Funding Resources for Upper Austrian Energy Researchers
This page is designed as a resource for researchers from Upper Austria. Here you can find the different funding agencies pages where calls will be published. Also on this page are opportunities for mobility funding, both incoming and outgoing, funding for training young researchers, and fellowship and scholarship opportunities for PhD and graduate students from Upper Austria who want to study in the other RLS regions.
Multilateral Funding
Horizon Europe | European Union
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Horizon Europe | European Union
Deadline: various, dependent on the specific call Horizon Europe is the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation with a budget of €95.5 billion. It tackles climate change, helps to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and boosts the EU’s competitiveness and growth. The programme facilitates collaboration and strengthens the impact of research and innovation in developing, supporting and implementing EU policies while tackling global challenges. It supports creating and better dispersing of excellent knowledge and technologies. It creates jobs, fully engages the EU’s talent pool, boosts economic growth, promotes industrial competitiveness and optimises investment impact within a strengthened European Research Area. In Pillar II, researchers from Bavaria, Québec, Upper Austria, and Western Cape are eligible to receive funding. São Paulo researchers can receive funding from FAPESP if they are a co-PI. Western Cape partners can profit from the “Seed Funding Instrument” created by the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI). It supports South African researchers travelling to Europe or European researchers travelling to South Africa to initiate collaboration within Horizon Europe. Partners from Georgia or Shandong can participate in Horizon Europe either by providing a unique competence that cannot be found in the EU, or through bilateral agreements between their home countries and the European Union. Participation via own funding is always possible. Visit the Horizon Europe website here. |
European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) | European Union
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European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) | European Union
Deadline: 28 October, 2026 Value: funding is for four years and is dependent upon proposal, please see website for further information. Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) is a funding organisation for the creation of research networks, called COST Actions. These networks offer an open space for collaboration among scientists across Europe (and beyond, including South Africa) and thereby give impetus to research advancements and innovation. COST is bottom up, this means that researchers can create a network – based on their own research interests and ideas – by submitting a proposal to the COST Open Call. The proposal can be in any science field. COST Actions are highly interdisciplinary and open. It is possible to join ongoing Actions, which therefore keep expanding over the funding period of four years. They are multi-stakeholder, often involving the private sector, policymakers as well as civil society. In order to achieve its mission, COST has identified three strategic priorities: promoting and spreading excellence, fostering interdisciplinary research for breakthrough science and empowering and retaining young researchers and innovators. COST implements its mission by funding bottom-up, excellence-driven, open and inclusive networks for peaceful purposes in all areas of science and technology. COST brings together European researchers and innovators from different COST countries to jointly develop their own ideas and new initiatives across all science and technology fields through trans-European cooperation. COST encourages and fosters trans-, multi-and interdisciplinary approaches by integrating researchers and innovators from different fields and horizons such as universities, research centers, companies, in particular small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as other relevant actors. COST does not fund research itself, but supports networking via different tools such as meetings, short term scientific missions, training schools and dissemination activities part of COST Actions. COST invites proposals for Actions aiming at contributing to the scientific, technological, economic, cultural or societal knowledge advancement and development of Europe to close the gap between science, policy makers and society throughout Europe and beyond. Proposals should reflect the main characteristics of COST Actions, namely providing for knowledge sharing, creation and application, being open and output-oriented while aiming at strengthening the scientific and technological basis of the proposed topic(s). Proposals should also respond to the COST Excellence and Inclusiveness policy, which aims to provide collaboration opportunities to all researchers and innovators in COST countries, encourage participation among young talents and next generation leaders, in particular promoting working opportunities for early career investigators, and ensure gender balance, paving the way towards breakthrough developments and innovations. Proposals will be evaluated against criteria of S&T excellence, networking excellence, impact and implementation. COST Program website. |
Collective Research Networking (CORNET) Call for Proposals | BMWK, EMBRAPII, FFG (Closed)
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Collective Research Networking (CORNET) Call for Proposals | BMWK, EMBRAPII, FFG
Deadline: 25 March 2026, 12 p.m. (noon) CET Value: depending on CORNET partner (funding organization) CORNET (Collective Research Networking) connects various national programs of pre-competitive joint industrial research worldwide for the benefit of small and medium-sized enterprises. Consortia of business associations and research institutions from at least two participating countries or regions and from all industries and technology fields can submit applications for joint research projects. Submitted proposals should address Collective Research (pre-competitive, serving the need of a wide grouping of companies and ensuring knowledge transfer/dissemination) and are not bound to a specific thematic focus. Funding is allocated according to the rules of the involved national/regional programs. Projects are funded by a grant to the project budget. They should have a maximum duration of 24 months. The following RLS regions would be eligible in the call for proposals: Upper Austria (FFG – Austrian Research Promotion Agency), São Paulo (EMBRAPII), and Bavaria (BMWK). Review the call here. |
Long-term Europe-Africa Partnership on Sustainable Energy (LEAP-RE) | EU, FZJ-PT, FFG, NFR and DSI South Africa (closed)
