Europe Scholarships & PhD Positions 2026–2027 — Page 15
471 verified europe scholarships & phd positions for 2026–2027 are open right now, concentrated in United Kingdom and Netherlands. The soonest deadline is 27 October 2026 — closing-soon entries are flagged in the list. Hosted by TU Delft, University of Manchester and Max Planck Society. Listings are re-verified daily against official sources.
The University of Amsterdam (UvA) advertises a PhD position in political science on militarization and democratic erosion in Latin America. The project examines how the expanding role of armed forces in public life - from public security to infrastructure and emergency governance - interacts with the quality of democratic institutions across Latin American countries, combining comparative analysis, country cases and where relevant quantitative measures of militarization and democratic performance.
PhD position developing life-like materials that learn, remember, and forget for use in soft robotics at Empa St. Gallen. Salaried employment contract.
✓ Fully FundedSalary set by host institution (typically CHF 50,000–70,000/year gross)
These Göttingen positions support theoretical or computational research in nonequilibrium statistical physics and active matter. Applicants can apply without IELTS - German doctoral hiring assesses English through documents and interview.
The Department of Mathematics at Aarhus University invites applications for PhD positions in mathematics, statistics and stochastics within its graduate programme. The call covers projects across the department's research groups, including analysis, geometry, probability, statistics and applied mathematics, with successful candidates joining active research environments at the Aarhus campus.
Fully funded TU Delft PhD positions in the Taminiau Lab (QuTech) on quantum networks based on spin defects in silicon carbide. EUR 3,204 to 4,051 gross/month. Deadline: 15 December 2026. Applicants can apply without IELTS - selection is based on documents and an English interview, not a test certificate.
Surrey Morphology Group is recruiting a PhD student to compare predictability in Romance verbal inflection. The studentship forms part of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project Scaling Predictability in Morphological Paradigms.
The University's flagship funding initiative awarded to approximately three percent of research students who demonstrate academic excellence and leadership potential.
Fully funded 4-year PhD programme 2027 at The Francis Crick Institute London. £27,715 per year tax-free stipend, tuition covered for international students. Deadline: 3 November 2026, 12:00 midday GMT.
Stockholm University invites applications for a doctoral student in psychology working on chronomedicine in psychiatry. The project studies how circadian and sleep-wake rhythms relate to psychiatric conditions and their treatment, contributing to the growing field of chronomedicine that times diagnosis and intervention to biological rhythms.
Uppsala University invites applications for a doctoral position in psychology at the DiVE Lab, working within developmental psychology. The lab studies development and individual variation, and the doctoral project contributes to the lab's programme on how developmental processes unfold and vary between children and contexts.
Fully funded TU Delft PhD in the Groeblacher Lab on highly coherent single photon emitters using erbium ions in the telecom C-band for the quantum internet. Deadline: 8 November 2026. Applicants can apply without IELTS - selection is based on documents and an English interview, not a test certificate.
Utrecht University invites applications for a PhD position reconstructing the historic landscape developments of Zeeland, the Dutch delta province shaped by centuries of floods, land reclamation and coastal engineering. The project integrates historical-geographical sources, cartographic material and landscape data to reconstruct how Zeeland's land and water systems evolved over the centuries.
Uppsala University invites applications for a PhD student position on the recycling of solid electrolytes for all-solid-state batteries. The project focuses on lithium halide solid electrolytes, a promising class of materials for next-generation solid-state cells, and develops closed-loop recycling routes that recover and regenerate these materials after cell use.
✓ Fully FundedSalaried PhD position per the Swedish collective agreement
Lund University invites applications for a doctoral student position in Technology and Society within the MSCA REGULAIRE doctoral network. The project studies regulatory learning and supervisory competence in the implementation of the EU AI Act, examining how supervisory authorities build the knowledge, routines and organisational capacity needed to govern artificial intelligence.
✓ Fully FundedSalaried position (pay scale per listing)
3-year fully funded PhD in learning-based control of autonomous robot manipulation at University of Agder, Norway. NOK 550,800 gross/year. Deadline: 28 Oct 2026.
Paid PhD Research Fellow at the University of Oslo's Natural History Museum: marine algae and protistan parasites, NOK 550,800-595,000/year salary. Apply by 4 November 2026.
Wageningen University & Research is recruiting a doctoral researcher to study societal resilience against disaster and war in the Netherlands. The project asks who participates in resilience initiatives, who makes decisions and who benefits. Applicants can apply without IELTS - selection is based on documents and an English interview, not a test certificate.
The University of Copenhagen offers a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) doctoral candidate position in the E-CoRe doctoral network, working on reversible programming languages as doctoral candidate DC1. Reversible computing studies programming models and languages in which computation can run backwards as well as forwards, with applications from energy-efficient computing to quantum programming and incremental computation.
✓ Fully FundedDKK 31,845/month (approx. €4,260, Aug 2026 level)
This project explores how to embed intelligence directly into the 'body' of robotic materials, sitting at the intersection of mechanical metamaterials, robotics, active matter physics, and embodied AI.
✓ Fully Funded£21,805 per year (UKRI rate for 2026/27)
A fully funded joint PhD programme with the University of Edinburgh at the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics, focusing on dependable and deployable AI for Robotics.
This FNS PhD examines secure management of 6G services distributed across infrastructure owned by different organisations. Its central problem is making dependable orchestration decisions across trust boundaries. Applicants can apply without IELTS - selection is based on documents and an English interview, not a test certificate.
