2023 Fulbright Prize in American Studies: call for nominations

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A sketch in time

2022–23 combined grantee Naya Tadavarthy writes about her experience sketching in Vienna during her Fulbright year—and shares her sketches.

Studying psychedelic therapeutics in Austria

2022–23 US Fulbright student Jesse Hudspeth shares insights into his grant work and political activism in Austria.

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Record Number of USTAs

We were pleased to welcome a record number of US teaching assistants to the Fulbright Austria community this year: 164!
Saving Fish through Institutional Partnerships: Rafaela Schinegger
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Saving Fish through Institutional Partnerships: Rafaela Schinegger

Fulbright Austrian Scholar and fisheries scientist Dr. Rafaela Schinegger spent a semester at Michigan State University exploring the impact of humans on rivers and river fish and how fish populations respond to different ecological stresses. While on her Fulbright grant, she initiated a new partnership entitled CROSSFISH, which connects her home university, the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, Austria (BOKU), with Michigan State.
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Feature on US Fulbright Scholar alum and food scientist Andy Proctor's cooperation with NAWI Graz

US Fulbright Scholar alum and food scientist Andy Proctor organized and taught seminars in communication and networking to NAWI Graz students. His home institution, the University of Arkansas, has written up a nice feature on this collaboration.
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Agnes Scott College is one of our new Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistantship partner institutions

We are excited to announce that Agnes Scott College is one of our new Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistantship partner institutions! Starting this fall, we'll be sending Austrian FLTAs to Agnes Scott (along with our other 9+ partner institutions).
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Intercountry Lecture Program: Maureen Goggin is giving lectures at LMU, Munich and Andrássy University Budapest

US Fulbright Scholar Maureen Daly Goggin, University of Graz/Arizona State University, will be giving a talk on “Writing Trauma in Pens of Steel and Inks of Thread” on June 1 as part of a Fulbright lecture series hosted by the Department for English and American Studies at LMU Munich. She was also invited to talk about “Women Hidden in Plain Sight: Race and Aging in Art and Life” by the Andrássy University Budapest, on May 11.
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Talk: Fulbright-University of Klagenfurt Visiting Professor, Owen Mundy - "Free Market Privacy: The Increasing Commodification of Personal Data"

Fulbright-University of Klagenfurt Visiting Professor, Owen Mundy, Florida State University, will be taking part in a data privacy symposium at the Bundeskanzleramt and will be giving a talk on "Free Market Privacy: The Increasing Commodification of Personal Data" on Friday, March 18, 2016, 11:00 am, Bundeskanzleramt, Kongresssaal, Ballhausplatz 2.
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Annual Conference of the Austrian Studies Association, March 14.-17, 2016

The Austrian Studies Association is holding its annual conference in Vienna this week! Fulbright Austria is pleased to be co-sponsoring the event (along with Universität Wien, OeAD, Wien Museum, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, U.S. Embassy Vienna and the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation) and to welcome the many alumni who will be participating in "Österreich – USA Künstlerischer und interkultureller Dialog" over the next four days.
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BeSt3 - The Job and Education Fair March 3-6, 2016
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Lecture by Fulbright Austria Alumna, Prof. Alexandra Ganser, March 2, 2016

Fulbright Austria Alumna, Prof. Alexandra Ganser, will be giving a lecture on "Stranger than TV Reading Twin Peaks as Prequel to the Y2K Television Series" on Wednesday, March 2, 2016, 6:oo pm, Amerika Haus. Admission is free.
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Newsletter March 2016

Fulbrighters have been winning awards for their work on extraterritorial migration controls, saving freshwater fish, expounding on the pop cultural impact of Star Trek and more this year! Read about it in the March 2016 Fulbright Austria Newsletter.
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US Fulbright Scholars Orientation, February 25-26, 2016
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International Day, Montanuniversität Leoben January 11, 2016
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Previous Fulbright Austria Newsletters

Fulbright Austria newsletters dating back to 2010 are archived on our website.
Fulbrighter wins Austrian Academy of Sciences 2015 Prize on Migration Research
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Fulbrighter wins Austrian Academy of Sciences 2015 Prize on Migration Research

Congratulations to Fulbright Austria Student Fabiane Baxewanos for winning the Austrian Academy of Sciences' 2015 Prize on Migration Research for her dissertation on “Closing the Gap: State Responsibility in Europe’s Extraterritorial Migration Control.”
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Video: Fulbright Austria in Action

Have you ever wondered what kind of projects Fulbrighters in and from Austria are working on? This short video follows a few of our Austrian and American Fulbright students, scholars, teaching assistants (‎FLTAs and USTAs) and an alumna through their classrooms, labs and lives.
Screening "Where are We? Works by Fulbright Alumna Lisa Truttmann, December 9-10
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Screening "Where are We? Works by Fulbright Alumna Lisa Truttmann, December 9-10

Fulbright Austria Alumna Lisa Truttmann will be presenting a selection of short videos developed between 2013 and 2015 during her stay in the U.S.
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Halls renew support for Fulbright-Hall Distinguished Chair for Entrepreneurship in Austria

The Craig and Kathryn Hall Foundation has extended its support for the Fulbright-Hall Distinguished Chair for Entrepreneurship in Central Europe at the WU – Vienna University of Economics and Business with an award of $ 150,000 for an additional three years: 2016-17 to 2018-19.
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International Fair TU Wien December 1, 10:00-15:00, 2015