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Long-term Europe-Africa Partnership on Sustainable Energy (LEAP-SE) | European Commission, Forschungszentrüm Jülich, Austrian Research Agency, National Research Foundation of South Africa, and the Department of Science and Innovation South Africa
Deadline: 27 March. 2025 (pre-proposal); 11 September, 2025 (invited full proposal) Value: dependent on national eligibility criteria; Bavaria 300 000 EUR per German consortium with a 100% funding rate for acadmia; Upper Austria 300 000 EUR, with a 60-85% funding rate for research institutes depending on the type of research being conducted; Western Cape R150 000 (around 80 000 EUR) at 100% rate for researchers. The LEAP-SE COFUND call aims at supporting projects that tackle climate change and provide reliable energy access. Projects must have a duration between 12 and 36 months. Basic research projects, applied research and experimental development projects are eligible for Bavarian researchers. Please note that in Austria, only experimental or industrial research will be funded, and at least one industrial partner must be incorporated. 3- Smart stand‐alone systems; (Bavarian and South African partners also eligible to receive national funding) 4- Smart grid (different scales) for off grid application; (Bavarian partners also eligible to receive national funding) Link to call. |
Eurogia 2030 Call │ ZIM, NRC-IRAP, EMBRAPII, FFG, and ESASTAP
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Eurogia 2030 Call for projects│ ZIM, NRC (IRAP), EMBRAPII, FFG, and ESASTAP
Deadline: 30 April, 2026 Value: dependent on national funding agency- please see website for further details Through Low Carbon Technologies R&D solutions Eurogia aims to contribute for a sustainable environment, for the reduction of climate change and for a sustainable growth. Some of the targeted challenges to achieve these goals are necessary, but not limited to:
This Eurogia2030 programme is designed to stimulate activity in this important area, through the creation of trans-national collaborative projects in applications that will support economic growth and benefit society as a whole. Participants are invited to submit applied research and innovation project proposals within the Eurogia scope: eurogia2030-technology-roadmap-annex-to-the-map-final Among the relevant enabling technologies, digitalization, IOT, AI, blockchains, cyber-security , communication, 5G/6G, drones, sensors, new materials, asset management, recycling, etc. are also expected to play an important role. The RLS regions eligible for this call include Bavaria, Québec, Upper Austria, and Western Cape. The consortium should include at least two companies from different EUREKA participating countries. The participation of research institutes/universities is welcome according to each country’s funding regulations. Please note that for Bavaria only RTOs and SMEs are eligible to receive funding. In Québec, only SMEs are eligible. In Upper Austria, only companies are eligible. In Western Cape, eligible recipients include working researchers residing in South Africa and affiliated with a recognised higher education or research institution such as a university, university of technology or science council, small, medium (SMEs) and large enterprises in the private sector and national system of innovation organisations involved in R&D. View the call website here. |
DFG Scientific Networks │ DFG
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DFG Scientific Networks │ German Research Foundation
Deadline: Open Value: up to three years, covering travel and maintenance costs for work meetings of network members and for thematically relevant guests, as well as coordination costs and publication costs The aim of the program is to promote multi-year scientific exchange and cooperation on a topic area of choice across locations. Scientific networks offer researchers at all career stages the opportunity to engage in multi-year scientific exchange and cooperation on a topic area of their choice across locations, with the aim of achieving a specific outcome. The network must aim for a specific outcome, e.g. the preparation of joint research papers, a joint publication, impetus for the further development of research methods. Scientific networks may be used: - To promote national and international networking between researchers at an early stage of their careers. Supporting early career researchers is especially important to the DFG. - To promote networking between researchers who want to work on new interdisciplinary or strategic research questions in a results-focused approach and require a flexible organisational framework in which to do so. - To promote networking between researchers who want to address topic areas of a strategic nature where the exchange of ideas at international level appear to be particularly productive. A scientific network consists of a set group of 10 to 20 people, which may also include researchers working abroad. Since the objective is to promote the development of networks across locations, within Germany as well as internationally, members must not all belong to the same research institution; no more than half of the members may be based in research systems outside Germany. Program website. |
Belmont Forum Collaborative Research Actions | FWF, FAPESP, NSERC, NSFC, EC, BMBF, NRF, NSF (closed)
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Belmont Forum Collaborative Research Actions | FWF, FAPESP, NSERC, NSFC, EC, BMBF, NRF, NSF
Deadline: Pre-proposal15 July, 2023, full proposal January 2024 (specific day to be defined) Established in 2009, the Belmont Forum is a partnership of funding organizations, international science councils, and regional consortia committed to the advancement of transdisciplinary science. This call for research proposals seeks to improve understanding among the climate, environment, and health pathways to protect and promote ecological, planetary, and human health in the face of climate challenges. Convergent research and/or transdisciplinary research projects will investigate issues that impede policy implementation; address complex climate, ecosystem, and health pathways to determine processes underlying causal links; capacity development and collaboration across relevant disciplines and institutions; and foster the use of international scientific databases with local knowledge to develop climate-related decision support tools to better inform planning, resilience, and adaptation to climate change. Research outputs should include solutions to improve healthcare preparedness, response to climate’s impacts on health, and support environmental preservation resources, adaptation strategies, or develop measures to mitigate health impacts on understudied groups. Capacity development efforts should focus on building the skills for conducting research, producing, and sharing relevant data and data platforms, and promoting collaboration across the disciplines and institutions responsible for data production, integration and use relevant to the nexus between climate, environment, and health. Global geographical, ecological, cultural, and national population diversity is