VDSEE Completion Grants

Winter call 2025

Appplication period: 2-24 January 2025

Starting dates: March-June 2025 (1st and 15th of each month)

The completion grants support selected VDSEE PhD-candidates in the final phase of their doctoral studies. All VDSEE PhD-candidates are eligible to apply, regardless of whether they have previously had a contract with the University of Vienna.

The funding period is 4 months during which the doctoral candidates are expected to complete and submit their doctoral thesis. Successful applicants will receive a 30 hours/week University assistant Prae Doc-contract.

Job grading in accordance with the collective bargaining agreement: §48 VwGr. B1 Grundstufe (praedoc) with relevant work experience determining the assignment to a particular salary grade.

Requirements

• Applicants and supervisors must be VDSEE-members (= consented to the Code of Good Practice of the Doctoral School)
• Applicants must have successfully passed the public presentation at the Faculty (FÖP) within the first 12 months after the start of Doctoral Studies, signed the doctoral thesis agreement and submitted all annual progress reports (from WS2020 on: including TAC-minutes). Please note that applications that do not fulfill these criteria will not be evaluated.
• Applicants are expected to have an excellent record of Doctoral Studies and have made relevant academic achievements such as publications, conference presentations, etc.
• Applicants are expected to complete and submit their doctoral thesis within the funding period of the completion grant.
• All laboratory and analytical work must be completed before the start of the completion grant.

Application documents

• Completed online application form. The form opens on 2 January 2025 00:00 CEST and closes on 24 January 2025 23:59 CEST
• A report on the status of the doctoral thesis including the abstract, a tabular overview of the chapters, information about the completion status of each chapter, and a work schedule for the completion of the doctoral thesis within the funding period. Please use the provided template.
• CV including a list of publications and conference presentations (max. 3 pages).
• Transcript of records (“Sammelzeugnis”)
• All annual reports and TAC-minutes; TAC-minutes only need to be provided for PhD-candidates who started after WS2020.
• Form signed by supervisor(s) and applicants consenting that the requirement for eligibility of the completion grant are met. 

Please send the application as a single pdf file (surname_completiongrant_06.2024.pdf) to docschool.vdsee [at] univie.ac.at. Only complete applications that meet all formal criteria will be evaluated.