Principal Investigator Projects
Principal Investigator Projects supports principal investigators and their groups at Austrian research institutions, funding innovative basic research across disciplines to advance science and scholarship.
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Funder: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Due Dates: Rolling (Applications)
Funding Amounts: Project-specific personnel and non-personnel costs for up to 48 months
Summary: Supports innovative, clearly defined basic research projects across all disciplines at Austrian research institutions.
Key Information: Austrian research institutions apply and appoint a qualified principal investigator; Austrian citizenship and a specific degree are not required.
Description
The Austrian Science Fund’s Principal Investigator Projects program supports investigator-driven basic research across all disciplines. It gives principal investigators and their groups the resources and flexibility to investigate individual research questions within clearly defined projects. Research must be knowledge-oriented, internationally competitive, and valuable for advancing science and scholarship.
The program supports new ideas or questions, new methods or technologies, original approaches, and existing approaches applied or adapted to new questions. Incremental development of published data or the next logical research step is not considered innovative or original. Projects are managed at Austrian research institutions and may involve associated Austrian research partners and national or international cooperation partners.
