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As previously announced, the FWF will be switching the Elise Richter program (incl. Elise Richter PEEK) to PROFI funding mode starting October 1, 2023.

Austrian Science Fund (FWF) selects eight additional top researchers for the START Award

The FWF makes its funding decisions based on international peer reviews. Previously, two reviews per proposal were required up to a requested funding amount of €400,000. Due to inflation and the resulting higher costs, the FWF is increasing this amount to €450,000 as of July 1, 2023.

The FWF is gradually shifting the administration of all its funding programs to the new PROFI mode. Clinical Research is the next program to make the switch, starting in July.

The FWF invites tenders for a study to analyse the direct and indirect economic impact of research results that have emerged in whole or in part from FWF-funded projects over the past 10 to 20 years.

The FWF responds to inflation and increases funding for salaries in ongoing FWF projects for the year 2023. Researchers receive additional funding for personnel costs in both ad personam as well as PROFI funding mode. With this step, the FWF is helping to compensate for inflationary losses, especially for young researchers (two-thirds of all FWF-funded researchers are younger than 36 years old).

The FWF has been gradually converting the administration of its funding programs to the new PROFI mode since 2019. The goal is to make the funding process easier for researchers and their institutions, while still ensuring autonomy in the application process. As of May 31, 2023, the FWF’s international programs will now also be available in PROFI funding mode.

The updated Application Guidelines for Principal Investigator Projects (previously Stand-Alone Projects) reflecting the previously announced switch to PROFI funding mode, valid starting March 20, 2023, will be available online on Monday. The change affects only new submissions, applications already submitted and ongoing projects are not affected.

The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) invited tenders for the accompanying evaluation of the application and selection process of the "Emerging Fields" (EF). 

Since 2019, the FWF has been gradually switching the administration of its funding programs to the new PROFI mode. This change is intended to make the funding process easier for researchers and their institutions while ensuring autonomy in the application process. In March 2023, the FWF will now also be switching its largest program, Stand-Alone Project funding, to PROFI.

We wish you good health, an optimistic outlook, and all the best for the new year!

AI Mission Austria, a new funding initiative by aws, FFG, and FWF, is supporting the development of AI as a key technology, from research to implementation. Funding for the initiative has been provided by Fonds Zukunft Österreich, and the FWF has been allotted a funding volume of €1.9 million for AI Mission Austria projects. Applications can be submitted under several programmes starting 3 November 2022.

Funding work published on an open-access basis has been part of the FWF portfolio for many years. Researchers from all scientific disciplines can apply for funding for their book publications and digital publications. The FWF also supports the establishment and modernisation of academic journals with the aim of meeting the minimum open-access requirements of Plan S of the cOAlition S. October has brought some changes to the funding programme, which also result in a faster decision-making process.

ÖAW, FWF and Uniko as well as the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) look with great concern at the events that are taking place in Iran. We strongly condemn the violence against students and staff at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran and other Iranian universities as well as the violence against demonstrators in Iran in general.

The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) is calling for tenders for the accompanying evaluation of the Emerging Fields (EF) selection process.

The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) welcomes the priorities set by the Austrian federal government for the “Fonds Zukunft Österreich” and its endowment to the tune of €140 million per year until 2025.

The Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI) has evaluated the programme "Arts-based Research (PEEK)" on behalf of the FWF.

More fundamental knowledge to create more efficient electronics, more stable quantum computers, or to better understand the molecular mechanisms of heredity—the FWF’s “Special Research Programmes” programme enables teams at different research institutes to work together to investigate a central research question. The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) is providing a total of €15 million in funding to four new Special Research Programmes, involving numerous teams from Austria and Germany. The aim is to promote further collaboration and closer networks among leading researchers.

Research data management is an integral part of good research practice. For that reason, a data management plan (DMP) has been required for all FWF-funded projects since 2019. Starting in 2022, a new DMP template is available.