[CALL] S&T Cooperation (WTZ): Austria - Poland

21.05.2021

Deadline: 21 May 2021

For early-stage or mid-career researchers who want to establish a new partnership (mainly travel and accomodation expenses).

+++ Call opens on 1 Apr 2021 +++

The programme for Scientific & Technological Cooperation is carried out in the frame of the bilateral "Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Austria and the Government of the People's Republic of Poland on Co-operation in the areas of Culture and Science from 14 June 1972" and is financed  equally  by  the Austrian  Federal  Ministry  of  Education,  Science and Research (BMBWF) and by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

Aims of the Programme

- Funding researchers‘ mobility in the frame of joint research projects to stimulate international research cooperation
- Providing an opportunity for researchers to cooperate in an international setting and to develop their scientific careers, especially for early-stage, mid-career as well as female researchers

Areas of Cooperation

The Call is open to all scientific disciplines and thematic areas, including social sciences as well as humanities.

Duration of projects

The projects will be supported for a period of max. two years.

Who may apply?

AUSTRIA: Researchers working at Universities, Universities of Applied Sciences and other legal entities (e.g. higher education and research institutions, companies) planning to carry out a non-profit-oriented research project within the frame of this call are eligible for application.

Project proposals submitted by early-stage or mid-career researchers as well as project proposals with involvement of PhD/doctoral students, early-stage and/or female researchers will be particularly considered.

The focus of the programme lies on new international partnerships. Follow-up proposals with the same research partners will not be eligible for funding if they have already been funded under this programme.


POLAND: Researchers working at universities, universities of applied studies and all other legal entities (e.g. higher  education  and  research  institutions,  companies)  planning  to  carry  out  a  non-profit-oriented  research project within theframe of this call are eligible for application.