ifk Research Fellowship are intended for postdoctoral researchers. Qualified applications for this fellowship will be accepted from individuals of all nationalities and regardless of institutional or professional affiliation. In cases of where applicants are of comparable qualification, Austrian applicants will be given preference.
An application as a Research Fellow excludes a parallel application as a Senior Fellow.
ifk Senior Fellowships are intended for outstanding researchers who are advanced in their academic careers (full professors or clearly established in their field), and want to pursue their own research at the ifk while fostering intellectual cooperation with the ifk Fellows and other Austrian colleagues. Qualified applications for this fellowship will be accepted from individuals of all nationalities and regardless of institutional or professional affiliation. Applicants with an international reputation and a publication profile that identifies them as leading experts in their respective scientific fields are particularly encouraged to apply.
An application as a Senior Fellow excludes a parallel application as a Research Fellow.
Junior Fellowships for doctoral candidates with Austrian citizenship or non-Austrian doctoral candidates supervised at Austrian universities.
The next call for applications is for the academic year 2026/27. Successful applicants will also have the opportunity to participate in the ifk Abroad fellowship program for research abroad planned for the academic year 2027/2028 (free choice of location and university abroad; participation is possible but not obligatory).
The Austrian Fulbright Commission and the ifk International Research Center for Cultural Studies | University of Art and Design Linz in Vienna offer grants for U.S. scholars and cultural studies graduate students.
For more information and applications visit: www.fulbright.at, (+43-1) 236 78 78-02
In coordination with the Science Department (MA 7) of the City of Vienna, the ifk invites visiting scientists who are expected to make a special contribution to Vienna as a center of science.
It is not possible to apply for this fellowship, but will be selected by the ifk after successful submission of a motion for a Research or Senior Fellowship.
Doctoral fellows of the Austrian Academy of Sciences have the opportunity to apply for a place in the Junior Fellowship Program at ifk (2 semesters, as part of the ÖAW fellowship). Application via the ÖAW.
International ifk Artist in Residence in cooperation with Klosterneuburg Abbey
As an artist in residence, you will have the opportunity to advance your own work in the interdisciplinary environment of the ifk as well as in cooperation with the Augustinian Abbey of Klosterneuburg, to put it into perspective and to exhibit it publicly. Within the framework of this residency, the artist participate in the ifk Fellow Program and is provided with an office at the institute. Generous accommodation will be provided at the abbey. The work created during the fellowship may find a place within the museum and exhibition program of Klosterneuburg Abbey.
The call for applications is primarily aimed at artists whose centre of life and work is not in Austria. Residence in the abbey is obligatory.