496 verified fully funded scholarships & phd positions for 2026–2027 are open right now. The soonest deadline is 27 October 2026 — closing-soon entries are flagged in the list. Hosted by TU Delft, Max Planck Society and University of Manchester. Listings are re-verified daily against official sources.
The University of Essex recruits a Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Government within the DIViNE MSCA Doctoral Network on political violence and democracy. The fellow will pursue doctoral research on political violence, institutional reform and democratic resilience, contributing to the network's comparative research programme.
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.
✓ Fully FundedEUR 41,976 gross per year (full time).
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.
Fully funded doctoral researcher position in environmental chemistry (AI4TECS project) at the University of Luxembourg. EUR 44,531 gross/year. Rolling review - early application encouraged.
Fully funded doctoral researcher in food literacy, behaviour change and sustainable lifestyle at the University of Luxembourg. EUR 44,531 gross/year. Deadline: 30 October 2026.
The H2T Lab at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) offers a doctoral researcher position in human-robot interaction and dexterous manipulation. Salary TV-L E13 (100%). Open until filled.
✓ Fully FundedTV-L E13 (100%) - approximately €50,000 - €55,000 per year.
Fully funded 36-month doctoral researcher in water engineering and monitoring (PFAROS project on PFAS in hospital wastewater) at the University of Luxembourg. EUR 44,531 gross/year. Rolling review.
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.
✓ Fully FundedSalaried PhD position per the Swedish collective agreement
The Doha Institute for Graduate Studies in Qatar offers fully funded Master's and PhD scholarships for the 2027-2028 academic year, open to all nationalities. The scholarships cover full tuition, accommodation, monthly stipend, health insurance, and airfare for international students.
✓ Fully FundedStipend/salary rate set by the funder — see the official listing
Lund University invites applications for a doctoral student in medical science with a orientation toward health sciences (halsovetenskap), within the PRO-COG project. The project studies how people with cognitive disabilities experience and navigate public environments, and how society can design environments and services that support participation for this group.
✓ Fully FundedSalaried PhD position per the Swedish collective agreement
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.
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.
Northwestern's Nicholson Fellowship supports outstanding current PhD students in science, engineering and management. Applications are by internal university programme nomination, not open external applications.
✓ Fully FundedStipend/salary rate set by the funder — see the official listing
The Karsh International Scholars Program is Duke University's flagship merit award for international undergraduates, recognising academic leaders from around the world. International applicants to Duke are automatically considered, and the regular decision application round closes in early January 2027.
✓ Fully FundedStipend/salary rate set by the funder — see the official listing
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Edinburgh’s E5 NERC Doctoral Training Partnership supports environmental research. Applicants are encouraged to discuss their chosen project with its supervisor before applying.
EACH is the Erasmus Mundus master in analytical chemistry coordinated by the University of Tartu with partner universities in Finland, Sweden and France. For the 2027 intake the first admission period runs from 5 November 2026 to 5 January 2027 (23:59 EET), and this is the window in which Erasmus Mundus scholarship decisions are made.
EDISS Consortium (Åbo Akademi University) · Finland
EDISS trains software engineers to build reliable, data-intensive intelligent systems, coordinated by Åbo Akademi University with partners in Spain, Italy and Sweden. The last intake accepted applications from 3 November 2025 to 8 January 2026 (15:00 Helsinki time), and the 2027 scholarship round is expected to follow the same pattern.
EESIC trains environmental engineers for sustainability challenges with an international-cooperation lens, jointly managed by a consortium anchored in Trento. For the 2027-2029 intake applications are already open, with deadlines of 30 June 2027 (non-EU) and 31 July 2027 (EU) — much later than most Erasmus Mundus rounds.
France Excellence Eiffel Scholarship 2027: French government funding for top international students - €1,181/month at master's level, €1,700/month at PhD level, plus travel and insurance. Institutions submit by 6 January 2027.
EMABG trains animal scientists in breeding, biodiversity and genomics across six consortium universities including BOKU Vienna, Wageningen, Göttingen, SLU, NMBU and AgroParisTech. The third-intake application round opened on 15 September 2026 and stays open until 15 January 2027, with roughly 15 fully funded Erasmus Mundus scholarships on offer.
