The seed grants are intended to support the preparation of major funding applications (e.g. ERC Frontier Research Grants, FWF Principal Investigator Projects, FWF START, Elise Richter, or similar). Projects must be relevant to the domain of Data Science, and resulting applications must be submitted through one of the faculties affiliated with the research network. Grant recipients are expected to present their projects and any preliminary results at one of our networking events. The timeline for the submission of the major funding application must be within one year.

Who can apply? Early-career researchers (advanced doctoral candidates, postdoctoral fellows, and assistant professors) at the University of Vienna who are affiliated with the Research Network Data Science @ Uni Vienna at the time of application and are expected to maintain their affiliation for at least 12 months.

Not a member yet? For information on joining the network, please refer to the membership guidelines (https://datascience.univie.ac.at/about-us/membership/) of the Research Network Data Science @ Uni Vienna.

Questions? Ready to submit your proposal? Please contact info.datascience@univie.ac.at

For application documents, evaluation criteria, and more information please see attached PDF document or visit:
https://datascience.univie.ac.at/research/seed-grants/

Application deadline: 7 September 2025