PhD Positions & Scholarships in Belgium 2026–2027: 14+ Open
14 verified phd positions & scholarships in belgium for 2026–2027 are open right now. The soonest deadline is 30 October 2026 — closing-soon entries are flagged in the list. Hosted by KU Leuven, FAMEAIS Consortium (UCLouvain) and FilmMemory Consortium. Listings are re-verified daily against official sources.
DEAI is a master in development, environment and international aid taught at the Université libre de Bruxelles, preparing practitioners for NGOs, development agencies and environmental policy work. Admission runs through the ULB portal, and non-EU applicants face the earliest deadlines in the standard ULB calendar.
Partially FundedULB and external scholarship options (including Belgian
FAMEAIS is the renewed FAME+ Erasmus Mundus programme — functional advanced materials engineering now with artificial intelligence for sustainability — organised by UCLouvain, Grenoble INP, TU Darmstadt, Augsburg and Aveiro. Its application round closes in January each year, with the exact date on the admissions page.
FilmMemory trains film curators, archivists and memory scholars across a Belgian-led consortium with strong links to cinematheques and archives. The consortium publishes each year's call on its Call for Applicants page, where the closing date and scholarship information are posted.
IMFSE is the Erasmus Mundus master in fire safety engineering run by Ghent, Edinburgh, Lund and UPC with an eleven-partner network. Applications for 2027-2028 are open now; scholarship files must arrive before 1 February 2027, while self-sponsored applicants have until 1 April (visa-needed) or 1 June 2027.
IMSOGLO is a two-year Erasmus Mundus master in soil systems under global change, coordinated from Ghent University with European partners. Applications for the September 2027 intake opened on 1 October 2026; the scholarship round closes on 28 February 2027, and self-funded documents can follow until 31 May 2027.
ISSF (International Master in Sustainable Food Systems) is an Erasmus Mundus joint master that trains specialists in food-system transitions, combining agronomy, ecology, economics and policy across a consortium of leading European universities. The consortium has announced a 2027 intake with application details to be published on its how-to-apply page.
The Master Mind Scholarship is KU Leuven's flagship award for outstanding international master's students, cutting tuition to the EU/EEA rate and adding an allowance of EUR 10,000 per year. The 2027-2028 round opens late in 2026 with a deadline around February — the scholarship page carries the confirmed dates each season.
✓ Fully FundedStipend/salary rate set by the funder — see the official listing
MAiSI is the Erasmus Mundus master in sports ethics and integrity coordinated through KU Leuven, preparing the next generation of integrity officers, safeguarding leads and anti-doping specialists. Applications for the 2027 intake opened on 8 October 2026, with the scholarship deadline on 1 February 2027 and later self-funded windows in April and July.
The MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2027 support excellent researchers of any nationality to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary, and inter-sectoral mobility. Approximately 1,600 fellowships available with a living allowance of €6,350 per month. Opening date: 7 April 2027. Deadline: 8 September 2027.
MSCA doctoral network SPARK PhD position in numerical photonics at University of Namur. Gross salary ~€3,000/month plus mobility and family allowances. Deadline: 15 Nov 2026.
Fully funded 4-year PhD developing advanced robotic catheterization technologies at KU Leuven. Master's with distinction required. Deadline: 30 Oct 2026.
RADMEP+ is a multidisciplinary European master on how radiation affects microelectronics and photonics — a key specialisation for space, nuclear and high-radiation environments. Application rounds have opened in mid-October and closed on 9 February in the last two cycles, so the 2027-2029 round is expected to follow the same rhythm.
Response_Able Futures is an Erasmus Mundus MFA that applies design practice to health and care challenges, run by a European consortium with studio-based pedagogy. Its admissions page describes the process for the next intake, where scholarship information is published with each call.
✓ Fully Funded€1,400/month for 24 months (EMJM scholarship)
UNIC is a European university alliance of ten universities from cities including Bochum, Cork, Rotterdam, Bilbao, Koper, Liège, Zagreb, Ankara, Helsinki and Malmö. Beyond joint degrees, its REPIC and related programmes publish rolling calls for courses, workshops, winter/summer schools and staff-student exchanges through the year.
Partially FundedStipend/salary rate set by the funder — see the official listing
