Empirical Social Sciences

Resilience & Crises

The Empirical Social Sciences 2026 Call "Resilienz & Crises" opened for submissions on January 30, 2026. This call invites researchers to submit proposals for exploratory, interdisciplinary research projects that advance the conceptualization of resilience in relation to selected crises—primarily with regard to their societal dimensions. The project must be led by a social scientist. Projects should initiate structured collaboration with other scientific disciplines and with relevant practitioner communities, and employ methodological approaches capable of anticipating potential future crises.

A total of € 2 million has been dedicated to this call. The funding range per project is € 50,000 – € 100,000. Additional funding opportunities are available for collaborative projects between scientists in Vienna and Lower Austria. Details can be found at Joint Projects.

• Deadline for  proposals: June 17, 2026, 2pm CET
• The funding decision is expected in October 2026.

All necessary information for the submission can be found via our Public WWTF Wiki Pages.

Events:

As part of this call, we are organizing a series of preparatory events. Details can be found here (at the bottom of this page).

Please do not hesitate to contact the call managers for more details:

Michael Strassnig and Magdalena Wicher

Quantitative Data Research

The WWTF pilot call "Quantitative Data Research" in the field of Empirical Social Sciences was open to researchers at universities and non-university research institutions, who seek to conduct a cutting-edge interdisciplinary research projects (duration: 2 to 4 years) on the basis of large data sets on socially relevant issues. The funding range per project is € 250,000 to € 600,000. The call jury selected 7 excellent projects for funding. Additional funding opportunities were available for collaborative projects between scientists in Vienna and Lower Austria.