Grant for Research Materials

Purpose

The Doctoral School PhilKult can offer a grant to its members up to a maximum of 400 Euros to support the purchase of research materials directly related to the dissertation project. 

Eligibility

You will need to have completed your ‘FöP’ (Public Presentation of your research topic) and have a Doctoral Thesis Agreement. Your main supervisor must be at the University of Vienna. In addition, your Annual Progress Reports should be up-to-date (i.e. one per year) and you will be involved in the DocSchool in some way by, for example, attending events organised by your section or organising your own activities.

What types of costs can I apply for?

You can apply for various costs related to materials you need for your dissertation project e.g. digitisations, reproduction costs, archive costs, costs associated with data gathering (especially for fieldwork), specialist literature etc.

Money

You can apply for a maximum of €400 to support material costs for your research. Such applications can only be made once a year during the course of your doctoral studies.

How do I apply?

There are no deadlines. Applications can be made throughout the year. They should be addressed to your Head of Section and include the following documents:

  1. a completed application form justifying the need to procure the materials (rather than, for example, visiting the archive);
  2. a short text setting out how these materials are related to your dissertation project;
  3. a brief plan of the costs;
  4. a short reference from your main supervisor.

Organising Reimbursement

You can only organise the reimbursement for your costs after payment (unless the provider has an association with the University of Vienna and is prepared to accept payment after billing). We can only reimburse actual receipts (not general lists or items). Please keep all your original receipts until you have received the reimbursement of your costs.

Those PraeDoc Assistants and Project Researchers who are employed by the University of Vienna and have access to HRFI can apply for reimbursement themselves online. Self-Supporting doctoral students are kindly requested to send the completed application form with the receipts as well as your private home address and bank details (name on account, name of bank, IBAN number) to ds.philkult@univie.ac.at.

Applications which are not filled in correctly will be refused, so it is also in your best interests to follow the instructions laid out here and in the Budget Regulations of the DocSchool PhilKult.