encouraged to increase the scalability and applicability of the project outcomes, including working with low- and lower middle-income countries (LLMICs) where data, knowledge, services, and solutions are lacking. Consortia are strongly encouraged to foster and implement sustainable, innovative, inclusive community relationships that will develop novel, long-term equitable partnerships, and workforce development to address climate and environment-related health risks. Proposals must be eligible to receive funding from at least three participating Partner Organizations established in three different countries and should include researchers from the natural sciences (including climate), health/medical sciences, social and economic sciences or humanities, as well as societal partners (i.e. public health organizations, civil society organizations, and non-governmental organizations). Researchers and societal partners from countries not supported by any of the partner agencies can participate in the research project at their own expense. Current CRA here. Belmont Forum website. |
2023 International Joint Initiative for Research in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation | EU, FFG, FZJ-PtJ, FRQ-NT and FRQ-SC (Closed)
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2023 International Joint Initiative for Research in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation | EU, FFG, FZJ-PtJ, FRQ-NT and FRQ-SC
Deadline: Please note this call is now closed Value: dependent upon the funding agency- for FFG, the overall budget for PED is 3.6 million EUR, and 18-25 projects are expected to be funded; see the funding table here Austria, Germany, and Québec are included in the funding agencies of this call. There are three topics, and nine sub-topics, of which 4 are funded by all three countries. Two of these subtopics, both in the Positive Energy Districts Transition Pathway (PED), are relevant for the RLS-Energy Network. The Positive Energy Districts (PED) Transition Pathway (TP) is aimed at supporting the planning, implementation and replication of PEDs throughout Europe. PEDs act as the backbone of future urban energy systems by both optimising energy efficiency and facilitating the generation of renewable energy on the scale of city districts, down to individual buildings. They also support the regional or national energy system through smoothing energy production peaks, management of demand and facilitation of the exchange and storage of energy. Beyond these technical characteristics, PEDs enable the combination of energy efficient buildings and their associated district grids with architectural and social innovation. Public involvement in its design plays a key role in the successful realisation of a PED, with public administrations, real estate developers, utilities and the public at large, functioning as supporting pillars. Subtopic 1: Energy Resilience and Energy Poverty This topic aims to address ensuring energy security and grid stability while ensuring affordability of energy for end users and empowering consumers to benefit from new way to engage in the energy transition. Social impact is of particular focus. Proposals need to conceptualise and assess their impact, show pathways towards local implementation and provide guidelines for large-scale implementation. Subtopic 3: Enabling Systems for Local Energy Transitions: Collaboration and Sustainable Investment The performance and speed of urban energy transition strategies strongly depends on an enabling system that features adequate stakeholder collaboration, regulatory framework, economic feasibility, and social aspects. There is still a strong need for conceptualising innovative collaboration modes between the central actors of the energy transition. Proposals should conceptualise concrete models and tangible pathways here to address this need. Find the call text here and review the call website here. |
CET Partnership Joint Call 2025 | BMWE, FFG (closed)
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CET Partnership Joint Call 2025| BMWE, FFG
Deadline: 9 October 2025, 14:00 (CEST) for pre-proposal submission (12 March, 2026 for full-proposal submission) Value: dependent on the national funding agency per region, please see prospective table here; projects may be developed for between 1-3 years duration. The CETPartnership is an initiative co-funded by the European Union that brings together public and private stakeholders in the research and innovation ecosystems, from European and non-European countries and regions. CET Partnership aims to create and foster transnational innovation ecosystems to empower the clean energy transition and contribute to the EU’s goal of becoming the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, by pooling national and regional RDTI funding for a broad variety of technologies and system solutions required to make the transition. The CETPartnership Joint Calls are based on the partnership’s seven thematic challenges (TRIs) identified by need owners and other relevant stakeholders. The project proposals in the Joint Calls must address their respective focus areas called Call Modules. This Call consists of 10 Call Modules, addressing different technological and systemic challenges as well as different RDI approaches and thus complementing and completing each other: - CM2025-01 Multi-vector interactions between the integrated energy system and industrial frameworks - CM2025-02 Energy system flexibility: renewables production, storage and system integration - CM2025-03A/03B Advanced renewable energy (RE) technologies for power production - CM2025-03A/03B Advanced renewable energy (RE) technologies for power production - CM2025-04 Carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) - CM2025-05 Hydrogen and renewable fuels - CM2025-06 Heating and cooling technologies - CM2025-07 Integrated regional energy systems - CM2025-08 Integrated industrial energy systems - CM2025-09 Clean energy integration in the built environment A project consortium must consist of a minimum of three beneficiary partners from a minimum of three dif- ferent countries participating in the chosen Call Module. The RLS regions of Bavaria and Upper Austria are eligible for funding in this call. View the call website here. |
5th EU-LAC Joint Call on STI 2025 | BMBF, CNPq, CONFAP, BMBWF (closed)
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5th EU-LAC Joint Call on STI 2025 | BMBF, CNPq, CONFAP, BMBWF
Deadline: 22 May, 2025 5:00 CEST Value: BMBF- 100 000 EUR per project, BMBWF- 30000EUR per project, Brazil CNPq 30 000 EUR per project, CONFAP (FAPESP) 600 000 EUR per project The aim of the Joint Call is to initiate sustainable and multilateral research cooperation between researchers from Europe, Latin-America and the Caribbean countries. Transnational consortia are invited to submit proposals related to topics in the thematic fields of Global Challenges, Bioeconomy, Health, Energy and more. Projects will be funded for up to 36 months, and consortia must have two EU and two LAC countries included.
