Promotion of acquisition of third-party funding

The faculty management encourages the academics at the Faculty to be active and committed to the acquisition of large and prestigious third-party funded projects. To support and acknowledge these efforts, the Faculty provides the following assistance for the submission of project proposals:

1. Personnel support:

Faculty staff members1 can (once per project) apply for personnel support for every project proposal for third-party funded projects with a funded project volume of > EUR 600,000 (i.e. excluding in-kind) to the credit of the FGGA. As a prerequisite for granting personnel support, the project must have reached the second proposal stage in a competitive procedure and the full proposal for the project must be verifiably submitted later. Personnel support is granted in the form of third-party funds for a ‘Geringfügige Beschäftigung’ / marginally employment (e.g. student project employee) for the period during which the full proposal is being prepared and for a period of no more than four months. If the funding body merely assesses formal criteria during the first proposal stage, the procedure is not considered competitive. Please send your informal application, including the funding body’s invitation to submit the full proposal, to forschung.fgga@univie.ac.at in due time. Upon approval, the applicant, subunit and Dean’s office agree on an individual basis on the further procedure.

2. Financial assistance to cover travel expenses:

For the verifiable completion of a project proposal for a third-party funded project (excluding FWF Principal Investigator Projects, FWF International Programmes) with a funded project volume of > EUR 400,000 (i.e. excluding in-kind) to the credit of the FGGA, faculty staff members1 have the opportunity to apply (once per project) for financial assistance to cover travel expenses of up to 50 % of the travel costs incurred, but of no more than EUR 1,000 in total. Financial assistance extends exclusively to the reimbursement of documented, eligible expenses; lump sum payments cannot be taken into consideration. Expenses for personal meals, for instance, are not eligible (exemptions: overnight stays including breakfast, conference dinners for networking purposes). In addition, subsequent debits of flight costs from the financing cost centre or internal order of the University of Vienna for reasons of sustainability are not eligible see the u:wiki “FAQs regarding sustainable business trips”). Any debits of costs from the financing cost centre or internal order via reverse charge are eligible for funding if the costs can be covered by the entire amount of funding granted by the Faculty. Therefore, any reverse charge should already be taken into account in the application for financial assistance to cover travel expenses. 
Applications for less than EUR 500 will not be granted due to the administrative effort involved. This procedure complies with the Faculty’s Promotion of research and excellence programme.

3. Bonuses:

3.1 Faculty staff members1 who do not belong to the group of professors at the time of submitting the project proposal can apply for financial assistance in the form of a third-party funding bonus in the amount of EUR 2,000 for every project proposal (excluding FWF Principal Investigator Projects, FWF International Programmes) with a funded project volume of > EUR 400,000 (i.e. excluding in-kind) to the credit of the FGGA for which they have verifiably submitted a full proposal.

3.2 For every granted Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship (incoming) implemented at the Faculty, the Faculty grants an MSCA bonus in the amount of EUR 2,000 to the fellow.

3.3 For every granted MSCA Doctoral Network implemented at the Faculty, the Faculty grants an MSCA bonus in the amount of EUR 2,000 to the PI.

These bonuses are to be used for research purposes. To receive a bonus, please send an informal e-mail to forschung.fgga@univie.ac.at. Upon approval, the applicant, subunit and Dean’s office agree on an individual basis on the further procedure.

Applies to points 1-3

1 “Faculty staff members” are defined as those persons who are employed with the FGGA as scientific staff both when submitting the project proposal and when the financial assistance is transferred, and who (if the project proposal is approved) will be implementing the respective project at the FGGA as its PI. 


Furthermore, for the bonuses in accordance with section 4.3.1, those external persons who submitted a project proposal in collaboration with the FGGA and have obtained its approval and will be implementing this project at the FGGA as its PI are considered ‘faculty members’. In these cases, the bonus can only be transferred once the respective person has been employed at the Faculty as scientific staff member and once the project has started. 

 

This is a translation. The only legally binding version of this text is the German version.

"Freiräume schaffen"

With the concept "Freiräume schaffen" the Rectorate aims to relieve UNIVIE scientists during the application phase of large, prestigious third-party funded projects (ERC CoG or ERC AdG/SynG, FWF SFB (Lead), FWF doc.funds (Lead), WWTF VRG, EU cooperation projects (Lead), CD labs or equivalent). The relief can take the form of reduced teaching obligations or the provision of a student assistant.

Detailed information in the univie-intranet

Project Calls of Funding Organisations

To support you in your search for appropriate external funding programmes, we provide a selection of open calls tendered by national and international funding organisations.

List of open calls