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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

mdw: Webinar "Giving and Receiving Peer Feedback with Clarity and Confidence", with coach Melanie Sindelar, as part of the Postdoc Appreciation Week Austria (PAW), 23 September 2026, 1 p.m.

mdw: Ceremony event for the young research award 2026- 23 September 2026, Vienna

mdw: Symposium "Kunst_Klima_Forschung: Wandel gestalten" - Symposium 01.-03. October 2026, Vienna 

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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

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