The RLS regions eligible for this call are Bavaria, São Paulo, and Upper Austria. Visit the call website here. |
M-ERA.NET JOINT CALL │ ERA.NET with BMFTR, PRIMA Québec, FAPESP, FFG, and DSTI
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M-ERA.NET JOINT CALL │ ERA.NET with BMFTR, PRIMA Québec, FAPESP, FFG, and DSTI
Deadlines: Pre-proposals due 12 May, 2026; Full invited proposals due 18 November, 2026 Value: dependent on national funding agency- please see website for further details M-ERA.NET is a network of public funding organisations supporting and increasing coordination and convergence of national and regional funding programmes on research and innovation related to material sciences. The aim is to fund ambitious transnational RTD projects addressing materials research and innovation supporting the European Green Deal and the United Nations's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The Call 2026 includes the following thematic areas:
The RLS regions eligible for this call include Bavaria, Québec, Sao Paulo, Upper Austria, and Western Cape. Programme website |
EUREKA Call for disaster resilience, response, and recovery projects│FFG and MCTI (closed)
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EUREKA Call for disaster resilience, response, and recovery projects│FFG and MCTI
Deadline: 31 October, 2025 Value: dependent per country- please see the call for specifics The EUREKA call for proposals aims at research and development projects on disaster resilience, response and recovery. The funding instrument supports innovative SMEs and project partners (large companies, universities, research organisations and other types of organisations) with a co-funding grant. Thematically, proposals should be directed at the following topics:
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Clean hydrogen partnership 2026 | European union
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Deadlines: 15 April, 2026
Value: dependent on topic The Clean Hydrogen Partnership call for proposals is a multilateral funding programme under Horizon Europe Clean Hydrogen Joint Undertaking. The 21 topics include renewable hydrogen production, storage, distribution, use cases, supply chains as well as Hydrogen Valleys (IA, RIA and CSA). Applicants can come from EU member countries, associated countries, low-and-middle-income countries as well as other countries if participation of the parter is clearly justified and demonstrated. Chinese entities cannot take part in RIA and IA topics. Programme website |
Bilateral Funding
Proposal Submission with European Cooperation Partners (Weave Lead Agency Process) │ DFG and FWF
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Proposal Submission with European Cooperation Partners (Weave Lead Agency Process) │ German Research Foundation and Austrian Science Fund
Deadline: open Value: dependent upon the proposal- funding for up to a max. 36 months Weave aims at cooperative projects with closely integrated content, to which partners from all countries involved contribute scientifically in a substantial way. Proposals for bilateral and trilateral research projects with parts of the research conducted in Germany and in partner countries (with whose funding organisations the DFG cooperates in the context of Weave) are submitted to the Lead Agency in one of the partner countries. If a project is approved, the different shares of the project are funded by the respective funding organisations in charge. The projects must compete with proposals submitted nationally. Research projects must therefore feature a high degree of scientific quality and originality at an internationally competitive level. Researchers of all disciplines from German research institutions who have completed research training (usually a doctorate) and their partners from other European countries, who must be eligible to apply for funding from the respective funding organisation in their country. Not eligible for applying for a research grant from the DFG are: Members of organisations that are dedicated solely to commercial purposes; members of organisations that are not permitted to publish their results in a publicly accessible form. FWF WEAVE website. |
Austria and Canada Call on AI and High Tech │ NRC and FFG (closed)
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Austria and Canada Call on AI and High Tech │ NRC and FFG
Deadline: Canadian participants must register with the NRC by 1 April, 2025, and submit their Expression of Interest to NRC by 15 April, 2025. Austrian participants must submit both the Eureka application as well as a national application to FFG by e-Call. The overall deadline is 30 May, 2025. Value: Dependent on the national entity and specific topic- please see Eureka page for details. Please note that in Canada, only SMEs are eligible to receive direct funding, but research institutes and universities can work as subcontractors. In Austria, research organisations, universities, SMEs, and large companies are all eligible, with different funding rates. This is a bottom-up call, with a special focus on AI. Projects within all thematic fields may be submitted for funding, but an additional dedicated budget is provided in Austria for AI technologies to emphasize the need for R&D collaboration in this field. The mission of this call for projects is therefore to:
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Digital Technologies for Green | FFG and MOST (Closed)
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Digital Technologies for Green | FFG and MOST
Deadline: please note this call is now closed Value: 100.000 – 1.000.000€ for the Upper Austrian Partner, Shandong partners please consult with MOST The objective of this call is to exploit the potential of digital technologies for sustainability, and to support the ecological transformation of the economy, especially with regard to climate and environmental protection. This involves the development, testing and use of digital platforms, tools, methods, business models, procurement models or standards. The call also aims to promote sustainable digital technologies, for example digital technologies that consume little energy resources. Innovative applications, services and integrated solutions must make a positive contribution to the energy transition, mobility transition, circular economy or climate-neutral city. The bilateral call in cooperation with the Chinese Academy of Sciences aims at establishing links to the Chinese innovation system, facilitating access to the Chinese market for Austrian companies, and expanding Austrian-Chinese cooperation in application-oriented research in the area of Digital Technologies for Green. Link |
Unilateral Funding
FWF Principal Investigator Projects│FWF
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FWF Principal Investigator Projects│FWF
Deadline: open call Value: dependent on project proposal The Principal Investigator Project call for projects is a unilateral project funding program for researchers at all career levels and from all disciplines of basic research. The program aims at providing principal investigators and their research group with resources to focus on a clearly defined research question at an Austrian research institution. Grants will be provided by the Austrian Science Fund FWF for 48 months with funding for personnel and non-personnel costs depending on the proposed project. The Austrian host institution is eligible for application in the funding programme. The granted project will be carried out under the auspices of the Austrian research institution by the principal investigator who may come from Austria or abroad. Principal investigators may come from any RLS-Sciences region. Programme website |
