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Funding Scholarship for the PhD Program - Deadline 16 October 2026
Funding Scholarship for the Doctoral Program in the Arts - Deadline 16 October 2026
Event "Zwischen Management, Kunst und Wissenschaft - Neue Karrieren für die Universität von morgen", 22.10.2026, @mdw - Registration until 15.10.
mdw-internal funding programmes
Highlights
mdwMagazin Special "Science Communication"
New Research Projects
'Sounding Confession' (project lead: Milena Amann-Rauter) funded by FWF ESPRIT
'Performing Liberation? SWANA EDM on European Dancefloors' (project lead: Ioannis Christidis) funded by FWF ESPRIT
'Between Institutional Critique and Theatre Reform' (project lead Adam Czirak), funded by the FWF
'Street Scenes: Transformations of the Street as a Theatrical Reference Space' (project lead: Sebastian Kirsch), funded by the FWF
'Don’t Wake Up! Future Dreaming in the Arts: At the Intersection of Aesthetics, Decolonization and Technology' (project lead: Marietta Kesting), funded by the FWF
'Resonant Inheritance: Sonic Transformation in Namibian Brass' (project lead: Carolin Mueller), funded by the FWF
'Infrastructuring Solidarity: Towards Careful Abolition – A Post-digital Media Theory of Solidarity' (project team: Maja Figge, mdw and Jasmin Degeling, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation
'AI-Powered Preservation of Traditional String Instruments' (project lead: Riccardo Simionato), funded by FWF ESPRIT
'Executable Workflows for Digital Music Research' (project lead: David Weigl), funded by WWTF-DARE
'Let's Encode! Crowd-Encoding and Validation of Music Scores' (project lead: David Weigl), funded by FWF Principal Investigator Project
'Vienna´s New Year´s Concerts: Same procedure as every year?' (project lead: David Weigl), funded by das FWF Science Communication
'Max Kalbeck: : Networking Practices in Vienna 1900' (project lead: Henrike Rost), funded by FWF Principal Investigator Project
'Music for the Eye? An Ethnographic Study of Sign Choirs' (project lead: Chae-Lin Kim), funded by ESPRIT FWF
'(Un)heard Neighbors? An Urban Ethnomusicology of Proximity' (project lead: Isabel Frey), funded by 1000 Ideen FWF
'Ludwig Senfl: New Edition of the Collected Works IV' (project lead: Stefan Gasch), funded by FWF Principal Investigator Project
'Piano Competitions in the Cold War' (project lead: Bianca Schumann), funded by the Walter Benjamin Program of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and FWF Principal Investigator Project
More research projects at the mdw
Research Support
Mag.a Therese Kaufmann, MA
Head
Mag. Vitali Bodnar, MAS
Project Service
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