205 projects, €74.3 million: FWF Approves New Funding
At its most recent meeting, the FWF Scientific Board made decisions on numerous funding applications from various programs. The decisions were based on the results of international peer review. The 205 approved projects with a total funding amount of €74.3 million also include 29 projects from international programs. Around €9.6 million have been approved for these projects so far, but the final commitments from the partner organizations are still pending.
In addition to funding for Principal Investigator Projects, the ESPRIT career program was a key focus of the current funding round: Funding in the amount of €17.2 million will allow a total of 49 early-career researchers to launch their research projects.
Top Citizen Science and Science Communication
Top Citizen Science and Science Communication projects are also included in the current funding round. The FWF recently increased the funding budgets for both programs, allowing a total of 16 projects to be carried out at Austrian universities and non-university research institutions. In the Top Citizen Science program, researchers work together with interested citizens to generate substantial additional findings. The Science Communication Program helps researchers share their research findings with different target audiences using new and creative formats.
A total funding amount of €1.6 million was approved in this round to fund 16 projects in these two programs.
The five New Top Citizen Science Projects:
Lukas Braun
DreamSpace – Highschool Students Explore Algebraic Structures; University of Innsbruck
Markus Brunner
Conspiracy Beliefs in Close Relationships; Sigmund Freud Private University, Vienna
Sandra Guinand
Momentums; Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW)
Ephrem Aboud Ishac
ABBA – Annotators Building Better AI for Syriac Manuscripts; Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW)
Kathrin Karsay
MYTH – Mobilizing Youth to Transform Mental Health Narratives; University of Vienna
Julia Lanner
Citizen Science in the Investigation of an Invasive Bee; University of Salzburg
Christina Stoiber
Citizen Scientists Investigating Visualizations in Everyday; St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences
Bettina Monika Thalinger
CSeWHALE; WasserCluster Lunz – Biologische Station GmbH
The following new Science Communication projects were approved:
Alice Assinger
Don't Panic, It's Just RNA!; Medical University of Vienna
Stefan Hörtenhuber
COwLEARNING-CONNECTed – Communication for Agrifood Transition; BOKU University
Sonia Kleindorfer
Gaming our Future; University of Vienna
Oliver Neubauer
Cardiovascular Health in Women: NOW; University of Vienna
Andrea Schaffar
Exhibiting Visual Trust: Co-Creating Science Communication; Johannes Kepler University Linz
Christa Schleper
Asgard+Proteo – Together for Life; University of Vienna
Barbara Stelzl-Marx
Agents of History; University of Graz
Charlotte Zajc
Immuni-T – How Immune Cells Get Superpowers; Medical University of Vienna
New FWF Scientific Board Elected
As the FWF’s main scientific body, the Scientific Board meets five times a year to decide on funding for outstanding research projects based on international peer reviews. At its last meeting, the FWF Assembly of Delegates elected and appointed the new members of the Scientific Board for the upcoming three-year term, which runs through 2029. In the upcoming term, the Scientific Board will have a total of 72 members. The newly constituted Scientific Board will begin its work in October. For more information, please see here:
New FWF Scientific Board Elected
Details of all newly approved projects are now available on the FWF Research Radar page:
