Funding Resources for Upper Austrian Digitization 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 students from Upper Austria who want to study in the other RLS regions.
Multilateral Funding for International Projects
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Horizon 2020 | European Union
According to the European Commission, Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020) – in addition to the private investment that this money will attract. It promises more breakthroughs, discoveries and world-firsts by taking great ideas from the lab to the market. EU member states are automatically eligible to compete for funding. Non-EU RLS partners can participate in Horizon 2020 through bilateral agreements between their home countries and the European Union. Every RLS member state has these types of agreements. These agreements vary in the type of funding the the non-EU RLS partner is eligible for. For further information on how participate as a non-EU member, please visit the regional funding page for the partner in question. Additionally, in specific instances, consortium partners in non-EU member states can receive EU funding, provided they bring a unique competence to the consortium that is not available in the EU. Visit the Horizon 2020 page for ICT here. |
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Addressing the challenge of migrant integration through ICT-enabled solutions (DT-MIGRATION-06-2018-2019) | European Union Horizon 2020
Deadline: 14 March, 2019 Value: The European Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of between EUR 3 and 4 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. ICT-enabled solutions and toolkits for the implementation of inclusion policies by public administrations may facilitate the management of migrant and refugee integration, improve autonomy and inclusion and therefore the lives of migrants. The Innovation Action supports projects that provide ICT-enabled solutions to facilitate the management of migrant integration, e.g. by matching their skills with those needed in different countries, develop better and customized services that suit the needs of migrants, and design more efficient integration strategies for implementation at local level. Proposals should engage all actors and consider the potential for co-creation work with migrant in the design and delivery of services. New or enhanced ICT solutions will facilitate the efforts of public administrations at EU, national and local levels to communicate with migrants and grant access to services such as community language teaching, education, training, employment, welfare and healthcare systems. This call is specifically targeting international consortiums. Additionally, together with Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council will support Canadian researchers who work along with European researchers on the topic of migration in Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 6. One- to three-year grants with a subsidy between $75 000 and $200 000 are awarded. Researchers based in Québec can receive an additional funding of $50 000 from the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FQRSC) program. View the call here. |
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EU-US collaboration on Next Generation Internet (ICT-31-2018-2019) | European Union Horizon 2020
Deadline: 28 March, 2019 Value: The European Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of EUR 3.5 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. As a reference, 80% of the EU funding should be allocated to financial support for the third parties. The aim of this call is to reinforce cooperation and strategic partnerships in the area of Next Generation Internet, to establish a continuous dialogue among the key actors in the US and European programmes and to implement focused projects for joint developments. The Research and Innovation Action supports common experiments by EU/US teams on emerging topics for the Next Generation Internet / Tomorrow's Internet programmes on top of EU/US experimental platforms. Proposals should measurably reinforce collaboration and increased synergies between the Next Generation Internet and the Tomorrow's Internet programmes, develop interoperable solutions and joint demonstrators, and establish an EU – US ecosystem of top researchers, hi-tech startups / SMEs and Internet-related communities collaborating on the evolution of the Internet. This topic is specifically requesting international partners outside the EU, and this collaboration will be implemented in accordance with the "Implementation arrangement between the European Commission and the government of the United States of America for cooperation between researchers funded separately by the European Union's and the United States framework programmes on research and innovation" signed on 17 October 2016. View the call here. |
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Security and resilience for collaborative manufacturing environments (ICT-08-2019) | European Union Horizon 2020
Deadline: 28 March, 2019 Value: The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of between EUR 4 and 6 million would allow this area to be addressed appropriately. Physically-entangled systems used in manufacturing environments have some specific requirements in terms of reliability and security, which are now challenged by the need for manufacturing facilities to be digitally connected with external partners in the value chain. There is a need to develop practically usable solutions that can guarantee an adequate level of security to exchange that kind of data. Solutions need to be practically usable in real manufacturing facilities, taking into account the operational requirements needed for factory usage in real-world conditions, including reliability and resilience. Issues of threat detection and implementation of countermeasures should be addressed, as well as evolution and real-time response when needed. These practically usable solutions should guarantee significantly increased cyber-security levels in daily operations for manufacturing facilities and other actors in the value chains and be taken up by industry. View the call here. |
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Digital security, privacy, data protection and accountability in critical sectors (SU-DS05-2018-2019) | European Union Horizon 2020
Deadline: 22 August, 2019 Value: The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of about EUR 5 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. In the context of an increased digitization and of growing complexity of cyber-attacks, there are certain sectors/subsectors identified as critical from the point of view of cybersecurity needs, among others the transport domain and the healthcare sector. It is of outmost importance to facilitate the engagement of end-users towards defining and providing sector-specific common requirements about digital security, privacy and personal data protection. Proposals concerning digital security, privacy and personal data protection in multimodal transport should develop secure access management for citizens to all types of vehicles, protection against specific cyber-attacks in the multimodal transport domain, and standardization to allow the quick adoption of cybersecurity best practices in the domain. Proposals dealing with digital security, privacy and personal data protection in healthcare ecosystem should develop dynamic vulnerability data basis for collecting, uploading, maintaining, and disseminating vulnerabilities of ICT-based medical systems, technologies, applications and services. They should deliver dynamic, evidence-based, sophisticated security, privacy and personal data protection risk assessment frameworks and tools and provide collaborative privacy-aware tools enabling healthcare stakeholders to access and share information healthcare participants. In the long term, projects should contribute to a better cybersecurity for specific standards in the respective critical domains/sectors and a better implementation of the relevant EU legislation and established trust chains among all entities. View the call here. |
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Research Studios Austria (RSA) - Forschung ganz nah am Markt | Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy (BMWFW)
(Please note this call is currently closed) Value: Up to €1.3 Million The Research Studios Austria programme promotes the application and implementation of results from pre-industrial research, thus strengthening collaboration between Austrian science and industry. Consortia may be formed with international partners which are not economically linked to Austrian businesses, and partners from regions outside of Austria (within or outside of the EU) can also be funded (up to 20% of the total funding). A Research Studio is a group of researchers, from which the majority of research primarily work for the Studio. Research Studios can either be founded as "Verwertungsstudios" (application studios) or "Diversifizierungsstudios" (diversification studios). "Verwertungsstudios" are expected to result in innovative, prototype development with a direct application. Within "Diversifizierungsstudions" fundamental knowledge is the basis for further advancements leading to new application-oriented research and development expertise and is transferred to the market through contract research. The goal of the contract research is the generation of prototype developments at the contracting businesses. The current call has named "Information and Communication Technology for Industry 4.0" a priority discipline. The target groups include universities, universities of applied sciences and their transfer offices, cooperative and non-university research institutions, Research Studios as independent legal entities (spin-offs). Applications for the establishment of a Research Studio may be submitted by a studio operator alone or in cooperation with other potential studio operators or funded cooperation partners. A proposal may be submitted by a single institute or company, or as a consortium of up to 3 partner institutes and/or businesses. The funding available to each of the project partners is dependant on the organizational type: - Institutes for research and the dissemination of knowledge: max. 70% - Small businesses: max. 60% - Medium-sized businesses: max. 50% - Large companies: max. 35% Research Studios Austria are small and flexible research units that are usually affiliated to existing institutions. RSA may be established alone or in collaboration with a partner with the aim to translate research results into marketable products and services in a short period of time. Research Studios support networking activities and help to overcome structural bottlenecks and weaknesses and adapt existing structures to new challenges on a continuous basis. This approach is designed to enhance competitiveness and innovative strength of companies in the long term. The Research Studios address topics that: - can be converted into marketable products and services in a short period of time, - are or importance for the Austrian economy, - have the potential to find broad application and - enable transition from basic research to application if the companies alone do not have sufficient relevant research expertise and capacity. For consortia with international partners, an Austrian institution or business must act as the main applicant to the RSA Programme. Funding is possible for partners both within and outside of the EU. The conditions for the inclusions of foreign partners: - The international partner must contribute a significant benefit for the Austrian partner and for Austria as a location of science and research - this must be detailed in the funding proposal - The funding for the non-Austrian partner is a max. of 20% of the total funding value - The review committee must recommend the foreign partner Alternatively, non-Austrian organizations may provide their own financing or financing from their home country. Cooperation agreements exist for joint financing with both European and non-European countries. Visit the program website here. |
