Target group
- Austrian research institutions that are entitled to award doctoral degrees (NB: A single institution can submit multiple applications.)
Objectives
- To promote outstanding education and training for scientific and arts-based doctoral students within the framework of structured doctoral programmes that have been in operation for at least two years (see requirements below)
- To reinforce the research orientation and sustained consolidation of existing education and training structures for highly qualified junior researchers
Requirements
- The programme must have been launched at least two years prior to the submission deadline (1 March 2022).
- The programme’s faculty must include at least five scientific or arts-based researchers whose research track records are considered outstanding by FWF standards.
- The university (or universities) offering the programme must commit themselves to providing basic funding, that is, providing all necessary infrastructure as well as funds for the on-going operation and institutional anchoring of the programme.
- The programme must involve training through research, that is, the PhD candidates are to be involved in a focused and consistent research context.
- The programme must have standards and procedures for
- admission and selection of PhD candidates: international advertisement and application
- the education and training programme, supervision and monitoring, and the working conditions for PhD candidates: supervision confirmations, dissertation agreements, regular progress reports, subject-specific content and supporting measures (transferable skills etc.), team supervision instead of individual supervision only, supervisor development, allowing for international mobility, and provision of different funding models for PhD candidates
- the completion of the doctoral programme: separation of supervisor and examiner (if compliant with study-law regulations).
Additional funding for ongoing FWF Doctoral Programmes (DK projects, doc.funds.connect) cannot be requested through thedoc.funds programme.
Duration
- 4 years
Funding amount
- Personnel costs for 5 to 10 PhD candidates
- Education and training costs of up to €5,000 per year for each PhD position requested
- 5% general project costs
Applications
Via the FWF’s electronic application portal (elane)
- Start of call for applications: 29 November 2021
- Submission deadline: 1 March 2022
- in English
Allocation
- final funding decisions will be made by the FWF Board end of November 2022 based on the recommendations of the international doc.funds jury
- Recommendations are based on an international review procedure and presentations (hearings) before the international doc.funds-Jury. The hearings are expected for early November 2022.
