June 04, 2018
Cognitive Sciences Call 2018: Projects for the invitation to submit full proposals selected by jury
The current Cognitive Sciences call for short proposals is closed since April 12, 2018. WWTF received 55submissions of which the international jury - in a meeting in Vienna end of May - selected 18 to be invited to submit a full proposal. For these, the submission of an extended application is possible until August 9, 2018. Subsequently, the proposals will undergo international peer review.
May 21, 2018
Life Sciences Call 2018 "Linking Research & Patients' Needs" closed
The full proposal phase for the thrid Life Sciences Call "Linking Research & Patients' Needs" ended on May 18, 2018. 25 full proposals have been submitted and are now under international peer review. The international call jury will formulate a funding recommendation to the WWTF Board of Directors in autumn 2018.
On November 30 and December 1, 2017 the jury meeting for the eighth Vienna Research Groups Call took place in Vienna. For the second time, the topic of the Call was "Mathematics and...". Two positions with a maximum funding of 1.6 Mio. € by the City of Vienna were advertised.
On December 6 and 7, 2017 the jury meeting took place in Vienna. In total 25 PIs were invited to submit a full proposal. 8 projects were recommended for funding, with a total amount of 4.686.000 €.
On September 7 and 8, 2017 the jury meeting of the first WWTF Pilot Call Environmental Systems Research: Urban Environments took place in Vienna. In total 25 PIs were invited to submitt a full proposal. 7 projects will be funded with a total funding amount of 4.2 m €.
The eighth Vienna Research Groups Call, with the topic "Mathematics and..." closed on July 13, 2017.
On December 5, 2016 the jury meeting for the seventh Vienna Research Groups Call took place in Vienna. For the first time, the topic of the Call was "Complexitiy Sciences". One position with a maximum funding of 1.6 Mio. € by the City of Vienna was advertised.
On May 22, 2017 the jury meeting of the first WWTF Call for transfer projects took place in Vienna. In total 40 projects that had been funded by WWTF in previous calls were invited to submit a proposal for a specific transfer activity.
After 2011, a new call for Vienna Research Groups will be issued early 2018 in the domain of “Information and Communication Technology”
A Nnew project call in the WWTF Cognitive Sciences programme will start in early 2018. The call's setup will be quite similar to the last one in 2015.
Daniel Gerlich presents his current research project "Elucidating sister chromatid structure by chemical DNA labeling and conformation capture"
With the fifth WWTF Science Dinner on June 14, 2018 we celebrated the successful projects of the 2017 calls Life Sciences "Chemical Biology" and Environmental Systems Research: Urban Environments. The vanue at the Austrian National Library provided a perfectly solemn atmosphere.
Pictures of the event can now be found here.
WIRE 2018 will be organised by Tiroler Zukunftsstiftung – Standortagentur Tirol, in the context of Austria’s EU presidency in cooperation with BMBWF Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research and cofunded by the European Commission DG Research and Innovation (Horizon 2020 Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation).
In his current WWTF-project "Equatorial wave-current interactions" , Adrian Constantin from the University of Vienna uses mathematics to predict the climatic phenomenon more accurately in the future.
This is one of the questions which mathematician Agata Ciabattoni from the Institute of Logic & Computation at the Technical University Vienna and her Co-PI Elisa Freschi, a Sanskritist at the Austrian Academy of Sciences deal with in their current WWTF project Reasoning Tools for Deontic logic and Applications to Indian Sacred Texts.
Walter Schachermayer presents his current research project "Macroprudential bank regulation: a continuous time approach".
Anna Obenauf presents her current research project "Deciphering genomic aberrations in rare skin cancers to find mechanism-based treatment strategies" in a short video.
Georg Tauböck presents his current research project "Infinite Dimensional Signal Processing Techniques for Acoustic Applications (INSIGHT)"
The European project GEECCO faces the challenge of promoting and increasing the presence of women working in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The implementation of actions that eliminate barriers to hiring, maintaining and promoting women researchers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics is the objective of the European project Gender Equality in Engineering through Communication and Commitment (GEECCO), carried out by nine European partners.
Kaan Boztug presents his current research project "Systems precision medicine of inborn errors of the immune system (PrecisePID)" in a short video.
