News
mdw: isaResearch Public Talks & Conversation, with Amila Ramovic, Jelena Gligorijević und Adriana Sabo, 23 July 2026, 5 p.m., Vienna
mdw: Postdoc-Fellowships 2026 - Deadline 4 September 2026
Postdoc Appreciation Week Austria (PAW): Webinar "Giving and Receiving Peer Feedback with Clarity and Confidence", with coach Melanie Sindelar, 23 September 2026, 1 p.m.
mdw: Award Ceremony mdw young research award 2026- 23 September 2026, 5 p.m.
mdw: Symposium "Kunst_Klima_Forschung: Wandel gestalten" - Symposium 01.-03. October 2026, Vienna
mdw: "Mediatraining for Researchers", in cooperation with "Zentrum für Weiterbildung - Personalentwicklung", 8. & 15 October 2026, 9.30 a.m - 1 p.m.
mdw: Funding Scholarship for the PhD Program - Deadline 16 October 2026
mdw: Funding Scholarship for the Doctoral Program in the Arts - Deadline 16 October 2026
mdw-internal funding programmes
Highlights
We congratulate the awardees of this year's Herta and Kurt Blaukopf-Award 2026!
New Research Projects
'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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