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March 2025: 40th anniversary of Erwin Schrödinger Fellowships

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Erwin Schrödinger Fellowships, a programme by the Austrian Science Funds (FWF) that provides a mobility allowance for Austrian based researchers to go abroad to other research institutions, several alumnae were interviewed about their experiences, among them Gerda Falkner, the head of EIF.

 

February 2025: New team member at EIF

We warmly welcome our newest member at EIF: David Gazsi. He has obtained a post-doctoral position linked to the professorship of Patrick Müller. He has recently completed his PhD at King’s College London. For more details on his research and experience, see his personal section: https://eif.univie.ac.at/gazsi/index.php

 

December 2024: Post doctoral position at EIF

A post doctoral position starting from February 1st, 2025, is now open for applications. It is directed at post-doctoral researchers in the field of European Integration e. g. with a focus on digitalisation. Professor Gerda Falkner will be the supervisor in charge. For more details please see the full announcement. The deadline for applications is January 9th, 2025.

 

November 2024: Job opening at EIF

A post doctoral position starting from January 7th, 2025, is now open for applications. Its main focus will be International Relations of the European Union under the supervision of Professor Patrick Müller. For more details please see the full announcement. The deadline for applications is December 4th, 2024.

 

June 2024: Disruptive Innovation seed money for Timo Seidl

The Austrian Academy of Science (ÖAW) supports young researchers with small grants to carry out research considered as disruptive innovation. Timo Seidl succeeded through several rounds of evaluations and will now start his study TRANSFORM, fully titled Advancing ideational social science through transformer-based (language) models: a pilot study on the imagined futures of Web3.

 

May 2024: Special Issue on Digital Sovereignty

Following a conference on Digital Sovereignty in April 2022, an international group of researchers has contributed to a Special Issue entitled Digital Sovereignty - Rhetoric and Reality published by the Journal of European Public Policy (Vol. 31, Iss. 8). The Special Issue was coordinated, edited and introduced with a framework paper by the Vienna Working Group on Digital Europe, comprised of Gerda Falkner, Sebastian Heidebrecht, Anke Obendiek and Timo Seidl.

 

April 2024: Peter Slominski launches new project

A project application by Peter Slominski was successful with the Austrian Science Funds (FWF). The project will deal with the Accountability of the EU Agency Frontex in EU Border Management. Starting in June 2024 and running for two years, it will also present an opportunity for our post-doctoral researcher Magnus Schoeller who will work with Peter on the subject, bringing his experience with rigorous process tracing to the table.

 

March 2024: Gerda Falkner offers mentoring in postdoc:muv

The Department of Organizational Culture and Gender Equality offers an English-language mentoring programme for female postdocs at the University of Vienna, in which EIF's Head will support female postdocs in the realization of their professional goals. The three-semester programme includes the career support formats "mentoring" and "coaching", supplemented by topic-specific training.

 

 

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