Prizes and awards

We extend our sincere congratulations to the researchers, staff, and students honoured for their achievements and academic work at the University of Vienna. 

Here you’ll find the latest updates on awards and achievements, such as the Nobel Prize and Wittgenstein Award. Our ERC Grants are vital to advancing research. We are equally proud of other recent awards and honours, including the Univie Awards.

Nobel Prizes and the Wittgenstein Awards

The ties between the University of Vienna and eleven Nobel Prize laureates underscore its significance as an international centre of research. To date, fifteen of its researchers have received the Wittgenstein Award – Austria’s most prestigious and well-funded scientific award.

 

Find out more about our awardees

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Current ERC Grants

The European Research Council (ERC) supports ground-breaking frontier research with a strong focus on fundamental science and high potential for scientific breakthroughs and innovation.

Excellence initiative

The excellence initiative excellent=austria, launched by the FWF and the Federal Ministry of Women, Science and Research, specifically supports top-level research at Austrian universities and research institutions. The University of Vienna has successfully secured funding for outstanding research projects through this programme.

 

Information about the excellence initiative

Univie Awards

Through the Univie Teaching Awards, the University of Vienna highlights the importance it places on teaching. The award recognises outstanding teaching achievements and showcases examples of excellent teaching both within the University and to the wider public.

The Univie Entrepreneurship Award honours aspiring founders for their innovative ideas.

Both awards demonstrate the diverse ways the University of Vienna supports, celebrates, and makes visible excellence in teaching, research and societal impact.

 

To the Univie Awards

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