Publication Fund

Current calls for proposals

// There are currently no calls for funding. Calls for proposals are issued once a year, in December, for publications in the following calendar year. One further call per calendar year is possible depending on the availability of funds.

General funding guidelines

Funding is provided for the publication of monographs, anthologies and editions, in particular qualification publications (outstanding MA theses, dissertations and habilitation theses) that were written at the University of Innsbruck and will be published by the end of 2024. The FSP also supports fees for open access publication. The form required for this can be found here. 

The printing costs will be subsidised with a grant of up to € 1,000, subject to available funds.

Award conditions and application documents

Funding is available for publication projects from the humanities, cultural and social sciences as well as from theological disciplines at the University of Innsbruck, which are initiated and supported by at least one member of the Research Area “Cultural Encounters - Cultural Conflicts” (information on FSP membership at fsp-kultur@uibk.ac.at). Research activities must have been assigned to the Research Area within the last five years. 

The publication to be funded must be assigned to the Research Area in the University's database ("FLD"). If this is not possible, no funding can be awarded. 

Qualification publications, publication projects with an interdisciplinary approach, projects with an open access strategy (green or gold) and publication projects that are subject to a peer review process are prioritized.

The completed and signed form and all required enclosures must be submitted. These are:

1. preliminary table of contents

2. for qualification publications: all reviews

3. a complete cost breakdown of the publication project (including an overview of other grants awarded or applied for)

4. Publisher's offer

Applications will be subject to expert review by the FSP Advisory Board.

Applications with the required enclosures in pdf format must be entered into the project database by the responsible project database officer of the respective institute. At the same time, please send your application by e-mail to fsp-kultur@uibk.ac.at.

The guidelines and information for the project database manager can be found at here

Event funding

Current calls for proposals

// There are currently no calls for funding. Calls for proposals are issued twice a year, in October, for events taking place in the first half of the following year, and in April, for events taking place in the second half of the year.

The funding guidelines below apply.

General funding guidelines

The Research Area supports inter- or transdisciplinary projects that are located at the interface of two or more disciplines. Preference is given to projects that are supported by at least two members from different disciplines of the research focus, internationally visible projects, preparatory work for third-party funding applications and prospective networking activities within the research focus. Events should be held in Innsbruck or the surrounding area, otherwise a justification is required. Translation services and printing cannot be subsidised (please refer to the Publication Fund). Honary notes can only be subsidised in exceptional cases and for artistically active persons.

Please note that membership of the Research Area is a prerequisite for funding. Anyone who assigns their research achievements to the Research Area in the University's database ("FLD") is automatically a member (multiple credits are possible).

The required form can be found here. 

The following are funded in connection with the research focus

• Workshops,
• Conferences/congresses (with external speakers),
• transfer- or application-orientated projects.

The following are not covered

• Scholarships,
• Research stays (please refer to the research grant),
• projects that have already been completed and
• activities with no recognisable connection to the research focus in terms of content or personnel.

Depending on the funds available, the amount of funding awarded is based on the criteria mentioned above. Funding for workshops and comparable activities amounts to a maximum of €800 and for conferences/congresses a maximum of €2,000. Applications must be accompanied by a detailed and comprehensible cost breakdown of the overall event.

There is no legal entitlement to funding. Grants awarded must be claimed by the beginning of December of each year; otherwise a new application must be submitted in the following year. If funding is awarded, we ask that reference be made to the Research Area, that Logo be used on printed materials and/or in digital formats and that the funded activity be assigned to the Research Area in the University's datebase ("FLD").

For the processing of approved funding, please refer to our Info Sheet.

Dissertations are a core element of university research. Accordingly, as a research focus, we endeavour to promote young talent in line with the times. A number of dissertations are produced in five internal doctoral programmes under the umbrella of the research focus, but also under individual supervision. In addition, we have been running a scholarship programme for many years, which enables young researchers to spend four weeks in Innsbruck for research purposes and brings them into contact with local academics.

DK Aus­trian Stud­ies

DK Borders, bor­der shifts and bor­der cross­ings in lan­guage, lit­er­a­ture and media

DK Dynam­ics of inequal­ity and dif­fer­ence in the age of glob­al­i­sa­tion

DK Entan­gled Antiq­ui­ties

DK Catholic The­ol­ogy in a Glob­alised World

Activities