SFU Research Newsletter
01. July 2025
Dear colleagues, The past months have been marked by exciting developments at SFU. A particular focus was the […]
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Research News
PSY | Pilot project at the Faculty of Psychology: CoARAverse reforms research evaluation with faculty-wide working group
26. June 2025
The CoARAverse project aims to realize a reform of research evaluation at the Faculty of Psychology at SFU. […]
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Expression of Interest Programme for ERC Grants
24. June 2025
Shape Your Research Future: SFU’s Expression of Interest Programme for Aspiring ERC Starting, Consolidator and Advanced Grant Applicants […]
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Research Report 2023/24
24. June 2025
Editorial | By the Vice Rector for Research, Sigmund Freud Private University I am pleased to share this […]
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PSY | Project ‘Sustainability and Psychology interconnected’ featured in Atlas of Good Teaching!
04. June 2025
We’re excited to share that our project „Sustainability and Psychology interconnected“ has been featured in the Atlas of Good […]
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PSY | Research Days 2025 at SFU’s Faculty of Psychology
12. May 2025
On 5–6 May 2025, the Faculty of Psychology at Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna hosted its annual PhD […]
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PSY | New Digital Exhibit Unveils the Rich History of Feminist Psychology in Vienna
09. May 2025
The Faculty of Psychology is proud to share an exciting digital exhibition now featured on the Psychology’s Feminist Voices […]
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PTS | Report on the Institute of Violence, Abuse & Trauma’s Summit 2025 in Hawai’i
26. April 2025
At the beginning of April, Dr. Kamila Midor from the Trauma Institute had a remarkable opportunity to present her […]
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PTS | Migration in the Context of Psychotherapeutic Practice: New Research Project Launched
25. April 2025
How can fair, migration-sensitive psychotherapeutic care be provided in a culturally diverse Austria? This question is the focus […]
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PSY | Lola Koller receives EQUA Award for outstanding research in Family Psychology
20. March 2025
Lola Koller, Tarek el Sehity and Jaan Valsiner from Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna win the EQUA Best […]
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PTS | "DÄMONEN" is Science Book of the Year 2025!
20. February 2025
The book “DÄMONEN. Besessenheit und Exorzismus in der Geschichte Österreichs” by Carlos Watzka (SFU) et al. was voted […]
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MED | SFU Leads Groundbreaking Project for Clinical Trials in Rare and Ultra-Rare Diseases
13. January 2025
Sigmund Freud Private University (SFU), as the coordinating institution, has launched the Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) RealiseD project […]
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PSY | New research project ‘Quality of life and health identity in rare and/or chronic diseases’ at the HEALTH Lab awards Master's theses
18. December 2024
Rare and chronic diseases profoundly affect the lives of those diagnosed and their families. While medical and clinical […]
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PSY | Reforming Research Assessment: SFU joins CoARA with Pilot Project at Faculty of Psychology
12. December 2024
Sigmund Freud Private University recently signed the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment and joined the Coalition for Advancing […]
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PTS | Two VÖPP Awards for SFU-backed Psychotherapy Research
04. December 2024
In 2024, the Association of Austrian Psychotherapists (VÖPP) introduced the inaugural ‘Best Paper Award.’ Due to the large […]
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PTS | New Issue of the SFU Research Bulletin: Unveiling Psychotherapy’s Role in Navigating Migration, Trauma & Societal Change
03. December 2024
Welcome to the latest issue of the SFU Research Bulletin, where we explore a rich landscape of psychotherapeutic […]
