BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Grant Desk//Calendar//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH NAME:The Grant Desk - AI & Safety\, NL X-WR-CALNAME:The Grant Desk - AI & Safety\, NL deadlines X-WR-CALDESC:Paid open calls\, fellowships and residencies in AI\, tech\, r esearch\, and digital and mixed-media arts\, sorted into the right pile. U pdated as new calls land on the desk. Filtered to: AI & Safety\, NL. REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT12H X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT12H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aixdesign-kb-national-library-ai-exhibition-2026@artificialnouveau.gith ub.io DTSTAMP:20260823T191640Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260831 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260901 SUMMARY:Deadline: AIxDESIGN x KB: Open Call for Sessions\, (Art)works and P erformances DESCRIPTION:AIxDESIGN and the KB (Koninklijke Bibliotheek\, the National Li brary of the Netherlands) are building an exhibition and public programme about AI\, made from the national collection\, at the KB in The Hague. Nad ia Piet is Creative Lead with the AIxDESIGN community\, co-presented with the KB. The premise: long before neural nets\, libraries were the machines we built to organise human knowledge\, and the show uses the KB's collect ion to look at what AI is\, where it comes from\, and how it connects to t he older story of how we store\, sort\, and search what we know. Part of t he show lives in the KB Atelier\, with talks\, workshops\, and screenings alongside\, intended as AI literacy you can wander into. WHAT THEY WANT: w ork that engages AI in some way (critical\, creative\, hands-on\, or playf ul)\; bonus if it also speaks to archives\, libraries\, or how we store an d sort knowledge\, though you do not need to touch the KB's collection to take part. You may pitch to more than one track: (A) SOMETHING FOR THE OPE NING NIGHT\, a performance\, talk\, screening\, tour\, ritual\, booth\, ga me\, or other experience for the November 2026 opening\, fee EUR 1\,500 to 2\,000\; (B) A SESSION IN THE EVENTS PROGRAMME\, a workshop or other sess ion once during the three-month run\, around 2.5 to 4 hours\, fee EUR 2\,0 00 to 2\,500\; (C) AN (ART)WORK FOR THE EXHIBITION\, existing work in any format (installation\, sculpture\, zine stand\, a corner of your own) stur dy enough for a public area with daily traffic\, honorarium EUR 200 to 400 including licensing and production\; (D) SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY\, pitch it anyway. WHO: artists\, designers\, researchers\, technologists\, perfor mers\, musicians\, archivists\, or educators working around AI\, data\, li braries\, or cultural heritage\; no finished idea or polished CV needed\, just a clear\, specific pitch. You can be based anywhere and they especial ly welcome people outside the Netherlands\; the show is in-person in The H ague and the fee stays the same wherever you are coming from. HOW TO APPLY : send a short pitch through the form (which track\, your idea in a paragr aph or two\, roughly what it would need\, and a link to your work)\; takes about five minutes\, no full application required. Deadline: end of Augus t 2026. Questions to hello@aixdesign.co.\n\nOrganisation: AIxDESIGN\, co-p resented with the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB)\, National Library of the N etherlands\nLocation: KB\, The Hague\, Netherlands (in-person exhibition a nd programme)\; pitches welcome from people based anywhere\nAward: Fees by track: opening-night experience EUR 1\,500 to 2\,000\; a session in the e vents programme EUR 2\,000 to 2\,500\; an existing (art)work for the exhib ition EUR 200 to 400 honorarium (including licensing and production). The fee stays the same wherever you are based.\nDuration: Exhibition runs Nove mber 2026 to February 2027\; opening event November 2026\n\nMore: https:// nadiapiet.notion.site/Open-Call-AIxDESIGN-x-KB-Sessions-Art-works-More-38f 37d0038338102b128c57cbeb16d2d?utm_source=artificialnouveaugrantdesk&utm_me dium=referral URL:https://nadiapiet.notion.site/Open-Call-AIxDESIGN-x-KB-Sessions-Art-wor ks-More-38f37d0038338102b128c57cbeb16d2d?utm_source=artificialnouveaugrant desk&utm_medium=referral LOCATION:KB\, The Hague\, Netherlands (in-person exhibition and programme)\ ; pitches welcome from people based anywhere END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:waag-trust-me-im-an-airtist-2026@artificialnouveau.github.io DTSTAMP:20260823T191640Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260930 