Early-Stage Program: Research – Innovation – Training

The ESPRITprogram is intended to improve the skills and support the professional development of researchers from all disciplines early in their research careers by giving them the opportunity to lead an independent research project.

This program is tailored especially for young postdocs (up to five years max after completion of their PhD) to obtain their first grant as main principal investigator. The program lasts three years and the budget covers the full-time salary of the PI plus a Lump-Sum budget of 45.000 EUR* for all other non-personal costs, and with no need of a cost justification!

*If required, up to 75.000 EUR can be requested for non-personal cost. In this case, a full budget description must be submitted in the application.

Information: ESPRIT - FWF

 

Another appealing fact of this program is its success rate: 30% in 2023 (according to FWF Dashboard-> https://dashboard.fwf.ac.at/).

FWF organizes an online webinar that will focus on program specifics and application guidelines and address specific aspects of the application process for this ESPRIT Program.

Webinar, May 21, 2025, 09:30-11:30. 

Registration is required to attend this event*, using this link.

*Please, sign up even if this event is full (to the waiting list), so that FWF will know that a second event should be organized.

The full list of FWF webinar is available here: https://www.fwf.ac.at/aktuelles/eventkalender

 

The BOKU Pre-Award Team of the Research Support, Innovation & Technology Transfer assists researchers interested in submitting such FWF projects. Do not hesitate to contact us for any question projektsupport(at)boku.ac.at

Do not hesitate to also check regularly our webpage, where we inform researchers about upcoming calls: https://boku.ac.at/fos

05.05.2025