76 verified artificial intelligence 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 Lancaster University, University of Oxford and ETH Zurich. Listings are re-verified daily against official sources.
Lancaster University · United Kingdom
3.5-year fully funded PhD in AI Agent Security at Lancaster University. UK home students only. Stipend and tuition covered.
The University of Edinburgh · United Kingdom
Edinburgh’s AI for Biomedical Innovation CDT connects artificial intelligence with biomedical and health research. Applicants use the CDT’s current 2027 recruitment form.
Alan Turing Institute · United Kingdom
The Alan Turing Institute PhD Student Enrichment Scheme provides fully funded 6 or 9 month placements at the Turing's London offices. £1,200/month stipend supplement plus travel and accommodation. Open to UK PhD students.
Northumbria University · United Kingdom
The Citizen-Centred Artificial Intelligence CDT places people and communities at the centre of AI research.
University of Oxford · United Kingdom
Clarendon Scholarship is the University of Oxford's flagship graduate scholarship scheme, offering over 200 new scholarships every year to academically excellent students from around the world.
The University of Edinburgh · United Kingdom
The Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing CDT combines language technology with responsible design and interdisciplinary research. Its application process begins with a first-stage online form.
KTH Royal Institute of Technology · Sweden
KTH Royal Institute of Technology is hiring a doctoral student to work on game-theoretic methods for multi-agent autonomous systems. The project develops decision-making frameworks in which multiple autonomous agents interact, compete or cooperate, using tools from game theory, optimisation and machine learning to design robust strategies under uncertainty.
ETH Zurich · Switzerland
Fully funded ETH Zurich doctoral position on generative AI-based computational design methods for engineering. Competitive salary. Deadline: 1 November 2026.
ETH Zurich · Switzerland
Fully funded PhD in sparse reconstruction of virtual histology images at ETH Zurich and Paul Scherrer Institute. Rolling review. Machine learning and X-ray imaging.
University of Luxembourg · Luxembourg
36-month fully funded PhD in AI for Cybersecurity at University of Luxembourg. Gross salary EUR 41,976/year. EU/EEA/EFTA, NATO Allied, and NATO Indo-Pacific applicants only.
University of Luxembourg · Luxembourg
Fully funded doctoral researcher in digital business, information systems and agentic AI at the University of Luxembourg. EUR 44,531 gross/year. Rolling review - early application encouraged.
Lund University invites applications for a doctoral student position on risk and safety of heterogeneous swarm systems, hosted by the CHASS competence centre and funded by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF). Swarm systems - large numbers of cooperating drones, robots and autonomous agents - promise major advances in logistics, inspection and rescue, but their heterogeneous, dynamic composition creates new safety and assurance challenges.
ETH Zurich · Switzerland
Fully funded PhD at ETH Zurich developing neuromotor interfaces for dexterous robot teleoperation using EMG and egocentric vision. Open until filled.
University of Oxford · United Kingdom
The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford advertises a DPhil studentship on investigating and modelling brain dynamics across species, based in Dr Andrea Luppi's research group and supported by his ERC Starting Grant. The project develops computational models of how brain activity is organised dynamically across species - bridging human and animal neuroimaging and electrophysiology - to understand which principles of brain organisation are conserved through evolution and how they break down in disease.
University of Oxford · United Kingdom
The DPhil in Cardiovascular Science (Cardiovascular Disease Prevention) at Oxford is a four-year programme funded by the British Heart Foundation. It combines interdisciplinary training with research at the intersection of population health, systems biology, and data science/AI. Final application deadline: 1 December 2026.
EMILDAI Consortium (Avignon Université) · France
EMILDAI sits at the crossroads of law, data protection and AI, offered by six partner universities led from Avignon. Applications for the 2027/2029 editions open in November 2026; the previous round closed on 25 January 2026, a date the new cycle is expected to mirror.
RAINZ CDT · United Kingdom
4-year fully funded PhD programme across Manchester, Glasgow, and Oxford. Robotics and AI for Net Zero. UKRI stipend £20,780 plus £10,000/year TechExpert for Home students.
Lancaster University · United Kingdom
3.5-year fully funded PhD developing shared-autonomy framework for safety-critical remote robotics. UK home students. £22,780 stipend.
Lancaster University · United Kingdom
3.5-year fully funded PhD developing next-generation attack surface mapping techniques. UK home students. £20,780 stipend.
ETH AI Center · Switzerland
ETH AI Center Doctoral Fellowships 2026: fully funded AI doctoral fellowships at ETH Zurich fostering interdisciplinary collaboration. Deadline: 27 October 2026, 16:00 CET.
EURECOM, based in the Sophia Antipolis technology park near Nice, runs graduate programmes in digital science — AI, cybersecurity, telecommunications and data — plus doctoral studies with its labs and industrial partners. Its admission portal manages both taught-programme rounds and rolling PhD recruitment.
University of São Paulo · Brazil
This FAPESP-supported fellowship involves artificial intelligence research linked to public management through CIA-GP.
Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica · Brazil
FICOSS-AI uses artificial intelligence in research on stellar populations and galaxy evolution. Hosted by Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica in São José dos Campos. Apply by 2 November 2026.
University of Liverpool · United Kingdom
A 4-year fully funded PhD programme training researchers in materials chemistry, digital intelligence, and automation, offering 10+ cross-disciplinary research projects.