Within the scope of its thematic programme on information and communication technologies (“ICTs”) created in 2007, the WWTF aims to promote scientific projects and science chairs that contribute to improving ITCs directly rather than applying ICTs to other disciplines.
Projects may involve either information technologies or communication technologies or both. The projects should aim at studying substantial scientific issues tangential to ICTs which offer the prospect of medium-term utilisation and exploitation.
Current Calls
ICT Call 2010 (currently open)
ICT Call 2010 (currently open)
From October 1, 2009 till February 11, 2010 at 2pm the second WWTF project call for "Information- and Communication Technology" is open and proposals for research projects can be submitted. The dedicated funding for this call amounts to EUR 5 million. The call addresses universities and non-university research institutions as well as scientists and researchers in Vienna, including researchers moving to Vienna as a result of this call, that would like to investigate a multi-annual (2-4 years) scientific project in the field of Information and Communication Technology. Projects should improve the understanding of substantial scientific research questions in the field of Information and Communication Technology with potential medium term economic or social benefits.
Dates of Proposers' Days:
- Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 14:00-16:00, large meeting room at the 2nd floor, Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien (ftw.), Donau City Straße 1, 1220 Wien.
- Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 15:00-17:00, Böcklsaal, TU Wien, Karlsplatz 13 (Stair 1, 1st floor), 1040 Wien.
- Thursday November 26, 2009, 14:00 – 16:00, AIT, TechGate Tower 5.OG, Donau City Straße 1, 1220 Wien.
- Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 11:00 - 13:00, University of Vienna, Marietta Blau Saal, Dr. Karl Lueger Ring 1, 1010 Wien. University of Vienna Floorplan
- Wednesday, Dezember 16, 2009, 09:30-11:30, Kleiner Sitzungssaal, Augasse 2-6 (UZA 1, 1. UG, Kern D), 1090 Wien. Registration is necessary (till Dec 11) via e-mail to Ruth Heuberger, ruth.heuberger@wu.ac.at.
Documents of the Call, Guide for writing a proposal and FAQs are available in the
Earlier Calls
ICT Call 2008
A total sum of 5 mio.€ was dedicated to this call. Within the framework of the defined deadline for submission of projects, 50 proposals have been submitted. This corresponds to a requested funding volume of about 27 mio.€.
From 23rd to 24th of October the ICT08 jury meeting took place gathering 13 international jurors. During the meeting the jury extensively discussed the submitted proposals on the basis of at least three international reviews per proposal and formulated the jury recommendation. On 11th November the WWTF Board of Directors fully confirmed the jury’s funding recommendation.
The jury recommends a total number of 12 projects requesting a funding volume of nearly 5 mio.€ for funding.
The following projects are to be funded within the framework of the “Information and Communication Technology” Call 2008:
- Personal Unsynchronized Cooperative Communications – PUCCO
Principal Investigator: Nicolai Czink
Home Institution: ftw. Telecommunications Research Center Vienna
Project duration: 2 years
- Content Aware Coding for Mobile TV
Principal Investigator: Helmut Hlavacs
Home Institution: University of Vienna
Project duration: 2.5 years
- High-Resolution Three-Dimensional Imaging
Principal Investigator: Horst Zimmermann
Home Institution: Technical University of Vienna
Project duration: 3.5 years
- Methodology for design of Accurate and Robust Communication systems (MARC)
Principal Investigator: Christoph Grimm
Home Institution: Technical University of Vienna
Project durationr: 4 years
- FoSII - Foundations of Self-governing ICT Infrastructures
Principal Investigator: Ivona Brandic
Home Institution: Technical University of Vienna
Project duration: 3 years
- Temporal-Consistent Stereo Matting for High-Quality Novel View Synthesis and Visual Effects
Principal Investigator: Margit Gelautz
Home Institution: Technical University of Vienna
Project duration: 3 years
- Inconsistency Management for Knowledge-Integration Systems
Principal Investigator: Michael Fink
Home Institution: Technical University of Vienna
Project duration: 3 years
- New Methods for Analyzing, Comparing, and Solving Argumentation Problems
Principal Inestigator: Stefan Woltran
Home Institution: Technical University of Vienna
Project duration: 3 years
- Simultaneous Calibration and Tracking: A joint optimization approach for arbitrarily placed cameras
Principal Investigator: Roman Pflugfelder
Home Institution: Austrian Research Centres (ARC)
Project duration: 3 years
- Service-Oriented Data Integration
Principal Investigator: Reinhard Pichler
Home Institution: Technical University of Vienna
Project duration: 3 years
- SCALE-VS: Research on the Scalability and Confluence of Scientific Visualization and Interactive Segmentation
Principal Investigator: Markus Hadwiger
Home Institution: VRVis - Research Center for Virtual Reality and Visualisation, Vienna
Project duration: 3 years
- Distributed Information Processing for Spatio-Temporal Fields in Wireless Sensor Networks
Principal Investigator: Gerald Matz
Home Institution: Technical University of Vienna
Project duration: 4 years
