Funding to Go Abroad

The Ernst Mach Grants are named after the famous Austrian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach (1838-1916). Students and young researchers from foreign universities are invited to apply for this grant to come to Austria for a research or a study stay.

The Ernst Mach Grants are named after the famous Austrian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach (1838-1916). Students and young researchers from foreign universities are invited to apply for this grant to come to Austria for a research or a study stay.

KLI provides different categories of fellowships for scientific projects of graduate students, postdocs, and visiting scientists

The fellowships allow young researchers as well as experienced scholars to follow their own research interests. They work on questions and texts in a context of mutual exchange and present their research results during the course of their stay at the VWI to a small, interested professional audience as well...

Franz Werfel, who was born 1890 in Prague and died 1945 in California, is one of the most famous representatives of Austrian Literature. Therefore the Franz Werfel Grant addresses itself to young university teachers whose work focuses on Austrian Literature. The grant programme, which was initiated in 1992, is open...

The IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Awards Program is an intensely competitive worldwide program, which honors exceptional Ph.D. students who have an interest in solving problems that are important to IBM and fundamental to innovation in many academic disciplines and areas of study.

The grant is named after the Austrian historian, who died in 2001 and who worked at the University of Vienna as a university professor for Eastern European history from 1967 to 1993. In 1981/1982 he was the rector of the University of Vienna. Moreover he was the head of the...

This scholarship is open for descendants of forced labourers (regardless of their country of origin) or people that come from countries that have exceptionally suffered from the Nazi regime, especially from the recruitment of forced labourers, wishing to pursue a master degree programme in the field of international relations which...

This scholarship is open for Postdocs, working at universities outside of Austria who are descendants of forced labourers (regardless of their country of origin) or come from countries that have exceptionally suffered from the Nazi regime, especially from the recruitment of forced labourers, wishing to pursue research in Austria. Scholarships...

IFK Senior Fellowships are designed to support excellent scholars, who are well advanced in their academic careers. Qualified scholars are eligible without regard to nationality, institutional, or departmental affiliation; although preference is given to applicants of international repute who have published significant papers in recognized refereed journals and books that...