A higher funding budget, longer project durations, and year-round submissions—the ESPRIT career advancement programme starts on April 27. The new programme promotes the careers of highly qualified postdocs and replaces the Lise Meitner and Hertha Firnberg programmes.

Over the last two years, 85 female researchers have been awarded funding as part of the FWF’s Elise Richter and Hertha Firnberg career development programmes. They and many other successful female researchers accepted the FWF’s invitation to get together and discuss women’s careers in cutting-edge research.

Working from home, home-schooling, distance learning. Over the last year, families have had to cope with an enormous burden. How are they really doing? And what are the needs of parents and their children? Answers to these questions are being supplied through a longitudinal study conducted by family sociologist Ulrike Zartler of the University of Vienna.

In its latest tranche of funding, the FWF has approved 155 excellent research projects. This includes six new doc.funds, which specifically support doctoral candidates. 13 projects from the field of arts-based research received a funding. Nevertheless, the funding situation for researchers remains challenging.

Get to know FWF-funded researchers from all over Austria in short films and learn more about their successful research.

The FWF, together with the international partners of the “CHANSE – Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences” network, is promoting research into the digital transformation from the perspective of the humanities and social sciences. International teams can now submit project proposals.