FWF: #Connecting Minds

Funding is available to teams of two to five researchers that combine both academic and social knowledge and are applying them to help tackle social, technological, ecological, and economic challenges by involving non-academic stakeholders in their research projects.

With the #ConnectingMinds program, the Austrian Science Fund FWF encourages researchers to involve non-academic stakeholders in their research projects. Funding is available to teams which combine both academic and social knowledge and are applying them to help tackle social, technological, ecological, and economic challenges. The focus is on transdisciplinarity, innovative research approaches, and support for community engagement and collective learning spaces.

The program is aimed at consortia of two to five internationally outstanding researchers at one or more Austrian research institutions.

For the current call, the FWF is supporting innovative #ConnectingMinds Workshops and #ConnectingMinds Projects with funding provided by the Fonds Zukunft Österreich as part of the thematic groups of the EU Missions. 

Information: https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/funding/portfolio/collaborations/connectingminds

 

A webinar is organised by FWF: In English, 150125 - Registration link

Please let us know if you are interested in applying for this call but are unable to attend this webinar. FoS might additionally organize a BOKU internal webinar upon request.

Furthermore, an FWF Virtual Training on Transdisciplinary Research - Success Factors and Methods for Societal and Scientific Impact will be held on 191224 - Registration Link

 

ATTENTION: Internal BOKU deadlines

Please note, that this programme is handled via PROFI, which means that the application must be submitted centralized in the FWF's electronic application portal (elane) by the Research Support Office, deadline 130225, 2 p.m.

In order to be able to estimate the expected workload, please send a brief notification right away, if you're planning a submission!

In order to be able to guarantee a timely submission, please comply with the following internal procedure:

By 270125, 09:00, at the latest: Forward the ePM to FoS-PS
By 050225, 09:00, at the latest: Approval of the department head in the ePM, otherwise we will not be able to submit the proposal.

Upload of project description and scientific abstract to elane - ideally the final version, but at least the draft version available by then, which has to be sufficiently advanced for us to be able to check it formally in a reasonable way.

Submission by the Research Support Office is scheduled for 120225 to ensure a smooth submission of all applications (keyword: server overload on the day of the deadline). In any case, the application must be finalized in elane by then, otherwise we cannot guarantee a timely submission.

FoS wishes you all the best in writing your application!

Information: https://boku.ac.at/fos/newsitem/81453