Fulbright Austria EducationUSA Educational Advisor Molly Roza and Program Assistant Elizabeth Akins will be participating in the International Fair at TU Wien (Freihaus, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10) on December 1, 10:00-15:00. Austrian Student Program Officer, Martina Laffer will be giving a talk on "Studieren in den USA mit Fulbright Stipendien".
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Fulbright - Q21/MQ Artist-in-Residence Keith Kovach publishes "Vienna in the Winter"

Fulbright Austria is pleased to announce that Keith Kovach, the 2015 Fulbright-Q21/MQ Artist-in-Residence from the University of Central Florida, has published a book entitled “Vienna in the Winter: A Visceral Experience of Time and Place" based on images he created during his grant from Fulbright Austria and Q21/Museumsquartier.
Botstiber Foundation Extends Funding for Fulbright-Botstiber Scholar Awards
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Botstiber Foundation Extends Funding for Fulbright-Botstiber Scholar Awards

The Austrian-American Educational Commission is pleased to announce the board of the Dietrich W. Botstiber Foundation’s Institute for Austrian-American Studies has awarded the Austrian Fulbright Commission $ 120,000 to extend funding for Austrian and American Fulbright-Botstiber Scholar awards for an additional three years.

Austrian Fulbright Student Program

Type
Austrian Fulbright students
Application Period
1 February 2023–1 May 2023
Grant Length
One- and multi-year programs
Starting Date
August/September 2024

Obtain a Fulbright grant to pursue a master's degree and study in the US

Submit an application

Applications for the Austrian Fulbright Student Program must be submitted online using the IIE platform linked below. Before applying, please read the frequently asked questions and download the application .zip file to access detailed application instructions and country-specific materials.

Apply now

 

Program requirements

  • Austrian citizenship (Dual citizens of Austria and the US are not eligible due to program regulations.)
  • Candidates must already have a degree from an accredited university or university of applied sciences or be close to completing their degree.
    • Bachelor's programs: degree must be completed by 1 October 2023 at the latest (degrees completed by 30 October 2023 will be considered on a case-by-case basis).
    • Master's programs: degree must be completed by 1 May 2024 at the latest.
  • The Austrian Fulbright Student Program funds master's programs at all accredited US institutions. So-called “professional degrees” cannot be funded. This includes, for instance:
    • MBAs and similar programs in business, management, marketing, and finance (with the exception of not-for-profit management and social entrepreneurship, public management and administration, public affairs, and/or public policy (MPA/MPP)
    • LLM programs (with the exception of constitutional law, human rights law, international public law, legal theory and philosophy, comparative law, and/or legal history)
    • Medical programs, veterinarian medicine, and/or pharmacy (with the exception of public health) 
  • Funding cannot be awarded for study programs to which candidates have already been admitted or for which they have already applied outside of the Fulbright Program.
  • Candidates who meet the qualifications to apply for the Austrian Fulbright Scholar Program (postdocs and professionals) cannot apply for an Austrian Fulbright student grant.
  • Candidates who have already received a Fulbright student grant, a postgraduate grant from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (with the exception of internships), or a grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) or the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) are also not eligible to apply.
  • It is also not possible to receive funding through Fulbright if you also receive a grant from any of the institutions noted above.
  • As Fulbright students are funded through the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF), Fulbright grantees are not eligible to apply for other grants offered by the BMBWF.
  • Nominations for a Fulbright grant are contingent upon approval from the J. William Fulbright Scholarship Board (FSB). According to the FSB’s rules and regulations, candidates who are already in the US at the time of their application are not eligible to apply. Given equal qualifications, preference will be given to candidates who do not have extensive and/or recent experience living and studying in the US.

Selection criteria

  • Excellent study record (US institutions consider each applicant's cumulative grade point average (GPA))
  • Qualifications relevant to the study program for which the applicant would like to apply
  • Scholarly, artistic, social, and political commitment and work (also on a volunteer basis)
  • Career objectives
  • Study proposal
  • English skills and communication skills
  • Test results of the mandatory standardized tests required for the admission to a US institution
    • All candidates must pass the GRE with a good score after admission to the Fulbright Program (i.e., not before 1 May 2023).  Applicants for law programs are exempt from this rule.
    • All candidates must pass the TOEFL with a good score after admission to the Fulbright Program (i.e., not before 1 May 2023) to evaluate the candidates' language skills. 
    • Test facilities need to forward the test results directly to Fulbright Austria (TOEFL code: 7517; GRE code: 4800) AND to the Institute of International Education in New York City (code for TOEFL and GRE: 2326)

Benefits

  • Tuition and maintenance grant of up to $25,000 for one-year programs or up to $35,000 for multi-year programs
  • Travel and relocation allowance of up €2,000
  • Enrollment in the US Department of State's Accident and Sickness Program for Exchanges (ASPE) with a maximum coverage of $100,000
  • Negotiation of (partial) tuition waivers or additional financial support conducted with the relevant US institution by IIE
  • Coaching and administrative support during the application phase, which increases the probability of acceptance to a US institution
  • Vouchers for GRE and TOEFL examinations after admission to the Fulbright Program
  • Application submission to four US institutions as a "Fulbright candidate" and coverage of associated application fees by IIE
  • Visa sponsorship: J1 visa (exchange visitor) requires grantees to return to their home country for at least two years after the completion of their studies before they can apply for a residence or work permit (you can, however, re-enter on a tourist or student visa at any time)
  • Pre-academic training in the US (occasionally) and/or participation in "enrichment seminars" in the course of one's stay
If you are playing with the idea to apply for the Fulbright Program, just do it! If you have a passion or an issue that you really want to
work on that makes this world a better place, have some faith in yourself and fill out the application.

-Sabine Lumesberger, Austrian Fulbright Student, 2021–22
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