Research centres

Successful research platforms can be converted into research centres after completion of the maximum funding. Research centres are subunits of a faculty/centre and are partly funded by it. They are established following presentation of a concept that is evaluated internationally.

Research centres are regularly evaluated and are financed to a significant proportion by third-party funds. Research centres are only established for the duration of the employment of their head.

The following research centres have already been established at the University of Vienna:

• CIRDIS - Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Documentation of Inner and South Asian Cultural History
  Continuing the previous research platform with the same name (Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies; Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies; Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy)
• Forschungszentrum Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society
  (Faculty of Catholic Theology, Faculty of Protestant Theology, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Philosophy and Education, Faculty of Social Sciences)
  Head: Kurt Appel