Austria

Impact of Covid-19 on the Austrian Academic Job Market in the Social Sciences and Humanities

Currently, the academic job market does not seem to have been severely affected by the COVID-19 crisis. Early-career academic positions continue to be advertised by universities and research institutions.

Responses adopted by the Government and the National Funding Agency

• Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF)
  Information and recommendations of the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF) for students, members of staff and researchers
  
  
• Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research (OeAD-GmbH)
  Database on currently conducted COVID-related research: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/corona/forschung/
  
  
• The Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
  Call for COVID-related research - Urgent Funding SARS-CoV-2 for research in ALL disciplines, https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/research-funding/fwf-programmes/urgent-funding-sars-cov-2/
  New policies on submissions, project duration, reimbursement and travel cancellations can be found at https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/research-funding/faq/faq-on-corona/

Responses adopted by the Universities

• University of Vienna
  Remote learning until 30 June 2020
  Some postdoc openings are currently announced at https://univis.univie.ac.at/ausschreibungstellensuche/flow/bew_ausschreibung-flow?_flowExecutionKey=_c028939D6-0147-800F-DEFF-96F48626D547_k786D52D0-101D-DBE9-905B-D95E700C2A8B, no mention of cancellations/ postponements)
  
  
• University of Innsbruck
  Some postdoc openings available at: https://lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/karriereportal.home?rubrik_in=PSP ; assistant professorship positions at https://www.uibk.ac.at/info-berufungsverfahren/bewerberinnen/ausschreibungen.html.de, no mention of cancellation/ postponements
  
  
• Other information on Covid-related research:
  Vienna Science and Technology Fund’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Call, https://www.wwtf.at/covid/index.php?lang=EN  (includes also research in Social Science)

Other useful resources

• https://www.euraxess.at/austria/news/information-coronavirus-english
• https://www.lisavienna.at/life-sciences-in-vienna/covid-19/ (a selection of Austrian research initiatives, products, services, and companies working to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic)
• University of Salzburg - collected database with information on research and COVID-19: https://www.uni-salzburg.at/index.php?id=45849&MP=200029-200945&newsid=17684&f=0  and https://www.uni-salzburg.at/index.php?id=200125&MP=200029-200945 (in German)
• General database for postdocs and research grants (all academic areas, but it’s easy to filter social sciences): https://grants.at/en/what-is-grantsat/