ICT25 / Eligible costs

All costs that are directly attributable to the project. Please also consider your organization’s internal guidelines for eligible expenses/costs.

Personnel costs

Eligible forms of employment contracts are full-time and part-time contracts as well as marginal employments (“Arbeitsvertrag”). Contracts for services (“Werkvertrag”) are only permitted if the nature of the work means that it cannot be performed through employment contracts.
All persons employed through a WWTF-funded project should receive a fair employment contract with at least a minimum wage according to the “Kollektivvertrag” (collective agreement) of the Austrian Universities / non-university research institutions. For staff employed at institutions without a collective agreement, the minimum wage should adhere to the standards of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF salary scheme available online).
Applications for personnel costs must be in one of the following categories:

Senior Personnel: highly qualified scientists, usually permanently employed
Post Doc: or equivalent qualification, including Senior Postdocs
PhD Student: or equivalent qualification level
Diploma Student: Bachelor or Master students
Office/Technician: administrative or technicians (proportional funding only)

Personnel costs cannot be claimed for permanent senior staff who are already fully financed by the institution. Exceptions apply in cases where senior staff must acquire third party funding for co-financing their own position (e.g., non-university research institutions and Universities of Applied Sciences). In these cases, permanently employed senior staff may claim up to 20% of their annual salary from WWTF.

Running costs for basic infrastructure (telephone costs, rents) as well as costs for the acquisition of infrastructure and basic equipment are not eligible for funding.
Non-personnel should not exceed 40% of the overall budget.
Eligible non-personnel costs are: Equipment (Smaller equipment up to €1,500), consumables, travel costs for e.g., scientific meetings and conferences, publication costs, workshop/conferences (e.g., organizing costs) and Other costs (e.g., third-party costs; costs for childcare and/or career coaching for female WWTF-funded personnel).

In this call, at this stage, WWTF does not pay overheads due to the small amount of total funding per project.