FWF WE&ME Award

09.10.2025

Deadline: 9 October 2025, 14:00

Funding for projects dedicated to deciphering the pathomechanism and/or the effects and possible treatments of ME/CFS-PAIS with the cardinal symptom PEM (post-exertional malaise)

In cooperation with the WE&ME Foundation, the FWF is inviting proposals for the WE&ME Award. Projects should be dedicated to deciphering the pathomechanism and/or the effects and possible treatments of ME/CFS-PAIS with the cardinal symptom PEM (post-exertional malaise).

Eligibility

The requirements and specifications for the FWF programs Principal Investigator Projects or Clinical Research apply, as well as the Supplementary Application Guidelines for this subject-specific funding.

Funding

  • up to € 450,000 for a funding period up to 48 months 
  • general project costs 10%
  • Additional informaiton: if the required funding amount exceeds this amount, the FWF will cover the difference. Proposals that have received outstanding reviews that cannot be funded by the Foundation will be funded by the FWF but without the increase in general project costs


Application

Proposals can be submitted in the FWF’s Principal Investigator Projects Program and the Clinical Research Program.

Applications submitted for this call are not subject to the restriction on the number of projects in progress.