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261001 SUMMARY:Deadline: Trust me\, I'm an AI/rtist: Open Call for Creative Interv entions DESCRIPTION:Waag Futurelab invites artists\, theatre makers\, choreographer s\, dancers\, game designers and other creative practitioners to engage di rectly with seven experimental generative AI Enablers being co-created wit h technologists and dance\, theatre and gaming professionals. The call is an invitation into the development process: selected artists get access to the technologies\, datasets\, interfaces and assumptions that shape these systems while they are still being built. Rather than testing whether the systems work\, artists are asked to interrogate why they work the way the y do\, who they are designed for\, what forms of creativity they enable or constrain\, and what assumptions about culture\, intelligence\, authorshi p\, labour\, bodies\, audiences and society are embedded in them. Waag is looking for individuals and collectives willing to move beyond adoption in to investigation\, and welcomes proposals that are speculative\, critical\ , poetic\, provocative\, humorous\, performative\, constructive or disrupt ive\, including work that challenges\, misuses\, reimagines\, hacks\, subv erts or plays with the tools\, exposes hidden biases\, questions environme ntal costs\, or imagines alternative technological futures. THE SEVEN AI E NABLERS\, each requiring an on-site visit to its technology partner: the G eneric Procedural Content Generation Enabler (text-to-3D assets and avatar s\, CERTH\, Greece)\; the Data-Driven Cultural Content Adaptation Enabler (audience-aware creative content ideation with ranked candidate ideas\, CE RTH\, Greece)\; the Cross-Domain Audience Engagement Analytics Enabler (tu rning heterogeneous cultural participation data into interpretable engagem ent signals\, The Audience Agency\, Warrington\, UK)\; the Dance Style Ana lysis and Generation Enabler (dance video into virtual 3D choreography\, d issected into body\, effort\, shape and space components\, Centre of Excel lence for Research & Innovation\, Cyprus)\; the Immersive Design Integrati on Enabler for Dance & Theatre (NLP-driven XR environments with speech-to- 3D scene editing\, Cyprus)\; the Music-to-Movement Translation Enabler (au dio into a time-aligned feature set spanning genre classification\, emotio nal valence-arousal analysis\, rhythm extraction and latent-space projecti on\, feeding motion generation\, spatial audio and visual choreography\, A ristotle University of Thessaloniki\, Greece)\; and the Adaptive Narrative Enabler for Games & Theatre (an evolutionary AI trained on creator-writte n story elements that generates infinite story variations\, explicitly rej ecting LLMs because of their dependence on copyrighted or public-domain co rpora that encode 19th and early 20th century sexism\, racism and imperial ism\, CAUSA Creation\, Austria). ELIGIBILITY: artists\, designers\, creati ve technologists\, theatre makers\, dancers\, choreographers and game desi gners\, as individuals or collectives\; applicants must hold a European VA T number. An info session with live demonstrations of the AI Enablers runs 31 July 2026\, 10:00 to 11:30 CEST (meeting ID 995 7016 2341). Applicatio ns go through Homerun using the official Application Template\, uploaded a s a PDF\; read the Guide for Applicants\, which contains the full Enabler descriptions\, before applying. Questions: zoenie at waag dot org. The AI Enablers and this call are part of the Horizon Europe project HAMLET\, whi ch aims to make generative AI accessible to cultural organisations of all sizes. Closes 30 September 2026\, 23:59 CEST. Free to apply.\n\nOrganisati on: Waag Futurelab (Horizon Europe project HAMLET)\nLocation: Europe. Enga ging with a specific AI Enabler includes an on-site visit to its technolog y partner: CERTH (Greece)\, The Audience Agency (Warrington\, UK)\, the Ce ntre of Excellence for Research & Innovation (Cyprus)\, Aristotle Universi ty of Thessaloniki (Greece)\, or CAUSA Creation (Austria). Final presentat ions September 2027.\nAward: EUR 20\,000 commission fee excluding VAT\, in clusive of artist fee\, travel\, accommodation and production costs. Appli cants must have a VAT number in Europe. No application fee.