Chapters to fill out

Basic Information

This chapter contains basic information about the proposal, including title, scientific disciplines involved, keywords and duration.

Please note:

• Scientific Disciplines: Fields will be suggested as you type. WWTF uses the ÖFOS classification system of Statistik Austria.
  

Personnel and Institutions

This chapter contains information about the applicant and the host institution

• Applicant: Information will be transferred from your Role
• Host institution
• Letter of intent

Project

In this chapter, details about the Fellowship will be asked

Lay summary of your Fellowship activities: Please provide a description of your Fellowship that is suitable for the general public. This will primarily be used by WWTF for communicating your work to non-experts for fundraising and public relations purposes. (1,000 characters)

Scientific description of your Fellowship activities: Please provide a concise scientific abstract of the project. (2,000 characters)

Expertise: This section should primarily focus on you as the researcher, demonstrating your capability, maturity, and suitability for the proposed fellowship. What key skills and knowledge do you currently possess that are essential for successfully executing the fellowship? How does your past experience and current expertise specifically prepare you to perform your work during the time of the fellowship? (5,000 characters)

Workplan: Reflect on (1) What do you want to achieve, (2) Why the work you will do during your fellowship is important for your field and (3) What specific new research methods, techniques, or tools will you be able to acquire or master during the fellowship? What is the timeline for your fellowship? (7,000 characters)

Career Aspects: How does the fellowship fit into your long-term academic goals? How do you expect this fellowship to accelerate your career trajectory and your professional network? (5,000 characters)

Ethical considerations: Indicate if ethical approval of an ethics committee or institutional review board is required for the project. If so, please describe the potential ethical aspects and upload the ethical approval(s) as a single PDF. There is no page limit for the approvals, but the document may not exceed 10 MB. If no ethical aspects are identified, please provide a brief statement. (500 characters).

Please note that potential sex/gender aspects of the research topic and should be considered throughout the application (see “Call Specifications” document). These should be briefly described where appropriate in the relevant sections. 

If ethical approval has already been obtained, please upload the appropriate documents. In case a new ethical approval is pending, an acknowledgement of receipt from the ethics committee/institutional review board must be submitted with the proposal. The final approval (“Votum”) must be submitted to WWTF at latest before the start of the fellowship.

Data Management: We encourage applicants to consider and briefly address the following points as appropriate (500 characters):

• What kind of accompanying metadata and documentation will help others identify, discover, reuse, and/or reproduce the research data?
• How will data for sharing and preservation be selected?
• When will data be shared?
• In which repositories will data be archived? How long will data be retained?
• What persistent identifiers (e.g., DOI) and usage licenses (e.g., CC BY) will be used?

Use of generative AI (max. 500 characters)

Please describe if and how GenAI has been used in developing your research proposal. Please see further details here.

Budget

Please note the following guidelines for the budget:

• Non-personnel costs should not exceed 30% of the total requested budget.
• The complete budget will be transferred to the research institution in Vienna (Host or Home institution). 

Due to the budget size for the Fellowship, WWTF does not pay overheads in this call

Before filling out the budget, please ensure that all information relating to your profile, your role in the project, and the host institution has been completed. If this information is incomplete, neither you nor your host institution will be shown.

Personnel costs

• Specify if the applicant will be financed by WWTF. Please not that you can only indicate time commitment to the project for one full year (full time equivalents). A mixture of WWTF and in-kind financing is permitted.
• Enter the annual salary that corresponds to 100% employment. The total funding requested for each person will be automatically calculated. The system automatically calculates the costs per given time duration (in this case: 6 months). 

Please be aware that the system automatically calculates the aliquot sums for your 6 month research stay

Non-personnel costs

• Add rows to provide a concise overview of all non-personnel costs directly related to the Fellowship. Please select the institution and cost category from the dropdown menus. 
• Costs for basic infrastructure are not permitted. 
• WWTF strongly encourages open access publications. Costs for Article Processing Charges (APCs) may be requested.
• Costs for data management purposes (e.g., curation, storage) are eligible.
• Costs for travel, accommodation, etc.: to be covered by personnel costs or separate under non-personnel costs

Cost overview

This is where you see all budget divided into personnel and non-personnel costs. 

Explanation of cost planning

• Please provide an explanation of cost planning principles, also indicating access to resources that are already available. 1000 characters).

Disclosure of other applications for funding

• If you have applied for funding for this project (or parts thereof) at other organisations, please indicate this here. This will not impact the evaluation of this proposal.
• WWTF allows the simultaneous submission of proposals at other funding organisation. However, WWTF does not permit double funding.