News
mdw: Scholarships to support academic or artistic work by full-time students (e.g. ambitious artistic or academic dissertations, film and (musical) theatre projects, or composition projects)
Music and Digital Humanities - Lecture Series @mdw, 02.03.2026
mdwForum Research Data, 26.03.2026, 10:00-12:00 a.m., online, registration via forschungsfoerderung@mdw.ac.at
AIRE 2026 – Research Education and Supervision in Focus, Oslo, 08–09.04.2026
GGD: Gender|Queer|Diversität-Call - Deadline 19.04.2026
CFP isaResearch Summer School: "Across Moving Grounds: Music, Performing Arts, and the Politics of Mobility", mdw Vienna, 22-25.07.2026, Deadline: 30.04.2026
IN.TUNE Register of Research Supervisors (pdf): Supervisors of final theses at the mdw are invited to register in a joint register.
Highlights
We would like to extend our warmest thanks to everyone who took part in and contributed to our two events: the Research Conclave 2026 and the celebration marking the 10th anniversary of our “Research Support” department. The in-depth discussions, the many stimulating conversations and the joint reflection on past developments and future prospects have once again demonstrated just how diverse and committed the research community at the mdw is. You can find some impressions of the celebration and the past decade of research funding on our website.
New Research Projects
'Infrastructuring Solidarity: Towards Careful Abolition – A Post-digital Media Theory of Solidarity' (Project lead: Maja Figge), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation
'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
Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1
1030 Vienna
First floor, Office nr. B 01 23
Phone: +43 1 711 55-6101
forschungsfoerderung@mdw.ac.at
