Currently 18 active research and journalism grants, fellowships and residencies open to applicants in the EU. 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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HIAP's Learning Materials international residency hosts artists at HIAP Suomenlinna, the island fortress off Helsinki, for 90 days in Spring 2027 (12 April to 11 July) or Autumn 2027 (16 August to 14 November). The call suits artists with established material-based practices, socially engaged practitioners and researchers exploring ecology and materials; the residency is research-focused with no required output. DISCIPLINES: digital, visual arts, interdisciplinary and research practices. WHAT YOU GET: a working grant of EUR 1,350 per month (EUR 4,050 in total) via Kone Foundation, a material budget up to EUR 750, an access budget up to EUR 1,000, one return trip from the artist's home with slow travel encouraged and help with travel arrangements, plus accommodation and workspace. ELIGIBILITY: international artists and arts practitioners living and working outside Finland. Collectives may apply, but the working grant can be paid to one individual only and there are no extra residency fees or additional travel budget. APPLICATION: free, via the online form on the HIAP website. DEADLINE: 26 October 2026, 15:00 UTC.
The ETH AI Center's flagship fellowship programme funds doctoral and postdoctoral researchers doing interdisciplinary AI research, either within AI foundations or between AI foundations and application areas, including safe and trustworthy AI. Fellows are co-supervised across ETH groups and join the AI Center's community. ELIGIBILITY: doctoral track needs a Master's in computer science, machine learning, statistics, physics, engineering, applied mathematics or a related field, completed by June 2027; postdoc track needs a PhD completed by June 2027. Two to three reference letters are required. Selection weighs research excellence, interdisciplinary collaboration and impact orientation. APPLICATION: separate portals for the doctoral and postdoc tracks (linked from the programme page); deadline 27 October 2026 at 16:00 CET. Related CLS and ELLIS PhD tracks have their own applications.
The 7th call of the Art Explora residency programme at the Cité internationale des arts opened 21 September 2026. The programme supports projects exploring the crossovers of art with science, technology and ecology, which makes it one of the stronger art-science fits in Europe. Residents receive a furnished live-work studio of around 50 m2 in Paris, EUR 1,000 per month living stipend, up to EUR 3,000 production budget, round-trip travel and mentoring, with residencies of 3 or 6 months for solo artists and 3 months for duos of an artist with a researcher, curator or writer. Open to visual, performing and digital artists of all nationalities and ages with at least 5 years of professional experience and an international exhibition record. Programme details at artexplora.org. TO APPLY: submit via the Art Explora application platform. DEADLINE: 30 October 2026, 11:59 PM Paris time.
Finland's largest private foundation moves to a single joint application round in 2026: the central fund and all 17 regional funds accept applications together from 15 to 30 October. It funds all fields of art and science, with one-year and multi-year working grants as the cornerstone alongside project grants for individuals, working groups and organisations. SCALE: around EUR 49 million awarded annually across roughly 2,100 grants (about 20,600 applications in 2025, including 165 multi-year grants); recent October rounds averaged over 450 grants of one or more years, and working grants can extend up to four years. ELIGIBILITY: Finnish nationals and people or organisations residing or working in Finland; other applicants qualify if the application demonstrates clear, strong ties to Finland or Finnish culture. HOW: apply online during the window via the foundation's grant service. DEADLINE: 30 October 2026.
Cultivamos Cultura in Sao Luis (Odemira, Portugal) hosts the Bom Dia residency as part of the European OASis project: one proposal is selected for a 7-to-30-day residency during March 2027. Residents engage with the local community (artist talks, walks, workshops, open studios) and must produce an output for the OASis group exhibition in 2027; one output is added to Cultivamos Cultura's collection, and documentation is shared across OASis partner channels. WHO: international creators, artists and researchers from various fields and disciplines, including practitioners working at the intersection of culture and other disciplines; individuals or groups of up to two people (conditions and funding are the same for a pair as for one individual); selected residents must be physically present for the approved timeline and reasonably autonomous in producing the project. WHAT YOU GET: EUR 1,300 project fee, travel budget up to EUR 500, production and material expenses up to EUR 1,600 (approved by Cultivamos Cultura before purchase, paid against an invoice), equitable food per diem, accommodation in a private room in a shared farmhouse on the Cultivamos Cultura property with shared kitchen, a workspace or studio, and free access to all spaces and resources. APPLICATION: via Google Form; the call runs 18 September to 30 October 2026, 18:00 CET, but closes early once 100 applications are received, so apply promptly. Results announced in the third week of December 2026; no individual feedback. Full details at cultivamoscultura.com.
First visiting-fellow cohort of the newly launched KU Leuven AI Safety Lab, a multidisciplinary research group on large-scale risks of advanced AI (independent research, policy workshops, a summer school and an annual conference). Five fellows spend March to May 2027 in Leuven under two programmes: Theories of Victory and Viable Endgames (positive AI futures and the conditions for beneficial advanced AI outcomes) and Democratic Control over AI Companies (power concentration and mechanisms for societal oversight of frontier AI developers); strong AI safety proposals outside these two areas are also considered. ELIGIBILITY: PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and researchers outside academia, from any relevant discipline; applications from underrepresented groups encouraged. APPLICATION: email a CV (max 2 pages including publications), a one-page cover letter and a research plan (max 1,500 words) to existentialrisk@kuleuven.be with subject line 'Fellowship application' plus the programme name. Deadline 31 October 2026.
Foresight Institute's AI for Science and Safety Nodes request for proposals funds open, AI-first projects across three calls: I. Local Compute (compute that individuals and communities physically own and control), II. Coordination and Accountability (supercollaboration and decentralised alignment, human empowerment, and AI insurance and open governance: multi-agent oversight and verification, tools for collective deliberation, decision rules for when human control adds value, and independent risk assessment or insurance mechanisms for frontier labs), and III. AI-first Science (automated nanotechnology, whole-brain emulation, frontier bio). Grantees can also get workspace in the San Francisco or Berlin AI Nodes (a community xNode runs in Cape Town) and private compute. All funded code, data and outputs must be open-sourced. Projects are judged on fit with the focus area, impact on reducing existential risk from AI, feasibility within 1 to 3 years, AI-first working methods, ability to execute, and high-risk, high-reward potential. ELIGIBILITY: individuals, teams and organisations worldwide; nonprofits and for-profits welcome (for-profits must justify the need for grant funding). Priority goes to applicants who want to work in person at one of the Nodes, but it is not required. Review takes about three months; applications can opt in to sharing with Lightcone Commons. DEADLINE: 31 October 2026, 23:59 PDT.
The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp (AP University of Applied Sciences and Arts) invites applications for two-year artistic research projects starting 20 September 2027. Two-year research projects provide 55% employment for the research assignment over 24 months (as a contractual project staff member) plus EUR 2,000 in operating funds (EUR 1,000 per project year). Proposals are developed in collaboration with the Academy's research groups and must align with, endorse, and further develop the mission and vision of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. PRECONDITIONS: the proposal must be in line with the Academy's mission/vision; the applicant must be legally employable by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp/AP Hogeschool on a contractual basis; and, at the time of application, the applicant must hold a Master's degree in Visual Arts awarded by a Belgian higher education institution (a non-Belgian degree is possible only if validated or recognised through the NARIC procedure, with proof included or a declared willingness to undergo it). PROCEDURE (two steps): STEP 1, apply via the Expression of Interest form sent to research_royalacademyantwerp@ap.be before 3 November 2026, 12:00 noon (applicants informed no later than end November 2026 whether they may develop a full dossier); STEP 2, submit the full dossier via the two-year project application form before 1 February 2027, 12:00 noon. Evaluation by an independent reading committee aims to conclude in May 2027. Contact: research_royalacademyantwerp@ap.be.
The Schaufler Lab at TUD Dresden University of Technology, a joint project with The Schaufler Foundation, invites applications for its six-month artist-in-residence at the interface of art and science for 2027. The theme of the Lab's third funding phase (2027 to 2030) is Energy Cultures in Transition: how forms of energy and energy transitions shape and are shaped by cultural practices, value systems, power relations, environmental relationships and imaginaries of the future. Residents work with the researchers of the Schaufler Kolleg graduate college and the wider university, with access to humanities, natural-science and engineering labs, and give lectures, talks and workshops, including a collaboration with the Dresden University of Fine Arts. Past residents include Quadrature, Mario Pfeifer, Rosa Barba and Esmeralda Conde Ruiz. ELIGIBILITY: internationally active artists or artist groups in media art, conceptual art, performance and related fields with completed international projects and exhibitions, an interest in exchange between artistic and scientific research, and proficient German or English; presence on site in Dresden is required by arrangement. Apply with a form, CV, portfolio, project proposal (up to 10,000 characters), project plan with potential TUD collaborators, a three-minute video and a recent letter of recommendation, as one PDF by email. The call is subject to final funding approval. Residency starts April 2027. DEADLINE: 9 November 2026.