FWF ESPRIT│FWF
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FWF ESPRIT│FWF
Deadline: open call Value: dependent on project proposal The ESPRIT program (Early-Stage Program: Research – Innovation – Training) is a unilateral project funding program for early-career postdoc-level researchers from all disciplines. The grant aims at enabling them to lead an independent research project and foster their academic profile at an Austrian research institution. Grants will be provided by the Austrian Science Fund FWF for 36 months with funding for the principal investigator’s salary and certain project specific costs. The Austrian host institution is eligible for application in the funding programme. The granted project will be carried out under the auspices of the Austrian research institution by the principal investigator who may come from Austria or abroad. Principal investigators may come from any RLS-Sciences region. Programme website |
FFG Energy Research 2025│FFG (CLOSED)
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FFG Energy Research│FFG
Deadline: 25 June 2025 for funding lines 1-5 and 7; 12 November 2025 for funding lines 1-6 and flagship projects Value: dependent on funding line The 2025 Energy Research call for projects by FFG is a funding opportunity for research and development projects towards the green transformation with the scope of generating new knowledge and innovations. Projects can be submitted on the following topics:
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Incoming Mobility: Researchers
Bringing RLS-Sciences researchers to Upper Austria
São Paulo Researchers in International Cooperation (SPRINT) | FAPESP
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São Paulo Researchers in International Cooperation (SPRINT) | São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)
Deadline: 23 February, 2026 Value: dependent on proposal, please see below The objective of the SPRINT programme is to promote the engagement of researchers affiliated to institutions of higher education and research in the State of São Paulo in partnership with researchers abroad in order to: 1) further develop qualitatively the ongoing research projects; and 2) work cooperatively aiming at the elaboration of joint research projects of medium and long term, for submission to FAPESP, by researchers from the State of São Paulo, and to the research funding agencies in the countries of corresponding partners, by their colleagues. SPRINT provides funding for the initial phase of international research collaborations with clear expectations that the next phase will be a presentation, by the researchers from the State of São Paulo, of research proposals in the regular funding lines of FAPESP aiming to continue the research started under SPRINT and the consequently consolidation of the partnership. Foreign partners must provide their own funding through the appropriate partner agencies. Selected projects must last between 12 and 24 months. Joint petitioners should submit their proposals in both countries, using the appropriate forms supplied by the respective agencies. Each proposal will initially be analyzed by the agency in the country of its origin. Under SPRINT, projects are initially funded for 12 months, with a possible extension of up to an additional 24 months depending on the results obtained and the evolution of the collaboration. The proposals should provide for the mobility of the São Paulo research team to the institution abroad in the first year, but they can already foresee the subsequent stages, which are the arrival of the foreign partners to the institution in the state of São Paulo in the second year and the implementation of joint research in the third year, based on seed funding. Researchers partners of any foreign institution can prove the financing of the missions by their own institution or of the development agency for which they have contemplated project. Therefore, it is not necessary that groups and institutions have agreements with FAPESP to participate. Nevertheless, interested foreign research institutions can create conditions for receiving proposals in collaboration and funding of their teams in scientific missions in research institutions in the state of São Paulo. Review the SPRINT program webpage here. |
ERA Fellowships Green Hydrogen │ DAAD (closed)
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ERA Fellowships Green Hydrogen │ DAAD
Deadline: open Value: dependent per country - please see programme website for further details The ERA Fellowships on “Green Hydrogen” is a mobility funding programme for PhD students and PostDocs with a funding line for international incoming fellows to Germany and a funding line for outgoing fellows from Germany. The call for applications is launched by DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst and addresses all research fields in Green Hydrogen including production, transport, infrastructure, market simulation and cross-cutting issues. For outgoing fellows from Germany, the programme provides PhD students and PostDocs with funding for a research project at an institution outside of Germany for 1-12 months. PhD students may use the grant for a self-organised internship at a company or non-university institution abroad (shorter duration). Funding is provided in the form of a monthly fellowship instalment with additional financial support depending on the type of project or internship. The host institution may be located in any of the RLS-Sciences regions except Bavaria. Programme website |
MSCA European Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 | European Union
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MSCA European Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026
Deadline: September 09, 2026 Value: dependent on proposal The MSCA European Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 are a European mobility funding programme as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. It aims to support researchers’ careers and foster excellence in research for researchers holding a PhD, who wish to carry out research activities abroad, acquire new skills and develop their careers across disciplines. Secondments at industry partners are possible during the fellowships. European Postdoctoral Fellowships are awarded to eligible researchers of any nationality for visits in EU member countries or associated countries. Fellowship visits may last between 12-24 months with the grant covering living and mobility allowances as well as funding for research, training or networking activities as well as indirect costs for the host organisation. More information can be found here. |
Incoming Mobility: Students
Bringing RLS-Sciences students to Upper Austria
Programme to Increase the Mobility of German Students | DAAD (Closed)
