Jubiläumsfonds der Universität Innsbruck

Researchers whose doctorate was awarded no more than 7 years ago at the time of the deadline (i.e. the date of the official notification of the doctoral degree is after September 3, 2018) are eligible to apply. Child-raising periods (two years for each child cared for), care periods (usually care leave) and longer periods of serious illness that have led to a career break are taken into account. Applicants must be employed at the University of Innsbruck or the Medical University of Innsbruck for at least 10 hours per week for the duration of the project applied for. 

Funding is available for interdisciplinary and innovative research projects that are carried out in close cooperation between institutes and/or individuals at both universities. An appropriate distribution of research between the two universities is essential: this distribution must be clearly described in the application and care must be taken to ensure that both parts make a substantial contribution to the research. The maximum duration is 12 months. The following is funded:

• Personnel costs for student employees,
• equipment and material costs,
• costs for research trips and
• other costs.

Personnel costs with the exception of the costs of student employees; conference trips, event costs, substitute teaching services

Applications must be submitted via the University of Innsbruck. Please have the application entered into the project database by the responsible project database officer of your institute and upload all documents individually as .pdf files. Please send the project database number as an application on later than

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

to forschungsfoerderung@uibk.ac.at.

For administrative reasons only, the application will be submitted via the University of Innsbruck. The budget allocation and project management remain unaffected.

Complete application in English or German must include the following parts:

1. completed application form download
2. scientific abstract max. 1/2 page
3. project description on max. 5 pages, excluding table of contents, list of abbreviations and list of literature cited in the application.

The project description should contain the following information

- clearly outlined objectives of the time-limited project, hypothesis(es), scientific question(s)

- reference to the international state of research

- methodology

- work and time planning (observe a maximum duration of 12 months)

- description of the distribution of tasks between the universities and interdisciplinarity

4. detailed list and justification of the requested costs
5. scientific CV including publication list of the project leaders (one from each university)
6. explanations on how to deal with potential ethical aspects or justification if there are no ethical aspects to consider (max. 1 page)

7. official notification of the award of the doctorate/PhD of the project leaders

8. Letter of consent from the head of the organizational unit of the Medical University of Innsbruck in which the cooperation project will be carried out

The next call is planned for 2027.