\nDuration: Jan uary to September 2027\, with final presentations in September 2027\n\nMor e: https://waag.org/en/article/open-call-creative-interventions-trust-me-i m-airtist/?utm_source=artificialnouveaugrantdesk&utm_medium=referral URL:https://waag.org/en/article/open-call-creative-interventions-trust-me-i m-airtist/?utm_source=artificialnouveaugrantdesk&utm_medium=referral LOCATION:Europe. Engaging with a specific AI Enabler includes an on-site vi sit to its technology partner: CERTH (Greece)\, The Audience Agency (Warri ngton\, UK)\, the Centre of Excellence for Research & Innovation (Cyprus)\ , Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)\, or CAUSA Creation (Austr ia). Final presentations September 2027. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:hva-digital-life-researcher-2026@artificialnouveau.github.io DTSTAMP:20260823T191640Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260730 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260731 SUMMARY:Deadline: Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences: Digital Life Re searcher (Embodied AI Rehabilitation Agents) DESCRIPTION:A junior researcher post in the Digital Life research group at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences\, working on embodied AI reha bilitation agents that support patients during rehabilitation and recovery in everyday life. The programme sits at the intersection of human-centred AI\, digital health and rehabilitation technology\, and the role is unusu ally hands-on for a research job: co-designing rehabilitation technologies with patients and healthcare professionals\, building interactive prototy pes with sensing technologies and embodied interaction\, running user-cent red evaluations in real-world living lab settings\, and contributing to sc ientific reports and presentations. REQUIREMENTS: a master's degree in hum an-computer interaction\, industrial design\, computer science\, software engineering\, AI or a related field\; demonstrated research experience inc luding co-design and evaluation with diverse stakeholders\; experience des igning interactive prototypes with sensing or embodied systems\; sensor da ta collection\, processing and analysis skills\; and programming in Python \, JavaScript or comparable languages. Excellent written and spoken Englis h is required and Dutch proficiency is preferred. Apply with a CV and moti vation letter through the application portal. Contact: Bin Yu (b.yu@hva.nl \, 0638347028) or vacatures@hva.nl. Closes 30 July 2026.\n\nOrganisation: Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool van Amsterdam)\nLocat ion: Amsterdam\, Netherlands (Weesperzijde campus)\, on site\nAward: EUR 3 \,064.08 to 4\,084.93 gross per month for 40 hours per week\, plus an 8.3 percent year-end bonus and 8 percent holiday allowance.\nDuration: Full-ti me\, 40 hours per week\n\nMore: https://www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3 62580/digital-life-onderzoeksmedewerker-researcher/?utm_source=artificialn ouveaugrantdesk&utm_medium=referral URL:https://www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/362580/digital-life-onderzoeks medewerker-researcher/?utm_source=artificialnouveaugrantdesk&utm_medium=re ferral LOCATION:Amsterdam\, Netherlands (Weesperzijde campus)\, on site END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:twente-postdoc-conversational-ai-cultural-heritage-2026@artificialnouve au.github.io DTSTAMP:20260823T191640Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260816 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260817 SUMMARY:Deadline: University of Twente: Postdoc\, Multimodal Conversational AI for Cultural Heritage DESCRIPTION:A postdoctoral position in the Human Media Interaction group at the University of Twente on the project 'Balancing Personalisation and Po lyvocality: Dialogic Interaction for Open-mindedness and Empathy in Conver sational AI'. The work develops and evaluates multimodal conversational ag ents for museum settings that hold personalisation in tension with exposur e to plural perspectives\, rather than optimising for engagement alone. Ta sks include building models that use gaze\, speech and dialogue data to in fer visitor engagement and openness\, designing adaptive dialogue strategi es\, running VR-based user studies\, and publishing in strong venues. Of t he current Dutch academic postings this is the closest thing to a funded c reative-technologist brief: museum interpretation\, multimodal sensing and dialogue design in one role. REQUIREMENTS: a PhD in computer science\, AI \, HCI or a related field\; experience with conversational AI\, dialogue s ystems or adaptive systems\; experience running empirical research\, prefe rably user studies\; strong analytical and academic writing skills\; and e xcellent English. Apply with a CV including publications\, a motivation le tter and two academic references. Contact: Shenghui Wang (shenghui.wang@ut wente.nl). NOTE: the AcademicTransfer listing page shows a 16 August 2026 deadline while the detail page states 17 August 2026\, so treat 16 August as the effective cut-off.