TRACES is a new art and science residency run by the Foundation for the Sustainable Development of Mountain Regions (FDDM) with EPFL Valais-Wallis, Energypolis, the City of Sion and the Canton of Valais. The 2027 pilot embeds one visual artist for three months in Prof. Sascha Feldmann's Laboratory for Energy Materials at EPFL, which works on light-matter interactions and soft semiconductors for flexible solar cells, energy-efficient screens and emerging quantum technologies. The artist develops original work in dialogue with the lab around the energy transition and the materials of the future, with studio and production space, scientific mentoring and a public final presentation on 15 April 2027. ELIGIBILITY: confirmed, professional international visual artists aged 25 or over who finished their studies at least two years ago and have at least two years of professional practice; applications in English or French with a letter of intent (two A4 pages), portfolio and CV via the online form. Laureate selected 7 December 2026. DEADLINE: 22 November 2026, 23:59 Swiss time (CET).
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.
Creative Europe's Media Literacy call (CREA-CROSS-2027-MEDIALITERACY) funds cross-border actions that build media literacy and resilience to disinformation, with attention to countries facing particular media literacy challenges. WHO: consortia of at least three entities from three eligible Creative Europe countries; individuals cannot apply. WHAT YOU GET: up to EUR 500,000 per project at a 70 percent funding rate, from a total budget of EUR 3,500,000. APPLICATION: via the EU Funding and Tenders portal. DEADLINE: 20 January 2027, 17:00 CET (Brussels).
The EU's main remembrance funding line, and emphatically not Holocaust-only: the 2026-27 call (covering both years; there is no separate 2027 call) funds projects across four topics: 1) remembering democratic transitions and the (re)building of democratic institutions; 2) remembrance of the Holocaust against Jewish people; 3) remembrance of the Holocaust, acts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, with priorities on Roma victims and on LGBTIQ+ and other victims; 4) the legacy of colonialism, slavery and migration in contemporary multicultural European societies. Previous rounds funded exhibitions, digital archives, testimony projects, memorial education and artistic memory work. ELIGIBILITY: lead applicant must be a non-profit legal entity (public or private) or international organisation established in an EU Member State or CERV-associated country; for-profits only as co-applicants alongside public or non-profit partners; each application addresses exactly one topic. TIMELINE: call opens 21 October 2026; deadline 24 February 2027 at 17:00 CET, via the EU Funding and Tenders Portal.
OSIP is the European Space Agency's standing front door for unsolicited novel ideas, launched in 2019 and now the main entry point for new concepts into ESA, both in response to specific problems and through open calls. HOW IT WORKS: ideas are submitted through two mechanisms. Campaigns are targeted calls responding to specific questions with defined timelines (recent examples include Future Navigation Demonstrators and elements for the EOCognitiveLab mission); Channels are permanently open, open-ended calls on broader topics with no deadline. Submissions can go through an optional community discussion phase, with voting and comments, before expert evaluation by ESA. WHO CAN SUBMIT: individuals, businesses, universities and organisations anywhere in the world. The catch for funding: to implement a funded idea yourself, you must be eligible to do business with ESA under Article 18 of its procurement regulations, which in practice means affiliation with an entity in an ESA member state. WHAT FUNDING LOOKS LIKE: successful ideas are typically supported as co-funded PhD or postdoctoral research (ESA plus a university), early technology development activities, or system studies; amounts vary by route and campaign. WHY IT IS ON THE DESK: this is the one genuinely public, always-open route into ESA for independent researchers, technologists and artists working with space data or space technology concepts; new campaigns appear regularly, so checking the platform periodically is worthwhile. Submit via ideas.esa.int.