Public Spaces in Transition 2013 (being processed)

The fith project call Public Spaces in Transition within the programme Social Sciences and Humanities in Vienna is now under review. 52 project proposals have been submitted.

The call for interdisciplinary and international summer schools within the theme of „Public Spaces in Transition" is closed now. WWTF received 14 applications for summer schools.

Jury meeting will be in June. Funding decisions will be announced end of June 2013.

Contact:
Michael Strassnig, Donia Lasinger
michael.strassnig{at}mail.wwtf.at, donia.lasinger{at}mail.wwtf.at
Tel. ++43-1-402 31 43 - 0

Diversity - Identity Call 2011

Award ceremony with presentation of the funded projects on the 28 June 2012 8 pm: Invitation

The Diversity - Identity Call 2011 has been the fourth call within the framework of the ‘Funding programme: Social Sciences and Humanities in Vienna’. The funding decision on this call has been taken by WWTF Board of Directors on 14 December 2011. The decision is based on the funding recommendation by the SSH expert panel. A total funding volume of 2.028 Mio. € is granted to the following six projects:

• Handling Diversity. Medieval Europe and India in Comparison (13th-18th Cent. CE)
Thomas Ertl, University of Vienna
funding volume: 347,900 €; duration: 3 years

• Literature on the move
Wiebke Sievers, Austrian Academy of Sciences
funding volume: 337,500 €; project duration: 3 years

• INPUT - Investigating Parental and Other Caretakers' Utterances to Kindergarten Children
Wolfgang U. Dressler, Austrian Academy of Sciences
funding volume: 349,400 €; project duration: 3 years

• From lab to intervention and back. Doing and undoing diversity in obesity research, treatment and prevention
Ulrike Felt, University of Vienna
funding volume: 343,700 €; project duration: 2.5 years

• TRANSLAB - Cross-Border Labour Mobility, Transnational Labour Markets and Social Differentiation in the Central European Region
Roland Verwiebe, University of Vienna
funding volume: 349,500 €; project duration: 3 years

• CITYSCALERS
Ayse Caglar, University of Vienna
funding volume: 300,000 €; project duration: 2 years

SSH11 Expert Panel and Evaluation Procedure

Diversity - Identity Call 2010

With the Diversity - Identity Call 2010 the third call within the framework of the ‘Funding programme: Social Sciences and Humanities in Vienna’ has been decided by WWTF Board of Directors. The decision is based on the funding recommendation by the SSH expert panel. A total sum of 1.19 Mio. € is granted to the following projects:

• Internet use and friendship structures of young migrants in Vienna: the question for diversity within social networks and online social games
University of Vienna
Gerit Bettina Götzenbrucker
funding volume: 302.000 €, duration: 2 years

• When plurilingual speakers encounter unilingual environments (PluS). Migrants from African countries in Vienna: Language practices and institutional communication
University of Vienna
Brigitta Busch
funding volume: 287.700 €, duration: 2 years

• Past, present and future religious prospects in Vienna 1950 - 2050
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Anne Goujon
funding volume: 296.000 €, duration: 3 years

• Jewish migration and diversity in Vienna and Berlin (1881 – 1918)
University of Vienna
Ingo Haar
funding volume: 299.900 €, duration: 2 years

SSH expert panel for the "Divesity - Identity Call 2010"

Art(s)&Sciences Call 2009

With the Art(s)&Sciences Call 2009 the second call within the framework of the ‘Funding programme: Social Sciences and Humanities in Vienna’ has been decided by WWTF Board of Directors. The decision is based on the funding recommendation by the SSH expert panel. A total sum of 1.35 Mio. € is granted to the following projects and fellowship applications:

Project: Troubling Research. Performing Knowledge in the Arts
(Tom Holert & Johanna Schaffer, Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien)

Project: “Empowerment” in artistic and social scientific work practices
(Ursula Holtgrewe, Forschungs- u Beratungsstelle Arbeitswelt, FORBA)

Project: Living rooms: The Art of Mobilizing Belonging(s)
(Sieglinde Rosenberger, Universität Wien)

Project: “In the event of…” Anticipatory and participatory politics of emergency provision
(Bernd Kräftner, Verein Xperiment!)

Project: Model House – Mapping Transcultural Modernism
(Marion von Osten, Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien)

Fellowship: The Art of Knowing (the limits of knowledge)
(Verein Science Communcations Research)

Art(s) & Sciences Call 2008

With the Art(s)&Sciences Call 2008 the first call within the framework of the ‘Funding programme: Social Sciences and Humanities in Vienna’ has been decided by WWTF Board of Directors. The decision is based on the funding recommendation by the SSH expert panel. A total sum of 1.4 Mio. € is granted to the following 5 projects and 2 fellowship applications:

• Creating Worlds. Art And/As Knowledge Production
European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies (eipcp)
Gerald Raunig
Funding volume: 260,000 €, duration: 3 years

• Transferences: Psychoanalysis – Art - Society
Forschungsgruppe Psychoanalyse „stuzzicadenti“
Eva Laquièze-Waniek
Funding volume: 260,000 €, duration: 2 years

• Doing kinship with pictures and objects: a laboratory for private and public practices of art
SCR – Science Communcations Research
Elisabeth Timm
Funding volume: 260,000 €, duration: 3 years

• Surgical Wrappings
MedArt
Christina Lammer
Funding volume: 260,000 €, duration: 4 years

• Film.Stadt.Wien: A Transdisciplinary exploration of Vienna as a cinematic city
Ludwig Boltzmann-Institut für Geschichte und Gesellschaft (LBIGuG)
Siegfried Mattl
Funding volume: 260,000 €, duration: 2 years

• Fellowship: Wittgenstein and the Arts
Universität Wien, Institut für Philosophie
Fellow: Peter Keicher
Funding volume: 39,000 €, duration of the fellowship: 12 months

• Fellowship: Communication lab for developing network-based spaces for science center activities in Vienna
Science Center Netzwerk
Fellow: Barbara Wenk
Funding volume: 75,800 €, duration of the fellowship: 6 months