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Programme to Increase the Mobility of German Students | German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Deadline: (Please note this call is currently closed, but reopens on 15 June, 2026) Value: please see below This program provides stipends for visits abroad for a period of up to six months allowing for an increase in the mobility of German students, including doctoral candidates. This provides higher education institutes with the opportunity to prioritize international mobility of their students and to offer them a variety of mobility measures with fitting funding instruments. This program should also offer students the opportunity for a stay abroad which is outside of the framework of the structured DAAD funding programs. During the period from January 1 - December 31 of the year following the application activities worldwide may be funded in the form of partial stipends (for study abroad), support for travel costs (for study tours), course fees and subsidies towards tuition and costs of living for:
The institutes can apply for a one-time lump sum supervision grant of € 250 per supported scholar; the total of the supervision grants is not to exceed ten percent of the total funding. Programme Website. |
Globalink Research Award | Mitacs
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Globalink Research Award | Mitacs
Deadline: open- Applicants (student or postdoctoral fellow, home and host supervisors) submit their application to Mitacs 12-16 weeks prior to the project start date for processing. Value: $6,000 CAD for 12-24 weeks, $12,000 for 24-48-weeks *Please note: only Québec students may apply for research projects in Upper Austria The Mitacs Globalink Research Award (GRA) supports research collaborations between Canada and eligible countries and regions through intern(s) international mobility. Under the joint supervision of a home and host professor, successful senior undergraduate students, graduate students, as well as postdoctoral fellows will receive a $6,000 research award per internship unit (12- to 24-week research project in the other country). Applicants can do up to two internships. Awards are offered in partnership with Mitacs’s Canadian academic institution partners and are subject to available funding. Program website |
Mitacs accelerate | mitacs
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Mitacs Accelerate | Mitacs
Deadline: Applications accepted at any time, the review will take approximately six to eight weeks Value: $15,000 CAD per four- or six-month internship Mitacs Accelerate provides leveraged funding of $15,000 CAD per four- or six-month internship, where interns will work collaboratively with their academic supervisor and partner organization on a research project. An intern can be a Canadian citizen, a permanent resident, international student with a student visa, or international postdoctoral fellow with a valid work permit. Academic supervisors are eligible if they are faculty at a Canadian academic institution who are eligible to hold Tri-Agency funds. Partner organizations can be for-profit corporations (must receive more than 50% of their funds from non-government sources), eligible not-for-profit corporations, municipalities, or hospitals in Canada. For-profit businesses and not-for-profit corporations operating outside of Canada are eligible as additional partners on projects with a Canadian partner organization. Interns may interact remotely with an international partner organization and/or travel to interact in person. Any travel must be in accordance with their Canadian academic institution’s policies. The Mitacs standard funding model requires a partner contribution starting at $7,500 CAD per internship (4 or 6 months) which results in a $15,000 CAD research award. Of this award, the intern must receive a minimum $10,000 CAD stipend or salary. The Mitacs Postdoctoral researcher funding model requires a contribution of $10,000 CAD per internship (4 or 6 months) which results in a $20,000 CAD research award. This funding model is only available to postdoctoral interns. Visit the program website here. |
Outgoing Mobility: Researchers
Support for Upper Austrian researchers to go abroad
Gastdozentenprogramm | DAAD (Closed)
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Gastdozentenprogramm | German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Deadline: please note this call is currently closed, but reopens annually with a summer deadline Value: dependent on salary and length of stay- please see below The Foreign Guest Lecturer Program ("Förderung ausländischer Gastdozenten zu Lehrtätigkeiten an deutschen Hochschulen") serves to enhance the internationalization of the German higher education institutes and improve the international dimension of teaching. The two models of this program differentiate between an agreement with an individual guest lecturer or with a Visiting Chair which contributes guest lectures on a consecutive basis. The cooperation should result in the internationalization of courses and, in the case of a Visiting Chair, more structural measures for sustainable internationalization, which could be embedded in the development of a study program. The teaching commitment should approach but is not required to be the equivalent of a standard lecturer position at a German university. A financial contribution by the higher education institution to the salary of the guest lecturer is preconditioned. Additional financial support will be considered positively during the selection process. The remaining will be funded by DAAD. In addition, mobility support and funding towards conference participation is available. The salary for professors in Bavaria can be found in category W of the standardized tables for the public service. Find further information or apply here. |
São Paulo Researchers in International Cooperation (SPRINT) | FAPESP
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São Paulo Researchers in International Cooperation (SPRINT) | São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)
Deadline: 23 February, 2026 Value: dependent on proposal, please see below The objective of the SPRINT programme is to promote the engagement of researchers affiliated to institutions of higher education and research in the State of São Paulo in partnership with researchers abroad in order to: 1) further develop qualitatively the ongoing research projects; and 2) work cooperatively aiming at the elaboration of joint research projects of medium and long term, for submission to FAPESP, by researchers from the State of São Paulo, and to the research funding agencies in the countries of corresponding partners, by their colleagues. SPRINT provides funding for the initial phase of international research collaborations with clear expectations that the next phase will be a presentation, by the researchers from the State of São Paulo, of research proposals in the regular funding lines of FAPESP aiming to continue the research started under SPRINT and the consequently consolidation of the partnership. Foreign partners must provide their own funding through the appropriate partner agencies. Selected projects must last between 12 and 24 months. Joint petitioners should submit their proposals in both countries, using the appropriate forms supplied by the respective agencies. Each proposal will initially be analyzed by the agency in the country of its origin. Under SPRINT, projects are initially funded for 12 months, with a possible extension of up to an additional 24 months depending on the results obtained and the evolution of the collaboration. The proposals should provide for the mobility of the São Paulo research team to the institution abroad in the first year, but they can already foresee the subsequent stages, which are the arrival of the foreign partners to the institution in the state of São Paulo in the second year and the implementation of joint research in the third year, based on seed funding. Researchers partners of any foreign institution can prove the financing of the missions by their own institution or of the development agency for which they have contemplated project. Therefore, it is not necessary that groups and institutions have agreements with FAPESP to participate. Nevertheless, interested foreign research institutions can create conditions for receiving proposals in collaboration and funding of their teams in scientific missions in research institutions in the state of São Paulo. Review the SPRINT program webpage here. |
