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.
Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC-UPC · Spain
IRI Barcelona offers funded PhD, postdoc, and internship positions in robotics and AI. Multiple grant routes including FPI, FPU, Ramon y Cajal, and Marie Sklodowska-Curie. Email CV to apply.
ISSF Consortium · Belgium
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.
Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) · Austria
ISTA's PhD programme recruits across research groups in the natural and mathematical sciences. Hosted by Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) in Klosterneuburg. Apply by 8 January 2027, 15:00 CET.
JANUS Consortium (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3) · France
JANUS is the Erasmus Mundus master in security and defence coordinated from Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, with mandatory mobility between Lyon and Beirut Saint-Joseph and options in Granada, Bucharest and Essex. The first cohort's applications closed on 6 March 2026, and the 2027-2029 round is expected to follow the same early-March pattern.
TU Delft · Netherlands
TU Delft’s Justus & Louise van Effen Excellence Scholarship covers full MSc tuition and contributes towards living expenses for eligible international students. Apply by 1 December 2026, 23:59 CET.
King's College London · United Kingdom
King's Business School invites applications for funded, full-time PhD studentships to start in the 2027-2028 academic year. Open to Home, EU and International students. Covers tuition fees and a tax-free stipend of approximately £23,805 per annum for four years. Deadline: 1 December 2026.
KU Leuven · Belgium
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.
LASCALA Consortium · France
LASCALA trains physicists in large-scale accelerator and laser technologies, including the facilities that power research at institutes like CERN and ELI. The class of 2027-2029 campaign opened on 2 November 2026, with the scholarship deadline on 17 February 2027 and a self-financed window to 30 April 2027.
Union University School of Law, Belgrade · Serbia
LAWGID is a one-year LL.M. in Law and Gender, Intersectionality and Diversity hosted at the Union University School of Law in Belgrade. The programme trains lawyers and social-science graduates to work on gender-sensitive legal reform, anti-discrimination practice and equality bodies across Europe and beyond.
Leiden University · Netherlands
Leiden University advertises a combined lecturer-PhD candidate (docent-promovendus) position in German language and culture. The appointment runs for five years and combines 75 percent doctoral research with 25 percent teaching within the German language and culture programme of Leiden's Faculty of Humanities. Applicants can apply without IELTS - selection is based on documents and an English interview, not a test certificate.
University of Leeds · United Kingdom
The Leeds Access to Research Scholarship supports eligible home-fee applicants from specified minority ethnic backgrounds.
University of Leeds · United Kingdom
The Leeds Doctoral Scholarship is a university doctoral funding route for eligible home-fee applicants.
Max Planck Society · Germany
The Leipzig School of Human Origins recruits doctoral researchers studying human evolution and related questions. No IELTS or TOEFL certificate is required; English is assessed through the application and interviews.
Leverhulme Trust · United Kingdom
The Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship supports early-career researchers for 3 years of independent research at a UK institution. Full salary plus £6,000/year research expenses. Open to international applicants.
University of Cambridge · United Kingdom
The Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research at the University of Cambridge offers a 4-year fixed-term PhD studentship in placental biology. The studentship is based within the Centre's network of laboratories spanning the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience and clinical departments, and provides an annual stipend of GBP 22,000 together with payment of university fees for the full four years.
The University of Edinburgh · United Kingdom
Edinburgh’s Machine Learning Systems CDT studies machine learning methods and the computing systems that implement them. International candidates apply through the first recruitment round.
University of Sheffield · United Kingdom
Sheffield’s MADE4Manufacturing CDT offers advertised doctoral projects in manufacturing and digital engineering. Funded students receive a living stipend and a project-resource budget.
University of Reading · United Kingdom
Magdalen Vernon PhD Studentship at the University of Reading, School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences. funded at the Home-fee rate for 3 years starting September 2027. Maintenance stipend £22,437 plus £1,000 per year Research Training Support Grant and tuition-fee support. Reference: DRC27-001. Deadline: 4 December 2026.
MAiSI Consortium (KU Leuven) · Belgium
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.
University of Strasbourg · France
Master ChemoInfo at the University of Strasbourg trains chemoinformatics specialists at the interface of chemistry and computing — a niche with strong pharma and materials demand. The current selection procedure covers the 2026-2028 intake, which the consortium has confirmed will run without Erasmus Mundus scholarships.
Public Health Disasters Consortium · Sweden
This master programme trains public-health professionals for disaster preparedness and response, covering risk governance, emergency operations and health-system resilience. Its admission-and-selection page carries the live dates and criteria for the next intake.
University of Reading · United Kingdom
Reading's Mathematics for our Future Climate CDT supports doctoral work on mathematical questions connected to climate.
Max Planck Society · Germany
The Max Planck Artificial Intelligence Network recruits new doctoral researchers through a joint process with ELLIS. Official MP-AIX sources disagree on whether the cutoff is 23:59 CET or Anywhere on Earth. Confirm the time in the live application portal. Applicants can apply without IELTS - German doctoral hiring assesses English through documents and interview.
Max Planck Society · Germany
Fully funded 12-14 week research internship at Max Planck Institutes in Germany. €1,300/month stipend, free accommodation, travel allowance. Open to international students. Deadline: 1 Nov 2026.