\n\nOrganisation: University of Twente\, Human Me dia Interaction group\nLocation: Enschede\, Netherlands\nAward: EUR 3\,546 to 5\,538 gross per month for 40 hours per week (8 salary steps\, dependi ng on experience)\, plus standard Dutch university holiday and year-end al lowances.\nDuration: One year\, renewable for a further two years subject to positive evaluation\; 40 hours per week\n\nMore: https://www.academictr ansfer.com/en/jobs/362707/postdoc-position-on-multimodal-conversational-ai -for-cultural-heritage/?utm_source=artificialnouveaugrantdesk&utm_medium=r eferral URL:https://www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/362707/postdoc-position-on-mul timodal-conversational-ai-for-cultural-heritage/?utm_source=artificialnouv eaugrantdesk&utm_medium=referral LOCATION:Enschede\, Netherlands END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:twente-postdoc-llms4eu-ethics-2026@artificialnouveau.github.io DTSTAMP:20260823T191640Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260825 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260826 SUMMARY:Deadline: University of Twente: Postdoc\, Ethics and Epistemology o f LLMs4EU (17 months) DESCRIPTION:A postdoctoral position in the Philosophy section at the Univer sity of Twente\, part of the 4TU.Center for Ethics and Technology\, workin g on the ethics and epistemology strand (Work Package 6) of LLMs4EU. LLMs4 EU is a European Commission funded initiative led by the Alliance for Lang uage Technologies\, spanning more than 20 countries\, to build large langu age models across all EU languages and preserve European linguistic and cu ltural diversity in the digital age while keeping the resulting tools comp liant with European values and legislation including the AI Act and the GD PR. TASKS: establish benchmarking frameworks that address legal and ethica l concerns\; develop guidelines for fine-tuning processes with an emphasis on preserving cultural heritage\; oversee ethics compliance and advise th e project ethics board\; and build frameworks that integrate ethical consi derations into LLM design. This is the tech-communication and language-pol itics end of AI research rather than a modelling job: the questions are wh ose language\, whose culture and whose norms get encoded when a continent builds its own models. REQUIREMENTS: a doctorate in ethics\, philosophy\, science and technology studies\, AI ethics\, computer science with an ethi cs focus\, or a related field\; demonstrated expertise in AI ethics and et hics compliance\; understanding of AI tool design and LLM development\; ap preciation for cultural diversity\; strong communication and organisationa l skills\; and professional English. Apply through the AcademicTransfer po sting. Closes 25 August 2026.\n\nOrganisation: University of Twente\, Phil osophy section / 4TU.Center for Ethics and Technology\nLocation: Enschede\ , Netherlands\nAward: EUR 4\,241 to 5\,538 gross per month (scale 10\, ste ps 4 to 12) at 1.0 FTE\, plus 8 percent holiday allowance and an 8.3 perce nt year-end bonus.\nDuration: 17 months\, full-time (38 to 40 hours per we ek)\, with possible extension\n\nMore: https://www.academictransfer.com/en /jobs/362444/postdoctoral-researcher-17-months-ethics-and-epistemology-of- llms4eu-design-data-and-deployment/?utm_source=artificialnouveaugrantdesk& utm_medium=referral URL:https://www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/362444/postdoctoral-researcher -17-months-ethics-and-epistemology-of-llms4eu-design-data-and-deployment/? utm_source=artificialnouveaugrantdesk&utm_medium=referral LOCATION:Enschede\, Netherlands END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:human-rights-watch-ai-strategy-solutions-lead-2026@artificialnouveau.gi thub.io DTSTAMP:20260823T191640Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260830 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260831 SUMMARY:Deadline: Human Rights Watch: AI Strategy and Solutions Lead (one-y ear fixed term) DESCRIPTION:Human Rights Watch is hiring an AI Strategy and Solutions Lead into its Operations Department to build the foundation for responsible AI adoption across the organisation. The role deliberately sits between strat egy and execution: assessing organisational readiness\, mapping partnershi ps and governance\, and also prototyping and shipping working systems. THE WORK\, in four