Visiting Researcher Program | FAPESP
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Visiting Researcher Program | São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)
Ongoing Call Value: for visits less than 30 days, please see this table; for visits longer than 30 days, please see this table The Visiting Researcher Program offers full or partial support for the hosting of experienced investigators, associated with foreign research institutions, who will work in a research institution in the State of São Paulo for a period from 2 weeks to a maximum (non-extendable) period of 12 months. The visiting researcher must hold PhD degree and have an outstanding record of scientific accomplishments. This program aims to promote collaboration between investigators in the State of São Paulo and their colleagues abroad for the development of ongoing research projects or for assisting the launching of new collaborations. Funds cannot be used for the development of a research project, but joint research efforts conducted by the Visiting Researcher and their host may enhance a proposal. When the duration of the visit is less than 1 month, the maintenance will be supported in the form of per diem payments for the visitor to the threshold value of the monthly maintenance defined by FAPESP based on the visitor's curriculum. The aid does not include the payment of management fees. When the duration of the visit is more than 30 days, the monthly maintenance for the visitor will be supported in the form of aid Visiting Researcher with value defined by FAPESP based on the visitor's curriculum and other characteristics of the submitted proposal. Visit the webpage here. (Português) |
ERA Fellowships Green Hydrogen │ DAAD (closed)
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ERA Fellowships Green Hydrogen │ DAAD
Deadline: open Value: dependent per country - please see programme website for further details The ERA Fellowships on “Green Hydrogen” is a mobility funding programme for PhD students and PostDocs with a funding line for international incoming fellows to Germany and a funding line for outgoing fellows from Germany. The call for applications is launched by DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst and addresses all research fields in Green Hydrogen including production, transport, infrastructure, market simulation and cross-cutting issues. For international incoming fellows to Germany, the programme provides PhD students and PostDocs with funding for a research project or continuing academic training at an institution in Germany for 1-18 months. PhD students may use the grant for a self-organised internship at a company or non-university institution in Germany (shorter duration). Funding is provided in the form of a monthly fellowship instalment with additional financial support depending on the type of project, continuing academic training or internship. The host institution has to be located in Germany. Fellows may come from the RLS-Sciences regions of Georgia, Québec, São Paulo, Upper Austria or Western Cape. Programme website |
Canada Postdoctoral Research Award program | Government of Canada Tri-Agency Program (closed)
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Canada Postdoctoral Research Award program | Government of Canada Tri-Agency Program
Deadline: SSHRC September 11, CIHR September 17, NSERC October 17, 2025 Value: $70,000 per year The Canada Postdoctoral Research Award program provides funding to early-career postdoctoral national and international applicants who will positively contribute to Canada’s research ecosystem, economy and prosperity either at a Canadian institution or abroad. Eligible for application are both Canadian and foreign citizens in three areas of research (Health research, Natural sciences and/or engineering, Social sciences and/or humanities). The program is focused on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research and has a duration of 24 months.
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MSCA Global Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 | European Union
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MSCA Global Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026
Deadline: September 09, 2026 Value: dependent on proposal The MSCA Global Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 are a European mobility funding programme as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. It aims to support researchers’ careers and foster excellence in research for researchers holding a PhD, who wish to carry out research activities abroad, acquire new skills and develop their careers across disciplines. Secondments at industry partners are possible during the fellowships. Global Postdoctoral Fellowships are awarded to eligible nationals and long-term residents of EU member states for fellowship visits between 1-2 years in a non-associated third country with a mandatory return phase of 1 year. Fellowship grants include living and mobility allowances as well as funding for research, training or networking activities as well as indirect costs for the host organisation. More information can be found here. |
Outgoing Mobility: Students
Support for Upper Austrian students to go abroad
Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Doctoral program | Government of Canada Tri-Agency Program (closed)
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Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Doctoral program | Government of Canada Tri-Agency Program
Deadline: October 17, 2025 for applications directly to CIHR, NSERC or SSHRC; earlier deadlines when applying through a Canadian institution Value: $40,000 per year The Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Doctoral program provides funding to national and international doctoral students who will positively contribute to Canada’s research ecosystem, economy and prosperity either at a Canadian institution or abroad. Eligible for application are both Canadian and foreign citizens in three areas of research (Health research, Natural sciences and/or engineering, Social sciences and/or humanities). The program is focused on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research and has a duration of 36 months.
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Internationalization Program for Students (IPS) | Government of Upper Austria
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Internationalization Program for Students (IPS) | Government of Upper Austria
Deadline: applications must be submitted before the start of the stay abroad Value: dependent upon destination (upper funding limit per applicant is 1480 EUR incl. travel allowance) The Government of Upper Austria has created the Internationalization Program for Students as a successor programme to the Kepler Internationalization Program. Funding is provided for students and graduates of Upper Austria to complete study visits, courses or internships abroad in non-German speaking countries for a maximum of ten months. Students who have had their main place of resident in Upper Austria for at least one year prior to submitting their application, and who have been admitted to regular studies at Johannes-Kepler-Universität, Fachhochschulen Oberösterreich, Pädagogischen Hochschule Oberösterreich, and Privaten Pädagogischen Hochschule der Diözese Linz or at other universities and colleges in Upper Austria or with a successfully completed diploma or master's degree at the above-mentioned institutions can apply. Program website. |
Merit scholarship program for foreign students (PBEEE) | FRQ-NT (Closed)
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Merit scholarship program for foreign students (PBEEE) | Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies (FRQNT)
(Please note this call is now closed) Value: dependent on program stream- please see below. The objective of the Merit Scholarship Programs for Foreign Students (PBEEE) is to support the internationalization of research activities in Québec's institutions of higher education, to attract the best foreign researchers and students, and to promote Québec universities and College Centers for the Transfer of Technologies (CCTT), abroad. Candidates must be preselected by a university, the Réseau Trans-Tech (a CCTT), TERI University, the SRE or CONACYT. There are three streams within the program: Doctoral research, post-doctoral research, or Short-term research or professional development. Universities can recommend four candidates per year for each of these three components. There are no quotas per country. The Réseau Trans-tech can recommend four candidates for Postdoctoral scholarships and Short-term research or professional development scholarships. Doctoral research component Candidates are eligible for doctoral merit program scholarships from MEESR in the first nine sessions of their doctoral studies. All doctoral sessions, funded or unfunded, completed before the scholarship takes effect, are used in calculating the eligibility period. The maximum duration of the scholarship is three years (nine sessions), with a possible extension of up to 12 months, for up to $25,000 (Canadian) per year Postdoctoral component Postdoctoral scholarships are intended for researchers who have obtained their degree no more than two years before the deadline of the competition or who submitted their dissertation by the deadline for the beginning of scholarship use. Postdoctoral research must be conducted in an institution other than the one that granted the Doctorate. The applicant's doctoral supervisors and co-supervisors may not act as his/her postdoctoral supervisor, even if they have changed institutions. The duration of this scholarship is for up to one year, for $35,000 (Canadian). This scholarship is not renewable. Short-term research or professional development component Short-term research or professional development scholarships are intended for technical and university students (option A) or researchers who have completed a doctorate no more than five years before the deadline for the competition (option B). The research or professional development must be conducted in an institution other than the one at which the student was enrolled when he or she applied. The duration of this scholarship is for up to four months, for $3,000 (Canadian) per month. The scholarship is not renewable. Visit the programme website here. |
globalink research award | Mitacs
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Globalink Research Award | Mitacs
Deadline: open- Applicants (student or postdoctoral fellow, home and host supervisors) submit their application to Mitacs 12-16 weeks prior to the project start date for processing. Value: $6,000 CAD for 12-24 weeks, $12,000 for 24-48-weeks The Mitacs Globalink Research Award (GRA) supports research collaborations between Canada and eligible countries and regions through intern(s) international mobility. Under the joint supervision of a home and host professor, successful senior undergraduate students, graduate students, as well as postdoctoral fellows will receive a $6,000 research award per internship unit (12- to 24-week research project in the other country). Applicants can do up to two internships. Awards are offered in partnership with Mitacs’s Canadian academic institution partners and are subject to available funding. Program website |
Mitacs accelerate | mitacs
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Mitacs Accelerate | Mitacs
Deadline: Applications accepted at any time, the review will take approximately six to eight weeks Value: $15,000 CAD per four- or six-month internship Mitacs Accelerate provides leveraged funding of $15,000 CAD per four- or six-month internship, where interns will work collaboratively with their academic supervisor and partner organization on a research project. An intern can be a Canadian citizen, a permanent resident, international student with a student visa, or international postdoctoral fellow with a valid work permit. Academic supervisors are eligible if they are faculty at a Canadian academic institution who are eligible to hold Tri-Agency funds. Partner organizations can be for-profit corporations (must receive more than 50% of their funds from non-government sources), eligible not-for-profit corporations, municipalities, or hospitals in Canada. For-profit businesses and not-for-profit corporations operating outside of Canada are eligible as additional partners on projects with a Canadian partner organization. Interns may interact remotely with an international partner organization and/or travel to interact in person. Any travel must be in accordance with their Canadian academic institution’s policies. The Mitacs standard funding model requires a partner contribution starting at $7,500 CAD per internship (4 or 6 months) which results in a $15,000 CAD research award. Of this award, the intern must receive a minimum $10,000 CAD stipend or salary. The Mitacs Postdoctoral researcher funding model requires a contribution of $10,000 CAD per internship (4 or 6 months) which results in a $20,000 CAD research award. This funding model is only available to postdoctoral interns. Visit the program website here. |