OAW Article on the Subject: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/harvard-princeton-mit-25-top-...

OAW Call for Nominations: https://stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/en/fellowships/apart-usa

OAW APART-USA Info: https://stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/en/fellowships/apart-usa/apart...

  > "The APART-USA fellowship is granted for a period of 48 months and must be commenced within six months of notification of the grant."
  > "The APART-USA fellowship amounts to a total of EUR 500,000. 25% of this funding (in total: EUR 125,000) comes from the nominating host research institution. 75% (EUR 375,000) comes from the Fonds Zukunft Österreich (FZÖ) of the National Foundation for Research, Technology and Development (NFTE)."
  > "funding can be extended by up to three months at no extra cost."
  > "The fellowship covers personnel costs as well as costs for relocation, travel, materials and other costs (such as mentoring, training, etc.)."

I don’t know if this includes starting research budget but if it does, it’s a very modest offer for top researchers. Starting research budget offered by R1 universities in the US can be millions of dollars for top researchers (in CS but that’s all I know about), before they need to get funding on their own. I guess it would be good for researchers who lost all of their funding.