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 €.
July 13, 2018
VRG18 - ICT: Call closed
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 thrid 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.
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.
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 €.
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 €.
The eighth Vienna Research Groups Call, with the topic "Mathematics and..." closed on July 13, 2017.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Daniel Gerlich presents his current research project "Elucidating sister chromatid structure by chemical DNA labeling and conformation capture"
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.
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).
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.
