research on Archaea.
March 13, 2017
Environmental Systems Research: Urban Environments Pilot Call 2017 - Decision about the invitation for full proposals
On March 9-10, 2017 the international jury of the “Environmental Systems Research: Urban Environments” Pilot Call met in Vienna to make the decision on the invitation to the full proposal phase. Out of all 93 submitted proposals, 25 have been invited to submit a full proposal. The deadline for full proposals is on May 18, 2017 at 2 pm.
3.000 private video recordings were collected and archived under the direction of Gabriele Fröschl, PI of the WWTF funded project SSH13-007 "The Changing Role of Audio-Visual Archives as Memory Storages in the Public Space. Using the example of private video sources" . The project was funded within the 2013 Public Spaces inTransition Call, the last call within the Social Sciencs & Humanities (SSH) in Vienna Programme funded by the City of Vienna.
WWTF orgnizes a Proposers' Day and Matchmaking Event on March 8, 14:00. We will inform about the calls in details and offer the opportunity to network with other interested reserchers from complementary fields and disciplines.
Christoph Eisenegger (1978-2017) passed away unexpectedly during a stay abroad. We highly appreciated him as a person and as a researcher. Our thoughts are with his family, friends and colleagues.
The new website is launched!
Research conducted in the WWTF-funded project of Thomas Dorner (LS12-039) shows that social interaction reduced the frailty of elderly persons.
Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna recently published a study in the high impact journal "Scientific Reports". In this study they could show, that a neuropeptide ("inotocin") isolated from ants has a particularly high pharmacological potential for humans.
Researchers in the team of Manuela Baccarini (MFPL), Co-PI in the project MA14-049 discovered a surprising role of the protein RAF1 in cancer cells: usually this protein enhances tumor cell growth, however it has the opposite effect in liver carcinomas, where in some tumor cell types it suppresses cell growth.
January 19, 2017
Pilotcall ESR17: Open call for proposal ended on January 19, 2017
The first pilotcall "Environmental Systems Research: Urban Environments" is closed. The deadline for the submission of short proposals ended on January 19, 2017 at 2 pm. 93 proposals have been submitted.
The "Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)" recently selected Monika Henzinger (projects ICT10-002 and ICT15-003) as the only representative of an Austrian University as an ACM Fellow.
Giorgia Silani (CS15-003) (Universität Wien) and her team use latest technology to look into the control center of our bodies and investigate the reward system in the brain.
In sophisticated experiments, Alipasha Vaziri has shown that the human eye is able to perceive single photons. Vaziri came to Vienna thanks to a WWTF Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators grant in 2010 (VRG10-011). He now has his own lab at the Rockefeller University in New York.
