Grants and prizes for early career researchers (PostDoc level)

Current tenders

Latest and outstanding dissertations are awarded

Promotion of scientific events at the University of Innsbruck.

Co-financing of fees for publication in open access journals.

General printing cost subsidy for anthologies, monographs, conference proceedings, etc.

Bridging funding for post-docs in special exceptional cases.

Funding for Open Access publications resulting from FWF projects.

1669 Prototype development
Start-up financing for the development and further development of prototypes.
Award for Digitalization Research
The award recognises outstanding academic theses by early-carreer researchers from all disciplines at the University of Innsbruck.
Award of Excellence
The Federal Ministry of Women, Science and Research awards this prize annually for outstanding dissertations.
Call for research infrastructure funding
Für Neuinvestitionen und Erneuerungen (Reparaturen) von veralteter Forschungsinfrastruktur.
Climate and environamental protection, species conservation, sustainability and biodiversity
The Förderkreis 1669 supports projects by young researchers at the University of Innsbruck that deal with the topics of climate, environmental and species protection, ecological sustainability and biodiversity.
Early Stage Funding
To carry out a small, independent research project at the beginning of an academic career.
Forschungspreis der Wirtschaftskammer Tirol
Für Diplomarbeiten/ Masterarbeiten und Dissertationen mit der größten Bedeutung für die Tiroler Wirtschaft, die an der Universität Innsbruck, am Management Center Innsbruck oder an der Fachhochschule Kufstein in vorgegebenen Bereichen mit der Note „sehr gut” approbiert wurden.
FunMat Paper Award for materials science research
To promote cooperative, scientific research work by young scientists in the field of functional materials science