Incoming Mobility Funding
Bringing RLS-Sciences students to Upper Austria
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Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW) | National Research Foundation (USA) and FWF (Austria) and CAPES (Brazil)
(Please note this call has now closed) Value: $5000 USD, for four to twelve months Note: this opportunity is for students from Georgia to go to either Upper Austria or São Paulo GROW provides NSF Graduate Research Fellows (referred to as "Fellows") with opportunities to engage in international collaborations with investigators in partner countries around the world. Through GROW, Fellows benefit from partnerships developed by NSF with counterpart funding organizations in other countries, including FWF in Austria and CAPES in Brazil. Eligibility: GROW is open to active Fellows (both "on tenure" and "on reserve") who have completed at least one year of their graduate program at the time of application and will retain their active status for at least 12 months following the application submission deadline. They must be certified by the GRFP Institution to be making satisfactory progress towards their degrees and have fulfilled all GRFP reporting requirements. General Program website. Program website (Austria specific) Program website (Brazil specific) |
Outward Mobility Funding
Visiting RLS-Sciences counterparts outside of Upper Austria
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Programm des Landes Oberösterreich zur Förderung von Forschung, Lehre und Internationalisierung an der Johannes Kepler Universität (JKU) Linz | The State of Upper Austria and the Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
(Please note this call has now closed) Value: dependent on the type of award given, please see below (in German) These funding opportunities are open to applicants from any discipline within faculties of the JKU Linz. The proposed measures are aimed at researchers at the JKU within their dissertation phase, PraeDoc, as well as in their habilitation, PostDoc and young lecturers. This is an initiative of the state of Upper Austria and the JKU to provide financial support and improve the visibility of the accomplishments of the research and teaching at the JKU. Funding is available for: - Leaves of absence/sabbaticals - Research visits abroad - Awards to honour particular contributions in teaching - Incentive bonuses for interdisciplinary research |
Sending students to RLS-Sciences colleagues outside of Upper Austria
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International Internships- Digital | Fonds de recherche du Québec- Nature et technologies
(Please note this call is now closed) Value: Maximum 15 000 CAD The objective of the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies International Internships Digital program is to promote the international mobility of doctoral students whose research is in an area related to digital technologies or digitalization. Applicants may apply for funding to support internships or training at an institution in Québec university or a Québec College Centre for the Transfer of Technologies (CCTT). Eligible applicants must be registered full-time as graduate students at a university in one of the RLS regions (Bavaria, Georgia, São Paulo, Shandong, Upper Austria, Western Cape) in digital technologies or digitalization. Please note that citizens of the six RLS regions outside of Québec (Bavaria, Georgia, São Paulo, Shandong, Upper Austria, Western Cape) who are registered full-time at a university in Québec are not eligible for this scholarship. Studies must begin no later than 31 March, 2019 and must be continue for a minimum of two months and a maximum of six months. Learn more, and apply here. |
Incoming Mobility Funding
Bringing RLS-Sciences students to Upper Austria
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International Internships- Digital | Fonds de recherche du Québec- Nature et technologies
(Please note this call is now closed) Value: Maximum 15 000 CAD *Please note this scholarship is limited to students studying in Québec. The objective of the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies International Internships Digital program is to promote the international mobility of doctoral students whose research is in an area related to digital technologies or digitalization. Applicants may apply for funding to support internships or training at an institution in one of the other six RLS regions (Bavaria, Georgia, São Paulo, Shandong, Upper Austria, Western Cape). Eligible applicants must be registered full-time as graduate students at a university in Québec. Please note that citizens of the six RLS regions outside of Québec (Bavaria, Georgia, São Paulo, Shandong, Upper Austria, Western Cape) who are registered full-time at a university in Québec are not eligible for this scholarship. Studies must begin no later than 31 March, 2019 and must be continue for a minimum of two months and a maximum of six months. Learn more, and apply here. |