Grants & Open Calls

BioTechMed: Flagship Projects

The aim is to promote excellent research projects (basic research/translational research) that combine the strengths of the three BioTechMed-Graz partner universities.
- Funding: Max. EUR 1,200,000 for 3 years
- Deadline: 30.05.2025

BioTechMed: Young Researcher Groups

The objective is to support the efforts of the most exceptional and promising postdoctoral fellows and to promote interdisciplinary, excellent and innovative research projects that involve collaboration between the three partner universities and a research area of BioTechMed-Graz.
- Funding: Max. EUR 500,000 for 3 years
- Deadline: 30.05.2025

BioTechMed: Lab Rotation Program

The Program will enable international and national students with a master’s degree/diploma MD to become personally acquainted with the research teams and work done in laboratories of BioTechMed-Graz full members. The aim of the LRP is to give potential doctoral students a chance to broaden their scientific interests beyond the topic of their master's thesis before they decide on applications for specific doctoral programs.
- Stipend: EUR 8,000 for personal use, EUR 4,000 for the host institution
- Deadline: 09.06.2025

BioTechMed: Best Collaborative Paper Award

The Best Collaborative BioTechMed-Graz Paper is a yearly award to authors to recognize their outstanding collaborative scientific publication with BioTechMed-Graz affiliation.
- The prize winner receives EUR 3,000.
- Deadline: 10.09.2025

Cybersecurity Scholarship

The aim of the cybersecurity scholarships is to support excellent international students who have completed their Bachelor's degree at another university and come to TU Graz to specialise in cybersecurity. A full scholarship means that the student receives € 4,000 per semester over a period of two years upon proof of success.

 

Invitation to mini-course: "Data Storytelling: Visualization, Journalism, and Scientific Communication"

April 28 - 30, 2025 
Speaker: Will Grimond, Liuhuaying Yang, Fariba Karimi
Target group: Master and PhD students 
Organizer: Fariba Karimi (Institute of Human-Centred Computing)
Language: English

Day 1: Data visualization (morning lectures + practicals afternoon) Liuhuaying Yang (Complexity Science Hub)
Day 2: Data journalism (morning lectures + practicals afternoon) Will Grimond (RADAR, CSH)
Day 3: Scientific writing + communications (lectures + practicals) Fariba Karimi (TU Graz) and Will Grimond

 

Gründungsgarage Accelerator-Programm

In the Gründungsgarage Accelerator Programme, you or your team will work for one volume (semester) on the further development of your business idea and will be supported by our interdisciplinary network.

  • 50,000 EUR consultancy value per start-up project

  • 300+ hours of coaching, workshops and mentoring

  • Support through our interdisciplinary non-profit initiative, which has been established at the University of Graz and TU Graz since 2013

  • 2 semester hours / 2 ECTS for students

 

Development of a Joint Course (online, blended)

Seize the opportunity of receiving a grant for developing a joint course with an international partner. We are looking for teaching collaborations that foster learning in an international classroom using didactic concepts that incorporate digital technologies.

Funding: 3 x 15.000 Euro
Target group: TU Graz lecturers: 
Priority is given to junior lecturers (i.e. university assistants, and assistant professors). A professor/senior lecturer can act as coach in the project team.
Further information: https://tu4u.tugraz.at/go/joint-online-courses 
Deadline: July 14, 2025

 

BMT 2025

The Austrian, German and Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering invite you to submit abstracts (for oral or poster presentation) for the BMT2025. In addition to submitting an abstract, the author has the option to submit a full conference paper to the same content.

Further information: https://bmt2025.ch/programme-abstracts/abstract-submission 
Deadline: 31. March 2025

 

Förderpreis des Forums Technik und Gesellschaft

The Forum Technik und Gesellschaft awards an annual prize for dissertations and master's theses at Graz University of Technology with particular social relevance. 

Submissions possible from 16 January to 15 March 2025

 

OCG Förderpreis 2025

The OCG awards the OCG Incentive Award annually to promote informatics and business informatics. The prize is awarded for outstanding master theses in the field of computer science, business informatics and their applications. The prize is endowed with 2,000 euros. 

Deadline: 14. März 2025

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