Currently 9 active fellowships open to applicants in Europe, across AI, arts, film, journalism, research, tech and cross-disciplinary practice. Hand-curated and updated weekly. Almost every entry is funded; a few notable unpaid open calls and festival submissions are included as clearly flagged exceptions. Browse the list below, or use the interactive desk for filtering and shortlisting.
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Jane Street's Graduate Research Fellowship supports exceptional doctoral students in electrical engineering and computer science, mathematics, physics or statistics; research does not need to relate to trading. ELIGIBILITY: PhD students with at least one year remaining in their programme, or those committed to start a PhD at a specified university in fall 2027; fellows must be active full-time PhD students at an accredited research institution in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, New Zealand or Singapore during the award year. International students are eligible and encouraged. WHAT YOU GET: full tuition and fees for the upcoming academic year plus a USD 50,000 stipend (or local-currency equivalent; taxable); finalists receive USD 5,000. APPLICATION: CV, an optional one-to-two-page research statement and recommender contact details. DEADLINES: student applications 13 November 2026 AoE; recommendation letters 1 December 2026; notifications in February 2027. Questions: graduate-research-fellowship@janestreet.com.
The Athens Residency is the flagship program of ARCAthens, a not-for-profit founded in 2017, offering fully funded Fellowships for visual artists and curators to live and work in Athens. The residency is structured and research-driven, built around arranged studio and private collection visits, institutional access and community events, balanced with time for independent work. Fellows take part in one public engagement event organized by ARCAthens and must stay based in Athens for the full residency. ELIGIBILITY: international curators and visual artists residing outside Greece. SUPPORT: ARCAthens provides housing (private bedroom and bathroom, shared common spaces), travel, a Fellowship Prize and a weekly stipend; Visual Art Fellows get studio access. In the Fall 2026 round this was a USD 3,000 Fellowship Prize plus USD 200 per week. Fellows cover food, local transport and any production or shipping costs; there is no production budget. TIMELINE: applications 16 October to 14 November 2026 (closes 11:00 p.m. ET); notification late November; residency 4 February to 26 April 2027.
DOMA Initiatives, in partnership with the British Council, nominates one Malaysia-based fellow for the British Council Venice Fellowship Programme at the 2027 Venice Biennale (62nd International Art Exhibition). The fellow spends one month in Venice: half the time as an exhibition ambassador at the British Pavilion (stewarding, engaging visitors, supporting daily gallery operations) and half on independent research or a creative or architectural project inspired by Venice, the Pavilion and the Biennale themes. Fellows complete 15 hours of online training in March-April 2027 and, on return, run a sharing session, workshop or exhibition for DOMA Initiatives. ELIGIBILITY: active early-career professionals in architecture or related creative fields, based in Malaysia, with a portfolio integrating research or creative practice with the themes of La Biennale di Venezia; strong spoken and written English; must also meet the British Council criteria in the Venice Fellowship Programme Guidance Notes 2027. HOW TO APPLY: complete the application form (Google Doc linked from the call page) and email it with a CV and portfolio/research proposal to the selection committee. Shortlisting and interviews 30 November to 3 December 2026; nomination to the British Council 4 December 2026; final selection announced January 2027. Contact: Veronica Ng, DOMA Initiatives Coordinator, veronican@sunway.edu.my. DEADLINE: 27 November 2026, 12:00 noon MYT.
The Kaete Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation (KHK CURE) at Saarland University invites applications for up to twelve fellowships for its fourth year, October 2027 to September 2028. CURE welcomes scholars from cultural studies, the humanities and the social sciences whose work examines questions of reparation and irreparability; artists holding a doctorate and experienced in academic collaboration may also apply. ANNUAL THEME: 'Things', foregrounding the material dimension of reparation: objects, artefacts and material environments through which practices such as repair, mending and reuse acquire cultural and political significance. Proposals must align with at least one of the Centre's three thematic fields (history, experience or nature) and address the annual theme. CONDITIONS: fellowships run six to twelve months from 1 October 2027; fellows on unpaid leave receive approximately EUR 6,100 to 7,200 per month before taxes depending on qualifications, or the home institution is reimbursed for replacement teaching; one round trip to Saarbruecken is reimbursed under the Saarland Travel Expense Act; a fully equipped individual workspace is provided and an apartment can be arranged for around EUR 1,250 per month; fellows must live in Saarbruecken and take part in the Centre's international, interdisciplinary research community. ELIGIBILITY: a completed PhD (submitted and defended) by the deadline; retired persons and Saarland University staff are not eligible. HOW TO APPLY: via the online form with a one-page motivation letter, CV (max 3 pages), list of publications, and a five-page project description with bibliography, in English, German or French. Notification by 30 April 2027. Deadline 30 November 2026.
The Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF) invites applications for two Leibniz Summer Fellowships in German and/or European (including Eastern European) history in the twentieth century. Fellows spend two consecutive months between April and October 2027 in Potsdam or Berlin pursuing independent research while taking part in departmental activities and presenting work in ZZF's research seminar; the institute's five research departments include Contemporary History in the Age of Media and Information Society. GRANT: EUR 3,000 per month for two months, with office space, computer facilities and specialist library resources. ELIGIBILITY: international scholars holding a doctorate and residing outside Germany at the time of application. HOW: send a letter of interest, CV, publication list and a research proposal of up to 1,500 words as a single PDF to fellowships@zzf-potsdam.de. DEADLINE: 30 November 2026.
To mark the 40th anniversary of ERASMUS in 2027, the European Cultural Foundation is opening its historical archives for a Creative Research Fellowship: one professional creative practitioner will research ECF's lesser-known role in shaping the ERASMUS student mobility programme (from the European Institute of Education and the Office for Cooperation in Education to the ERASMUS Bureau, which ran the scheme until 1994) and translate that history into a public-facing artwork about what European belonging feels like and what the next ERASMUS could be. WHAT YOU GET: a EUR 10,000 grant for travel, living costs and production; a research residency at the Historical Archives of the European Union in Florence during the first trimester of 2027; and presentation of the finished work in Brussels in September 2027, in partnership with the House of European History. WHO: creative practitioners residing in a Council of Europe member state with a track record of research-based work for museum contexts. DEADLINE: 1 December 2026, 17:00 CET. The full call is linked from ECF's open calls and social channels; a dedicated call page could not be located at the time of adding.
The Mensch Maschine VISIT Residency Program is an annual fellowship offering four fully funded fellowships to artists from around the world, run by the JUNGE AKADEMIE of the Akademie der Künste (Berlin) with VISIT, the artist-in-residence programme of the E.ON Foundation, E-WERK Luckenwalde and Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art (Warsaw). The 2027 edition particularly encourages projects at the intersection of art, energy and ecology exploring the theme ENERGY GHOSTS: the unseen dimensions of energy approached through mythology, cosmology or speculative fiction, the invisible infrastructures, histories and residues that haunt contemporary life, and energy as an ecological, political or spiritual force. Proposals are welcome from visual art, performance, film, installation, sound, writing and new media. WHAT YOU GET: EUR 20,000 per fellow for artist fees and production costs of a new project (research and development, travel, material and presentation costs); three fellows receive studio space and accommodation at E-WERK Luckenwalde (a former power station about 40 minutes south of Berlin), one is accommodated by the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. The three-month residency runs roughly September to November 2027 with on-site presence of at least 75% required, a retreat at Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw in September 2027, events across the three venues, and a closing symposium in October 2027 at the Akademie der Künste where fellows show work in progress alongside the 2026 cohort. JURY: Nolan Oswald Dennis; Chus Martinez (Institute Art Gender Nature, TBA21); Sarah Johanna Theurer (Fondation Beyeler); Anh-Linh Ngo (Akademie der Künste); and Tiara Roxanne. APPLICATION: via the VISIT portal at visit-energy.com/bewerben. DEADLINE: 1 December 2026, 23:59 CET.
HIIG's Impact AI Fellowship invites people interested in measuring the effects of AI on society and the environment to assess an existing, operational AI application and take lead authorship of a published case report. Applicants do not need their own case; HIIG helps match fellows with cases, and proposed cases must be deployed applications rather than prototypes or research ideas. WHO: holders of a master's degree; field experience is an advantage but an academic track record is not required. FORMAT: ten weeks from 16 August to 22 October 2027, with mandatory in-person weeks in Berlin (16-20 August and 4-8 October 2027), an independent research phase that can be done remotely, regular online check-ins, and a mandatory online preparatory session on 11 May 2027. WHAT YOU GET: a fixed EUR 5,000 stipend and case-by-case partial support for in-person costs; health insurance, visa and meals are the fellow's responsibility. APPLICATION: online form with one combined file (CV up to 4 pages, motivation letter up to 2 pages, optional project description up to 2 pages). Info sessions on 10 November 2026 (10:00) and 17 November 2026 (15:00). DEADLINE: 15 January 2027.
The microagi Research Fellowship (Cohort 01) provides researchers with frontier-lab resources and the freedom to work on hard problems in robotics, embodied AI, and the systems around them. Fellows work in residence for six months at microagi's offices in Munich or Zurich. AMOUNT: up to $2,000,000 in compute; $10,000/month stipend. RESEARCH AREAS: (1) Long Horizon Dexterous Manipulation -- end-to-end models for complex multi-stage tasks with dexterous hands, natural language instruction following, memory across long task sequences, fine-grained physical control in unstructured environments; (2) Cross Embodiment Learning; (3) On Device Physical Intelligence; (4) Safe and Reliable Deployment. microagi's model is to deploy embodied intelligence into physical-world operations and turn what it learns there into compounding research. REFERRAL: $10,000 bonus for referring a candidate who is accepted into the cohort. No application deadline publicly stated as of June 2026 -- one cohort only, apply as soon as possible via https://www.microagi.ai/fellowship.