The total amount of applications for the FWF START award was about €141 million, of which 46.4% came from natural sciences and technologies, 27.7% from biology and medicine, and 25.9% from humanities and social sciences. The eight funded projects, four of which are led by women, come from all disciplines and are funded for up to €1.2 million each.

The FWF START awards are aimed at supporting promising leading researchers "who are given the opportunity to plan their research for the long term and with financial security".

One of the laureates of FWF START was Svitlana Antonyuk, who researches how emotional reactions influence language change. The linguist studied at the Yuriy Fedkovich Chernivtsi National University, then in the USA, and is now a senior researcher at the Lisa Meitner Program at the Institute of Slavic Studies and the Institute of German Studies at the University of Graz.

The FWF START prize was also awarded to Yuriy Malitskyi, who is researching the mathematical foundations for better algorithms that can find faster solutions. After studying and defending his doctoral thesis in Kyiv, the mathematician was engaged in research activities in European countries, and since 2023 he has been engaged in computer optimization at the University of Vienna.

The Austrian Science Foundation is the most important Austrian organization that funds basic research. Funded by the Austrian government, the FWF supports scientific, engineering and humanitarian research through a variety of grant programs and awards.

In April 2022, as part of the educational project Projekt MmF (Mathematik macht Freude) of the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Vienna, an initiative for Ukrainian youth in Austria Maths+ was created.

The initial goal of the initiative, created by mathematics professor Michael Eichmayer and Dmytro Rzhemovskyi, was to organize additional classes in mathematics and programming for temporarily displaced schoolchildren from Ukraine on the basis of the University of Vienna. Currently, the Maths+ team works in several directions, including conducting regular training courses in mathematics, organizing programs for gifted high school students and students and scientific camps and meetings with experts.

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