2025 Special LIT Ars Electronica Festival Call, opens a file

We have created a Help Sheet containing useful and important information, tips and advice to help you successfully complete your submission!
If you have any questions about your submission, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Our Help Sheet, opens a file

The Funding Guidelines contain important information about the project or installation, its realization and execution, billing, etc.

The Guidelines will be available here shortly!

Please use the project description template, opens a file.

Please provide information and a description about your project idea (max. 5 pages).

• A clear and descriptive synopsis detailing the project/object/artefact (appearance, potential utilization, application scenarios, and perhaps sketches/illustrations/a mood board)
• Mention what is already available as well as what can be enhanced/improved on
• State the name of your cooperation partner (such as artists, designers, software or hardware developers, companies, Ars Electronica, University of Art & Design Linz, University of Applied Arts in Vienna, EC²U partner universities…)
• A time frame

Please use the cost and expenses calculation template, opens a file

Indicate the financial expenses (expenses required for human resources, materials, etc.; funding is not intended to finance research activities!)

Approved costs/expenses:

• Personnel costs: These include anyone employed by the JKU to carry the project/installation out (technicians, research assistants, etc.). When calculating personnel costs, please refer to the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) standard personnel costs and salaries, opens an external URL in a new window.
• Material expenses (please note that work contracts for services are listed under the material costs category and not under personnel costs)
• Equipment

Please note: To present your project/installation, we recommend creating a short video in the run-up to the Festival. Please budget funding for this as well!

Non-eligible costs/expenses:

• Meals, accommodations, and actual (pure) travel expenses
• (Performance) bonuses and incentives
• Fees/remuneration paid with regard to preparing or producing the scientific, academic, or scholarly research/background information
• Construction expenses, facility expenses, setup, installation, and leasing costs, etc.
• Non-specified project/installation expenses
• Flat-rate expenses

Before submitting your proposal, you must clarify at which institute you intend to carry out the project out at. This means that when you submit your proposal, you must include a signed declaration of approval (signed by the head of the institute/department).

• Consent form for JKU researchers, opens a file
• Consent form for JKU students, opens a file