strands. (1) STRATEGY AND READINESS: with the CIO and the Information Security and Technology (IST) leadership team\, build an AI st rategy covering data foundation requirements\, infrastructure gaps and org anisational readiness\; assess current state and shape a roadmap balancing quick wins against long-term capacity\; research what peer nonprofit\, hu manitarian and human rights organisations are doing and find collaboration openings. (2) FLAGSHIP SOLUTIONS: work with departments to find high-impa ct use cases\, translate business needs into technical approaches\, build and deploy AI/ML solutions with measurable value (time saved\, efficiency\ , better outcomes)\, using the Microsoft AI ecosystem (Copilot Studio\, Az ure AI\, Power Platform) among other tools\, and oversee consultants and v endors to extend delivery capacity. (3) ADOPTION AND CAPACITY: balance onb oarding staff onto AI tools against building custom solutions where they a mplify the organisation's strengths\; write training material pitched at d ifferent work areas and skill levels covering prompting and responsible us e\; support working groups and communities of practice\; produce playbooks and guides for non-technical staff. (4) GOVERNANCE: partner with IST lead ership on risk assessment frameworks\, align solutions with security\, inf rastructure and architecture requirements\, contribute to AI policy develo pment and its operationalisation\, set standards for evaluating proofs of concept and MVPs\, and engage business units so outcomes are co-owned\; al l of it balanced against data quality\, security and resource constraints and HRW's mission as a human rights organisation. WHO THEY WANT: a bachelo r's degree or equivalent work experience in computer science\, data scienc e\, information systems\, mathematics\, AI/ML implementation or a related technical field\; a minimum of seven years' relevant experience including two to three years on AI and two to three years implementing AI/ML in prod uction\; experience contributing to technology strategy and assessing orga nisational readiness for new technology\; strong Python and ML library/fra mework skills\; hands-on predictive modelling\, data science and statistic al analysis\; experience with low-code/no-code AI platforms such as Copilo t Studio or Power Platform\; a track record of scoping and delivering unde r resource constraints\; a grasp of both generative AI and traditional ML\ ; and the ability to explain technical concepts plainly to mixed audiences \, engage stakeholders and lead technology adoption as an internal partner to business teams. PREFERRED: nonprofit\, humanitarian or human rights ex perience\; data privacy\, security and ethical AI knowledge\; familiarity with responsible AI frameworks and governance models\; vendor and consulta nt management\; and a background in politically sensitive or high-risk env ironments. APPLY: through the HRW job portal with a cover letter and CV\, preferably as PDFs\, by 30 August 2026. Only complete applications are rev iewed and only shortlisted candidates are contacted\; no calls or email en quiries. HRW states that it does not discriminate on the basis of disabili ty\, age\, gender identity and expression\, national origin\, race and eth nicity\, religious beliefs\, sexual orientation or criminal record.\n\nOrg anisation: Human Rights Watch (HRW)\, Operations Department\nLocation: Mus t be within commuting distance of an HRW office: Amsterdam\, Amman\, Berli n\, Brussels\, London\, Stockholm\, New York\, Washington DC\, Miami\, Sao Paulo\, Toronto or Chicago. Reports to the Chief Information Officer in B erlin. No relocation support and no work-authorisation sponsorship.\nAward : USD 102\,000 to 112\,000 plus employer-paid benefits if based in the US\ ; ranges outside the US are set by local market conditions. No application fee.\nDuration: One year fixed-term\, full time. Application deadline 30 August 2026.\n\nMore: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/humanrightswatch/jo bs/8350654002?utm_source=artificialnouveaugrantdesk&utm_medium=referral URL:https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/humanrightswatch/jobs/8350654002?utm_s ource=artificialnouveaugrantdesk&utm_medium=referral LOCATION:Must be within commuting distance of an HRW office: Amsterdam\, Am man\, Berlin\, Brussels\, London\, Stockholm\, New York\, Washington DC\, Miami\, Sao Paulo\, Toronto or Chicago. Reports to the Chief Information O fficer in Berlin. No relocation support and no work-authorisation sponsors hip. END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR