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Innitzer-Studienfonds

Kardinal-Innitzer-Studienfonds
Foundation Award body
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Church-affiliated science fund under the patronage of the Archbishop of Vienna, named after Cardinal Theodor Innitzer. Awards annual prizes to outstanding early-career researchers across all disciplines — psychology is explicitly named in the submission rules — plus recognition prizes and the Grand Cardinal Innitzer Prize for lifetime achievement. More than 600 researchers have been supported since its foundation; selection follows purely scientific criteria, regardless of religious affiliation.

Awards

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Four categories: “humanities (philosophy, education, psychology, history…), social and economic sciences, law, human and veterinary medicine” (close translation — the page is German only).

Annual science prize for outstanding work by younger researchers (as a rule up to age 40) whose scientific significance is equivalent to a habilitation thesis. The humanities category explicitly names psychology; read more
Next deadline: 30.04.2027
Deadline: Annually by April 30; electronic submission by email possible
Funding amount: see website
Target group: Younger researchers (as a rule up to age 40) with work at habilitation level
Career stage: see website
Apply from: no restriction
Added: 22.07.2026
Add to calendar: 2027-04-30
PreisNachwuchsförderungHabilitation
Details last compared with the funder's page: 2026-07-22

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