With its “SciENCE for Creative Industries” programme, the WWTF aims to fund projects and endowed chairs which broaden the scientific foundation for the creative industries and thus contribute to their strengthening in Vienna.
This type of research is located at the interface of natural sciences, technology, history, social science and art on the one hand and the creative industries working in music, multimedia, design, movies, theatre, etc. which cover a considerable workforce in Vienna.
In Vienna, creative industries are understood to comprise those knowledge-intensive business segments (typically of a cultural orientation) which have their roots in individual creativity, skills and an inventive mind. They also offer a potential for economic welfare and the creation of new jobs through the utilisation of intellectual property.
Earlier Calls
Cognitive Sciences Call 2011
Cognitive Sciences Call 2011
Vienna, 7 November 2011: Within the "Cognitive Sciences" Call 2011 of the WWTF seven projects are funded. These aim at advancing the understanding of cognitive processes in humans, animals and machines, so that we better understand how the human brain works and functions. The supported Viennese research institutions all pursue fundamental research and receive for that purpose a total sum of three million Euro.
The „Cognitive Sciences“ Call 2011 has been closed on 1 June 2011. In total, 36 proposals have been submitted in response to this call with a requested funding volume of around 17 Mio. €. On 27 October 2011 the jury meeting took place in Vienna gathering 10 international jurors. During the meeting, the jury extensively discussed the submitted proposals on the basis of at least three international reviews per proposal as well as based on their own expertise and formed their funding recommendation. On 7 November 2011 the WWTF Board of Directors fully confirmed the jury’s funding recommendation:
Within the “Cognitive Sciences” Call 2011, 7 projects with a total amount of 3.012 mio. € are funded.
These are the successful projects within this call:
“Like me: The evolutionary and neuro-cognitive basis of the link between imitation, empathy and prosocial behaviour in dogs and humans”
Principal Investigator: Ludwig Huber / University of Vienna
Project duration: 3 Jahre
Funding volume: 500,000 €
“Modelling social transmission: how relationships, group size and group structure influence social learning in wild and captive corvids”
Principal Investigator: Christine Schwab / University of Vienna
Project duration: 3 years
Funding volume: 360,000 €
„Modeling Visual Attention as a Key Factor in Visual Recognition and Quality of Experience”
Principal Investigator: Ulrich Ansorge / University of Vienna
Project duration: 4 years
Funding volume: 401,200 €
„The role of the opioid system for empathic responses to pain and their link to prosocial behaviour - OPIOIDEMPATHY”
Principal Investigator: Claus Lamm / University of Vienna
Project duration: 3 years
Funding volume: 500,000 €
„Time makes the difference! Uncovering the nature of aesthetic experience”
Principal Investigator: Helmut Leder / University of Vienna
Project duration: 3 years
Funding volume: 392,200 €
„The semantics of talking with the eyes and gestures: the hormonal and cognitive underpinnings of comprehending cooperative intentional communication in domestic dogs and wolves”
Principal Investigator: Zsofia Viranyi / University of Vienna
Project duration: 3 years
Funding volume: 499,000 €
“Algorithms, neural circuitry, and genetics of high-level visual behavior in the fly”
Principal Investigator: Andrew Straw / Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP)
Project duration: 4 years
Funding volume: 359,600 €
The evaluation process and jury members: Jury Process and Jury Members
Science Chairs for Cognitive Sciences 2008
On December 10, 2008 the WWTF Board has decided to fund two Vienna Science Chairs for Cognitive Science.
Five Senses Call 2006
From 34 projects submitted, totalling about € 15 million in funding applied for, nine projects were awarded funds. This Call has a total funding volume of € 3.4 million.
SciENCE for Creative Industries Call 2003/2004
This Call provided total funding of € 3 million for ten projects.
