FWF Principal Investigator Projects
Funds Austrian principal investigator research programs across broad scientific disciplines.
The FWF Principal Investigator Projects programme — formerly titled Stand-Alone Projects (Einzelprojekte) until a March 2023 rename — is the Austrian Science Fund's flagship bottom-up instrument for curiosity-driven basic research. It is the single largest FWF programme by volume and applicant numbers, covering all scientific disciplines and arts-based research with no thematic restrictions. Fundi…
All fields of basic and arts-based research, funded through FWF's flagship rolling bottom-up instrument for principal investigators at Austrian research institutions.
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