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PTS | Bridging Climate Change and Mental Health: SFU‘s Involvement in COST Action 23113
05. November 2024
On October 29th, 2024, the groundbreaking COST Action 23113: Climate Change Impacts on Mental Health in Europe (CliMent) […]
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PTS | Trauma Institute Represents at the 2024 Marginalities Conference
21. October 2024
From 9th-11th of October 2024, four members of SFU’s Trauma Institute had the honour of participating in the […]
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PSY | Research Workshop 2024/25: Practical Qualitative Methods for Psychology Students and Researchers
03. October 2024
In the study year 2024/25, the Institute for Qualitative Social Research at SFU’s Faculty of Psychology again offers […]
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PTS | SFU Makes Strong Showing at European Psychotherapy Research Conference
17. September 2024
Faculty, clinic staff, and students from Sigmund Freud Private University (SFU) made a notable impact at the recent […]
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SFU supports GesetzeFinden.at in developing Austria's first AI model for the legal sector
03. September 2024
Vienna (OTS) – The Viennese legal tech start-up GesetzeFinden.at has announced the development of an AI chatbot specialised […]
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PSY | SFU Launches New HEALTH Lab: Advancing Quality of Life Research and Innovative Interventions
01. August 2024
The newly established “HEALTH Lab | Competence Centre for Medical and Health Psychology” at SFU’s Faculty of Psychology […]
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PTS | The effectiveness of a standardized tobacco cessation program on psychophysiological parameters in patients with addiction undergoing long-term rehabilitation
19. June 2024
A quasi-experimental pilot study Background Although there is a very high comorbidity between tobacco dependence and other addictive […]
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PTS | Erasmus+ Cooperation Event for Austrian & Ukrainian Higher Education Institutions
17. June 2024
On June 12-13, 2024, Ass.-Prof. Dr. Erzsébet Fanni Tóth represented SFU at the “Erasmus+ Cooperation Seminar for Austrian […]
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SFU hosts 5th Workshop of the new #outofthebox Trauma Series
15. June 2024
On June 17th, 2024, SFU Vienna hosted another impactful session in its #outofthebox workshop series, titled “LGBTIQ+ Minority […]
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SFU | MaVida Research Prize celebrates its first Award Recipients
10. June 2024
Together with our research co-operation partner MaVida Park Velden, SFU awards the MaVida Research Prize “Ageing Research and/or […]
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Long Night of Research 2024 @SFU
28. May 2024
The “Lange Nacht der Forschung” 2024 took place on 24 May, and we were delighted to be part […]
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Paper on Patient-Reported Outcome Measure for Epidermolysis Bullosa published with an Impact Factor of 10.3
24. April 2024
We are excited to announce the publication of a recent paper in the British Journal of Dermatology, introducing […]
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SFU hosts 4th Workshop of the new #outofthebox Trauma Series
24. April 2024
On 24th April 2024, SFU Vienna hosted another event of the new #outofthebox workshop series on trauma titled […]
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Poster Presentation "Food and Mental Health"
25. January 2024
On 24 January 2024, the Institute of Psychosomatics at the Faculty of Psychotherapy Science hosted this year’s poster […]
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PSY | Alexinomia: When you can't say other people's names
10. January 2024
A media report published in the Austrian newspaper “Kurier” at the beginning of January 2024 addresses a previously […]
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SFU Research Bulletin | Issue 02/2023
08. January 2024
We are delighted to present the contributions to our current issue of the SFU Research Bulletin. Maximilian Römer […]
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"Award of Excellence 2023" for Natalie Rodax!
12. December 2023
The outstanding doctoral thesis “Quod non videt oculus. On the Conditions of Production of Introspective Research in the […]
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Horizon Europe Community | Q&A-Session: Cluster 6 "Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment"
01. December 2023
17th January – 3pm until 4pm – Online Are you working on a project proposal for Horizon Europe […]
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European Conference on Positive Psychology – Call for Abstracts
23. November 2023
Conference: 10th until 13th July 2024 – Deadline for Abstracts: 15th December 2023 The 11th European Conference on […]
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Launch events of the EU-funded projects CLIMAAX and Pathways2Resilience 23.11.2023
16. November 2023
23rd November – Online | 10 am until 1 pm (Pathways2Resilience) | 1 pm until 2:30 pm (CLIMAAX) […]
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MAXQDA - International Conference – Early Bird Discount until 14th November
09. November 2023
The MAXQDA International Conference will take place in Berlin from 28 February – 1 March, 2024, bringing together […]
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Digital Holocaust Memorial - An ambitious project on participatory memory
16. October 2023
Remembering the Holocaust is one of the most challenging tasks of our time, because this is where coming […]
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PTS | 2nd Workshop of the Erasmus+ Project “Learning for Peace” in Bratislava
20. September 2023
The second workshop organised as part of Learning for Peace, an international cooperation project founded by Erasmus+, took […]
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SFU at the Memory Studies Association 7th Annual Conference
11. July 2023
From 3 to 7 July 2023, Dr. Erzsébet Fanni Tóth (SFU, Institute for Transgenerational Trauma Transfer Research) attended […]
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PSY | Corona Protest Report II: A Follow-up Investigation
06. July 2023
This report deals with the narratives, attitudes and motives of the Corona protests in Austria. On the one […]
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Horizon Europe Community Day 13. September
01. July 2023
“Successful together in Europe: The Horizon Europe Community Austria” – Community Day, September 13th – FFG Forum 2023 […]
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Horizon Europe Community Austria | Coffee Chat
19. April 2023
Information about Coffee Chat on the topic of “Women in Security Research” We would like to draw your […]
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Horizon Europe Community Austria | Deep Dive
17. April 2023
Information on Deep Dive “New opportunities for ‘Health’ research and innovation in European funding programmes” We would like […]
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Vienna Business Agency | Funding competition Tech4People 2023
03. April 2023
Information about info event for funding competition Tech4People 2023 The Vienna Business Agency invites you to an information […]
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PTS | First Workshop of the Erasmus+ Project "Learning for Peace"
28. March 2023
“Learning for Peace” is a new inspiring project, led by Dr. Erzsebet Fanni Toth at SFU’s Faculty of […]
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FWF | FWF Open Access Block Grant from 2024 onwards
28. March 2023
Information on the FWF’s Open Access Block Grant from 2024 onwards We would like to inform you about […]
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Horizon Europe Community Austria | Roundtable on European security
13. March 2023
How to handle Security and Defence Projects? Information about the roundtable on European security organized by the Horizon […]
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Poster Presentation "Teeth & Mental Health"
31. January 2023
On 26th January 2023, the Institute of Psychosomatics of the Faculty of Psychotherapy Science invited to this year’s […]
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PTS | Launch of the Erasmus+ Project "Learning for Peace"
31. January 2023
“Learning for Peace” is a new inspiring project, led by Dr. Erzsebet Fanni Toth at the Faculty of […]
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SFU Research Bulletin | Issue 02/2022
23. January 2023
Dear Readers! This issue of the SFU Research Bulletin is a special one – it is the last […]
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SUNPOSIUM 2023 | Call for poster abstracts
14. December 2022
Call for poster abstracts for SUNPOSIUM 2023 in West Palm Beach, Florida We are hereby informing you about […]
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PTS | Arts-based Trauma Research: Video Workshop for Teenagers
19. October 2022
Participatory Workshop for Teenagers – within the frame of the Erasmus Traineeship at Sigmund Freud University Vienna On […]
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Call for proposals for “Houskapreis” (Houska Prize) 2023
19. October 2022
We are pleased to draw your attention to the call for applications for the Houskapreis (Houska Prize) 2023. […]
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BÜHLERIANA series on the life and work of Karl Bühler
22. September 2022
The Bühleriana series comprises monographs, scientific articles, edited collections, interviews, book reviews and conference reports on the life […]
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SFU Research Bulletin | Edition 01/2022
30. June 2022
Dear readers, we are happy to announce that the first issue of the SFU Research Bulletin 2022 is […]
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PSY | Are you interested in writing your thesis on "LGBTIQ* Rainbow Families in German-speaking Countries"?
09. June 2022
Rainbow families are families with at least one LGBTIQ* parent. New or different family roles result in changed […]
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PSY | Research: Co-Production In Mental Health Services
06. February 2020
When every voice matters: Why co-production achieves great results – even more so in mental health services A co-produced […]
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PSY | New international research cluster: Ressentiment and Change Potential in Europe (RECHANGE)
16. January 2020
Establishment of an international research cluster at the SFU Faculty of Psychology In December 2019 a team of […]
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PSY | New publication: Long-term effects of parental divorce on mental health
24. October 2019
Long-term effects of parental divorce on mental health – A meta-analysis Study carried out by: Felicitas Auersperg, Department […]
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